Comments on: CAPTCHA the Internet http://alt-tag.com/blog/archives/2006/02/captcha-the-internet/ Thoughts on everything from education and politics to internet usability, and programming. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:29:29 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Nathan Sandland http://alt-tag.com/blog/archives/2006/02/captcha-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Nathan Sandland Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:17:41 +0000 http://tag-strategia.com/blog/?p=32#comment-24 Good article on the present state of Captcha's. Just reaffirms that there are no new ideas, and that Google makes that harsh reality even more obvious. Phil's blog was in response to a project I had built for doing captcha within a jsp tag library. I've since given up on the captcha project and removed it from my site due to the fact that the idea is patented (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1=6195698.WKU.&OS=PN/6195698&RS=PN/6195698). An interesting tidbit I found that other captcha enthusiasts may be interested in knowing is that although the patent is currently registered to HP (via its acquisition of Compaq), HP reports that it has since sold the patent to an undisclosed recipient. They forwarded my inquiries to that recipient, and I got nothing back. Probably a greedy patent abusing company gathering data in preparation for a spat of lawsuits. Nathan Sandland 3600 Degrees Good article on the present state of Captcha’s. Just reaffirms that there are no new ideas, and that Google makes that harsh reality even more obvious.

Phil’s blog was in response to a project I had built for doing captcha within a jsp tag library. I’ve since given up on the captcha project and removed it from my site due to the fact that the idea is patented (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1=6195698.WKU.&OS=PN/6195698&RS=PN/6195698).

An interesting tidbit I found that other captcha enthusiasts may be interested in knowing is that although the patent is currently registered to HP (via its acquisition of Compaq), HP reports that it has since sold the patent to an undisclosed recipient. They forwarded my inquiries to that recipient, and I got nothing back. Probably a greedy patent abusing company gathering data in preparation for a spat of lawsuits.

Nathan Sandland
3600 Degrees

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