[pic] Crazy Rapidshare Captcha

[Eoin]

Yes you do. It's really annoying because sometimes they are impossible to make out, so you end up waiting and waiting. Anyway, this is what I call a captcha:

troist is correct, the free and open-source Maxima for example could solve problem many times more difficult in seconds while a human could need hours. The only difficulty is in the OCR bit and that brings you back to standard Captchas anyway.

[Kushan]

Or perhaps it's just proof that rapidshare sucks?

I seriously don't understand why it's so popular when there's a multitude of other, better, file sharing sites out there.

[Lare2]

Or perhaps it's just proof that rapidshare sucks?

I seriously don't understand why it's so popular when there's a multitude of other, better, file sharing sites out there.

Maybe because all the good stuff it's hosted there. Oh the speeds you get from their servers are great.

[zeta_immersion]

i say ... whaaaaaaaa? (i dono screw this ... there as to be a better way)

[PL_ Veteran]

That is a dog, yo.

It's a goat. Learn to read CAPTCHAs :rolleyes: :p

[leesmithg]

3LGO, because the cat over 7 isn't sitting :p. I was stumped by that small detail too.

Thats a Dog.

It was horrid last week trying to download a file from there, 8 letters or numbers or both which had 4 Cats and 4 Dogs

and it took 3 attempts to get what they were getting at.

[Kushan]

Maybe because all the good stuff it's hosted there. Oh the speeds you get from their servers are great.

The "good stuff" being hosted there is exactly what I'm getting at, why do people put their crap there if there's better sites that wont **** off half their users as much?

Speeds are irrelevant anyway, other ones give you great speeds and due to filesize restrictions, you're only going to see a difference of a few seconds anyway.

[[deXter]]

The "good stuff" being hosted there is exactly what I'm getting at, why do people put their crap there if there's better sites that wont **** off half their users as much?

Speeds are irrelevant anyway, other ones give you great speeds and due to filesize restrictions, you're only going to see a difference of a few seconds anyway.

People put their crap there because when others download their files, they get premium points. With those premium points, they get a new premium account or extend their existing one. With the premium account, they can download more crap put put by others. These others get points when their files are downloaded. With those premium points, they get a new premium account or extend their existing one. With their premium account, they can download more crap put put by others. These others get points when thier files are downloaded. With those premium points....

As you can see, it's a vicious cycle they're trapped in.

[Kushan]

Well that just sucks.

gr8 h8 @ rapidfail

[hotdog666al]

"Rapidshit"

No really, I think it's a good service, only because it definately has the best speeds.

Although, sucks you can only do one download at a time n stuff. The cat thing is also easy to figure out, lol, if you can't do it due to your brain. *Hugs* if you can't do it due to your eyes.

[Minimoose]

"Rapidshit"

No really, I think it's a good service, only because it definately has the best speeds.

Although, sucks you can only do one download at a time n stuff. The cat thing is also easy to figure out, lol, if you can't do it due to your brain. *Hugs* if you can't do it due to your eyes.

Unlimited simultaneous downloads if you pay ;)

Through my line I'm supposedly getting 6.5mb/s but the max download I get is 300kb/s (for any download server, not just on rapidshare. I'm guessing its my ISP but are they allowed to do this? (I'm supposed to get 8mb/s but the line to my house can't handle that much, even so I used to be getting download speeds of 650kb/s on a 5.3mb/s line)

[Kushan]

I've heard of some ISP's artificially limiting the connection speed after a few seconds, so speed tests still come out as the full speed, but everything else slows right down to whatever their limit is. It's pretty ****ty and I think it's something OFCOM is investigating, along with "fair usage" policies and such. But until they do something, ISP's can do whatever the hell they like.

Try a download manager for the best speeds, though, separate connections per download should make things faster.

[PricklyPoo]

A CAPTCHA that not even a human can solve. :shifty:

[Nikv]

When you select free, you have to try find the Cat in the images..

God it's odd.

[Dc'1]

What's with Rapidshare in general, the waiting time is a lot worse than reading cats lol.

[McSmiggins]

When you select free, you have to try find the Cat in the images..

God it's odd.

Not really, it's just an enhanced CAPTCHA to stop bots. If you tell a computer "spot the cats" it's a hell of a lot harder to program than "spot the letters"

[Colin-uk Veteran]

its because people keep making apps to read the images and mass download stuff on the servers, so rapidshare keep changing the images, the latest is the cats thing, it'll change again in a few months more probably :p

[Nikv]

they do a pretty darn good job of it :/

Most of the time it's pretty hard to tell which ones are cats

[darkmanx21]

Yeah, that **** is hard to read for people..the hell with computers. :laugh: The cats are not easy to see with some letter combos...atleast the downtime is gone, I just got a premium account to avoid all that junk now.

[Lasker]

That's why I am a premium customer ;)

[+BeLGaRaTh Subscriber¹]

Its a CATastrophe ... Rapidshare is just going to the dogs, and seem to be barking up the wrong tree. I had a look at the new CAPTCHA thing and unfortunately I had to see Me? (h)Ow?

[-Alex-]

I for one love Rapidshare, enormous amount of RS links on the net and for €8 (last time I checked) per month without time restrictions and the ability to use direct links to files, you can't argue.

[Rappy Veteran]

I always get the captchas I can't read lmao

[Malisk]

So they turned a captcha into a catchcat? heh

[Shetland]