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Recently, I ranted about annoying things on the web, CAPTCHAs being one of them. Alan Turing would roll over in his grave if he'd seen the horrors of today.

To demonstrate the horrors of CAPTCHAs, let's look at some fine examples. And remember, these tests are supposed to be easy for humans, but hard for machines.

phpclasses.org provides the world with a wonder called veriword. These generated images are so hard to read, that I doubt it's ever going to be useful.
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Another brilliant coder can be found at ravis.org. This coder comes up with a few solutions, of which the first example is really nice. I just saved these examples from the site, I did not alter anything.
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Let's see the next gem! This one comes from the WordPress Plugins page and is not as bad as others, but still good enough to scare your visitors.
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Is there more insanity? Of course! The next example (BaffleText) is even better. Unreadable, but at least the URIs used in the source give help. The full url contains the word "workind" clearly. Great way to throw a spider off ...
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There are many many more out in the wild (and for some reason, most of them seem to be written in PHP). These examples should be enough proof not to use this idiotic technique.