Shouldn't something be happening today?

[Dandark]

It is disabled. You just got so desperate for it that you have started hallucinating and think your on it now, this is actully an illusion, you are staring at a blank screen.

 

[Vault101]

What I was trying to get across is that I think it's quite cheep to change form the old cpatcha to this new one with adverts, at least with the old one we were actually doing some thing useful when we filled it in.

eh..I found translating ancient protheian text rather tedious and in convinient

yeah..its 9:30 pm here..and nothing

 

[Esotera]

what you mean the strike which everyone agrees isn't going to happen.

There's currently a half-mile queue to our nearest petrol station because everyone's panic buying. The strike might not happen but it might become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

 

[370999]

I dunno about you guys, but the internet is definitely down for me.

I dunno, my internet went down for a very respectable minute.

 

[The]

Anybody care to wager that they will fail at bringing down the internet?

Maybe they're just going for the big sites. Google, Youtube, Facebook. That kind of stuff.

 

[lacktheknack]

I'm not going to give a crap, I'm about to go to work.

"Good luck", Anonymous! You keep "fighting the good fight", whatever the hell that fight even is...

 

[The Funslinger]

according to their twitter feed, they never planned to do this. They claim they were trolled on pastebin where the rumour first started, same place the take down facebook was announced?

That's a very convenient thing to say if you've failed.

But then, Anonymous isn't exactly organized, anyone can call himself a part of Anonymous. That twitter could be one group of people, and the guys who want to take the internet down could be another group.

To be honest, Anon is comparable to the various incarnations of IRA in Northern Ireland. Only, instead of terrorists molotov bombing streets, and shooting the occasional taxi driver, it's teenage script kiddies and thirty year old basement dwellers wearing sweat stained RSI gloves.

My point is every section of Anonymous is being all "no, don't listen to them! We're anon!" No, we're anon!" blah blah blah.

It's mildly amusing and infinitely pathetic.

The worst part is there's a lot of damage potential in the shit they pull. While I doubt they're capable of lasting damage (beyond vigilante life wrecking against individual people) they can do some stuff. And they tend to interfere with things internationally, which could potentially fuck up a tense negotiation stage in a situation they thought it clever to get their corrupting, grubby little paws on.

If the internet, and by extension these guys, had been around during the Cold War, we'd probably all be dead. But that's okay, because they're just dealing out 'justice'.

 

[The Funslinger]

Yep, and really, who actually believed them? Like I said, they can't shut down the internet, then they'd have to go outside or something! XD

Really? If you actually like surfing the Escapist site and using it, deal with the ads.

Something tells me that they switched to this type of captcha because they get paid a little bit for the ads shown in them.

Of course I don't see them since I pay for no ads. Deal with it, if you don't feel like paying for a membership.

Of course, if the ads are so invasive, it'll make people tend away from the forums, less active forums, less traffic, less ad revenue. Not everyone has the money to burn to join the pub-club.

I haven't had to deal with any advertising I would consider invasive. Really, it's been basically the same as the old captcha system, but without being stone-walled by Arabic, Chinese, or the language of the duck people every other post. I'd say having to enter a captcha into the odd Pizza Hut themed box is a small price (if any, really) to pay for legibility. Plus there's been all that crap about the Escapist having some difficulty paying contributers (if we remember the Extra Creditz thing) so if this helps bring some stability, more power to them.

 

[x EvilErmine x]

What I was trying to get across is that I think it's quite cheep to change form the old cpatcha to this new one with adverts, at least with the old one we were actually doing some thing useful when we filled it in.

eh..I found translating ancient protheian text rather tedious and in convinient

yeah..its 9:30 pm here..and nothing

"...multiple projects are currently digitizing physical books that were written before the computer age. The book pages are being photographically scanned, and then transformed into text using "Optical Character Recognition" (OCR). The transformation into text is useful because scanning a book produces images, which are difficult to store on small devices, expensive to download, and cannot be searched. The problem is that OCR is not perfect.


reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher."

source [http://www.google.com/recaptcha/learnmore]

Dunno where you got the idea that it was ancient protheian text from but the captcha the escapist used previously had a point to it other than stopping spam bots.

 

[Arluza]

Anybody care to wager that they will fail at bringing down the internet?

I will take that the internet as a whole will not be taken down TODAY.

 

[Vault101]

snip.

I know what Capitcha is and why its there

I was just saying..I find the new thing they have a million times less tedious/convinet...even though..YES it is jsut hameless advertising

the "protheian text" thing was a joke (prothiens are a fictional race form Mass effect)

 

[Fijiman]

My guess is that we'll see a big "April Fools" right around midnight.

Come to think of it, if they were to make it so that instead of sending everybody an error screen it would give everyone an April Fools screen that would be pretty impressive.

 

[x EvilErmine x]

snip.

I know what Capitcha is and why its there

I was just saying..I find the new thing they have a million times less tedious/convinet...even though..YES it is jsut hameless advertising

the "protheian text" thing was a joke (prothiens are a fictional race form Mass effect)

Ahh fair enough then, I think it's a bit rubbish to exchange a system that worked on the whole quite well and provided a useful service to an important endeavour for one that brings in a few more coppers. But opinions an all that jazz, each to there own and you are entitled to yours as much as I am to mine.

P.S. I know who the Protheins are lol, Sheesh I'm not completely clueless ya know? (just mostly)

 

[jklinders]

Oh.

Right.

I had forgotten all about that one. Probably because they had a snowballs chance in hell of getting it to work.

Frankly it just smelled like a trolling attempt to me to see how many folks are following their every word. A few of them are snickering over it even now I bet.

 

[renegade7]

I can see an internet takedown hurting small businesses & MMOs, but not big business.

MMOs and consoles connect directly to their servers by IP adresses, which will still work. Their plan is to disable the servers that translate website URLs into IP addresses.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Nothing short of a world-wide EMP ala Escape from LA could take down the whole Internet, so either Anonymous was bluffing or they're even more stupid than even I thought they were.

 

[Daverson]

Yep, and really, who actually believed them? Like I said, they can't shut down the internet, then they'd have to go outside or something! XD

Really? If you actually like surfing the Escapist site and using it, deal with the ads.

Something tells me that they switched to this type of captcha because they get paid a little bit for the ads shown in them.

Of course I don't see them since I pay for no ads. Deal with it, if you don't feel like paying for a membership.

Of course, if the ads are so invasive, it'll make people tend away from the forums, less active forums, less traffic, less ad revenue. Not everyone has the money to burn to join the pub-club.

I haven't had to deal with any advertising I would consider invasive. Really, it's been basically the same as the old captcha system, but without being stone-walled by Arabic, Chinese, or the language of the duck people every other post. I'd say having to enter a captcha into the odd Pizza Hut themed box is a small price (if any, really) to pay for legibility. Plus there's been all that crap about the Escapist having some difficulty paying contributers (if we remember the Extra Creditz thing) so if this helps bring some stability, more power to them.

True that, but brand recognition isn't something that everyone's capable of (for example, I haven't heard of a few companies that showed up). If people find these are inhibiting their ability to post, their reaction won't be to go to wikipedia and learn all about burger king, it'll be to post on a forum without these features.

(Of course, one has to wonder, maybe they'd have more money to pay contributors if they weren't buying all their own adspace! Seems all the ads here are for escapist content =p )

 

[KefkaCultist]

True that, but brand recognition isn't something that everyone's capable of (for example, I haven't heard of a few companies that showed up). If people find these are inhibiting their ability to post, their reaction won't be to go to wikipedia and learn all about burger king, it'll be to post on a forum without these features.

(Of course, one has to wonder, maybe they'd have more money to pay contributors if they weren't buying all their own adspace! Seems all the ads here are for escapist content =p )

Dude, I've typed "shit" and "crap" or something similar into 98% of the "describe this brand captchas" and it lets you post just fine. I honestly don't understand why people are raging so hard. IMO these ones are a billion times better than the former recaptcha because I couldn't read those half of the time. They're asking for a word, not trigonometric functions.

OT: Yeah, it probably won't happen. If it does then cool because it won't affect me since I have work to go to.

 

[FamoFunk]

I completely forgot all about this.

Yeah, I'm another one who cannot see anything happening today, certainly not the whole internet.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

I'm incredibly enjoying the fact that Adult Swim brought back Toonami for this day. It feels so nostalgic .