Wow, it is seriously about time.  Those annoying images that you have to type in the squiggly letter to prove you’re not a computer could be a thing of the past.  This seems to me to be much more enjoyable.  Google engineers have discovered that it is difficult for computer to determine what is right side up.  Take the following example:

Google uses this to prevent bots, imagine millions of objects, which is right side up?

This is a pretty good idea, I’ve often thought of symbolic logic as being a good replacement…. like, which picture is an urban environment?  or, which picture has a cat in it?  but, this is even simpler.  Koodos to the google, let’s see how if this holds the test of the wild ala how it fairs when there are hundreds of thousands of hackers trying to crack it.  Let’s hope well, I hate those darn squiggly letters!

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