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What I hate more is US-centric of the CAPTCHA. Not only for reCAPTCHA, hCAPTCHA also failed in this regard. I mentioned before, but once I got present with hCA

What I hate more is US-centric of the CAPTCHA. Not only for reCAPTCHA, hCAPTCHA also failed in this regard. I mentioned before, but once I got present with hCAPTCHA asking me to select 電車 (lit. electric train, but since all trains in big cities in Japan are electric train, 'train' in English also usually got translated as 電車). There's a picture of diesel train in the choice. Do I select it? idk. Lately I have been presented with reCAPTCHA asking me to select トラック (lit. truck). Half of the choices are firetruck. Do I choose them? Because in Japanese (and probably most other languages too), we don't considered firetruck as 'truck'. And the complaint that is more common: parking meter. I have literally never saw one, as it doesn't exist where I live. How do you expect me to chose the correct answers with noisy images?

enriquto 5y ago
...not to speak of "fire hydrants" which I cannot fathom what is the purpose of these damn things. Do people hydrate themselves using fire on the US?
- tdeck 5y ago
  These are large-diameter / high pressure connections to the local water main. Firetrucks carry water, of course, but it's limited. The hydrant allows them to attach a hose and pull in additional water. It seems that they have them in many countries, but they are often underground rather than the pillar type used in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_hydrant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_hydrant
  - enriquto 5y ago
    Thanks! I was being facetious because I actually looked what they were after a few captchas. Indeed, there are many of those in my country but they don't look at all like that, typically being attached to the walls of the buildings, or covered underground.
    - tdeck 5y ago
      It was an interesting question for me as well, because I never stopped to think of why I didn't see these in certain cities abroad and how they fight fires in those cities.
    - agurk 5y ago
      To be pedantic, and risking your country being different to what I've personally seen around the world, what you see attached to the wall of a building isn't a fire hydrant. These are standpipes [0] which can be used to move water to parts of the the building from that external fitting. They may contain some static water or be completely dry (like a dry riser [1]) but they are not a source of water like a hydrant is. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standpipe_(firefighting) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standpipe_(firefighting) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_riser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_riser
Freak_NL 5y ago
電車 always trips me up when talking about trains in Japanese. It appears to me that for some Japanese every train (including Diesel powered ones) is 電車 at this point, while others do make the distinction. The Japanese Wikipedia page mentions this shift as well. The cultural gap is annoying with captcha's, even if you keep your preferred browser language set to English.
sen 5y ago
I’ve been getting the truck one heaps lately, and constantly failing it. Fire engines, utes, Removalist vans, street sweepers, etc etc. How the hell am I supposed to know what some American programmer thinks a truck is? It’s pervasive across the entire internet.. we’re all expected to suddenly relearn the names of everything we’ve ever learned in our life because the US has decided the rest of the world is wrong and should learn their distorted version of English or just not take part in the “world wide” web.
- visarga 5y ago
  That's what concerns me about Apple's hashing + human verification scheme - what are the values of the humans? What do they consider a positive? Nude pictures of kids are ok in some cultures and not ok in others.
  - andrepd 5y ago
    Related: in my country it's common for young kids (say under 6 or 7) to go to the beach naked. I always find it a bit disturbing that Americans consider it obscene, because it means they sexualise it...?
    - yibg 5y ago
      Yea totally. Little boys with genitals showing in public (eg urinating) is a common thing in many parts of asia for example. No one bats an eye at it.
      - skydhash 5y ago
        Due to how often little boys dirty their clothes a lot of them, especially in poor neighborhoods, go naked. And yes, no one bats an eye.
hef19898 5y ago
I do remember parking meters, but then I also remember Walkmans. Could be an issue for solving Captchas I guess.

enriquto 5y ago

...not to speak of "fire hydrants" which I cannot fathom what is the purpose of these damn things. Do people hydrate themselves using fire on the US?

tdeck 5y ago
These are large-diameter / high pressure connections to the local water main. Firetrucks carry water, of course, but it's limited. The hydrant allows them to attach a hose and pull in additional water. It seems that they have them in many countries, but they are often underground rather than the pillar type used in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_hydrant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_hydrant
- enriquto 5y ago
  Thanks! I was being facetious because I actually looked what they were after a few captchas. Indeed, there are many of those in my country but they don't look at all like that, typically being attached to the walls of the buildings, or covered underground.
  - tdeck 5y ago
    It was an interesting question for me as well, because I never stopped to think of why I didn't see these in certain cities abroad and how they fight fires in those cities.
  - agurk 5y ago
    To be pedantic, and risking your country being different to what I've personally seen around the world, what you see attached to the wall of a building isn't a fire hydrant. These are standpipes [0] which can be used to move water to parts of the the building from that external fitting. They may contain some static water or be completely dry (like a dry riser [1]) but they are not a source of water like a hydrant is. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standpipe_(firefighting) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standpipe_(firefighting) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_riser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_riser

Freak_NL 5y ago

電車 always trips me up when talking about trains in Japanese. It appears to me that for some Japanese every train (including Diesel powered ones) is 電車 at this point, while others do make the distinction. The Japanese Wikipedia page mentions this shift as well. The cultural gap is annoying with captcha's, even if you keep your preferred browser language set to English.

sen 5y ago

I’ve been getting the truck one heaps lately, and constantly failing it. Fire engines, utes, Removalist vans, street sweepers, etc etc. How the hell am I supposed to know what some American programmer thinks a truck is? It’s pervasive across the entire internet.. we’re all expected to suddenly relearn the names of everything we’ve ever learned in our life because the US has decided the rest of the world is wrong and should learn their distorted version of English or just not take part in the “world wide” web.

visarga 5y ago
That's what concerns me about Apple's hashing + human verification scheme - what are the values of the humans? What do they consider a positive? Nude pictures of kids are ok in some cultures and not ok in others.
- andrepd 5y ago
  Related: in my country it's common for young kids (say under 6 or 7) to go to the beach naked. I always find it a bit disturbing that Americans consider it obscene, because it means they sexualise it...?
  - yibg 5y ago
    Yea totally. Little boys with genitals showing in public (eg urinating) is a common thing in many parts of asia for example. No one bats an eye at it.
    - skydhash 5y ago
      Due to how often little boys dirty their clothes a lot of them, especially in poor neighborhoods, go naked. And yes, no one bats an eye.

hef19898 5y ago

I do remember parking meters, but then I also remember Walkmans. Could be an issue for solving Captchas I guess.