Word: tests
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...picture of some wavy, ghostly, distorted letters and type them into a box. Sometimes you flub it and have to retype the letters, but otherwise you don't think about it much. That string of letters has a name; it's called a CAPTCHA. And it's a test. By correctly transcribing it, you have proved to the computer that you are a human being...
...them, complaining that criminals were taking advantage of Yahoo! Mail--they were using software to automatically create thousands of e-mail accounts very quickly, then using those accounts to send out spam. The Carnegie Mellon team came back with the CAPTCHA. (It stands for "completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart"; no, the acronym doesn't really fit.) The point of the CAPTCHA is that reading those swirly letters is something that computers aren't very good at. If you can read them, you're probably not a piece of software run by a spammer. Congratulations...
...impressed voters with her detailed plan for withdrawal from Iraq and with her distinguished record on the Armed Services Committee. She has shown more fluency on matters of state in debates than her male counterparts. By passing the so-called “commander-in-chief” test, Senator Clinton has opened the door to generations of women aspiring to lead the world’s most powerful military...
...rewarded with plenty of attention.“To James,” Summers said, reading aloud a message he had written down for the boy. “Study. And come take my class in 10 years.” The former president, saying that he wished to test his strength, then asked Corcoran if he wanted to be lifted into the air. Soon James’ feet were dangling in the vicinity of Summers’ shoulders.Gillis said he organized yesterday’s event when he realized that Summers would not have a formal role...
...longer afford to ignore the growing importance of mathematics and statistics. Literacy as a prerequisite to good citizenship in modern society must expand its demands, such that even scholars of postcolonial theory or adherents of Rawls remember how to manipulate simple derivatives and infer conclusions from a statistical t-test...