Did you ever try to go to a website but couldn’t because you failed the dreaded Captcha test. You know the one: You enter all the required information, and just as you're about to access the site, a box pops up, demanding that you prove your humanity. It's a series of pictures- motorcycles, crosswalks, buses, cars, trucks - things everyone should know. But here's the kicker. The image is divided into nine boxes, like a tic-tac-toe game, and your task is to click on every (and only every) box with the picture in it. You might think this would be easy since you know what a motorcycle, car, etc. are. The only trick question is: You have to know the difference between a street sign and a highway sign. But that's unusual. So you start clicking and get it wrong. Now, the computer does not tell you what you got wrong any more than Facebook, when punishing you for offensive comments, discloses what you posted that earned you the punishment of temporarily or even permanently bl...
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