Word Verification

I hate word verification.
These word verification thingys are really getting out of hand. The latest one was whmtgebg which is the longest I've seen (and apparantly not correct because I entered it wrong). At least I can usually make out the letters on blogger better than most other places. Half the time on other services, I go through 2 or 3 tries before I actually enter all the letters correctly. There's got to be a better way of stopping the %$#& without hindering everyone else.