Spam 2.0 [modified]
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This is dirty but creative: Belkin is paying 65 cents for people to write good reviews about their crappy USB hub on Amazon website[^]. They're using Mechanical Turk, a service (created by Amazon itself) where people receive a little money to perform tasks computers can't do. I heard about spammers using that service to break captchas, but this is a new one for me; using an Amazon service to undermine Amazon's credibility. [modified] The story is getting even more interesting now:[^] Amazon removed some positive comments for the hub and Belkin removed the Mechanical Turk request and dropped its price from $216 to $69. [/modified]
Of all forms of sexual aberration, the most unnatural is abstinence.
modified on Sunday, January 18, 2009 1:52 PM
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This is dirty but creative: Belkin is paying 65 cents for people to write good reviews about their crappy USB hub on Amazon website[^]. They're using Mechanical Turk, a service (created by Amazon itself) where people receive a little money to perform tasks computers can't do. I heard about spammers using that service to break captchas, but this is a new one for me; using an Amazon service to undermine Amazon's credibility. [modified] The story is getting even more interesting now:[^] Amazon removed some positive comments for the hub and Belkin removed the Mechanical Turk request and dropped its price from $216 to $69. [/modified]
Of all forms of sexual aberration, the most unnatural is abstinence.
modified on Sunday, January 18, 2009 1:52 PM
Wow. Just told my wife to never again buy any Belkin product. Not that i was particularly inclined toward buying them in the first place, but this is over the top.
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You're right. These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets.
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This is dirty but creative: Belkin is paying 65 cents for people to write good reviews about their crappy USB hub on Amazon website[^]. They're using Mechanical Turk, a service (created by Amazon itself) where people receive a little money to perform tasks computers can't do. I heard about spammers using that service to break captchas, but this is a new one for me; using an Amazon service to undermine Amazon's credibility. [modified] The story is getting even more interesting now:[^] Amazon removed some positive comments for the hub and Belkin removed the Mechanical Turk request and dropped its price from $216 to $69. [/modified]
Of all forms of sexual aberration, the most unnatural is abstinence.
modified on Sunday, January 18, 2009 1:52 PM
The Turk is the name of the chess playing computer that became the keystone of Skynet :omg:
Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am
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This is dirty but creative: Belkin is paying 65 cents for people to write good reviews about their crappy USB hub on Amazon website[^]. They're using Mechanical Turk, a service (created by Amazon itself) where people receive a little money to perform tasks computers can't do. I heard about spammers using that service to break captchas, but this is a new one for me; using an Amazon service to undermine Amazon's credibility. [modified] The story is getting even more interesting now:[^] Amazon removed some positive comments for the hub and Belkin removed the Mechanical Turk request and dropped its price from $216 to $69. [/modified]
Of all forms of sexual aberration, the most unnatural is abstinence.
modified on Sunday, January 18, 2009 1:52 PM
That's terrible. I wonder how much longer Mr. Bayard will be with Belkin. /ravi
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This is dirty but creative: Belkin is paying 65 cents for people to write good reviews about their crappy USB hub on Amazon website[^]. They're using Mechanical Turk, a service (created by Amazon itself) where people receive a little money to perform tasks computers can't do. I heard about spammers using that service to break captchas, but this is a new one for me; using an Amazon service to undermine Amazon's credibility. [modified] The story is getting even more interesting now:[^] Amazon removed some positive comments for the hub and Belkin removed the Mechanical Turk request and dropped its price from $216 to $69. [/modified]
Of all forms of sexual aberration, the most unnatural is abstinence.
modified on Sunday, January 18, 2009 1:52 PM
Creative? not really. Impertinent, yes.
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The Turk is the name of the chess playing computer that became the keystone of Skynet :omg:
Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am
Yeah, I thought of that immediately too. Are we seeing the beginning of the end? :wtf:
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The Turk is the name of the chess playing computer that became the keystone of Skynet :omg:
Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am
Steve Mayfield wrote:
The Turk is the name of the chess playing computer that became the keystone of Skynet
It all refers to a famous fraud from the 18th century[^]. There was a kind of automaton/robot that could play chess. Later on it was discovered that there was someone under the table operating it.
Of all forms of sexual aberration, the most unnatural is abstinence.
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This is dirty but creative: Belkin is paying 65 cents for people to write good reviews about their crappy USB hub on Amazon website[^]. They're using Mechanical Turk, a service (created by Amazon itself) where people receive a little money to perform tasks computers can't do. I heard about spammers using that service to break captchas, but this is a new one for me; using an Amazon service to undermine Amazon's credibility. [modified] The story is getting even more interesting now:[^] Amazon removed some positive comments for the hub and Belkin removed the Mechanical Turk request and dropped its price from $216 to $69. [/modified]
Of all forms of sexual aberration, the most unnatural is abstinence.
modified on Sunday, January 18, 2009 1:52 PM
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Steve Mayfield wrote:
The Turk is the name of the chess playing computer that became the keystone of Skynet
It all refers to a famous fraud from the 18th century[^]. There was a kind of automaton/robot that could play chess. Later on it was discovered that there was someone under the table operating it.
Of all forms of sexual aberration, the most unnatural is abstinence.
Diego Moita wrote:
Steve Mayfield wrote: The Turk is the name of the chess playing computer that became the keystone of Skynet It all refers to a famous fraud from the 18th century[^]. There was a kind of automaton/robot that could play chess. Later on it was discovered that there was someone under the table operating it.
Does that mean there's a midget inside Arnie pulling the levers?
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Some of those captchas are a bit too diffucult (look like a doctors handwriting). If spammers can defeat them easier than legitamite users can maybe they should just abandon them
ed welch wrote:
legitamite
Sounds like a spread used by Aussie lawyers.