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Amazon's Mechanical Turk
rscoggin writes "Amazon.com has a new program that wants you to 'Complete simple tasks that people do better than computers. And, get paid for it.' (example: 'Is there a pizza parlour in this photograph?'). For each task you complete you get a small payment, usually ranging from a few cents to a little under a dollar. It's named the Amazon Mechanical Turk after a famous hoax from the 19th century. Kill time and get paid in tiny increments to boot!" Similar to Google Answers, there seems to be a reliability ratings system and some incentives.
Apparently mturk's webserver is from the 19th Century as well.
Fine. I'll give you 50 cents to come to my house and perform degrading sex acts. Where's your work ethic now?
What amazes me is that it took over an hour for somebody to post a message noting such obvious signs that this is a phishing scam. Slashdotters love to see conspiracies everywhere, but they're all fooled by a site that isn't even in the Amazon.com domain, just because it has an Amazon logo.