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Spammers Learn to Outsource Their Captcha Needs
lukeknipe writes "Guardian Unlimited reporter Charles Arthur speaks with a spammer, discussing the possibility that his colleagues may be paying people in developing countries to fill in captchas. In his report, Arthur discusses Nicholas Negroponte's gift of hand-powered laptops to developing nations and the wide array of troubles that could arise as the world's exploitable poor go online." From the article: "I've no doubt it will radically alter the life of many in the developing world for the better. I also expect that once a few have got into the hands of people aching to make a dollar, with time on their hands and an internet connection provided one way or another, we'll see a significant rise in captcha-solved spam. But, as my spammer contact pointed out, it's nothing personal. You have to understand: it's just business."
Damn those developing countries, stealing all the decent jobs from the hard working Americans.
Heh. The other day I got a junk mail offering to help me sell my house. I talked to the landlord, but he assured me, I can not sell my apartment.
Easier solution: Kill all those with tiny penes. Only the well-endowed should be allowed to live, thus no need for penis pills. QED.
I'm currently hiring 3rd world citizens to kick spammers in the crotch.
To the spammers: it's nothing personal. You have to understand: it's just business.
Yaz.
Even easier solution: kill everyone with a penis. Never mind the spam; there would be no more violent crime, no more porn, no more rape, no more unwanted pregnancy.
Until we get enough cloning centres established, we could manufacture sperm by factory-farming boys in battery cages. Give them drugs to make them reach puberty sooner, and twist their necks once you've extracted a certain amount of semen from each one (and that's not much; each ejaculation could produce a few hundred million babies with more efficient logistics). Burn the corpses in power stations (it'd be the first time in history a man had done anything useful). Separate out most, but not all, of the Y-chromosome-carrying sperm; so most, but not all, of the babies born will be girls. If a woman is pregnant with a boy foetus, tell her it has a nasty defect and she needs an abortion; then induce it and raise it in an incubator until it's ready for independent existence. Keep the exact method of sperm production a secret. The sperm samples would be indexed by attributes; so when a couple seeking to have a baby went "to have one partner's DNA made into injectable form", in reality the nearest matching sperm would be chosen to inseminate the other partner's egg.
Maybe it's just too early in the morning for me, but what does that mean? That typing distorted text is easy? That it's smart/dumb? That it makes you love your neighbor as you would have them love you?