I'm on the side of caution here (although I already jumped in without thinking and signed in to mturk... then immediately realized how stupid that was and changed my password)
Why is this not advertised anywhere on Amazon's main site?
Why doesn't Mechanical Turk recognize me from my Amazon cookie? (i.e. Welcome Back SoandSo! If you're not SoandSo, click here.)
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Of course, all that means is that when you logged in, they could have behind the scenes connected to Amazon as you and pulled up your address and other info to make it look legit.
Along the same lines, I'd love it if I could download complete coverage of cycling events - all the European classics, the TDF, etc. I'd be happy to get it the day after it happened for a couple of bucks. Right now I basically have no options for cycling coverage, unless I pay tons of money to get OLN from Comcast... and even then the coverage is completely anemic and limited to only a couple of events. Why not make money selling something like this, instead of making nothing on it in the US market right now?
The problem, then, is on a large network like Comcast. You have bad eggs, you have zombies, and then you have responsible netizens. The responsible ones end up getting their reputation tarnished by the other two as the blame is spread across all of the dynamic IP's over time. There really isn't much the responsible person can do about it, as they have no control over the IP they are assigned. They suffer from the tragedy of the commons.
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Bullshit, Sony.
Ok, nevermind. Follow this path:
Go to http://www.amazon.com/
Scroll way down, and on the left hand side under "Make Money" and click "Web Services". On the resulting page, you'll see MTurk being advertised.
I'm on the side of caution here (although I already jumped in without thinking and signed in to mturk... then immediately realized how stupid that was and changed my password) Why is this not advertised anywhere on Amazon's main site? Why doesn't Mechanical Turk recognize me from my Amazon cookie? (i.e. Welcome Back SoandSo! If you're not SoandSo, click here.)
Of course, all that means is that when you logged in, they could have behind the scenes connected to Amazon as you and pulled up your address and other info to make it look legit.
Along the same lines, I'd love it if I could download complete coverage of cycling events - all the European classics, the TDF, etc. I'd be happy to get it the day after it happened for a couple of bucks. Right now I basically have no options for cycling coverage, unless I pay tons of money to get OLN from Comcast... and even then the coverage is completely anemic and limited to only a couple of events. Why not make money selling something like this, instead of making nothing on it in the US market right now?
Unfortunately, it appears the link is dead.
Of course, slashdot itself already blocks people using TOR from posting...
The problem, then, is on a large network like Comcast. You have bad eggs, you have zombies, and then you have responsible netizens. The responsible ones end up getting their reputation tarnished by the other two as the blame is spread across all of the dynamic IP's over time. There really isn't much the responsible person can do about it, as they have no control over the IP they are assigned. They suffer from the tragedy of the commons.