Because a Perl script running off a few IP'S lacks sufficient entropy.
Cheap humans however, generate enough randomness to make it very hard to detect the fraudulent clicks.
While the populace at large is 3rd world, South Africa have thousands of highly skilled, articulate IT professionals available.
Its a mystery to me why US companies haven't exploited this, like the UK employers have. Indians for example are probably cheaper per capita, but with lower ROI due to some of the language/culture barriers.
Also deja wouldn't let you respond to an old message (a month, I think), whereas I often see people who've obviously found a post with a Google search and responded to it, not noticing that it's a few years old.
No actually Google Groups DOESNT allow you to post to old articles, unless they've just recently changed this. This has always annoyed me, I thought it would be cool to reply with a 'thank you' to a 2 year old solution someone posted.
Groups.google has been so usefull over the years, as a techie I cant live without it. Even just debates about meaningless trivia are resolved by a quick 'groups search.
Around the office we use verb 'FFS just groups it'
Thats the first thing I thought when I fired up my browser this morning. I would think the majority of/. feel the same way.
In an ideal world the frontpage should represent the most interesing and BROADLY relevant topics available. I think something went wrong here.
Spammers are going there because you have a high PR.
So cut the PR supply and you in business,
http://www.site.com/~url=http://www.link.com
and voila - URL rewriting. no more PR for mr spammer.
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Because a Perl script running off a few IP'S lacks sufficient entropy. Cheap humans however, generate enough randomness to make it very hard to detect the fraudulent clicks.
While the populace at large is 3rd world, South Africa have thousands of highly skilled, articulate IT professionals available.
Its a mystery to me why US companies haven't exploited this, like the UK employers have. Indians for example are probably cheaper per capita, but with lower ROI due to some of the language/culture barriers.
No actually Google Groups DOESNT allow you to post to old articles, unless they've just recently changed this. This has always annoyed me, I thought it would be cool to reply with a 'thank you' to a 2 year old solution someone posted.
Groups.google has been so usefull over the years, as a techie I cant live without it. Even just debates about meaningless trivia are resolved by a quick 'groups search.
Around the office we use verb 'FFS just groups it'
Thats the first thing I thought when I fired up my browser this morning. I would think the majority of /. feel the same way.
In an ideal world the frontpage should represent the most interesing and BROADLY relevant topics available. I think something went wrong here.
Spammers are going there because you have a high PR. So cut the PR supply and you in business, http://www.site.com/~url=http://www.link.com and voila - URL rewriting. no more PR for mr spammer.