[sldev] CAPTCHA to validate land sales.

[dirk husemann]

Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> On 03-Oct-2007, at 13:32, Dale Glass wrote:
>> On Wednesday 03 October 2007 19:59:52 Argent Stonecutter wrote:
>>> You're still not looking at what I'm talking about.
>>>
>>> Right now, the bot operates with no human in the loop. So it's not
>>> cost-effective to do anything that might require a human.
>
>> Not in the US maybe. There are countries with internet access where $100
>> can be a monthly wage.
>
> The absolute cost of doing this doesn't matter. It's the relative cost
> of doing it with a bot (using, say, a cheap virtual host somewhere)
> versus doing it with a human (including the cost of managing the
> human). If the human costs $400 a month (4 people in shifts) then
> that's at least 10 times the cost of using bots.
>
> Look, if it was cost effective then people would be doing it, and
> out-competing the people running dumb bots.
hmm...considering that we don't have the captcha stuff yet, it's a bit
difficult to claim that people are not doing it, thus, it's not cost
effective :-)

the relative costs don't matter a peep: if it can be leveraged it will
--- just take a look at the migrating production in far east.

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