October 2008 Archives

$2 you can buy 1000 human broken CAPTCHA’s

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Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is a neat idea, but I’ve often wondered why people don’t consider it slave labor the way they might a Nike sweatshop. (Nike settled.)And then High Scalability has a post about getting work done for free albeit this time to fight spam.

Some top picks from the last few days:A good overview and comparison of various Virtualization technologies from the ever interesting Kris Buytaert.The High Scalability blog pulls together a list of places that are discussing the state of the art in scaling in the cloud. Not entirely un-related is High Scalability’s overview of the Second Life Architecture. 12Gbit/sec in 2007 and growing huh?The Bend in the Weather blog covers how to setup your networking in VirtualBox.Enjoy! Comments or email always welcome.

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