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1) Asking a computer to do a computation is not such a great idea. Low powered devices (think iPads) running javascript would be at a great disadvantage to high
by dchichkov 14y ago
1) Asking a computer to do a computation is not such a great idea. Low powered devices (think iPads) running javascript would be at a great disadvantage to highly efficient botnet clusters that spammers own.
2) Requesting a small amount of money may work. Alternatively requesting a user to do some useful task (like Amazon Turk HIT) to get some funds.
- emiliobumachar 14y agoSome computations just cannot be parallelized. (Yet. I'd be ironic if spammers advanced the field of parallel computing) The speed difference for single processors remain, but that's a single order of magnitude, except in extreme cases.
- tripzilch 14y agoBut you can always parallelize the spamming itself.