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[DeparDan]

The UK Government's commitment to meet strict European Union targets on reducing carbon emissions has recently seen the introduction of Feed-In Tariffs (also known as FITs) - a scheme that pays people for the renewable electricity they generate.



Commercial Investment

[Josh @ Dreamland]

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Spam: Posted link to a realty-related .co.uk domain.

On another note, I'm interested as to whether this was a paid human, or a really good bot. It apparently got through all three anti-spam questions, then navigated to the off-topic board to post the link. Pretty good, for a bot; it would have to actually try all words on each page forward and backward to guess correctly. So either lots of time, or a human.

If we get more of these AI-powered bots, I'll have to up the question difficulty.

[polygone]

Strikes again on a Law Forum:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1WKjutfhSX4J:www.lawschooldiscussion.org/index.php%3Ftopic%3D4027820.0+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

And look at their registration form ...

[Josh @ Dreamland]

More nontrivial questions. But if you do a Google search for "The highest US court is the US * Court", the answer is so easy to filter that even a bot could do it. But if it's doing that, how'd it break ours?

It's hard to say, really; the bot would have to be good at matching keywords in questions and brute-forcing the answer by any means.

Or, maybe it's just a human paid to go through a big list of sites. Oh well.

[polygone]

I have a good question. You could put a list of letters on the previous page in different colours like:

d s d p s w o d s l s d y s d d g s d o q w q n u n w e y z x b c x

Then the security question could be: "Provide the name of ENIGMA's most awesome member (spelt in red on in the list of letters on the previous page)"

[TheExDeus]

That could work. Especially if it changes, like taking a random user or developer.

[Josh @ Dreamland]

Pretty easy to just brute force characters in a single div with the same color.

[TheExDeus]

But isn't all that something a bot needs to be programmed to do? Because if he can randomly brute force color characters or anything in the site, then there is no real way to stop that (of course he would eat so much bandwidth, that maybe we could just ban an IP for that alone). The current questions are good actually, so unless Watson is the one spamming us, then I don't think anything has to change.