it3llig3nc3 June 22, 2007 Share it3llig3nc3 Member June 22, 2007 Guys, Just wanted to raise some awareness that there is a gigantic and fun "cyberwar" going on on the internet. It is simple. The more the people click on a certain web-page the better. Countries are competing with each other. Japan and Taiwan seems to be winning, US is ranked 28th as of now, Canada is 29th. Have a look: www.clickclickclick.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playaa June 22, 2007 Share Playaa Member June 22, 2007 I already feel as if my time has been wasted...and I haven't even gone to the site yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akaM2 June 22, 2007 Share akaM2 Member June 22, 2007 I already feel as if my time has been wasted...and I haven't even gone to the site yet. qft Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Soapdish June 22, 2007 Share Nick Soapdish Member June 22, 2007 taiwan clicks like 2,000 per second, they must have so many moueseseseses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
it3llig3nc3 June 22, 2007 Author Share it3llig3nc3 Member June 22, 2007 Well obviously it's a bit extreme, but some people take it quite seriously. After all there are communities organized around it and of course developers came up with tools to generate more clicks Nobody spends their time clicking one by one - just host programs that do that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mookie June 22, 2007 Share mookie GC Alumni June 22, 2007 I thought this post was going to be about China attacking the DNS system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preacher June 22, 2007 Share Preacher Member June 22, 2007 I thought it was going to show us a new and better mousetrap, so disappointed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thief_Lord June 23, 2007 Share Thief_Lord Member June 23, 2007 I have contributed a total of 3,901 of all of the US Clicks, making me have 1 Percent of all the US Clicks...... I feel Accomplished Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymo June 23, 2007 Share anonymo Member June 23, 2007 Is this a contest about building the best clicking program? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EbilDustBunny June 24, 2007 Share EbilDustBunny GC Alumni June 24, 2007 (edited) too much time... i'll look at it when i get home or maybe later at work... my reports i'm suppose to be working aren't updated for today... and I'm in 3 hours before anyone shows up. >_< update: HTTP Error 500.13 - Server error: Web server is too busy. yay! Edited June 24, 2007 by EbilDustBunny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
it3llig3nc3 June 25, 2007 Author Share it3llig3nc3 Member June 25, 2007 Is this a contest about building the best clicking program? I think you hit the nail on the head. The "war" is now dependent on a few programmers coming up with tools that can "sneak" in the generated "clicks" and do it faster than the competitor's. Also there is a notable element: before submitting clicks there is a block that usually needs manual intervention: a code to be entered to proceed that is displayed on a picture... So the coders built tools to create a database of these and have them automatically recognized by the "clicker" programs. Community is organized to feed the database with the resolved codes provided by humans... After all even if the objective is really questionable what amazes me is the organization and skill that has been put behind it by a few people who started to take it seriously. Also notable that the tool capable of getting over the manual input request for a picturized code is rather dangerous. I believe a system like that in the hands of spammers could result in auto-regging zillion of e-mail addresses for example... Anyways. I'm from Hungary and I see the heroic fight the small Hungarian team put up against Japan and Taiwan recently - yet 50% behind with clicks as of now over the 500 million mark... Just imagine if some US developer takes it seriously one day... US is a country of 230+ million - won't be difficult to get some support... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymo June 26, 2007 Share anonymo Member June 26, 2007 Is this a contest about building the best clicking program? I think you hit the nail on the head. The "war" is now dependent on a few programmers coming up with tools that can "sneak" in the generated "clicks" and do it faster than the competitor's. Also there is a notable element: before submitting clicks there is a block that usually needs manual intervention: a code to be entered to proceed that is displayed on a picture... So the coders built tools to create a database of these and have them automatically recognized by the "clicker" programs. Community is organized to feed the database with the resolved codes provided by humans... After all even if the objective is really questionable what amazes me is the organization and skill that has been put behind it by a few people who started to take it seriously. Also notable that the tool capable of getting over the manual input request for a picturized code is rather dangerous. I believe a system like that in the hands of spammers could result in auto-regging zillion of e-mail addresses for example... Anyways. I'm from Hungary and I see the heroic fight the small Hungarian team put up against Japan and Taiwan recently - yet 50% behind with clicks as of now over the 500 million mark... Just imagine if some US developer takes it seriously one day... US is a country of 230+ million - won't be difficult to get some support... No offense to anyone, but I really think that everyone who joins this clicking business should be put on the list of people we fire into space one day...just saying... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
it3llig3nc3 June 26, 2007 Author Share it3llig3nc3 Member June 26, 2007 anonymo, That was good. Round 6 ended yesterday. It is really crazy. 900million clicks for the winner. And the good point is: what could the effort put into this by those "fanatics" buy for the world? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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