{"id":276,"date":"2007-12-06T09:28:51","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T14:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weeklyrob.dreamhosters.com\/?p=276"},"modified":"2007-12-06T09:28:51","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T14:28:51","slug":"computers-are-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"Computers are Dumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.weeklyrob.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/comment_spam1.jpg' title='comment_spam1.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/www.weeklyrob.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/comment_spam1.jpg' alt='comment_spam1.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I get hundreds of comment spams a day for this blog. If it&#8217;s not obvious what that means, it means that spammers leave spam comments on my posts. Since the email address they enter isn&#8217;t on my &#8220;Allowed&#8221; list, their comments go to a queue where I decide whether to approve them or not. Obviously, I don&#8217;t approve spam.<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s say there are a hundred items in the queue. Usually, they&#8217;re all spam, but I have to check them, of course, because I want to approve legitimate comments. I can pretty much scroll right through it, letting the comments go past my eye, lickety-split.<\/p>\n<p>Every once in a while, something will just look different, and I&#8217;ll stop and see that it&#8217;s a legitimate message from someone. Then I approve it.<\/p>\n<p>But isn&#8217;t it interesting that I can do that so quickly, almost subconsciously, while there&#8217;s nothing in the computer world that can do it at all with anything approaching my accuracy? If I take my time, I can do it with 100% accuracy. (But it&#8217;s hard to take time, since they&#8217;re almost always spam.)<\/p>\n<p>Going as fast as I do, I probably miss something legit every now and then, but I&#8217;m still so much better than a computer that there&#8217;s no comparison. Computers are dumb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get hundreds of comment spams a day for this blog. If it&#8217;s not obvious what that means, it means that spammers leave spam comments on my posts. Since the email address they enter isn&#8217;t on my &#8220;Allowed&#8221; list, their comments go to a queue where I decide whether to approve them or not. Obviously, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-and-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}