Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Don Y Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Chinese downloads overloading my website Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 06:06:45 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <7qujui58fjds1isls4ohpcnp5d7dt20ggk@4ax.com> <6lekuihu1heui4th3ogtnqk9ph8msobmj3@4ax.com> <1qqgixd.hm4kvnqct6mN%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> <1qqgpf8.n9edm71ec3nmmN%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 13:06:55 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c86af28dc75bef790d14c8cfb4054056"; logging-data="2411447"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+zz8KAL7Agwip7gMZcx23D" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:tqsAB4KsKJu1h32YWaXONBUp9ts= In-Reply-To: <1qqgpf8.n9edm71ec3nmmN%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3138 On 3/15/2024 6:00 AM, Liz Tuddenham wrote: > Don Y wrote: > >> On 3/15/2024 3:41 AM, Liz Tuddenham wrote: >>> Don Y wrote: >>> >>>> On 3/14/2024 9:26 AM, Peter wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Don Y wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> (Without having seen them...) Can you create a PNG of a group >>>>>> of them arranged in a matrix. Then, a map that allows clicking >>>>>> on any *part* of the composite image to provide a more detailed >>>>>> "popup" to inspect? >>>>>> >>>>>> I.e., each individual image is a trip back to the server to >>>>>> fetch that image. A single composite could reduce that to >>>>>> one fetch with other actions conditional on whether or not >>>>>> the user wants "more/finer detail" >>>>> >>>>> All of this "graphical captcha" stuff is easy to hack if somebody is >>>>> out to trash *your* site. >>>> >>>> If you are *targeted*, then all bets are off. At the end of the >>>> day, your adversary could put a REAL HUMAN to the task of hammering >>>> away at it. >>> >>> You could always have a question which involved correcting the English >>> grammar of a sentence, but that might eliminate far more of your >>> visitors than you intended. >> >> Require visitors to insert correct punctuation: >> >> John had had had had had had had a better effect > > "He helped his Uncle Jack off a horse." ROTFL!