{"id":12456,"date":"2010-11-03T11:06:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T17:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/?p=12456"},"modified":"2011-02-04T11:46:20","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T17:46:20","slug":"uah-november-anomaly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/2010\/uah-november-anomaly\/","title":{"rendered":"UAH November Anomaly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Place your bets on the November UAH value that will be posted at Roy Spencer&#8217;s blog in early December in the slightly  &#8216;bot resistant form below:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><!- Metric=UAH TTL?Units=C?cutOffMonth=11?cutOffDay=15?cutOffYear=2010?DateMetric=November, 2010? Testing=1?ComputeWinnings=1?Observed=0.419?Display=1? -><br \/>\nThe cut-off date is Nov. 15, 2010.  <\/p>\n<p>Due to last months flurry of voting by  &#8220;spambots who can add&#8221;, I modified the database and script as follows:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Answers now sometimes require users to enter something after the decimal place.<\/li>\n<li>The exact solution to the arithmetic problem is no longer provided in one of the hidden fields. This reduces the possibility that voting was by &#8216;bots who can read hidden fields.<\/li>\n<li>The system still may permit some &#8216;bots to bet.  But it also tries to count how many times they tried to fill out the form and eventually, won&#8217;t show them a new one. (If you are human, I advise using your back button if you enter the wrong sum. That will save you typing.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>As with all betting scripts, this is only partly tested. That is: I&#8217;ve entered a few bets for me. I entered a few for &#8220;spambot&#8221;. I deleted most of these from the database. It seems to work. But if you see glitches, let me know. Meanwhile, wager some quatloos. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Place your bets on the November UAH value that will be posted at Roy Spencer&#8217;s blog in early December in the slightly &#8216;bot resistant form below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-betting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}