[vorbis] as if you haven't seen this yet

[Oddsock]

At 03:34 AM 7/18/2001, you wrote:
>On 2001-07-17, The nameless One <oddsock at oddsock.org> wrote:
> > in case anyone is interested, I have built a win32 program which will
> > perform a double blind listening tests..It will allow you to play each
> > sample and allow you to rank them in order of quality.  The program
> > will then send the results to a centralized server which saves it off
> > to a DB and gives immediate feedback to the user the outcome of the
> > test.
>
>Hm, is it really a double-blind test? I.e. does the program itself know
>which format it's playing? This could be a problem if somebody wants to
>abuse this system by writing a client which rates, say, wma best 20
>million times in a row.

yes, it truely is a double blind test..since the samples are all WAVs it 
truely does not know what it's playing...not until the results are sent to 
the server, does the server respond back with which sample cooresponded to 
which format.

and by not allowing multiple results submitted by the same IP (on the 
server), you pretty much prevent abuse....although you also probably piss 
off those behind ISP-wide proxies....ah well, you can't please everyone...

>Unluckily, I can't think of a solution which does not involve security
>by obscurity right now. Maybe you can. Or you already have (-:
>
>regards,
>--
>Andreas Fuchs, <asf at acm.org>, asf at jabber.at, antifuchs
>
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