Actually legalese comes to mind. Therein and hereto ... I mean the same purported goal to disambiguate and precisely specify. Because of complexity of the result it is hard to say whether that goal is achieved or not :)
That's only because the context has been shifted from the more general news of CNN to the tech and developer oriented news of HN. Within the original context of CNN no one would think it's about programming languages. They don't post stories like that. The CNN headline writer clearly wasn't trying to trick anyone.
Kudos to wowsig if it was submitted as a joke though. That'd be quite clever.
We thought of sending puzzles to the worker that would have to really be computed by the VM and would take some amount of time until it was possible to be faked, or would have changed by the time a human could decipher the puzzle and return the expected result, but so far we're only ignoring bad actors and sometimes comparing results from different actors until a quorum is found among results
Edit: I wasn't aware but there was some build-up to it: - 100k connections: http://blog.caustik.com/2012/04/08/scaling-node-js-to-100k-c... - 250k connections: http://blog.caustik.com/2012/04/10/node-js-w250k-concurrent-...