Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 24.5.208.127]
on May 31, 2008 06:49 AM
The contest is only four months old but, more critically, the prize is only $40 and an 80 GB drive.
Why on earth would professionals (who regularly receive two orders of magnitude more money for this service) possibly pay any attention to this at all? Free advertising? No--it is a lame godaddy site with little traffic and nobody of significance is running it. There is no guarantee that there aren't either minor shenanigans (improper drive preparation) or fraud (extracting shipping + "deposits" from saps) here. It is suspicious that they charge a deposit and disallow physical tampering--if anything went wrong, the deposit would be lost. Anyway...would risk anything for only $40?
If the entities behind this raise a more significant bounty & can show there are no shenanigans on there part & attract any interest, they should also refine the rules to show no shenanigans by others---they need multiple drives or will need to "reset" the drive (format+add data+dd /dev/zero) after each trial--there is no guarantee that someone before your try didn't write to the drive.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 24.5.208.127] on May 31, 2008 06:49 AMWhy on earth would professionals (who regularly receive two orders of magnitude more money for this service) possibly pay any attention to this at all? Free advertising? No--it is a lame godaddy site with little traffic and nobody of significance is running it. There is no guarantee that there aren't either minor shenanigans (improper drive preparation) or fraud (extracting shipping + "deposits" from saps) here. It is suspicious that they charge a deposit and disallow physical tampering--if anything went wrong, the deposit would be lost. Anyway...would risk anything for only $40?
If the entities behind this raise a more significant bounty & can show there are no shenanigans on there part & attract any interest, they should also refine the rules to show no shenanigans by others---they need multiple drives or will need to "reset" the drive (format+add data+dd /dev/zero) after each trial--there is no guarantee that someone before your try didn't write to the drive.
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