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Originally posted by MadHacker
Just an idea ..
but what is to stop someone from doing a weeks worth of work without uploading results...
then backing up the entire directory... then uploading the results...
restoring from backup... and uploading the results again.
and again and again.....
I could put us in 1'st place in a day....
it would be wrong... unethical...
am i the only one that thinks that devianetly?
or is that the reason there are a few users putting out large numbers...
NO Joe i don't think your doing that!!!
but otheres that are in first place?
just something to wonder about....
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This is one of the cheats in SETI. After 10 days or so the validation information is reset and you can re-upload the same results over again.
DF uses a results varification method that prevents this from happening. How it works I am not sure but it does work. I would think if someone was good enough at decifering code they could find a work around for this. I suspected CodeBlaster the The Rebels Haven Computer Forum team but then went to there forum and did some digging and it seems he just has a bunch of comps that crunch off line pretty much throughout a whole protein and then he uploads the results before the new protein takes over. Something like that anyway.