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it is amazing you think of it as cheating. if these guys really wanted to cheat we would just max out the extra 25 gigs and get it. We had already gotten 15 gigs legitimately. We aren't insulting the goodwill of Dropbox, we just think its fun to be atop the list despite having a student body of a 5th of what the other universities have. It is also classic tongue in cheek that Ben Bitdiddle and Alyssa Hacker were atop…
yes we are :)
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it is amazing you think of it as cheating. if these guys really wanted to cheat we would just max out the extra 25 gigs and get it. We had already gotten 15 gigs legitimately. We aren't insulting the goodwill of Dropbox, we just think its fun to be atop the list despite having a student body of a 5th of what the other universities have. It is also classic tongue in cheek that Ben Bitdiddle and Alyssa Hacker were atop…
yes we are :)
Attaching the MIT brand name to cheating doesn't make it hacking. Most, if not all of the techniques described in the post are pretty well known. Dropbox initiated the Space Race as a gesture of goodwill to students, and it's hard to fathom how or why people won't receive it in the same vein.
I'm representing another school in the Space Race, but I smiled when I visited dropbox.com/spacerace and saw MIT back at the top of the leaderboard (with less space racers than the previous leader). I couldn't wait to read how they did it. With a smaller student body, they needed to be clever to "win".
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(programmer_subculture)#...
Attaching the MIT brand name to cheating doesn't make it hacking. Most, if not all of the techniques described in the post are pretty well known. Dropbox initiated the Space Race as a gesture of goodwill to students, and it's hard to fathom how or why people won't receive it in the same vein.
Is it cheating? I'd imagine so, but I'd need to see the rules to make sure. Is it a hack? By my standards, it definitely has hack value [1]. I'm representing another school in the Space Race, but I smiled when I visited dropbox.com/spacerace and saw MIT back at the top of the leaderboard (with less space racers than the previous leader). I couldn't wait to read how they did it. With a smaller student body, they neede…
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Is it cheating? I'd imagine so, but I'd need to see the rules to make sure. Is it a hack? By my standards, it definitely has hack value [1]. I'm representing another school in the Space Race, but I smiled when I visited dropbox.com/spacerace and saw MIT back at the top of the leaderboard (with less space racers than the previous leader). I couldn't wait to read how they did it. With a smaller student body, they neede…
This is clever in the same way that spammers are clever to spam millions of people without getting caught.