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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1964795, member: 66&quot;]We didn&#039;t &quot;miss&quot; that, the point of their rule was obvious.&nbsp; but anytime you set up rules forr something like this there will always be those who try to figure ways around them.&nbsp; Maybe for gain, sometimes just to see if they can do it.&nbsp; That was one of the main reason for the emergence of computer hackers.&nbsp; They aren&#039;t all malicious, they are just rising to the challenge of a &quot;crack proof secure system&quot;&nbsp; Can they find holes or ways around the security.</p><p><br /></p><p>Have you ever noticed in the rules for a lot of contests you will find&nbsp; language that says all entries have to be on an official order blank, not copies aor mechanically reproduced entries allowed?&nbsp; do you know why that is there?&nbsp; Because back in the early 70&#039;s a company, I think it was McDonalds had a contest offering a lot of prizes in a drawing and all you had to do to enter was submit a slip of paper with a certain phrase printed on it.&nbsp; Well a Fraternity at one of the major engineering schools programmed the university computer (computers were scarce back then) to produce the paper slips and submitted 1.2 million entries.&nbsp; They walked off with 90% of the prizes.&nbsp; The company turned it into a PR plus though by praising the ingenuity of the students and awarding duplicate prizes in a second drawing after removing the fraternities entries.&nbsp; But it lead&nbsp; to a change in the rules about how contests are run today.</p><p><br /></p><p>In another McDonalds contest they had game pieces where every piece was a potential winner, you just had to uncover the right spot.&nbsp; I figured out a technique to &quot;read&quot; the spots through the card so every card I got was a winning card.&nbsp; All I got were food prizes, but I got one with every card I got.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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