Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 14:07:34 02/28/04
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On February 28, 2004 at 04:48:13, Uri Blass wrote: >On February 27, 2004 at 22:39:24, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On February 27, 2004 at 18:31:18, Telmo Escobar wrote: >> >>>On February 27, 2004 at 10:22:56, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>> >>>> >>>>How will this help? >>>> >>>>I win the even. Five years later I say "no way". What is the remedy for that? >>>>I have had the title for five years, even if I cheated. There is no way to go >>>>back and eradicate five years of publicity. >>> >>> If, after five years of publicity, you say "no way", everybody would assume you >>>cheated and that means the rest of your life of negative publicity. That would >>>prove fatal if you were a young programmer trying to get a name in the >>>profession. >>> >>> Telmo >> >>Perhaps, perhaps not. There are plenty of "fly-by-night" one-year wonders >>around. And even ignoring that, who could be sure that what I release 5 years >>into the future was the actual program that won 5 years ago? Hard to get the >>same hardware, etc... >> >>No way to make this work 5 years hence. It is hard to make work today... > >I guess that it is possible to protect the program by a long passward and give >it in the beginning of the tournament when only after 5 years you tell people >the passward so they can get both the source code and the exe file of the >program. What if you forget the password? :) > >You should also give the exe file of the program to someone that you trust not >to give it to other people and if it turned out that the exe are different or >that the program cannot play the same moves in almost all cases then it is clear >that you cheated(parallel programs are not 100% deterministic but you can still >see based on the moves if the thing is totally different). > >Uri
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