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How is Woz not going to win Dancing With The Stars via a Python script?

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Maybe because he said not to do that.

Wozniak has asked tech-savvy viewers not to hack ABC's voting systems

http://gawker.com/5162920/nerds-squeal-with-glee-for-dancing...

I don't know about ABC, but I know when we did the thing last year with Rick Astley that MTV fudged the votes.

One of the IT people from MTVNE showed me that within the first week, we had managed to do more than 100 million votes for Rick (he showed me hits on their web servers/databases and then told me the actual number). By the end of the voting period nearly four weeks later, the "Official Tally" was that Rick had only 110 million votes total (80% of all votes for all categories though) and having seen the actual ouputs of the votes/sec on MTV's database servers and doing napkin math, this just doesn't add up.

Lets hope that ABC doesn't do something similar, but it wouldn't shock me if they did.

EDIT - sidenote. I've been asked and emailed by several people if I could spearhead another campaign to do the same thing for Woz that we did for Rick. Autovoting on a sked and emailed by several people if I could spearhead another campaign to do the same thing for Woz that we did for Rick. Autovoting on a very large scale. To be honest, we proved that it was possible, we showed that online voting very large scale. To be honest, we proved that it was possible, we showed that online voting was inherently flawed and really...once was enough.

Besides, Woz has said he wouldn't want to win that way so we really should respect his wishes.

weird, the edit seems to have been messed up somehow... what it should look like (if it doesn't make sense) is.

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EDIT - sidenote. I've been asked and emailed by several people if I could spearhead another campaign to do the same thing for Woz that we did for Rick. Autovoting on a very large scale. To be honest, we proved that it was possible, we showed that online voting was inherently flawed and really...once was enough.

Besides, Woz has said he wouldn't want to win that way so we really should respect his wishes.

Anyone else think that the author of this website (badchesse.com) resembles a young Steve Woz?

Yeah. I see some Belushi in there too.

Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD. I think this is a terrible idea. Hack the system so the most deserving person doesn't win and give hackers a bad name in the process. Really...good...idea.

If you are spending your time plotting how to rig Dancing with the Stars, you should stop and re-examine your life.

With a good dose of existential depression, you may realize that this is as good as any other pursuit.

Hey I have always had a doubt on this !

How do you know that the people running the show are showing you the actual result, I mean, can't they rig it to show some other guy as the winner?

Or is there some regulatory authority, an outside body to prevent this ?!

I don't watch it, but if it's a game show with prizes, then it's regulated. Celebrity game shows usually give money to charity, but my guess is that those are regulated too.

If you are spending your time plotting how to rig Dancing with the Stars, you should stop and re-examine your life.

Hopefully it isn't too late.

poor woz

"poor"? I'd say just the opposite. Woz is rich, and in more ways than money.

Yeah, I mean clearly the cupboards aren't bare in his house. I just watched him come down the stairs and I thought it was Cartman from South Park dressed up & rollin' with a hot chickie.

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