PTF City

[Danger]

I think it reads IP, but lemme try deleted my cookies.

[knoxbox]

lets us know.

[Danger]

Yea doesn't work. Looks like we're going to have to do it fair and square.

But I have two computers

[knoxbox]

Originally Posted by Danger

Yea doesn't work. Looks like we're going to have to do it fair and square.

But I have two computers

well i have 1,2,3,4 computers but they all run through a router if its done by ip doesn't matter which computer i hit the site on it'll only count one computer.

[Danger]

Mine both run on the same router and they both worked. Dunno

[knoxbox]

Originally Posted by Danger

Mine both run on the same router and they both worked. Dunno

if thats the case then its not done by ip... probably done with hash or something...

[thexfactor]

well i cant do it at school so ill do it at home

[AJ]

cookies?

[Danger]

Originally Posted by AJ

cookies?

The cookies in your browser. I would assume you know what those are.

[knoxbox]

Originally Posted by Danger

The cookies in your browser. I would assume you know what those are.

there is a thing on every computer called hash... its like a thumbprint for your computer, its a little line of data that differentiates one computer from the next kinda like a mac address... its very rare for a website to use it... not sure if they are or not or maybe they have some advanced cookies who knows.

hashing Last modified: Tuesday, October 14, 2003
Producing hash values for accessing data or for security. A hash value (or simply hash), also called a message digest, is a number generated from a string of text. The hash is substantially smaller than the text itself, and is generated by a formula in such a way that it is extremely unlikely that some other text will produce the same hash value. Hashes play a role in security systems where they're used to ensure that transmitted messages have not been tampered with. The sender generates a hash of the message, encrypts it, and sends it with the message itself. The recipient then decrypts both the message and the hash, produces another hash from the received message, and compares the two hashes. If they're the same, there is a very high probability that the message was transmitted intact.
Hashing is also a common method of accessing data records. Consider, for example, a list of names:
John Smith
Sarah Jones
Roger Adams
To create an index, called a hash table, for these records, you would apply a formula to each name to produce a unique numeric value. So you might get something like:
1345873 John smith
3097905 Sarah Jones
4060964 Roger Adams
Then to search for the record containing Sarah Jones, you just need to reapply the formula, which directly yields the index key to the record. This is much more efficient than searching through all the records till the matching record is found.

What is hashing? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary

might be how they are doing it not sure.