GEEKS' LUNCH CONTEST
  May 2005

Prize:

Win your choice of 1).
A very cool high security cut-away Medeco lock supplied by
an ex-three letter agency lock guru.

or

2).  A bumper sticker that proclaims your
skilz as a "Hacker".Hacker Bumper Sticker from ThinkGeek

Take your pick.   
 

The Story:
   

Evil Genius and hacker extraordonaire Monta Elkins was released from prison yesterday after serving 15 years for prosecution under the DMCA for devising a method of decoding the famed rot13 encryption.  (His genius further demonstrated while in prison (and without any access to computer equipment), by also developing decryption methods for double and even triple rot13 encoding; but I digress).

Before entering prison Mr. Elkins fathered a single son.  Given his paranoia and predicting the future security state, he decided to make his son search-proof (google-proof).  To accomplish this task he named his son "Bill Gates", recognizing that this name would be nearly impossible to search because of false positives.  He considered his son well hidden.

During his time in prison Mr. Elkins lost all contact with his son Bill Gates and since being released is now engaged in a desperate search to find him.  Knowing that his son is also a computer genius and will have web pages somewhere on the Internet he begins his search; but the only Bill Gates he can find (other than the Microsoft founder) is obviously not his son.  http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/gatesbill.htm  :)

Time for you to match wits with the evil genius hacker, Monta Elkins and help him find his lost son.

     
Challenge:

You must supply a link to a web page of a person named "Bill Gates" that is obviously, (to the sole-contest-God), not the Microsoft founder or one of his close relatives.  The most convincing (non-parody) link will be the winner.  You must submit a 1 paragraph description of how you found the link.  (Links must have existed prior to May 3, 2005 i.e. you can't create a page and point to it)  Note: I have not hidden a "Bill Gates" somewhere; The challenge is to find "someone else" named Bill Gates; (anyone else).

Hints:

Up to 3 submissions are allowed per person (in case you are not sure how the contest-judge (me) will weight your link.)  I will be grading links on many factors; Some points will weight be awarded for submissions containing (any) birthdate, pictures, professional certifications of Bill Gates.  (Matching race, geographic proximity to 24073, birthdate close to May 3, 1980 will be worth addition points.)   Entries containing journals or life histories that clearly show this is not the Bill Gates of Microsoft fame will also earn additional points.  Clever use of search techniques / engines will be equally weighted with the quality of the result submitted.  Given the general murkiness of the point-weighting system, at this point I believe it is prudent to point out line 2 under the "fine print" section.

Rules:

1) Entries must be received by me by midnight of May 8, 2005 my time.   Send them to monta.glcontest@geekslunch.com with the word "Contest" in the subject line.
2) Appear, or send a representative to exactly the next geeks lunch, to
claim the prize (tentatively May 9th).
3) 3 Multiple submissions allowed.
4) Work in groups if you like but there will only be 1 prize.
5) Earliest submission wins in case of "equally weighted".
6) Anyone can enter; no need to be a "Geeks' Lunch Invitee"; but remember rule 2.


Fine Print:

Entries may be published.
My decision is final and may even be considered capricious by some- if you don't like it, sponsor your own contest.
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