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  1. prizes were an integral part of American history by schlachter · · Score: 1 · on Facebook's Biggest Bounty Yet To Hacker Who Found "Keys To the Kingdom"

    No, you're wrong, bounties and prizes were an integral part of American history.

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  2. The Phone Cop by msc.buff · · Score: 1 · on 'This Is Your Second and Final Notice' Robocallers Revealed

    Shameless self promotion: http://robocall.challenge.gov/submissions/13334-the-phone-cop

  3. I actually submitted a proposal by indraneil · · Score: 2 · on FTC Gets 744 New Ideas On How To Hang Up On Robocallers

    Our submission is at: http://robocall.challenge.gov/submissions/13007-save-me-time
    I found that most suggestions fell into the following buckets

    *Things the Govt can do*
    - FTC needs to ensure caller ID cant be spoofed
    - FBI needs to hunt down the racketeers and bust them
    - FTC needs to mandate (likely by fiat) that the telephone companies make the robocallers pay the full cost for the call

    *Things you can do*
    - Use an audio capcha system
    - Provide a system to black list known and irritating callers
    - A few people discussed how Google voice might solve the problem.

    I did not expect to see that many people going through the submission process which tells me that the pain point is real.
    However, I think people are mostly converging on how they intend to block the calls and the winner will get decided on how good your execution measures up to every one else.
    What FTC finally does implement based on the contest is another matter.

  4. Why link to the blog? by tomhath · · Score: 2 · on $10,000 Prize For Connecting Businesses With Government Data

    The article links to a White House blog, which is nothing more than a parroting and link to the real information. Must be an election year.

  5. The Air Force will like this by gman003 · · Score: 1 · on Are 625 Pixels Enough To Identify Sex?

    The US Air Force recently launched a challenge for a system "that can determine approximate age (adult, teen, child) and gender of small groups of people at a distance.", with the goal of reducing civilian casualties during UAV operations. It shouldn't be too hard to make a system that can guess ages (at least well enough for their purposes), so the research team practically netted $20k already.

    Additional news coverage: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/04/boy-from-girl/