Wanted: Lost Drive Experiment Volunteers
I have received a lot of publicity around the Lost USB Drive application. Daily Cup of Tech has been mentioned in Popular Science twice. The story of the lost and found child in Disneyland also gained a lot of attention.
But, there are those who do not believe it works or question how well it would work. I have to be honest, I have not actually tested to see if the application works in a real-world scenario. This is where you come in!
I am looking for one hundred loyal DCoT users who are willing to “lose” a USB drive for me. If you have an old USB drive lying around or you got one as a piece of swag from a conference, I would like you to put the Lost USB drive program on it, register it with DCoT, and then lose it. We will then see how well the program works!
All of the details about registering your drive and a special program that I wrote which will automatically configure your USB drive with the proper settings and also help you write that all important “Get me home!” message are on the official Lost USB Drive Experiment page.
I am very excited about this little experiment because I really do not know what the outcome will be. Also, because we have such a wide audience that literally covers the globe, I am interested to see which country or city is the most honest/willing to put an unknown USB drive into their computer!
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5 Responses to “Wanted: Lost Drive Experiment Volunteers”
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Michael Sacchi Says:
May 31st, 2007 at 3:12 amSeriously, I’d do it here in Italy, if I wasn’t 100% sure that it would be like throwing away a usb drive.
You don’t need an experiment to test italian honesty. Take my word for granted
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Gil Matos Says:
May 31st, 2007 at 9:44 amHi, you may count on me.
I live in São Paulo, Brazil, and use to visit a lot of clientes weekly, where I can “forget” my usb drive. -
Tim Fehlman Says:
May 31st, 2007 at 10:01 amGil Matos,
Please pop over to the Lost USB Drive Experiment page and click on the e-mail address with all of your information to register for this experiment.
Tim
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Richard in Kunming Says:
May 31st, 2007 at 10:06 pmI would enjoy being a part of an experiment like that! But I don’t know how to write the message in Chinese yet… I am excited to here the results though!
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Ronald van Doorn Says:
June 8th, 2007 at 2:28 amI have only one usb-stick so i don’t want to participate in the experiment this way. But I will put the program on my usb-stick in case i do lose it involuntary.
