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SETI@Home to Crunch More Data
BigDave writes: "In this article on Wired, it describes how SETI is gradually running out of data, as the current data acquisition system cannot keep up with the rate of processing (since they now have 3 million users processing data). They have acquired a new high-speed digital data recorder which is Linux-powered, and was donated by Hewlett-Packard."
Maybe they could help out the STI Project
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Some quantum physics theories suggest that when the user is not directly observing SETI@Home software, it may cease to exist or will exist only in a vague and undetermined state.
They've cracked the DES-I, DES-III, RC5-56, and CSC encyption contests, and now they're alternating between cracking RC5-64 and finding optimal golomb rulers.
When will they start on rot13?
A bunker deep beneath an unnamed mountain somewhere in the western US.
Sir, we've had all of our top computers working on this message for months, and we can't crack it. Seven of our top cryptanalysts have starved to death while trying to decipher the thing. General, sir, we're losing this battle.The general pauses to think for a moment. Then he speaks.
Colonel, do we still have that agent on the Captain Crunch marketing board? Good. Have him slip these Captain Crunch Secret Decoder rings into the marketing plan.
A short phone call later, and twenty thousand little kids were working on the uncrackable ROT13 cipher.
Just think tho, if your computer is the one that finds the signal from ET, you not only get to be on every talk show (along with the SETI eggheads), but you will probably get your biography published, becoming an instant babe/stud magnet! Not to mention you will get an automatic entry to compete to see who gets to ride in the wormhole riding ball machine built from the plans that are undoubtedly being sent our way right now (not to mention patent rights to aforementioned machine). And all this for free FREE FREE (as long as you are running it on your office machine, since you don't pay for electricity there). And don't forget the screensaver (ohhhh, pretty blinking lights).
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that we haven't made contact yet. If we ever did connect with an Interstellar /., sure as shooting, somebody would post a goatsx message. And then we'd find out that they mod down with an Illudium Q-38 Explosive Space Modulator!
After connecting to IntStelNet, please listen for a thousand years before posting...
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
How about taking some of this distributed computing power and use it to process the subtle signals given by women. Is she really interested, or is she just being nice? Now we geeks can find out!
SETI is all about the screen saver. Most people who use SETI do it because of the cool blocks of FFT that get assembeled before their eyes, not because they are going to find ET. Anyone know of some cross platform (OpenGL??) screen savers one could use as the front end for a distributed computing project? SETI has proved that marketing is way more important to content for desktop supercomputing.
A cool screen saver and a spiffy website is all I need to get people to do my genetic programming runs for me. hehe...
bash-2.04$
bash-2.04$yes "Don't you hate dialup connections?"| write USERNAME
It's time to write a distributed program that will grok all legalese in the world, and use massive seti@home-style processing to figure out every possible way to repeal the DMCA and other defective copyright laws. The distributed program would itself be protected by the DMCA, and any attempts by the MPAA/RIAA to stop the processing would be "circumvention."