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The Theory of Leech Computing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the how-does-it-work dept.

Phil Frisbie, Jr. writes "I am defining Leech Computing as 'a program running on a client computer without user knowledge that can process data and report back the results, but otherwise does not effect the usability of the client computer and makes no changes to the client'. Leech Computing, Part 1 covers basic theory."

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  1. Slashdotted by selkirk · · Score: 4, Funny

    Step #1: Leech off of someone with lots of bandwidth.

  2. Well.. by ch-chuck · · Score: 4, Funny

    what else is Mr & Mrs home users new 2.4Ghz, 510Mb, 120Gb system running XP just purchased to send an AOLgram to missy at college once every weekend, good for?

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    try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
  3. you never know what might be on your machine... by supernova87a · · Score: 4, Funny

    A professor in our department hired a research assistant a while ago, who worked for him for about a year. After the assistant left, the professor noticed that his computer was running really sluggish at all hours, but b/c he wasn't really familiar with the system, assumed it was just getting slower with all the data processing algorithms he was running.

    A couple of months later, the network admin starts nosing around, and sends the professor an embarassing note asking to take down the web server about hot leather pants from his computer, since it was overloading the network...