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SETI@Home Faces Funding Problems

Posted by michael on from the brother-can-you-spare-a-megabit/second dept.

blamanj writes "The aussie version of ZDNET is reporting that money to continue the SETI@Home project is in jeopardy, and it may fall by the wayside unless further funding can be found."

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  1. I love PhysicsGenius! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This guy rules!

  2. Oh Yeah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How's it feel?

  3. SETI@Home by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Bitches!

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  5. An College Paper aside by Dino · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Around 97 I took a class on ET life at the University fo Texas. We had to write a paper at the end and I chose to write about SETI@Home and utilizing the power of distributed computing to crunch SETI data. This was before SETI@Home had released a client to the public and there was only a simple 2 page website explaining what they were working on. I was so mad because he gave me a 'C' on the paper because I didn't use any "print" sources and he couldn't "trust" Internet sources. This was also only about 6 months after distributed.net started up and it's not like there was a whole lot about this in print. I heard he know includes a bit about SETI@Home in his class, the rat-bastard!

    Anyway, this isn't exactly related but I thought it was interesting!

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    That's not what I meant.
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    1. Re:anyone else see the visual studio .NET ad? by PSaltyDS · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      If M$ wants to sponsor /., a site that points out their weaknesses without pity, and calls them on stupid moves like the supposed Mac-to-PC switcher, let them!

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  7. Re:U of K Lifemapper by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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