Megor writes "Well it was bound to happen, people are cheating on Seti@home to inflate their work unit statistics, and the people who administer Seti are ignoring the complaints. ZDNET has an article explaining how they are cheating."
I might feel like a loser at times, but...
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ClassicG
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all I need to do to feel better about myself is to remember that there are people out there who are so bad that they need to cheat at Seti@Home in order to feel like something worth anything.
We're cheating because some 133t script-kiddie beamed a message to your solar system, some 50,000 of your years ago.
Only by perverting your Seti@home results will we prevent you from discovering our advanced, trans-lightspeed, galaxy-spanning civilization -- and from discovering that despite our accomplishments, our civilization will fall unless we conquer your planet for water/slaves/Kentucky-Fried-Human (please pick one).
Naturally, as an Alien Commader, I must gloatingly reveal our plans, with the excuse that you puny humans are too primitive to stop us even if you do know.
PS: That Orson Welles broadcast 64 years ago today wasn't a hoax. We got to him just in time.
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all I need to do to feel better about myself is to remember that there are people out there who are so bad that they need to cheat at Seti@Home in order to feel like something worth anything.
I game, therefore I am...
2. Sell units on eBay (it does happen...)
Wow. The depths of humanity that eBay churns up will never stop amazing me.
The saddest thing of all is not that the units are being sold, but that there are people out there buying them. GET A LIFE
"Because it's there." - George Mallory, when asked why he wanted to climb Mt Everest, March 18, 1923 (New York Times)
We're cheating because some 133t script-kiddie beamed a message to your solar system, some 50,000 of your years ago.
Only by perverting your Seti@home results will we prevent you from discovering our advanced, trans-lightspeed, galaxy-spanning civilization -- and from discovering that despite our accomplishments, our civilization will fall unless we conquer your planet for water/slaves/Kentucky-Fried-Human (please pick one).
Naturally, as an Alien Commader, I must gloatingly reveal our plans, with the excuse that you puny humans are too primitive to stop us even if you do know.
PS: That Orson Welles broadcast 64 years ago today wasn't a hoax. We got to him just in time.
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Wasn't seti@home just about scoring high work units?
And what is this extraterrestial stuff people are going on about?