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."
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No seriously....I don't know why either. What a joke. Is having the best group worth hurting a perfectly good and (arguably) noble program such as SETI? I can understand games - but this? Let me guess they are the same people who bitch that think they need a quad xeon box for a single web site with less than 300 hits a day.
-sigh-
-- They stuck me in an institution, said it was the only solution, to...protect me from the enemy, myself
Open letter to SETI cheaters:
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1. You are idiots with no sense.
2. If this is how you are spending your attention you will never, ever get laid.
Re:Holey Moley!
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2nd posts that are surprised at a first post that is relevant and a shameless FUNNY karma whoreing grab...
Well, it is Halloween...
It may not be April 1st, but close enough, it seems...
:-)
-- I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
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No, but they have those funky half-sized parking stops that don't exist anywhere on the east coast. Having recently moved to the west coast, I think that's the primary difference.
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Evan "Oh, and CA has crappy traffic signals and signs"
-- "$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
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1. Cheat on SETI
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3. PROFIT!!
No seriously....I don't know why either. What a joke. Is having the best group worth hurting a perfectly good and (arguably) noble program such as SETI? I can understand games - but this? Let me guess they are the same people who bitch that think they need a quad xeon box for a single web site with less than 300 hits a day.
-sigh-
They stuck me in an institution, said it was the only solution, to...protect me from the enemy, myself
2. If this is how you are spending your attention you will never, ever get laid.
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Did you really get that? I'd love to see that post if you happen to have a link.
2nd posts that are surprised at a first post that is relevant and a shameless FUNNY karma whoreing grab...
Well, it is Halloween...
It may not be April 1st, but close enough, it seems...
:-)
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
--
Evan "Oh, and CA has crappy traffic signals and signs"
"$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien