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SETI@Home Expanding Goals With Sun's Help
GabeK writes "The Register is reporting that the SETI@home project is going to be expanding the scope of their project with the help of Sun. Sun is donating a fleet of servers to the SETI@home project for use in its new BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) project. This project will use Sun's new JXTA peer-to-peer protocol for distributed computing, and will add other functions to the project other than looking for little green men. Users will now be able to dedicate slices of their idle time to projects other than SETI, like cancer research and climate mapping." We previously mentioned early word of BOINC a couple of months back.
That was modded troll as soon as it was posted!
There's a mighty fine line between "Troll" and "Fucking Idiot."
How about various DRM and TCPA cracking projects? I'll donate cycles to anyone who wants to publically humiliate Bill Gates, Senitor Fritz (he still around?) or any of the other crack heads that fancy controlling what i do with my own computer in my own home.
Maybe they can give me a spell check too?
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I just heard some sad news on talk radio - famous astronomer Carl Sagan was found still dead in his grave this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will continue to miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his billions and billions of contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
To help me track down this local radio (R&P) ... There is that ilegal assholes broadcasting Folklore and news for yeasterday stealing their signal : ).. May be SETI can find 'em, my hand and the radio just can't = )
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?