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SETI Finally Finds Something
QuatumCrypto writes "SETI@home is a distributed processing client from UC Berkeley that installs on the volunteers' home computers and harnesses their processing power in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. So far nothing noteworthy has comeout of this massive project... that is until today! One of the volunteers was able to track down his wife's stolen laptop using the IP address that SETI@home client reports back to the server. After getting back the laptop his wife said, 'I always knew that a geek would make a great husband.'"
SETI@home is a distributed processing client from UC Berkeley that installs on the vounteers' home computers and harnesses their processing power in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Those of you that are visiting Slashdot for the first time and didn't know that, you might want to stick around (and scroll down) because we're going to explain what a Beowulf Cluster is next.
phone home.
that there is intelligent life on Earth?
So does that mean we have found intelligent life?
RonB
It is human nature to take shortcuts in thinking.
OK no offense, but this is bullshit.
Stop writing misleading headlines like these just to grap page-views, a lot of us happen to actually care about stuff like SETI and don't appreciate the run-around.
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. -Chomsky
I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of voices cheered and were suddenly silenced.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
So criminals are intelligent after all, eh?
Wait... the laptop came back with 20 "rap songs" which were completely and utterly unintelligible...?
There is a simple solution for all the MAC and Linux *NIX folks out there.
/sbin/ifconfig -a 2>&1 >> ~/.locate-laptop
/usr/sbin/traceroute -q 1 -nP ICMP 108.169.242.00 2>&1 | head -15 >> ~/.locate-laptop
/etc/crontab /home/username/bin/callhome
Write a small script, I call it "callhome" and a line in your crontab to have it called each hour.
~>cat bin/callhome
#!/bin/bash
rm -f ~/.locate-laptop
date > ~/.locate-laptop
w >> ~/.locate-laptop
scp -q ~/.locate-laptop remote_user@108.169.242.00:~
~>grep callhome
27 * * * * username
You'll have to set up public key login with no passphrase for the scp
to work without a password to the remote machine
why doesn't someone do a 'phone home' laptop insurance program that provides tracking information just like this? (privacy issues aside (until the first reply to this comment; see below)).
It could be nicely open sourced, and run via a p2p network to distribute the load for the tracking servers. Obviously a lot of details would have to be worked out to avoid abuse, but it could be as simple as sending an "I'm here" message encrypted with a dedicated private key to the p2p network. The person who wants to track their stolen goods just pops the public key (stored on a CD/usb stick/online, generated on install) into the network and it comes back with the last known location. No?
There should be some way to install a program on your ipod (or option integrated with iTunes) to track down the ip of your ipod when (that is, if) it syncs with the music store. For devices with wireless point access, perhaps something like dyndns to update reveal the ip of the last wireless gateway it came in contact with...
On the other hand, I think they now sell small RFID stickers to hide on your laptop/phone/ipod which you can then track nationally...
Sensationalism strikes back ... and it hurts.
Anyway, it proves that at least one geek in the entire world (universe ?) had sex that night.
Slashdoters worldwide hope that quote gets picked up by the popular press
These are some of the greatest questions ever asked - Are we alone ? Is there anyone/anything like us in the rest of the universe ? Would it be possible to communicate with an entirely alien species ?
:-) Total cost is ~$2000 if you buy everything. Ebay is your friend regarding getting stuff cheap, though :-) It cost me significantly less than that... So, get searchin!
Quite apart from the Wow! signal (so I guess they found something after all), there's a world of difference between the Seti@home distributed computer program, and the SETI institute - a collection of individuals who have SETI-capable telescopes . The SETI institute is not at all connected with SETI@home, and it is they who are 'seti', or at least they have the greatest claim, having been 'SETI' for years previously...
It's not actually hard to make a radio telescope - get a big dish, an LNA (low-noise amplifier for the signal), a microwave receiver, and a PC (windows or linux). Oh, and lots of space for that dish
Simon.
Physicists get Hadrons!
"Kimberly's writings were safe, and the thieves didn't appear to have broken into her e-mail or other personal folders."
How, exactly, do you break into a personal folder? Is double-clicking it called "breaking" in these days? I thought the conventional term was "opening"...
what kind of nbrainless idiot hooks a laptop to a network connection before checking for LoJack or other checkin utils
i mean really WHAT WAS THESE MARROONS SMOKING??
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Where no thief has gone before.
I clicked on my /. bookmark on my Firefox toolbar to glance at the top article before I left my desk. I glanced at the article, closed Firefox, and got up. I did a double take and sat back down and hastily opened Firefox and went to /. again. Thanks guys, now my bum hurts =(
Maaan! I was reading through that whole summary, excitedly awaiting my chance to welcome our new overlords..... and all they found was a laptop!?!??! What a crock!
I got nothin'
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Must remember that next time I'm profiled on AMW . . .
Here's what I did for a client. I installed the distributed.net client on all their machines with a different ID per. If one went missing, I just waited until it started posting again.
p hp?project_id=5&st=coreyfro
One was recovered. I don't know out of how many thefts, but it worked.
http://stats.distributed.net/participant/psearch.
Some are still posting to this day.
216264(-1) K6231862@coreyfro.com 13-Feb-2001 08-Feb-2002 361 791
218871(-1) K3342513@coreyfro.com 31-Jan-2001 20-Jun-2002 506 729
219222(-1) K4151626@coreyfro.com 29-Jan-2001 18-Jul-2001 171 721
223856(-2) K5557748@coreyfro.com 08-Feb-2001 02-Jul-2002 510 622
223908(-2) K2863155@coreyfro.com 29-Jan-2001 21-Oct-2001 266 621
224051(-2) K3456175@coreyfro.com 20-Jan-2001 31-Dec-2001 346 618
224360(-2) K4553312@coreyfro.com 22-Jan-2001 10-Jun-2002 505 612
225611(-3) K6211864@coreyfro.com 27-Mar-2001 09-Aug-2001 136 588
227645(-5) K8631173@coreyfro.com 17-Aug-2001 30-Jun-2002 318 549
How do you find a computer from its IP address? I would understand MAC address but how do you do it from the IP address?
"So far nothing noteworthy has come out of this massive project"
Dismissed a trend-setting project with just that one line. Of course, it does not matter that SETI@Home showed the power of volunteer computing for the first time, led to new advances in distributed computing, motivated Grid computing and PlanetLab among others and spun off BOINC, an open source project that serves as a base for similar @Home projects.
But, of course, it no find me any ALIEN!!! Bah,
aliens don't use GPS (are they dump or what)?
... unintelligent life on earth.
Man, if I ever meet whoever is responsible for that headline, I'm going to burn down your house.
I haven't felt this let down since I walked in on my dad bangin my mom while wearing a Santa costume on Christmas morning.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
Sorry Pal: There's nothing to care about. Night. Always. Out THERE. No Princess Lea and no life, no hope no understanding. No 'people' ---no emotion. Nothing nada nix nyet. No one drop of life. Utter emptiness after 13.7 billion years and nothing to show for it, but a couple weakly bent 4-dim tensor fields and ... us.
Better pop that Coors' Lite, pal, cause it's gonna be a long day.
Only copies of her work was on the laptop. Someone should tell her that is she is not backed up she is fcked up. Oh and off site backups would be best, say a friends house.
Undetectable Steganography? Yep, there's an app fo
Geeks couldn't get laid.
How about a moderation of -1 pedantic.
would be Linus sitting in the pumpkin patch. :)
dum de dum de dum de dum de dum
Sure it turned out handy this one freak incident, but wait till there's smoke in the house and he looks back and forth between the plasma screen and the laptop a couple times, finally grabs the laptop and is out the door without so much as a look in her direction.
Of course, if the laptop started the fire then the choice is much easier
SETI finds signs of intelligent life... on Earth!
I use Windows... like a two dollar wh.. why don't I just go ahead and not finish that sentence.
Sorry Pal: There's nothing to care about. Night. Always. Out THERE. No Princess Lea and no life, no hope no understanding. No 'people' ---no emotion. Nothing nada nix nyet. No one drop of life. Utter emptiness after 13.7 billion years and nothing to show for it, but a couple weakly bent 4-dim tensor fields and ... us. Better pop that Coors' Lite, pal, cause it's gonna be a long day.
hahaha, sorry you got modded as flamebait 'cause that's some funny stuff.
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. -Chomsky
It did help the chick find a reasonably intelligent husband.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
I don't know why, but reading your comment I couldn't help but picture Ali G reading it with his accent.
"It makes Ludacris look like Pavarotti."
That's gotta be bad! That line alone was worth reading the article!
The above comments are not guaranteed to make sense to anyone other than the author...
s/demon/daemon/
Yeah, some "stupid niggor" stole it I'm sure.
Might want to learn to spell before you start insulting others.
Signed,
Proud, non "niggor" hating, white guy. Newsflash: white people steal shit too.
Just like driving a car:
(D) to go forward
(R) to go backward
...that this wasn't a proper SETI find. The news stations would have had a hard time deciding whether the Anna Nicole Smith stories would need to be shortened. Sleep well, Rupert Murdoch, sleep well.
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How many gigawatts are wasted on SETI@home? They pretend that computation is free and anything that looks like a funny pattern, they search for it. Most of the patterns don't make sense at all. People crank-up their energy bill just to have their name on some nonsense top-100. Distributed computing is a good thing and giving away your spare cycle is nice but don't think that those cycles are free. If you decide to give your cycles away, please choose a project that does more than just massaging data. SETI is like Hummers, it offers an opportunity to boost your ego by wasting energy.
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... does the WIFE run Linux?
That means a geek had a wife.. Does that mean there is still hope for me.. :P
Unless the laptop was stolen by a diaper-wearing astronaut, I think that what SETI@home found was quite terrestrial.
- RG>
Hey pal, this isn't a pleasantforest, so don't waste my time with pleasantries!
Probable pot. Maybe a cig. There are really all kinds of different drugs that can be smoked. May I suggest smoking gold paint (its so much better than just huffing it)(all the kids are doing it).
Don't worry about the mule, just load the wagon.
I totally agree --- that was laugh-out-loud funny.
Ruby is one of the Weapons in Final Fantasy VII! God, what else do I have to explain around here?
I don't like Linux. This doesn't make me a troll.
Which one of these two has Spice?
I thought they found an empty SLURM bottle floating in deep space.
See?
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
>But the returned computer contained 20 tracks of rap music with unintelligible lyrics, possibly from the person who stole the computer or bought it on the underground.
Either a GHETTO NEGRO, or Michael Bolton. The one from 'Office Space', not the one who sucks.
The latest Slashdot meme.
... no
Why, yes! I AM new here.
And a lousy thief?
man woman
See the Google cache of "Exactly what the Dr. Ordered"
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:Ui0HtwBn6ZAJ:w ww.kyne.com.au/~mark/software/satellite.php+site:w ww.kyne.com.au+mark+satellite&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&i e=UTF-8
I know the posting is just a oneliner, but it is informative and if everybody used the software it would really increase the recovery rate of stolen Laptops no end. ( Unix based ones anyway )
SETI@home does provide Linux and OS X binaries, last I checked. Checking again, it seems they've got Windows (probably x32 only), Linux (definitely x86 only), and OSX (universal) binaries for download. Looking deeper, it seems they've finally actually decided to release the source, so you can port it to whatever.
/home/username/bin/callhome instead of ~/bin/callhome? Put it in a per-user crontab, and make the crontab entry be username-agnostic -- it won't take you any more lines of code, really. And do have it try to fetch something over HTTP, as that's allowed pretty much everywhere, whereas SSH isn't.
But I don't think the point of the story is that the guy intentionally setup SETI to call home, but rather that he was panicking over the lost laptop, trying to think of all the possibilities, and happened to remember that SETI tracks IPs. I imagine he'll have a trickier call-home script now that everyone who reads the news knows about SETI.
Oh, by the way, your script is ridiculously naive, as others have pointed out -- you do NOT want it to require full passwordless ssh; if anything, you want it to use something akin to email -- that is, append only access. Also, if it's intended to be run by an individual user (and not root), then why bother putting it in the global crontab? Especially, why have it be
I'd probably have it call home every ten minutes or so, using vanilla HTTP or HTTPS. Once I notice it's missing, I'll set a flag on the server, and the client will then delete my SSH and GPG keys (hopefully locking anyone using it out of any of my files there, without actually deleting them), then continue to send more detailed reports, again over some sort of tunnel over HTTP/HTTPS. Optionally, I could also have it attempt to contact the thief, but I think I'd rather try my luck with law enforcement first, as my goal is to get the laptop back, and I'd rather not scare them into destroying it.
But then, I'm currently down a laptop, looking for a good one, so most of this is moot for me.
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
...are we to understand that E.T.'s (who listen to bad rap music) stole this laptop?
I RTFA, and the police used the IP to locate the laptop, but no one has been arrested. Hmmm...
MIB: "We'll take over from here."
Police Man: "But this thug stole a woman's laptop!"
(MIB puts on dark glasses)
MIB: "Officer, I'm going to need you to stare into this pen for me for just a second..."
Authority questions you. Return the favor.
From what everyone is telling me, they claim they can survive a hard drive format (yet require no hardware install), and that they don't support Firefox. Their site seems perfectly accessible to me on Firefox, but I can't find any mention of hard drive formatting.
In any case, the thing that bugs me here is the stupidity of these people. Of the three testimonials, one is not actually about a theft -- just someone who feels so much more secure now that she has LoJack installed (but really couldn't know if it works, seeing as her laptop hasn't been stolen). Another is a guy who stored all of his term papers on his laptop, with no backup, estimating it to be about 4,000 hours of work -- and credits LoJack with his Bachelor's degree.
I'm sorry, but if you don't know what a backup is, you don't deserve a degree.
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
dude that's gold....
;)
suso.org sounds familiar - ssh tutorial
On Windows, doesn't plugging in an iPod generally involve making it into a removable device? And don't removable devices on Windows generally get AutoRun? Done right, you could even install enough of a rootkit to hide the fact that it is set to autorun.
It wouldn't be a perfect solution, of course -- but neither is the iTunes approach. Either one becomes irrelevant when I just use Linux to access it as a mass storage device and possibly some open source stuff to access the files.
And of course, stolen iPods are only a few hundred dollars or so, right? And you have to have all the music on your desktop in iTunes, right? So it's not even close to losing a laptop, for which you may or may not have a backup, but either way is probably going to cost you a couple thousand dollars.
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
All this talk about Beowulf clusters and i havent seen a discription yet.
managed to catch a....
- Alien with a laptop trying to send a signal to his ship
- Illegal alien thief with a laptop
- A stupid thief
=)
You have her grab the laptop and you grab the plasma screen. Geez. You call yourselve a geek and cannot even figure out this simple puzzel?
Now if the comment had been "I always knew that a geek would make a great father" then you would have had a point.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
...having your laptop stolen gets you bad rap?
I KNEW IT! ^_^
"I'm not anti-anything, I'm anti-everything, it fits better." - Sole
WOW what an amazingly find, Seti found a PC wow.
This a big mark in mankinds search in his big question of life.
No longer we are alone in the universe.
We dont even have to travel lightyears for this contact.
As it seams that everywhere we aallready can find Personal Computers.
I wonder how suddenly they came here, what do they eat (if they eat at all?)
Do they use oxygen, or is a pure electric life from?.
Will they be friendly as their invasion continous.
Or will they make us their slaves in the end.
Just imagine how long we have searched for this contact to happen..
Gigagiljons of electric energy have been used by machines using the power grid
And now it turned out that actualy these machines the so called "PC" are a life form we found.
Well isnt life amazingly funny
just for the record it should be mentioned in a next "transgalactic hitch hickers" series.
I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid. You're afraid of us. You're afraid of change.
Don't try to mess around with us /. readers, none of us have any sense of humor. Just look at what gets moderated Funny here.
At least by radio. Electromagnetic radiation is far too slow for useful interstellar communication. No intelligent life would bother with it. SETI is totally barking up the wrong tree by analysing random radio astronomy data. They will never find anything by radio, I guarantee it. SETI and SETI@HOME are simply wasting money, resources, energy and time, producing at best some very lacking entertainment.
I am often irritated by Slashdot's "headline grab-assing" too, but in this case SETI deserves to be ridiculed and the more attention that ridicule draws the better.
SETI by radio astronomy is completely foolish, think about it.
Ok, which one is more likely:
SETI finding intelligent life?
or a GEEK getting married?
who | grep -i blond | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger; mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount; sleep
I can't be the only one using a live bookmark to view the list of slashdot stories. I'm friggin sick of the the title looking interesting and then the story actually being totally different than the title suggested.
..... Welcome to fox news, are apples bad for you? No! Studies show they really do keep the doctor away! Fool ya!"
/. I'm pretty close to giving up on /. completely. The stories are of such brainless quality lately. What happened to the hardcore science and tech articles we used to get? The truly fascinating stuff? Sheesh. First HowStuffWorks and now this site.
This is news for nerds. Be precise in your gawd damned titles!! Stop the puns and the witty crap. It's starting to sound like Fox news.:
"Coming up at 10:00, are apples bad for you? Dum dum dummmm find out on the 10:00 news!
I'm sick of getting fooled into clicking over to
Stupid. Just Stupid.
... will no one think of the children?
Imagine the danger they must be in from these Beowolves!
An OS install would most often overwrite the MBR. Your hidden phone-home code would never get a chance to run.
People who dislike China tend to mention Tiananmen Square a lot, but they always forget the Tank Man is also a Chinese.
"Does this mean I don't get the bicycle, Dad?"
As always, all IMO. Insert "I think" everywhere grammatically possible.
Dismissed a trend-setting project with just that one line. Of course, it does not matter that SETI@Home showed the power of volunteer computing for the first time, led to new advances in distributed computing, motivated Grid computing and PlanetLab among others and spun off BOINC, an open source project that serves as a base for similar @Home projects.
"Okay, but what has it done for [us] lately?"
Chuck Norris knows all about the list... he IS the list, and he'll give a roundhouse kick to the face to anyone who repeats the list without permission.
1) explain what a beowulf cluster is
2) make soviet russia joke
3) make netcraft reference
4) Accidentally click on huge ass banner ad
5) Slashdot profits!!!
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
6) CowboyNeal
Build a man a fire, he's warm for one night. Set him on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.
So now SETI also stands for "Search for Egregious Thieving Idiots"
I use irony whenever I can, but my shirts are still wrinkled...
The iPod doesn't actually talk with the music store. It syncs with iTunes, which is what communicates with the Music Store. More specifically it syncs with the iTunes Library, which is separate from the Music Store component. I don't think anything about the iPod is reported to Apple when it's plugged in.
Build a man a fire, he's warm for one night. Set him on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Your userid is too high to post things like this, here is some brown soap, go wash your mouth out ;)
--- I am known for the ones who want to find me on the net. Is that a privacy risk or a privilege? One might wonder..
...logic dictated that:
Statements:
1) SETI detecting a confirmable extraterrestrial signal is a major news story;
2) Major news stories will appear on my Gmail RSS feed, because it subscribes to many sources from all over the world, not just the morass of infotainment that is American "news";
3) This story had not shown up on my Gmail RSS feed before the link to Slashdot.
Conclusion: TFA probably wasn't referring to an extraterrestrial event.
Ah well, the in-joke thread was funny.
"I know what aliens are. I've seen them in movies. What, in gods name, are you talking about with all that gobbledy-gook? Distributed computing? PlanetLab? Boinc? What the hell are those?"
That's why it's dismissed.
That you cancel your Slashdot account and demand a refund. Oh wait. You get this for free. So um STFU.
I'm surprised no one's pointed out how impressive it is that the Minneapolis PD was savvy enough to actually listen to this guy when he sent them IP addresses instead of brush him off.
... by tracking IP addresses requesting Windows Update?
We'd better cool it with the jokes before
Are we alone ?
Yes, even if there are extraterrestrial life forms, since we haven't met any. And you don't put a space before punctuation unless you're barely literate.
Is there anyone/anything like us in the rest of the universe ?
No. There isn't even anything "like us" on Earth. If there is intelligent life out there, it will be nothing like us, likely nothing like anything on Earth, and very likely wierder than anything Hollywood can dream up.
Would it be possible to communicate with an entirely alien species ?
Yes. I had a Mexican Chihuaua and he understood every word I said.
Seems like another good reason to install SETI on my girlfriends laptop. What a great idea, 1up for the geeks :).
p.s. yes I do have a girlfriend before the geek/no girlfriend jokes come out...
Once you have an IP address, you look up who owns it and you call them. They do their research, looking at things such as DNS records, DHCP assignments, DSLAM logs, etc... They then look up which customer that was, and there you go.
Note that the bad guy may be using a dynamic IP address assigned through DHCP - especially if the new possessor of the laptop is using a dialup ISP, or if somebody just plugs it in at work. If so you also need the time at which the IP address was captured, so the owner of the IP can figure out which of the users who happened to get that IP address was the culprit.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
But I guess lifesaving medical research, including drug design, doesn't qualify as "noteworthy". B-(
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
( ) Natalie Portman petrified What? I thought she was supposed to be naked! She's SUPPOSED to be NAKED!
---GEC
I'm but the humble pupil, seeking to snatch the scratchbuilt pebble from the master's fully articulated hand
Here's a little piece I penned recently, hope it lessens your confusion.
Analogies of women as they apply to OS platforms:
The College Freshman
Clearly insecure, entirely self-absorbed, and oblivious to the world-at-large, this specimen says she will do most anything to please, though when it comes down to it, her inexperience is obvious and you end-up either fighting or breaking it off. The on-again-off-again relationship that ensues is rife with games and torment. Ultimately, you move on to something more mature. (Win9x)
The Business “Model”
Brains and beauty, she knows how to get things done. She's professional in all matters, can follow-up on every commitment and is fairly in-touch with the world. On the flip side, she's almost entirely without humor and becomes jaded at the thought of playing any games. She doesn't laugh at your jokes, approaches intimacy like a German Factory Supervisor, and steadily removes all enjoyment from day-to-day life with the same efficiency as when organizing her shoes. (Win2000)
The Homemaker
Sweet and approachable, this little cutie aims to please. She's nurturing, kind and anticipates your needs with uncanny consistency. You are lulled into a sense of comfort by the constant attention, unaware that she is fulfilling her own agenda. Unscrupulous elements from her past have corrupted her true intentions, though she would never show it. Sometimes she's gone for hours on end, but always returns saying, “I just had to handle a few things.” She's a bit protective, too. Sometimes she feels more like a Mother than a Significant Other, and sporadically denies you what you want, even when you ask nicely. (WinXP)
The Hippie Chick
She's terribly cute, insanely fashionable and always upbeat. It seems she doesn't ever wear the same outfit twice, and can always brighten your day with a song. “Head in the stars and feet on the ground,” is Her Saying, though you eventually believe that it's only half true. Everything is perfect, but a bit too perfect. She never really disagrees with you, but she tends to take your desires too far on occasion. One time, after you said, “You should get some rest,” she ended-up sleeping half the day and dancing all night; keeping you awake. You always wonder if there's something better. (MacOS)
The College Grad
A drop-dead gorgeous, head-turning form makes this one outwardly irresistible. If you're brave enough to strike-up a conversation, you will only get the chit-chat at first. After a while, you begin to see that she holds more knowledge that she lets on. Stylish, versatile and attentive to your needs, she seems like Mrs. Right for a long while, and after spending a-bankroll-and-a-half in dating. Her penchant for parties and going-out are merely a facade for her Networking. It seems she's working on her public image night-and-day. When it comes to actually having fun, she claims there's not enough time or that she doesn't know how to play the game. Intimacy is a brief experience in-between making plans or shopping for expensive accessories. She's everything you want, and more than you need. (OS X)
The Girl Next Door
Though often outwardly plain, she hides a tremendous beauty within. Her beauty comes right through the rugged good-looks and belies an inner strength, which makes her both reliable and kind. She's not always forthcoming about her problems, but she tends to solve most of them herself. Whatever comes up, she is happy to discuss it and let you in on her past. Ver
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Of course, it does not matter that SETI@Home showed the power of volunteer computing for the first time,
The RC4/5 challenge predated the SETI stuff by *years*.
Please help metamoderate.
mentioned Natalie Portman...or Hot grits...
Losers...
Truth isn't Truth - Guliani
A stolen laptop's IP address wouldn't be the same on a different network. It's MAC address on the other hand, which is attached to the laptop's hardware, shouldn't change.
So they found an illegal alien?