SETI Finally Finds Something

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @02:21PM from the laptop-phone-home dept.

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.'"

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Nothing noteworthy by whackeroony · 2007-02-21 14:57 · Score: 5, Insightful

"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,