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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.'"

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  1. Re:Welcome by franksands · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Wow...someone did explained it. I'm impressed.

  2. Re:Stop the Princess Lea grab-assing please by grumpygrodyguy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

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  3. I know I'm feeding the trolls, but... by Deitheres · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

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  4. Re:Welcome by SamuelDr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Thank you!

  5. Re:Welcome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia, Beowulf Cluster explains you! so let's see, that makes the tally... umm...

    funny Soviet Russia jokes: 4 (plus yours = 5) - should hit 6 by 2008-Q2
    unfunny Soviet Russia jokes: 9,744,803,408 - should hit 10 billion by March

    Tell us, how does feel to have made one of the lucky funny ones?

    ...and to everyone else, except the other four lucky folks... you see, in Soviet Russia, Soviet Russia tells e to the twenty-third funny jokes about you.
  6. Re:Stop the Princess Lea grab-assing please by Viceroy+Potatohead · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I totally agree --- that was laugh-out-loud funny.

  7. Re:Welcome by 1u3hr · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    on the vounteers' home computers

    Those of you that are visiting Slashdot for the first time... can see how the editors disdain the fascist idea of "spelling correctly". Spellcheck is for wimps.

  8. Its obvious! by AnotherUsername · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ruby is one of the Weapons in Final Fantasy VII! God, what else do I have to explain around here?

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    1. Re:Its obvious! by Lane.exe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      The mechanics of sex, how to talk to women, proper diet and exercise... need I go on?

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  9. The real question is.... by smegged · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Which one of these two has Spice?

  10. Re:Welcome by xdc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Where are my mod points when I need them? ;)

  11. Re:Welcome by kd5ujz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Check the entry again, he did not write it :P

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  12. Re:Welcome by Frogbert · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How do you know the wikipedia entry wasn't copied directly from that comment?

  13. Re:Welcome by laejoh · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You mean we don't have to expect a dupe?

  14. Re:Welcome by necro2607 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You must be new here.

  15. Re:Welcome by iminplaya · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You read virgins, and you think mod points?? You are an old timer.

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  16. Re:Welcome by Rufty · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    4) Natalie Portman + hot grits

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  17. Re:Welcome by CCFreak2K · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It's also either:

    A) A dupe.
    B) Going to be a dupe.

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  18. Re:Welcome by NOLFXceptMe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Typical Slashdot,eh?...no wonder the above gets Score 5 and the one above it 4 :P

  19. Re:Welcome by mrchaotica · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Only old overlords are clueless in Korea!

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  20. Re:Welcome by gnool · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I *am* new here you insensitive clod!

  21. Re:Welcome by amuzulo · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    A woman is a female human. The term woman (irregular plural: women) usually is used for an adult, with the term girl being the usual term for a female child or adolescent. However, the term woman is also sometimes used to identify a female human, regardless of age, as in phrases such as "Women's rights". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman

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  22. Re:Welcome by Arancaytar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia, a Beowulf cluster of Netcrafts imagines you!

    (Triple score!)

  23. Re:Welcome by troc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I was new once and then they stole my naievity

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  24. Re:Welcome by bytesex · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In Korea, only old people put ??? at number four.

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  25. Re:Welcome by Flodis · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Misread of the day: "That's OK. Here, have a bowl of hot girls. Don't eat them, just put them in your pants."

  26. Re:Welcome by Bearhouse · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Great series - worthy of an FAQ, (OK, nobody would read it) But...where's the sharks & laser one? Operators with mod points are standing by...

  27. Re:Welcome by rbanffy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I won't try, but I could quickly write a Lisp program that could spit out each one that made sense ;-)

  28. Re:Welcome by digitig · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Not an ISO standard. "Women attracted to male geeks" is fully covered by an RFC: RFC0026.

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  29. Re:Welcome by EinZweiDrei · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Perfect.

    I declare you undisputed winner of this round of Slashmemes.

    The next round is scheduled for the soonest available 'series of pipes' reference.

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  30. Re:Welcome by EinZweiDrei · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh, shit, I mean 'tubes'.

    Am I... Am I ousted?

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  31. Re:Welcome by Bastard+of+Subhumani · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    LISP? Dammit man, if it can't be done 23 different ways in perl it ain't worth doing.
    Oh, and PHP is crap.

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  32. Re:Welcome by klang · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    one missing:

    I for one welcome our new Beowulf cluster running overlords

  33. Re:Welcome by jimstapleton · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I thought that things happened backwards in soviet Russia...

    Wouldn't you confirm netcraft? (or rather, BSD's death confirm Netcraft?)

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  34. Re:Welcome by steveo777 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    11^11= 285,311,670,611

    You forgot this is Slashdot. We can dupe anything.

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  35. Re:Welcome by Aqua_boy17 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    how many other permutations you guys come up with?
    About twenty five hectares!
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