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SETI Finally Finds Something

Posted by samzenpus on 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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  1. Confused by elronxenu · · Score: 0, Troll
    This guy's smart enough to track down his stolen laptop, but not smart enough to backup his wife's precious data?

  2. Slashdot's misleading story titles. by sherriw · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

    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.:

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    I'm sick of getting fooled into clicking over to /. 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.

    Stupid. Just Stupid.