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theSkyNet Wants Your Spare CPU Cycles

Posted by Soulskill on from the i-just-bet-it-does dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Thousands of PC users are being called on to donate their spare CPU cycles to help create a massive grid computing engine to process terabytes of radio astronomy data as part of theSkyNet project. It will be used for, among other things, processing the huge amount of data expected to flow off Australia's forthcoming Square Kilometre Array telescope." One can only assume that "other things" will include achieving sentience and finding John Connor.

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  1. Re:Dammit by formfeed · · Score: 3, Funny

    For the love of everything, can we stop making shitty references to Terminator in computational intelligence stories? There are actually people stupid enough to believe that shit. Also, its not funny.

    How does it make you feel that There are actually people stupid enough to believe that shit?

  2. Re:Dammit by Bobakitoo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Better tell us when's the date the SkyNet is supposed to become self-aware.

    August 29, 1997
    July 25, 2003
    July 25, 2004
    sometime in 2005
    April 21, 2011

    Fear not, judgment day is like the rapture. It is always more profitable to rescheduled it the next year.