Not likely, there has been past projects where more than 90% of the keyspase has been searched, and still the key was found. here in CSC the keyspace is assigned randomly so the chance/risk of finding/missing the key is jus as big as in the start of the project.
last night on #distributed nugget said: "[04:50] It's normal to start worrying at 90%. Doesn't mean it's "correct", but it is "normal".:)"
people like me that love stats (and hang out in #distributed) are most likely to have a team, we put a lot of work in recruting new people (and our mothers and other relatives in RealLife(TM)) to get a higher ranking on stats.
so if we did not have teams there would be less competition, and thus less people doing it. and we all know that the more people that join up (on my team) the better:)
If people are affected, they wont loose blocks, everything is logged, so when they rejoin their team, the unasigned blocks that where processed get assigned to the team. NO BIG DEAL!
This is not big news for/. as nugget states in his.plan at only involves a small number of people, just because Hemos got affected it made news on/., this is what i belive happened, and it does not have to be the truth.
Tournesol "I might just go mad now and save sanity for later"
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Yeah but MS has a commercial intrest
Distributed.net has not, and whoever works on OGR only helps (OGR not being a contest but a open project that anybody can work on at any speed)
so it really does not matter is D.net will do OGR or not. nobody can win in OGR and ther are no prize money!
i think that says it all
-Tournesol
/joke on
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I have it!
I wrote it down on a pice of paper this morning, tho unfortunately i lost it again.
i had it on a StickyNote(TM) sitting on my monitor, i guess my cubicle neighbour must have stolen it.
i knew i should not have written "top secret key" on the note
/joke off
-Tournesol
The core problem here is that its 2 different rankings and as you state people wont do CSC because the are affraid of their RC5 rating.
the sloution to this could be to make a single rating, so a work unit from either project would count.
Distributed.net is just flexing its muscles
and OGR will start, DCTI is looking into short term (3 months) projects for the future. so if OGR wont start then another project will be found.
-Tournesol
CSC Coming to an Unfortunate End?
Not likely, there has been past projects where more than 90% of the keyspase has been searched, and still the key was found. here in CSC the keyspace is assigned randomly so the chance/risk of finding/missing the key is jus as big as in the start of the project.
last night on #distributed nugget said:
"[04:50] It's normal to start worrying at 90%. Doesn't mean it's "correct", but it is "normal".
-Tournesol
In DES-I we reached more than 90% of the keyspace, and still found the key
-Tournesol
Distributed net has a new project in the works, OGR
can be found at:
distributed.net OGR todo list
and some good information can be found at:
distributed.net Project OGR
Tournesol
I guess it works like this:
people like me that love stats (and hang out in #distributed) are most likely to have a team, we put a lot of work in recruting new people (and our mothers and other relatives in RealLife(TM)) to get a higher ranking on stats.
so if we did not have teams there would be less competition, and thus less people doing it.
and we all know that the more people that join up (on my team) the better
BTW SlicerAce is leet
Tournesol
If people are affected, they wont loose blocks, everything is logged, so when they rejoin their team, the unasigned blocks that where processed get assigned to the team. NO BIG DEAL!
This is not big news for
Tournesol
"I might just go mad now and save sanity for later"
Also does this mean a faster internet? I have a cable modem and many sites are just soooo slow.
:)
hehe, i'm on a 2mbit link, and yes the internet is sooo slow.
but as long as i stay on the backbone, it just soo fast
can operators still send it commands to control its orbit & possibly protect itself from solar flares?
well without gyros its going to be hard to control the sat.
we keep posting money into projects like this one, but what good are they. they shure dont buy me breakfast :(
If they figure out how planet earth got created, what good will that do us, i'm just asking, a lot of sience is IMO a waste of money
Tournesol
funny i never heard of such a thing as a tidal bomb before, i wonder what other thinges they keep hidden from us
you must be truely blind, here:
http://www.thesync.com/geeks/archives.ht ml
what about going live with /. on a webcam. that ought to be nice, hehe (for those that could withstand the aggony of looking at rob)
and when are the callins going to begin ??
Tournesol