SETI Finally Finds Something 416
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.'"
Stop the headline grab-assing please (Score:1, Insightful)
Stop writing misleading headlines like these just to grap page-views, a lot of us happen to actually care about stuff like SETI and don't appreciate the run-around.
Re:Stop the headline grab-assing please (Score:3, Insightful)
From the TFA: (Score:5, Insightful)
How, exactly, do you break into a personal folder? Is double-clicking it called "breaking" in these days? I thought the conventional term was "opening"...
Re:Does this mean (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:In all seriousness though... (Score:2, Insightful)
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Don't expect magic where you can't even see competence.
Nothing noteworthy (Score:5, Insightful)
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,
Re:Gah! (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:solution for everyone else (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:solution for everyone else (Score:3, Insightful)
Would it also trigger mindless fear for you if the OP used a CGI script on a web server? The potential security problems there would be slightly greater than the no-input login script.
Re:solution for everyone else (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Stop the headline grab-assing please (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:solution for everyone else (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Welcome (Score:5, Insightful)
But then, that's typical slashdot...
SETI@home: the new Hummer (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:From the TFA: (Score:3, Insightful)
Here is a perfectly valid example: I copy a Microsoft "encrypted" file from a workstation to a file share which also happens to have NTFS. That file will be encrypted at the workstation, and it will be encrypted on the file server. It will NOT be encrypted over the wire. That may even be okay for some people. But it's certainly not the same thing. The file should be encrypted until I decrypt it. The operating system shouldn't choose that it not be encrypted for a copy or move operation.
I'm not claiming the encryption is weak or faulty, because I don't know that it is. I feel the way it was implemented is at fault, that's just my opinion.
Re:Welcome (Score:2, Insightful)