Do any of you actually know what folding@home is? Or do you aimlessly donate your CPU cycles?
Let me explain a few things. Folding@home, is (currently) used to crunch numbers on protein strings, although the public project is just to verify the data done by the private computers. This data is in turn sold for BILLIONS (yes, billions) of dollars to drug companies, who then offer doctors "perks" to push the medicine back on you. And of course since it's the latest and greatest you spend $200/month on it.
Where's my f*cking discount for providing research power???/
It's just like seti@home, the project creator came out 6 months ago saying they found intelligent signals thanks to all the people who were running the project. Not only did he announce it at a major press conference, he showed the data, the solar system, and the actual signal and what made it unique in it's signature. He did to more public appearances, the AP, NY Times, Washington Post all carried the story. Then two weeks later at the space expo, he said the NSA had come in and they weren't allowed to talk about it, and that commenting on it would cost him more than his job. His partner at Seti who has all this time strongly believed in the idea behind seti, said in december (going against years of public statements) that UFOs and life outside our solar system doesn't exist. Now why would anybody say something stupid like that? Even if he had just changed what he believed, he had a good thing going with everyone running seti@home. Do some digging, call Seti, write them, ask about the event. And they will deny it EVER HAPPENED. I replied with quoted reports from AP, and links to videos of the press conference, I then received a letter stating that the matter was consider "closed" and statements made don't always reflect on them as a whole.
What a crock. Think about what your cycles are used for.
I'm going to start the beat_the_government_cpu@home project...
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Do any of you actually know what folding@home is? Or do you aimlessly donate your CPU cycles?
Let me explain a few things. Folding@home, is (currently) used to crunch numbers on protein strings, although the public project is just to verify the data done by the private computers. This data is in turn sold for BILLIONS (yes, billions) of dollars to drug companies, who then offer doctors "perks" to push the medicine back on you. And of course since it's the latest and greatest you spend $200/month on it.
Where's my f*cking discount for providing research power???/
It's just like seti@home, the project creator came out 6 months ago saying they found intelligent signals thanks to all the people who were running the project. Not only did he announce it at a major press conference, he showed the data, the solar system, and the actual signal and what made it unique in it's signature. He did to more public appearances, the AP, NY Times, Washington Post all carried the story. Then two weeks later at the space expo, he said the NSA had come in and they weren't allowed to talk about it, and that commenting on it would cost him more than his job. His partner at Seti who has all this time strongly believed in the idea behind seti, said in december (going against years of public statements) that UFOs and life outside our solar system doesn't exist. Now why would anybody say something stupid like that? Even if he had just changed what he believed, he had a good thing going with everyone running seti@home. Do some digging, call Seti, write them, ask about the event. And they will deny it EVER HAPPENED. I replied with quoted reports from AP, and links to videos of the press conference, I then received a letter stating that the matter was consider "closed" and statements made don't always reflect on them as a whole.
What a crock. Think about what your cycles are used for.
I'm going to start the beat_the_government_cpu@home project...