~misfit~ wrote:

Martin 53N 1W wrote:

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doesn't exist. Scientists are as mercenary as the next profession these
days. If they aren't making money out of it via grants or getting kudos for

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For funding, they have to be!

However, I consider Boinc to be at least a good experiment in scientific cooperation for the greater good.


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See, what confuses me is the claim is the client was leaked. Ok, I can

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Some testers publicised the signup http and Berkeley had a lot of people signed up in just a few hours. They had relied on 'obscurity' for their security rather than anything more strict.

Perhaps Berkeley were too soft in not closing the project or killing the excess accounts. For better, they ran with it and found a few problems sooner rather than later (:-)).


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I'm not sure what I'm going to do DC-wise in the longer-term. For now I'm
back to crunching SETI classic on some machines as they are out of BOINC WUs

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If seti is your first priority, then take a look at some of the setileague stuff. There's project Argos and others. Their systems are a lot more operator intensive, but you do get to directly play with the data.


Good luck,
Martin