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On 19/03/2013 14:51, spike1@freenet.co.uk wrote:
> Besides, since then much more worthy uses of distributed computing like
> folding@home cropped up. (protein folding, much more beneficial than finding
> an alien civilisation that's so far away we'll never be able to do anything
> about it anyway)

We've also increasingly moved on to computers that blow hot air at your 
knees whenever they're being used to full capacity, and stay nice and 
quiet and cool the rest of the time (as opposed to 2005-era computers 
that sounded like jet engines no matter what), which tends to dispel the 
notion of all this free computing power going to waste.

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observation made hp <ferd@farkel.net> - 2013-03-18 23:15 -0400
  Re: observation made deKay <andyk@lofi-gaming.org.uk.invalid> - 2013-03-19 08:28 +0000
  Re: observation made spike1@freenet.co.uk - 2013-03-19 14:51 +0000
    Re: observation made Matthew Westcott <gasman@raww.org> - 2013-03-19 17:45 +0000
      Re: observation made Andrew Owen <aowen10@mail.bbk.ac.uk> - 2013-03-19 22:37 +0000
  Re: observation made jgharston <jgh@mdfs.net> - 2013-03-19 12:42 -0700
    Re: observation made Andrew Owen <aowen10@mail.bbk.ac.uk> - 2013-03-19 22:37 +0000
      Re: observation made hp <ferd@farkel.net> - 2013-03-20 12:49 -0400
        Re: observation made hp <ferd@farkel.net> - 2013-03-20 13:02 -0400
    Re: observation made "Chris Young" <chris.usenet@mail-filter.com> - 2013-03-20 00:03 +0100
      Re: observation made Andrew Owen <aowen10@mail.bbk.ac.uk> - 2013-03-20 08:51 +0000
    Re: observation made SamTek <rogerjowett@gmail.com> - 2013-03-24 08:28 -0700
    Re: observation made SamTek <rogerjowett@gmail.com> - 2013-03-24 08:31 -0700

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