Author: Uri Blass
Date: 08:07:00 08/31/01
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On August 31, 2001 at 10:09:47, Ed Panek wrote: > The other day while driving home from work and listening to NPR(National Public >Radio) the discussion was about a group of scientists at MIT who had succesfully >tricked thousands of computers into performing very deep calculations for them >and receiving the results with no assistance or agreement from the computer >owners. The only catch was the computers needed to be online all the time. I >only caught the end of this discussion. Does anyone know about such an >experiment? > > > I am not sure about any laws regarding this. Could computer chess use this? > > >Ed It seems to me unfair to use computers for tasks without an agreement from the computer owner. I believe that it means that other applications that are done at the same time may become slower. If time is important for these applications then it is a clear unfair demage. One example is computer programs on ICC I wonder how many programs lost rating because of the scientists from MIT. I can imagine a more serious demage. Uri
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