Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 05:56:37 09/01/01
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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 Even if you write spyware that uploads new versions that calculate, then still the use of that would be relatively little. ONly for CAP it would make sense, for a combined search to do deep searches it would not make sense. This apart from the legal question: "is it legal to do this?" I don't think so. If MIT would search on my machine i would sue them for a load of money.
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