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playbl162
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Re: selling cpu cycles...
However, Logan, my friend, I could care less about stats and points. Results returned, help Scientists find answers. If, someone purchases 100 machines for 30 days of work and it's dedicated to a legitimate program, it's better than those machines sitting idle.
Logan, I mean no disrespect. I understand and respect your way of looking at this.
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|  said by playbl162  :However, Logan, my friend, I could care less about stats and points. Results returned, help Scientists find answers. If, someone purchases 100 machines for 30 days of work and it's dedicated to a legitimate program, it's better than those machines sitting idle. Logan, I mean no disrespect. I understand and respect your way of looking at this. As long as there could be a way if people wanted to purchase time/machines philanthropically of preventing them from gaining false stats, then I agree with you 1000% that the science should come first and foremost.
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2 edits | Yeah there's really multiple points to this question.
1) buying already crunched credits - which berkeley stopped doing via "merging accounts" at request.
2) buying the use of a computer's time - to do whatever you want with it, and in this case it's to run Seti (or any DC project for that matter).
The reasoning behind door number 2 could also have multiples:
a) to gain stats for your personal embellishment.
b) to increase the probability that you would be "the one" to find an actual signal. (Or in the case of other projects, the cure, or the crack, or whatever.
There are various morals surrounding each of the above, and any one person could have differing views on what they deem is okay versus what is not.
BBR, as a general rule, does not condone the purchasing of already crunched work units. However, it has in the past seen it's members "share" their power for various causes. Sometimes "payback" occurs, and sometimes none is required. It's up to those making the deal.
- FM
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