Originally posted by: Confused
OK guys, have you read the sign?
You know, the one that says:
Don't feed the troll
Now, onto a proper post
Mindflux,
It is true that Grid.org/United Devices does not have a large following here, as projects like Seti@home and many others do. Hell, the number of RC5 posts nowadays is next to minimal. Different people are interested in different things. It's what makes us human.
You may feel that Grid.org is the best project for
your CPU power, and others may feel that they would like to donate
their CPU power to something else, such as analysing radio data from space, which helps increase our knowledge of the Universe, or by proving that a level of encryption is strong enough and that we don't need anything stronger, or some may like to use
their CPU power to look for Prime numbers, or some might want to use
their CPU power to look at how proteins fold, which can help to see how diseases occur.
All the projects have good aims, some mathematical, some scientific, some medical. Just because
you don't agree with running certain projects, there is no need to be so bulshy about it.
I suggest you all check it out and run it, rather than finding little green men (SETI) or crunching distributed packets just to prove RC5-72 can be broken in 5 years, why not help crunch numbers for a real cause?
See, I have highlighted bits here to help explain:
Rather than: to do something instead of
a real cause: as if to say that checking a level of encryption is strong enough for normal every day use isn't a good cause. Tell me, do you ever buy anything with your credit card on the internet? Do you ever tell anyone your personal information, where it is stored on computers? If you do (i'm sure you have a mortgage, bank account, car loan etc), and your personal and financial details are stored on computer? Wouldn't you want to make sure that
your personal data is stored safely, with a good level of encryption? No? So you don't mind if someone can hack into the system and get your credit ratings? And what could they do with it? Change your name to theirs? Put it through the floor? Who knows? With good levels of encryption, that should never happen.
But, if you don't want the encryption levels checked for their strengths and weaknesses, then fine, be my guest. Just don't come complaining to us when your bank gets hacked into and all your life savings are gone, and leaves you in thousands of dollars of debt
Have you ever looked up into the sky at night? Yes? Have you
ever thought "I wonder if we're alone"? Have you ever thought "How or why does that happen" or "why is that there"? Have you ever read any books/magazine articles/newspaper stories about the Universe? Do you wonder if they were right or not? No? To be honest, I don't believe you. So, you are telling us that you don't want to know any more about the Universe we live in, you don't want to know why something's there and what it's there for? You honestly think that out of all the stars you can see in the night sky, and many many times more that you can't see, there is only 1 star that has a planet surrounding it that has any kind of life form? How narrow-minded you must be if you do truely think that.
Now, you have taken our words of advice to not put down other projects, and you seemed to fail that little test, those immortal words "Get a life" showed that. (
Appendix A: The usage of "Get a life": This phrase is normally used when the poster is fighting a losing battle, and has nothing else to say. Is akin to poster saying "I lose, so here's a stupid comment to the rest of you").
Confused