Posted on 01/12/2005 4:02:22 PM PST by tantiboh
ARMONK, N.Y., November 16, 2004— IBM, along with representatives of the world's leading science, education and philanthropic organizations, today launched World Community Grid, a global humanitarian effort that applies the unused computing power of individual and business computers to help address the world's most difficult health and societal problems.
World Community Grid will harness the vast and unused computational power of the world's computers and direct it at research designed to help unlock genetic codes that underlie diseases like AIDS and HIV, Alzheimer's and cancer, improve forecasting of natural disasters and support studies that can protect the world's food and water supply. Anyone can volunteer to donate the idle and unused time on a computer by downloading World Community Grid's free software and registering at www.worldcommunitygrid.org.
(Excerpt) Read more at -1.ibm.com ...
NO THANKS
"...help unlock genetic codes that underlie diseases like AIDS and HIV..."
Norton protects me from viruses...
Anyone can volunteer to donate the idle and unused time on a computer
If you stay here long enough...you will find that there is no such thing as "idle and unused time on a computer" here.
No way. It ain't gonna find anything except WHO you are.
Just send me your bank account number and PIN and I'll send my excess computer time directly to your account.
hmm... was hoping for something a little less... conspiratorial from a freeper.
If you know anything about the hacker community (guess where I spent the other half of my time?) you'd know that nobody would get away with that kind of massive online invasion of privacy. The online community would detect it inside of half an hour, and the site would be swamped with DDoS attacks and every other trick under the sun.
Believe it or not, there are people out there that keep an eye on these things. The program is not designed to emblazon 666 across your monitor.
Up to you, I guess. Just passing along the info.
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