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(Vanity) Free Republic Folding@Home Project update - We're in the TOP 850!!!
systematic ^ | 1-2-2006 | systematic

Posted on 01/02/2006 9:53:26 AM PST by systematic

New thread for this week.

Congrats to all new members who joined this week!

We've made excellent progress so far and have smoked the DUmmies and Kossacks. Let's keep folding!


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: computernerds; computers; cpu; cureforcancer; du; dummies; fah; folders; folding; foldinghome; geeks; kos; proteins; seti; software; spyware; stanford; technology; techs; worthwhilecauses
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To: Klutz Dohanger
Stanford, is not only pushing the envelope in protein research, but is pioneering a new level in distributed computing.

I don't mean to sound rude ... but that sounds like an info commercial

And, the program is "voluntary", so there is no issue of "piggy back".

Ok then ... you are voluntarily letting Standford to piggy back

321 posted on 01/02/2006 10:50:11 PM PST by Mo1 (Republicans protect Americans from Terrorists. Democrats protect Terrorists from Americans)
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To: All
*oh boy*..

There ARE certain things that both the LEFT, and the RIGHT, can agree on, and pure scientific research is one of them.

322 posted on 01/02/2006 10:51:48 PM PST by Klutz Dohanger (*ouch*)
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To: papasmurf
So, you would rather not participate ONLY because Stanford MAY get something out of this? What about the people that get treatment and/or cures from this research? Where do they come in to the decision making process?

Besides this chart you keep showing .. how do I know this is what Stanford is doing?

323 posted on 01/02/2006 10:52:29 PM PST by Mo1 (Republicans protect Americans from Terrorists. Democrats protect Terrorists from Americans)
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To: Klutz Dohanger

And one more question

Why do you keep talking to yourself?


324 posted on 01/02/2006 10:53:11 PM PST by Mo1 (Republicans protect Americans from Terrorists. Democrats protect Terrorists from Americans)
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To: Klutz Dohanger

http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/stanford/


325 posted on 01/02/2006 10:53:26 PM PST by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: Klutz Dohanger
Ah! I get it now. THEY are the ENEMY.


At first I thought it was genuine curiosity, interest, and concern.


:O)

P
326 posted on 01/02/2006 10:53:49 PM PST by papasmurf (Help beat the DUmmies...Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home Team# 36120)
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To: Seamoth
As for the IP addresses... if you've ever visited Stanford's home page, you've given them your IP address.

True .. but my Firewall blocks them from the information on my computer

327 posted on 01/02/2006 10:54:48 PM PST by Mo1 (Republicans protect Americans from Terrorists. Democrats protect Terrorists from Americans)
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To: JeanS
and many understand what they're doing but many don't.

So who is contributing cpu time and doesn't now understand what it is for?

328 posted on 01/02/2006 10:55:26 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (What? Me worry?)
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To: JeanS
Why would a black man, whose G-Father was "summer fruit" in a Ga. peach grove run into a burning house and rescue white people?


:O)

P
329 posted on 01/02/2006 10:56:33 PM PST by papasmurf (Help beat the DUmmies...Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home Team# 36120)
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To: Mo1
True .. but my Firewall blocks them from the information on my computer

But what the folding program does is nothing more onerous than a web browser. It connects to Stanford, downloads the program, crunches the program, then uploads the results to Stanford.

Now, your browser is using certain ports through your firewall, is it not?

330 posted on 01/02/2006 10:58:00 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (What? Me worry?)
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To: papasmurf

What?


331 posted on 01/02/2006 10:58:23 PM PST by Jean S
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To: papasmurf

What the heck are you talking about?


332 posted on 01/02/2006 10:59:02 PM PST by Mo1 (Republicans protect Americans from Terrorists. Democrats protect Terrorists from Americans)
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To: Mo1
What the heck are you talking about?

I think that was his point.

333 posted on 01/02/2006 11:00:01 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (What? Me worry?)
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To: Mo1
To say "piggyback", you imply that we are sharing our band width, or we are physically sharing our CPU. That is a misconception. We d/l a small, highly compressed file, it runs on our pc, without an internet, and "folds" the proteins. When it has finished, we then connect to the internet and upload the results and d/l another, and so on. I'm as sure as you are, that my firewalls stops them from gaining access to my pc.

:O)

P
334 posted on 01/02/2006 11:00:17 PM PST by papasmurf (Help beat the DUmmies...Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home Team# 36120)
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To: papasmurf

You've got a lot of patience. ;o)


335 posted on 01/02/2006 11:01:03 PM PST by Seamoth
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To: Mo1
To say "piggyback", you imply that we are sharing our band width, or we are physically sharing our CPU. That is a misconception. We d/l a small, highly compressed file, it runs on our pc, without an internet, and "folds" the proteins. When it has finished, we then connect to the internet and upload the results and d/l another, and so on. I'm as sure as you are, that my firewalls stops them from gaining access to my pc.

:O)

P
336 posted on 01/02/2006 11:03:24 PM PST by papasmurf (Help beat the DUmmies...Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home Team# 36120)
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To: papasmurf

Yep. "they're dead jim".... :)

Somehow, I sorta feel like a bacteria, now that the white corpuscles are amassing.


337 posted on 01/02/2006 11:05:09 PM PST by Klutz Dohanger (*ouch*)
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To: papasmurf

When you say "we" .. I take it that you are on the team that is doing this at Standford?


338 posted on 01/02/2006 11:05:53 PM PST by Mo1 (Republicans protect Americans from Terrorists. Democrats protect Terrorists from Americans)
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To: Klutz Dohanger

That was odd, wasn't it?


339 posted on 01/02/2006 11:05:59 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (What? Me worry?)
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To: VeniVidiVici

No comment.


340 posted on 01/02/2006 11:06:19 PM PST by Seamoth
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