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Sun 2006-04-30

Distributed computing, capitalist style

Here’s an idea: rather than sending advertisements to user’s computers, why not send scripting code to calculate [the valuable thing, like, I dunno, pi or hacking the encryption on HDDVD or something] and send the results back to your central computer?

Come on, you know you want to. And it’s free!

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2 Responses to “Distributed computing, capitalist style”

  1. daniel Says:

    erm, was there meant to be a link with this one?

  2. josh Says:

    No. Are you saying that someone else could have thought of it already? I find that hard to believe. :-)

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