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[vblk]

DONATE YOUR TIME TO SAVE THE WORLD!!
I recently found that you can actually donate your computers idle time to help scienntific research. The feature is downloadble with a special Gogle toolbar and th feature can be enabled or disabled at any time! So people come on! Donate some of the useless time on your computer to be a part of some of the greatest discoveries in this century!

[vblk]

vblk, on Jan 26 2006, 10:02 AM, said:

DONATE YOUR TIME TO SAVE THE WORLD!!
I recently found that you can actually donate your computers idle time to help scienntific research. The feature is downloadble with a special Gogle toolbar and th feature can be enabled or disabled at any time! So people come on! Donate some of the useless time on your computer to be a part of some of the greatest discoveries in this century!  

The address is : "toolbar.google.com/dc/offerdc.html"

[Zythrix]

That reminds of the SETI program.. used your idle processor time to help SETI with their research. I'll check this out once my computer is functioning properly (have some issues with it crashing under med-high processor usage.. probably a cooling issue).

[rvalkass]

These systems are springing up all over the Internet to achieve all sorts of things. Most are medical related, such as Folding@Home, but there are others working out pi, rendering images and all sorts of things.

[Cerebral Stasis]

I almost always have my torrent client running, and on top of that, I have a feeling there wouldn't be much remaining bandwidth for this. Besides, I'm not overly comfortable with someone using my computer to do something, no matter how noble they may say it is (or stuipd, as is the case for the "largest prime number" or "highest digit of pi" research, which is compeletely useless).

[Florisjuh]

Mmmh my computer is never idle so I doubt Google will have any use of it if I sign up for their program

[FLaKes]

Ok, cool. I downloaded it, Im going to use it whenever Im just reading or navigating in the internet, make the most out of my cpu to help others sounds really good.

[wariorpk]

This idea sounds pretty good as long as Google keeps all of their software and services free. I think it is pretty cool that instead of your computer wasting electricity on your wasted processor capability you can actually help someone with discovering something on the computer. If I were to do this I would like to be recognized in some way though, I am not just going to give away my CPU capability without getting any credit for it.

[lacking_imagination]

Its really a cool idea, but I'm constantly running photoshop, some audio production software, or some video compression software, so my system is drained as it is. Too bad, because google seems to be supporting a very good cause

[hellRAISER666]

vblk, on Jan 26 2006, 10:02 AM, said:

DONATE YOUR TIME TO SAVE THE WORLD!!
I recently found that you can actually donate your computers idle time to help scienntific research. The feature is downloadble with a special Gogle toolbar and th feature can be enabled or disabled at any time! So people come on! Donate some of the useless time on your computer to be a part of some of the greatest discoveries in this century!  

Sounds kind of dumb at first. But sure I'll donate "idle" time. I wander if that'll lead to a new way to hack computers lol. I hope it leads to good discoveries. Instead of dangerous discoveries.