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 7/11/2008 6:48 AM
 
User is offline Camelot One
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USA Today discovers DC  (United States)

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/kimkomando/2008-07-10-komando-distributed-computing_N.htm?csp=15

I always get a kick out of journalists "Discovering" new things like this.

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 7/11/2008 7:25 AM
 
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Re: USA Today discovers DC  (United States)
Sooo how do we get involved with these so called "distrurbed computing" thingamabobs. Will they hurt my computer. That seti program sounds like fun. I bet I find ET in the first week


Truth is after all a moving target Hairs to split, and pieces that don't fit How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit - Getty Lee
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 7/11/2008 11:35 AM
 
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I already found ET.
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Somebody said to me that is a virus, a trojan... something like. No, thanks. :D
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Re: USA Today discovers DC  (United States)

kemp wrote
Somebody said to me that is a virus, a trojan... something like. No, thanks. :D

 

Nah, viruses/trojans are more reliable than Berk. :)
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 7/11/2008 8:14 PM
 
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Camelot One wrote

 kemp wrote
Somebody said to me that is a virus, a trojan... something like. No, thanks. :D

 

Nah, viruses/trojans are more reliable than Berk. :)


Well...
 I don't wanna be Berked in a SETI cemetery. :D
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 7/11/2008 9:57 PM
 
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 Modified By Kinguni on 7/11/2008 9:58:21 PM
kemp wrote
 Camelot One wrote

 kemp wrote
Somebody said to me that is a virus, a trojan... something like. No, thanks. :D

 

Nah, viruses/trojans are more reliable than Berk. :)


Well...
 I don't wanna be Berked in a SETI cemetery. :D


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Re: USA Today discovers DC  (United States)
Hey, I'd 'do' that USA Today author.
There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary - and those that don't.
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 Modified By Xaak on 7/12/2008 11:56:56 AM
Kim Komando also does sindicated radio spots as a "computer expert".  Unfortunately, her "new advice" is usually about 4 years old and laregly useless by the time her spots hit the radio.
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