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Message 1346334 - Posted: 13 Mar 2013, 22:23:33 UTC

How would you find out if they found something interesting in one of your work units?
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Message 1346335 - Posted: 13 Mar 2013, 22:28:13 UTC - in response to Message 1346334.  

Only after a long time - your results are compared to those from the same part of the sky, but on a different date, and if several observations show "something of interest" they added to the list of possibles, but since the "Nitpicker" is currently not working properly this process is "somewhat protracted"...

The trouble is many of the "signals of interest" turn out to be man made :-(
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Message 1346336 - Posted: 13 Mar 2013, 22:31:48 UTC

Oh, by the way, this sort of thing is discussed somewhat more fully in the "Science - SETI" thread, where I'll move your post to in a few minutes. The Cafe is where we come to relax and "play games", and some folks get quite tetchy about work being discussed here!
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Message 1346360 - Posted: 14 Mar 2013, 0:54:59 UTC - in response to Message 1346351.  


but since the "Nitpicker" is currently not working properly this process is "somewhat protracted"...


did it ever worked , cause i m here since very long time, and never saw it work

The public ntpckr has been on occasionally. The private one gets run a bit more often, but still nothing exciting.

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Message 1347389 - Posted: 16 Mar 2013, 18:31:08 UTC - in response to Message 1347222.  

There are two nitpickers???


Not sure of the details behind the drapes, but there is a public and a private interface.

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Message 1348607 - Posted: 19 Mar 2013, 22:25:23 UTC - in response to Message 1347389.  

There are two nitpickers???


Not sure of the details behind the drapes, but there is a public and a private interface.

WHY a private one, I am a little bemused?
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Message 1348611 - Posted: 19 Mar 2013, 22:33:28 UTC - in response to Message 1348607.  

There are two nitpickers???


Not sure of the details behind the drapes, but there is a public and a private interface.

WHY a private one, I am a little bemused?

I don't know why but Jeff and Matt have mentioned this a couple of times before plus Matt has also said before that the public 1 has been doing a bit of work but it generally doesn't show up on the server page for some reason.

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Message 1349072 - Posted: 21 Mar 2013, 13:37:34 UTC - in response to Message 1348607.  

There are two nitpickers???


Not sure of the details behind the drapes, but there is a public and a private interface.

WHY a private one, I am a little bemused?

Not sure, but development and computational load are two good reasons.

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Message 1349106 - Posted: 21 Mar 2013, 15:53:16 UTC

You will get notified by Seti@home that your computer helped identified ET and fifteen minutes later the CIA will knock on your door, have you sign a non-disclosure agreement and confiscate your computer.
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Message 1349174 - Posted: 21 Mar 2013, 18:54:29 UTC - in response to Message 1349106.  
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You will get notified by Seti@home that your computer helped identified ET and fifteen minutes later the CIA will knock on your door, have you sign a non-disclosure agreement and confiscate your computer.



True!!

I've been watching a show called "Are We Alone". The show does mention Seti@Home.

All 8 million users are allotted a certain part of the sky. Seti@Home, sits in a small computer room. They did mention if they got a signal the world would know in minutes. How many security levels would be notified first? Guessing plenty.

Yes! CIA, would be at my door.

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Message 1361636 - Posted: 27 Apr 2013, 3:53:00 UTC - in response to Message 1349174.  

Nope, not the CIA. More likely MIB. ;-) Look right here for the answer to all your questions. FLASH! :-D
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Message 1361761 - Posted: 27 Apr 2013, 9:32:41 UTC - in response to Message 1361636.  

Another Conspiracy theory!!

The only conspiracies in the world are those of Religion and Government graft.
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Message 1361862 - Posted: 27 Apr 2013, 16:45:35 UTC
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Once the former Rabbi of Rome, dr.Elio Toaff, was ordered by a German officer to dig his own grave. He started reciting the Kaddish,and the German was so shocked by a man who could pray in the face of death that he let him live. I heard this tale on a radio broadcast by Toaff.
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Message 1361949 - Posted: 27 Apr 2013, 20:55:04 UTC

Not all German officers in Hitler's day were sociopaths but those who were not were in the minority.
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Message 1362028 - Posted: 28 Apr 2013, 3:12:37 UTC - in response to Message 1361949.  
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I agree. My father was an Alpine Corps officer who fought in Russia and then refused to join the Fascist army. He was hunted by the Fascists and saved by a German Wermacht officer who gave him a pass. My father had studied in Austrian schools in Trieste and spoke perfect Deutsch. Of course, had he been checked by a a partisan, he would have been shot. Life was not easy in 1943-45 in Italy.
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