Hi, Winston Smith here (for those who have forgotten me down the Memory Hole, it would be good to read Orwell's 1984 just to let you know that BOINC and SETI have teamed up with SKIPE(tm) to make sure every word we *say* to each other when looking for help is available to those with the CASH to buy them, along with a whole lot of other mashed up conversations from SKIPE - (they sell ALL information they get on you, at least according to the Skipe privacy statement.

These days, to reach a BOINC expert with a question like "why are the servers down", you have to inform Skipe that YOU of (full disclosure) and EXPERT of (full disclosure) all info matched up with other info lists we've bought for your advertising and other*
purposes, spoke and said:"(conversation)"

Why guys? wasn't Info Available to Noxious Keyloggers and commercial web spiders bad enough? WillI have to TOR just to find out what's up and hope that one TOR "donor" isn't owned by Doubleclick (from Google, the company that has a strange definition of the "evil" they don't do.

I cannot supply whatever cash Skipe donated for requiring folks to use its services. Maybe folks in the Cafe include a coder who can come up with a simple 256Meg key Public Key Code we can use to talk back and forth with the Experts, all using a daily changed PK so maybe only Google and the NSA will be able to keep up with us.

Of course, conversion time and time wasted for even those of us lucky to be running an I7 (or AMD equivalent we accept all cycles) and a CUDA card will lose a lot of time we could have been allowing SETI or another BOINC group to do work the NSF should be funding (hey, since the NSA is getting the World's Fastest Supercomputer according to several reliable sources, why don't we make them donate 15 minutes a day, or every unused telephone tapping cycle helping humanity for a change?)

Now James Bamford, former NSA employee turned journalist, says a hell of a lot of that power is used copying and trading hot&steamy calls rather than Threats to The Homeland (in his latest book - all three are worth a read, and not Conspiracy Freak Shows - he's just an expert on knowing how to exactly phrase a Freedom of Information Act request for files that should be public from his old office).

So think of what a crackdown on that [selfcensored] would do for all kinds of research, including S@H.

Smith, the W at WTP

*hmm, think what a *candidate* could do with that kind of data ... or a "well-financed terrorist front organization" - What would you do if you could find out everything that can be derived from your use of the 'web and from good guy non-commercial sites who let Google/Doubleclick or Skipe in for the limited amount of info they get back. (if a non-com site is using cookie- or webbug tracers (build a Paranoid's Copy of Firefox with add-ons tagged '1984' to find out whose investigating you) tell them to build their own data generator, or carefully read their contract with the Dark Side)

I cannot supply whatever cash Skipe donated for requiring folks to use its services.

I seriously doubt that Skype donated cash. It seems fairly obvious that it was chosen because a lot of people have it, and it provides communication over any distance at the same price (just about zero).

... and you aren't required to use it.

The answer to the question it appears you wanted to ask is: "it looks like something broke."

The odds are good that the volunteer would not know any more than that until after the problem was fixed.

The BOINC client is designed to deal with that, without you having to call anyone.

As Valentine Michael Smith would say "waiting is."

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Loopy's messages are incomprehensible to all but himself. Loopy is easily aroused and exuberant in battle and fearlessly flings himself at any Warrior - even Kung-Fu Master. Loopy's main weapons consist of a disarming array of nonsequiturs, tautologies, and bizarre metaphors, which can often gain him an advantage in the initial stages of an attack. Combatants very quickly realize, however, that Loopy is a certifiable nut case and generally avoid further engagement. Jerk and Evil Clown revel in egging Loopy on for their own amusement. CAUTION: Loopy cannot be defeated with conventional weapons - any response to his attacks will provoke a fusillade of incoherent messages, so Loopy is best left undisturbed.

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Loopy's messages are incomprehensible to all but himself. Loopy is easily aroused and exuberant in battle and fearlessly flings himself at any Warrior - even Kung-Fu Master. Loopy's main weapons consist of a disarming array of nonsequiturs, tautologies, and bizarre metaphors, which can often gain him an advantage in the initial stages of an attack. Combatants very quickly realize, however, that Loopy is a certifiable nut case and generally avoid further engagement. Jerk and Evil Clown revel in egging Loopy on for their own amusement. CAUTION: Loopy cannot be defeated with conventional weapons - any response to his attacks will provoke a fusillade of incoherent messages, so Loopy is best left undisturbed.

I loved it! Need to see more. I may book mark this for future use. I could use it in troll battles in other forums.

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Loopy's messages are incomprehensible to all but himself. Loopy is easily aroused and exuberant in battle and fearlessly flings himself at any Warrior - even Kung-Fu Master. Loopy's main weapons consist of a disarming array of nonsequiturs, tautologies, and bizarre metaphors, which can often gain him an advantage in the initial stages of an attack. Combatants very quickly realize, however, that Loopy is a certifiable nut case and generally avoid further engagement. Jerk and Evil Clown revel in egging Loopy on for their own amusement. CAUTION: Loopy cannot be defeated with conventional weapons - any response to his attacks will provoke a fusillade of incoherent messages, so Loopy is best left undisturbed.

I loved it! Need to see more. I may book mark this for future use. I could use it in troll battles in other forums.

Or even better, try putting the OP text into the SMOG Readability Calculator.

The lower the number, the easier a statement is to understand.

Newsweek articles normally rates a 10.

Time Magazine: 12.

New York Times: 13 - 15

Atlantic Monthly: 16

The IRS Code: 19

The OP of this thread: 19.76

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein

Or even better, try putting the OP text into the SMOG Readability Calculator.

The lower the number, the easier a statement is to understand.

The IRS Code: 19

The OP of this thread: 19.76

ROFLMAO

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Had never heard of SMOG, will the kind in the air yes, but not this. I love it. My day to day writing is in the 8-9's and my legal writing is in the 17 to 18's. I need to start writing for Harvard.