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| Personal background |
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| A simple (Debian) seeker of knowledge... |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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My interest in extraterrestrial intelligent life is simply to answer some of the darkest deepest question we as humans have: where did life come from? how did the universe started? does the universe has an end, and if it does, what's beyond that?
There is no guaranty that if we do get in contact with some kind of intelligent life forms, that they will be able to answer any of those questions. However, that will be a start.
The seti@home project is moving in the right direction by having a client that's open sourced and developed to help in other areas. (Probably even more insteresting than finding inteligent life somewhere else, such as a cure for cancer, how our brains work, and other questions that need a lot of analytical power to solve).
The only suggestion I can make about BOINC is that it needs to be more careful about who can see what information about other users. Disclosing so much information about a users's system is not the way to go. It should be enough to say that a system is a pentium-based system. There is no need to get into the details of what kernel a given Linux workstation is running (or worse, it's IP). This information, though not that important, is trivial for those who use the internet for other purposes (crackers, malicious hackers, etc...). At the very least, people should be allowed to say "Please do not show information about my computers to others".
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