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Re:48th Mersenne prime found by ArbitraryLimits on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @12:43PM (#5171978)
My university's physics department did the same thing with SETI@home. The SETI@home guys were smart enough to make their program run as a screen-saver that displayed Fourier Transforms so people thought it made the lab look more sciency and left it on.
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Re:48th Mersenne prime found by stephengillie on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @02:08PM (#5172531)
Another important note is that SETI@home actually did stop running when you were using the PC. If you left Task Manager up, you could see the difference on the CPU usage graph.
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Re:48th Mersenne prime found by danieldrehmer on Wednesday February 06, 2013 @06:28AM (#5175864)
and that's why they didn't find any alien intelligence yet
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