SETI and the internet's computing power

[cdpage]

Sorry Mephistopheles, I should have been more clear.

I refered to that discovery, (useless or not), because It was discovered threw the same system, and one of the users was given credit for it. not the 'host'... if thats what it would be called.

So if some Drug company did this, they may not be albe to reep all the benifits becaseu the puplic contributed to thier success.

...does that make sence?




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[P4Man]

doing some number crunching is not magically going to come up with a working, produceable, tested and approved drug. If anything, it may help in giving some directions to the R&D.. so don't expect anyone to "find" the drug with some DC app, let alone get credit or be able to claim patent rights or whatever. Extremely different from searching for prime numbers..

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[Mephistopheles]

Actually, I'm sorry for ranting; I wasn't upset at anything you said, I was rather stating that the search for prime numbers is useless.

It's Like multiplying 253^63 factorial by the biggest common divisor of 2^533 and 5^1000003. It's very difficult and completely pointless...

You do have a point in your argument: if, by some means whose existance is not the point, someone were to do something useful with DC, who would receive the credits for that?... And if it involves money?

P4Man answered that already, though: it is not likely that that will be the case. And even so, if I were to do profitable research through the internet, I wouldn't tell anyone that that particular new invention my labs came up with came from internet-based DC.

<i><conspiracy theory #7> I'd rather throw the internet users into a comfortable and enticing ruse, like the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, from which they won't be expecting anything useful, and then reap all the benefits and profits from the new technology that was developed with the DC-executed research. </conspiracy theory #7></i>

Oh well, at least we don't have to face that dilemma you mentioned, cdpage.... at least not for now, it would seem.