A call for all programmers to help SETI II (BOINC)

[dmcowen674]

The SETI@Home project is Officially called BOINC.

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Dave:
This cheating thing has flared up again recently. Today we posted a position statement on the SETI@home message board, basically saying:
- Modifying our current software to prevent this type of cheating is possible but would take a bunch of time, which would detract from our current efforts at finding ET, and developing the next-generation software (BOINC)
- BOINC will prevent this type of cheating.
- In the meantime, as time permits we identify obvious cheaters and zero out their accounts.
BOINC is open-source. It's functional but pre-alpha. It's at http://sf.net/projects/boinc
The best way for people (if they're programmers) is to download and read the BOINC code, and help us get it right this time.
-- David</FONT>

 

[muttley]

I think that the anacronem should be changed cause of the people and the public taking it the wrong way Boink ... lets boink the aliens etc jokes
I don't care just my 2 cents.

muttley

 

[JWMiddleton]

There was a lot of discussion about the name in newsgroups and the SETI forum, but the decision was made to stick with BOINC.

 

[ZapZilla]

BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) need not be taken the wrong way...

For Example,

Bashfull Offworlders Incommunicative Need Catalyst

or

Body Odor Is Not Cool

seem like reasonable takes

<Edit -- typo>

 

[Robor]

Body Odor Is Not Cool