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I've taken the liberty of setting up an official folding@home team for Soylent News. In case you aren't familiar with folding@home, it's a distributed computing project that simulates protein folding in an attempt to better understand diseases such as Alzheimer's and Huntington's.
There is more information on the project here, which explains it much better than I could.
Clients are available for Linux, OSX, and even Windows (if you swing that way), so come join our botnet!
That Other Site's team is ranked at 1817, so we've got some catching up to do.
On a personal note, my Dad carries the gene markers for Huntington's disease, and will eventually succumb to it. Research like this is very helpful for understanding, and hopefully developing treatments for it.
tl;dr Our Soylent News team ID is 230319
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday February 12 2016, @04:57PM
I believe a lot in every man's computer doing his bidding alone, and no one else's. Windows 10 makes me shudder for that reason, though I left the Windows eco-system about 20 years ago. It's terrible that the capabilities of our machines are being harnessed to economically benefit, through ad-networks, the pocketbooks of the psychotic few, who call themselves MBA's.
So this, Folding@home, is a way to harness networked-computing in a way that makes life better for everyone. I do hope that all of us can throw computing cycles that would otherwise go idle, to a worthy project like this. It costs us personally nothing.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 12 2016, @05:10PM
Computers use more power when they are doing more work. Where I live, my electricity during the day costs much more than electricity at night and on weekends. So it's not really "nothing".
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 12 2016, @05:48PM
Scheduled tasks. Run at night and on weekends. :) Hell run one hour a week. Its not how much you contribute to a worthy cause, its that you did contribute.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by dyingtolive on Friday February 12 2016, @05:13PM
Well, other than increased electrical costs.
I mean, I just started running it, I imagine I will continue, but I don't think it's fair to claim it costs you nothing. By their own site (https://folding.stanford.edu/home/faq/#ntoc44), they claim .36 USD per day at .15 per kWh. I know it's not much, but it is a cost.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 2) by richtopia on Friday February 12 2016, @09:19PM
I seasonally run folding at home. In the winter, I'll run it, I'm heating my home anyway.
When I don't run the heat, I don't run folding at home.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Saturday February 13 2016, @05:29AM
Just don't run it at work. You can get fired and sued.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek