Call for help
This is an open call to help me defeat the power of terrorism! Ok, not really, just wanted to get your attention.
To preface: Who remembers Seti@Home? Anyone? Very good Jimmy, it was a distributed computing project to utilize spare cycles on many computers to solve problems that any one computer couldn't solve. In their case it was analyzing data from telescopes, hoping to find something, anything alien. Kinda dumb, right? Because if you find anything it'll either be thousands of lightyears away (and hence can't be dealt with in our lifetime) or of some format we can't deal with. Pointless, I think... but it did get the ball rolling for public attention of distributed computing.
I run the BOINC client to do Rosetta@Home. This project does protein folding in hopes of finding something that may help some human disease. Might be just as helpless as Seti@Home, but at least if this ever turns something up it'll be directly helpful to mankind in a significantly shorter amount of time.
I run this for the Indiana University team (come on, if you've seriously not figured out where I'm a student yet, you're either 1) an idiot, or 2) just don't care to guess. Most fall under don't care, and anyone actually trying to hunt me that couldn't falls into the idiot category. I don't mean to say anyone who doesn't know is dumb, merely anyone who tried to figure it out and couldn't. Look back, the clues are there (do the basic steps of recon on any site, and you'll get me on the first one). My plea is you help me keep my standing of second place (as of this writing). I irked the people who used to hold second and third place, I've noticed a spike in their output since I've passed them. So, how can you help? If you setup the BOINC client, I can give you my username and password to register it to my account. This was I can outsource my productivity to many more people, and have a shot at taking the first place. Yea, is greedy, but I'm a competitive person. It could be great fun, too!
So, if you're interested, get ahold of me. If I think I can trust you, you get my login info (which is throwaway anyways, so if you screw me over I'll just start a new account). Sound good? Go!
