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> In other words, it's all about the money.
Yup. SETI requires money to operate. Lots of it, and very little of it
is salary. I think you're wrong, however, in accusing them of being money
oriented.
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If their scientific method was anything but, they can kiss their funding
goodbye. Contests like those targeted by distributed.net don't require the
scientific method to be followed..they only care about getting the answer
(and make it fun doing so).
The approach taken by the SETI@Home team permits them to control the
processing of a lot of data. The "duplicate" processing, as so nicely
stated, allows for a rechecking of work to futher validate results. And, as
for not being open-source, Michael explained that quite well also. Allowing
individuals to "tune" the clients would invalidate the research and would
make their work frontpage news in the weekly "ragazines".
Charles
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