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What a wonderful state this board is in! Five out of ten threads on the front page, right now, are troll threads. That ratio can sometimes be even larger. Rather than having some sort of sense of collective board identity, /sci/ has merely become a troll-filled extension of /b/ and its terrible humorless children. We don't even have a Folding@Home or BOINC team, for chrissakes. You'd think that'd be one of the FIRST fucking things that this board would have done.

Gentlemen, I think it's high time for us to take back this board. Towards that end, I propose a little game. Let's call it the chemo game. The rules are simple: Every time you see a troll or non-board-related thread, you MUST start a /sci/ related thread. It doesn't matter if you feel like you can't think of a really good or interesting /sci/- related thread to start, post whatever comes to mind. Are you not in the sciences? Are you a highschool kid? That's just fine, simply either A. ask a question of the scientists and science students on this board or B. start a thread for speculating about one of the many sci-fi technologies that could potentially become a reality (space elevators, colonization of the planets, an end to aging, biological uplift, etc...). Hell, you could even start a collaborative worldbuilding thread, much like what /tg/ does rather often, and work with other /sci/borgs to produce a document detailing a fictional world for people to roleplay in and write stories about and whatnot. You could also start threads on /sci/entific videogames, such as the Powder Game and Alpha Centauri.

If you REALLY cannot come up with any worthwhile /sci/entific thread to start, then, the second rule will still be relevant. The second rule of the chemo game goes like this: if you see a troll post or a troll thread, find an interesting /sci/ related thread, and bump it. That's it, it's that simple.

I, personally, will be giving this a try right the fuck now.

>> No.1496533
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I applaud the effort and will bump with some images everyone should have.

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>> No.1496542
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1496542

Pineapples work too

>> No.1496543

Sorry, but this board is filled with too much aspergic retards. They don't understand the concept of trolling, irony or other social subtleties. Trolling is just too easy here, it's never going away.

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>>1496542
But not as well as this.

>> No.1496547

Well alright. OP isn't a complete fag for once. I'll bump you along with some sciency board.

(WE WOULDN'T HAVE THIS PROBLEM IF WE HAD SOME GODDAMN MODS MOOT)

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Moar pineapples

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>>1496543
Well yeah, with that attitude it won't.

>> No.1496552

I'm on SETI with BOINC

>> No.1496556
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1496556

more pineapples for op

>> No.1496559

Ok, so, BOINC or F@H?

>> No.1496560
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1496560

pineapple anyone?

>> No.1496562

bumpity bump

>> No.1496563

>>1496552
this
I have 1043 points, and no idea what points are. Any clues?

>> No.1496569

>>1496563
I don't even know what that is.

>> No.1496575
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1496575

Well, fuck your shit

>> No.1496578

>>1496563
it just quantifies "work done" as 1047.something, which I assume means something but don't know

>> No.1496585

OP here,

>I, personally, will be giving this a try right the fuck now.

...well, actually, maybe not. I just realized that it's 4:00 AM. Shit.

Tomorrow, then.

>> No.1496586

>>1496578
I don't even know what site you're talking about.

>> No.1496594

>>1496586
seti@HOME on BOINC

>> No.1496610

>>1496594
SETI@Home*

Everyone here should download BOINC even if they have no specific intentions at the moment

>> No.1496613

>>1496594
>>1496563
fuck year seti@homefags.
I been with them since they launched in 1999. I have like lol 2 million 'work done' since i joined up with them after they started up boinc. I think i crunched with the 'regular seti even after they became boinc, for a while, so i think a bunch of my computed work didn't count toward that. I felt bad.

>> No.1496626

>>1496585
Agreed.

>> No.1496631

>>1496613
>>1496610
>>1496594

I have no idea what that is. Is it one of those things where you download a thing to make your computer part of a super processing network when in standby?

>> No.1496639

>>1496631
Yep.

>> No.1496641

>>1496613
meh, you still did the helping.
are we going to set up a /sci/ group, then?

>> No.1496652

>>1496631
yep. They send you a load of the signal from their big dishes, your computer does the hard work, and then reports back that aliens haven't spoken to us. You get to feel good about helping SCIENCE, they get a free supercomputer

>> No.1496658

>>1496641
Dunno if anyone wants to make sci group.

Also I didn't compute that off one PC. for a long time, that work was crunched on an amd athlon 2500+. Before that, on a pentium 4 1.5 Ghz (lol i still remember when that was epic fast). After the 2500+, I think I put it on another computer in the house that was an athlon 6400+. Then after I replaced my 2500+ with a Q6600, i put it on that, and also on my laptop for a time.

>> No.1496667

>/sci/ has merely become a troll-filled extension of /b/ and its terrible humorless children.

>*insert board here* has merely become a troll-filled extension of /b/ and its terrible humorless children.

fix'd

>> No.1496672

>>1496652
Yup this. I think the SETI@home project had the highest MFLOP etc of any supercomputer or distributed computing project anywhere in the world. Then when folding@home on PS3s, all the users running folding on their PS3s beat SETI@home's processing power. However, SETI@home still has the most users, I believe. It's on wiki.

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>>1496658
When I get a proper job I'll get a better PC. For now, I'm doing it on this.

It's tempting to see if I can set it up to run in the background on the local library's machines, as nobody would notice

>> No.1496713

Bump this shit

>> No.1496736

forgotten my password, and now I can't get in C\documents and settings ("Access is Denied"). What do?

>> No.1496747

>>1496736

Cut the power to your comp with it on. When you rerstart it will say not properly shutdown and give you the option of "safe mode". Start in safe mode and change your pass word.

Note - this works on XP, I don't know about Win7

>> No.1496762

>>1496747
I meant my SETI password, but I'll remember that
I'm the admin and only account on this pc, but apparently that doesn't entitle me to look at the program files :(

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>Phd in mathematics
>any jon i want
>300k U MAD?

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You guys don't have mods too? Kudos for the effort though comrades.

>> No.1496847

>>1496814
Good luck with your board's shittiness, /int/ernationalist.

>> No.1496868

OP has the right idea.

>> No.1496875

We can have sticky already?

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Sticky this shit!

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>> No.1496924

>>1496814
You too /sci/bros.

>> No.1497036

>>1496875
>>1496883

What makes you think that there are even mods on this board to sticky this thread?

>> No.1497064

>>1497036
I was simply uttering my opinion that this thread deserves to be stickied.

>> No.1497073
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Someone needs to save this thread so it can eventually be stickied.

I'll take part, and act to save it.

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>>1497064

>> No.1497077

>PhD in mathematics
>any jon i want
>300k especially

>> No.1497131

>>1497073
Don't worry. I'll be reposting it.

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>>1497131
Oh you...Helping to keep this board from the pits of trolldom...

>> No.1497330

>>1496524

reported for having no science related content
also nice trolling

>> No.1497332
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Folding @home?
If I would want to fold something, I'd go to /po/.

>> No.1497352

>>1497332
>>1497330
PFFFT.