Re: [ba-ohs-talk] The Worldwide Computer
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Jack Park wrote:
> At 08:28 AM 3/4/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >At 2002-03-03 21:09 -0800, Jack Park wrote:
>
> It might already be used that way. Senior moments prevent me from stating
> explicitly how that is so, but there is a trick that has to do with
> computation on http packets that allows someone to send you a bunch of
> packets and your computer will unwittingly perform computations on those
> packets and send them back. Maybe someone has the reference to that trick. (01)
I think you're referring to the Parasitic Computing stuff. See (02)
http://www.nd.edu/~parasite/ (03)
[btw, how old does one have to be before we get to have Senior Moments?] (04)
-Eric (05)