Re: [ba-ohs-talk] The Worldwide Computer
At 08:55 AM 3/4/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>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.
>
>I think you're referring to the Parasitic Computing stuff. See
>
> http://www.nd.edu/~parasite/
>
>[btw, how old does one have to be before we get to have Senior Moments?]
>
>-Eric (01)
Parasitic Computing. That's it! Thanks. (02)
How old? My 13-year old son has them! (03)
Cheers
Jack (04)