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Is SETI@home Where Your Cycles Belong?
Slashdot - Jun 29 12:13 PM
Yesterday's post about a Wall Street Journal article critiquing the current allocation of distributed number-crunching projects drew a huge range of comments, some favoring the proposition that seemingly quixotic distributed-computing endeavors (specifically, the alien-hunting SETI@home project) were diverting resources better spent on closer-to-home, pragmatic research, such as cancer or climate Save to My Web

Fight vs corruption tackled in confab
Mindanao Times - Jun 30 12:40 AM
THE office of the Ombudsman-Mindanao (OMB-Min) conducted a conference on integrity and good governance at the Grand Regal Hotel yesterday to tighten the local regulatory measures to curb if not to prevent corruption.Save to My Web

Digital Slob: Second Life just as good as your first (maybe better)
The Times - Jun 30 7:23 PM
Every day , more of the world's best and brightest Digital Slobs are being lost to Second Life, an addictive, subscription-based, hyper-real 3D virtual-reality habitat for users to meet and greet via avatars on the Internet. I'm pretty sure it's the real reason Bill Gates is retiring.Save to My Web

Review: ECS 945G-M3 motherboard
Personal Computer World - Jun 30 7:10 AM
If you're looking to build a quick or home theatre PC in a compact case, the 945G-M3 motherboard from ECS is worth considering. Built around Intels 945G and ICH7 chipsets, this microATX board will support Socket 775 CPUs with 533, 800 and 1066MHz FSB speeds (including Pentium D).Save to My Web