Where are the frickin aliens?
Dear Dave Marcucci:
We’d like to invite you to reconnect with SETI@home. Our records show that you’ve been with SETI@home since 20 May 1999, but it’s been 313 days since you last returned a work unit. We want you back, and here’s why:
As we approach our 10th anniversary we are collecting data faster than ever before at the at the world’s largest radio telecope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, using a state-of-the-art multibeam receiver, so we can now measure signals from 7 positions on the sky at once, with greater sensitivity to weak signals compared to the data from the flat feed antenna we’ve used since 1999. We’ve greatly increased the sensitivity of our data analysis, and the likelihood that we’ll find the first signs of extraterrestrial life. We also released a second application, Astropulse, which will look for extremely short pulses of astronomical (and possibly intelligent) origin using the same multibeam data. We are close to finishing work on our Near Time Persistency Checker, which will be the first time we can generate an up-to-date list of interesting points in the sky, and adjust them, as fresh data come in every day.
With these new developments comes an increase in required computing power, for which we depend on people like you. We hope you will consider signing back on with SETI@home, and help in this wonderful scientific venture.
If you experienced problems running SETI@home, please try any of the resources listed at:http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_help.php including the BOINC Online Help System which lets you talk live, over the Internet, with a help volunteer:http://boinc.berkeley.edu/help.php
We thank you for your involvement in SETI@home, and hope that you rejoin us in our search for signals from other worlds.
– The SETI@home team
SETI@home – http://setiathome.berkeley.edu
Space Sciences Laboratory / 7 Gauss Way
University of California, Berkeley, CA 92740-7450
Dear SETI@home,
I have been a member for 10 years and my computers have done a lot of analysis for your project. Still, my numbers are minuscule compared to others in the program. Nevertheless, you have failed to find the aliens in those 10 years. It seems cattle herders, hay farmers, and Mexicans have no problems finding them. They visit some places daily to abduct, experiment, and deliver regular anal probes to these people. Still, with all that data and high powered techno-gizmo crap you have access to, you haven’t found squat.
So where are the frickin aliens? So far the only thing I have as a result of being a member of your program is a hot lap and low sperm count as my laptop continues to run at 100% CPU on all cores and a comfy 92 degrees Celsius. This is why I have shifted my BOINC membership to the PRIMEGRID project, because they are looking for large prime numbers, and prime numbers don’t have intergalactic ships with laser beams that can hide from detection.
Sincerely,
Dave Marcucci
NOTE: This is geek humor, I’m sorry if you don’t get it.
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As it turns out, this is now a blocker for some people I work with moving to our WordPress install instead of what they’re currently using. They like the category and tag feeds but losing the author feeds is a no-go.
I’ve tried sending email (and xmpp) to the plugin’s author, but haven’t heard back — so if you can manage to figure it out, that’d be fantastic.
It looks like WordPress has a method to use the author ID in a feed url built in. Apparently it depends on how the various templates call the function to generate the feed url as to how the feed url will be built. For example, using the author id, try this as a parameter on your url: ?feed=rss&author=11 and it should generate an RSS feed for that author. Since it seems to depend on the template there doesn’t appear to be a WordPress code fix for the problem you are seeing.
Let me know if it works.
I haven’t looked at that code yet…let me see if I can figure out a workaround for the author feeds.
This actually has a problem — author feeds don’t work. E.g. http://myblog/?author=11/feed is not valid, and simply returns the author page. Do you know how to make this work? Thanks!
The World-Wide-Web being google-normous and the attention span of the average human being somewhat on the skimpy side, I think word-of-mouth (that old chestnut) may remain the best source of readership… unless your website happens to be all about Tiger Woods and his indiscretions(this week).
If your goal is to be found by people you know or whom you have known, homogeneity of photos and user names makes sense, but if you wish to attract new readers… well, that’s a cat of a different character…
The few websites I have discovered and revisited without having been referred to, I have found either by happy accident or by my profile selections on Stumble Upon. Of course, I am not a prolific web-surfer, but my deduction is that content is the #1 most important branding factor and sustainability of content is #2. And a little showmanship doesn’t hurt…
Take into consideration that this comment has been made by someone who blogs faux-anonymously and whose website is visited by only those individuals who have been threatened by her husband…
I just ran into this — thanks a bunch!
Whew, thanks for that. I was running out of things to be paranoid about!
Thanks for the great post on Aardvark! I really like your Aardvark question philosophy: “If I can’t find an answer in 10 minutes on Google, then off to Aardvark to get the answer.” I’d love to hear any other feedback you or your readers have – alison@aardvarkteam.com
- Alison @ Aardvark
http://twitter.com/AlisonatVark
p.s. We’ll be showing recently asked questions on our website soon!
Ummm… I could only make it through the first one. One word comes to mind: “Staged.” If I’m wrong, the next two-words that come to mind: “Prescribe Lithium.”
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Nice article. With great tips and info. Social networking is something that you need to do your own business with.
Keep the good info coming.
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VP Marketing, Internet Marketing Professor
http://www.drdavehaleonline.com
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Thanks,
Dennis
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Nice review. I was looking for someone who had actually used this software before I spent my money
your review told all I need to know…..I’m sold…..I’m going to download it today.
I agree the fact that it is illegal will not impact the current jailbreaking movement, locking down technology rarely works. The issue I have is the precedent for allowing hardware (or “goods”) manufacturers to limit consumers use of the product they purchased and the justice system supporting them.
they’ve been saying that since the phone was launched. No surprise there. Do you see any jailbreakers stopping? Including the iPhoneDevTeam? Probably not going to happen.
Mike
Really good review. I was in the same boat when I got my new computer a few months ago with vista. I used to use my laptop with XP to copy tons of movies with a different program but stopped about a year ago. A friend gave me DVDFAB and it’s much easier, more features, much quicker, and a large amount of customer support as well as forums to help. I also like the fact that after it cracks the encryption making a second copy only takes 3-5 minutes (a second “back up copy” of course)
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The infestation of MA liberals into NH is putrid.
Why should we better ourselves when we will get anything we want without working for it?
“The Messiah” has had this lefty-soci-commi views since before college. We do not even know who he is. Heck, I believe that he actually is not a natural-born US citizen.
I hope to get this before our rights are taken away: http://www.bushmaster.com/catalog_carbon15_AZ-C15M4PRE.asp
http://www.zazzle.com/dont_tax_me_bro_shirt-235479028750694755
Don’t tax me Bro!
Good words.
So, I didn’t check the list and I still haven’t. But I recommend you do if you use it. Personally, I did a quick check from memory and it all looked right to me. (Maybe B.O. isn’t bumping taxes to 28% on home sales, maybe only 20%, it’s still the wrong direction.)
The fact is Obama is soft on Crime (including terrorists and illegal immigrants) and wants to implement a boat load of programs we (the US) can afford. So that means I’ll be less safe and paying more for it. I won’t even have money left over to buy a gun to protect myself, that is if we’re allowed to own guns under a B.O. administration. (The Constitution is overrated, right? No!)
Anyway, I respect your opinions and I agree everyone should check up on facts but good luck finding a non-partisan source, there is no such thing.
Thanks for the comment and remember, I’ll never censor here so feel free to reply. (Some exceptions for lewd, threatening, and/ or illegal content. Oh, and posts with links to Viagra sites.)
For starters, when something so basic like the other guy’s name (the one you don’t like) is misspelled (It’s Barack not “Barak”) on a purportedly objective comparative piece then an alarm should go off in your thinking head: you are being taken for a ride, you’re being fed propaganda and lies, that you are, as they say, being played.
Voters would do well to take out pencil and paper and go down his fake list but as checked against the non-partisan:
http://www.factcheck.org/
or – http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/taxes.asp
or -
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/aug/04/return-tax-attack-chain-e-mail/
Vote for whom you will but it is awful dumb to go on the basis of a email chain-letter. Psst. The creators of this phony list are probably laughing. They were so brazen they actually dared you to click on CNN, WashPost, AARP at the bottom to verify their lies – knowing full well that you’d fall for their hoax – and you WOULD NOT BOTHER TO REALLY CHECK.
What – do they think we’re stupid?
nice