# A worthy cause? Cancer research...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-worthy-cause-cancer-research/64826>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 9, 2001, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-worthy-cause-cancer-research/64826 "2001-05-09T01:35:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Catalyst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@Catalyst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catalyst)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-worthy-cause-cancer-research/64826/141 "2001-09-22T06:50:09Z")

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My computer just finished a 12 hour long conformer-crunching session. Last time I checked it was at 99% . . . there were a whopping 280 hits :eek:! If I end up with empty webspace, I’ll post a link.

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**Author:** ![mongrel\_8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@mongrel\_8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mongrel_8)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-worthy-cause-cancer-research/64826/142 "2001-10-01T22:57:12Z")

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I was gonna come in here and blow you all away with the 132 hits I had today, but 280 is a bit better than 132. It must be that new blue structure (I forget it’s name).

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**Author:** ![KellyM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KellyM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KellyM)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-worthy-cause-cancer-research/64826/143 "2001-10-15T15:50:31Z")

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Don’t install this on a computer you don’t own (such as your employee machine at work) unless you’re sure you have permission to do so. An employee of a state university in, I believe, Georgia, was recently sent to prison for “theft of computing services” because he installed the [distributed.net](http://distributed.net) (cryptographic codebreaking) client on several university-owned computers without permission. Don’t count on the fact that the project in question has “good motives” to keep you out of jail.

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**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-worthy-cause-cancer-research/64826/144 "2003-11-07T14:53:11Z")

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I’m bumping this thread after seeing it in **Coldfire** ’s sig and noticing that the link in the OP to the team page is no longer valid. [This link](http://www.grid.org/services/teams/team.htm?id=44FC179A-BF1C-4BED-87E5-959767480CDA) will take you there now. I signed up a couple days ago. It’s nice. A great cause and the program is very unobtrusive.

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