Re: A comment on using CPU resources

From: Jeroen van Rijn (xananda_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/09/05

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    Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 20:11:42 +0200
To: Gandalf The White <gandalf@digital.net>

    Hi Ken,

    There have been java applets that did this with the user's consent, e.g.
    the MD5crack distributed computing effort had one:
    http://distributedcomputing.info/recent.html ,
    http://www.engsoc.org/~jlcooke/
    It is not inconceivable one could do something useful with
    ecma/java/j-script too, however it would have to be some variant of AJAX
    to be useful to whomever wrote/hosted the script?
    However, I don't think you're likely to see anyone stealing your CPU
    time with this as of yet.

    Maybe someone else has different thoughts on the matter :)

    - Jeroen.

    >Greetings and Salutations:
    >
    >I had an issue with my Firefox browser. The browser was static, yet it was
    >using 70% or 80% of the CPU of the system.
    >
    >It got me to thinking. Java is a programming language. What would prevent
    >companies from running a java script on your computer while you are viewing
    >their page that uses your CPU to do some computing for them? Instead of
    >selling (or in addition to selling) advertising the company could also sell
    >CPU to other companies.
    >
    >Is this feasible?
    >
    >Ken
    >
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