Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 12:50:41 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1016137017.93980d@mired.org> Cc: Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk>, "Nickolay A.Kritsky" <nkritsky@internethelp.ru>, Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>, Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net>, Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: http://users.uk.freebsd.org/~juha/ Message-ID: <3C8A75A1.C567BB02@mindspring.com> References: <20020306191854.C2150-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <3C86C11C.8A31C8BB@mindspring.com> <15494.52528.125952.145716@guru.mired.org> <3C86D7D6.C11D7E@mindspring.com> <15494.58407.33613.314390@guru.mired.org> <8457986570.20020307135407@internethelp.ru> <15495.57385.993281.469551@guru.mired.org> <20020308113108.G32897@iconoplex.co.uk> <15497.12783.643757.175742@guru.mired.org> <20020309144158.K32897@iconoplex.co.uk> <15498.28088.976841.7441@guru.mired.org>
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Mike Meyer wrote: > In that case, you've got to purchase proprietary hardware to do it, > and it's liable to be expensive. But wanting to satisfy your > curiousity doesn't justify your stealing from other people. He's right. Computers that are running software take more electricity than those running the idle loop. This works because idle loops aren't software, and because CPU cycles cost money when you use them to do work, but cost nothing when there is no work to do. 8-). I realize that there are some very young people on this list, but realize also that the computer trespassing laws are circa the mid to late 1980's. Before that, it was not a criminal act to just look. - Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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