Is SETI Searching for the Wrong Things?
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SETI still searching for ET
SETI still searching for ET
09/02/2004 01:58 PMNews earlier this week that The Search for Extraterrestrial
Intelligence group, SETI, had found a signal from ET appears to have
been over blown. Described by SETI's chief Scientist, Dr Wertheimer,
as "hype and noise", he went on to say that it was
"nothing that is unusual. It's all out of proportion."
SETI takes data from it's Arecibo Aerial Telescope and distributes it
to its thousands of users world wide for analysis. The chunk that set
off last Thursday's media frenzy is called SHGb02+14a and was found by
computers running the SETI program in Germany and the US. In its 6
years of operation, SETI have found 150 chunks that are potentially
signals from ET; these 150 are found by statistical techniques
performed on the data, which ascertains the likelihood of it being
legitimate. Of the 150, so far 0 have been real.
SETI commented that "With Seti@home having analysed some 50
trillion frequency bands, it is not surprising that a signal like this
occurs purely due to chance." Looks like we'll see a 40th edition
of ET before ET really does phone home.
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wrong
How to cleanly shut down when things go
wrong
09/10/2004 09:11 AMSometimes I have a situation where I select Shutdown from the OS X
menu and the shutdown dialog box will not display.
In fact, none of the other selections from the OS X menu will work
either. I'm not sure why this happens,...
Is it wrong to be judgmental about
things that you find offensive?
Is it wrong to be judgmental about
things that you find offensive?
09/20/2004 08:24 AMA friend of a friend engages in degrading phone sex and blames women
for his problems. Is that a problem?
Contingency Design: Maximizing Online
Profitability By Helping People When
Things Go Wrong
Contingency Design: Maximizing Online
Profitability By Helping People When
Things Go Wrong
09/16/2002 10:43 AM"JOANNE JACOBS notes the sad fate of a
teacher who knew too much. God forbid
that students should learn the wrong
things. . . ..."
"JOANNE JACOBS notes the sad fate of a
teacher who knew too much. God forbid
that students should learn the wrong
things. . . ..."
06/11/2004 03:17 AMlin-seti - A cache manager for Seti@Home
lin-seti - A cache manager for Seti@Home
06/26/2004 11:19 AMlin-seti 0.8.1
The trend lines are in the wrong
direction. I haven't seen anything in
any of the intelligence reports that
offers a hard and fast recipe for how to
turn things around
The trend lines are in the wrong
direction. I haven't seen anything in
any of the intelligence reports that
offers a hard and fast recipe for how to
turn things around
11/14/2003 08:03 AMthis intelligence report .. top secret CIA report .. pivot point ..
Source
nytimes.com/2003/11/13/politics/13INTE.html
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Shark Tank: Wrong, Wrong, Wrong!
Shark Tank: Wrong, Wrong, Wrong!
05/08/2004 01:18 PMCounty office moves from dumb terminals to networked PCs so swiftly
that there are lots of misadjusted monitors and keyboards with cables
that don't reach. So why shouldn't employees fix things themselves?
"The wrong war in the wrong place at the
wrong time"
"The wrong war in the wrong place at the
wrong time"
09/06/2004 12:55 PMIt's about freaking time Kerry said this! Resolved: Howard Dean didn't
have enough influence on the Democratic candidate's campaign. Oh,,
and, yes, Kerry's statement is consistent with his vote to authorize
the war....
"Kerry on Iraq: 'Wrong War, Wrong Place,
Wrong Time'"
"Kerry on Iraq: 'Wrong War, Wrong Place,
Wrong Time'"
09/07/2004 02:02 PMWhen Things On Your Mac Do Cool Things
You Didn't Expect Them To... Or
Adventures In Mac-Based Audio
When Things On Your Mac Do Cool Things
You Didn't Expect Them To... Or
Adventures In Mac-Based Audio
01/03/2004 12:11 AMIf you play an instrument, write songs, sing, or wish you could do any
or all of the above, take a look at DigiDesign's amazing little Mbox,
a complete audio production system with many uses. By Bob LeVitus (Mac
Observer via MyAppleMenu)
Wrong question, wrong answer
Wrong question, wrong answer
08/10/2004 06:05 PM""I’m not the kind of artist who feels
that I have a mission of any kind
whatsoever. The 19th century was about
that. What right do I have? In many ways
it robs people of a lot of things. I’m
an average enough person to point to the
things that I’ve..."
""I’m not the kind of artist who feels
that I have a mission of any kind
whatsoever. The 19th century was about
that. What right do I have? In many ways
it robs people of a lot of things. I’m
an average enough person to point to the
things that I’ve..."
07/13/2004 03:21 AMlin-seti 0.8.1
lin-seti 0.8.1
06/28/2004 08:11 AMA cache program for Seti@Home compatible with Seti Driver.
lin-seti 0.8.2
lin-seti 0.8.2
07/29/2004 10:03 PMA cache program for Seti@Home compatible with Seti Driver.
SETI@Vatican
SETI@Vatican
05/13/2004 05:10 AMThe Vatican's official astronomer, Brother Guy Consolmagno, has given
an interview in which he discusses the Vatican's thinking on what to
do if alien intelligence is discovered.
We find an intelligent civilization and there's no way in creation we
can communicate with them because they're so alien to us. We can't
talk to dolphins now. In which case, we'll never know.
Second scenario: We find the intelligent civilization. We can
communicate. We discover that they have the two essentials that
theologians talk about for the human soul, intelligence and free will.
They know who they are, they're self-aware, and they're able to do
something about it. I think dogs are self-aware, but they don't have a
whole lot of free will. Maybe computers are the same sort of thing.
Human beings have to have both...
A third scenario: We find a dozen civilizations out there, and a bunch
of Jehovah's witnesses go up and convert them all. At the end of the
day, every civilization is Christian, except the human race is still
not too sure about this. I mean, anything's possible.
Link
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via /.)
SETI Monitor v3.42
SETI Monitor v3.42
12/06/2003 10:54 AMSETI Monitor is a free add-on for SETI@home. It allows you to monitor
the activity of your SETI@home client and see what it finds using
almost no CPU power. SETI Monitor shows the signals found by your
SETI@home client and saves information about completed work units.
[Freeware 207 KB]
Should SETI Be Looking For Lasers
Instead?
Should SETI Be Looking For Lasers
Instead?
08/10/2004 05:13 AMNew and Improved SETI
New and Improved SETI
01/02/2005 02:05 PMSeti narrows the search!
Seti narrows the search!
03/13/2003 10:20 AMThe Seti teams have produced nearly 200 good leads that is sending the
Seti group back down to the Arecibo...
SETI has not found ET: official
SETI has not found ET: official
09/02/2004 11:37 AMMove along, nothing to see here
Observing the SETI observatory
Observing the SETI observatory
07/30/2004 12:12 PM
The
SETI Institute predicts that we'll
detect an extraterrestrial transmission within
tw
enty years. If that turns out to be true, it'll probably be the
folks at UC Berkeley's Hat Creek radio observatory who will have heard
the call. Hat Creek is home to the SETI Institute's Allen Telescope
Array (ATA), funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
I just returned from a trip with two friends to Hat Creek, about five
hours northeast of San Francisco. Leading Search for Extraterrestrial
Intelligence (SETI) researcher
Jack Welch
and his former student, astronomer Jim Gibson, were kind enough to
give us a tour of the facility.
More about our visit to Hat Creek in my journal at TheFeature.
LinkUpdate: SETI Control 2.0
Update: SETI Control 2.0
07/28/2004 11:05 AMSETI Control makes it possible to control the Darwin (Unix) version of
setiathome-BOINC from Mac OS X.
SETI@home - Mac Style
SETI@home - Mac Style
04/24/2004 06:06 AMWorking hard
SETI@Home to take a closer look
SETI@Home to take a closer look
03/13/2003 10:20 AMSETI@home Turns Five Today
SETI@home Turns Five Today
05/21/2004 11:36 AMSETI@Home Dock App Monitors
SETI@Home Dock App Monitors
01/25/2004 06:23 AMWmufo 1.2.0 Released
SETI finds suspect signal
SETI finds suspect signal
09/04/2004 03:37 PMThe folks in the SETI project are not real happy with a reporters
mis-quoted of a possible signal they have found. It is true that a
signal has been found and is on the suspect list but that is about as
far as they are willing to go at this time. For the full details
straight from the horses mouth read the release from SETI then read the distortion from CNN.
Seti@Home updates client
Seti@Home updates client
06/24/2004 04:40 AMThe Gang at SETI who are using un-used processor cycles on millions
of home computers worldwide in the search for ET have updated their
home client software. Which runs under something they are calling
BOINC which will make it software upgrades and various other things
less cumbersome on the participants. [SETI]
Candidate signal from SETI@home
Candidate signal from SETI@home
09/02/2004 11:51 AMDirect and Related Links for 'Candidate
signal from SETI@home'
“In February 2003, astronomers involved in the search for
extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) pointed the massive radio
telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, at around 200 sections of the sky.
The same telescope had previously detected unexplained radio signals
at least twice from each of these regions, and the astronomers were
trying to reconfirm the findings. The team has now finished analysing
the data, and all the signals seem to have disappeared. Except one,
which has got…
retrieve your SETI@home stats
retrieve your SETI@home stats
12/11/2003 05:04 PMseti-stat on line
SETI@Home Transitions To BOINC
SETI@Home Transitions To BOINC
06/23/2004 05:24 PMSETI Predicts We'll Find ETs by 2020
SETI Predicts We'll Find ETs by 2020
07/23/2004 11:14 AMSETI: ¿Nos apuntan los extraterrestres
con sus láseres?
SETI: ¿Nos apuntan los extraterrestres
con sus láseres?
06/10/2004 09:58 AMSETI STATUS JAVA SCRIPT
SETI STATUS JAVA SCRIPT
01/12/2004 01:53 AMGoing ahead
SETI@Home: Our flagship is sinking
SETI@Home: Our flagship is sinking
12/02/2003 01:49 AMSETI.Germany is closing in on Team Lamb Chop in the SETI@Home
standings. Read on to see how you can help!
SETI Finds Interesting Signal
SETI Finds Interesting Signal
09/01/2004 09:18 PMSETI@Home Results Monitor 3.1.1 released
SETI@Home Results Monitor 3.1.1 released
07/12/2002 06:40 AM SETI@Home Results Monitor is a small PHP script that you can use to
show off your current SETI@Home work units total on your Website. When
invoked, the script connects to the SETI@Home server, retrieves your
user stats, and generates a PNG image to display the total number of
work units processed so far.
SETI@home spots unusual signal... or not
SETI@home spots unusual signal... or not
09/03/2004 04:34 AM
David Pescovitz:
SETI@home has turned
up an unexplained radio signal from 1000 light years away that's,
well, unexplained. From New Scientist:
“It’s the most interesting signal from
SETI@home,” says Dan Werthimer, a radio astronomer at the
University of California, Berkeley (UCB) and the chief scientist for
SETI@home. “We’re not jumping up and down, but we are
continuing to observe it.”
Named SHGb02+14a, the signal has a frequency of about 1420 megahertz.
This happens to be one of the main frequencies at which hydrogen, the
most common element in the universe, readily absorbs and emits energy.
Some astronomers have argued that extraterrestrials trying to
advertise their presence would be likely to transmit at this
frequency, and SETI researchers conventionally scan this part of the
radio spectrum.
Li
nk
Update: The BBC followed up with a report
quoting researchers who say that the news above was blown out of
proportion and there is no signal. Nothing to hear here. Move along.
(cue X-Files theme)
Link
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MSR Netscan
MSR Netscan
12/02/2003 01:25 PMMicrosoft® Research NetScanhttp://netscan.research.
microsoft.com/The Netscan System provides detailed
reports on the activity of Usenet newsgroups, the authors who
participate in them, and the conversation threads that emerge from
their activity. Using the Netscan tool users can get reports about any
newsgroup for any day, week, month, quarter, or year, since September
1999. Netscan data is updated monthly. Netscan can be used to:
* Find newsgroups where others share your unique interests.
* Monitor the health of newsgroups related to your interests and
pursuits.
* Stay informed on current events and the latest
trends.
* Locate sources for technical assistance and
information.
* Examine troubling issues and hot topics not
covered in product documentation.
* Track the participation of
your favorite authors across Usenet newsgroups.
Netscan System
Netscan System
01/19/2004 07:20 AMMSR Netscan - Usenet Social Accounting Search Engine by
Microsoft Researchhttp://netscan.research.
microsoft.com/The Netscan System provides detailed
reports on the activity of Usenet newsgroups, the authors who
participate in them, and the conversation threads that emerge from
their activity. Using the Netscan tool users can get reports about any
newsgroup for any day, week, month, quarter, or year, since September
1999. Netscan data is updated monthly and can be used to:
Find newsgroups where others share your unique interests.
Monitor the health of newsgroups related to your interests and
pursuits.
Stay informed on current events and the latest
trends.
Locate sources for technical assistance and
information.
Examine troubling issues and hot topics not covered
in product documentation.
Track the participation of your
favorite authors across Usenet newsgroups.
NetScan, TerraServer and TerraService
added to Microsoft Sandbox
NetScan, TerraServer and TerraService
added to Microsoft Sandbox
04/10/2005 02:50 AMUnsure when this was added but Microsoft have added 2 services to
their
Sandbox website for public
testing.
New Brother, HP, and Oki Data Mono Laser
Printers Fuel 15% Growth in 2004
Shipments: Desktop Monochrome Laser
Market Grows as Major Vendors Refresh
Their Lines
New Brother, HP, and Oki Data Mono Laser
Printers Fuel 15% Growth in 2004
Shipments: Desktop Monochrome Laser
Market Grows as Major Vendors Refresh
Their Lines
04/12/2005 04:15 AM"2004 Desktop Monochrome Laser Printer Market" is the second report in
Lyra’s "Hard Copy Observer Spotlight" report series. These
product-planning reports includes information on how products and
prices changed from January through December, current market trends, a
review of the competitive landscape, and selected articles from The
Hard Copy Observer. [PRWEB Apr 12, 2005]
Lyra Imaging Symposium Spotlights Office
Printing Technology and Trends with
Speakers from HP, Laser Imaging,
Lasertone, Rhinotek, Static Control
Components, Teckn-O-Laser and Xerox
Lyra Imaging Symposium Spotlights Office
Printing Technology and Trends with
Speakers from HP, Laser Imaging,
Lasertone, Rhinotek, Static Control
Components, Teckn-O-Laser and Xerox
12/19/2004 03:45 PMLyra Research’s Symposium agenda explores key trends and dynamics in
office printing [PRWEB Dec 10, 2004]
Nmap-Scanner-0.7a
Nmap-Scanner-0.7a
06/03/2004 12:38 AMNmap::Scanner
Nmap::Scanner
02/11/2004 03:12 PMWelcome!
A-Ray Scanner 0.0.0.4 Released
A-Ray Scanner 0.0.0.4 Released
02/16/2004 12:04 PMIntel comes under the scanner
Intel comes under the scanner
06/08/2004 09:45 PMCalcutta Telegraph Jun 9 2004 2:35AM GMT
Qmail-Scanner 1.20
Qmail-Scanner 1.20
11/06/2003 07:21 PMQmail Perl email scanner
10-Strike MP3-Scanner v1.5
10-Strike MP3-Scanner v1.5
06/24/2005 07:33 PM10-Strike MP3-Scanner can scan your LAN for MP3s (and other music file
formats) and store found files in lists. You can save needed files in
playlists or download them to your PC. The program can help you
discover new files appeared in your LAN. It uses one of the fastest
search engines, so you are able to scan entire LAN very quickly. You
can export file lists to TXT & HTML formats. [Shareware $20.00 765
KB]
Nmap-Scanner-0.7
Nmap-Scanner-0.7
05/26/2004 04:50 PMSTAT Scanner 5.27
STAT Scanner 5.27
04/20/2004 07:29 PMNew: IP Broadcaster/IP Scanner 1.0
New: IP Broadcaster/IP Scanner 1.0
07/06/2004 09:54 AMWith real-time updating, IP Scanner displays the IP numbers of any
computers on the local area network (LAN) that are running IP
Broadcaster.
Scanner Button Daemon
Scanner Button Daemon
12/31/2004 04:41 PMVersion 0.2 of scanbuttond has been released
Eye scanner project scrapped
Eye scanner project scrapped
09/13/2004 01:08 PMBBC Sep 13 2004 5:00PM GMT
Advanced LAN Scanner has been released!
Advanced LAN Scanner has been released!
08/06/2004 02:31 AMSuper fast multithreaded LAN scanner [PRWEB Aug 6, 2004]
Aegis Virus Scanner 0.07
Aegis Virus Scanner 0.07
06/01/2004 12:01 PMA graphical virus scanner for Linux/Unix systems.
Qmail-Scanner Log Analyzer
Qmail-Scanner Log Analyzer
05/28/2004 11:05 AMqms-analog-0.2.0 Released
Aegis Virus Scanner 0.1.0
Aegis Virus Scanner 0.1.0
09/20/2004 12:12 PMA graphical virus scanner for Linux/Unix systems.
STAT Scanner 5.27 Reviewed
STAT Scanner 5.27 Reviewed
04/21/2004 10:02 AMHeathrow x-ray weapons scanner, just say
no
Heathrow x-ray weapons scanner, just say
no
01/03/2005 10:09 AMApparently...
NetMap network scanner 0.2.1
NetMap network scanner 0.2.1
03/19/2003 10:23 PMA Perl/GTK network scanner.
Aegis Virus Scanner 0.0.4
Aegis Virus Scanner 0.0.4
11/05/2003 10:50 AMA graphical virus scanner for Linux/Unix systems.
NetMap network scanner 0.1.0
NetMap network scanner 0.1.0
03/15/2003 07:42 PMA Perl/GTK network scanner.
InDecision Network Scanner
InDecision Network Scanner
07/26/2004 03:57 PMThe first newsletter.
Network String Scanner
Network String Scanner
06/20/2004 08:11 AMWebsite is up
Scanner Recommendation Needed
Scanner Recommendation Needed
03/22/2005 07:21 PMI'm in the market for a color flatbed scanner with good scanning
quality and a USB 2.0 interface. I don't care how slowly it scans, I
won't be doing it for a living. I do care about getting high quality,
high resolution images. Bonus points for one that can do film slides
or negatives, but it is not a requirement. Anybody got a scanner they
can recommend? The reviews on Amazon are all over the board, and I've
yet to...
6's Keen TV Listings Scanner 0.5
6's Keen TV Listings Scanner 0.5
03/20/2003 08:34 AMEmails you information on your favorite TV programs.
A Scanner Darkly casting continues
A Scanner Darkly casting continues
05/11/2004 10:37 AMRichard Linklater has lined up quite a list of stars for his Hollywood
adap
tation of Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly. So far, Winona Ryder,
Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, and Rory Cochran have signed on to
join (gulp) Keanu Reeves in the lead as an undercover cop with
drug-induced schizophrenia.
Link (Thanks, Dave!)
Is SETI Searching for the Wrong Things?
