I'll be excited to see the headers lowered another 10M and seeing some ECM done on 20M exponents.

[QUOTE=philmoore;366973]By the way, I see that both recently poached exponents were by the same person (Fredrik). Maybe 29838439 was a legitimate concern, as the last updates had not shown any progress, but Big Brother certainly seems to have been a reliable tester.[/QUOTE]30399143 was by Fredrik also. BigBrother got usurped again.

[QUOTE=retina;367014]30399143 was by Fredrik also.[/QUOTE]Add 30286357 to the list.

Grrrr... I will go and buy titans and do DC with them, like half a day for one expo, then invite you to poach those... :pirate: :yucky:

[QUOTE=LaurV;367023]... then invite you to poach those...[/QUOTE]I am not Fredrik.

[QUOTE=retina;367026]I am not Fredrik.[/QUOTE]
I know! Sorry for my English. That was general "you", i.e. the poachers. To make it clear, I also poach sometime, but not exponents which are progressing reasonable. And I see I also mismatched the pirate icon, the one with the scimitar was intended, and not the one with jumping hat.

The best way to deal with those guys is to have a hardware faster then them, and make them to lose time and resources. The bad thing is that you don't know (again, it is the "general you", not the particular one) when they start to poach one expo.

A nice surprise we could do to them, we can make a pool of "ready done" exponents, for example, I "legally" reserve and do my DC, report the residue, but if the residue matches, then it is not displayed immediately, but with some random delay (days). Then, if a poacher reports a result, my residue will be displayed instead of his. This would highly discourage them to poach progressing assignments.

[QUOTE=TheMawn;367011]I'll be excited to see the headers lowered another 10M and seeing some ECM done on 20M exponents.[/QUOTE]

There´s still plenty of ECM to do on exponents even lower than 1M, let alone 20M! We´d better concentrate our efforts on the really small exponents and make ECM progress at that level. ECM pays for small exponents.

[QUOTE=LaurV;367031]Sorry for my English. That was general "you", i.e. the poachers.[/QUOTE]Okay, got it.

If you don't mind me saying: I think that using "them" instead of "you" would have been better in that instance. Although my English is also not perfect either so perhaps there is an even better way?

[QUOTE=retina;367014]30399143 was by Fredrik also. [/QUOTE]

So I took it out of my list, I only wasted a day on it. The original owner had stopped working on it about 9 days ago. Might be because of a short holiday or so. I wonder when Fredrik started on it.

I switched to P-1 on the low ranges now, well below the current range. For one of my 4 cores that is. The other three will do server assigned DC's.

I think it would be best now if we let the new rules clean up the garbage that is left over from previous times. That will allow us to study all the effects of the new rules in detail.

[QUOTE=tha;367075]The original owner had stopped working on it about 9 days ago.[/QUOTE]How do you know that? Perhaps it was already finished and simply waiting to update the server the next time it got an Internet connection.

[QUOTE=retina;367082]How do you know that? Perhaps it was already finished and simply waiting to update the server the next time it got an Internet connection.[/QUOTE]

Indeed, correctly would have been 'stopped reporting progress'. A few times I started work on exponents but waited to turn in the result (halting work a day before finishing) until work by the owner had either resumed or become more likely to have been abandonded.