Stealth borging...how rude! :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by ThomRuley [/i]
[B]Stealth borging...how rude! :rolleyes: :rolleyes: [/B][/QUOTE]

I said [I]minimal[/I] user interaction, not none. But I thought about it after I posted and I could do that too. I can just imagine:

Dear so and so,
Take a look at this, its so cool!

He clicks the link, Prime95 installed.

Dear PrimeCruncher,
What was that?

Dear soandso,
Umm, nothing... :whistle:

:grin: But I'm not mean enough to do that.

You could always send something like that as an e-mail attachment.:spam: :spam: :spam: :spam: :spam: :spam:

getting back to ways to tell addictions to gimps:

if the reason you are upset at an improper shutdown is because it was a shutdown meaning you can't run gimps for 5 minutes, and not because it was improper and may have caused some sort of hardware damage

...you read a news article about controlling spam by making emailers expend a small amount of computing power as a payment per email --- and the [B]first[/B] thing that occurs to you is: A payment could be made by sending in a distributed computing result. :banana:

...you subscribe to the TrekBBS and put a link to GIMPS in your signature. --guilty--

Your e-mail address contains the string "[FONT=courier new][B]prime[/B][/FONT]".

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Uncwilly [/i]
[B]Your e-mail address contains the string "[FONT=courier new][B]prime[/B][/FONT]". [/B][/QUOTE]

...or any reference to Mersenne primes, GIMPS, PrimeNet, etc. for that matter.

You would only travel on a highway whose number is prime.

... you fantasize how awesome it would be to assimilate Borg and put their resources to searching for Mersenne primes.

... you fantasize how awesome it would be that TechnoCore (from Dan Simmons Hyperion and Endymion series) exist and that you can borg it for GIMPS.

... you register mersenne-primes.org domain name and purchase web mail account so that you can have email address [email]yourname@mersenne-primes.org[/email] (it's my now :smile:)

You get cell phone internet service to save CPU cycles...

You buy a car at Joe Myers to get a free computer...

(I just saw that one!)