Comments on: Scijacking

By: Charismatic Enigma

Charismatic Enigma — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:51:07 +0000

The One Guy is correct. There’s a reason it’s called “faith” and “beliefs”.

By: The One Guy

The One Guy — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:09:25 +0000

As I read through these archives, I keep running into situations like these, where I already made my point in an earlier strip. Science and religion are not incompatible; just because some reject science for creationism or the like, doesn’t mean every religious person does! The core beliefs of Christianity have nothing to do with science, and cannot be proven or disproven.

By: Ron

Ron — Sat, 09 May 2009 02:15:24 +0000

By running a “CPU burner”, you are generating lots of extra CO2, and thus must be a Republican. Shame on you, you evil Republican!!!!

By: joeschmoe

joeschmoe — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:52:47 +0000

How much bandwidth are you using? These jobs are very CPU intensive, with a small exchange of data. Now if you were to mirror some torrents…

You might also like FightAIDS@home:
http://fightaidsathome.scripps.edu

By: GodMustBeDestroyed

GodMustBeDestroyed — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:56:09 +0000

This made my day. I will indeed attempt to do this as soon as I have a chance.

@Gi Correct!

@sert Incorrect! The issue of “god”’s existence is irrelevant, except for insight as to how much damage religion causes. Morality has its only provenance in non-belief!

By: zmooc

zmooc — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:54:05 +0000

SETI@Home was definately not the oldest. If my memory serves me correctly, the oldest large scale distributed community computing project was the RC5-56-effort that preceeded distributed.net. That was back in 1997 while SETI@Home did not start until 1999.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed.net

By: Charismatic Enigma

Charismatic Enigma — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:38:18 +0000

sert, I could not possibly have said it better myself.

By: sert

sert — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:54:21 +0000

see, Christianity and science arent really conflicting.
the only controversies are the beginning of the universe, the beginning of life, and the existence of a higher being. all of which cant really be proven either way, and shouldnt be a cause for fighting.
the problem comes when one group (of any kind) believes their group is better specifically because its their group.

my point is unless youre running software that recreates models for life creation, then its not really heretical.

By: Debaser

Debaser — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:27:47 +0000

Look! They trust people! Let’s take advantage of their trust! Aren’t we great!

By: Gi

Gi — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:59:50 +0000

@rossthefroboy

Science is modelled on doubt. Religion is modelled on faith. They conflict when religion refuses to doubt the ridiculous. Livebal religion is no problem to anyone.