Re: power consumption
waldo kitty <[email protected]> Tue, 03 Jul 2012 01:14:44 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.distributed-net.rc5 |
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| Organization | Waldo's Place USA - e3br42x ThunderBird |
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On 7/2/2012 17:43, Relkin, Paul wrote: [TRIM] > It's exciting that it is becoming increasingly feasible to crack RC5-72. But for > now, I'm not sure that cracking the secret message a few years sooner is worth > the environmental and economic consequences of crunching on the less efficient > hardware available today. OK... so what is your point? it is going to be done, one way or the other... by us or by some gov't entity... US or otherwise... the main thing is that those who can and want to do contribute... personally, i have numerous power providing instruments that are recording 500+ watts each for the machine they are providing power for... are you asking me to deny the project my miniscule computing power for a little bit of carbon foot print when there are many other much larger companies who are talking the talk but grossly failing to walk the walk?? at least what i am providing is going to the larger collective... carbon footprint or not... _______________________________________________ rc5 mailing list rc5-Ra3b/QYEcJ3d140v2zMXi0fjHoOT/h/[email protected] http://lists.distributed.net/mailman/listinfo/rc5