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Drive-By Distributed Computing This page is a proof of concept, check the page source if you want to know what the script does. This can used for good (protein folding perhaps) or evil, choose wisely. You have just been exposed to drive-by distributed computing! When you downloaded this page, your browser also downloaded a JavaScript which is now using processing power on your computer, consuming energy that you paid for, to do calculations that serves my purposes and agenda. The result of this calculation is now being sent back to my server. Take a problem. Divide it into computable chunks. Have people download your page along with popping the next chunk and have the server accept the respons. Now thank you for your unwilling contribution to a solution to my problem domain! What if we scale it up a bit and pretend it was the google search page. Then we would have been able to do some seriously hardcore processing, creating a seriously mega huge super computer with awesome super computer power. What if there is this high frequenzy trading system, utilizing your computer power when doing some technical analysis of the market. What If they choose not tol tell you about it. They could perhaps create a site that you will want to visit and then just run the script without telling while you look at those youtube videos, read the blogs or what ever... Now how does this make you feel? If you enjoyed this page you might want to have a look at this: Interpretation, Matrixel, Scribbling.