Does anyone know what this means?

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This phrase has been added to the http://www.infinitum-nihil.com/ website, wonder if they are having fun with us? LOL

Karen your guess is as good as mine. If someone can figure out let us know.

Nicci :captainjack

Could be an "oops" or could be a placeholder for something not yet ready but soon to be added.

With Shantaram coming up, it would be interesting if Infinitum Nihil were to become more active in interacting with potential fans of the film.

Check this out:

http://forum.folding-community.org/fpost184585.html


Looks like a hack-in or an accidental hack-in perhaps?

http://folding.stanford.edu/

Since October 1, 2000, over 1,000,000 CPUs throughout the world have participated in Folding@Home. Each additional CPU gives us an added boost in performance, allowing us to tackle more difficult problems or solve existing research faster or more accurately.

Our goal: to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases

What is protein folding and how is folding linked to disease? Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery.

Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.

You can help by simply running a piece of software. Folding@Home is a distributed computing project -- people from through out the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer makes the project closer to our goals.

Folding@Home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems thousands to millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.

Results from Folding@Home

What have we done so far? We have had several successes. You can read about them on our Science page, Results section, or go directly to our press and papers page.

Want to learn more? Click on the links on the left for downloads or more information. You can also download our Executive Summary, which is a PDF suitable for distribution. Also, you can learn more by watching recent seminars (Stanford BMI ; Xerox PARC). One can also help by donating funds to the project, via Stanford University.

Hmmmm interesting. I can't help but wonder if you aren't right. Some sort of hack in?

Thanks for the info...still can't quite figure out a connection, so I am wondering about the hack in possibility? Or maybe Johnny is making some sort of statement???? Time will tell.

Apologies to Leopold, but he posted the following on that protein folding project message board:
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I'm writing cause I have an interest in the production of the new film Shantaram. So I figured this would be a great place to talk to fans of the book and soon to be movie since Infinitum Nihil is one of the films production companies.

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With all due respect, this is not a fan site. You can check the amended initial posting in this thread for more information. This thread is intended for folding team communication only. Thanks.

But, hey, the book Shantaram rocks.

Some new interest? or hidden meaning? weird? proteins are "hot" research items since the completion of the human gene research project esp. in relation for vaccines to manipulate genes to cure diseases. Stanford and hackers what a combination? :blink:

Well I know I'm confused! :unsure: Why is this on the IN site?

Me thinks "Leopold" should find us here on JDR so he can read our interview with GDR and join in our July discussion. LOL Thanks Carpediem.

OK, I'm as confused as I was about this. Thanks carpedium for the explanation.

Nicci :captainjack

When you download their software for the folding project, it looks like it enables the project to use your computing power when you're not using it. Sort of like a supercomputer built out of little bits of power from hundreds of individual computers. I suppose it could mess up a home page of a Web site if the software is accessing the computer server that is running the site.

This reminds me of a cool online project in which I participated called Stardust at Home. You find streaks of dust from stars that are stuck in aerogel. It was really fun.

http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/about.php

"To find the elusive particles we are using an automated scanning microscope to automatically collect images of the entire Stardust interstellar collector at the Curatorial Facility at Johnson Space Center in Houston. We call these stacks of images focus movies. All in all there will be nearly a million such focus movies. These are available to Stardust@home users like you around the world. You can then view them with the aid of a special Virtual Microscope (VM) that works in your web browser.

Together, you and thousands of other Stardust@home participants will find the first pristine interstellar dust particles ever brought to Earth."

Not to beat this to death, but I have another theory:
The folding project wants as many members of the public to participate as possible. They propose to infinitum-nihil.com that the phrase you found be added to the home page, thereby directing people who were looking for the folding project to the correct location.

You never know...

Karen I agree Leopold needs to find the Shantaram thread and return in a few weeks for the book discussion-it might be quite interesting to have Leopold join in to offer different views-maybe enlighten some of us on computers, protein folding and fan sites. ;)

Question: if the supercomputer can use the computing power of my computer can it hack in and get to my files? or plant a virus? this is confusing to a non-computer person like myself.

It's not supposed to be able to affect your computer, but if "file sharing" is turned on (the default is "off"), that can sometimes happen if the software was either deliberately designed to do that, or was badly designed with that flaw.

I still like the idea of the infinitum-nihil.com site helping the project by providing the correct location for the project since they share two words of their names.

If it's a "boo boo", I guess we'll find out after the Web site administrator notices the addition. If not, could be something interesting to follow this.

This is really so interesting to me, I'm very nervous about viruses and the like. This should be interesting to follow. Many thanks Carpediem for all of this tracking of info for us! You're the best! woohoo

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POTC3 STTT!! woohoo



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BTW, the Infinitum Nihil site has been just exactly like that for over a year maybe longer.

I think it's a place holder until something is put up. But who knows when.

Holly

I'll bet they have an active site somewhere under a site name none of us would ever guess. They probably bought the Infinitum Nihil site name to keep it protected for their solitary use. The IN site probably won't be used further unless they have messages or promotions they don't mind passing along to the legions of Johnny fans who monitor it. Mind you, I don't know this for sure but it only makes business sense.