Bill Velek <billvelek--NO-SPAM--@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote on Wed, 08 Feb 2006
21:06:05 -0600:
> Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> This sounds improbable, to say the least. If you were really
>> "allowing your computer to be used to help find a cure" for all these
>> diseases, you'd be able to be more specific about which ones, and what
>> for.
> Research on folding of the human proteome has widespread implications
> for virtually every disease known to mankind; it's sort of the way that
> learning basic chemistry affects the ability to research in many other
> areas of life.
> No offense meant, but as is often the case with most of the public, you
> are simply not aware of some advancements in computer technology that
> have been used for SEVERAL _YEARS_ now.
That is true - there have been so many advances that nobody can keep up
with all of them. Are you aware of the recent advances in computer
misuse? Like the sort by which a third party can use your computer to do
nasty things on the net (such as sending spam) without you even being
aware of it?
> And if you had simply visited http://tinyurl.com/b7ofs
which takes you
> to my personal webpage --
I read news offline. "Simply" visiting your website would have involved
me first firing up X-Windows, then Netscape, and then connecting to my
ISP via a modem (at my own expense).
It is up to you to demonstrate your credibility - it is not up to me to
verify it.
There is _nothing_ in your original post to suggest credibility - no
brief description of the calculation supposedly being carried out, no
identification of the research team at the head of it, no address of a
known University, and not even a proper web address - merely a tinyurl.
There is no description of what operating system(s) the program runs on,
where its source code can be found, or even what it does.
What IS in your post is a suggestion that your research will cure "all
sorts of diseases such as Alzheimer's, AIDS, cancer, diabetes, malaria,
Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, and many others". That makes it
look very much like the multitude of frauds which regularly appear on the
medical groups and make them at times so nauseating to read.
Like make money fast schemes, your post talks down to people: "Don't
worry your pretty little head about what my wonderful program does, you
wouldn't understand it anyway. Just believe me when I say it'll cure all
the world's diseases and it can't possibly harm your computer."
> http://home.alltel.net/billvelek/world-community-page.html
-- which
> includes my name, you would have found a nice summarization of this
> technology along with links to various credible sources discussing grid
> computing, including 'PC World Magazine' at
> http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,118631,00.asp
and 'Science
> Grid This Week' at http://www.interactions.org/sgtw/pages/about.html
> and which is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the
> U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. The grid
> organization which I specifically promote is the "World Community Grid"
> -- http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org
Please AT LEAST check that site.
Look, I'm not spending hours chasing all over the net to verify or refute
your bona fide. That's your job, and up to now you haven't done it at
all well.
>>>The life that YOUR computer can help save ... just might be the life
>>>of someone you love! Please join us so we can all help one another
>>>make this a healthier world.
>> Or, in plain English, please let me use your computer to do lots of
>> nasty things to other people on the net, so that I, "Bill Velek",
>> can't be traced as the perpetrator.
> Nothing could be further from the truth, although I don't blame anyone
> for being skeptical these days. But you could have at least checked
> out my webpage before jumping to conclusions and trying to persuade
> everyone else that this is a hoax.
As I say, that's your job. There's plenty room in 30 or 40 lines of a
Usenet post to provide sufficient pertinent and verifiable information.
> I have always posted under my own name -- Bill Velek. If you don't
> believe I'm who I claim, call me at my home in Greenbrier, Arkansas at
> (501) 679-4104 -- there's nothing secret about that; it's listed in the
> phone book. You can also find my formal name -- William Velek --
> listed here on the Judicial Directory for the State of Arkansas --
> http://courts.state.ar.us/pdf/judicial_directory.pdf
-- on page 49,
> where I am listed as City Court Judge of Damascus, Arkansas.
That's indeed useful! Thanks!
> There are several ways that you could have chosen to independently
> verify and validate the concept of grid computing to your satisfaction,
> had you been openminded enough to look. The easiest would have been to
> just do a google search for "grid computing"; that would have provided
> you with enough info to keep you busy reading for the next year or so.
As I said, it's not close-mindedness, it's just weariness. There are so
many scams being pushed on Usenet, it would be a full time job to check
out all of them. I'm aware of the concept of a loosely coupled network
of computers working cooperatively on problems, though.
> This really is a worthwhile project for the benefit of all of mankind.
> I hope you will reconsider enough to either check out any one of those
> websites, or to call me on the phone to discuss this. That goes for
> everyone, too.
Thank you for being so courteous in your reply to me. At least that sets
you apart from most scammers. However, you have violated Usenet
etiquette by multi-posting (i.e. sending the same post independently to
several (or many) newsgroups). The accepted practise is to cross-post -
i.e. posting a single post several (NOT many) newsgroups.
> Bill Velek
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Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
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