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Comment arxiv? (Score 1) 511

It really irritates me when people post things on arxiv.org and try to claim that it is something worth reading. Don't get me wrong, I am sure that there are some important ideas in there, but the truth is that it is a non peer reviewed pre-print repository. So, unless it can be backed up with an actual accepted peer reviewed journal then why such the big deal. If it is really so great perhaps we should be reading about it in Science or Nature.
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Submission + - SETI finally finds something!

QuatumCrypto writes: "SETI(at)home is a distributed processing client from UC Berkeley that installs on the vounteers' home computers and harnesses their processing power in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Anyways, nothing worthy has comeout of that massive project... that is until today! One of the voluteers was able to track down his wife's stolen laptop using the IP address that SETI(at)home client reports back to the server. After getting back the laptop his wife said, "I always knew that a geek would make a great husband.""

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