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A comment on using CPU resources Jul 09 2005 03:26PM
Gandalf The White (gandalf digital net) (6 replies)

Re: A comment on using CPU resources Jul 09 2005 06:55PM
Joachim Schipper (j schipper math uu nl)

Re: A comment on using CPU resources Jul 09 2005 06:54PM
Christian (evil g-house de)

Re: A comment on using CPU resources Jul 09 2005 06:53PM
Raghu Chinthoju (raghu chinthoju gmail com)

Re: A comment on using CPU resources Jul 09 2005 06:28PM
Andreas Bartelt (bugtraq bartula de)

Hi,

Gandalf The White wrote:
> Greetings and Salutations:
>
> I had an issue with my Firefox browser. The browser was static, yet it was
> using 70% or 80% of the CPU of the system.
>
> It got me to thinking. Java is a programming language. What would prevent
> companies from running a java script on your computer while you are viewing
> their page that uses your CPU to do some computing for them? Instead of
> selling (or in addition to selling) advertising the company could also sell
> CPU to other companies.
>
> Is this feasible?
>

yes, it's technically feasible with Java and also with JavaScript.

regards,
Andreas

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Re: A comment on using CPU resources Jul 09 2005 06:12PM
Security (security sustainedhits com)

Re: A comment on using CPU resources Jul 09 2005 06:11PM
Jeroen van Rijn (xananda gmail com)