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#51 Re: WCG team position

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Alez wrote: Fri Mar 30, 2018 2:43 am Should gain at least one if not two places in the next two days ..... we shall see. The game is still afoot, closer and closer to top 100 and still most of the year to play for, out next year team statement could and probabily will be all projects in the top 100 ....
Nope. Sorry - didn't happen! :roll:
Not to worry. It's a case of slow but steady, & we are getting there. :-)
We are 77th by RAC which, if sustained, makes top 100 by TC inevitable, if not necessarily imminent. :| The game is indeed very much afoot although it's a bloody long one.
Two more places by the end of April seems to be at least possible.
The important thing is that the stalwarts remain stalwart. And I intend to be the stalwarts' stalwart. :geek:
Of course any visiting Ubercrunchers are always welcome to lend a few dozen spare cores any time they can! 8-)
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#52 Re: WCG team position

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Pity, but as you say, we will get there. Slowly, slowly catchy monkey. I'm putting all my systems on WCG between challenges etc.
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#53 Re: WCG team position

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Which WCG apps pays best on Android; Zika, Ebola or Smash Childhood Cancer?
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#54 Re: WCG team position

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I haven't had any ebola units in a while. Smash Childhood Cancer pays approx 33% more than Zika at basically the same run time.
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#55 Re: WCG team position

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Up to 129th now. :clap:

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PositionTeamPoints
126 Lidingo 172,196,623
127 All Together To Fight AIDS 170,981,215
128 USMC 169,401,650
129 The Scottish Boinc Team 169,362,709
130 131 Icesword Inc. 167,799,654
Well done all. Hopefully we will make 128th in the next update ...... :D
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#56 Re: WCG team position

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Megacruncher wrote: Wed Apr 18, 2018 12:21 am Yup we are now 128th. 8-)
But turbulent times lie ahead.
Fairleigh Dickinson University seem sure to overtake us soon, but we should be able to get 2 or 3 places further ahead before then!
Charge!!!! No let up!
Up to 128th now. :clap:

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PositionTeamPoints
125 UK BOINC Team173,192,010
126 Lidingo stad 172,196,623
127 - All Together To Fight AIDS - 171,032,277
128 The Scottish Boinc Team 169,633,360
129 131 USMC 169,466,102
You want an incentive not to get caught quite yet ? Well just look at who is number 125 on the list :twisted:
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#57 Re: WCG team position

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UBT would be quite a scalp! 8-)
Probably our main goal short of top 100. :-)
4.4 M before contact! Let the countdown commence!
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#58 Re: WCG team position

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Up to 127th now. :clap:

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124 The PCReview Crew II173,852,626
125 UK BOINC Team 173,667,355
126 Lidingo stad 172,196,623
127 The Scottish Boinc Team 171,523,356
128 - All Together To Fight AIDS - 171,334,920
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#59 Re: WCG team position

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Up to 126th now. :clap:

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123 ___In2My.Net___ II174,382,185
124 The PCReview Crew II 173,887,482
125 UK BOINC Team 173,780,745
126 The Scottish Boinc Team 172,226,957
127 Lidingo stad 172,196,623
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#60 Re: WCG team position

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Alez wrote: Wed Apr 18, 2018 2:08 pmYou want an incentive not to get caught quite yet ? Well just look at who is number 125 on the list :twisted:
You do know any registered members can see this thread? :)

(I don't think we're going to put up any struggle, it's not one of our targeted projects)
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#61 Re: WCG team position

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UBT - Woodles wrote: Thu Apr 26, 2018 10:30 am
Alez wrote: Wed Apr 18, 2018 2:08 pmYou want an incentive not to get caught quite yet ? Well just look at who is number 125 on the list :twisted:
You do know any registered members can see this thread? :)

(I don't think we're going to put up any struggle, it's not one of our targeted projects)
Yes, no secret that getting WCG into top 100 is one of our team goals and hopefully people being able to read it will encourage them to take part. That will give us every project within top 100. It's a struggle for sure but considering we started outside 200 we are doing a remarkable job. Feel free to race us up the board, bit of fun and banter never hurt our two teams and both of us in the top 100 would be an awesome achievement ... If not, we'll give you a cheery wave on the way past :happy-cheerleaderkid: in a week or two :D
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#62 Re: WCG team position

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Good luck with it, very impressive progress so far. Not exactly a couple of weeks effort is it, you lot have been quite determined.

I would offer to give you a hand but since it's also UBTs only project outside the top 100 I may get in trouble for not sorting out our own placing first.

Wave away, we'll wait until you're not looking then mount a sneaky attack.
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#63 Re: WCG team position

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UBT - Woodles wrote: Thu Apr 26, 2018 1:55 pm Wave away, we'll wait until you're not looking then mount a sneaky attack.
:lol: I'd expect nothing less :dance:

Getting there really does mean in it for the long haul. All I can say is thankfully Seti is already in the top 100
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#64 Re: WCG team position

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Friday night & the gap is down to 1.17M!
Not much scope for sneak attacks on this one!
Our top 100 ambitions are neither secret nor recent. I remember TSBT being sub 600 .. 8-)
Grand though it would be to overtake our oldest rivals & friends, the real goal is moving onto the front page. You could always come with us!
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#65 Re: WCG team position

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And UBT are up to 124th.
So The PCReview Crew II are next in our way. 4 or 5 days should do it.
Then we take whoever is next. If it's UBT - & their lead over us has closed to 1.03M - then so be it! :-)
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#66 Re: WCG team position

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123rd now :D

Mainly due to this https://mspsteem.com/gridcoin/@parejan/ ... h-gridcoin which has encouraged a couple of our crunchers.

Might be worth looking at for you lot as well if you're going to stay on WCG (or have crunched it in the past) Basically, you get rewarded with an established crypto currency for crunching WCG. You don't have to change teams, make any alterations to your crunching habits and your Boinc credits still get added to the TSBT total.

You do have to temporarily change your WCG username (but not your password) to link your account to the crypto wallet but then you change it back. You also get a one off bonus payment for any previous WCG you have crunched.

From their post:

Ongoing rate - The payout rate is set at $1.00 (in Bytes) for every 150,000 points.

Bonus payments:
100,000 to 1,000,000 points: $0.20;
1,000,000 to 10,000,000 points: $3.00;
10,000,000 to 100,000,000 points: $40.00;
over 100,000,000 points: $150.00.

'Points' mentioned is WCG points, NOT Boinc credits.

You never know, it may encourage even more of TSBT to crunch WCG.
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#67 Re: WCG team position

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Sounds too good to be true. What's the catch?
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#68 Re: WCG team position

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i don't think there's a catch as such, it appears to be the same idea as Gridcoin.

More visibility, increased trade/demand and hence, a higher value of the currency.

I will add that I haven't tried it myself (due to not crunching WCG) but team members have reported that the bonus payments have been made. Not sure about the ongoing payments.
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#69 Re: WCG team position

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Well, I've now got a byteball balance worth $150 (allegedly). Hopefully I'll get daily payments or similar, although they'll be much smaller.
The big question is,"How do I spend it? And/or convert it into real money? Or can I only spend it on the dark web on drugs, guns & child sex slaves? Really I'd rather have groceries or alcohol
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#70 Re: WCG team position

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Megacruncher wrote: Thu May 10, 2018 7:52 pm Well, I've now got a byteball balance worth $150 (allegedly). Hopefully I'll get daily payments or similar, although they'll be much smaller.
What is this?
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#71 Re: WCG team position

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Hi Mega,

On most crytpo exchanges you can convert it into Bitcoins then cash (possibly even directly into cash) I don't think Tescos accepts it yet so that may not be an option.
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#72 Re: WCG team position

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scole of TSBT wrote: Fri May 11, 2018 2:53 am
Megacruncher wrote: Thu May 10, 2018 7:52 pm Well, I've now got a byteball balance worth $150 (allegedly). Hopefully I'll get daily payments or similar, although they'll be much smaller.
What is this?
Free cryptocurrency for all WCG participants - see Woodles' post a little further up this thread.
You'd qualify for a $150 bonus too.
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#73 Re: WCG team position

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My byteball tally has slumped to $130 :(
But much more importantly TSBT are up to 125th now! :clap: :dance:
Also, if I may be permitted a moment of personal vanity, let it be noted that I have cracked top 1000 and am currently 996th! 8-)
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#74 Re: WCG team position

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Megacruncher wrote: Sat May 12, 2018 10:37 amAlso, if I may be permitted a moment of personal vanity, let it be noted that I have cracked top 1000 and am currently 996th! 8-)
And also top 50 in the UK :clap:
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Thanks, I hadn't noticed! 8-)
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#76 Re: WCG team position

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Anyhoo, now we are 124th
Next up is UBT.

The gap is 914K.

Let's close it! :lol:
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#77 Re: WCG team position

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Megacruncher wrote: Sat May 12, 2018 10:37 am My byteball tally has slumped to $130 :(
But much more importantly TSBT are up to 125th now! :clap: :dance:
Also, if I may be permitted a moment of personal vanity, let it be noted that I have cracked top 1000 and am currently 996th! 8-)
Well, though skeptical, I gave it a try also. Got $152 initial bonus, didn't have to change teams and was able to go back to my normal screen name at WCG. I will say that the initial directions are a bit confusing, at least they were for me, but worked through it. Curious to see how this pans out, but even if I get nothing, I didn't invest anything, so it's pretty riskless.
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#78 Re: WCG team position

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Sphynx wrote: Tue May 22, 2018 1:07 pm
Megacruncher wrote: Sat May 12, 2018 10:37 am My byteball tally has slumped to $130 :(
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Well, though skeptical, I gave it a try also. Got $152 initial bonus, didn't have to change teams and was able to go back to my normal screen name at WCG. I will say that the initial directions are a bit confusing, at least they were for me, but worked through it. Curious to see how this pans out, but even if I get nothing, I didn't invest anything, so it's pretty riskless.
Yep if there's a catch I've yet to find it.
The value of byteball fluctuates wildly but with my initial bonus and 11 days payments (about $1.5/day) I've now got a stash worth $158.
I'll let it accumulate,& also hope that the exchange rate inproves a bit, before I try converting some of it into real world beer vouchers
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#79 Re: WCG team position

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Megacruncher wrote: Tue May 22, 2018 7:31 pm
Sphynx wrote: Tue May 22, 2018 1:07 pm
Megacruncher wrote: Sat May 12, 2018 10:37 am My byteball tally has slumped to $130 :(
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Well, though skeptical, I gave it a try also. Got $152 initial bonus, didn't have to change teams and was able to go back to my normal screen name at WCG. I will say that the initial directions are a bit confusing, at least they were for me, but worked through it. Curious to see how this pans out, but even if I get nothing, I didn't invest anything, so it's pretty riskless.
Yep if there's a catch I've yet to find it.
The value of byteball fluctuates wildly but with my initial bonus and 11 days payments (about $1.5/day) I've now got a stash worth $158.
I'll let it accumulate,& also hope that the exchange rate inproves a bit, before I try converting some of it into real world beer vouchers
Sounds good. You go first! ;)
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#80 Re: WCG team position

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My bytecall is down to 115. I guess everyone is signing up and dumping it for $ driving the price down?
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#81 Re: WCG team position

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scole of TSBT wrote: Sun May 27, 2018 1:28 pm My bytecall is down to 115. I guess everyone is signing up and dumping it for $ driving the price down?
Maybe.
Or it could just be that cryptocuurencies are stupidly volatile and have been rather overvalued recently.
I'll wait for the bounce back!


But more importantly why haven't the WCG stats updated in 4 days?
We are frozen 699K behind UBT
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#82 Re: WCG team position

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I think I read they are working a method to provide stats to only approved parties to satisfy GDPR rules
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#83 Re: WCG team position

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I hope you jest?
Sadly it's just a little bit too plausible: The internet off limits to decent law-abiding folks whilst Nigerian princes, horny single Russian women and dirty thieving bastards who have details of my long since abandoned Talktalk account roam unfettered!
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Megacruncher wrote: Tue May 29, 2018 12:09 am I hope you jest?
Sadly it's just a little bit too plausible: The internet off limits to decent law-abiding folks whilst Nigerian princes, horny single Russian women and dirty thieving bastards who have details of my long since abandoned Talktalk account roam unfettered!
nope. Every month another large business reports someone accessed their data (my data) complete with name, address, telephone number, cc number and all I get is "sorry". But damned if they those thieving bastards will get to see what my WCG credits are! Stopped them cold! Good thing too as I'm pretty sure knowing your mother's maiden name will be replaced with knowing WCG credits.
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scole of TSBT wrote: Mon May 28, 2018 1:09 amI think I read they are working a method to provide stats to only approved parties to satisfy GDPR rules
I think they try to be more catholic than the pope, as the saying here goes.....
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#86 Re: WCG team position

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https://boincstats.com/en/forum/5/11967,1

Yip, GDPR consent issues. I believe Einstein also and probably others.
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#87 Re: WCG team position

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Einstein seems to be okay but WCG is still not exporting. And they don't seem that bothered about it.
It's really not encouraging at all. WCG were late to join the BOINC party & it looks like they may effectively be leaving early: if you aren't sharing your project stats, to allow them to be aggregated, then you aren't taking part in BOINC.
I'm scaling down my WCG efforts rather drastically until I'm sure that it'll be coming back to BOINC.
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#88 Re: WCG team position

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I have read anything that suggested WCG was pulling out of Boinc. Only it was taking a little time to get it all setup. Anyone see a thread where they have a timeframe?
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its all de facto rather than de jure but seriously ominous all the same: They haven't announced their departure but they are making it hard for others to import their stats, which is probably beyond the letter of GDPR (it's all public domain stuff anyway), beyond the spirit of GDPR, and certainly counter to the whole idea of BOINC. Whatever their intentions they risk leaving themselves isolated outwith the BOINC community. 12 days on all the other major projects have got their stuff in order. WCG haven't.

Hopefully they will. Until then I'm taking a rest.
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#90 Re: WCG team position

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WCG is unique in BOINC as it's not a typical BOINC project. WCG is run by IBM and obviously IBM are taking GDPR very seriously. The other big projects connected to universities etc. that could be targeted are also taking it serious ie. Einstein, Climate etc.

At the moment it may be necessary that we will have to consent on every single project to allow your stats to be exported, your team details, country etc. Trying to follow what changes will be made to BOINC manager front end and backend server code. I think a lot of projects will be waiting for the new version of BOINC server code before they implement any changes.

It's also highly likely that stat sites like FreeDC and BAMstats will have to agree to legal terms with WCG before they can import any stats from WCG and will have to satisfy WCG that they are GDPR compliant with respect to data protection, deleting users accounts on BAM etc if they are requested to be deleted on WCG.

WCG doesn't fully mesh with BOINC and never has, the use of an e mail to log in rather than a user name for example means BAM doesn't work with WCG. AS their system is fully stand alone I wonder how far up the list of things to fix this will be.
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#91 Re: WCG team position

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Still no sign of WCG joining the fold.

I've got to say that all of this is so unnecessary.

The eugdpr website has this definition:

What constitutes personal data?
The GDPR applies to ‘personal data’ meaning any information relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified in particular by reference to an identifier. This definition provides for a wide range of personal identifiers to constitute personal data, including name, identification number, location data or online identifier, reflecting changes in technology and the way organisations collect information about people
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No data that WCG, or indeed TSBT, holds about me directly or indirectly identifies me as a person other than my email address which isn't visible on either website & certainly is not exported by WCG. End of problem.

The trying to be more catholic than the Pope metaphor seems very apposite.

I do worry that BOINC has just broken itself by overreacting to this regulation which in reality isn't any more onerous than the old Data Protection Act, which worked because everyone applied a sense of proportion and went with the spirit of the law rather than going for a ridiculously arse-covering worst-case scenario interpretation of the letter of the Act.
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#92 Re: WCG team position

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Patience, patience
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#93 Re: WCG team position

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Megacruncher wrote: Tue Jun 05, 2018 11:21 pm
What constitutes personal data?
The GDPR applies to ‘personal data’ meaning any information relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified in particular by reference to an identifier. This definition provides for a wide range of personal identifiers to constitute personal data, including name, identification number, location data or online identifier, reflecting changes in technology and the way organisations collect information about people
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As far as I understand it, the issue is not whether you can be identified by the data that is held about you. The issue is that GDPR makes all that data, even including your user name on here, yours. You now have ownership of all data pertaining to you and so you have the right to see what data is held, determine how that data is used and who it is shared with and be completely deleted if you request. You must give consent for a company to hold , share and use data you provide.
I'm guessing that WCG is being required by the IBM lawyers to fully comply as if they were IBM. The GDPR rules are typical EU overkill, but until they are applied and some court rulings are made by the first test cases no-one knows how strictly they will be applied.
I guess the future of BOINC will depend on how it is applied in the new account manager. If it makes it a big hassle to run or join a project, join a team or effectively kills the stats sites, then I fear that future will be bleak.
Only time will tell.
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#94 Re: WCG team position

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The quote is from the official GDPR website & IMHO probably means what it says. :wink:


Anyhoo, 14 days into the Cowardly New World, Boincstats singularly fails to note that we are 124th now & more importantly UBT have been overtaken. Hurrah for us! Shame that most of the BOINC community probably will never know what happened on WCG after May 2018. :(

And my, admittedly pathetic but fairly steady, trickle of Byteballs has ceased over the last fortnight. :evil:

Good to know that WCG, or their arse-covering-ambulance-chasing-scumbags want to protect me from the prospect of free money just in case I sue them for letting the world know about the stellar amount of work I have done for them over many years.

Heartwarming also to know that likes of Steve/Merlyn our late/great #1 will soon have his WCG account deleted just because he's dead and no longer in a position to opt-in to being retained. Believe me, he's a guy who'd be pretty damn furious at being dead, but the prospect of having his legacy partially erased by some gutless moron would render him utterly incandescent!
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#95 Re: WCG team position

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Still no WCG update on BOINCStats.

I suppose it's time to calm down, accept that WCG may have sleepwalked out of the BOINC community, & that this may offer some opportunities.

At a personal level that includes getting many more CPU projects to 1 million. Just watch me!

At the team(s) level it allows TSBT & Anguillan Pirates to pursue Formula BOINC and BOINCStats challenges without fear of harming our WCG prospects.


Time to move on people!
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#96 Re: WCG team position

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Since it appears no stats will be further exported to BS or Free-DC, I've gone back to SUSA. I have a few days to get to 10 years on all active projects and once that's done, WCG will be getting little of my time. If you use the French Sig site, like mine, you can add future badges individually and I may do bronze only from here on out, but no more multi-year badges unless they start exporting again. Like Mega said, there are a lot of other projects that will benefit going out because of WCG willingness to turn their back on the Boinc Community.
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#97 Re: WCG team position

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WCG may not be exporting stats for BoincStats or FreeDC to pick up but they are still reporting team statistics on their website, which I assume are accurate. It's in WCG Points, not Boinc Credits but the team positions should still be accurate. Here are the top 125 teams...
IBM 227,948,107,467
Team 2ch 93,301,364,290
Ripple Labs 81,167,432,290
Marist College 59,507,457,087
XtremeSystems 51,991,739,104
Easynews 41,597,853,708
University of Kaiserslautern 23,455,906,762
Binghamton University Cares 22,083,697,572
Sony VAIO Team 21,707,916,869
TechPowerUp! 20,232,104,855
Team China 19,945,257,405
Decrypthon 19,511,195,507
Gridcoin 16,707,702,180
BOINC@Taiwan 15,704,081,378
UH IT HPC 14,866,757,604
L'Alliance Francophone 14,270,836,391
Rochester Institute of Technology 13,014,720,492
SETI.Germany 12,874,911,564
ESU 12,851,686,516
UserFriendly.Org 12,137,963,375
Czech National Team 10,118,768,469
Dutch Power Cows 9,966,323,825
Russia 9,584,517,894
BroadbandReports.com Team Discovery 9,419,552,890
Canada 9,377,213,843
Bankinter 9,248,557,382
Clubic 8,840,443,777
France 8,740,723,480
Christians 8,535,642,577
TACC 8,066,646,184
MakeCuresHappen 8,004,357,977
BOINC@Poland 7,987,937,889
HardOCP 7,395,320,516
Rechenkraft.net 6,888,861,991
Ukraine 6,754,747,711
Rochester Community & Technical College 6,623,421,553
Rutgers University 6,391,209,617
Slashdot Users 6,090,393,169
BOINC@AUSTRALIA 5,983,561,680
Planet 3DNow! 5,885,830,756
Team Andrax 5,617,257,899
SETI.USA 5,421,164,717
UK 5,393,286,769
BOINC.Italy 4,958,593,948
Research Support Coin 4,947,818,578
IBM Research Triangle Park (RTP) 4,878,816,905
SNURK and friends 4,716,727,317
Minnesota Crunchers 4,689,338,851
Dinosaur Comics - qwantz dot com 4,476,490,601
AMD Users 4,176,754,175
Deutschland - Germany 4,160,601,755
Improbable Island's Distributed Supercomputer 4,155,767,958
Fansub for Research 3,769,938,487
MyOnlineTeam 3,765,701,122
Compumatrix Global 3,748,817,303
Austin Grid Team 3,697,475,449
IBM Rochester 3,568,017,016
Ars Technica 3,444,922,137
TeAm AnandTech 3,372,551,251
BRASIL - BRAZIL@GRID 3,253,512,941
Team Norway 2,972,655,699
NearEastUniversity 2,913,020,313
Crunching@EVGA 2,909,669,020
University of Waterloo 2,892,222,645
Georgetown University Faculty Staff and Students 2,726,853,334
Overclock.net 2,689,663,602
Team niconico 2,496,142,449
BOINC Synergy 2,443,557,345
Kansas State University 2,433,072,454
USA 2,429,375,157
NJIT IST 2,381,513,615
Hungary 2,307,728,783
Ubuntu Linux 2,293,249,371
HEISE-Team Germany 2,225,794,281
Gay US 2,195,525,517
TitanesDC 2,145,169,772
RedRaider Technology 2,136,598,499
Sweden 2,125,180,054
KAUST 2,075,445,911
The Edwardians 2,074,643,387
(mt) Media Temple 2,037,321,816
Team Oy 1,952,914,561
Finland 1,941,212,869
BOINCstats 1,921,607,112
ACC-IRT 1,896,494,848
USA Community Grid 1,860,400,416
The Knights Who Say Ni! 1,841,073,007
Fundación Proacceso 1,833,239,579
boinc.at 1,788,594,014
BOINC@MIXI 1,744,048,163
Brony@Home 1,731,945,505
HTCMania 1,724,311,808
BOINC.SK 1,714,429,914
CANAL@Boinc 1,704,336,893
Atheists/Agnostics 1,691,237,761
SARTA 1,622,773,889
ek$i sozluk cpu power 1,580,673,768
Czech Republic 1,577,554,935
IBM Canada 1,553,212,989
U.S.Air Force 1,552,364,502
localwurst 1,538,761,399
America (USA) 1,519,875,741
The survivors 1,487,470,700
Wisconsin 1,471,329,889
Sicituradastra. 1,467,463,702
IBM Web Innovators & Friends 1,458,979,635
Something Awful Goons 1,450,134,574
BRASIL 1,439,738,717
Bulgaria 1,436,423,038
JISATORA@W-ASCII 1,420,343,301
Clemson School of Computing 1,409,193,667
Romania 1,403,914,043
US NAVY 1,391,372,430
Croatia 1,370,291,900
Vulture Central III 1,347,159,590
IBM Massachusetts 1,345,076,526
5by14 1,326,117,167
SETIKAH@KOREA 1,321,475,521
Mormon Community Grid 1,303,041,450
TEAM SHACHI-HOKO JAPAN 1,290,916,004
Electronic Sports League (ESL) 1,272,719,535
Fairleigh Dickinson University 1,265,328,884
The Scottish Boinc Team 1,250,959,136 (123rd :dance: )
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1,245,281,525
UK BOINC Team 1,243,932,619
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#98 Re: WCG team position

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123rd for WCG is Good!
Bad is that Boincstats & the rest will always have us at 124th https://boincstats.com/en/stats/15/team/list/0/100/0
My inclination is, like Sphynx, to give up on WCG on the basis that they have given up on BOINC.
Obviously, I'm open to other views! Post them please!
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#99 Re: WCG team position

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For the first time in months BoincStats just updated WCG!
Hurrah!
Whatever I said the departure of WCG would never have killed BOINC but it would have been a serious amputation.
But everything is alright now!
And TSBT are 122nd! Now!
Quest back on!
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#100 Re: WCG team position

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So is all forgiven with WCG ?
Droids back on it, or at least what i can muster to run just now.
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