Boyoboyboy is this cool. By

Boyoboyboy is this cool. By sending malformed packets to random computers on the Internet, you can distribute a large (think SET@home, distributed.net) problem and get solutions in the checksums that the computers send back. The implications of this are mind-croggling: You can use a Denial of Service attack to do protein folding to discover a cure for AIDS. Link Discuss (via /.)