@"somebody", it wasn't intended to be a challenge. Simply a discussion of some
alternatives to your point of view.

You are absolutely correct that distributed computing projects need failsafes
and checks on results. And, with a volunteer system, these checks don't cost
much to create, enforce, and run. But, if you're out there paying for each and
every result, and then trying to enforce such protections against those
attempting to cheat you out of your 10 bucks, you have a LOT of effort expended
in things that do not contribute to science.

It is inteteresting to note that you trust universities... but not the public
projects initiated by the universities. Rosetta@home and the rice project of
WCG are run by the University of Washington, WCG's clean energy project is run
by Harvard, WCG's conquer cancer project is run by researchers at Ontario
Cancer Institute and Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, the WCG
dengue fever project is run by The University of Texas, WCG's Human Proteome
Folding Project is run by New York University, WCG's FightAIDS@Home is run by
The Scripps Research Institute, WCG's AfricanClimate@Home is run by University
of Cape Town, and the WCG Muscular Dystrophy project is a collaboration
launched by AFM (French Muscular Dystrophy Association), CNRS (French National
Center for Scientific Research) and IBM, Einstein@home is run by the University
of Wisconsin and universities in Germany, Climateprediction.net is run by
Oxford, the researchers at CERN have the LHC project, Docking@home is run by
the University of Deleware, SIMAP is run by the University of Munich...

the question should be WHICH project you will help, not whether or not you
should run a background program on your computer when it's doing nothing else.

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php

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