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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (82288)	7/13/2000 11:17:46 AM
From: SeaViewer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

I got money from them. Cannot complain.

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (82288)	7/13/2000 11:58:23 AM
From: Les H	Respond to of 132070

Earn Money in Your Sleep Updated 10:45 AM ET July 13, 2000 LONDON (Reuters) - Soon computer owners will be able to earn money in their sleep. Three companies plan to pay PC owners to leave their idle machines logged on to the Internet, the British magazine New Scientist reported. U.S.-based companies Parabon, Distributed Science and United Devices plan to chop up corporate computing tasks and farm them out to tens of thousands of personal computers via the web, the magazine said. Computer owners simply have to download software and log on. The plan may not offer a very high-tech investment. Jim Albea, chief operations officer of Distributed Science, estimated that an average personal computer would earn at least $10 a month. But he told New Scientist that 39,000 people with 77,000 computers had signed up so far. "People are dragging old PCs out of the cupboard to get connected to the project," he said.