Topic: SETI@Home Install Leads To School Tech Supervisor's Resignation

[sam]

Apparently the most prolific of users in the SETI@Home community has resigned his job as a school technology supervisor after it was revealed he had the software installed on some 5000 school machines. The school claims to have lost $1 million in upkeep on the affected machines

http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/12/02/2029202/SETIHome-Install-Leads-To-School-Tech-Supervisors-Resignation?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+(Slashdot)

Something tells me that $1 million is just b******t.. I bet they were just running anyway...

[Clive]

Exactly!   

[Sandra]

I thnk that its time that someone searched for intelligent life in our politicians and saved the cost of looking for it off world 

[sam]

I thnk that its time that someone searched for intelligent life in our politicians and saved the cost of looking for it off world 

no point... just gotta read the reports their secondary school teachers gave them...

I actually got to look at the backend of the SETI detection, Serendip, at Arecibo (takes data continuously off-axis from the main observations): http://www.flickr.com/photos/starrydude/4121007807/in/set-72157622834417708/

[Simon]

Wasn't Adept heavily into SETI?

[Clive]

I think he was ranked at number 7 in the UK.  A pretty good achievement! 

[Simon]

Indeed!  I wonder where he went? 

[Clive]

I think they collected him.   

[Simon]

 

[sam]

... maybe he was doing the same thing...

[sam]

 SETI@home Project Responds To School Firing - http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/12/05/0158225/SETIhome-Project-Responds-To-School-Firing?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+(Slashdot)

SETI@home Project Scientist Eric Korpela has responded to many of the allegations made by Higley Unified School District administrator Denise Birdwell regarding the difficulties caused by the installation of SETI@home, which led to the recent firing of the school's technology supervisor. One of the project's founders, David Gedye, takes issue with Dr. Birdwell's claim that 'an educational institution ... cannot support the search for E.T.' Meanwhile, the fired supervisor denies misusing school computers.

[Simon]

Oops!