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Worker Fired For Running SETI On State-Owned PCs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it's-not-called-seti-at-work dept.

Formica writes "A programmer working for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services was fired for running SETI software on a state server. As quoted in this article, department head Tom Hayes says, 'I think that people can be comfortable that security has beamed this man out of our building.' More articles from Google."

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  1. Re:Would you want to work for this guy? by networkBoy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The one thing to be noted is that running SETI on a server is unwise.
    While I have never seen a problem personally I enforce my company policy that it be kept off servers. Desktops/proto machines fine, just not production environment servers. We actually use it to increase load on pre-production servers though :-)
    -nB

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  2. Re:He should be fired. He should be arrested! by lottameez · · Score: 5, Interesting

    dude, there is far more fraud, waste, and abuse in government then this piddling little thing. In the scheme of things, it probably cost more in administration costs to fire the poor bastard and hire a new guy than any expense brought on by the SETI program.

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