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

Posted by timothy on from the totally-worth-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "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."

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  1. Stop wasting our electricity, Fox Mulder by elrous0 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'd have a lot more sympathy from the guy if this were at least folding@home. The SETI project is, to put it bluntly, a complete waste of time and resources. The odds of finding a coincidental, intelligent, and perceptible alien civilization that happens to be in the narrow technological window of using radio waves for communication, at any communicative distance from earth, is all but nil. This guy wasted way more human resources (resources that weren't even his own) than this project will ever be worth.

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