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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. Re:5,000 machines, US$1M by bzzfzz · · Score: 5, Informative

    40 watts x 24 hours x 365 days x 10 years x 5000 machines x $.06 /kwh = $1,051,200

  2. Re:But how is it a crime? by Delwin · · Score: 5, Informative

    The criminal part (that apparently wasn't in TFA) was the 18 school computers they found at his house that he'd taken home with him. This is a better source: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/11/30/20091130searchforaliens1202.html

  3. Re:Commendable... by DragonWriter · · Score: 5, Informative

    I agree, filing charges was way out of line. His only real mistake was not asking permission, and getting that permission in writing.

    Well, that, and lying about removing the software when the problems caused by it came to light and he was ordered by previous administrators to remove it.
    ...and downloading pornography using school computers.
    ...and, on top of all that, generally not doing the job he was hired to do.

    At least, that's what he is being accused of, according to this more complete article on the story.

    SETI@Home is not the only issue here.