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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:Oops by middlemen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... everyone was complaining about how slow their computers were

    Maybe they were running Windows Vista ?

  2. Re:Love how they make it sound like a sci-fi novel by sexconker · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Watch CNN when there is a tech-related security story. Jeanne Meserve will come on and spout psudo-technical garbage that makes no sense at all.

    It took months for Wolf Blitzer to memorize the "You can now follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/wolfblitzercnn" spiel. And there's no way in hell that retard writes his own tweets anyway.

    I thoroughly enjoyed his massive failure on celebrity jeopardy.

  3. Re:Commendable... by mcgrew · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sometimes justice happens. This guy faces felony aggravated battery charges.

    "The Chicago Police Department made a unilateral decision that they were going to charge him only with a misdemeanor without telling the State's Attorney's Office," said Ekl.

    But prosecutors took over and filed felony aggravated battery charges.

    "It's one of the most brutal and savage attacks that I have seen caught on tape," said David Navarro, a prosecutor in the case.

    Prosecutors are investigating adding possible obstruction of justice and intimidating a witness charges.

    My "no karma bonus" and "no subscriber bonus" boxes aren't working, someone please mod me offtopic. Thank you.

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