SETI@home Project Responds To School Firing

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 4, 2009 @03:04PM from the correcting-dim-reporters dept.

SETIGuy writes "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."

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Law of unintended consquences. by Anonymous Coward · 2009-12-04 15:07 · Score: 5, Funny

Who knew leaving a bank of computers on 24/7 costs money?
Intelligent Life by DaMP12000 · 2009-12-04 15:13 · Score: 5, Funny

I guess they're too busy allocating all their resources trying to find intelligent life in their class rooms...
Re:Idle computer resources by hemp · 2009-12-04 15:22 · Score: 5, Funny

If that CPU time is being used, it has to be paid for.
We've come so far since the 60's mainframe days.

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