Man Fired For Using Computer To Search For Aliens

October 11th 2004 | General

As Impar points out in this thread over in the Distributed Computing forum, be careful what you’re running that DC program on, especially if you’ve installed it at work:

The search for extraterrestrial life has ended at the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. The department on Thursday fired a computer programmer who admitted to using a state-owned computer server to process data for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence project, run by the University of California at Berkeley.

Charles E. Smith, 63, told administrators he didn’t think loading the SETI software on the server was much of a problem because he ran the program only on weekends and on weekdays between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m., when the server wasn’t being used, according to a disciplinary report. Department director Tom Hayes disagreed.

Man Fired For Using Computer To Search For Aliens @ NewsNet5

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Man Fired For Using Computer To Search For Aliens
Published in: General on 2004-10-11