Confused school district fires sysadmin for running SETI@home

vr_don · 12-02-2009, 12:41 PM

Confused school district fires sysadmin for running SETI@home: 'As an educational institution we do not support the search for E.T.'

School Board Superintendent fired IT director Brad Niesluchowski for running SETI@Home on some 5,000 of the district's machines. Why? According to confidently-underinformed superintendent Denise Birdwell, Higley Unified "certainly would have supported cancer research," but does "not support the search for E.T." Well, that's just peachy -- except that her flippant dismissal of SETI belies a complete ignorance of one of the oldest and most respected distributed-computing projects in the world, and what it's actually looking for.

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12-02-2009, 12:41 PM	#1
vr_don Investigator Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 195	Confused school district fires sysadmin for running SETI@home Confused school district fires sysadmin for running SETI@home: 'As an educational institution we do not support the search for E.T.' School Board Superintendent fired IT director Brad Niesluchowski for running SETI@Home on some 5,000 of the district's machines. Why? According to confidently-underinformed superintendent Denise Birdwell, Higley Unified "certainly would have supported cancer research," but does "not support the search for E.T." Well, that's just peachy -- except that her flippant dismissal of SETI belies a complete ignorance of one of the oldest and most respected distributed-computing projects in the world, and what it's actually looking for. Read More LINK

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