ET doesn’t answer calls

I could not resist blogging this story: State Employee Fired For Using State Property To Search For Aliens. It is about this guy that ran the Seti@home program on his work mainframe. The guy ran the program only on weekends and on weekdays between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m., when the server wasn’t being used. For those not familliar with Seti@home: this program uses grid computing to process the data from the Aricebo research facilty. Obviously some companies just look for excuses to fire people. I have no clue what kind of policy they had (if any) but I guarantee […]