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SETI @ WORK NOT!!!

Reminder -- it's called SETI At Home for a reason: Those among you participating in UC Berkeley's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence program by running its SETI@home software on your employer's computers might want to reconsider if said employer is not publicly spirited about sharing its processor cycles. The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services last Thursday fired a programmer who admitted installing SETI@home on a state-owned server. "I understand his desire to search for intelligent life in outer space, because obviously he doesn't find it in the mirror in the morning," department Director Tom Hayes told the Associated Press. "I think that people can be comfortable that security has beamed this man out of our building."

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