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Man accused of hijacking school computers for UFO search
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| Dec 02, 2009
Posted on 12/02/2009 10:33:50 AM PST by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono; Revolting cat!
How much did this school spend on “Mann-made” global climate change “studies”?
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posted on
12/02/2009 10:35:18 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Question authority!Who is the University of East Anglia to drive the 'Global Climate Change' agenda?)
To: JoeProBono
OMG this is so silly!
If he was smart he would just fess up.
this is a harmless screen save program.
It wakes up when the computer IS NOT IN USE and does some processing of data.
He should not have installed it without permission, but it is harmless and does not waste resources- it only works when computers are on and sitting IDLE anyway
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posted on
12/02/2009 10:37:22 AM PST
by
Mr. K
(Deathly afraid my typos become a freeper catchphrase...I'm series!)
To: JoeProBono
“The IT administrator is accused of installing a program on every one of the district’s 5,000 computers.”
Don’t they mean ET Administrator!
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posted on
12/02/2009 10:37:25 AM PST
by
Missus
(We're not trying to overpopulate the world, we're just trying to outnumber the idiots.)
To: JoeProBono
I think Art Bell was the first guy to suggest people do this to help Seti around 10 years ago.
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posted on
12/02/2009 10:38:22 AM PST
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: JoeProBono
Until we learn to communicate with the colonies of bees on earth, we can forget SETI and communicating with extraterrestrials.
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posted on
12/02/2009 10:38:59 AM PST
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . Lukenbach Texas is barely there)
To: Lockbar
I thought the seti@home project was over. LOL
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posted on
12/02/2009 10:39:16 AM PST
by
DonaldC
(A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
AND....it wasnt set up to find UFOs.
This is the type of BS accounting crap they used to use to tell us not to program infinite loops in our FORTRAN programming. Not that you would program an infinite loop on purpose anyway.
People need to relax.
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posted on
12/02/2009 10:41:33 AM PST
by
Vermont Lt
(My wife reads my posts. In case the FBI shows up, we will have cookies.)
To: JoeProBono
Since SETI runs in the background only on computers that are ON, how this costs Higley anything, really, I'd like to see. He should be thanked for being the largest contributor to the Search for Extraterrestrial Life.
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posted on
12/02/2009 10:42:05 AM PST
by
Hoosier-Daddy
("It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
To: JoeProBono
This is either very hard to believe, or not hard to believe at all. I haven’t decided which one, yet.
To: JoeProBono
What “equipment loss”? This is a screensaver program that goes to work only when the computer is otherwise idle. At most, it might have caused a minor (unlikely to reach 1.6 thousand dollars, much less 1.6 million, over nine years) increase in electricity usage.
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posted on
12/02/2009 10:44:16 AM PST
by
steve-b
(Intelligent Design -- "A Wizard Did It")
To: Mr. K
Oops -- already noted.
It looks to me like the sysadmin committed a minor breach of protocol that was seized upon by an office-politics enemy.
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posted on
12/02/2009 10:45:21 AM PST
by
steve-b
(Intelligent Design -- "A Wizard Did It")
To: Vermont Lt
School Administrator. Our expectations of critical thinking are obviously too high.
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posted on
12/02/2009 10:46:00 AM PST
by
Hoosier-Daddy
("It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
To: Hoosier-Daddy
School Administrator. Our expectations of critical thinking are obviously too high. Well, these are the same School Administrators that brought us the "Zero Tolerance" concept that expels kindergardeners for drawing pictures of guns.
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posted on
12/02/2009 10:50:20 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
To: JoeProBono
Give the guy credit for looking for intelligent life somewhere. The poor guy worked for a school system all day.
To: Hoosier-Daddy
I thought it would be a great idea to run SETI-at-home on all the Government computers. Good land I have 90 in this building alone and most of them go unused for months out of the year. Imagine all the number crunching power being wasted, if you add in all the idle machines in the government.
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posted on
12/02/2009 10:53:31 AM PST
by
DYngbld
(I have read the back of the Book and we WIN!!!!)
To: 1776 Reborn
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posted on
12/02/2009 10:53:50 AM PST
by
Hoosier-Daddy
("It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
To: JoeProBono
"Energy use and equipment loss is estimated to be as much as $1.6 million over 9 years. "He did wrong. But let's check that cost.
Equipment lost
Whether there was "equipment loss" depends on how he rigged them. If they only used after hours or spare capacity and didn't impact the students or users, then there really is no "equipment loss". If he impacted the students, it's not really an equipment loss, but a loss of education.
Electrical cost
What was the school policy? To leave the computers on or off? And did he influence that policy? And did the computers have a sleep mode?
Because if policy was that the computers were left on and they didn't have sleep modes, then it's questionable that he used any incremental electricity. They would have been running idle anyway.
- But lets assume for worst case that the computers used 300 watts/hour. And that they would have been on 8 hours 5 days a week. So total weekly SETI time would be 7days*24hrs=168hrs/wk - 40hrs school time = 128 hrs/wk/machine.
- Let's also assume that school is in session 34 wks a year and during summer and school breaks that the machines are turned off. That would mean total SETI time was 128hrs/wk * 34wks * 9 years = 39168 hours/machine over the 9 years.
- That would be 39168 total hours * 300 watts/hour = 11,750,400 watts.
- At $0.11/Kilowatt hour (Avg cost as of April 2008), which should be conservative since that's a recent price not an average, Total cost would be (11,750,400 watts/1000*.11Kw/hr=$1292.54*5000 machines=$6,462,700 energy usage.
$6,462,700. Ok the $1.5 million passes the smell test. That dude is so screwed.
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posted on
12/02/2009 10:57:00 AM PST
by
DannyTN
To: Hoosier-Daddy
Did you ever consider maybe he was leaving the computers on so they could run it?
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posted on
12/02/2009 10:58:45 AM PST
by
dangus
(Nah, I'm not really Jim Thompson, but I play him on FR.)
To: bert
Er, what makes you think we can’t? Because we haven’t bothered to?
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posted on
12/02/2009 11:00:11 AM PST
by
dangus
(Nah, I'm not really Jim Thompson, but I play him on FR.)
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