[sac-forum] Re: Seti@home moves to BOINC

What Paul is referring to is that some commercial companies do not want 
their employees running the SETI software on their company-owned 
computers.  The concept of SETI is that the search software analyzes 
chunks of downloaded radio astronomy files while the PC is otherwise 
idle.  (Which of course, is most of the CPU time.....) Kind of like a 
screensaver.  This is o.k. for somebody's personal computer, but not o.k 
for all companies, as the software automatically goes out on the web and 
downloads fresh "chunks" of data to analyze.  That alone is considered 
to be a violation of security and firewalls, etc.   Some companies take 
a dim view of authorizing employees to use company assets for ANY 
non-business related activities.  This is the price one pays for being 
employed.
Gene L.
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Stanley A. Gorodenski wrote:

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>>Before you install this software, be sure you are authorized to do so.
>>Some companies have rules against running this software.
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>What 'companies' are you referring to?
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