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

Thanks. I couldn't imagine Paul was referring to one's employer because 
I could never imagine someone doing something like this with company 
owned equipment without first getting the okay. So, it seemed he must 
have been talking about ISP's (they are companies) but that didn't seem 
right either. I think what this shows is that while many citizens think 
government employees are a bunch of goof offs, at least where I used to 
work this was definitely not the case and there were strict rules on 
what one could do with State equipment. There have been, for example, 
unexpected audits of what an employee has on their hard drive, and 
people have been fired. It appears government employees may be harder 
workers than private industry employees (-:
Stan

gene lucas wrote:

> 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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>> Paul Dickson 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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