Man loses job after searching too hard for aliens
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The search for intelligent life apparently has stopped for Brad Niesluchowski, the network systems administrator who led Higley Unified School District's technology department.
Higley Unified School District records obtained by
The Arizona Republic show that Niesluchowski, of Gilbert, resigned in October after an investigation into suspicious activity, including the use of a program that searches radio signals collected by a giant radio dish looking for extraterrestrial life.
According to the documents, district officials said they found Niesluchowski had abused his authority in purchasing and oversight of district technology and equipment, downloaded pornography, and added to every district computer a University of California-Berkeley program that searches high-frequency radio signals for signs of intelligent life in outer space.
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Higley officials so far estimate the damages, energy usage and equipment losses linked to Niesluchowski at $1.2 million to $1.6 million.
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He was known by the alias "NEZ" and was SETI's most active volunteer explorers for intelligent life, scoring more than 575 million "credits" - hours of data searching in nine years of participation.
Admirers often pondered in their Internet chats about SETI@home in 2007: "What is NEZ? Who is NEZ?" Some even offered the theory that he "is a god."
Full article: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articl...liens1202.html
Man loses job after searching too hard for aliens
Now that was a story worth posting. Thank You NeoGen :blob3:
Shame on you professionals: If you are going to use excess cycles of computer uptime for a project like DCing please for the love of your own life in employment "ask your superiors if your actions are allowed?"
NEZ - On the other hand now we know who the great NEZ was and now with out him the rest of the huge DC crunchers can catch his excellent work ethic of never shutting down his systems no matter what! Woo Hoo :icon_razz:
