Newsweek article on Distributed Computing...GA vs McOwen

[randy48]

This article is probably one of the better ones I've read so far with comments from researchers and professors!
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2001/tc2001088_076.htm

[HomeYield]

I'm still having a hard time believing this and I can't imagine what David must be going through. All this because he loaded some extra software on computers. This can't be that it poses any sort of real threat to the school or you wouldn't have so many using it. Check out the seti@home project with tons of universities using it (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_type_7.html) . If its just loading software without permission then I'm sure that tons of students across the nation would be under the same attack. I can walk into any of the labs at school and find napster, morpheaus, winamp, and tons of others. He estimates that the stress on a PC running the company's software is no more than that of sending one e-mail per day. I'm sure most of these programs mentioned above use a little bit more than that. I'm sorry but I'm having a terrible time finding what extactly merrits 30 years and $400,000, when murderers can some times get out after 10 and without paying a penny. Is CPU usage more valuable than a human life?

[awforrest]

Thanks Randy48! Excellent post.