SETI homepage: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ --- Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 21:10:05 +0100 To: declanat_private From: Ulf Hedlund <guruat_private> Subject: Swedish national radio bans SETI software Conspiracy theory has reached the state owned public service radio in Sweden, "Sveriges Radio" (www.sr.se). They have banned all use of the SETI software and says that three of the technicians from the IT department are going to be relocated. According to the head of human resources, Per Thorsell, this is due to the fact that they don't know if the software is actually performing search for extraterrestrial life. "The software could be used by some service for other purposes, i.e. calculation of missile ballistics", he says. At the moment, there's only an article in Swedish available. http://www.sr.se/ekot/index.asp?article=22761 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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