So comcast puts up bandwidth usage per user online... We used to do that for all ISDN/POTS dialup clients over 10 years back when I used to work for an ISP. Granted comcast has userbase much much larger than that, but unless I missed something their auth is via PPPoE which probably has a radius backend of sorts so it should be hard to get the InOctets/OutOctets per users modem and push them into a database. So whats the hue and cry about (at least technically?)....Is'nt this something real simple for a company the size of comcast? Of course, they may not want you to see what your usage is but thats purely a biz thing to keep users in the dark before getting shafted by comcast.

This person may have been the IT director or whatever but that gave him no right to install 3rd party software (both CPU and bandwidth costs)on machines he managed (the keyword here is managed, and NOT owned). If his contract specified that he could'nt run such stuff then he should not have. If his contract specified nothing of that kind, then this may be a gray area. That said, This guy did'nt abuse kids or spend school money to finance fancy hotel stays or trips. All he ran was SETI@Home on 5000 machines... This should be called more of a judgement error rather than an ethical violation...

Looks like dragonmount got /.ed - and I cant wait to see the reviews before I leave work and grab the novel from somewhere... Weekend reading WoT - perfect!