I am a bit troubled by the position taken by the WCG as well. While the WCG is hosted in the United States and is obligated to follow US law, I don't think any sanctions imposed on these countries would be violated by listing them. There are a number of cultural and educational interchanges with Cuba, for example, which exist in spite of the sanctions. Rather than having the technicians or administrators of the WCG making the decision not to list those countries, I think they should either ask the US Department of State or their own corporate international lawyers if the listing of these countries would violate US law.

Not one but 2 .

If WCG is going to follow the US government and discard people from other countries I am discarding WCG.

Sorry gang ( My Online Team) but I can't support such injustice. It's one thing to boycott a country but to do that the people living there is a different matter.

In the next couple of hours all my devices will be permanently disconnected.

I am furious so I'll will not say much. USA s.... U

Makes sense. Certainly not all citizens of these countries stand 100% behind all of their governments actions, but to impose sanctions on a government is to impose sanctions on all of it's people. It's an unfortunate reality. Either dislike the US for the sanctions or dislike your government for causing the sanctions to be enforced.

In this instance I would have to raise the issue that sometimes even prisoners are allowed to work when it is for the common good.

BTW, the data that is used in the Seti project comes from the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico. The fact that the data is being processed and partly funded by an educational instute may also bypass sanctions.

I found that link to be rather interesting. Check out what it looks like when you organize it by average cpu time per work unit:
http://setiathome2.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/country_by_avg_cpu.html
Cuba ranks @ 66
US ranks @ 189

A better comparison could be obtained by looking at countries that have about the same amount of members. Otherwise this would indicate that the US has weaker computers than almost all other countries!
Looks like the US has more members of Seti than the next top 10 or 20 countries combined, so it would be inaccurate to compare the results.
Then again, this would still assume that there are no supercomputers involved.

I'll say it without a straight face.

Team Cuba
If you want to represent a country you can simply type it as I typed mine under my name AND join the team named "Cuba" AND if you're feeling a bit ambitious you could put it in your signature box which displays after your message. So there are plenty of ways to represent your country on here.
The ONLY exception will be that it will not be listed in the stats on the "per region" page. If other grid projects are to be used for comparison then I wouldn't think this "per region" stat would be of significance due to the large amount of dominating countries which would take up the first dozen places and push the others off the page.

I suppose it's only the thought that counts, right?

Its not the thought that counts..... It is a simple question of right or wrong. This is "supposed" to be a World Community Grid for the Entire World and not just USA Centric.

So if Canada manages to piss of the US next or if "old Europe" pisses of the Americans... are these next to be omited from the country list?

Anyhow it is all irrevelant for me now. The software has been deleted from my computer at home, and I have issued a memo "advising" that all office machines have the Grid software removed from them.


Best of luck and Seasons Greetings.......