It just waits for you to log in, and then connects without asking. The UD agent can download new pieces for different projects. Later this year, you'll be able to use UD to help digitize documents for online archives, or help understand DNA better. You lose those 200 packets you put in on SETI already. You weren't catching up with your friends who started on SETI six months before you did anyway.
Aliens really are cool.
I've determined that I can only have so many computer projects going on at once, and I've been working on a bunch of them lately. Plus, I've started playing Myst III , which probably isn't as good as the first two, but is a lot of fun. I've made my way to the second age, and am now looking around and pondering the next step. Or, at least who Scully thinks the father is, because even if it turns out this is some type of conspiracy-formed miracle baby, if she didn't think there was a father she would have mentioned that by now. I thought this User Friendly tribute to him was sweet.