FTC Taps Ed Felten As First Chief Technologist

An anonymous reader contributes this snippet from Digital Daily: "Looks like the Federal Trade Commission got its first choice of Chief Technologist, because it's hard to think of anyone better to serve in that capacity than Princeton computer science professor Ed Felten, a guy whose CV makes everyone from Microsoft to Diebold shudder in embarrassment."

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He should be jailed!

[www.sorehands.com]

He and that criminal piracy organization that he works for, Princeton, should be locked up!

He and Princeton only works to provide tools to pirates and to destroy the movie and music industries.

How dare he support piracy and takes the food out of the mouthes of deserving industry executives! Without the repeated extensions of the copyright periods, there will be no incentive to produce new versions of Snow White. 75 years is just not enough time to make back the money invested in making a song or a movie!

Re:He should be jailed!

[magusxxx]

Without the repeated extensions of the copyright periods, there will be no incentive to produce new versions of Snow White. 75 years is just not enough time to make back the money invested in making a song or a movie!

Finally someone has a clue! If my landlord can make money off of something 100 years old then so should Scott Joplin!

Obligatory xkcd

[rsborg]

Hopefully not like this.

Great, more Elitism in Government

[BitHive]

Anyone else get the feeling that these ivory tower intellectual types are looking down their noses at us? I'd much rather we have someone like CowboyNeal as national CTO. Now there's a guy I could have an e-beer with.

Re:Great, more Elitism in Government

[Monkeedude1212]

I'd much rather we have someone like CowboyNeal as national CTO.

What makes you think he isn't?

Re:Great, more Elitism in Government

[geekoid]

Yes., nothing worse the having someone educate, and knowledgeable person rendering an opinion. Only the ignorants should be listened to! Just because I don't know something, doesn't mean you educated and smart people can tell me how it works!

Sorry, didn't mean to steal the Tea party's platform.