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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."
Anyone else get the feeling that these ivory tower intellectual types are looking down their noses at us?
Every time someone asks that I think, or say, "yes, and it's well deserved."
He's also a doctor(but not an MD).
Linguistics funnies aside, he is absolutely the best guy for the job. Which is why I'm so shocked he got the job.
You can't legislate goodness. Let each to his own destiny, by will of his freely made choices.
And what advantage would private sector experience give him in this position? Other than industry ties that would be used to manipulate him?
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
Wow. simply Wow. So you think only people who are uneducated and ignorant should have important posts.
Way to go, you irrational twit.
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Well, due to the reform, they won't know what it is like to not have health insurance, nor will anyone else. Of course, the public won't stand for it, they need to have the right to know what it's like to not have health insurance.
...when he realizes that he has no decision making power, and all the decisions are made on politically basis with his job being to justify them.