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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."
I always think of it in the magic: the gathering term, as in you're "tapping" them to use their resources.
or like a beer tap on a keg.
take your pick.
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!
Fight Spammers!
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.
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.
Princeton is a private university known for it's research. Just sayin.
Why would someone's CV make you shudder in embarrassment?
Just because he's quite talented and has a strong background, why would that cause Microsoft to shudder?
Jealousy maybe, But embarrassment? Are there pictures of Ballmer dancing, on his CV?
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?
Yeah, it should be Carli, because she did such a great job~
We really don't want people who think in 3 month blocks advising on decsions that will impact every citizens. That's smart.
The government caters to all citizens, business caters to only those people who want/afford there good and/or services.
Running the government like a business will fail. Every time some one tries it, it fails. Why? because they MUST cater to everyone. Regardless of income. Plus, they can never maintain the high level of service the government provides cheaper then the government does it.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Researchers are noted for a certain disconnect from triviality, not reality.
The FTC are serious people, and this is a staff job, so he doesn't have to be confirmed by the Senate.
The use of "tap" to select a person for a job probably comes from the use of the word in tapping trees for sap, or the device that you get beer or water from. The analogy might be that you're extracting knowledge, experience, etc. in the same way that you extract sap from a tree or beer from a keg (hopefully without the leaving-them-empty part).
...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.