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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!
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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.
Princeton is a private university known for it's research. Just sayin.
Felten showed that Microsoft was lying when they claimed in court that they could not remove Internet Explorer from Windows without disrupting the entire OS. He was also responsible for other discoveries embarrassing for several companies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Felten
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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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.
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Maybe because he believes in fair use?
He was one of the scientists behind the MPAA v. 2600 amicus briefs.
He also went after the RIAA when they threatened to sue him if he commented on encryption in one of his presentations.
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"The so-called 'intellectuals' still look down with infinite superciliousness on anyone who has not been through the prescribed schools and allowed them to pump the necessary knowledge into him. The question of what a man can do is never asked but rather, what has he learned? 'Educated' people look upon any imbecile who is plastered with a number of academic certificates as superior to the ablest young fellow who lacks these precious documents."
Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf"
I think you're confusing 'elitism' with 'intelligence'...
'elite' implies wealth and power. True, that typically also leads to a better education, but you can put any idiot through Harvard and he'll still be an idiot.Just because you do well at an ivy-league school does not mean you're intelligent. Hell, I find that people who do well on exams are just good at memorizing information. When it comes to actually using that information or having any common sense at all, many of them can't and don't. So you can remember the formulas the prof gives you, remember the problem formats, and manage to pull numbers out and plug them into the right formula. I've seen plenty of people do that without having any clue what the formula actually _means_. Hell, there have been times where I've done that myself.
What we really need in government are people who know how to interpret and use information. That's about it. I'm not saying Ed Felten can or can't do this, I'm just saying that that's certainly not part of being 'elite'. It is, however, a large part of intelligence.
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.
Ever spoken to an academic? You might be surprised how poorly your stereotypes stand up to reality.
Very true. Much of my early career as a software developer (late seventies, early eighties) was spent working with senior medical researchers at a couple of local Universities. I had time time of my life, actually ... it was some pretty cool stuff for the time, and those guys were great. Always willing to take the time to explain something, never tried to make anyone feel stupid, nothing like the stereotypical "ivory tower" types that many people seem to believe inhabit our institutes of higher learning. Oh, it takes all kinds, but having an advanced education doesn't make you any less of a human being. It may make you harder to fool
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
...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.