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Designer Seeds Thought To Be Latest Target By Chinese
An anonymous reader writes "Economic espionage is nothing new but one of the biggest areas being targeted now is agriculture. Here's a story about a FBI investigation to track down theft of seeds from research farms. 'The case of the missing corn seeds first broke in May 2011 when a manager at a DuPont research farm in east-central Iowa noticed a man on his knees, digging up the field. When confronted, the man, Mo Hailong, who was with his colleague Wang Lei, appeared flushed. Mr. Mo told the manager that he worked for the University of Iowa and was traveling to a conference nearby. When the manager paused to answered his cellphone, the two men sped off in a car, racing through a ditch to get away, federal authorities said.'"
Down with Beta! Leave Classic, or we'll go to Hacker News!
A person directed the Slashdot redesign.
Who is he?
I think that either SHE (Alice Hill - President at Slashdot Media) did or she knows exactly who did. Quoting from her experience:
"10+ years experience managing large-scale consumer Web properties from conceptualization and staffing, to product innovation, large-scale redesigns and platform overhauls, mobile versions, multi-lingual content creation/production, international engineering team management, and next-stage product growth/roadmap development.".
Her or her subordinates' actions currently directly undermine the business of HER (Joyce Goh, Director, Ad Operations at Slashdot Media (Dice Holdings, Inc.)).
Of course, I might be wrong, but that's what I came up with after 30 seconds of Googling (which, apparently, noone else in this thread bothered to do).
A person directed the Slashdot redesign.
Who is he?
I think that either SHE (Alice Hill - President at Slashdot Media) did or she knows exactly who did. Quoting from her experience:
"10+ years experience managing large-scale consumer Web properties from conceptualization and staffing, to product innovation, large-scale redesigns and platform overhauls, mobile versions, multi-lingual content creation/production, international engineering team management, and next-stage product growth/roadmap development.".
Her or her subordinates' actions currently directly undermine the business of HER (Joyce Goh, Director, Ad Operations at Slashdot Media (Dice Holdings, Inc.)).
Of course, I might be wrong, but that's what I came up with after 30 seconds of Googling (which, apparently, noone else in this thread bothered to do).
BTW, she has a handle here on Slashdot (no activity since 2004, though - talk about eating one's own dogfood... I mean, it's almost 10 years of no activity) - you can try asking her directly...
Although, Her Twitter seems a more promising contact channel. Still active.
Although, Her Twitter seems a more promising contact channel. Still active.
After reading through other linked profles from her Google Plus profile, especially the CrunchBase one, I'm getting pretty confident that I've nailed it:
Hill was named Managing Director of Dice.com in November 2010. She is responsible for the development and direction of all activities for Dice.com, with particular emphasis on product development and innovation, building and maintaining industry presence, and managing large account sales. Dice.com, a Dice Holdings company, is the leading career website for technology and engineering professionals, and the companies that seek to employ them. NYSE: DHX
in 2012 Hill was appointed President of Slashdot Media - running the SF and NY-based company and its three media properties, SourceForge, Slashdot and FreeCode. Slashdot Media is owned by parent Company Dice Holdings, Inc.
Who else would have the power to force through such a profound destruction of value, stretched through such a long time period without any checks?
Although, Her Twitter seems a more promising contact channel. Still active.
After reading through other linked profles from her Google Plus profile, especially the CrunchBase one, I'm getting pretty confident that I've nailed it.
Who else would have the power to force through such a profound destruction of value, stretched through such a long time period without any checks?
If you really want this madness stopped, petition the boss of Dice Holdings, Michael P. Durney - President and CEO or possibly Klavs Miller - Senior Vice President, Technology.
If someone else better skilled in writing would make a petition on http://www.petitiononline.com/ and direct it at those guys, that would be so much more effective than ranting here in comments, which these people probably had never looked at.