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UCLA Shooter Accused Victim Of Stealing His Computer Code
The gunman who shot and killed a UCLA professor on Wednesday has been identified as Mainak Sarkar, said Los Angeles police. Sarkar, a former doctoral student accused the vicitim William Klug, 39, of stealing his computer code and giving it to someone else. According to reports, Sarkar used a 9mm semiautomatic pistol to shoot the professor, and then turned the gun on himself. A March 10 blog post by Sarkar, now archived reads: William Klug, UCLA professor is not the kind of person when you think of a professor. He is a very sick person. I urge every new student coming to UCLA to stay away from this guy. [...] My name is Mainak Sarkar. I was this guy's PhD student. We had personal differences. He cleverly stole all my code and gave it another student. He made me really sick. Your enemy is your enemy. But your friend can do a lot more harm. Be careful about whom you trust.
Klug's real crime was that he changed all the tabs in the code to spaces before handing the code to another student.
Some developers really do not like that sort of thing.
Maybe the Huffington post editorial staff can spin it?
Man blir trött av att gå och göra ingenting.
It's all fake, it has to be.
This was a gun free zone, so things like that can't happen there. And California has all those gun laws, so they would prevent that; And he used a pistol so they should ban all long guns, because that will solve it.
Well, obviously we need a terrorist computer science profession gun control list.
We can't have all these unbalanced, introverted, jealous, code stealing folks out there running around able to buy guns in the US.
I mean, I'm surprised it took THIS long to bring this subject up, considering all the many gun related killing comp sci folks commit annually.....ESPECIALLY in the University Systems where tenure is at stake!!
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Hey guys, look! An HTML Wizard is amongst us!
In fairness to the shooter, I also go nuts when someone checks in sh*t that won't compile properly.