Being bright is his real crime. The police probably suspected something was wrong with him when they learned he didn't play football or beat up kids smaller than he was.
But it did not look like a bomb trigger. Sure, it had a suitcase like box, but a small box the size of a textbook. He said it was a clock, and it could have been easily demonstrated to be just a clock. All it had were electronics, and electronics should not be scary except in medieval states where such things look like magic. If you showed up with this device on the set of some cheap ass Syfy show, they'd turn you away and ask for a more realistic looking bomb. Yes, it COULD have worked as a bomb trigger, but if you searched every student and classroom you'd probably find hundreds of things that could have worked as a bomb trigger. Good thing Radio Shack is out of business otherwise law enforcement in Texas would be raiding them on suspicion of aiding and abetting mad bombers. Cancel the science fair, that paper mache volcano might go off.
They also determined before arresting him and leaving school that they had no case and they knew he was not a danger; they only did the perp walk to shame and scare him. That's the only reason for taking a kid on a perp walk. The police had to save face, make it look like they were spending the tax dollars wisely, and get a pat on the back from the rabidly paranoid mayor of that town.
It does not look like a bomb. Nobody panicked over it. No one was evacuated. What we have are all the anti-Islamic blowhards deciding to play catch up and damage control by giving excuses on behalf of the stupid school and police officials.
I saw the picture. It does not look dangerous at all. It's a tiny box that tells time. The photo was misleading since it looks like a larger briefcase or equipment box but when you look closer it's not very big at all.
If it actually did look dangerous to the teacher then the class would have been evacuated.
The real problem was that because this was a smart kid he was automatically treated as a trouble maker.
But everything looks like a bomb trigger if you're paranoid. If you're smoking and are caught with matches in your pocket then it's time for the perp walk. Carrying around a soldering iron means you're a potential bombmaker. We can't teach engineering or electronics in any schools because all of them will be perp walked out of class for learning about such dangerous magical items (this being Texas after all).
And the thing is, they DID establish without a doubt that this device was NOT a bomb trigger. And they still gave him the perp walk. This is a problem!
No, they thought it was a hoax, and were trying to get the kid to admit he was trying to scare people. They knew it was not a bomb and was not ever going to be a bomb, it just happened to look a bit like a bomb if you've watched too many bad movies. If this thing could have been turned into a bomb, then any clock radio could have been also; arrest anyone bringing a clock radio to school. Arrest the science professors too, lots of dangerous stuff in their class rooms.
They asked the kid what it was, he said it was a clock, it clearly was a clock with even cursory examination. It only looked like a bomb if you were paranoid (it was far too small for one). They had all the information they needed to decide to tell the kid to put it away and go back to class.
Lesson learned. Stick to the test and don't think outside the box. If we ever need any thinking done in this country then we can always offshore it.
A war on bad law enforcement is not a bad thing. But law enforcement has unions, thus an attack on an incompetent is seen like an attack on all of them.
The City of Irving paints itself with a stereotypical brush already. Its major is a loon who thinks sharia law is being implemented in Irving, and has become a minor tea party celebrity over it.
It looks fine to me. The problem is that the police photo failed to provide any easy way to gauge scale. It looks at first glance like a briefcase sized box with an oversized numeric display. But look closer and it's really a tiny box, not much room to in explosives.
And don't trust jihadwatch.org, a bunch of paranoid freaks over there. And I apologize to other freaks for the unfair comparison.
I saw someone put Six Sigma on their resume. The whole thing looked like immense amounts of padding. So ya, if you still have white space visible on your resume, then squeeze in some more useless certificates. And I include technical certificates in that category. In my experience I have seen lots of people who can not think outside of the curriculum, if the certificate didn't test on something then they can't deal with it. Most technical jobs require you to think outside the box, in fact all of real life requires this.
That's the problem with IT now, the IT workers are treated as fungible, and the workers help this attitude along by going out and getting certificates as proof of their qualifications ("look, I'm interchangeable too!").
But I do embedded systems. The API is often just the data sheet (sometimes because the chip maker's own library is utter crap). It won't ever be a fungible job. It's too difficult to offshore effectively. The best bet for a programmer or engineer is to not be just one of the masses. Even if you end up doing normal every day programming it's very good to have some other skill or experience that stands out (domain knowledge).
And this "coding" isn't what many people would call coding. There are people out there who seriously think that creating a web page is coding, or packaging up a URL inside some XML and calling it an app is coding.
We had the problem back when Visual Basic came out, where every non-coding manager learned that coding was simple and that all the programmers were sandbagging and overpaid.
Undue burden should mean extremely expensive, not minor inconvenience. If they ever get to the point of issuing thousands of takedown notices an hour, you have a point. But something is examining these videos and deciding that a takedown notice is needed. Maybe it's a stupid program that only looks at titles in which case they need to expend more effort and have a human looking at them. If there already is a human looking at the video, then there is minimal cost for that person to exercise some common sense and decide that fair use applies; the cost being a couple hours of training.
Undue burden should balance the burden on copyright holder versus burden on the creators of videos. It should not be only a one-way requirement. That's the main problem with DMCA, all power is with corporations, all users of digital media are considered potential infringers.
Next up, they issue take down notices for ALL videos, because it's an undue burden to figure out which videos are actually infringing.
"Undue burden". That means if even one hour is spent by one person in a corporation's basment deciding if a video is infringing, then that is an "undue burden" in their minds.
It may stand. This is the danger of having an independent judiciary, they are not always bound by politics and an honest and fair person may be accidentally appointed as a judge. So if you find yourself one day creating your own nation from scratch, remember to keep a tight rein on the judges.
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You leave there grammar out of this, she's a nice old lady.
Being bright is his real crime. The police probably suspected something was wrong with him when they learned he didn't play football or beat up kids smaller than he was.
So what? He's breaking out of the mold here, trying to think for himself, that puts him light years ahead of the average student in America.
The problem is we can't get anymore plutonium from the Libyans.
Texas is in its own world.
But it did not look like a bomb trigger. Sure, it had a suitcase like box, but a small box the size of a textbook. He said it was a clock, and it could have been easily demonstrated to be just a clock. All it had were electronics, and electronics should not be scary except in medieval states where such things look like magic. If you showed up with this device on the set of some cheap ass Syfy show, they'd turn you away and ask for a more realistic looking bomb. Yes, it COULD have worked as a bomb trigger, but if you searched every student and classroom you'd probably find hundreds of things that could have worked as a bomb trigger. Good thing Radio Shack is out of business otherwise law enforcement in Texas would be raiding them on suspicion of aiding and abetting mad bombers. Cancel the science fair, that paper mache volcano might go off.
They also determined before arresting him and leaving school that they had no case and they knew he was not a danger; they only did the perp walk to shame and scare him. That's the only reason for taking a kid on a perp walk. The police had to save face, make it look like they were spending the tax dollars wisely, and get a pat on the back from the rabidly paranoid mayor of that town.
How can you apologize for those bozos?
It does not look like a bomb. Nobody panicked over it. No one was evacuated. What we have are all the anti-Islamic blowhards deciding to play catch up and damage control by giving excuses on behalf of the stupid school and police officials.
I saw the picture. It does not look dangerous at all. It's a tiny box that tells time. The photo was misleading since it looks like a larger briefcase or equipment box but when you look closer it's not very big at all.
If it actually did look dangerous to the teacher then the class would have been evacuated.
The real problem was that because this was a smart kid he was automatically treated as a trouble maker.
But everything looks like a bomb trigger if you're paranoid. If you're smoking and are caught with matches in your pocket then it's time for the perp walk. Carrying around a soldering iron means you're a potential bombmaker. We can't teach engineering or electronics in any schools because all of them will be perp walked out of class for learning about such dangerous magical items (this being Texas after all).
And the thing is, they DID establish without a doubt that this device was NOT a bomb trigger. And they still gave him the perp walk. This is a problem!
No, they thought it was a hoax, and were trying to get the kid to admit he was trying to scare people. They knew it was not a bomb and was not ever going to be a bomb, it just happened to look a bit like a bomb if you've watched too many bad movies. If this thing could have been turned into a bomb, then any clock radio could have been also; arrest anyone bringing a clock radio to school. Arrest the science professors too, lots of dangerous stuff in their class rooms.
They asked the kid what it was, he said it was a clock, it clearly was a clock with even cursory examination. It only looked like a bomb if you were paranoid (it was far too small for one). They had all the information they needed to decide to tell the kid to put it away and go back to class.
Lesson learned. Stick to the test and don't think outside the box. If we ever need any thinking done in this country then we can always offshore it.
Agree. The cops should have figured out there was no problem in about a minute. Schools are too caught up in paranoia these days.
A war on bad law enforcement is not a bad thing. But law enforcement has unions, thus an attack on an incompetent is seen like an attack on all of them.
The City of Irving paints itself with a stereotypical brush already. Its major is a loon who thinks sharia law is being implemented in Irving, and has become a minor tea party celebrity over it.
It looks fine to me. The problem is that the police photo failed to provide any easy way to gauge scale. It looks at first glance like a briefcase sized box with an oversized numeric display. But look closer and it's really a tiny box, not much room to in explosives.
And don't trust jihadwatch.org, a bunch of paranoid freaks over there. And I apologize to other freaks for the unfair comparison.
It's pronounced terrist.
I saw someone put Six Sigma on their resume. The whole thing looked like immense amounts of padding. So ya, if you still have white space visible on your resume, then squeeze in some more useless certificates. And I include technical certificates in that category. In my experience I have seen lots of people who can not think outside of the curriculum, if the certificate didn't test on something then they can't deal with it. Most technical jobs require you to think outside the box, in fact all of real life requires this.
You saw the sausage making process then decided you didn't want your sausage anywhere near that?
I understand you. We need more Fight Club in elementary schools!
Things removed the dark art long before then. Maybe it was awful on Windows, but everything was awful on Windows.
That's the problem with IT now, the IT workers are treated as fungible, and the workers help this attitude along by going out and getting certificates as proof of their qualifications ("look, I'm interchangeable too!").
But I do embedded systems. The API is often just the data sheet (sometimes because the chip maker's own library is utter crap). It won't ever be a fungible job. It's too difficult to offshore effectively. The best bet for a programmer or engineer is to not be just one of the masses. Even if you end up doing normal every day programming it's very good to have some other skill or experience that stands out (domain knowledge).
And this "coding" isn't what many people would call coding. There are people out there who seriously think that creating a web page is coding, or packaging up a URL inside some XML and calling it an app is coding.
We had the problem back when Visual Basic came out, where every non-coding manager learned that coding was simple and that all the programmers were sandbagging and overpaid.
Undue burden should mean extremely expensive, not minor inconvenience. If they ever get to the point of issuing thousands of takedown notices an hour, you have a point. But something is examining these videos and deciding that a takedown notice is needed. Maybe it's a stupid program that only looks at titles in which case they need to expend more effort and have a human looking at them. If there already is a human looking at the video, then there is minimal cost for that person to exercise some common sense and decide that fair use applies; the cost being a couple hours of training.
Undue burden should balance the burden on copyright holder versus burden on the creators of videos. It should not be only a one-way requirement. That's the main problem with DMCA, all power is with corporations, all users of digital media are considered potential infringers.
Next up, they issue take down notices for ALL videos, because it's an undue burden to figure out which videos are actually infringing.
"Undue burden". That means if even one hour is spent by one person in a corporation's basment deciding if a video is infringing, then that is an "undue burden" in their minds.
It may stand. This is the danger of having an independent judiciary, they are not always bound by politics and an honest and fair person may be accidentally appointed as a judge. So if you find yourself one day creating your own nation from scratch, remember to keep a tight rein on the judges.