I think they showed the principal, not the sys-admin. Principals are ALWAYS glad to see something that could avoid a possible lawsuit. Thats their full-time job these days.
However, the authority to pursue those rights are delegated to their gaurdians. In some cases the law allows legal authorities to pursue those rights on behalf of the child and take the child from custody of a gaurdian.
For example a child of reasonable age has the right to freedom of speech and assembly. Where do you think all those Mallrats come from. You think the Malls really WANT them there:-)
Likewise, a minor arrested at the mall for loitering has the right against illegal search and seizure (although it rarely works out that way). I this instance, courts have held that searching individuals suspected of shoplifting (strip searches) are a constitutional violation. A search must be done with probable cause by an officer of the law (not a security officer).
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Public schools are a byproduct of public legislation and public funding. Therefore they may not formally pay respect to an institution of religion. Nor may they sanction any such institution formally or informally.
Hence the term "Separation of church and state". Deep down, I'm sure if a school started saying morning prayers to allah you'd get pretty pissed off and that's exactly the point. If Allah don't get in, neither does Jaweah (Jehova properly translated).
You're there to listen and learn how great thinkers have expressed themselves in the past.
You yourself (as a high school student) are not yet completely educated yet. Best to close your mouths, open your ears and let the educated people do the expressing. I'm sure they'll give you opportunities and gently assist when your making an ass out of yourself.
Regarding civil rights... You have as much civil rights in school as you do in your parents house. You are a legal dependent and are therefore subject to the whims of your gaurdians. When you go to school, the adults their are responsible for your safety and education. There cannot be responsibility without authority.
When kids get it out of their head that they're somehow there to teach the ADULTS something, things will go right. All that other shit: clothes, hair, makeup, shit is a waste of time, EVERYBODY's, including yours.
All that SHIT makes it harder to keep things running smoothly, get kids educated, and keep them from killing each other.
It's a good reason to insist on personell with Computer Science degrees instead of MCSEs. There are plenty of us available now since all the H-1Bs have arrived.
So if some kids leave some bikes in a front yard, near a side walk (a right of way) then they are free for the taking. I can gauruntee you this is wrong in ANY jurisdiction. It's just un-neighborlike.
How about if I left a pressurized hose with a spigot near my neighbors lawn. Does that give him the right to take the hose and water his lawn for an hour. Same thing with a power cord. If I leave a power cord out, does that give you the right to run machinery off it.
I DON'T THINK SO!!!!!!
Likewise, with an airborn signal, just because it's there, doesn't necesarily give you permission to use it. It may not be illegal in some instances, but it certainly is RUDE!!!!
Regarding borrowing the phone... WOULD YOU ASK FIRST?? Or would you just stroll in and presume to use their equipment and their lines. In most cases someone won't mind after you ask, but if you walk in and pick of their phone without permission they're likely to be unhappy about it.
Regarding the laptops connected to the wall-jacks. Isn't presumed that if they are consultants that they'll need certain local resources.
This is probably an issue of communicating properly with the person who brought them in. I would actually hold HIM responsible before the consultants. Their "host" should make sure they have the proper work environment, etc... If they do something inappropriate, it's the responsibility of their "host".
The wireless AP IS absoluetly out of line. Thats effectively redistributing a companies private LAN EXTERNALLY.
I dunno, if there are contracters in the building, I think an IT person should make sure that they have what they need to work. Those folks don't work cheap and if they can't get stuff done, it's your organization that will pay extra. Everybody in an organization typically has internal customers that they need to serve. I've dealt with IT people who thought that they had to clear everything under the sun with them and it's really annoying. At some point you have to recognize users as customers that you must enable, not as enemies you must defend against.
Yes, the education system would be much better off without the meddling parents.
Security causes configuration problems and access restrictions. Thats unavoidable and necessary. Our current computer systems are WAY to secure and fragile to let kids run rampant over them. Office IT staff dealing with ADULTS have a hard enough time.
I don't know why everybody thought it was so damn important for kids to get connected to the internet. There's really not much there in terms of educational resources. I can agree with getting teachers connected. In that way they can get material and even maybe have teachers share lesson plans (hopefully one day we'll get decent texts written by teachers instead of commitees).
Most kids using internet at school are just screwing around. I was completely flabergasted subbing one day in a computer lab. The VB kiddies thought they were really slick. Like, I didn't know what 'Alt-Tab' meant when I was walking by. Other kids were playing with console emulators and claimed it was their 'project'. They were quite shocked when they discovered they were dealing with a professional programmer. They are so used to teachers being clueless about technology.
I'd have to say that this is a "Black Hat" activity.
When you discover a security venurability ethics dictate that you report it. Otherwise, all that probing is for you cynical interests.
You knew that it was a Honeywell network and that access to it was not permitted without permission. In general, you just don't go around taking other peoples stuff and using it without permission.
Think of it this way. If someone puts a couch on their yard near the road, that doesn't necessarily mean it's free. For all you know they might put it there and sit on it to wait for the bus. If they put a sign on it saying "free" than you can take it. (You'd be VERY surprised how quickly stuff like that gets snatched up. There are people driving around all day looking for free "anything".
I'm a bit surprised your talking about this. Usually when people strike deals like that, they make you sign a non-dislosure agreemant. Ultimately, if you didn't hack into any of there resources, I don't think they could have had you prosecuted for anything.
The worst offenders of data security is the credit buereaus. Their standards of security are farsicle. Tens of thousands of people have their lives wrecked every year because the financial industry doesn't want to pay to secure their systems.
I agree. It's time for congress to introduce comprehensive data privacy laws. Corporate executives who set the standards must be held accountable if things go wrong.
Personally, I feel that "club fed" is way to easy for them. I think that every corporate criminal should be paired with a "hardened" felon so that the executive can share their "business" sense with the felon. They do claim to be so bright and wonderful and smart and stuff to justify their monstress salaries which exceed ours 200 to 1. I think both parties would benefit in the "end".
Because we underfund our education system and treat teachers like shit. In the east, teaching is the most revered of positions.
Beyond that, a brat in the orient would be taken out of class and whipped with a cane. Yeah, I know your thinking, a swat.. right. No this is something completely different. See "Farewell My Concubine" for reference;-)
They learn quick to keep their mouths shut and listen to teachers. A parent in the orient would suffer great shame if they got a note about their kids behavior. The community would shun the parents until they fixed the problem.
This is the primary problem with US education today. The kids won't keep their mouths shut, and neither the parents nor the administrators will remove them.
This is BS. Most organization don't have public ethernet jacks sitting curbside like a phone booth.
The guys who designed WEP just plain fucked up. It was SUPPOSED to be an arduous task to break WEP keys. Instead it's an afternoon of number crunching.
Beyond that, even if you DID jack in to an ethernet in a school system, you SHOULD NOT be able to access private information like grades and student records. The schools I've subbed at (unemployed programmer) have been pretty lax about securing their workstations but their GRADES etc... are secured on Novell servers.
There is NO excuse for the failure of this school district. They are required by law to secure this information. They're lucky a hacker didn't get the info, they would have ended up with a SERIOUS law suit.
PS. I'd bet you money that the paper was tipped off by a teacher who warned the school district... BUT went unheeded. School districts don't listen to teachers. School administrators are mostly in a world of their own which mainly consists of saving their own asses by kissing the asses of parents (mainly the parents of noisy, disruptive, sociapathic kids (where do you think they get it from)).
The article noted that the information was on an insecure location on their network.
I agree, we need laws that protect white hat hackers and setup clearing-houses for white-hat hacks. Such clearing houses would give 30-days notice to an organization in order to secure their network. Then the information would be released publicly.
Just remember that you need a T-1 line for this scheme. It's not sufficient to set up on a cable modem or DSL. Your bound by the terms of their service contract.
If your really serious, lobby for the creation of a municipal ISP.
Sprint and Verizon are behind the times when it comes to Bluetooth. This is likely a strategic business decision. They don't want you connecting PocketPCs and getting un-regulated network services.
There is a TON of Bluetooth equipment out there, most of the equipment is GSM, but it IS available.
There are applications like Microsoft Streets and Trips that provide this information off-line. $35/year for the software is much cheaper than $35/month for access to mapQuest.
Likewise, Weather info is available on the low-bandwidth services available with Sprint, etc...
ANY digital cell connection can be turned into a data connection. You effectively turn your phone into a modem. I believe this is what your referring to. This doesn't cost very much at all.
I do agree, the current Wi-Fi implementations will never be able to compete due to Wi-Fi's lack of seamless handoffs.
However, I do believe that their is a high-bandwidth Wi-Fi in the works that WILL have protocols for handoffs (leaving one cell and entering another). It's targeted specifically at wireless carriers. Could be a 3.5G or 4G solution.
Overall, wireless data adoption has been pretty slow. Their metered bandwidth policies (I believe) are largely to blame. I DO believe that bandwidth hogs SHOULD pay more. A reasonable way to do this is offer subscriptions based on throttled bandwidth rates (30kbps, 50kbps, 80kbps), etc... You pay for what you need.
The big exception for the cellular providers is that their networks get overwhelmed during commute periods. During those times, EVERYBODY must accept lower bandwidth (except big $$$ subscribers) to keep the system working.
Yep, and Broadband is also typically only available in densely populated areas as well. It's a simple equation:
Number of customers/Feet of wire.
In sparsely populated areas, satellite broadband and fixed wireless is probably your best bet. You have to good wired broadband in order to enable Wi-Fi.
In many cases, when your near a major highway, you may have a better chance of getting 3G sooner due to the cellular model of covering roadways for travellers. And despite someone else's assertion, highway travel is a perfect target for 3G, especially for one's bored passengers (children).
If you ever attempt to punch ME in the nuts because something rings, you will leave in an ambulance.
If people are typing or looking at porn while your chatting or eating, it's probably a sign that your unintersting or anti-social. I would err on the side of anti-social since you have urges to punch people in the sac (that or your just gay).
I bough this book (expensive) because I was trying to do some relatively simple stuff and good explanations weren't forthcoming on various websites (or MS documentation (usually MS documentation is pretty good)). Overall, it explained what I was after. The various chapters for Regex on xxx technology is also helpful though, you feel a bit gipt if you only use a COUPLE of these chapters.
The ultimate testament to Regex is that it NEEDS a book like this to understand it's complexities. The syntax is EXTREMELY context sensitive, some constructs mean completely different things in different contexts.
I could compare this to C++ vs Java/C#, but it would be unfare because C++ is WAY easier then Regex to parse and understand. The contructs are often indistinguishable from text and all over it requires close scrutinization to figure out whats going on. It almost reminds me of the old "lets make the biggest program in 40 lines" contests that produced very clever programs with practically unreadable code.
Regex is VERY cool and EXTREMELY functional. But I think a replacement is ultimately in order that is a bit LESS compact, has consistent construct usage (metacharacters), and overall just plain easier to understand and write read without having to go over statements with a fine-toothed comb.
As long as the project isn't cancelled due to economic inviability.
I'm quite impressed with the accomplishments of open sourcers. What they have devivered is outrageously impressive considering there only motivation is love of programming.
In other words, one can do edge detection on all the individual angle snapshots. From that, one can generate a map of control points in 3-D space that define the outer boundries of the object.
However, using such a technique, there is is no way to pick up on "holes" in a surface that are recessed underneath the bounding outline of a 3-d object.
My research consists of HAVING the disorder and reading countless articles, attending lots of meetings and reading several books. Beyond that, I just plain keep up with the issue.
Links between Serotonin and SSRI may be relevant. However, their is a substantial body of evidence AND practice out their regarding the affects of stimulants on ADD. SSRI's don't do the same thing, and simply DO NOT have the same effects.
The work of Dr Ahmed seems to suggest that ADD can be expressed in different subtle ways. His work may actually suggest that the phenomenon of ADD may be produced by six different disctinct types of brain physicology. Serotonin may account for one these sub-types (a bit of salt is required, this work is not quite vetted yet).
Conversely, some ADD type behavior may actually be symptoms of other disorders (like bi-polar disorder or borderline personality).
However, your "Serotonin is everything" shpeel is a bunch of BS. Doctors have LOTS of success with stimulants and ADD symptomology. Their is a substantial body of evidence to contend with out their. SSRI's simply DON'T behave in the same way as stimulants. If they did, the drug companies wouldn't bother developing NEW meds for ADD, they would simply do the research to get their existing drug FDA approved for ADD (ala Social Axienty and Paxil).
SSRI's simply don't do the same thing as stimulants. Of all the anti-depressants out their, only ONE "Wellbutrin" (a stimulating anti-depressant (not SSRI related)) is FDA approved for treatment of attention-deficit.
Beyond that, a lot of people who suffer from ADHD ALSO suffer from depression, or depression symptoms induced by the ADD experience in the non-ADD world (myself included). It is natural to see SSRI's prescribed in conjunction with stimulants.
Your Nature link is busted, so I can't read the piece. I doubt it's a "LEADING" theory on ADHD. Probably some subtle nuance (most journal articles have subtle implications, not earth-shattering ones).
Regarding your "money-making" paranoid argument... Drug companies are in it to make money. Doctors are in it to treat patients. Ultimately, if they prescribe an SSRI vs a stimulant what does it matter to the doctor. Furthermore, what does it matter to the patient if they buy Paxil vs Adderall, the drug company makes $$$ all the same.
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I think they showed the principal, not the sys-admin. Principals are ALWAYS glad to see something that could avoid a possible lawsuit. Thats their full-time job these days.
Not true. Persons under 18 DUE have rights.
:-)
However, the authority to pursue those rights are delegated to their gaurdians. In some cases the law allows legal authorities to pursue those rights on behalf of the child and take the child from custody of a gaurdian.
For example a child of reasonable age has the right to freedom of speech and assembly. Where do you think all those Mallrats come from. You think the Malls really WANT them there
Likewise, a minor arrested at the mall for loitering has the right against illegal search and seizure (although it rarely works out that way). I this instance, courts have held that searching individuals suspected of shoplifting (strip searches) are a constitutional violation. A search must be done with probable cause by an officer of the law (not a security officer).
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Public schools are a byproduct of public legislation and public funding. Therefore they may not formally pay respect to an institution of religion. Nor may they sanction any such institution formally or informally.
Hence the term "Separation of church and state". Deep down, I'm sure if a school started saying morning prayers to allah you'd get pretty pissed off and that's exactly the point. If Allah don't get in, neither does Jaweah (Jehova properly translated).
You're there to listen and learn how great thinkers have expressed themselves in the past.
... You have as much civil rights in school as you do in your parents house. You are a legal dependent and are therefore subject to the whims of your gaurdians. When you go to school, the adults their are responsible for your safety and education. There cannot be responsibility without authority.
You yourself (as a high school student) are not yet completely educated yet. Best to close your mouths, open your ears and let the educated people do the expressing. I'm sure they'll give you opportunities and gently assist when your making an ass out of yourself.
Regarding civil rights
When kids get it out of their head that they're somehow there to teach the ADULTS something, things will go right. All that other shit: clothes, hair, makeup, shit is a waste of time, EVERYBODY's, including yours.
All that SHIT makes it harder to keep things running smoothly, get kids educated, and keep them from killing each other.
Yes,
It's a good reason to insist on personell with Computer Science degrees instead of MCSEs. There are plenty of us available now since all the H-1Bs have arrived.
So if some kids leave some bikes in a front yard, near a side walk (a right of way) then they are free for the taking. I can gauruntee you this is wrong in ANY jurisdiction. It's just un-neighborlike.
... WOULD YOU ASK FIRST?? Or would you just stroll in and presume to use their equipment and their lines. In most cases someone won't mind after you ask, but if you walk in and pick of their phone without permission they're likely to be unhappy about it.
How about if I left a pressurized hose with a spigot near my neighbors lawn. Does that give him the right to take the hose and water his lawn for an hour. Same thing with a power cord. If I leave a power cord out, does that give you the right to run machinery off it.
I DON'T THINK SO!!!!!!
Likewise, with an airborn signal, just because it's there, doesn't necesarily give you permission to use it. It may not be illegal in some instances, but it certainly is RUDE!!!!
Regarding borrowing the phone
Regarding the laptops connected to the wall-jacks. Isn't presumed that if they are consultants that they'll need certain local resources.
This is probably an issue of communicating properly with the person who brought them in. I would actually hold HIM responsible before the consultants. Their "host" should make sure they have the proper work environment, etc... If they do something inappropriate, it's the responsibility of their "host".
The wireless AP IS absoluetly out of line. Thats effectively redistributing a companies private LAN EXTERNALLY.
I dunno, if there are contracters in the building, I think an IT person should make sure that they have what they need to work. Those folks don't work cheap and if they can't get stuff done, it's your organization that will pay extra. Everybody in an organization typically has internal customers that they need to serve. I've dealt with IT people who thought that they had to clear everything under the sun with them and it's really annoying. At some point you have to recognize users as customers that you must enable, not as enemies you must defend against.
Yes, the education system would be much better off without the meddling parents.
Security causes configuration problems and access restrictions. Thats unavoidable and necessary. Our current computer systems are WAY to secure and fragile to let kids run rampant over them. Office IT staff dealing with ADULTS have a hard enough time.
I don't know why everybody thought it was so damn important for kids to get connected to the internet. There's really not much there in terms of educational resources. I can agree with getting teachers connected. In that way they can get material and even maybe have teachers share lesson plans (hopefully one day we'll get decent texts written by teachers instead of commitees).
Most kids using internet at school are just screwing around. I was completely flabergasted subbing one day in a computer lab. The VB kiddies thought they were really slick. Like, I didn't know what 'Alt-Tab' meant when I was walking by. Other kids were playing with console emulators and claimed it was their 'project'. They were quite shocked when they discovered they were dealing with a professional programmer. They are so used to teachers being clueless about technology.
I'd have to say that this is a "Black Hat" activity.
When you discover a security venurability ethics dictate that you report it. Otherwise, all that probing is for you cynical interests.
You knew that it was a Honeywell network and that access to it was not permitted without permission. In general, you just don't go around taking other peoples stuff and using it without permission.
Think of it this way. If someone puts a couch on their yard near the road, that doesn't necessarily mean it's free. For all you know they might put it there and sit on it to wait for the bus. If they put a sign on it saying "free" than you can take it. (You'd be VERY surprised how quickly stuff like that gets snatched up. There are people driving around all day looking for free "anything".
I'm a bit surprised your talking about this. Usually when people strike deals like that, they make you sign a non-dislosure agreemant. Ultimately, if you didn't hack into any of there resources, I don't think they could have had you prosecuted for anything.
The worst offenders of data security is the credit buereaus. Their standards of security are farsicle. Tens of thousands of people have their lives wrecked every year because the financial industry doesn't want to pay to secure their systems.
I agree. It's time for congress to introduce comprehensive data privacy laws. Corporate executives who set the standards must be held accountable if things go wrong.
Personally, I feel that "club fed" is way to easy for them. I think that every corporate criminal should be paired with a "hardened" felon so that the executive can share their "business" sense with the felon. They do claim to be so bright and wonderful and smart and stuff to justify their monstress salaries which exceed ours 200 to 1. I think both parties would benefit in the "end".
Yes,
.. right. No this is something completely different. See "Farewell My Concubine" for reference ;-)
Because we underfund our education system and treat teachers like shit. In the east, teaching is the most revered of positions.
Beyond that, a brat in the orient would be taken out of class and whipped with a cane. Yeah, I know your thinking, a swat
They learn quick to keep their mouths shut and listen to teachers. A parent in the orient would suffer great shame if they got a note about their kids behavior. The community would shun the parents until they fixed the problem.
This is the primary problem with US education today. The kids won't keep their mouths shut, and neither the parents nor the administrators will remove them.
This is BS. Most organization don't have public ethernet jacks sitting curbside like a phone booth.
... BUT went unheeded. School districts don't listen to teachers. School administrators are mostly in a world of their own which mainly consists of saving their own asses by kissing the asses of parents (mainly the parents of noisy, disruptive, sociapathic kids (where do you think they get it from)).
The guys who designed WEP just plain fucked up. It was SUPPOSED to be an arduous task to break WEP keys. Instead it's an afternoon of number crunching.
Beyond that, even if you DID jack in to an ethernet in a school system, you SHOULD NOT be able to access private information like grades and student records. The schools I've subbed at (unemployed programmer) have been pretty lax about securing their workstations but their GRADES etc... are secured on Novell servers.
There is NO excuse for the failure of this school district. They are required by law to secure this information. They're lucky a hacker didn't get the info, they would have ended up with a SERIOUS law suit.
PS. I'd bet you money that the paper was tipped off by a teacher who warned the school district
The article noted that the information was on an insecure location on their network.
I agree, we need laws that protect white hat hackers and setup clearing-houses for white-hat hacks. Such clearing houses would give 30-days notice to an organization in order to secure their network. Then the information would be released publicly.
Just remember that you need a T-1 line for this scheme. It's not sufficient to set up on a cable modem or DSL. Your bound by the terms of their service contract.
If your really serious, lobby for the creation of a municipal ISP.
It's BS. They're trying to get handouts from the government to enable this wonderland.
Sprint and Verizon are behind the times when it comes to Bluetooth. This is likely a strategic business decision. They don't want you connecting PocketPCs and getting un-regulated network services.
There is a TON of Bluetooth equipment out there, most of the equipment is GSM, but it IS available.
There are applications like Microsoft Streets and Trips that provide this information off-line. $35/year for the software is much cheaper than $35/month for access to mapQuest.
Likewise, Weather info is available on the low-bandwidth services available with Sprint, etc...
ANY digital cell connection can be turned into a data connection. You effectively turn your phone into a modem. I believe this is what your referring to. This doesn't cost very much at all.
I do agree, the current Wi-Fi implementations will never be able to compete due to Wi-Fi's lack of seamless handoffs.
However, I do believe that their is a high-bandwidth Wi-Fi in the works that WILL have protocols for handoffs (leaving one cell and entering another). It's targeted specifically at wireless carriers. Could be a 3.5G or 4G solution.
Overall, wireless data adoption has been pretty slow. Their metered bandwidth policies (I believe) are largely to blame. I DO believe that bandwidth hogs SHOULD pay more. A reasonable way to do this is offer subscriptions based on throttled bandwidth rates (30kbps, 50kbps, 80kbps), etc... You pay for what you need.
The big exception for the cellular providers is that their networks get overwhelmed during commute periods. During those times, EVERYBODY must accept lower bandwidth (except big $$$ subscribers) to keep the system working.
Yep, and Broadband is also typically only available in densely populated areas as well. It's a simple equation:
Number of customers/Feet of wire.
In sparsely populated areas, satellite broadband and fixed wireless is probably your best bet. You have to good wired broadband in order to enable Wi-Fi.
In many cases, when your near a major highway, you may have a better chance of getting 3G sooner due to the cellular model of covering roadways for travellers. And despite someone else's assertion, highway travel is a perfect target for 3G, especially for one's bored passengers (children).
If you ever attempt to punch ME in the nuts because something rings, you will leave in an ambulance.
If people are typing or looking at porn while your chatting or eating, it's probably a sign that your unintersting or anti-social. I would err on the side of anti-social since you have urges to punch people in the sac (that or your just gay).
I bough this book (expensive) because I was trying to do some relatively simple stuff and good explanations weren't forthcoming on various websites (or MS documentation (usually MS documentation is pretty good)). Overall, it explained what I was after. The various chapters for Regex on xxx technology is also helpful though, you feel a bit gipt if you only use a COUPLE of these chapters.
The ultimate testament to Regex is that it NEEDS a book like this to understand it's complexities. The syntax is EXTREMELY context sensitive, some constructs mean completely different things in different contexts.
I could compare this to C++ vs Java/C#, but it would be unfare because C++ is WAY easier then Regex to parse and understand. The contructs are often indistinguishable from text and all over it requires close scrutinization to figure out whats going on. It almost reminds me of the old "lets make the biggest program in 40 lines" contests that produced very clever programs with practically unreadable code.
Regex is VERY cool and EXTREMELY functional. But I think a replacement is ultimately in order that is a bit LESS compact, has consistent construct usage (metacharacters), and overall just plain easier to understand and write read without having to go over statements with a fine-toothed comb.
As long as the project isn't cancelled due to economic inviability.
I'm quite impressed with the accomplishments of open sourcers. What they have devivered is outrageously impressive considering there only motivation is love of programming.
Doesn't this work only for potruding surfaces???
In other words, one can do edge detection on all the individual angle snapshots. From that, one can generate a map of control points in 3-D space that define the outer boundries of the object.
However, using such a technique, there is is no way to pick up on "holes" in a surface that are recessed underneath the bounding outline of a 3-d object.
Your nature.com link is broken.
... Drug companies are in it to make money. Doctors are in it to treat patients. Ultimately, if they prescribe an SSRI vs a stimulant what does it matter to the doctor. Furthermore, what does it matter to the patient if they buy Paxil vs Adderall, the drug company makes $$$ all the same.
My research consists of HAVING the disorder and reading countless articles, attending lots of meetings and reading several books. Beyond that, I just plain keep up with the issue.
Links between Serotonin and SSRI may be relevant. However, their is a substantial body of evidence AND practice out their regarding the affects of stimulants on ADD. SSRI's don't do the same thing, and simply DO NOT have the same effects.
The work of Dr Ahmed seems to suggest that ADD can be expressed in different subtle ways. His work may actually suggest that the phenomenon of ADD may be produced by six different disctinct types of brain physicology. Serotonin may account for one these sub-types (a bit of salt is required, this work is not quite vetted yet).
Conversely, some ADD type behavior may actually be symptoms of other disorders (like bi-polar disorder or borderline personality).
However, your "Serotonin is everything" shpeel is a bunch of BS. Doctors have LOTS of success with stimulants and ADD symptomology. Their is a substantial body of evidence to contend with out their. SSRI's simply DON'T behave in the same way as stimulants. If they did, the drug companies wouldn't bother developing NEW meds for ADD, they would simply do the research to get their existing drug FDA approved for ADD (ala Social Axienty and Paxil).
SSRI's simply don't do the same thing as stimulants. Of all the anti-depressants out their, only ONE "Wellbutrin" (a stimulating anti-depressant (not SSRI related)) is FDA approved for treatment of attention-deficit.
Beyond that, a lot of people who suffer from ADHD ALSO suffer from depression, or depression symptoms induced by the ADD experience in the non-ADD world (myself included). It is natural to see SSRI's prescribed in conjunction with stimulants.
Your Nature link is busted, so I can't read the piece. I doubt it's a "LEADING" theory on ADHD. Probably some subtle nuance (most journal articles have subtle implications, not earth-shattering ones).
Regarding your "money-making" paranoid argument
Again you just make ZERO sense.