FTC Taps Ed Felten As First Chief Technologist 76
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."
Re:He should be jailed! (Score:3, Insightful)
It can be two things. It can be insightful without being literal.
Re:Great, more Elitism in Government (Score:5, Insightful)
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."
Re:o.O (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
Re:Duh (Score:5, Insightful)
And what advantage would private sector experience give him in this position? Other than industry ties that would be used to manipulate him?
Re:Great, more Elitism in Government (Score:4, Insightful)
Wow. simply Wow. So you think only people who are uneducated and ignorant should have important posts.
Way to go, you irrational twit.
Re:Great, more Elitism in Government (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Duh (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Great, more Elitism in Government (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
Gone within a year... (Score:4, Insightful)
...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.
Re:Great, more Elitism in Government (Score:3, Insightful)
If rational arguments were effective most politicians and priests would be unemployed.
Re:CV makes everyone shudder in embarrassment (Score:3, Insightful)