Follow Slashdot stories on Twitter

 


Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror
×

Submission + - Absent-minded IT Specialist inadvertently drives onto White House grounds (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by McGruber
McGruber writes: IT Specialist Mathew Goldstein’ was driving his gray Honda Civic along 17th Street NW in Washington, DC when he made a wrong turn and inadvertently followed the motorcade carrying President Obama’s daughters into the secure perimeter for the presidential compound.

Goldstein’s mistaken left turn raised serious questions about how an unauthorized vehicle was able to travel within five feet of the Obama girls’ motorcade and get through two rows of metal security bollards at the checkpoint at 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue.

Submission + - IBM System/360 joins "Mad Men" television show (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by McGruber
McGruber writes: The May 4, 2014 episode of the "Mad Men" introduced a new bad guy character: an IBM System/360 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360).

The computer replaced the "creative lounge" where the show's fictional copywriters spit-balled ideas. Fictional character explained "This machine is intimidating because it contains infinite quantities of information and that's threatening because human existence is finite. But isn't it godlike that we've mastered the infinite? The IBM 360 can count more stars in a day than we can count in a lifetime. "

Submission + - Google celebrates Teacher Appreciation Day by granting Wishlists of 356 Teachers (ajc.com)

Submitted by McGruber
McGruber writes: Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper blogger Maureen Downey reports (http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/get-schooled/2014/may/06/teacher-appreciation-day-google-atlanta-chooses-fu/) that, to celebration Teacher Appreciation Day, Google Atlanta today flash-funded the classroom requests of every Greater Atlanta teacher on DonorsChoose.org, Google’s $340,000 donation will provide materials for 356 Atlanta teachers and their 38,775 students.

“With two kids in the Atlanta Public School system, I’m inspired daily by the hard work of our local teachers,” said Tom Lowry, head of Google’s Atlanta office. “Today, we’re excited to team up with DonorsChoose.org to say a big thanks to teachers and to support all their classroom projects in the Atlanta area.”

Submission + - High School students google Criminal Justice Teacher, find his criminal record (wsbtv.com)

Submitted by McGruber
McGruber writes: Remember the slashdot story about the Nissan Leaf owner who was arrested for stealing 5 cents worth of electricity from his child's school? (http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/12/04/1817227/ev-owner-arrested-over-5-cents-worth-of-electricity-from-schools-outlet) Well, the Dekalb County School District (http://www.dekalb.k12.ga.us/) that had him arrested is in the news again after a few DeKalb County High School Technology South (http://www.dhstsouth.dekalb.k12.ga.us/) students googled their teacher.

The students discovered that their CRIMINAL JUSTICE teacher had engaged in a sexual act with a student past. The State of Florida had banned the teacher from teaching in 2009 after he entered a nolo contendre plea to a single count of child abuse. (http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/dekalb-teacher-resigns-after-past-sexual-accusatio/nfnk8/)

While two wrongs don't make a right, I can't help but think the school district's time would have been better spent keeping child molesters out of the classroom instead of prosecuting a parent for 5 cents worth of electricity.

Submission + - Charged with 45 felonies, RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal avoids jail, plans IPO (businessinsider.com)

Submitted by McGruber
McGruber writes: In August 2013, Gurbaksh Singh Chaha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurbaksh_Chahal), CEO of online advertising network RadiumOne (http://www.radiumone.com/), was charged with 47 counts of domestic violence. The San Francisco District Attorney's Office alleges that Chahal "hit and kicked" his girlfriend 117 times over a half-hour period on August 5, 2013.

Chahal's apartment has a video security system. During their investigation, the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) obtained surveillance footage that showed Chahal kicking his then-girlfriend in the head multiple times and attempting to smother her. Two cameras in Chahal's bedroom --one in a tinted glass dome on the bedroom ceiling-- recorded the alleged attack.

SPFD Officer Anh Nguyen testified that the "girlfriend claimed Chahal held his hands over her mouth and nose while telling her he was going to kill her." (http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2014/03/ad-mogul-chahal-court-domestic-violence-charges.html?page=all) Prosecuters also allege that Chahal attacked his girlfriend after learning that she had taken a trip to Las Vegas with another man.

However, on April 2, 2014, a judge ruled that the video obtained from Chahal's apartment could not be used as evidence in his trial. Charhal then accepted a plea bargain and pled guilty to one charge of domestic violence battery and one charge of battery. He was sentenced to three years probation, a 52-week domestic violence training course, and 25 hours of community service.

Chahal has made numerous TV appearances, including a lengthy interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2009, a philanthropic stint on Secret Millionaire and was named America's most eligible bachelor by Extra TV five years ago. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2611943/Millionaire-Tech-CEO-filmed-hitting-kicking-girlfriend-117-times-brutal-30-minute-attack-sentenced-25-hours-community-service.html)

Bloomberg recently reported (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-10/radiumone-said-to-be-preparing-ipo-to-expand-overseas.html) that RadiumOne is in the final stages of preparations for an initial public offering.

Submission + - Intuit, maker of Turbotax, lobbies against simplied tax filings (propublica.org) 1

Submitted by McGruber
McGruber writes: Return-free filing might allow tens of millions of Americans to file their taxes for free and in minutes. Or that, under proposals authored by several federal lawmakers, it would be voluntary, using information the government already receives from banks and employers and that taxpayers could adjust. Or that the concept has been endorsed by Presidents Obama and Reagan and is already a reality in some parts of Europe.

Sounds great, except to Intuit, maker of Turbotax: last year, Intuit spent more than $2.6 million on lobbying, some of it to lobby on four bills related to the issue, federal lobbying records show.

Submission + - Former US President says Snowden disclosures are "good for Americans to know" (usatoday.com)

Submitted by McGruber
McGruber writes: Former United States President Jimmy Carter defended the disclosures by fugitive NSA contractor Edward Snowden on Monday, saying revelations that U.S. intelligence agencies were collecting meta-data of Americans' phone calls and e-mails have been "probably constructive in the long run."

"I think it's wrong," President Carter said of the NSA program. "I think it's an intrusion on one of the basic human rights of Americans, is to have some degree of privacy if we don't want other people to read what we communicate."

Comment H-1B? (Score 2, Interesting) 197

by McGruber (#46534353) Attached to: Ex-Microsoft Employee Arrested For Leaking Windows 8
From the article:

Alex Kibkalo, a former Microsoft employee has been arrested yesterday for stealing and leaking company secrets..... Kibkalo is a Russian national and has worked for Microsoft for seven years; he has joined 5nine Software in August 2013 as Director of Product Management for Security and Management products after quiting his job at Microsoft.

I wonder how he worked for MS for 7 years as H1-B Visas are supposed to be limited to 6 years.

Slashdot Top Deals

Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost.

Close