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Karl Rove's IT Guru dies in small plane crash 0

Submitted by MarkusQ on Tuesday December 23 2008, @02:48PM

MarkusQ writes "Mike Connell died in a when the Piper Saratoga he was piloting crashed. Known as "Karl Rove's IT Guru" /. readers may remember him for his involvement in the missing White House e-mail backups, or that his company, GovTech Solutions, created Ohio's 2004 election results computer network, or the story of how his gwb43.com was used to skirt records laws which came to light in the US Attorney scandal, various e-mail mining schemes, the controversy over setting up Congress's firewall, and so many other tech-meets-politics stories that some have dubbed him "the high IQ Forrest Gump."

After multi-year battle he was finally compelled to testify before a federal judge last month, and was scheduled to provide additional testimony in a few weeks. 19 Action News in Ohio is not calling it murder but notes that Connell had recently voiced suspicions that his plane had been sabotaged."

Comment: Minor correction - it is Florida State... (Score 5, Informative) 64

by BradySama on Friday November 02 2007, @12:02PM (#21213023) Attached to: Super-Magnet Sheds Light on Semiconductors

More specifically, this happened at Florida State University's National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. Thanks!

How would you reorient the direction of America?

Submitted by

BradySama

on Wednesday May 16 2007, @12:43PM

BradySama writes "There are all kinds of stories being reported now-a-days about how very small numbers of Americans are happy with the direction the nation has been going in. The problem, though, is identifying the root causes behind the direction the United States has taken, and then figuring out what we should do about and and where we would want to head instead. In this article, Chalmers Johnson lays out one explanation and some possible courses of action. But I would pose to you, SlashDotters, this same question: what do you see as the fundamental root causes of what ails you today, and what do you think should be done to address and or correct those ailments? If we are the nerds, and we pay attention to the stuff that matters, I think we may come up with a really interesting discussion here. And please, feel free to expand the discussion beyond the United States to include all of our home countries and the world as a whole."