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I back your decision and fuck these people. I will additionally be sending a strongly worded email to this person, their advisor and their whoever's in charge of this joke of a computer science school. Sometimes I wish we had the ABA equivalent for computer science.
Do you understand how dumb that sounds?
How is such a ban going to be effective? The "researchers" could easily continue their experiments using different credentials, right?
At least it might prompt the University to take action against the researchers.
How is such a ban going to be effective? The "researchers" could easily continue their experiments using different credentials, right?
How is such a ban going to be effective? The "researchers" could easily continue their experiments using different credentials, right?
How is such a ban going to be effective? The "researchers" could easily continue their experiments using different credentials, right?
It trashes University of Minnesota in the press. What is going to happen is that the president of the university now is going to hear about it, so will the provost and so will people in charge of doling money. That will rapidly fix the professor problem.
While people may think that tenure professors get to do what they want, they never win in a war with a president and a provost. That professor is toast. And so are his researchers
How does something like this get through IRB - I always felt IRB was over the top - and then they approve something like this? UMN looks pretty shoddy - the response from the researcher saying these were automated by a tool looks like a potential lie.
How does something like this get through IRB - I always felt IRB was over the top - and then they approve something like this? UMN looks pretty shoddy - the response from the researcher saying these were automated by a tool looks like a potential lie.
Linux maintainers should log a complaint with the University's ethics board. You can't just experiment on people without consent.
> This is not ok, it is wasting our time, and we will have to report this, AGAIN, to your university...