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14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School

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Post by xenophonf »

leoc wrote: post #165
userbinator wrote: post #21

Apparently the authorities have determined that the best way to stop terrorism is to discourage any manifestation of personal intelligence, so that the population turns into mindless sheep. "If you don't know how to make a clock, you won't know how to make a time bomb" is their reasoning. It is seriously disturbing. I am reminded of stories of kids opening a command prompt and being accussed of "hacking", only this i…

Probably not the whole story in this case. It seems improbable that little Johnny McFreckles III would have encountered as much trouble over his clock project.

Funny you should use "McFreckles" as a stereotypical white name. Irish immigrants have historically faced a lot of discrimination in the U.S. on the grounds of both ethnicity (compared to English immigrants and their descendants) and religion (Catholics instead of the majority Protestants).

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Post by nadams »

Alupis wrote: post #810
nadams wrote: post #775

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> Think about all the things the school district could have spent an extra ~$7MM+ on... That's assuming they didn't use computers. Your calculation assumes that the computer uses a full 350+ watts of electricity. If it had a 350 watt PSU and was drawing that full load - it would shutdown (I've had this happen). Even then the CPU doesn't require 350 watts of power [1]. The only device that I know of that will use and…

Even using your math: ~$50 per year per computer * 5,000 computers = $250,000 in additional power consumption per year He ran this scheme for 9 years: $250,000 per year * 9 years = $2,250,000 total additional electricity costs No matter what way you run the math, he blew millions of the school district's budget.

> No matter what way you run the math, he blew millions of the school district's budget.

And the school blew millions by not turning off the computers when not in use. Power management is built into Windows - this can easily be done/managed with group policy.

> $250,000 per year * 9 years = $2,250,000 total additional electricity costs

This is all assuming he went around in a ski mask before he left every day and turned on all the computers across the school. Sure he might have used WOL but from the article I don't think he was that devious. From reports of what I read this was something the previous system admin guy did and just passed it along what to do.

I'm not saying he could have wasted money - I'm just giving him the benefit of the doubt and trying to make sure we don't frame him as some sort of criminal mastermind out to rip off this school district. There are a lot of reports out there about this and it's obvious the school wanted to spin it to look like he was the bad guy.

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Post by lucio »

lucio wrote: post #655
pdabbadabba wrote: post #613

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President Obama has invited Ahmed to bring his "cool clock" to the White House: https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/644193755814342656

LATEST NEWS: Terrorist-sounding-named boy Ahmed Mohamed gets into White House with ticking device! The boy was given safe-passage from a guy named Hussein. Both are being investigated.

I've got it. No jokes on HN.

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Post by ank_the_elder »

lotor wrote: post #545
s_kilk wrote: post #305

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This is the dumbest thing I've read all week. You're getting downvoted, rightly, but I wanted to explain why that is. > Is that racist ? Yes > Do you people really want to live in a world where gays,transgenders,gypsies,blacks,hispanics,yellows,purples are favoured and put on pedestal You've got a pretty distorted view of all this. No-one (sane) is advocating for putting any group on a pedestal, we're just asking peo…

In middle-east the terrorists are using the children either as a live shields or are brainwashing them to commit terrorism. Same in the europe. Same in the states. Is every muslim kid or a kid named ahmed a terrorist ? Hell no. But you should be cautious at all time.

Terrorism exist due to hateful positions like yours. I really hope you seek help - you clearly need to resolve some anger issues.

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Post by dang »

lotor wrote: post #772
s_kilk wrote: post #305

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This is the dumbest thing I've read all week. You're getting downvoted, rightly, but I wanted to explain why that is. > Is that racist ? Yes > Do you people really want to live in a world where gays,transgenders,gypsies,blacks,hispanics,yellows,purples are favoured and put on pedestal You've got a pretty distorted view of all this. No-one (sane) is advocating for putting any group on a pedestal, we're just asking peo…

Ahmed Mohamed invited to White House, Facebook, Google after clock incident Yeah tell me more.Also gl to america when one day again a person named ahmed mohammed blows up a zillions of people with some bomb. But no you are not putting these people on pedestal. I am sick of you people. Russia should have burned USA to the ashes. At least the russians are just drunk idiots.

We banned this account for obvious reasons.

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Post by MaulingMonkey »

exodust wrote: post #568
MaulingMonkey wrote: post #396

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> showed it around anyway A teacher discovered it when it beeped. I'm not sure how you've lept from that to "showed it around". EDIT: > and was passive aggro when asked about it I'm not sure where you got this from either.

> 'I'm not sure where you got this from either.' The police officer was quoted as saying he was "passive aggressive" when questioned about the device.

> The police officer was quoted as saying he was "passive aggressive" when questioned about the device.

Fair enough.

One more reason not to talk to the police in the first place, I guess, on top of all this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc .

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dang wrote: post #955
lotor wrote: post #772

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Ahmed Mohamed invited to White House, Facebook, Google after clock incident Yeah tell me more.Also gl to america when one day again a person named ahmed mohammed blows up a zillions of people with some bomb. But no you are not putting these people on pedestal. I am sick of you people. Russia should have burned USA to the ashes. At least the russians are just drunk idiots.

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Post by jonnyisbad »

Condition 1. As long as teachers are drawn from most the lowest deciles of the graduating class, this will continue.

Condition 2. As long as we fail to value the education of children, Condition 1 will continue

Condition 3. As long as the majority of parent perceive that the life outcome of their children are less important than the parent's own desires for money, assets, sexual intercourse and self validation, Condition 2 will continue

Condition 4. As long we are humans, Condition 3 will continue.

Iterate ad infinitum ( or recurse if you love Lambda )

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