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That's a lot of saltiness over a kid who took apart a clock and re-assembled it without breaking it, following in the steps of Richard Feynman.
by gohrt 10y ago
That's a lot of saltiness over a kid who took apart a clock and re-assembled it without breaking it, following in the steps of Richard Feynman.
- wl 10y agoThe saltiness isn't over what he did, but that he claimed to do something he didn't do. He did not build a clock as he claimed. He moved a commercially available alarm clock from one case to another. If he designed the logic and built it out of logic gates/a PLD or even built a kit, he could have legitimately claimed he built a clock. But he didn't.
- frgtpsswrdlame 10y agoWhy are you so upset by the project of a 14 year old? It wasn't as complex as a child thought it was, who cares?
- TheGirondin 10y agoYou must be completely ignoring the context and the media response that followed. Even President Obama cared enough about it invite him to White House.
- snowwrestler 10y agoBecause he got handcuffed. Not because the project itself was worthy of attention from the President. He got invited to the White House to provide counterbalance to the social idea that brown-skinned kids with beeping electronics are criminals that should have the cops called on them. The simplicity of the project makes the reaction of the school worse not better.
- clifanatic 10y ago> Because he got handcuffed. He actually asked them to handcuff him and then take his picture because he said it would look cool. Look at the picture, the police officers are smiling in the background. He played them.
- snowwrestler 10y agoNone of this is true. He didn't ask them to handcuff him and no one is smiling in the picture: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/texas-teen-arrested-after-bringing-homemade-clock-school-n428356 http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/texas-teen-arreste... http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/16/us/texas-student-ahmed-muslim-clock-bomb/index.html http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/16/us/texas-student-ahmed-mus... He was arrested and taken off school grounds. Next time please do your own research. The police should not have been there at all, since the device is so obviously not dangerous.
- frgtpsswrdlame 10y agoThe context is about whether race influenced police to deny his rights. How does the complexity of his wiring project matter at all?
- mattferderer 10y agoI believe the people above are arguing that his intent was to create a prank more so than to create a clock by moving a clock from its original case to a suitcase which is how bombs look often on TV. Along with that argument, people would often argue that Steve Wozniak spent a night in jail for building a fake bomb around the same age. They would also often argue that Wozniak is a white male & therefore would argue against race having anything to do with this; especially in the current tense climate in regards to bombs compared to the climate when Wozniak was in school.
- wl 10y agoI can't speak for the others, but I don't care about whether or not his intent was to come up with a hoax device. I saw the pictures, immediately recognized it as something that was commercially produced, and then saw Obama praise his ingenuity, MIT invite him to campus, and all sorts of companies send him free stuff, all based on the lie that he actually built something. There's nothing wrong with taking things apart to figure out how they work. I did the same thing at his age. But I wasn't pretending I built them. And we shouldn't hold his actions up as something to emulate. That isn't to say I'm not concerned with the overreaction teachers, administrators and police had to the device. As far as I'm aware, the only reaction that they should have had—hey, that device has exposed mains!—didn't happen.