Re:Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who buil...
by tfehring on Monday December 07, 2020 @09:36PM
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Aren't the requirements for being a judge basically just (1) be a lawyer (2) get elected? I'd hazard a guess that the bar in terms of technical sophistication for a Tallahassee judge is not that high and that it wouldn't be inconceivable for police to sell them a story about a scary hacker stealing people's medical data.
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Re:Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who buil...
by zests on Monday December 07, 2020 @10:50PM
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> I'd hazard a guess that the bar in terms of technical sophistication for a Tallahassee judge is not that high
I do wonder how much of the response to this post just begins with the assumption that red states are incompetent. If this had happened in a blue state no doubt the comments would be different. On the internet it's all ideology all the time.
Re:Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who buil...
by tfehring on Monday December 07, 2020 @11:20PM
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Florida is still a purple state and Wikipedia says Tallahassee is 2:1 Democrat:Republican. I'd have said the same about judges in most areas of the US that don't have a significant tech presence. I would not feel that way about a judge in, say, Austin.