Ahmed Mohamed, His Clock, and the Curious Turn of Events <http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/09/18/2244251/ahmed-mohamed-his-clock-and-the-curious-turn-of-events> 164 <http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/09/18/2244251/ahmed-mohamed-his-clock-and-the-curious-turn-of-events> Posted by timothy <http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/> on Friday September 18, 2015 @03:48PM from the but-don't-make-a-pop-tart-gun dept. New submitter poity <http://slashdot.org/~poity> writes:After the news first broke of the 9th grader getting cuffed <http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/15/09/16/0339206/9th-grader-may-face-charges-after-homemade-clock-mistaken-for-bomb> for scaring school officials with what turned out to be a digital clock, Ahmed Mohamed has experienced a surge of popular support — hailed as a genius and a hero <http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/16/9336259/nerds-support-ahmed-muhamed>, with college scholarships, internship offers, and even an invitation to the White House <http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/09/16/2035259/obama-invites-texas-teen-to-white-house-after-bomb-clock-incident-at-school> by President Obama himself. Now, amid rumors of possible racial discrimination lawsuits against the school and local police, some people have begun to more deeply scrutinize the details of the case, especially on the tech side with regard to the homemade clock in question <http://www.wired.com/2015/09/heres-bomb-clock-got-ahmed-mohamed-arrested/>. Recently, a writer at the creative site Artvoice posted a remarkable analysis of Ahmed's clock project <http://blogs.artvoice.com/techvoice/2015/09/17/reverse-engineering-ahmed-mohameds-clock-and-ourselves/>, which raises new questions about the case and the manner in which people and the media alike have reacted.The linked analysis posits that Ahmed's clock started out as another clock, rather than a box of parts, and Ahmed can be said to have repackaged rather than "invented" a wholly new clock, but acknowledges that "none of us were there and knows what happened." Twitter <http://slashdot.org/#>Facebook <http://slashdot.org/#>LinkedIn <http://slashdot.org/#>Google+ <http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/09/18/2244251/ahmed-mohamed-his-clock-and-the-curious-turn-of-events>
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Lawrence de Bivort <[email protected]> wrote: > Good thing Sailer isn't hallucinating or mind-reading here! > > Hmm. His dad ran for Sudanese president. How suspicious! > > Hmmm. Kid builds a clock and this means he is…demonizing the West! > > > On Sep 18, 2015, at 12:31 PM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > > Keep providing payoffs in terms of moral authority and social status for > this kind of behavior and you are going to keep getting more of it: > > > Steve Sailer: I’m sure you’ve heard about the Sudanese Muslim immigrant > kid in Texas who was arrested for bringing his home made electronic clock > to school where Islamophobes worried that it was a time bomb beeping in his > backpack. A reader points out that the kid’s dad is a publicity hound who > routinely returns to Sudan to run for President and engages in other PR > stunts > > S Sailer: If Ahmed were so smart, he’d know the difference between > creating a circuit and stripping the guts from a manufactured clock. His > dad helped him “make” this, and dad helped to make this “project” look as > questionable as possible, within the realm of plausible deniability. > Whatever agenda he’s advancing, it just further demonizes western society, > and reminds us all to be guilty for how racist we all are. > > > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> Probably not. But just in case, I will not bring something that looks >>> vaguely like a bomb to my place of work. >>> >> >> What if your place of work is a high school dedicated to teaching >> engineering?!? I cannot think of a more appropriate thing to bring than an >> electronics project. No one on the staff there would have thought this is a >> bomb. It will not look "vaguely like a bomb" to them. >> >> This is like saying you should not bring a hammer to a construction site. >> >> - Jed >> >> > >
