Comments on: A modern twist on stalking

By: huxley

huxley — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 04:43:38 +0000

At the risk of being anti-tech, IT is a depersonalizing environment that lends itself to being sanctuary for the bizarros.

Cicero: Nah. Only the bright ones…

I haven’t done any research, but I doubt tech attracts dangerous people anymore than other departments, in line with ConceptJunkie’s comment.

What tech does get is people, mostly guys yeah, with social skills rather short of a full ratchet set.

At one company I worked with a young guy/gifted programmer who started handing out $100 bills to pretty women as they left work. HR had a talk with him.

He was a decent, friendly kid, even good-looking in his elfin way. He just hadn’t a clue on how to chat up the opposite sex.

Some years later I met him with a girlfriend and he was doing fine.

This Ali Borji fellow is a different animal.

By: ConceptJunkie

ConceptJunkie — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 01:53:02 +0000

IT may attract the bizarros, but pretty much every other department, especially management, attracts sociopaths. I’ll take the bizarros and day.

By: TommyJay

TommyJay — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 01:16:23 +0000

Wouldn’t one like to think that a student is a more likely stalker than a Prof.?

There was once a Prof. I knew slightly in a different dept., separated by one floor in the building. He was a pleasant, helpful British fellow; but some time went by and I hadn’t seen him around. Someone told me, “Didn’t you know? He murdered his wife.” Gads!

By: Cicero

Cicero — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 16:08:55 +0000

At the risk of being anti-tech, IT is a depersonalizing environment that lends itself to being sanctuary for the bizarros. Who have always been with us, but in former times were dealt with pointedly and often privately. We have surrendered that to the bleeding hearts. Now he faces misdemeanor (!) charges and will have a Muslim “chaplain” if he spends any time in the slammer.

parker: there is no need for PT or hospital care in this case; the multiple justly broken bones should not be treated. Render unto Islam that which is Islam’s.

By: lgude

lgude — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 03:45:07 +0000

Natural stupidity, combined with artificial intelligence.

By: parker

parker — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 02:40:03 +0000

No Rollerball, he doesn’t deserve death. What he deserves is many broken bones and many days in a hospital followed by months and months of physical therapy. Some actions require serious consequences as a cure. But in this case, not death.

By: charles

charles — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 02:00:43 +0000

Hmm, as it sounds like he might fit in with both of the Clintons; maybe Bill could get him a new job helping Hillary with her computer problems?

Then he could talk shop with both of them.

By: blert

blert — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 00:41:04 +0000

The dudes are incels — who don’t want to be so.

Their social graces don’t hardly exist.

They should’ve received therapy long before.

By: Rollerball

Rollerball — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 23:27:37 +0000

Dude is lucky to still be alive. Apparently, he didn’t stalk a conservative girl.

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 23:16:36 +0000

IT types include a lot of dysfunctional creeps, I have seen it time and again over my career. We recently had a system administrator who was found hiding under a programmer’s desk. Asked why he was there, he said it was in case the fellow needed to be taken out, with comments about how someone has been poking the bear, and the bear knows it. He was also stalking a female sysadmin, and mentioned to her that he could kill multiple people with his bare hands before anyone could intervene, but that he also had weapons.

Didn’t take long for the state police to escort him off the property, the judge to issue a restraining order regarding the young lady, and a thorough scrub of root systems, lock changes, and three hundred people having to immediately change their passwords and log-ins as all previous were disabled. The armed guards left the premises after a week or so, so far so good.