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David Charles Hahn, who was nicknamed the “Radioactive Boy Scout,” received regular visits from the FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigation] for nearly a decade from 2005 through 2015, Ars has learned.
Hahn, who was profiled by Harper’s Magazine in 1998 for his attempts to build a homemade breeder nuclear reactor in his mother’s backyard shed, passed away late last year in Michigan at the age of 39. Last month, Ars reported that Hahn did not die as a result of radiation poisoning.
Upon his death, we filed numerous Freedom of Information Act requests with various federal agencies, including the FBI. Amongst the documents we received were three FBI reports dating between 2007 and 2010. They detail three separate instances when people reported to law enforcement that they believed that Hahn may be trying to restart his nuclear activities. When local and federal authorities investigated, they found no such evidence.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 25 2017, @09:24AM (3 children)
Impossible. If a dead end life could be soul crushing, Dick-Hard Bathroom Stall-Man should have died when Linux destroyed any hope of ever finishing GNU.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday April 25 2017, @09:52AM (2 children)
His goal was likely open and free software. If it happened to be GNU or Linux was of less importance. Besides more projects enables even more projects. So it wasn't hopeless. It just took a new direction.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 25 2017, @10:21AM (1 child)
Sure then why are his panties all twisted about GNU/Linux.
And have you seen stallman.org.
That's the entire tech industry on the shit list. A tech industry Stallman himself enabled through free software. Seems the tech industry took that new direction and turned to shit.
Stallman keeps on living to complain about everyone who fucked up his life's work.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday April 25 2017, @11:42AM
In a alternative world those services would run some mutant Xenix-MS-Embedded that would require you to take certification X,Y,Z and pay corporate license to even test the software so you could apply for a job that provided these services. And only devices approved by the emperor may run and only hardware approved by the same prick would run. Security critical bugs would go unfixed for decades. No software could be developed without access to the said software environment which require a corporate license etc.
So while it didn't go all his way. It sure did go a long way.
The problem with corporations is big corporations and their distance to accountability and ability to externalize costs.
Now if someone wants to push the future, have a look at Hurd and microkernels. They may not be the future but they do certainly have advantages that may be interesting to explore. Even more so now that multi-processors are common while memory and processing speed is cheap.