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Living Room / Re: Computer science student expelled for testing university software security
« Last post by Renegade on January 22, 2013, 11:18 PM »Useful timeline of events and facts here:
http://www.hamedhelped.com/
Reading it just makes me more convinced that the computer science department at Dawson has behaved unforgivably; if they have a different set of facts they need to present them publicly.-mouser (January 22, 2013, 10:43 PM)
From that page:
November 14th
Hamed is asked to meet with Diane Gauvin. She hands him his letter of expulsion citing professional misconduct. Security is on hand to immediately confiscate his Student ID.
Ummm... Does anyone know the difference between "professional" and "amateur"?
Students are amateurs. It doesn't matter how smart or how good their grades are - they are amateurs. They are unpaid.
Professionals are paid to perform a task/service. They perform that task/service for a living. Consistently.
What he did may have been misconduct, but it certainly wasn't professional misconduct.
If you hire Joe Blow because he needs a job, and has dabbled in XYZ, you're hiring an amateur. If you hire John Doe because he does XYZ for a living, you're hiring a professional. Not a particularly difficult concept to understand.
But I raise the issue because I've seen the word "professional" thrown around, misused, and abused in a few different areas. The Humpty Dumpty interpretation of language seems to be more prevalent now with educated people that should know better. I'll leave that there though...
Now, to tie this back into the thread, mouser pointed out previously about "weasel behaviour", and this is exactly that kind of deceptive garbage used by weasels and rats to wiggle out of the messes they create for themselves. They twist words far beyond their meanings in hopes of obfuscating the facts.
