I'm pretty sure that in the US in criminal cases the prosecution is required to reveal all evidence that they have to the defense regardless of who it helps. So if the DA came across something on Facebook that would help the defense and didn't reveal it they could be in serious trouble.
IANAL, but it's my understanding that this is incorrect. Any statements by the defendant that tend to support the defense isn't considered evidence and isn't typically allowed to be heard in court. It's considered a self-serving statement: http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/self-serving
This is one of the major points brought up in those 'Never talk to the police' lectures -- literally nothing you say to the police can ever possibly help your eventual court case.
"Whatever you think of the humor of 'The Chaser,' the honest truth is they were clearly not going to harm anybody in a physical way," Downer said. "They presumably were, as is the nature of their show, aiming to humiliate a lot of well-known people."
For a politician, this type of harm could be career-ending -- public opinion is everything.
You have to love email forwards disguised as news articles.
This has been floating around for years -- I first saw it as a piece promoting British Special Forces ingenuity. Our very own Bruce Schneier mentioned it (and the suppressed Cockeyed piece) around this time last year.
Education in reading was originally encouraged by churches so the followers could read the verse. Problems started when the flocks came to different interpretation or change of emphasis (i.e. this part is actually more important than that part) on the messages in the texts.
Not quite -- according to a book I'm reading by Carl Sagan, the first guy to try translating the bible into English, Tynedale, was both hanged and burned at the stake for his troubles. Education and religion have been at odds for longer than you might think.
Although it's very fine and noble to try to minimize unpleasant odours aboard spacecraft, what can be done about us stinky mammals? Humans supposedly produce half a litre of gastrointestinal gas daily -- I would imagine that in an enclosed space occupied by several humans, that could get unpleasant quickly.
I just started using the latest version of MS Outlook and it will NOT let you run or even detach a.EXE file. My uncle sent me a X-mass card and as an.EXE (which I lectured him about..) and I couldn't even detach it.
It seems MS has overcompensated for this security hole. They're coding their software for the dumbest possible user (i.e. my Uncle...) at the expense of those of us who know what were doing!
A less tactful/. reader might point out that if you really knew what you were doing, you wouldn't be using MS Outlook.:)
There has been a drastic increase in reported incidents of physical assault by mobile phone. Victims, a group made up entirely of telemarketers, were quoted as saying:
Incidentally, since there are a near infinite number of unregistered domain names, then this means that Verisign now 'owns' approximately 100% of the internet.
A botched carjacking early Sunday morning led to the arrests of the three, who prosecutors said planned to kill three local middle school students and then turn their weapons on random victims.
I don't think the issue is really that they played too much violent video games -- I think the point could be made that (thank god) they didn't play quite enough GTA3.
But... I don't know how to ride a bike:| Bikes aren't self-balancing. I have enough trouble balancing myself without being on top of a poorly thought-out outdated vehicle. Now if this guy could just come up with a self-balancing bike, I would surely get a lot more exercise since the whole concept of bike riding sounds like heaps of fun:)
"This site contains information on the recent lawsuits filed by the RIAA against 4 college students for contributory and direct copyright infringement seeking damages of up to ninety seven billion eight hundred million dollars."
The survey found that almost a quarter of unauthorised connections to the WLANs were intentional, with 71 percent used to send emails.
I think you misread their stats. Wouldn't you agree that WLAN connections could be intentional *and* for the purposes of spamming?
Personally, I don't quite understand their use of 'intentional'. If Joe User powers on his laptop to find that a ssid-broadcasting access point has been auto-discovered by winXP and he uses it to browse http, is that 'intentional'?
There's far too much detail to believe that Nintendo would scrap the
models and make new ones. So, we think it's safe to say the new Link will
look a lot like this.
Does it play the most recent region 1 discs? I heard the bad guys came up with a scheme in which new region 1 discs refuse to play in all-regions players, but found nothing about this except a very short notice in some DVD player manufacturer's site. Anyone has more information about this?
Some disks (The Patriot, for example) don't play in no-region players (I had my Apex set to region 0 and all I got on start-up was a pretty map of the world, showing all the regions).
Luckily, I could just reset my player to region 1.
Well - did you ever bother to flash an eeprom with the upgraded firmware? The newest firmware fixes the bugs with seamless branching (and reinstalls the loophole, for those who have the firmware w/o loopholes.)
Hmm -- where can you get it flashed? I'm sure Future Shop (Canada's answer to Circuit City) can't do it for me.
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You laugh, but my favourite CLI task management tool runs well on a N900. Disclosure: I contribute to the project.
http://taskwarrior.org/
I'm pretty sure that in the US in criminal cases the prosecution is required to reveal all evidence that they have to the defense regardless of who it helps. So if the DA came across something on Facebook that would help the defense and didn't reveal it they could be in serious trouble.
IANAL, but it's my understanding that this is incorrect. Any statements by the defendant that tend to support the defense isn't considered evidence and isn't typically allowed to be heard in court. It's considered a self-serving statement: http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/self-serving
This is one of the major points brought up in those 'Never talk to the police' lectures -- literally nothing you say to the police can ever possibly help your eventual court case.
You have to love email forwards disguised as news articles.
This has been floating around for years -- I first saw it as a piece promoting British Special Forces ingenuity. Our very own Bruce Schneier mentioned it (and the suppressed Cockeyed piece) around this time last year.
Not quite -- according to a book I'm reading by Carl Sagan, the first guy to try translating the bible into English, Tynedale, was both hanged and burned at the stake for his troubles. Education and religion have been at odds for longer than you might think.
Although it's very fine and noble to try to minimize unpleasant odours aboard spacecraft, what can be done about us stinky mammals? Humans supposedly produce half a litre of gastrointestinal gas daily -- I would imagine that in an enclosed space occupied by several humans, that could get unpleasant quickly.
Farts!
I shit you not.
I just started using the latest version of MS Outlook and it will NOT let you run or even detach a .EXE file. My uncle sent me a X-mass card and as an .EXE (which I lectured him about..) and I couldn't even detach it.
/. reader might point out that if you really knew what you were doing, you wouldn't be using MS Outlook. :)
It seems MS has overcompensated for this security hole. They're coding their software for the dumbest possible user (i.e. my Uncle...) at the expense of those of us who know what were doing!
A less tactful
Wake me up when their humanoid robot looks like a little blond boy. I mean, who'd adopt a white boxy monster named QRIO (Queerio?)
I count people who own RPG's and Barret Rifles as friends...
By any chance is this because you wouldn't want them to consider you an enemy?
If I knew a guy with a rocket launcher I'd be very friendly towards him as well.
There has been a drastic increase in reported incidents of physical assault by mobile phone. Victims, a group made up entirely of telemarketers, were quoted as saying:
"OW, OW, OW!"
Voila.
Incidentally, since there are a near infinite number of unregistered domain names, then this means that Verisign now 'owns' approximately 100% of the internet.
Impressive.
From here:
A botched carjacking early Sunday morning led to the arrests of the three, who prosecutors said planned to kill three local middle school students and then turn their weapons on random victims.
I don't think the issue is really that they played too much violent video games -- I think the point could be made that (thank god) they didn't play quite enough GTA3.
Bikes aren't self-balancing. I have enough trouble balancing myself without being on top of a poorly thought-out outdated vehicle.
Now if this guy could just come up with a self-balancing bike, I would surely get a lot more exercise since the whole concept of bike riding sounds like heaps of fun
Might I recommend a set of space-age bicycle stabilizers? Heck, I'll sell you a set cheap, $2500 for a kit.
"This site contains information on the recent lawsuits filed by the RIAA against 4 college students for contributory and direct copyright infringement seeking damages of up to ninety seven billion eight hundred million dollars."
It was much funnier when Dr. Evil said it.
The survey found that almost a quarter of unauthorised connections to the WLANs were intentional, with 71 percent used to send emails.
I think you misread their stats. Wouldn't you agree that WLAN connections could be intentional *and* for the purposes of spamming?
Personally, I don't quite understand their use of 'intentional'. If Joe User powers on his laptop to find that a ssid-broadcasting access point has been auto-discovered by winXP and he uses it to browse http, is that 'intentional'?
No kidding. From a January 26th article at IGN:
When they're off, they're off.'Zeelub, stop pointing your laser-pointer at Earth -- you're making the mammals excited.'
Some disks (The Patriot, for example) don't play in no-region players (I had my Apex set to region 0 and all I got on start-up was a pretty map of the world, showing all the regions).
Luckily, I could just reset my player to region 1.
Interestingly enough, some movies are region-free (including the Robocop and Night of the Living Dead movies). See http://www.regionfreedvd.net/discs.html.
Hmm -- where can you get it flashed? I'm sure Future Shop (Canada's answer to Circuit City) can't do it for me.
I think theirs is the geekiest shipping policy I've ever seen:
Canada Shipping: 1st bottle $7, primes (2nd, 3rd, 5th) $3, nonprimes(4th, 6th, 8th) free.
If these things weren't $US 80 a pop... :)
up: 64 kbytes/sec
down: 375 kbytes/sec
I just spent an hour on hold to find this out -- http://rogers.home.com/help doesn't seem to mention this anywhere.