Oh, thank goodness. That CT substitute teacher, who was convicted on porn charges because her class computer kept popping up ads, has been granted a new trial: [link]
Background here: [link]
I always thought the name Serenity had a vaguely funereal sound to it.
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Jon B. - Jun 06, 2007 11:01:48 am PDT #1826 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
DXMachina - Jun 06, 2007 11:21:38 am PDT #1827 of 25496
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
That's good news. The prosecutors in that case were totally dense.
tommyrot - Jun 06, 2007 11:26:13 am PDT #1828 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The prosecutors in that case were totally dense.
Everybody in that case was totally dense. Except maybe the school administration, which might have been more cynically self-interested than dense....
DXMachina - Jun 06, 2007 11:36:59 am PDT #1829 of 25496
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
True that.
Jessica - Jun 06, 2007 3:08:17 pm PDT #1830 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Judge Hillary Strackbein said the state had conducted further forensic information that the jury had not heard at the trial. The information, according to defense experts, was that the computer had generated pornographic popups and that Amero, a substitute teacher, was not at fault.
Well, DUH. (Though if I'm not mistaken, this isn't technically "new" information. It's only new in that the previous judge and jury completely ignored it, which I guess counts as having been "not heard at the trial.")
Good for this judge. Hopefully they'll get a jury this time around who's actually seen a computer before.
Jon B. - Jun 06, 2007 3:31:47 pm PDT #1831 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I thought what was new is that THE STATE had that evidence, but withheld it. Previously, the defense had tried to present the same information via an expert witness, but the prosecution cried foul because it hadn't been previously informed about the malware defense.
DCJensen - Jun 07, 2007 5:48:02 pm PDT #1832 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.
MIT revisits wireless power: [link]
Laga - Jun 07, 2007 8:21:39 pm PDT #1833 of 25496
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I think the problem is that the defense was supposed to mention that they were bringing up the existence of malware during the pre-trial phase. Since they surprised the prosecution with it, the prosecution was able to ask that it be disregarded.
le nubian - Jun 08, 2007 3:12:19 am PDT #1834 of 25496
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Why though? It isn't like this is something that the prosecution didn't know ANYTHING about it. They knew about this during discovery, right?
Jessica - Jun 08, 2007 5:08:33 am PDT #1835 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Is there a built-in tool in OS X (Tiger) or a free utility I can download for batch changing file extensions? We've got several hundred MP4 files with a mix of .mp4, .mov, and no extensions that ALL need to have .mp4 attached before we can send them to the client.
It seems like something Automater should be able to do, but I've never used it before. Worst case scenario is I spend the rest of the day renaming them manually, but I'd really rather not if I can avoid it.