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....

True that.

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.

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.

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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.

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?

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.

You should be able to do that easily at the command line.

Um, my caffeine hasn't kicked in yet - anyone else want to try?

eta: I googled - this might help: Batch File Rename By File Extension in Unix

for example:

#change .html files to php

for file in *.html ; do mv $file `echo $file | sed 's/(.*.)html/1php/'` ; done

You'll probably want to backup the files first....

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