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Comment Re:Missing info (Score 1) 177

I know they're not the same; that's why they are different words.
TFA however, does not seem to recognize anything besides "affirmed" and "reversed", so "vacated" must be categorized as either of these.
Since the PDF I linked to grouped "vacated" with "reversed" in some of it's tables, I assumed that must have been what TFA has done, hence my use of the words "assuming vacated counts as a reveral".

Short; it doesn't matter what either of us thinks, it matter how the author of TFA defined these terms.

Comment Re:Objection! (Score 1) 102

What guarentee does anybody have these credentials are real and actually belong to ANY site?

They could just as well fabricate some large list of random credentials if their "disclosure" method doesn't actually require disclosing whose the data was.

All you would be paying for is a $120 "Thanks for the money, the credentials aren't from your site" notice.

Comment Re:Missing info (Score 3, Informative) 177

It would be useful to know how many of the court's decisions are affirm vs reverse.

http://www.americanbar.org/con...

I did some tallying on table 3 and found the following numbers on total decissions;
Reversed: 58.48%
Vacated: 12.58%
Affirmed: 28.94%

The article doesn't mention whether "vacated" is counted separately or as a reversal.
The graph shows only reversed and affirmed, so I'm assuming vacated counts as a reversal.
If this is the case, reversed and vacated together is 71.06%.
So if you'd guess "Reversed" all the time, you'd be slighly more accurate than the algorithm.

Comment Re: 'unreliability' (Score 2) 189

Yet when I once tried to remove some text describing a certain type of LCD technology as being lesbian, the editors had reverted my fix within an hour; LCD panels are apparently truely lesbian and I should not have wanted to hide that fact.

More likely, some Wikipedia editors are just very protective of "their" pages and will revert any edit without verification. After several removals of these obvious kinds of jokes, typos and some none-controversial, cited additions were immediately reverted without any reason given, I stopped editing Wikipedia.

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