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Justice Not As Blind As Previously Thought 256

Posted by samzenpus from the too-pretty-for-jail dept.
NotSoHeavyD3 writes "I doubt this is much of a surprise but apparently Cornell University did a study that seems to show you're more likely to get convicted if you're ugly. From the article: 'According to a Cornell University study, unattractive defendants are 22 percent more likely to be convicted than good-looking ones. And the unattractive also get slapped with harsher sentences — an average of 22 months longer in prison.'"

Comment Re:A Christian's take (Score 1) 1252

by jtshaw (#31118016) Attached to: Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War

Evolution is taught as a theory, not a law, so nobody is actually saying that it is absolutely correct. It is one of many scientific theories that is taught in science classes.

Creationism is not a scientific theory at all, and thus doesn't belong. I could absolutely see speaking of it in the context of a history class or, obviously, a class about religion.
Space

Mars, Mercury May Have Formed From Earth and Venus 73

Posted by kdawson from the brothers-under-the-skin dept.
goran72 sends along a report on a radical new theory of planet formation that suggests that Mars and Mercury were formed from the scraps of Earth and Venus. The theory has testable predictions — for example that the compositions of the rocky inner planets should be more similar than the current theory of planet formation would have them.
Security

Submission + - Mac Developer Mulls Zero-day Security Response

Submitted by 1.6 Beta
1.6 Beta writes: Landon Fuller, the Mac programmer/Darwin developer behind the 'month of Apple fixes' project, plans to expand the initiative to roll out zero-day patches for issues that put Mac OS X users at risk of code execution attacks. The former engineer in Apple's BSD Technology Group has already shipped a fix for a nasty flaw in Java's GIF image decoder and hints an an auto-updating mechanism for the third-party patches. From the article: "Perhaps [it could be] the Mac OS equivalent to ZERT," Fuller said, referring to the Zero-day Emergency Response Team, a group of respected security pros that offer unofficial patches during malware crises."

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