The defendant and the victim were both in the sister's apartment earlier that evening. They left together.

If the defense contends that their client did not bring the knife, then they have two options:

1. 1. Put their client on the stand to say he didn't bring the knife. That could be risky, because if he's testifying, the prosecution can cross-examine him and he may incriminate himself in other ways. If he's proven to be there when Lee died and he's proven to be the one who stabbed him, the jury is not going to believe he didn't bring the knife without corroborating evidence, otherwise they are just taking the word of a guy who stabbed someone.
2. 2. Don't put their client on the stand. If there was nobody else there, they can't "prove" who brought the knife - they can only introduce theories as to how the knife got there. So they might agree with the prosecution that the knife came from the sister's apartment and they might under cross-examination ask the sister "Was Lee in your apartment? Did he have the opportunity to take that knife?" and then they've started a reasonable doubt in the jury's mind about whether Lee or Nima brought the knife, which might open the way to a self-defence manslaughter conviction instead of murder, even if the knife was in Nima's hand when it went into Lee.

So I don't think they are grasping at straws to get their client off, they are building a multi-layered defence where even if their client is convicted of stabbing the victim, it might be under a lesser charge with a lower penalty than he would otherwise have got if they did not challenge the idea that he brought the knife.

There's a bit more info in the SF Chronicle about other strands of the defense argument.

https://therealdeal.com/new-yo...

I have a number of virtual machines still running Gentoo, Dubya, and Fedora

I've never heard of Dubya Linux and a cursory Google Search did not enlighten me...

I actually wish I had mod points right now...

As a pedant, I need to point out that the improvement is 0.24%

"The system trained on Baidu’s new computer was wrong only 4.58 percent of the time. The previous best was 4.82 percent, reported by Google in March. One month before that, Microsoft had reported achieving 4.94 percent, becoming the first to better average human performance of 5.1 percent."

Also why are the numbers reversed to quote success rates for Google and Microsoft in the summary on Slashdot - it would have been much clearer if the actual numbers in the article (which were all error rates) were quoted!

You are correct, the Parent is outdated. The only feasible upgrade a user can undertake on a recent MBP is the SSD - the RAM and CPU are soldered directly to the logic board.

Before buying the new XPS13, check the Linux support status. I recommend tracking Major Hayden's blog post about the 2015 XPS13 as he's involved in getting Linux support working. (but doesn't work for Dell).

Major's also got a series of posts about the 2013 Lenovo X1 Carbon and I believe has just taken delivery of the 2015 X1 Carbon so will probably post info about Linux support there. Major's a Fedora User and sometime Developer, but anything he posts would probably be applicable to Debian-derived distributions like Ubuntu as well.

That's not the right website for NWB - that's some kind of tech blog with adverts.

The correct site is: http://nerdswithoutborders.net/

Given that this is a WEBsite and the inventor of the World Wide Web is British, I hope you are enjoying your "independence" right now.

I wish I could hug you right now AC.

I'm pretty sure a Shadow Hawk weighs 55 tons

At the time 5.56x45mm NATO was adopted, there was research conducted that showed that most engagements took place at shorter ranges. It was also decided that incapacitating an enemy with a smaller cartridge was better than killing them with a larger one, as it produced a burden for the opposing side. Given that, it was decided to adopt the 5.56x45 because you could carry more of it. For the same weight, you could incapacitate more people with 5.56 than you could with 7.62x51mm (or .308 WIN if you haven't adopted metric yet). The ability to spray rounds indiscriminately is also quite handy, because it makes the other side duck rather than advance, provided that spray is somewhat effective (e.g. at 300m or so)

However that situation has changed in the recent past - combat in Iraq and Afghanistan has typically taken place in open country where the 7.62x39mm round fired by an AK actually does have advantages, but not so much as a 7.62x51 NATO would - hence many units have adopted new rifles for that role - c.f. US Mk17 Mod 0 (SCAR) and UK L129A1 (which is actually an AR-15 variant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...)

I should point out that comparing an AK (7.62x39) to a SCAR (7.62x51) isn't comparing apples to apples - the rounds are quite different.

So the correct answer to this question was the one ESR asked - for who and for what? Short range battles, you'd want an M-16 (assuming the questioner meant the most common 5.56mm variant). Longer range, you might want an AK, but the longer it went, the more you'd really want something designed for 7.62 NATO and that might bring you back to an AR-15 variant ;)

Errr... HR always do the dismissal in large companies. They manage the process (collecting keys, revoking access, escorting from the building) and they make sure it's done within the relevant statutes. It's their job to manage the exit of former employees. In contrast, the boss's job is to manage people who work for him. This one wouldn't, any more.

People who are made to feel stupid when they are wrong will tend to cover up their failures and they won't be happy in the workplace anyway. Managing people is about sugar-coating things sometimes, so grow up.

The attitude displayed in the grandparent post is a good one, the fact you don't appreciate that, may indicate that you are wrong rather than he. The attitudes expressed here make me not want to ever work for you (do you manage people?) - because you sound like an asshole if you manage with that kind of "courage"...

Oh I so wish I had mod points so we could smash the US-centricity of this site....

But you should have included a reference. Wikipedia? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Miggins