Comment Too late (Score 1) 108
Atmospheric nuclear testing in the 1950's and 60's added so much C14 to the atmosphere that Carbon dating is useless already
Major IE8 Flaw Makes "Safe" Sites Unsafe 83
After this weekend's report of a dangerous flaw in IE (which Microsoft confirmed today), intrudere points out an exclusive report in The Register on a new hole in IE8 that could allow an attacker to pull off cross-site scripting attacks on Web sites that ought, by rights, to be safe from XSS. This is according to two anonymous sources, who told El Reg that Microsoft had been notified of the vulnerability a few months ago.
Haskell 2010 Announced 173
paltemalte writes "Simon Marlow has posted an announcement of Haskell 2010, a new revision of the Haskell purely functional programming language. Good news for everyone interested in SMP and concurrency programming."
Comment Norwegian Law (Score 1) 366
Since I'm Norwegian, I'll give a brief description of the courts andf practices.
DISCLAMER: I'm an engineer damn it, not a lawyer!
In the lower court, that aquitted Jon, there is no jury. In civil, and criminal cases with a maximum prison sentence of six years, as this was, there is only one judge.
The judges writes a written argument, the judgement, where the judge argues the evidence, the law, and come to a conclusion (the judgement).
However, the court may appount co-judges when there are complex issues involved. The co-judges are not from the legal profession, but from the profession the case deal with. In this case there were two co-judges, one engineer, and a university lecturere.
Since there is a legal argument, the argument can be argued, which is be definition an appeal.
I'm not sure on the practices on appeals, but it seem that appeals are pretty automatic.
In the second court, there is a jury that decides guilty/not guilty, but I belive that is only in th e case if there is a maximum sentence of 6 years. Else there is a panel of three judges.
The jury, with is 10, not 12 peers, do not have to be unanimous, a majority of 6 is sufficient.
Jury judgements are just yes/no as in the US, and the supreme court don't overrule jurys on the ground that they don't know the jurys reasoning.
In Jon's case there seem to be a panel of 3 with whatever co-judges they assign.
It should be noted that Norway, along with many many other countires do not hace the brittish/US consept of common law. Under common law, court rulings become law, and if there is an earlier ruling in a identical/similar case, a the court must rule the same. Thats why US lawyers study past cases to the extreme, and quotes them al the time.
Under norwegian law, if there is an identical case, the court may rule whatever way it desides. THe lawyers may argue prior rulings, but they are just arguments, not law as in the US.
DISCLAMER: I'm an engineer damn it, not a lawyer!
In the lower court, that aquitted Jon, there is no jury. In civil, and criminal cases with a maximum prison sentence of six years, as this was, there is only one judge.
The judges writes a written argument, the judgement, where the judge argues the evidence, the law, and come to a conclusion (the judgement).
However, the court may appount co-judges when there are complex issues involved. The co-judges are not from the legal profession, but from the profession the case deal with. In this case there were two co-judges, one engineer, and a university lecturere.
Since there is a legal argument, the argument can be argued, which is be definition an appeal.
I'm not sure on the practices on appeals, but it seem that appeals are pretty automatic.
In the second court, there is a jury that decides guilty/not guilty, but I belive that is only in th e case if there is a maximum sentence of 6 years. Else there is a panel of three judges.
The jury, with is 10, not 12 peers, do not have to be unanimous, a majority of 6 is sufficient.
Jury judgements are just yes/no as in the US, and the supreme court don't overrule jurys on the ground that they don't know the jurys reasoning.
In Jon's case there seem to be a panel of 3 with whatever co-judges they assign.
It should be noted that Norway, along with many many other countires do not hace the brittish/US consept of common law. Under common law, court rulings become law, and if there is an earlier ruling in a identical/similar case, a the court must rule the same. Thats why US lawyers study past cases to the extreme, and quotes them al the time.
Under norwegian law, if there is an identical case, the court may rule whatever way it desides. THe lawyers may argue prior rulings, but they are just arguments, not law as in the US.
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