Justice Not As Blind As Previously Thought 256

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday May 18, 2010 @03:05PM 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 on Friday February 12, 2010 @04:25PM (#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.

Comment Re:Interesting... (Score 3, Insightful) 909

by jtshaw on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @04:07PM (#28872403) Attached to: Alan Cox Quits As Linux TTY Maintainer — "I've Had Enough"

That is why you have to have coding standards...

I'd also hope you never have 1 person in charge of 3M lines of code.

Mars, Mercury May Have Formed From Earth and Venus 73

Posted by kdawson on Friday January 23, 2009 @12:27PM 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.

Comment Re:Missing option: (Score 1) 887

by jtshaw on Monday January 12, 2009 @12:20AM (#26413297) Attached to: How do you get to work?

+1 for walking.

Comment Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment (Score 1) 517

by jtshaw on Tuesday December 23, 2008 @03:56PM (#26215307) Attached to: Your Favorite Tech / Eng. / CS Books?

by W. Richard Stevens (1st) edition and added to by Stephen Rago (2nd edition).

If you need to program in *nix this is a must have reference.

Submission + - Mac Developer Mulls Zero-day Security Response

Submitted by 1.6 Beta on Thursday February 01, 2007 @06:48PM

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."