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Crime

Justice Not As Blind As Previously Thought 256

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.'"
Bug

McAfee Kills SVCHost.exe, Sets Off Reboot Loops For Win XP, Win 2000 472

Kohenkatz writes "A McAfee Update today (DAT 5958) incorrectly identifies svchost.exe, a critical Windows executable, as a virus and tries to remove it, causing endless reboot loops." Reader jswackh adds this terse description: "So far the fixes are sneakernet only. An IT person will have to touch all affected PCs. Reports say that it quarantines SVCHOST. [Affected computers] have no network access, and missing are taskbar/icons/etc. Basically non-functioning. Windows 7 seems to be unaffected." Updated 20100421 20:08 GMT by timothy: An anonymous reader points out this easy-to-follow fix for the McAfee flub.
Earth

Breaking the Squid Barrier 126

An anonymous reader writes "Dr. Steve O'Shea of Auckland, New Zealand is attempting to break the record for keeping deep sea squid alive in captivity, with the goal of being able to raise a giant squid one day. Right now, he's raising the broad squid, sepioteuthis australis, from egg masses found in seaweed. This is a lot harder than it sounds, because the squid he's studying grow rapidly and eat only live prey, making it hard for them to keep the squid from becoming prey themselves. If his research works out, you might one day be able to visit an aquarium and see giant squid."

Comment Re:No one should have expected (Score 1) 1364

The point is that to label someone else a bigot, regardless of what group or views the labeler confesses, says just as much about the person weilding the term as it does the person or group they are objecting to. We often find faults in others that we are not willing to see in ourselves. And haven't you been paying attention to history? Again, regardless of which position you support there are laws that have been passed from each end of the spectrum that others disagree with. Laws are meant to restrict the actions of others. They define what behaviors are acceptable to society. So, to say that trying to inhibit the rights of people by passing a law is incorrect is an argument against the legal system in general. All laws and regulations are meant to restrict behavior. By their very nature all laws are discriminatory. That's not always a bad thing.

Comment Re:No one should have expected (Score 1) 1364

Why do people insist on throwing that word around? Do they actually know its meaning? From Dictionary.com: bigot (bg't) n. One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ. While it may be true that conservatives appear to fit this definition, it is also true that the people on the left who accuse them of it appear to be equally guilty of it, if not more so in some instances.

Comment Re:Political correctness assaulting opposers (Score 1) 1364

God wrote the 10 commandments and revealed doctrine, He didn't write the Bible. Men did, and to be more explicit, prophets and apostles did. They wrote down the things they learned from God. What's more, the *device* he uses is much more advanced than a fax machine, a satellite, or any other man-made technology. ;)

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