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Jacubious
11/25/09

In reply to How Your Brain Will Betray You in a Court of Law
I was pretty disturbed by this article as I usually am when I read things about people getting death sentences. I must say though, the comments really showed it up. I can't believe how lightly some people are suggesting offing human beings. I do not want to get into a debate over this, but to simply express my incredulity with regards to some of the attitudes here.
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EpiphyteCorp.
11/25/09

@Jacubious: I know you're not looking for a debate but... you read the article right? The dude plead guilty (repeat... PLEAD GUILTY) to kidnapping, raping and killing a 10-y-o girl. He was already serving 2 life sentences for 2 other murders. I wouldn't necessarily consider this an act of nonchalantly "offing human beings".
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Jacubious
11/25/09

@EpiphyteCorp.: What particularly got me was people saying that those who are considered psychopaths, based on scans indicating malfunctioning brains, should be killed as they cannot be fixed anyways. The implications of statements to those ends are frightening in many ways.
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Duckspwn
11/24/09

In reply to How Your Brain Will Betray You in a Court of Law
Wooo! Death penalty!
This article had a happy ending.
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Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
11/24/09

@Duckspwn:

*does a tap dance*
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Canoehead
11/24/09

In reply to How Your Brain Will Betray You in a Court of Law
Strikes me as a darned good reason to kill him, since apparently his brain architecture will prevent rehabilitation. One would think that defense counsel would be a bit leery of this avenue, as it seems fraught with danger for defendants.
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Covertghost
11/24/09

@Canoehead: Wait... using the penal institutions to rehabilitate?

Madness.
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Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
11/24/09

In reply to How Your Brain Will Betray You in a Court of Law
Pop a xanax.
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EpiphyteCorp.
11/25/09

@Shamoononon: I shave my legs.: COMMON side effects persist or become bothersome when using Xanax:

Changes in appetite; changes in sexual desire; constipation; dizziness; drowsiness; dry mouth; increased saliva production; lightheadedness; tiredness; trouble concentrating; unsteadiness; weight changes.

No rape/ murder here.

I approve ;)
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Nathan Obbards
11/24/09

In reply to How Your Brain Will Betray You in a Court of Law
I don't think anyone should be subject to the death penalty ever, but I also think that people who suffer from psychosis or who are pscyho/sociopaths should not be lumped in with the general prison populace. Let's rehabilitate the healthy and treat the mentally unsound.

Now excuse me as I hop off of my liberal sociologist soapbox.
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SJRNWT
11/24/09

@Nathan Obbards: I believe the death sentence can be justified. I don't believe it's right for our tax dollars to be spent on keeping some sick son of a bitch pedophilic rapist in jail getting free food and a place to stay for the rest of his life. They're not doing anything for society, they're simply wasting money.

But I live in Canada, where we don't do the death penalty. I don't hate my government for it, but I sure wish it would change one day. Or at least exile people haha
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tomsomething
11/24/09

@Nathan Obbards: John Allen Muhammad, infamous "Beltway Sniper" and would-be terrorist network mastermind, was put to death recently.

He demonstrated an ability to identify impressionable youths and develop them into serial killers. An innocent pen-pal relationship or a friendship with a soon-to-be-released convict is an opening to further extend his reach, even from behind bars.

I feel that his death was absolutely right, not as punishment for a series of horrifying and unforgivable acts, but as a necessary means to snuff out the influence of a dangerous man.
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Nathan Obbards
11/24/09

@SJRNWT: I just believe in a reform system, not a retributive system. Most prisons in the US just teach criminals how to become worse criminals, they don't give them the skill sets to go on to lead decent lives and to get a real job. As for the tax dollars bit, there is no consensus on whether the execution is actually cheaper. Some have analyzed it and found the death penalty to be more expensive than life imprisonment while others have found it to be cheaper. I just take a moral stand that killing someone is very rarely right. There is no added utility in killing someone who is sentenced to life in prison and sometimes they even produce something worthwhile. Not only that, but if new evidence comes to life that absolves them, we won't have killed an innocent person, something that has happened too often in Texas.

As for exiling people, I mean, isn't that how the great nation of Australia started? It literally is a nation of pirates, murderers, rapists, and thieves.
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Nathan Obbards
11/24/09

@tomsomething: You could just screen/block all of his letters. Also, people who are in prison for life without parole are generally kept separate from the rest of the prison population.
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G.O.D.
11/24/09

@Nathan Obbards: I have an Idea how about dispose of, kill, or use for medical testing, all the criminals and psycho/sociopaths. Then spend the money we would have wasted trying to rehabilitate or treat them on people that are already productive members of society by rewarding them for doing a great job with education and training to better themselves, their lives and everything around them. If you reward bad behavior you will get behavior.
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Nathan Obbards
11/24/09

@G.O.D.: I wanted to go Godwin on you, but refrained. Instead I shall leave you with this: [en.wikipedia.org] as well as the fact that rehabilitative/restorative justice tends to create better results than retributive justice.
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Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
11/24/09

@Nathan Obbards: When you rape and murder a ten year old little girl, taking your life is not cruel or unusual. You want cruel? Hand him over to me.

With that, I've been in trouble for politically debating on here, so I will take the rest of my opinions and run.

That flash of light? That was me, I be runnin.
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Nathan Obbards
11/24/09

@Shamoononon: I shave my legs.: Haha, yeah, I had to say it, but knew I was opening a can when I said it. It boils down to personal ethics. My ethical stance is that it's immoral, but others have good arguments for the justice of it.
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chapoec
11/25/09

@Nathan Obbards: Come on you don't believe that bastard sniper deserved to be put to death. Stop being such a bleeding hearth liberal. If it was your mother, father, sibling, or friend that was killed by this bitch you would think differently. The death penalty should be used for the most heinous murderers like the DC Sniper.
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Nathan Obbards
11/25/09

@chapoec: If it was my mother, sister, father, or friend, I would feel the same way that he should be shown grace and not killed. Be it from a philosophical utilitarian perspective or a religious perspective, I could not justify killing someone for the evil they have committed.

Additionally, I am not stupid. Grad schools, especially mine, don't allow dumbasses in. Nice ad hominem attack. In context, my statement makes perfect sense. Some forms of execution do fall under cruel and unusual, hence why there was a hiatus on all execution via lethal injection and why the gas chamber is no longer used. Beyond that, I was pointing out how medical testing would most definitely fall under cruel and unusual.

I don't believe anyone is entitled to the death penalty, but that is my moral paradigm built upon the moral philosophies I adhere to. You are entitled to my beliefs and I mine. Do I believe yours are wrong? Yes, but I'm not going to be an ass about it.
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MrBangBam
11/25/09

@Nathan Obbards: I believe in the death penalty. :)
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chapoec
11/25/09

@Nathan Obbards: Yes you are right in a debate it is a weak fallacy to attack the opponent instead of the issue. But hey this is gizmodo not academia.

#tips
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Nathan Obbards
11/25/09

@chapoec: One should always argue intelligently lest the unintelligent/fallacious forms of arguing seep into those arenas where intelligent argument is necessary.
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Kaiser-Machead
11/24/09

In reply to How Your Brain Will Betray You in a Court of Law
And what's to distinguish guilt of a murder from guilt from infidelity.
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appletoad
10/10/09

In reply to Final Round of Psystar vs Apple Might Be Called Off
The people who transcribe for the courts type at like 400wpm using a phonetic keyboard. Good luck Rosa.
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Rosa Golijan
10/10/09

@appletoad: I didn't say I'd do it well...
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clak
10/09/09

In reply to Final Round of Psystar vs Apple Might Be Called Off
Psystar wants a summary judgment because if they go to trial and Apple wins, Apple could be awarded some pretty hefty damages, in the millions. If a judge decides it, there won't likely be any huge monetary damages.

Apple wants a summary judgement because they have the law behind them. The system is pretty much set up to protect people who own the rights to something.

If Psystar were to win, that would mean any operating system, including those inside of consoles like the Xbox or Wii or Playstation or even an OS inside a freaking camera, would be available for anyone to install on a competing product. No judge is going to let such insanity happen.

No company who bother to develop anything if they were forced to hand it over to a competitor.

Even if a judge ruled in favor of Psystar, it would likely get reversed on appeal.
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HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.
10/09/09

@clak: "If Psystar were to win, that would mean any operating system, including those inside of consoles like the Xbox or Wii or Playstation or even an OS inside a freaking camera, would be available for anyone to install on a competing product."

Only if the company sells the OS as a separate product. Which neither MS, Nintendo, Sony, or any camera manufacturer does.
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clak
10/09/09

@HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.:
There is no indication in the court documents I've seen that there be a stipulation that the OS be sold separately. So no, if Psystar were to win, that would be exactly what would happen.
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Cake_for_JMS
10/09/09

@HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.: Apple doesn't actually sell their operating system separately. What they DO do is sell UPGRADE licenses. They DON'T sell full licenses.
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HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.
10/09/09

@JMS3072: Somebody should tell Apple that. There's no stipulation in their license agreement that says you must own a previous version of Mac OS to buy any particular version of OSX.
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UnderLoK
10/10/09

@clak: Psystar is a disposable company, I doubt their worried about loosing money.
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spcomputing
10/09/09

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They should just settle this the old-fashioned way: A cage-fight between Steve Jobs and Psystar's CEO.
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tande04
10/09/09

In reply to Final Round of Psystar vs Apple Might Be Called Off
They're always going to ask for a summary judgement. That reaaly isn't an issue.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
10/09/09

In reply to Final Round of Psystar vs Apple Might Be Called Off
"Hell, I'll volunteer to transcribe the case for everyone's entertainment"

Can you wear this dress while transcribing?
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(Starman) Starman
10/09/09

@Jrsy Devil's Bright Idea®: Men, men, entertainmen...
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
10/09/09

@Jrsy Devil's Bright Idea®:
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10/09/09

@(Starman) AnalysisDialysis: Copy&Paste Fail!!!
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Nathan Obbards
10/09/09

In reply to Final Round of Psystar vs Apple Might Be Called Off
I'm not sure how I feel about this. On one hand, I know that Apple is a closed system and that they market themselves as a hardware company making most their profit on the hardware, not the OS and that a competitor running their OS might steal market share from them. On the other hand, there are many people who want a Mac, who can't afford to buy one, and who don't have the know how to make a hackintosh.
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nutbastard
10/09/09

@Nathan Obbards:

... come on, it's not THAT complicated to hackintosh these days! there was a time when obscure hardware combinations were a crapshoot, but there's literally lists of setups one can buy that are pretty straightforward in hackintoshing.

personally, i dont find the Mac OS as appealing as it once was compared to Windows. it used to be cut and dry, windows was a pain and mac seemed to work without any fuss. that's no longer true. and i dont think i'll ever get over the single button mouse. too many years of working on windows machines has atrophied the mac skills i grew up with. i can no longer fix a mac when something is misconfigured. they've changed so much and well, i go on, so i'll leave it at that.
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dcdttu
07/28/09

In reply to Verizon Asks Court to Affirm Its Claim to 'America's Most Reliable 3G Network'
In every city I go to, Sprint beats out AT&T hands down. In Austin, where I live, I have dropped 1 call in 2 months with my Palm Pre. With my iPhone, I literally dropped about 1/2 my calls. HALF. AT&T is the worst carrier I've been with by far, and I've been with them all.
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MxPxRobbie
07/28/09

In reply to Verizon Asks Court to Affirm Its Claim to 'America's Most Reliable 3G Network'
reliable my arse... my VZW works at the end of my street, but not at my house. every other carrier has service at my house.
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aec007
07/28/09

@OMG! Butter!: That's called "coverage" not reliability.
When you do have a signal... is it reliable? THAT's the question.

I have ATT, and their connection drops from 3G to Edge in my office without even moving about....
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MxPxRobbie
07/28/09

@aec007:

No, my "coverage" sucks, therefore the VZW network isn't "reliable". I get a signal, i'm in a suburb of Nashville, and my reception is spotty at best at home. I can't "rely" on my VZW service to make an emergency call, or even check my voicemail. Good thing I'm moving soon.
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Lee A.
07/28/09

In reply to Verizon Asks Court to Affirm Its Claim to 'America's Most Reliable 3G Network'
Ok, how about this AT&T:
Verizon (and hell, Sprint too for that matter) is consistently faster everywhere I go. Your 3G coverage is spotty, whereas my Verizon and Sprint phones are always in EV-DO coverage. The closest AT&T 3G area for me is Chattanooga, and the speeds I'm getting there on your network are nearly identical (even worse in some cases) than I get on Sprint or Verizon.

But whatever though. You can keep arguing that you don't suck ass. It's up to you.
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Geisrud
07/28/09

@Lee A.: I'm just curious why you have phones with three different carriers? And what's with no T-Mo love?
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