Just about every American institution or custom has, at some point or another, had some kind of racist element encoded into its DNA. That’s the real story here. Not that some 19 year old competed in a dumb pageant. 

We really doing this? Really? I mean we have Texas trying to take away the right to vote for anyone that isn’t white, actually seasons their food and can clap on the 2 & 4 and this is what you’re concerned with? I am all for multi-tasking but I am also for priorities and this ain’t it. Unless you have footage of her…

“...and of course those with 250+ hours on record explaining how the game has never offered enough content.”

You are gravely over-estimating the training, discipline, and security surrounding the US nuclear stockpile.

That would violate the company’s right to be secure in their possessions.

RTFA you fucking numpty. I can’t believe you’re so profoundly dumb and smug that you have twice responded without fucking reading the article! Twice! Staggering arrogance and ignorance.

The criminal law system in England & Wales is a hell of a lot better than the US one on quite a number of points:

Your example would work if the people Citizen hurts are the people who created it, but that’s not the case.

You can’t call an effective expert witness to testify about the veracity of information generated by a black-box of a program without that expert having the ability to examine the program and how that information is generated. Which is exactly what the defense team here is asking for. They need the code so their…

Jesus , the US judicial system is so messed up , at this point just switching to Trial by Combat would give a fairer outcome.

It’s the software company that provided the unreasonable NDA. An NDA that was apparently so restrictive that even the judge even disagreed with it.

The defense tried to go through STRmix, but the company tried to force a laughably restrictive NDA down the defense’s throat, as well as down the court’s throat as well.

The article states that the defense did not question the validity of the evidence. And yes, that’s on the defense team and they probably should have done so. But that’s not Colone’s fault and he should be allowed to examine that on appeal.

Indeed, somehow STRmix’s code is more valuable than the possibility of saving a man from a death sentence. And it’s not like they’re publishing said code in the streets. The lawyers presented an NDA so heavy it made the whole point worthless.

Well, if the source code has an error in it that isn’t reflected in the peer-reviewed papers, that would seem to be pretty material. The evidence in this case was produced by the software, not by some academic papers about the software. It is entirely possible that the underlying methodology is sound but that its…

Cheating in single-player games is commonly called modding.

The NDA likely prevents them from sharing their findings with anyone, including a judge or jury, making any of their findings worthless.

How is this even a debate?

Oh yay, assholes not even in the greys making excuses for denying a person the right to a fair trial.

The NDA probably excludes the defense from having anyone who would be able to determine if routines are flawed from reviewing the code, bringing up any of the flaws in court, yada yada yada. NDAs are designed to protect a company’ secrets, so if their software is flawed, they would not want it public knowledge. The…