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Re:Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA t... by edgyquant on Monday February 08, 2021 @05:52PM (#26071398)
As long as he’s actually reading the code, and still in jail unable to hurt anyone, let him have it. He’ll likely pass before that time is reached and if he’s just wasting time he’ll get bored having to spend hours a day looking at code that he doesn’t care to look at. I get what you’re saying but my point is him wasting time reading code isn’t hurting anyone and is a better use of an inmates time than sitting around.
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Re:Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA t... by kenjackson on Monday February 08, 2021 @11:29PM (#26073877)
If he’s in jail doing it then that’s fine.
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Re:Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA t... by michaelmrose on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @01:36AM (#26074574)
For practical purposes its not in the interest of justice to punish people before we have found them guilty as a matter of law and justice. If it really requires 8 years of work to prove whether the tools they are using work or not then they haven't independently validated their work in the first place ergo we have no reason to suppose it works.

We should either pay for multiple people to work on it so we can have the answer in less than 8 years or we shouldn't use it at all.

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