[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What numeric value converts this sentence: > > I would rather ____ guilty go free > than 1 innocent be imprisoned. > > to this sentence > > I cannot countenance ____ guilty going free > just to protect 1 innocent. > Interesting question. My indignant gut reaction of "never!" is clearly wrong, as no justice system can achieve a false positive rate of zero, nor can we live without a justice system. So i don't really know my own answer, but I suspect it has several zeros in it :-)
> Pedantically, see slides 248-258, perhaps even > 232-258, at [1]. I'm not advertising; I'm just > acknowledging that I am on-record. > > --dan > > [1] > http://geer.tinho.net/measuringsecurity.tutorialv2.pdf > Gets a 404 error. I assume this is the correct URL http://geer.tinho.net/usenix/measuringsecurity.tutorialv2.pdf Which is worth reading, at least the pages Dan cited, for some very interesting data if nothing else. Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. http://crispincowan.com/~crispin/ Itanium. Vista. GPLv3. Complexity at work _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
