asciilifeform: (imagine if a judge and jury could themselves be executed, at ANY future point, if a future judge & jury were to find that the earlier had erred.)
asciilifeform: but in doing so broke with the pretence that a trial is ~actually~ about finding of physical fact.
asciilifeform: iirc it was a factor in the decision though. that usg would be broken by the expense of being required to offer dnatronics to all death row.
asciilifeform: so there is something like actual custom behind the notion
asciilifeform: when, e.g., the rosenbergs, sizzled, prior to the day of, telephone was installed not only in their cells but in the room containing the chair
asciilifeform: the fiction specifically where it is not hitler but a faceless and indestructible (or at least, 'no reasonable person would try to destroy'...) thing that is doing the lip-cutting
asciilifeform: the scam is not in hitler's ability to 'cut off your lips if he doesn't like your face' but in the ~pretense~ at this strange 'rule of law' fiction☟︎
asciilifeform: or, more recently, 'this nmr box proves that the accused has seen this knife before'
asciilifeform: 'your fp was on this pistol, step this way sir'
asciilifeform: 'only a terrorist would operate a colour printer without yellow dot watermark, ergo either this page came out of yours, or you are accusing a loyal servant of the crown of terrorism'
asciilifeform: 'we used it and ergo credible so stfu'
asciilifeform: sorta like merit-spray and security-spray
asciilifeform: which is why i believe that we are seeing the product of a theatrical voodoo production, rather than mathematical reasoning (however flawed)
asciilifeform: as if one could not rasterize jpeg, 'blender', then rejpegize
asciilifeform: only if you're a process running on the thing
asciilifeform: were sold by some huckster 'identify people and cameras'
asciilifeform: we are seeing the end product of a very particular variety of lysenkotron here
asciilifeform: and the 'distinguish type of camera / detect photoshitting / by jpeg compression artifacts' is a trendy idiocy atm
asciilifeform: i follow (on and off) academiwanker pubs
asciilifeform: i suppose i ought to share the reasoning behind my hypothesis
asciilifeform: faced with perfectly valid accusation of doctored photos (what lizard media mouthpiece hasn't these?) there is, naturally, a ritualistic defence
asciilifeform: or, alternatively, no one bought into it, but is a cynical fraud with the public as the mark
asciilifeform: seems like reuters bought into some idiocy where a huckster promised to distinguish one stream of bits, having the correct 'colour' (as in the essay, nothing to do with optics, but politics) from another, identical stream, having undesirable colour.☟︎
asciilifeform: 'RAW photos do allow for a greater degree of post-processing flexibility, so based on the new policy, it appears that Reuters found that photos processed from RAWs are more likely to distort the truth.' << as if one could not easily produce whatever jpeg is expected
asciilifeform: (the latter being a bitwise dump of raw ccd output)
asciilifeform: what can be inferred from BingoBoingo's link is that reuters has bought into some software sc4mz0r's idiocy where there is, presumably, a proggy which claims to distinguish between jpeg that was crapped out by a camera vs one that was downconverted from 'raw'
