{"id":2120,"date":"2004-01-10T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2004-01-11T04:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/10\/occams-razor\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T15:04:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T23:04:36","slug":"occams-razor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/10\/occams-razor\/","title":{"rendered":"Occam&#8217;s Razor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12377,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.bbc.co.uk\\\/1\\\/hi\\\/england\\\/manchester\\\/2997317.stm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.bbc.co.uk\\\/2\\\/hi\\\/uk_news\\\/england\\\/manchester\\\/2997317.stm&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12378,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.ntk.net\\\/2004\\\/01\\\/09&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20241004033454\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.ntk.net\\\/2004\\\/01\\\/09\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 22:31:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 22:31:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>So &#8212; what&#8217;s more likely?<\/p>\n<p>That while trying to install and figure out the image-processing software that came with their new digital camera, a husband and wife accidentally opened the husbands previously hidden stash of downloaded porn, or&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>That after purchasing a brand-new digital camera, taking a few pictures, and plugging it into their computer, a husband and wife discovered that there were a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/manchester\/2997317.stm\" title=\"Porn shots found on new camera\">pornographic images <em>already on the camera<\/em><\/a> when they bought it?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  An investigation has begun after a couple found pornographic pictures on a new digital camera they had bought.<\/p>\n<p>  Jackie and Eammon Gall, from Greater Manchester, discovered the explicit shots in the memory of the camera soon after they bought it for \u00a3400 at Argos.<\/p>\n<p>  &#91;&#8230;&#93;<\/p>\n<p>  &#91;Mr.\u00a0Gall&#93; told BBC GMR: \\&#8221;When we discovered the pictures, I was trying to get rid of them straight away, because that was my instant reaction.<\/p>\n<p>  \\&#8221;Then for whatever reason the pictures then became part of the desktop and filled up the whole screen.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Then I started to panic, thinking the pictures would perhaps go anywhere else on the computer that they shouldn&#8217;t.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know you&#8217;re not supposed to snicker at people. But come on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntk.net\/2004\/01\/09\/\" title=\"2004-01-09\">Need to Know<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Child In Us, The&#8221; by Enigma from the album <em>Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!<\/em> (1996, 5:06).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation has begun after a couple found pornographic pictures on a new digital camera they had bought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[6,39],"class_list":["post-2120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-humor","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}