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Canadian federal prison guards will no longer have to draw straws to see who gets to do the most hated job in prison, search feces for contraband. Their savior is a specially designed toilet called the Drugloo. According to the company website, "feces are washed into an attached recovery container by automatic sprays. There water and anti-microbial fluids are used to separate and wash any drug packages. The package then goes into a sealed chute and from there is dropped directly into an evidence container, without anyone having touched the item."

tpconcannon writes "Bob Bemer, the man who helped introduce the backslash as well as the escape key to computing, has passed away at his home at the age of 78. He also helped develop ASCII during the 60's at IBM. More interesting is that he predicted the Y2K bug all the way back in 1971!"