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Super Bowl Footballs Get The DNA Touch
theodp writes "All 120 Super Bowl XL footballs will be marked with a drop of synthetic DNA to thwart potential counterfeiters (free reg. required to read) who might be tempted to sell phony game-used Super Bowl footballs, which can be worth thousands of dollars. Exposed to a specific laser frequency, the DNA glows to a bright green. 'The chance of replicating this exact DNA sequence is one in 33 trillion,' said the president of PSA/DNA Authentication Services."
Little Green Footballs.
Now only if I can look at them in peace. Those Islamo-Fascists are going to ruin my Superbowl Sunday.
Life is not for the lazy.
LOL NOT BANNED LOL
LOL ANOTHER ACCOUNT
I thought as a community we were really hot on copyright? How could reposting the whole article ever be considered fair use? I understand why it was done but if we want people to respect the copyright of our work we should respect theirs. The fact that they force you to register to read the article is not an excuse to reprint it - it is the cost of reading the article.
I used to have a better sig but it broke.
"It take 9 months to bear a child, no matter how many women you assign to the job."
Unique DNA signature?
I fail to see how getting some poor lab worker to masturbate over 120 footballs is going to prevent crime?
-Nano.
There's this thing called sarcasm. You should read up on it, as you might encounter it here on the internets.
oh yeah, and...
> You can go buy some parkas, but one of the parka's collars may be damaged.
you = pwned.
If someone broke the terms of the GPL by we, as a community, would be all over them and calling them for everything because they broke the terms of the license. I can't for one minute believe that the person that reposted the article had permission from the LA Times and therefore he has broken the terms it was released under. There is no difference in the offence commited.
Just because you don't like the terms it doesn't give you the right to ignore them. If you feel it does give you that right then you have to accept that people also have the right to just ignore the GPL. I suggest if you don't like the terms you register your protest by not reading their articles.
I used to have a better sig but it broke.