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Dogs Trained to Sniff Out Piracy

Posted by Zonk on from the anti-peg-leg-pooches dept.

RockDoctor writes "Northern Ireland has for decades been using sniffer dogs to detect bombs and bomb-making materials. According to the BBC, a dog trainer in the Province has trained two dogs to sniff out some of the chemicals used in the manufacture of optical discs. While this has an obvious risk of false positives (polycarbonate plastics and their associated plasticizer additives are used in many other industries, for example), it does seem to be effective at locating discs which are not declared in customs manifests, and doing so much faster than human inspection of the cargo can do."

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  1. Obligatory post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How exactly does this affect my rights online?

    1. Re:Obligatory post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      It's strange that you're compelled to post flamebait as an AC. Oh, wait...

  2. If only by mixxu · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    they could train a dog to sniff the riaa assholes... And bite while they are at it.