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Identifying People By Odor As Effective As Fingerprinting

A study has found that everybody has a unique body odor, like their fingerprints, that could be used as an unique identifier. The study showed that a persons unique odor stayed the same even if they varied their diet with strong smelling foods such as garlic and spices. "These findings indicate that biologically-based odorprints, like fingerprints, could be a reliable way to identify individuals," said Monell chemist Jae Kwak. I would have thought that hundreds of years of dogs tracking people would have proved this, but it's nice to know that science has figured it out officially now.

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  1. What porn site did that picture come from? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    i need to know

  2. farts by u4ya · · Score: 3, Funny

    each persons' fart has its own unique flavor too. although I don't envy the poor bastard who has to test this theory.

  3. Obviously... by Xenographic · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's on Idle because this idea was invented by Shampoo.

    1. Re:Obviously... by Rycross · · Score: 2, Funny

      Wait, so the underpants gnomes are Nazis? I guess we figured out what the missing part of:

      1. Steal underpants
      2. ???
      3. Profit!

      was.

  4. Re:Why? by Dan541 · · Score: 4, Funny

    My dog already knew and understood this, that does not speak well for science.

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  5. Alien 4 - Resurrection by wlt · · Score: 2, Funny

    Didn't the 4th Alien movie (the one with winona ryder) kinda show one of the problems with this?

  6. Re:Why? by lanswitch · · Score: 3, Funny

    awful.

  7. Re:Why? by sqldr · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hate Idle, Btw.

    Try running this then:

    #!/bin/sh

    while true; do
    fork
    done

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  8. Re:Why? by RulerOf · · Score: 2, Funny

    If they're your friends, at least you like those people.

    I've got co-workers.

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