User: hkeith

MP3s are controlled substances?

On: Student Gets PC Confiscated For Distributing MP3s

"We're doing some forensic review of the hard drive and determining what is there," Eaton said. "After we finish that review, we will evaluate the amount of substance he was distributing."

Amusing language... are mp3s "controlled substances" now? Are they on the Schedule I list?

-hk

10 seconds?

On: Sampling Your Molecular 'Aura'

Settles said prototypes can do a chemical sniff test for explosives in roughly 10 seconds -- fast enough for use at busy airports.

I'm not sure what busy airports he's been to, but in my experience holding up each and every passenger for an additional 10 seconds would probably cause a riot worse than having some piddly little airplane blow up :)

Some more urls....

On: Human Genome Mapping Completion TBA

The Human Genome Project
Celera

Neither of them seems to have reported anything on the news conferences, though.

-hk

PETA's press release

On: Court Orders Owner Of Peta.org To Give Up Domain

http://www.petaonline.org/news/60 0/600dotorg.html

And this itself was predicted....

On: ESA Scans SF Books For Ideas

...in Niven/Pournelle's Footfall.

For those who haven't read it, what do you do when faced with alien invasion? Call on those who have actually considered the problem before - SF writers. And, of course, they saved the world :>

-hk