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Out of the Blue
[Oct 03, 2001, 08:48 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

Some movement in the background here, as today's Tech Bits features some contributions from someone who may be helping expand our coverage in that area as we go forward... we may even see the return of PM Tech Bits (as heady as that may sound). Also, we were able to revert the server back to its native Eastern Time yesterday, after running on Greenwich Mean Time for a few days there, the only side effect of this was how messageboard posts started showing up out of order until the four hour time difference was accounted for.

Link of the Day: Monty Python and the Holy Grail in Lego. A link we've been sent at least a hundred times, but this time it actually worked when I checked it. Thanks EvilToast (and the other 99 of you).
Story of the Day: Romania has no stake in Dracula. "The discovery means Romanians will have to pay royalties to Universal Studios for creating a Dracula theme park." Thanks dukui-san.
Media of the Day: The Top 10 Ugliest Couches in America. Thanks Ant.
Wild Science: Identifying terrorists before they strike. "Brain fingerprinting"? Thanks Nick Hiltner.
Wild Science II: No hiding place for anyone. On a note related to the above. Thanks [MP] Wolverine [MP].

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Brain Fingerprinting
Oct 3, 2001, 18:51

Fat Albert

Brain Fingerprinting Oct 3, 2001, 18:51

Oct 3, 2001, 18:51

Fat Albert

This is scary as hell. The assumption is that they ask the right questions, but what if they don't? This is just giving the government a tool to profile citizens. Maybe the computer doesn't make distinctions between race, creed, religion, etc. But the person in charge of the questions may. Do you get a worse score if you know something about the Koran or the PLO? Are political science majors going to be at risk? How is it American to abridge someone's rights based upon their knowledge?!?!

We shouldn't destroy the freedoms of Americans in the process of "saving them."

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Monty Python in Lego

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Re: Some Tweaking

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