From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 6 16:19:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F146A16A4CE for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 16:19:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.blarg.net (floyd.blarg.net [206.124.128.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A963743D45 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 16:19:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abowhill@blarg.net) Received: from kosmos.my.net (12-230-212-176.client.attbi.com [12.230.212.176]) by mail.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 287F937F9D for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 16:16:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from kosmos.my.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kosmos.my.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i070H6LP065376 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 16:17:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kosmos@kosmos.my.net) Received: (from kosmos@localhost) by kosmos.my.net (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i070H5M5065375 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 16:17:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kosmos) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 16:17:05 -0800 From: Allan Bowhill To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040107001705.GB65133@kosmos.my.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <200401051502.i05F2qqG007611@dungeon.home> <20040105175904.GA32112@online.fr> <20040105183315.GA99773@FreeBSD.org> <20040106202408.GC63867@kosmos.my.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-URL: http://www.blarg.net/~abowhill/ Subject: Re: Personal patches X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 00:19:23 -0000 --hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 0, "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: :Allan Bowhill writes: : :> On 0, Brad Knowles wrote: :>: :>: Prepare to be fingerprinted. : :> Few U.S. citizens haven't been.=20 : :Now they can prepare to be DNA databased, as U.K. citizens have. :Orwell was an optimist. : :I heard a new twist on it last week. Cops want a guy's DNA and don't :want to bother a judge to use his search warrant rubber stamp. So :they send the guy a letter which causes the guy to send a return :letter. (I forget the ruse -- a prize announcement or something. The :report didn't say whether it had a Police letterhead or was something :more covert.) So he licks the envelope and/or stamp, drops it in the :mail, and now his DNA is in the database. (Yes, it matched.) Orwellian, yes. But funny. --=20 Allan Bowhill abowhill@blarg.net There is no time like the present for postponing what you ought to be doing. --hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/+1AABC/kSIeFE54RAmOwAKCRvHJOcKM9OPuyTz8vu7Hra3fuRgCcCuGa xXXn7Y+EYyzNszyAdYReAbU= =wO3B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi--