DNA Testing on Arrest (It’s the right thing to do)

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Bacteria On Your Fingertips Could Identify You
by Joe Palca

March 16, 2010

Researchers were able to correctly match bacterial DNA on keyboards and computer mice with their individual users. This bacterial "fingerprint" could become a new forensic tool, though it's not yet ready for the courtroom.

We all have bacteria growing on our skin — lots of bacteria. Now, scientists have shown that the kind and number of bacteria growing on our fingertips can be used to distinguish one person from another. And these differences could be used as a forensic tool, since we leave behind some of these bacteria when we touch things, and those bacteria can be used for identity purposes.

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What continues to confound me about this issue is... why is it that most of the uproar is coming from folks who like to position themselves on the right side of the aisle... and very little from those who take their seats on the left?

The aisle should bear no weight, in this instance. But it strangely does.

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What continues to confound me about this issue is... why is it that most of the uproar is coming from folks who like to position themselves on the right side of the aisle... and very little from those who take their seats on the left?

The aisle should bear no weight, in this instance. But it strangely does.

What confounds me even more is what did people think was gonna happen when the technology got there? Go away?

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What continues to confound me about this issue is... why is it that most of the uproar is coming from folks who like to position themselves on the right side of the aisle... and very little from those who take their seats on the left?

The aisle should bear no weight, in this instance. But it strangely does.

That's a good question. I'll take a stab at answering it.

Maybe because the "right" and the "left" in the United States are both calcified hors d'oeuvres on a continuously rotating platter — and which "side" is in power at a given moment, more than anything, determines which "side" bitches about what.

(Oh, and about those hors d'oeuvres... I'll pass. The entrée that's been prepared is sure to be more than filling.)