>>>>Now we have a couple of bozo Senators who want DNA from people who're merely arrested, even if they're never charged with a crime!!!!
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>>>>http://www.hackinthebox.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=18387
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>>>It surprises me that they are not getting DNA samples at birth.
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>>According to the CSI episodes it would seem that they already have. They find a bit of "epithelials" at a crime scene, do a DNA anal. on it and, after a few minutes clicking, whirring, beeping, flashing and rapid pointless typing, they get a full-colour driving licence, with photo!
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>Not many would watch the show where it takes 5 weeks to send your stuff off to be analyzed. Maybe on 24 they could do that, but not on the episodic shows.

No, my beef here is not with the speed, but the unnecessary and extremely annoying "bells & whistles" of their computers (Why DOES a fingerprint matching program have to bleep with every print it compares - hundreds a second?). The only time MY 'puter makes a noise is when I get an error message, mail arrives, "You have replies", or when I accidentally hit the caps lock button. It would send me off my cake to hear that cacophony all day. Also, how can rapid keystrokes possibly select a rectangular area of an image to enlarge, and why isn't it done with a mouse?

I'm just taking the mickey at their fantastic system integration and how they have every toy possible in that lab (some new ones for a specialist job just happen to be "over in the corner" when they're needed).