Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Required Blog List Post 2

The second required blog list article I found was also from Slashdot. The article is titled "Dogs Trained to Sniff Out Piracy". According to the article, two dogs from Northern Ireland have been trained to sniff out chemicals that are manufactured in optical discs. The dogs are doing a good job of sniffing out discs that are not claimed in customs and "are doing so much faster than human inspection of the cargo can do." I thought this was particularly interesting because I never thought that dogs could be trained to do this type of thing. Although there are some risks with this, it may be good in helping to detect pirated material faster.

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