August 28, 2001

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Well it's bad news for Dmitry Sklyarov. He has been indicted for digital copyright violations. That makes him the first person that will be prosecuted because of the infamous DMCA. His arraignment will be held on Thurday, so we can only hope for the best.

In better news, someone has finally come up with a solution to the DMCA problem. Granted it is streaching it a bit far with creating a religion, but I've heard of weirder things. I mean in Australia they wanted to make Jedi a religion. Gotta love urban legends.

According to a new study, one of the greatest challenges that future explorers to Mars will have is losing their teeth. Floating around in zero gravity increases the rate that you lose bone density, and with a 2 year mission to Mars, the explorers would come back with no teeth. It's always those little things that no one thinks about that end up being the big problems.

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