Bad and Good News

Just some comments regarding stories I've skimmed from today's Financial Times. First the bad news: the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig has announced they plan to sequence the genes of a Neanderthal. The reason this is bad news is because it's one of those "playing God" moments that will result in them cloning, then losing control of their Neanderthal....who will then embark on some sort of primitive killing spree, until it is finally stopped by people who understand that they had to do it, but feel kind of bad that they did (think ending of King Kong).

Or at least there will be another movie like this, I haven't heard anything about Spielberg or Jackson for awhile now.....

The good news is that Judge Vaughn Walker threw out the Governments attempt to have the EFF's spying case against AT&T dismissed. A quote, "the compromise between liberty and security remains a difficult one...but dismissing this case at the outset would sacrifice liberty for no apparent enhancement of security." Well said! I still expect more government nonsense, but at least this is a start.