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Submission + - Australian Plane Grounded by Snakes

ar1550 writes: The BBC reports that, upon suspicion that several baby pythons had become loose on the aircraft, it was grounded and the passengers transferred to another plane. From the article, "'They're not endangered so a decision was made to fumigate...if these snakes turn up they will be very much dead snakes,' David Epstein of Qantas said." I won't spoil the fun by trotting out any of the obligatory references here.
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Chimps Evolved More Than Humans 541

jas_public writes "Since the human and chimp families split about 6 million years ago, chimpanzee genes seem to have evolved more than human genes. The results, detailed in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, go against the conventional wisdom that humans are the result of a high degree of genetic selection, evidenced by our relatively large brains, cognitive abilities, and bipedalism. The researchers found that 'substantially more genes in chimps evolved in ways that were beneficial than was the case with human genes.'"
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UK Man Convicted For Wi-Fi Piggybacking 659

CatrionaMcM tips us to a BBC story reporting that Gregory Straszkiewicz, a UK resident, was fined £500 and sentenced to a conditional discharge for 12 months after being caught using a laptop from a car parked outside somebody else's house. '[H]e was prosecuted under the Communications Act and found guilty of dishonestly obtaining an electronic communications service.' A separate BBC story notes that two other people in England were arrested and cautioned for sharing Wi-Fi uninvited.

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