I know it's idle, but where is the news..? I don't come to slashdot for comics, that's what RSS feeds are for.

This has been done before. In 2003, the swedish minister of foreign affairs, Anna Lindh, was murdered in a shopping mall. Once the police had a suspect and samples of his hair, they requested a DNA sample from a national blood bank containing samples from all newborns since 1975 and matched it. The blood bank was originally set up for research only but has since been used in this high profile murder case and for identifying victims of the 2004 tsunami. There's an ongoing investigation on making the entire blood bank available to police authorities, meaning 3,3 million blood samples will be available for matching.

Still, with such a tight schedule, there's really no time for Stalin.

tell me again, how is this different than the bill to allow the president of the united states to "shut down the Internet" in case of emergency? or is this simply a case of different intentions?

Why would you call the BSA on your own organization rather than trying to correct the problem yourself? Also, what open source software would you recommend as a replacement for Adobe Creative Suite? And please don't say GIMP.