Well, the Department of Homeland Security has decided (through TSA) that spare lithium-based batteries are a hazard for both carry-on and checked luggage. The new rules go into effect on January 1.  Don't worry though, as long as your spare battery has under 8 grams of lithium, you can still pack it in your carry-on luggage (though you won't be able to check it in with your luggage). If you're unfortunate enough to have a battery which requires more than 8 grams of lithium however, well, too bad -- looks like you're going to have to ship it. It should be noted that the inherent dangerousness of the batteries disappears when you place them into their respective electronic devices. The full text of the new rule can be found on TSA's website.

So I recently decided that I would try to frequent Yahoo! Answers to provide some useful information, and keep my class knowledge fresh. It turns out that I have to refer to my notes a bit more than I'd like, but I digress. In perusing the Law Enforcement & Police questions, I came across this gem: Status hearing..criminal harrassment case? This question is not resolved,some jerk marked it as resolved for no reason.Egoistic fools i would say. Recently I was arraigned on a criminal harrassment charge... Didn't see that one coming.

I was reading reddit yesterday when I came across the following headline: Man who sold a few pounds of baking soda is being charged with trafficking cocaine - In case you don't want to read it, Malcolm Williams is being prosecuted for selling baking soda -- which he represented as cocaine -- to an undercover police officer. This article spawned multiple comments such as the following: "The comments by police don't make sense to me. Is there really such a law that says if you pretend to sell drugs you can be held guilty of actually selling drugs?" - unrealious "Well, I'll admit I haven't read the full text of the federal statute, but I suspect it makes it illegal to sell narcotics. I doubt that it makes it illegal to 'present a substance as an illegal narcotic.' It seems to me that they should be charging this guy with fraud, not drug dealing." - Codebender These posts were in response to the police officer in the story stating that, "[I]f you sell baking soda as if it's cocaine... those charges are the same because you are presenting that substance as the illegal narcotic." My initial reaction was to agree with the officer and ...