Remember when they caught the Golden State Killer
by comparing DNA crime-scene evidence to big commercial genomic
databases (like those maintained by Ancestry.com, 23 and Me, etc) to
find his family members and then track him down?
It’s not just him.
If you’re an American of European descent, there’s a 60% chance that you
can be identified from genomic database searches, because even if
you’ve never signed up for one of these junk science services, your stupid cousins have.
They also predict that in the “near future,” “nearly any US individual
of European descent” will be identifiable from commercial genomic
databases.
The researchers propose a mitigation technique for avoiding
nonconsensual genetic profiling: “DTC providers should cryptographically
sign the text file containing the raw data available to customers (fig.
S6). Third-party services will be able to authenticate that a raw
genotyping file was created by a valid DTC provider and not further
modified. If adopted, our approach has the potential to prevent the
exploitation of long-range familial searches to identify research
subjects from genomic data. Moreover, it will complicate the
ability to conduct unilaterally long-range familial searches from DNA
evidence.
Capucine with architecture in Paris for ELLE, 1952. Photograph by Georges Dambier.
Capucine poses on the Boulevard de la Madeleine at the Café de la Paix. Dressed in a classic black suit and pearls, she accessorized with glen plaid gloves and a pillbox hat.
I am very sad to see Ms May step down as the Green Party of Canada leader; I believe she would make a fabulous Prime Minister, but that was not to be. On the other hand, she’s certainly put the GPC on the map. And, for that matter, Greens. Despite the Defenders of the Status quo who’ve accused her of trying to hog the spotlight. Since becoming involved with the GPC, I can tell you nothing could have been further from the truth. Part of the reason there are 3 Green MLAs in BC, 1 MPP in Ontario, 3 MLAs in New Brunswick, and that the Official Opposition in PEI is due in part to the fact Ms May has always spared some of her prodigious energy working to help build the Green movement across Canada. The problem has not been with Ms May, but with defenders of the Status Quo number the MSM (Mainstream Media), which has generally worked hard to lock Greens out of politics. They know a strong enough Green influence will disrupt the status quo. Because Greens do politics differently. This is a great interview. Well worth a listen.
Don’t let anybody tell you that you can’t be both intelligent and compassionate. The only people who say that don’t have the brains or the heart for both. Intelligence doesn’t have to mean arrogance. Compassion is not foolish. In fact, I’ve found these two qualities go together wonderfully.
“Indeed Bilbo found he had lost more than spoons – he had lost his reputation. It is true that for ever after he remained an elf-friend, and had the honour of dwarves, wizards, and all such folk as ever passed that way; but he was no longer quite respectable. He was in fact held by all the hobbits of the neighbourhood to be ‘queer’- except by his nephews and nieces on the Took side, but even they were not encouraged in their friendship by their elders. I am sorry to say he did not mind. He was quite content; and the sound of the kettle on his hearth was ever after more musical than it had been even in the quiet days before the Unexpected Party. His sword he hung over the mantelpiece. His coat of mail was arranged on a stand in the hall (until he lent it to a Museum). His gold and silver was largely spent in presents, both useful and extravagant – which to a certain extent accounts for the affection of his nephews and his nieces. His magic ring he kept a great secret, for he chiefly used it when unpleasant callers came. He took to writing poetry and visiting the elves; and though many shook their heads and touched their foreheads and said “Poor old Baggins!” and though few believed any of his tales, he remained very happy to the end of his days, and those were extraordinarily long.”
