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Your Genome Scanned While You Wait
dotc writes "A Wired reporter has his DNA scanned for disease predispositions. While we all knew this was coming soon, it's still a little strange to read the first-person account."
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When will we have to make sure we leave no testable samples of DNA when going in for an interview? :)
More importantly when we go on dates?
...is just a few years away. On the upside, GE should render those "add three inches..." spams pretty much obsolete for my grandchildren.
Roving Web-Teleoperated Robot
You mean I've been collecting Jude Law's blood and urine samples all these years for nothing?!
... we all earned from Bart in episode 2F20 (The conclusion to "Maggie Shot Mr. Burns") that no court would ever accept DNA evidence!
... on school playgrounds everywhere:
"My genome is better than your genome!"
My jeans get scaned everytime I walk down the street and the ladys check out my ass.
If you had bothered to test them you would've seen he was mecha.
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
200 miles is considered a fair distance here.
My guess is that most of the readers here would willingly walk that distance if it meant getting laid.
Wired reporter first to be refused any form of medical or life insurance due to his stupidity in paying to find out that he's too risky to insure.
.. The last time I was at my physician he wanted a blood sample, a semen sample, a urine sample and a stool sample.
So I gave him my underwear.
[rimshot]
Trolling is a art,
.. back in my granddad's day when you could just discriminate based on skin colour. Now you have to be a damn scientist to hate people.
Yes, I'm joking!
Trolling is a art,
Somehow I doubt any employer would be allowed to request a DNA sample before offering you a job or benefits.
Once the secret army of ashcroft deploys all the black helicopters in an effort to infiltrate the new world...oh wait, wrong site.
Of course then the scientists patent the guy's DNA for any potential moneymaking ventures.
:)
And then they try to sue the guy on patent infringement (please leave all your DNA when you exit the courtroom).
Laugh and enjoy life while you can.
Braun, 46, is both jovial and German
OMG, I didn't think that was possible! What will genetics bring us next?!?
To read makes our speaking English good. - X. Harris
If the numbers show people who wear blue shirts are more likely to get sick than those wearing red shirts...
I always thought that it was the ones in the red shirts who died first.
Carthago delenda est!
my fave quote from the article.
"One gene seems to shield smokers from lung cancer. 'That's my favorite,' says the doctor, a smoker. 'I wonder what Philip Morris would pay for that.'"
Ah yes.. now I can blisfully tell myself that yes I must have this gene and therfore my smoking is A.O.K
Huzzah!
If I were only smart enough to accomplish the things I dream about.. Or maybe too dumb to care.
So, it's a buffer overflow exploit, then?
Carthago delenda est!
200 miles is considered a fair distance here.
My guess is that most of the readers here
would willingly walk that distance if it
meant getting laid.
Well, I would walk 500 miles, and I would walk 500 more just to be the man who walked a thousand miles to fall down at her door.
Some companies bottle it...
Considered harmful.
And on the opposite side of the spectrum, how long before Palm/DNA Readers start pedalling their wares?
Customer: "How much?"
Mystic: "Twenty Dollars."
C: "Okay."
M: "Opennnn..." (swabs inside of cheek).
M: "Hmmm, I see G-A-C-C-G..., oh my..."
C: "What?"
M: "The strands are a little twisted but it looks
like you'll be bludgeoned to death with a canned
ham by an angry motorist in a grocery store parking lot....but it's starting to get cloudy."
C: "Here's $500 dollars...what do you see now?"
M: "There's the problem, that last G is really a C!! NOW I see you in a passionate embrace with Charlize Theron."
It fixes those genetic problems...chemically!