Sadly there will always be some doubt that there's still a hidden cache of it somewhere, just waiting for the day.
I'm sure that there are clever mechanisms for extending the shelf life (probably purchased from Hostess Snack Cakes' military contracting arm); but chemical weapons don't always store well. Shit-grade Sarin can be good for as little as a couple of weeks on the shelf. Hiqh quality binary munitions might actually be worth burying for future use.
Some of the more retro agents keep better (some of the WWII-and-before sulfur mustards we dumped into the ocean as our foolproof disposal plan formed these neat clumps that are inert on the outside but still have a delicious toxiny filling...), and I certainly wouldn't volunteer to be the lucky guy who gets to scrub out even 'degraded' sarin; but it's not nearly as easy as just putting the stuff on the shelf and expecting it work a decade from now (the storage vices of any delivery components, rocket motors, guidance systems with oddball proprietary batteries, artillery shells with corrosive propellants, whatever, are an additional nuisance, if a much better understood one).
Also, it's arguable that Samsung's stab at 'Smart Watch' utterly bungles the separation of labor in ways that make the result far less compelling than it could be(which, for the reasons you describe, is still somewhat limited).
We have 'wearable computing', even your $100 'eh, some kind of android phone' that you get with prepaid plans is quite wearable, and pretty punchy computationally. Until we have the nigh-miraculuous/power density enough to blow your hand off battery tech to get the whole phone onto your wrist, that's where the compute power is going to have to live(there are a few novelty 'dumbphone-on-wrist' watches you can get, and they do work; but the only reason they get reasonable-ish battery life is because they are nth-generation minimalist GSM implementations cut to the bone).
Instead of recognizing this, and building just enough intelligence to save bandwidth by crunching and formatting messages (rather than using a less power efficient, relatively high speed, RF link to drive a 'dumb' framebuffer style screen or a relatively dumb RFB/VNC style screen), which would actually be doable in a smaller watch, or one with better battery life, or both, they dumped an entire cellphone in the thing, just one without the 'phone' part, or enough power to make Android pleasant, or enough battery to get good runtimes... Brilliant.
Ironically, Microsoft is probably best positioned (technologically, based on past behavior I'll give them a 90+ percent chance of either not doing it or fucking it up really badly) to do the 'smart watch'+ cellphone combo properly. They've been thinking about peripheral screens connected to more qualified systems since at least 'Windows Sideshow' debuted with Vista back in the day (uptake, approximately zero...) and they also have, for actual application support on the resource constrained peripheral devices, all the work they've done on.NET..NET Micro runs on next to no resources (no 8-bit stuff; but the memory footprint is under 512k and the target architecture is ARM microcontrollers)..NET Compact is more capable; and of intermediate size, and then full.NET. All use the CLR, and run CIL bytecode applications, all are either quite similar to one another or subsets of one another, and so on.
Again, MS being MS, they'll fuck this one up in some baffling fashion; but that's a very strong (relative to other companies' portfolios) set of options for building 'smart watch' type devices. Want a really watch-like smartwatch, possibly with adequate battery life? A.NET Micro device will run on just about the feeblest 32-bit ARM microcontrollers you can buy, and would support 'faces' and notification-processing/display engines on the CLR, with WCF-based communication with the handset. Want something a bit punchier? Compact is that, if you can satisfy its hardware requirements.
Outside of that, you have Samsung's rather pitiful 'take an entire Android phone and gimp it until it fits on your wrist' approach, or Pebble's 'do something totally custom; but more reasonable on resources, and provide a decently sane mechanism for developers to use when approaching your totally custom thing'.
The stuff about the british royal family being reptoids and HAARP being a mind control system is still nuts; but the NSA has really been pretty aggressive in stealing what used to be delusions from the world's paranoid schizophrenics and putting them into operation (and really shit powerpoint slide decks).
"... you would have to engage with Kinect for anything to happen"
So it wouldn't be another condition buried in the hundreds of pages of EULA that the average person has no chance of understanding?
Given that the Kinect is a high-precision video, audio, and depth-of-field sensor, with real-time position and gesture identification for human targets, is there anything short of sneaking up behind it in a ghillie suit that doesn't qualify as 'engaging with Kinect'?
And, even if everything they said were true, it would be a carefully worded denial that anything of that nature is currently in the works, not a statement about what may or may not be the case later in the console's life. (Just look at how the 360's dashboard changed over time as MS realized that there was valuable ad revenue to be had there...)
Back when I was wee lad, little electronic kits consist of discrete transistors, LEDs, op-amps, etc. You can make little toys with blinking lights and such, and perhaps gain some rudimentary but empirical experience with electronics.
I realize today's a different, whole lot more sophisticated (in terms of technology) era, but what would be the equivalent today? This Arduino kit seems way over the top for such purpose.
This Arduino is their their big, bad, powerful one. Your basic Arduino Uno, or a nice, breadboard-compatible Arduino nano (non-Arduino branded nanos are under $10) are probably more analogous to a 'little electronics kit'. This device is, of course, capable of that as well(in fact, it's capable of also being the computer you write the code on as well as the arduino you run it on. the BeagleBone isn't exactly god's gift to high-performance desktop experiences; but it works just fine as a full fledged linux desktop if you keep your WM lightweight); but it's overkill unless you have a larger project in mind.
And, of course, they still sell discrete versions of pretty much all those items, and breadboards to go with them, though you'll probably run into something you want that is SMT only sooner or later.
TI refers to those as 'PRU-ICSS'. They aren't exactly baby's first arduino sketch to get working; but they are present, and are more or less explicitly designed to support various too-weird-for-fixed-silicon; but too fast for just bitbanging with any GPIO, interfaces that the designer might wish to deal with.
When I saw that Intel was going single-CPU on this (when even the Arduino guys were doing ARM+AVR with the 'Tre', and the UDOO and similar took the same strategy with a different ARM SoC, I was sort of hoping to see some wildly creative and vaguely horrifying abuse of system management mode (Like the one that the Cyrix/NatSemi 'MediaGX' CPUs used to emulate several of their peripherals to keep system cost down), or some similar alarming but impressive hackery would be at work, allowing genuinely microcontroller-level performance for bit banging and other low level functions. Alas, it appears to be a headless linux box with some slightly unusual peripheral drivers.
It's also a great testament to what an utter fucking prick Jobs was. An effective utter fucking prick, but an utter fucking prick nonetheless.
It's worse than that: As Dune tells us 'The Golden Path' was Leto Atreides II's prescient plan to guide the entirely of human evolution in the guise of a terrible half man/half sandworm God-Emperor.
This also explains why Apple began building a massive, ring-shaped, climate controlled headquarters shortly after Jobs 'died'. Earth is too moist for sandworms; so they need a secure environment to house their God-Emperor.
Given that they haven't sent assassins after the BeagleBoard team(indeed, the other big announcement from Arduino-land is that they collaborated with that group to produce a 'basically a beaglebone black with an arduino-compatible set of headers and and onboard AVR, the Tre, is Intel's attempt to throw their hat into the ring really so sinister?
I've heard ~$60 thrown around as a number, though not an authoritative one. Lousy by the standards of Arduino projects that really are 8-bit MCU work; but the world is infested with Arduino projects that have the MCU twiddling a few sensors and then a (surprisingly expensive) ethernet/wifi shield bodged on to report the results to the internet. If that's you, the cost gets a lot more competitive.
Though, on the downside (similarly not-yet-confirmed) reports are that the arrangement Intel uses to support the GPIO is pretty limited, compared to much cheaper parts that do GPIO closer to the metal, in terms of the speeds at which it can bit-bang the assorted oddball peripherals (those cheapie LED strands for instance) that many arduino projects end up bit-banging to communicate with. Having a real ethernet and SD interface, not SPI hacks, is nice; but if those reports are to be believed, your project had better be doable without extensive bitbang interfacing.
However, as far as the source code is concerned, Adobe assured that there is no "increased risk to customers as a result of this incident."
In other words, the risk is as bad as ever.
I'm not sure why Adobe is being so pessimistic. This might be the first time in years that anybody who could find their own ass with both hands and a map, much less do code security, has examined the source code involved...
Maybe I didn't make my point sufficiently clear: The fact that it does work is why it still makes the ethicists nervous. If it were quaint nonsense, nobody would care.
To adopt your hypothetical scenario, people would get worked up if you shot me; because bullets work just fine. That's why we still argue about who you are and aren't allowed to put them into. If you were casting hexes at me, though, you'd be largely ignored because nobody would consider you a real threat.
That's the kind of efficacy I'm talking about. 'Works' doesn't mean 'ethical'; but 'completely useless' generally consigns something to the scrap heap of PHIL101 hypothetical questions in reasonably short order. Eugenics works, which is what has kept it floating around and making people nervous. The National Phrenology database, where we use laser scanners to analyze all citizens for cranial evidence of criminal tendencies, on the other hand, isn't a controversial issue because that doesn't work.
In a battery-powered situation, I suspect the fact that it's a lithium fire was more relevant. Neither electrical nor light metal fires are a good idea to fight with water; but the efficiency of the battery pack probably didn't improve as it burned, so the fire became increasingly non-electrical and just moved on to burning through all that zesty lithium.
This is about the same as a large metal object ripping open your fuel tank and having the gasoline igniting save it's far more likely the fuel fire will consume the entire car quickly but on the reverse side it's probably easier to put out. The only real solution would be to not use lithium as a battery component which isn't possible at this time.
It's a thing to note, in the sense that fire departments/first responder types need to behave differently around a light metal fire than they do around a hydrocarbon fire (this is one of the reasons why hazardous materials storage/reporting regulations have involved the local fire department for decades in many locations: if Warehouse B catches fire, will spraying it with water stop the fire, or cause the place to explode?); but we aren't talking markedly different overall amounts of stored energy here. Even if Teslas were magically impossible to extinguish, the 'stand at a safe distance and watch' strategy works.
Big Astrology has covered this up; but it turns out that your safety is almost entirely determined by who was appointed as the director for your life story.
If it's a documentary type, the risk is nonzero; but quite modest. If it's a moody psychological thriller, you should avoid flashbacks but are utterly safe. If it's an action shlock-slinger, colliding with a pothole, shopping cart, or just about anything else at more than a few miles an hour will produce a massive fireball. Be sure to practice jumping improbably to safety. In this last case, the safest way to navigate the roads is actually to either be chasing or chased by armed criminals/terrorists/secret agents at all times. While cars not involved in high-speed chases routinely explode at the slightest stimulus, being involved in a high speed chase improves performance and fuel economy by at least 50%, provides an immunity to most bodywork damage(except bullet holes through inessential pieces of glass, be sure that your insurance covers windshield replacements), and makes explosions virtually impossible.
Francis Galton came up with this idea over a hundred years ago. It wasn't a good idea then, it still isn't.
Well, that's the ugly trick. Humans have been using selective breeding on various organisms for most of recorded history, and it works just fine*
If eugenics were simply hanging out with phlogiston and luminiferous aether on the failed ideas pile, nobody would care very much. What gives it continued edgy relevance is the fact that, possibly through a willingness to break a few eggs, possibly through more human measures, it should actually be doable to make even more of a mockery of the idea that 'all men are created equal' than nature already does.
(The fact that it's also a convenient 'scientific' cover for just sterilizing society's powerless unlikeables doesn't do it any favors in terms of popularity either).
*(actual fineness of results variable, objectives of the breeder may not be well aligned with those of the organism being bred, or with sanity, other limitations and restrictions may apply.)
So this work in a sperm bank type of environment ? Why not fetch sperm from handsome, smart people only ?
Have you seen the sorts of screening criteria that sperm banks use? People looking for egg donors can't afford to be as picky; because human egg harvesting is not a pleasant business(multiple drugs, some hormonal tweaking, assorted long needles); but the supply of men willing to jerk off into a sample cup for money is pretty large, so they do tend to screen pretty enthusiastically.
Don't they already have a bunch of essentially-eugenics-based dating sites, just without the pretense of understanding the genetic basis?
I'm pretty sure I've seen one for Ivy grads only, at least one for PhDs only, 'Aryan' white power enthusiasts only, does Mensa have one?
Really, the only novelty here is pretending that (outside of a few specific cases that are either trivially mendellian or of interest because they are connected to ghastly diseases), looking at your genes, rather than at you, is actually going to provide more information about your likely offspring...
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Sadly there will always be some doubt that there's still a hidden cache of it somewhere, just waiting for the day.
I'm sure that there are clever mechanisms for extending the shelf life (probably purchased from Hostess Snack Cakes' military contracting arm); but chemical weapons don't always store well. Shit-grade Sarin can be good for as little as a couple of weeks on the shelf. Hiqh quality binary munitions might actually be worth burying for future use.
Some of the more retro agents keep better (some of the WWII-and-before sulfur mustards we dumped into the ocean as our foolproof disposal plan formed these neat clumps that are inert on the outside but still have a delicious toxiny filling...), and I certainly wouldn't volunteer to be the lucky guy who gets to scrub out even 'degraded' sarin; but it's not nearly as easy as just putting the stuff on the shelf and expecting it work a decade from now (the storage vices of any delivery components, rocket motors, guidance systems with oddball proprietary batteries, artillery shells with corrosive propellants, whatever, are an additional nuisance, if a much better understood one).
Also, it's arguable that Samsung's stab at 'Smart Watch' utterly bungles the separation of labor in ways that make the result far less compelling than it could be(which, for the reasons you describe, is still somewhat limited).
.NET. .NET Micro runs on next to no resources (no 8-bit stuff; but the memory footprint is under 512k and the target architecture is ARM microcontrollers). .NET Compact is more capable; and of intermediate size, and then full .NET. All use the CLR, and run CIL bytecode applications, all are either quite similar to one another or subsets of one another, and so on.
.NET Micro device will run on just about the feeblest 32-bit ARM microcontrollers you can buy, and would support 'faces' and notification-processing/display engines on the CLR, with WCF-based communication with the handset. Want something a bit punchier? Compact is that, if you can satisfy its hardware requirements.
We have 'wearable computing', even your $100 'eh, some kind of android phone' that you get with prepaid plans is quite wearable, and pretty punchy computationally. Until we have the nigh-miraculuous/power density enough to blow your hand off battery tech to get the whole phone onto your wrist, that's where the compute power is going to have to live(there are a few novelty 'dumbphone-on-wrist' watches you can get, and they do work; but the only reason they get reasonable-ish battery life is because they are nth-generation minimalist GSM implementations cut to the bone).
Instead of recognizing this, and building just enough intelligence to save bandwidth by crunching and formatting messages (rather than using a less power efficient, relatively high speed, RF link to drive a 'dumb' framebuffer style screen or a relatively dumb RFB/VNC style screen), which would actually be doable in a smaller watch, or one with better battery life, or both, they dumped an entire cellphone in the thing, just one without the 'phone' part, or enough power to make Android pleasant, or enough battery to get good runtimes... Brilliant.
Ironically, Microsoft is probably best positioned (technologically, based on past behavior I'll give them a 90+ percent chance of either not doing it or fucking it up really badly) to do the 'smart watch'+ cellphone combo properly. They've been thinking about peripheral screens connected to more qualified systems since at least 'Windows Sideshow' debuted with Vista back in the day (uptake, approximately zero...) and they also have, for actual application support on the resource constrained peripheral devices, all the work they've done on
Again, MS being MS, they'll fuck this one up in some baffling fashion; but that's a very strong (relative to other companies' portfolios) set of options for building 'smart watch' type devices. Want a really watch-like smartwatch, possibly with adequate battery life? A
Outside of that, you have Samsung's rather pitiful 'take an entire Android phone and gimp it until it fits on your wrist' approach, or Pebble's 'do something totally custom; but more reasonable on resources, and provide a decently sane mechanism for developers to use when approaching your totally custom thing'.
The stuff about the british royal family being reptoids and HAARP being a mind control system is still nuts; but the NSA has really been pretty aggressive in stealing what used to be delusions from the world's paranoid schizophrenics and putting them into operation (and really shit powerpoint slide decks).
"... you would have to engage with Kinect for anything to happen"
So it wouldn't be another condition buried in the hundreds of pages of EULA that the average person has no chance of understanding?
Given that the Kinect is a high-precision video, audio, and depth-of-field sensor, with real-time position and gesture identification for human targets, is there anything short of sneaking up behind it in a ghillie suit that doesn't qualify as 'engaging with Kinect'?
They would never lie to us.
And, even if everything they said were true, it would be a carefully worded denial that anything of that nature is currently in the works, not a statement about what may or may not be the case later in the console's life. (Just look at how the 360's dashboard changed over time as MS realized that there was valuable ad revenue to be had there...)
Back when I was wee lad, little electronic kits consist of discrete transistors, LEDs, op-amps, etc. You can make little toys with blinking lights and such, and perhaps gain some rudimentary but empirical experience with electronics.
I realize today's a different, whole lot more sophisticated (in terms of technology) era, but what would be the equivalent today? This Arduino kit seems way over the top for such purpose.
This Arduino is their their big, bad, powerful one. Your basic Arduino Uno, or a nice, breadboard-compatible Arduino nano (non-Arduino branded nanos are under $10) are probably more analogous to a 'little electronics kit'. This device is, of course, capable of that as well(in fact, it's capable of also being the computer you write the code on as well as the arduino you run it on. the BeagleBone isn't exactly god's gift to high-performance desktop experiences; but it works just fine as a full fledged linux desktop if you keep your WM lightweight); but it's overkill unless you have a larger project in mind.
And, of course, they still sell discrete versions of pretty much all those items, and breadboards to go with them, though you'll probably run into something you want that is SMT only sooner or later.
TI refers to those as 'PRU-ICSS'. They aren't exactly baby's first arduino sketch to get working; but they are present, and are more or less explicitly designed to support various too-weird-for-fixed-silicon; but too fast for just bitbanging with any GPIO, interfaces that the designer might wish to deal with.
When I saw that Intel was going single-CPU on this (when even the Arduino guys were doing ARM+AVR with the 'Tre', and the UDOO and similar took the same strategy with a different ARM SoC, I was sort of hoping to see some wildly creative and vaguely horrifying abuse of system management mode (Like the one that the Cyrix/NatSemi 'MediaGX' CPUs used to emulate several of their peripherals to keep system cost down), or some similar alarming but impressive hackery would be at work, allowing genuinely microcontroller-level performance for bit banging and other low level functions. Alas, it appears to be a headless linux box with some slightly unusual peripheral drivers.
It's also a great testament to what an utter fucking prick Jobs was. An effective utter fucking prick, but an utter fucking prick nonetheless.
It's worse than that: As Dune tells us 'The Golden Path' was Leto Atreides II's prescient plan to guide the entirely of human evolution in the guise of a terrible half man/half sandworm God-Emperor.
This also explains why Apple began building a massive, ring-shaped, climate controlled headquarters shortly after Jobs 'died'. Earth is too moist for sandworms; so they need a secure environment to house their God-Emperor.
Given that they haven't sent assassins after the BeagleBoard team(indeed, the other big announcement from Arduino-land is that they collaborated with that group to produce a 'basically a beaglebone black with an arduino-compatible set of headers and and onboard AVR, the Tre, is Intel's attempt to throw their hat into the ring really so sinister?
Well, it does have serial support. You sick 20mA loop guys are on your own, though.
I've heard ~$60 thrown around as a number, though not an authoritative one. Lousy by the standards of Arduino projects that really are 8-bit MCU work; but the world is infested with Arduino projects that have the MCU twiddling a few sensors and then a (surprisingly expensive) ethernet/wifi shield bodged on to report the results to the internet. If that's you, the cost gets a lot more competitive.
Though, on the downside (similarly not-yet-confirmed) reports are that the arrangement Intel uses to support the GPIO is pretty limited, compared to much cheaper parts that do GPIO closer to the metal, in terms of the speeds at which it can bit-bang the assorted oddball peripherals (those cheapie LED strands for instance) that many arduino projects end up bit-banging to communicate with. Having a real ethernet and SD interface, not SPI hacks, is nice; but if those reports are to be believed, your project had better be doable without extensive bitbang interfacing.
3 million plaintext numbers means that Adobe's PCI team rides the short PCI bus to work...
If you upgrade to a suitably new version of Acrobat, you can put your flash exploits inside your exploit PDF. Totally worth the license fee.
However, as far as the source code is concerned, Adobe assured that there is no "increased risk to customers as a result of this incident."
In other words, the risk is as bad as ever.
I'm not sure why Adobe is being so pessimistic. This might be the first time in years that anybody who could find their own ass with both hands and a map, much less do code security, has examined the source code involved...
Maybe I didn't make my point sufficiently clear: The fact that it does work is why it still makes the ethicists nervous. If it were quaint nonsense, nobody would care.
To adopt your hypothetical scenario, people would get worked up if you shot me; because bullets work just fine. That's why we still argue about who you are and aren't allowed to put them into. If you were casting hexes at me, though, you'd be largely ignored because nobody would consider you a real threat.
That's the kind of efficacy I'm talking about. 'Works' doesn't mean 'ethical'; but 'completely useless' generally consigns something to the scrap heap of PHIL101 hypothetical questions in reasonably short order. Eugenics works, which is what has kept it floating around and making people nervous. The National Phrenology database, where we use laser scanners to analyze all citizens for cranial evidence of criminal tendencies, on the other hand, isn't a controversial issue because that doesn't work.
Well, I either suck at joking, or I'm mainlining Poe's Law right now...
In a battery-powered situation, I suspect the fact that it's a lithium fire was more relevant. Neither electrical nor light metal fires are a good idea to fight with water; but the efficiency of the battery pack probably didn't improve as it burned, so the fire became increasingly non-electrical and just moved on to burning through all that zesty lithium.
This is about the same as a large metal object ripping open your fuel tank and having the gasoline igniting save it's far more likely the fuel fire will consume the entire car quickly but on the reverse side it's probably easier to put out. The only real solution would be to not use lithium as a battery component which isn't possible at this time.
It's a thing to note, in the sense that fire departments/first responder types need to behave differently around a light metal fire than they do around a hydrocarbon fire (this is one of the reasons why hazardous materials storage/reporting regulations have involved the local fire department for decades in many locations: if Warehouse B catches fire, will spraying it with water stop the fire, or cause the place to explode?); but we aren't talking markedly different overall amounts of stored energy here. Even if Teslas were magically impossible to extinguish, the 'stand at a safe distance and watch' strategy works.
Big Astrology has covered this up; but it turns out that your safety is almost entirely determined by who was appointed as the director for your life story.
If it's a documentary type, the risk is nonzero; but quite modest. If it's a moody psychological thriller, you should avoid flashbacks but are utterly safe. If it's an action shlock-slinger, colliding with a pothole, shopping cart, or just about anything else at more than a few miles an hour will produce a massive fireball. Be sure to practice jumping improbably to safety. In this last case, the safest way to navigate the roads is actually to either be chasing or chased by armed criminals/terrorists/secret agents at all times. While cars not involved in high-speed chases routinely explode at the slightest stimulus, being involved in a high speed chase improves performance and fuel economy by at least 50%, provides an immunity to most bodywork damage(except bullet holes through inessential pieces of glass, be sure that your insurance covers windshield replacements), and makes explosions virtually impossible.
>> Bonus points if they're an aphrodisiac.
And endangered.
Ancient Chinese wisdom: If an animal is longer than it is wide, and endangered, it's an aphrodisiac.
Are you suggesting that we need knowledge of genetics to relegate the masses to modern serfdom?
Challenge accepted.
Francis Galton came up with this idea over a hundred years ago. It wasn't a good idea then, it still isn't.
Well, that's the ugly trick. Humans have been using selective breeding on various organisms for most of recorded history, and it works just fine*
If eugenics were simply hanging out with phlogiston and luminiferous aether on the failed ideas pile, nobody would care very much. What gives it continued edgy relevance is the fact that, possibly through a willingness to break a few eggs, possibly through more human measures, it should actually be doable to make even more of a mockery of the idea that 'all men are created equal' than nature already does.
(The fact that it's also a convenient 'scientific' cover for just sterilizing society's powerless unlikeables doesn't do it any favors in terms of popularity either). *(actual fineness of results variable, objectives of the breeder may not be well aligned with those of the organism being bred, or with sanity, other limitations and restrictions may apply.)
So this work in a sperm bank type of environment ? Why not fetch sperm from handsome, smart people only ?
Have you seen the sorts of screening criteria that sperm banks use? People looking for egg donors can't afford to be as picky; because human egg harvesting is not a pleasant business(multiple drugs, some hormonal tweaking, assorted long needles); but the supply of men willing to jerk off into a sample cup for money is pretty large, so they do tend to screen pretty enthusiastically.
Don't they already have a bunch of essentially-eugenics-based dating sites, just without the pretense of understanding the genetic basis?
I'm pretty sure I've seen one for Ivy grads only, at least one for PhDs only, 'Aryan' white power enthusiasts only, does Mensa have one?
Really, the only novelty here is pretending that (outside of a few specific cases that are either trivially mendellian or of interest because they are connected to ghastly diseases), looking at your genes, rather than at you, is actually going to provide more information about your likely offspring...