Given that each person's DNA is derived from both of their parents' sets, as well as the introduction of , the amount of mutual information between your DNA and any relative becomes drastically small.
50% for siblings, 25% for first cousins.
As for your link, point mutations usually don't affect the DNA techniques police use because they don't change the lengths of segments cut by restriction enzymes. The other types of mutations are usually more fatal, more rare, and don't really interfere with police work anyway.
But Stephen Mercer disagrees. "Of course they're gonna come up with analogies that seem to do away with any sense of wrongdoing or any sense of violation of privacy by the government. So, they say, 'Oh, well this is like a partial plate, and we're just following up on these leads....," he says.
"And what's wrong with that?" Stahl asks.
"Because it's not a partial plate. We're talking about DNA. DNA is different. DNA contains a vast amount of intensely personal information," Mercer says.
And he says there are serious racial implications, because since blacks are overrepresented in the prisons, and therefore in the DNA database, extending it to relatives would magnify the disparity.
"What you're gonna end up seeing is nearly the majority of the African American population being under genetic surveillance," Mercer says. "If you do the math, that's where you end up."
"Extremely specific question. You have a crime lab looking at DNA in a horrific crime. They get a partial match, a very close match, and the DNA expert suspects a brother. Should he withhold that information from the police, or should he tell the police, 'We think a brother did this?'" Stahl asks Mercer.
"If it comes from a database search?" Mercer asks.
"Yes," she replies.
"Then it should not be revealed," Mercer says.
"So, the DNA expert should just say, 'Sorry. No match.' And that's the end of it? And not pass this incredible clue along?" Stahl asks.
"That's correct," Mercer argues.
Mitch Morrissey says he has a big problem with that. "They have this information. And they're not telling the lead investigators? How do they justify that to the next victim of this serial rapist?" he asks.
Morrissey thinks the U.S. should do what the British are doing: they have developed a technique to scour their DNA database, deliberately searching for partial matches that might indicate a relative.
As the Canadian dollar appreciates relative to the U.S. dollar, counterfeiters will make the transition from U.S. to Canadian money and Americans will save $30 billion per year. Not to mention that it's good for the Earth when counterfeiters find ways to cut down on their use of paper.
If you and your friend are so bright you could go into the options and set Office 2007 to save in Office 97-2003 compatability mode.
What part of "he can select an earlier format, but then it saves as read-only" did you not understand? Office 97-2003 compatibility mode has three different meanings in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, and the one in Excel prevents documents with "new features" from being saved to a file that can be edited by a previous version of Excel.
Plus people forget that even in a closed system it is the TOTAL entropy that must increase. It is very possible given enough energy and the right conditions to form order in localized areas at the expense of greater disorder elsewhere.
They mistake entropy for an intensive property like pressure or temperature when it's an extensive one like volume or energy. It's like using the Great Depression to prove Daddy Warbucks couldn't have been rich. I have to wonder how many of these idiots are sitting in air conditioned rooms when they paste their proof that air conditioning is physically forbidden by the laws of nature.
Another major "job" of traditional music companies is to handle public relations and marketing for the artists. There needs to be a viable alternative to this.
The only problem is that you have to have a room thats shielded to block out the Earth's magnetic field, and then you need a very sensetive magnetic sensor that costs millions of dollars, placed next to the persons head.
And insurance won't cover it. They'll hire a neurologist to write a letter explaining why you don't really need it, and how it would be much better to cut a trap door in your skull and implant a grid of electrodes across the surface of your brain.
since you only want to use the sun as evidence when it suits your agenda. Otherwise it's a "scapegoat"
Oh OK. So what we're basically claiming here, is that if the sun isn't responsible for global warming, it couldn't possibly have added any energy to the Earth's biosphere either. Because you can't just use the sun whenever you want. Or something. Either the sun is responsible for everything or it isn't. Surely you have lots of evidence to back this up... I find your ideas fascinating, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Terrorists will simply train themselves to remain calm and lower their heartrate.
Well of course, because they've been tipped off now! Which means the submitter of this article is guilty of treason. Just like the traitors among us who tipped off the terrorists that we were reading everyone's email and listening in on their phone calls.
Now Bin Laden will release some yoga tapes and our intelligence gathering will be back to square one.
Submarine would work below water. But since Greenland and Antarctica are land masses... no.
Well, one of the things they want to find out is whether there is a layer of liquid water between the rock and the ice on top. If we can send a sub under the glacier and it comes out on the other side of Greenland, that discovery would open up valuable new submarine trade routes to compete with this new Northwest Passage we've got opening up. Maybe we can even snake pneumatic tubes underneath the glacier (like the ones the old bank drive-thrus used) so we can suck inexpensive Chinese goods right out from under the ice. Of course that wouldn't be the only consequence of such a discovery. For example we could put all our stuff on top of the ice, slide it off the land into the water, and carry our things around the world on giant cheap ice rafts.
Evolution is just a THEORY, and a shabby one at that. It goes against base thermodynamic principles
The basis for this endlessly-parroted complaint is that evolution makes "simpler forms turn into more complex forms" while the Second Law predicts that in a closed system the entropy and disorder only increases and obviously we can't have that if trilobites are turning into people, right?
But the Earth is not a closed system. It receives high energy, low entropy photons from the sun at 6000K and reradiates low energy, high entropy photons into space at 300K. Any "closed system" that includes evolutionary processes would necessarily have to include the sun as well. Even if local entropy on Earth decreases in certain parts of the biosphere, it's only possible because the entropy at the center of the sun has been increasing the whole time as hydrogen turns into helium. Just imagine what will happen to the Lord's creation once that process comes to an end!
The sun is a cruel trickster- it makes a handy scapegoat in global warming arguments, but with the other hand it undermines this illiterate hocus pocus about the Second Law of Thermodynamics forbidding evolution.
That's what StringBuffers (StringBuilders for all you.NET guys) are for.
Java has a StringBuilder too now. It's a non-threadsafe StringBuffer that avoids synchronization overhead during the initial phase of the universe's expansion. If you're inflating only one universe you can do it more efficiently.
String theory's inability to accommodate inflation has been driving me nuts ever since we converted everything to type string. What a mistake that was. String theory needs some more time in the oven before it's going to be universally acceptable.
I come here for the same reason everyone else does- to get the inside scoop on all the juicy geek politics surrounding forks of dreary open source projects and to see what superstars Linus and Stallman have to say about them. And if God forbid an underground Mac or torrent site gets overtaken by a bunch of trolls I need to get that news to my family right away!
There are differing levels of technical proficiency; it's not an on/off thing. There are people who know enough not to click on.scr but who haven't found that stupid checkbox hiding in Folder Options. Think "myspace users".
What's really boneheaded is having to worry about clicking on screensaver links at all.
Did the original quote place emphasis on the qualifiers essential and temporary? If I say "Those who start stupid wars don't deserve to be presidents" it could be taken as having two opposite meanings depending on whether stupid receives emphasis, although either way I would have to include the qualifier. But there is no reason to think that the original placed emphasis on them at all, and the meaning is totally opposite if you interpret the quote the way you and Michelle Malkin are doing.
In any case it's a moot point: we HAVE given up "essential" liberties (Amendments I, IV, V, VI, and VIII), we have received not even "temporary" safety in return, and Franklin never even said this- so he didn't have to "understand this tradeoff" at all.
Those who would give up non-essential liberty to purchase permanent safety will have both essential liberty and safety.
OK, you do have a point. So let's identify these "non-essential" liberties. Since I don't own a gun, I don't consider that an essential liberty. We can start our list with that one right away. I've also lived for years and years without going to a church, and I don't see why anyone else has to. It's clearly not "essential". Just by getting rid of guns and churches we'd easily score way more security than we've gotten by having our emails read and phone calls tapped.
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Given that each person's DNA is derived from both of their parents' sets, as well as the introduction of , the amount of mutual information between your DNA and any relative becomes drastically small.
50% for siblings, 25% for first cousins.
As for your link, point mutations usually don't affect the DNA techniques police use because they don't change the lengths of segments cut by restriction enzymes. The other types of mutations are usually more fatal, more rare, and don't really interfere with police work anyway.
Why not? Even Lesley Stahl gets it.
If your cousin gets arrested and take his fingerprints, they have information on him. If they sample his DNA, they have information on you.
I've heard that penalties for white collar crime were a lot harsher than real life crimes.
Just have one of your friends give you a pardon.
No, this just means we're finally achieving victory in our War on Drugs!
As the Canadian dollar appreciates relative to the U.S. dollar, counterfeiters will make the transition from U.S. to Canadian money and Americans will save $30 billion per year. Not to mention that it's good for the Earth when counterfeiters find ways to cut down on their use of paper.
Then it was, "Krugman? Friedman? Who?"
Thankfully Friedman has been available on Youtube.
If you and your friend are so bright you could go into the options and set Office 2007 to save in Office 97-2003 compatability mode.
What part of "he can select an earlier format, but then it saves as read-only" did you not understand? Office 97-2003 compatibility mode has three different meanings in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, and the one in Excel prevents documents with "new features" from being saved to a file that can be edited by a previous version of Excel.
Plus people forget that even in a closed system it is the TOTAL entropy that must increase. It is very possible given enough energy and the right conditions to form order in localized areas at the expense of greater disorder elsewhere.
They mistake entropy for an intensive property like pressure or temperature when it's an extensive one like volume or energy. It's like using the Great Depression to prove Daddy Warbucks couldn't have been rich. I have to wonder how many of these idiots are sitting in air conditioned rooms when they paste their proof that air conditioning is physically forbidden by the laws of nature.
Another major "job" of traditional music companies is to handle public relations and marketing for the artists. There needs to be a viable alternative to this.
Like a web page or something?
A lot of these people die in the shower. The water feels nice and warm and they scald themselves to death.
The only problem is that you have to have a room thats shielded to block out the Earth's magnetic field, and then you need a very sensetive magnetic sensor that costs millions of dollars, placed next to the persons head.
And insurance won't cover it. They'll hire a neurologist to write a letter explaining why you don't really need it, and how it would be much better to cut a trap door in your skull and implant a grid of electrodes across the surface of your brain.
since you only want to use the sun as evidence when it suits your agenda. Otherwise it's a "scapegoat"
Oh OK. So what we're basically claiming here, is that if the sun isn't responsible for global warming, it couldn't possibly have added any energy to the Earth's biosphere either. Because you can't just use the sun whenever you want. Or something. Either the sun is responsible for everything or it isn't. Surely you have lots of evidence to back this up... I find your ideas fascinating, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Terrorists will simply train themselves to remain calm and lower their heartrate.
Well of course, because they've been tipped off now! Which means the submitter of this article is guilty of treason. Just like the traitors among us who tipped off the terrorists that we were reading everyone's email and listening in on their phone calls.
Now Bin Laden will release some yoga tapes and our intelligence gathering will be back to square one.
Submarine would work below water. But since Greenland and Antarctica are land masses... no.
Well, one of the things they want to find out is whether there is a layer of liquid water between the rock and the ice on top. If we can send a sub under the glacier and it comes out on the other side of Greenland, that discovery would open up valuable new submarine trade routes to compete with this new Northwest Passage we've got opening up. Maybe we can even snake pneumatic tubes underneath the glacier (like the ones the old bank drive-thrus used) so we can suck inexpensive Chinese goods right out from under the ice. Of course that wouldn't be the only consequence of such a discovery. For example we could put all our stuff on top of the ice, slide it off the land into the water, and carry our things around the world on giant cheap ice rafts.
Two units are currently being built for a cost of about 3 U.S. million dollars.
Sergey needs to offer more than $20 million for the moon-based Roomba he wants if it costs 1.5 million to get one that dusts the Arctic ice cap.
Evolution is just a THEORY, and a shabby one at that. It goes against base thermodynamic principles
The basis for this endlessly-parroted complaint is that evolution makes "simpler forms turn into more complex forms" while the Second Law predicts that in a closed system the entropy and disorder only increases and obviously we can't have that if trilobites are turning into people, right?
But the Earth is not a closed system. It receives high energy, low entropy photons from the sun at 6000K and reradiates low energy, high entropy photons into space at 300K. Any "closed system" that includes evolutionary processes would necessarily have to include the sun as well. Even if local entropy on Earth decreases in certain parts of the biosphere, it's only possible because the entropy at the center of the sun has been increasing the whole time as hydrogen turns into helium. Just imagine what will happen to the Lord's creation once that process comes to an end!
The sun is a cruel trickster- it makes a handy scapegoat in global warming arguments, but with the other hand it undermines this illiterate hocus pocus about the Second Law of Thermodynamics forbidding evolution.
That's what StringBuffers (StringBuilders for all you .NET guys) are for.
Java has a StringBuilder too now. It's a non-threadsafe StringBuffer that avoids synchronization overhead during the initial phase of the universe's expansion. If you're inflating only one universe you can do it more efficiently.
String theory's inability to accommodate inflation has been driving me nuts ever since we converted everything to type string. What a mistake that was. String theory needs some more time in the oven before it's going to be universally acceptable.
RMS has the physical appearance of a hippie-zealot, and Linus takes advantage of that to mislead people who don't know better.
I knew RMS was a zealot even though I've never seen him or heard anything Linus said about him.
("Hippie" I don't care about for pot/kettle reasons.)
I come here for the same reason everyone else does- to get the inside scoop on all the juicy geek politics surrounding forks of dreary open source projects and to see what superstars Linus and Stallman have to say about them. And if God forbid an underground Mac or torrent site gets overtaken by a bunch of trolls I need to get that news to my family right away!
There are differing levels of technical proficiency; it's not an on/off thing. There are people who know enough not to click on .scr but who haven't found that stupid checkbox hiding in Folder Options. Think "myspace users".
What's really boneheaded is having to worry about clicking on screensaver links at all.
Did the original quote place emphasis on the qualifiers essential and temporary? If I say "Those who start stupid wars don't deserve to be presidents" it could be taken as having two opposite meanings depending on whether stupid receives emphasis, although either way I would have to include the qualifier. But there is no reason to think that the original placed emphasis on them at all, and the meaning is totally opposite if you interpret the quote the way you and Michelle Malkin are doing.
In any case it's a moot point: we HAVE given up "essential" liberties (Amendments I, IV, V, VI, and VIII), we have received not even "temporary" safety in return, and Franklin never even said this- so he didn't have to "understand this tradeoff" at all.
But that is very noble of you to so willingly give up freedoms that you have never exercised yourself.
WHOOSH! Right over your head!
Those who would give up non-essential liberty to purchase permanent safety will have both essential liberty and safety.
OK, you do have a point. So let's identify these "non-essential" liberties. Since I don't own a gun, I don't consider that an essential liberty. We can start our list with that one right away. I've also lived for years and years without going to a church, and I don't see why anyone else has to. It's clearly not "essential". Just by getting rid of guns and churches we'd easily score way more security than we've gotten by having our emails read and phone calls tapped.