You can't be a liberal yet support privacy? It just can't happen
Spoken in jest, I hope. Come to Canada. The Liberals (liberals) and New Democrats (socialists) are the biggest supporters of privacy and individual freedoms while the Conservatives (conservatives) are for more police powers and surveillance.
Thank you; I stand corrected. Being just a layman, I have always thought of rotation as being about (around) an axis passing through the center of gravity, not some arbitrarily-defined external axis. Learn something everyday!
Yeah, but, those are "folding" wings. The summary says the wings "ROTATE". Rotating wings!!! Man, there is a safety issue. No wonder the airlines need ex-military pilots to fly these suckers safely. Rotating wings, lousy editorial skills -- what next?
Neither me, my wife, nor one of our sons received any alerts at all. Not the earlier test alerts, nor any of the real alerts. You see, our phones are apparently "incompatible" with the alerting system and so we can't be reached. There are thousands of us in this situation. I just don't understand why the alerting system is so dependent on the particular chips used by the manufacturers, rather than the common protocols of the cellphone messaging system. We can receive phone calls from anyone and text messages from anyone. Why not from the alerting system too? Seems to be a huge failure in the design of the system.
DNA tests often only test a small subset of information which means that false positives are possible
Anything less than a full genome test cannot produce a foolproof match, and it is up to the defense lawyers to convince the judge and jury that this is so. The 12 CODIS markers, so loved by law enforcement, are totally inadequate for proving identity. Even a 67/67 STR marker match of Y-chromosomes is not proof of identity and you have to test terminal SNPs to be sure that the "matching" men even belong to the same haplogroup.
I have been testing DNA for genealogy since 2007 and am appalled at the claims made by some DNA testing companies about the "matching" abilities of their products. As for law enforcement... well, theirs is junk science.
Looked like this : "GET / HTTP/1.1" 301 226 "-"
"POST/wls-wsat/CoordinatorPortType HTTP/1.1" 400 17 "-"
"POST/user/register?element_parents=account/mail/%23value&ajax_form=1&_wrapper_format=drupal_ajax HTTP/1.1" 403 15 "-"
"GET / HTTP/1.1" 301 226 "-"
"GET / HTTP/1.1" 301 226 "-"
"GET/rss.php?mode=recent HTTP/1.1" 403 15 "-"
"GET/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 403 15 "-"
Mostly in rapid succession but sometimes spaced out over several minutes. Requests for wp-login.php were sometimes omitted. UA was "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.132 Safari/537.36" or very similar.
All attacks were against my IP address, so requests for the home page got automatic redirects to the domain (which they ignored).
I didn't have a 2 TB file to give away but after all the activity the previous day (Friday), I made sure the URLs they were after would give them only a "403" response instead of the usual "404", just to make a point. There were only a few isolated probes after about 1230 UTC Saturday. I wonder if the attacks continued on other sites after they ended on mine.
I don't run Drupal but in a six hour period Saturday morning even my little website was hit on from 147 different IP addresses, each using 4 or 5 requests in rapid succession. Made my logs hard to read.
I'm glad that Kaspersky products are still available off the shelf here in Canada (from an American-owned retailer, no less). Not sure what to think about Huawei though.
And what did you do when there was a flood or hurricane or other unexpected event and the power went off -- for more than just a few minutes? How did you buy stuff then?
At FTDNA, you have to be either the testee or their project administrator to download anyone's SNPs, except for those identified as their "terminal SNP" for genealogy. And I believe the vast majority of SNPs used for genealogy have no medical significance at all. Which company(ies) have you tested with?
Not sure why the original article even mentions Family Tree DNA (FTDNA) who do testing only for genealogical purposes. Their name appears only in the Introduction. None of their tests is recommended or (I believe) can be used for medical or health-related purposes. On the other hand, 23AndMe is a big DTC marketer of medical DNA testing and I would bet that most of the tests evaluated in this article were by 23AndMe.
Disclaimer - I have been testing my own and the DNA of others since 2007 with Family Tree DNA, and have no connection with the company other than as a satisfied customer and a volunteer administrator for three genealogical surname DNA projects (Foad, Huntsman, and Mugford).
Ever watch a flock of small birds -- how they stay together, twisting and turning in a mass concentration? Now imagine them restricted to 2 dimensions and channeled by streets, and impeded by stop signs and traffic lights, but still all going to roughly the same place. That's what car traffic will look like when everyone uses an app to get to work.
What I am talking about is shared patterns in the autosomal DNA, patterns formed by segments of identical strings of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). The longer the segments of identical patterns comparing person A with person B, the more likely they are to share a close genealogical relationship. If the pattern is broken by person A having a different SNP at some location or missing an SNP that the other person has, then the shared segment is shorter than it might have been otherwise. On average, siblings share about 25% of their total autosomal DNA. The parts that they don't share are comprised of segments (from the same parents) that were constituted differently. One got segment xyz from their father while the other got segment xyz from their mother. That is the key, what segments each sibling received from the mother or from the father. It is random.
Nothing to do with non-human DNA. Or crimes against conquered peoples.
Although the triplets all came from the same womb, they got wildly different results from both companies.
The fact is, this is normal! They are siblings and siblings often share less than 25% of their DNA with each other. Each person receives half of their autosomal DNA from their mother and half from their father. But the DNA doesn't come in "halves", it comes in little bits, a bit from here and a bit from there, so siblings definitely do not get all the same DNA.
In theory, siblings can share almost none, or almost all, of their autosomal DNA. The process is entirely random and on average, it is 25% shared (0.5 x 0.5). This is a simple problem in probability which one can't expect any journalist (let alone the average person) to understand.
As for the marketing aspects of DNA tests, well, Ancestry's marketing techniques speak for themselves. There are, however, respectable and honest DNA testing companies out there, one's with actual research scientists on staff who work closely with the genealogical community and the International Society of Genetic Genealogy (isogg.org). Check it out. (Disclaimer -- I have been testing my own and others' DNA since 2007, though never with Ancestry. Can't recommend them at all.)
In the equatorial regions, life is easy. In the northern regions of America, life is hard. It takes all your energy and time just to survive and there is no time or incentive to invent things like bloody sacrifices, pyramids, intricate jewellery, or complex social structures. That's why the "further away" regions eventually had what are perceived as more "advanced" civilizations. The people in the north were just as "advanced"; it is just that all of their advancements were related to hunting for food and staying warm and making best use of the local environment.
I have long thought that much of the "evidence" for water on Mars, that is, the sculpted features of the Martian landscape, were due simply to the action of the thin wind there over thousands and millions of years. Living in Canada and having over the decades often observed the sculpting of snow by the wind here, it seems to me the parallels are obvious. The wind does surprising things to snow, both light and heavy snow, and I see many similarities in the thought-to-be-water-sculpted features on Mars.
It ain't the long-gone water, it's the thin but ever-present wind.
Are you talking about "harmonics" or "heterodyne products" (some call it mixing products). Multiple combinations of sums and differences?
As in x +/- y
x +/- 2y
y +/- 2x
2x +/- 3y
2y +/- 3x
etc etc
It might be just a hypothesis but please explain more clearly.
I didn't like the new Firefox v57 (extensions problem) so I just re-installed Ubuntu 16.04 from my DVD and am refusing all offered browser updates. So it's Firefox v47.0 for me! It's probably very out of date security-wise but at least I don't have to struggle with this "best Firefox ever" s**t.
Living in Canada, I have often observed the interesting patterns in dry snow lying on the ground caused by stiff winter breezes over a period of several days. And sometimes when I have seen photos of "evidence of water on Mars", the similarities to wind patterns in our snow has seemed obvious. Fine sand and ordinary dry snow probably have pretty similar aerodynamic responses. Add to this the fact that sand is much more abrasive than snow and you have the possibility of Martian sand causing gradual changes in the shapes of overlying rocks. I wonder why these similarities and possibilities have never been considered in the drive to prove that water existed or exists on Mars.
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Barbarian! One might hope that you catch some incurable human cross-over book-mould disease from the experience.
You can't be a liberal yet support privacy? It just can't happen
Spoken in jest, I hope. Come to Canada. The Liberals (liberals) and New Democrats (socialists) are the biggest supporters of privacy and individual freedoms while the Conservatives (conservatives) are for more police powers and surveillance.
Thank you; I stand corrected. Being just a layman, I have always thought of rotation as being about (around) an axis passing through the center of gravity, not some arbitrarily-defined external axis. Learn something everyday!
Yeah, but, those are "folding" wings. The summary says the wings "ROTATE". Rotating wings!!! Man, there is a safety issue. No wonder the airlines need ex-military pilots to fly these suckers safely. Rotating wings, lousy editorial skills -- what next?
Neither me, my wife, nor one of our sons received any alerts at all. Not the earlier test alerts, nor any of the real alerts. You see, our phones are apparently "incompatible" with the alerting system and so we can't be reached. There are thousands of us in this situation. I just don't understand why the alerting system is so dependent on the particular chips used by the manufacturers, rather than the common protocols of the cellphone messaging system. We can receive phone calls from anyone and text messages from anyone. Why not from the alerting system too? Seems to be a huge failure in the design of the system.
DNA tests often only test a small subset of information which means that false positives are possible
Anything less than a full genome test cannot produce a foolproof match, and it is up to the defense lawyers to convince the judge and jury that this is so. The 12 CODIS markers, so loved by law enforcement, are totally inadequate for proving identity. Even a 67/67 STR marker match of Y-chromosomes is not proof of identity and you have to test terminal SNPs to be sure that the "matching" men even belong to the same haplogroup.
... well, theirs is junk science.
I have been testing DNA for genealogy since 2007 and am appalled at the claims made by some DNA testing companies about the "matching" abilities of their products. As for law enforcement
Looked like this : /wls-wsat/CoordinatorPortType HTTP/1.1" 400 17 "-" /user/register?element_parents=account/mail/%23value&ajax_form=1&_wrapper_format=drupal_ajax HTTP/1.1" 403 15 "-" /rss.php?mode=recent HTTP/1.1" 403 15 "-" /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 403 15 "-"
Mostly in rapid succession but sometimes spaced out over several minutes. Requests for wp-login.php were sometimes omitted. UA was "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.132 Safari/537.36" or very similar.
All attacks were against my IP address, so requests for the home page got automatic redirects to the domain (which they ignored).
"GET / HTTP/1.1" 301 226 "-"
"POST
"POST
"GET / HTTP/1.1" 301 226 "-"
"GET / HTTP/1.1" 301 226 "-"
"GET
"GET
I didn't have a 2 TB file to give away but after all the activity the previous day (Friday), I made sure the URLs they were after would give them only a "403" response instead of the usual "404", just to make a point. There were only a few isolated probes after about 1230 UTC Saturday. I wonder if the attacks continued on other sites after they ended on mine.
I don't run Drupal but in a six hour period Saturday morning even my little website was hit on from 147 different IP addresses, each using 4 or 5 requests in rapid succession. Made my logs hard to read.
Who needs more tests once he has perfected the technology. Now begins production in earnest. Rockets plus payloads. Onward and upward!
I'm glad that Kaspersky products are still available off the shelf here in Canada (from an American-owned retailer, no less). Not sure what to think about Huawei though.
And what did you do when there was a flood or hurricane or other unexpected event and the power went off -- for more than just a few minutes? How did you buy stuff then?
So we tailor their class times to their biological rhythms and they turn into adults with juvenile biological rhythms. Will they ever really grow up?
At FTDNA, you have to be either the testee or their project administrator to download anyone's SNPs, except for those identified as their "terminal SNP" for genealogy. And I believe the vast majority of SNPs used for genealogy have no medical significance at all. Which company(ies) have you tested with?
Not sure why the original article even mentions Family Tree DNA (FTDNA) who do testing only for genealogical purposes. Their name appears only in the Introduction. None of their tests is recommended or (I believe) can be used for medical or health-related purposes. On the other hand, 23AndMe is a big DTC marketer of medical DNA testing and I would bet that most of the tests evaluated in this article were by 23AndMe.
Disclaimer - I have been testing my own and the DNA of others since 2007 with Family Tree DNA, and have no connection with the company other than as a satisfied customer and a volunteer administrator for three genealogical surname DNA projects (Foad, Huntsman, and Mugford).
Ever watch a flock of small birds -- how they stay together, twisting and turning in a mass concentration? Now imagine them restricted to 2 dimensions and channeled by streets, and impeded by stop signs and traffic lights, but still all going to roughly the same place. That's what car traffic will look like when everyone uses an app to get to work.
You are right; I misspoke.
What I am talking about is shared patterns in the autosomal DNA, patterns formed by segments of identical strings of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). The longer the segments of identical patterns comparing person A with person B, the more likely they are to share a close genealogical relationship. If the pattern is broken by person A having a different SNP at some location or missing an SNP that the other person has, then the shared segment is shorter than it might have been otherwise. On average, siblings share about 25% of their total autosomal DNA. The parts that they don't share are comprised of segments (from the same parents) that were constituted differently. One got segment xyz from their father while the other got segment xyz from their mother. That is the key, what segments each sibling received from the mother or from the father. It is random.
Nothing to do with non-human DNA. Or crimes against conquered peoples.
Although the triplets all came from the same womb, they got wildly different results from both companies.
The fact is, this is normal! They are siblings and siblings often share less than 25% of their DNA with each other. Each person receives half of their autosomal DNA from their mother and half from their father. But the DNA doesn't come in "halves", it comes in little bits, a bit from here and a bit from there, so siblings definitely do not get all the same DNA.
In theory, siblings can share almost none, or almost all, of their autosomal DNA. The process is entirely random and on average, it is 25% shared (0.5 x 0.5). This is a simple problem in probability which one can't expect any journalist (let alone the average person) to understand.
As for the marketing aspects of DNA tests, well, Ancestry's marketing techniques speak for themselves. There are, however, respectable and honest DNA testing companies out there, one's with actual research scientists on staff who work closely with the genealogical community and the International Society of Genetic Genealogy (isogg.org). Check it out. (Disclaimer -- I have been testing my own and others' DNA since 2007, though never with Ancestry. Can't recommend them at all.)
Ahem. North America is Canada. The rest of you live in that place called America.
In the equatorial regions, life is easy. In the northern regions of America, life is hard. It takes all your energy and time just to survive and there is no time or incentive to invent things like bloody sacrifices, pyramids, intricate jewellery, or complex social structures. That's why the "further away" regions eventually had what are perceived as more "advanced" civilizations. The people in the north were just as "advanced"; it is just that all of their advancements were related to hunting for food and staying warm and making best use of the local environment.
I have long thought that much of the "evidence" for water on Mars, that is, the sculpted features of the Martian landscape, were due simply to the action of the thin wind there over thousands and millions of years. Living in Canada and having over the decades often observed the sculpting of snow by the wind here, it seems to me the parallels are obvious. The wind does surprising things to snow, both light and heavy snow, and I see many similarities in the thought-to-be-water-sculpted features on Mars.
It ain't the long-gone water, it's the thin but ever-present wind.
Are you talking about "harmonics" or "heterodyne products" (some call it mixing products). Multiple combinations of sums and differences?
As in x +/- y
x +/- 2y
y +/- 2x
2x +/- 3y
2y +/- 3x
etc etc
It might be just a hypothesis but please explain more clearly.
sudo apt-mark hold firefox
Thanks, AnitSol. Didn't know I could do that. Handy to know in other situations too. Thanks again.
I didn't like the new Firefox v57 (extensions problem) so I just re-installed Ubuntu 16.04 from my DVD and am refusing all offered browser updates. So it's Firefox v47.0 for me! It's probably very out of date security-wise but at least I don't have to struggle with this "best Firefox ever" s**t.
Living in Canada, I have often observed the interesting patterns in dry snow lying on the ground caused by stiff winter breezes over a period of several days. And sometimes when I have seen photos of "evidence of water on Mars", the similarities to wind patterns in our snow has seemed obvious. Fine sand and ordinary dry snow probably have pretty similar aerodynamic responses. Add to this the fact that sand is much more abrasive than snow and you have the possibility of Martian sand causing gradual changes in the shapes of overlying rocks. I wonder why these similarities and possibilities have never been considered in the drive to prove that water existed or exists on Mars.