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We will find you: DNA search used to nab GS Killer can home in on about 60% of white Americans
ScienceMag.org ^ | Oct 11, 2018 | Jocelyn Kaiser

Posted on 10/12/2018 9:58:52 AM PDT by ETL

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To: bigbob; null and void; SkyPilot

I think they’re officially out of it (it was one of their people).

Of course, I think they’re officially out of Boston Dynamics, too.

It’s almost that time of year for the creepy robot sleigh ride!

Meanwhile, the massive data collection at all levels continues.


41 posted on 10/12/2018 10:42:52 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: euram
About a year ago I was able to help a distant cousin in Australia, one of my matches on a couple of DNA sites, find her biological mother. She had been adopted at birth and her adoptive parents were deceased (she didn't know until she was 21 that they weren't her biological parents). It was a very happy reunion.

After MyHeritage was featured on "Fox & Friends" last year, I did their test. I have over 2500 matches--the closest one is a second cousin.

42 posted on 10/12/2018 10:43:30 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Robert357

Whatever happened to “beyond a shadow of doubt?” “.

I don’t know that such a standard has ever existed. To what are you referring?


43 posted on 10/12/2018 10:44:25 AM PDT by RipSawyer
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To: All

Happy Holidays!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDZu04v7_hc

Well, they certainly weren’t going to say “Merry CHRISTmas!”


44 posted on 10/12/2018 10:44:54 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: ETL

California has money for rocket trains that go from no where to no where, and it doesn’t have money to do complete DNA tests of rape kits going back years.

Apparently, this is sop for most big blue cities/counties/states in America.

We know retired and still working ER nurses friends. Who feel that the elites in charge of Sacramento, and our big blue cities don’t want those DNA rape kits used to identify the rapists.


45 posted on 10/12/2018 10:47:55 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Dems @ the Kavanaugh lynching, told the world that non gay men of any color have Zero future w/them!)
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To: ETL
Many of us submitted our DNA to the National Geographic Genographic project back in 2005:

The Genographic Project (Have Your DNA Checked, Find Your Roots)

Our DNA was used in this Project:

Map of Human Migration

46 posted on 10/12/2018 10:48:44 AM PDT by blam
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To: ETL
Statistics, statistics, statistics.

If you're company has less than X percent of a certain race as employees, you must be guilty of racial discrimination, yes?

Be wary of "dragnet dna". It's one thing to use it as a possible lead in a case, but shouldn't be used by itself to get something like a no-knock warrant.

Of course, many won't care until they are the ones mistakenly dragged out of bed in the middle of the night and stuck w/jail and thousands in legal fees defending themselves.

Before supporting what's discussed in this article, I strongly recommend you familiarize yourself with the concept of false positives.

https://projects.nfstc.org/workshops/resources/articles/How%20the%20Probability%20of%20a%20False%20Positive%20Affects%20the.pdf

47 posted on 10/12/2018 10:49:35 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: Robert357

First off, convictions are to the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard, not shadow of a doubt.

Secondly, the narrowed pool of 20 is a pool of persons of interest, for closer investigation. No one will ever be arrested, let alone convicted of a crime for being part of this initial pool.

Once they identify the single person of those 20 who had means, motive and opportunity, police can then obtain a warrant to compel a DNA test of that individual for comparison with the DNA evidence collected from the victim or at the crime scene.


48 posted on 10/12/2018 10:50:39 AM PDT by Go_Raiders (The fact is, we really don't know anything. It's all guesswork and rationalization.)
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To: ETL
I think this is excellent.

I just don't feel invaded by it.

49 posted on 10/12/2018 10:51:06 AM PDT by MarMema
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To: Grampa Dave

[We know retired and still working ER nurses friends. Who feel that the elites in charge of Sacramento, and our big blue cities don’t want those DNA rape kits used to identify the rapists.]

Of course not. That would reveal the stats that Eric Holder and Barack Hussein Obama were trying to hide. And the Democrats would have more of their voters in prison for the violent crimes they committed.


50 posted on 10/12/2018 10:55:02 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: American in Israel

“A yet to be invented DNA reader would be a perfect credit card pin number.”

Too slow and too intrusive.

Use electronic thumb prints. The DMV’s have a device that copies, measures and records your thumb print in about a minute.

I had the “pleasure” of renewing my Ca. Driver’s license yesterday, and I had my thumb print electronically recorded 3 times in one hour.

Retinal scanning will be even faster and more reliable than the electronic thumb print gear.


51 posted on 10/12/2018 10:56:07 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Dems @ the Kavanaugh lynching, told the world that non gay men of any color have Zero future w/them!)
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To: Grampa Dave

Just go with both. For a “welfare” system. Cut down on the fraud. Just need to record the biological ID of millions. Fingerprints and retina scans.

https://youtu.be/oeBiZGU23SY


52 posted on 10/12/2018 10:58:45 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Grampa Dave

My LG smart phone has fingerprint security id as do many other high end phones.


53 posted on 10/12/2018 10:58:54 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: SaveFerris

Our adult children are in their 50’s, and they were foot printed after birth decades ago to identify them in case of mix ups or worse at the hospital.

Now there is an electronic method used by hospitals, who don’t want to get sued for losing or swapping babies after they are born.

https://www.bioenabletech.com/newborn-baby-foot-identification-solution


54 posted on 10/12/2018 11:02:26 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Dems @ the Kavanaugh lynching, told the world that non gay men of any color have Zero future w/them!)
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To: Covenantor; null and void; SkyPilot

[My LG smart phone has fingerprint security id as do many other high end phones.]

Yep. I’m sure we can trust them not to upload it to a big brother database or anything. ;)


55 posted on 10/12/2018 11:02:36 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: fruser1

Unless one actually committed the crime, the increase in odds of being dragged out of bed in the middle of the night from a DNA screening is statistically insignificant.

On the other hand, the odds of a DNA test immediately clearing an innocent person as a suspect are almost 100%. I like those odds, which is why my wife and I both uploaded our DNA.


56 posted on 10/12/2018 11:03:15 AM PDT by Go_Raiders (The fact is, we really don't know anything. It's all guesswork and rationalization.)
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To: Grampa Dave

Oh yes. Are they assigning SSN’s at birth? I actually don’t know.


57 posted on 10/12/2018 11:03:35 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: euram

“...I had found both my grandmother’s birth mother and the biological father.”

Were they happy to hear from you?


58 posted on 10/12/2018 11:05:23 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Covenantor

“My LG smart phone has fringerprint security id as do many other high end phones.”

Those are great until you get near the age of 80. Then most of us have no finger prints, as we have worn the prints off.

Yesterday, at our wonderful DMV, I had 3 electronic fingerprints of my right index finger. None of them worked.


59 posted on 10/12/2018 11:08:09 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Dems @ the Kavanaugh lynching, told the world that non gay men of any color have Zero future w/them!)
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To: SaveFerris

Mine are already in several Federal DBs... and have been for a few decades, that horse left the barn long ago.


60 posted on 10/12/2018 11:08:30 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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