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• On the post: Now That We've Entered The Age Of Robocop, How About Ones That Detain, Rather Than Kill?

  

  adrian ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2016 @ 01:43am

  Will nobody think of the Robots?

  but did the robot survive? or are they now down to 2 bomb robots?

• On the post: Redaction Failure In FTC/Amazon Decision Inadvertently Allows Public To See Stuff It Should Have Been Able To See Anyway

  

  adrian ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2016 @ 03:19am

  Rather ironically the "redacted version" linked in the article is hosted on Amazon Web Services.
  
  Anyway who says the person doing the redacting screwed up. Just maybe they didn't agree with the redactions but had to be seen to be doing the right thing.

• On the post: Locked Out Of The Sixth Amendment By Proprietary Forensic Software

  

  adrian ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2015 @ 06:31am

  Re:

  Exactly, although the software isn't even the last step, just one step in the process. I know a DNA expert witness, after the computer software they use generates a probability of a match, they then go through a manual check of the results and then their work is independently double checked. It may surprise some people but at one stage they did actually check DNA sample matches without a computer.

• On the post: Locked Out Of The Sixth Amendment By Proprietary Forensic Software

  

  adrian ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2015 @ 04:20am

  Re: Re: What's wrong with a pen and a piece of paper?

  All I was saying is that if you have DNA sample from the crime scene and the DNA sample from the suspect, which the defence should have as evidence then you don't need the software to perform the calculation. You can do the DNA match calculation manually, the answer will then either confirm the computer generated result or provide sufficient doubt on the result, without having to inspect the code.

• On the post: Locked Out Of The Sixth Amendment By Proprietary Forensic Software

  

  adrian ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2015 @ 02:16am

  What's wrong with a pen and a piece of paper?

  I don't understand the need to inspect the software - it's just a diversionary tactic. A DNA calculation between two samples can be double checked with a pen, a piece of paper and a calculator. There are various peer reviewed statistical databases which could be used, so it would be worth asking which database is used by the software but the rest of it can be done the good old fashioned manual way.

• On the post: One Man Troll Army Arrested For Supporting Terrorists: Where's The Line Between Trolling And Terrorism?

  

  adrian ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2015 @ 12:46am

  @healing_bible, whoever you are, step on up.
  
  Perhaps it's just another persona from Mr Goldberg? - his Dr Jekyll perchance?

• On the post: Using Spreadsheets In Bioinformatics Can Corrupt Data, Changing Gene Names Into Dates

  

  adrian ( profile ), 31 Jul, 2014 @ 05:58am

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  I thought it looked familiar - from 10yrs ago
  
  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/16/excel_vanishing_dna/