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Another example of science fiction that probably should have been kept as fiction. FBI to inaugurate national DNA database NEW YORK (Reuters) - The FBI will open a new and improved national DNA database Tuesday that will be used to help stop serial rapists and other repeat criminals, the New York Times reported Monday. (Full story) http://www.sjmercury.com/breaking/docs/084314.htm
A DNA Database can actually be used for many nifty things that will improve the lives of taxpayers and consumers alike. For example, if we only had the resources to sample DNA from every American, then cross reference that DNA with, say, their CREDIT REPORT, then we'd know what type of genetic make-up has a predisposition toward not paying their bills and we'd save so many untold billions of dollars by not lending those genetic deadbeats any more money. Interest rates would plummet! Plus, if you had the _right_ DNA, they could just approve you on the spot! If we had a DNA sample of all world citizens, then the pesky problem of the whole "it was either O.J. that was the killer or there's a one in five billion chance it was someone else" would simply disappear. And, just think of the social improvements: why, if you forget to ask the name of last nights suitor, you can scrape some DNA samples off the end of your cat-o-nine-tails, slip it into your M.S. DNA Reader(tm) and instantly add them to your outlook addressbook. (That is, if they have good credit, natch.) Man, my verbosity gene is in overdrive today! X ~> -----Original Message----- ~> From: owner-cypherpunks@minder.net ~> [mailto:owner-cypherpunks@minder.net]On Behalf Of Xena - Warrior ~> Princess ~> Sent: Monday, October 12, 1998 2:20 PM ~> To: cypherpunks@toad.com ~> Subject: DNA ~> ~> ~> ~> ~> Another example of science fiction that probably should have been kept as ~> fiction. ~> ~> ~> FBI to inaugurate national DNA database ~> ~> NEW YORK (Reuters) - The FBI will open a new and improved ~> national DNA database Tuesday that will be used to help ~> stop serial rapists and other repeat criminals, the New ~> York Times reported Monday. ~> ~> (Full story) ~> http://www.sjmercury.com/breaking/docs/084314.htm ~> ~>
At 5:48 PM -0400 on 10/12/98, X wrote: > Man, my verbosity gene is in overdrive today! Nope. You've just been reading too many, um, crypto-statist, Gore Vidal novels. :-). Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'