[Closed] Call me a conspiracy theorist, but.....

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My god we're going to be ruled by mutant meerkat opera singers with a fleet of warships?

To be honest the main thrust of my OP wasn't even about the legislation (which I don't agree with incidentally) - just about the appalling arguments being used to justify it.

My god we're going to be ruled by mutant meerkat opera singers with a fleet of warships?

Of course. Have you not seen Gattaca? 😉

Can't believe you're all ignoring the obvious:

grum - you're a conspiracy theorist

grum - you're a conspiracy theorist

Well done for being the only person in this thread to agree with Teresa May. 🙂

we're going to be ruled by mutant meerkat opera singers with a fleet of warships?

s'gotta be better than this current lot shirley..?

However I am good at information theory and reducing the 3.2 billion base pairs of the human genome into a profile of just 20 numbers has a very high degree of entropy. The resulting profile is not going to be useful for determining the genetics risks of diseases.

Surely 20 numbers can be used to store / reference a hell of a lot of information? Please explain.

Your DNA is 3.2 billion base pairs long (ish). The 20 numbers are just counts of the number of times that certain sequences repeat at specific points.

As an analogy: you could build a "book profile" by counting the number of times that the word "and" appears on pages 57-67 and the number of times "the" appears on page 39-104 etc.

If you did that right, with appropriately chosen words, then you'd end up with a unique (enough) profile that you could use to identify a book's name if someone gave you another copy of the contents at a later date.

But it really wouldn't tell you very much about the contents themselves.

Cat Flap May is so far out of her depth it's almost sickening to watch . She mannages to alienate the rank and file police to save money thus increasing vunerability to real day to day crime while at the same time caves in to the expensive power and empire building of the chief constables as she lacks the political skill and moral backbone to challenge them .

I think it was Whitelaw who used to have regular meetings where senior police officers pitched for increased powers with the excange "nice try lads but no " they'd then leave whith "ok but you can't blame us for trying."

May has no idea what she is doing so just gives in abandoning the Conservatives stated pre election position.

MODS please cc this post to the Home Office it may save some of the £1.8 billion to be spent on the plan.

Your DNA is 3.2 billion base pairs long (ish). The 20 numbers are just counts of the number of times that certain sequences repeat at specific points.

sorry, but:
[i]grum - you're [u]not[/u] a conspiracy theorist[/i]

If you were, you wouldn't be posting your disapproval of increased electronic surveillance on an open internet forum.
Every decent conspiracy theorist would know your objections and identity would be easily traceable and likely to push you to the top of the "snooping list".

Personally I shudder to think that a government that has been closely linked to the hacking scandal and routinely loses classified military intelligence on laptops by leaving them in trains has the competency to look after our data.

s'gotta be better than this current lot shirley..?

it's getting a bit too V for Vendetta...that Alan Moore chap was right

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Which government's that, then?

Forgive me, I hadn't actually noticed the change in government in terms of policy. I think Cameron is Blair with craniofacial reconstruction. That or he's an alien reptile.

I realise that liberties are eroded gradually - but that seems a bit of a leap from the OP

Gradually?

Of course. Have you not seen Gattaca?

LOL about 10 years ago someone I worked with thought it was near reality and only a year or so away.

In reality the big scary private corporations know more about you than the government.

Banks know how much we earn and where we spend it, how much tax we pay what we get from the government.

Supermarkets know what we eat drink and when

We announce more on the internet to the whole world these days

There is a huge industry looking at trends and patterns in spends and shopping. Targeting marketing is huge.

In reality the big scary private corporations know more about you than the government

The scarier reality however is that those same corporations appear much readier to defend A) Freedom of Speech B) Personal information.... when compared to government.

Although I wonder how much of this is due to purely financial reasons.