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Article #36102re: One Step (backwards,maybe)
From: Jon Eaves
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1989 15:03
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1989 15:03
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In article <236@maths.tcd.ie>, dbell@maths.tcd.ie (Derek Bell) writes:
> In article <69@poppy.warwick.ac.uk> maujt@warwick.ac.uk (Richard J Cox) writes:
>>How about using some kind of DNA finger printing? - take a small sample
>>of blood (ouch!) and check on this. This would be almost impossible to fool.
>
> Er, couldn't this be fooled by an identical twin?
> Come to think of it, how much of the DNA would be scanned? DNA has an enormous
> information "density".
>
You are not kidding, for the human genome about 10^9 'bases' ( so I am told ).
This process will take a while, about 2 days. So if you want to log in, you had
better work out when you want to, ahead of time.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari!murdu!ucsvc!wehi!jon From: jon@wehi.dn.mu.oz (Jon Eaves) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.cog-eng Subject: re: One Step (backwards,maybe) Message-ID: <37@wehi.dn.mu.oz> Date: 20 Jan 89 15:03:52 GMT References: <263@gloom.UUCP> <4498@xenna.Encore.COM> <69@poppy.warwick.ac.uk> <236@maths.tcd.ie> Organization: Walter & Eliza Hall Institute Lines: 21