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Comment Re:NHS Explains (Score 1) 205

This paper looks suspiciously like data-mining to find an hypothesis. It's based on a cohort study that was not specifically designed for finding a correlation of this type.....

Read the NHS article: "....As it is designed prospectively, it also avoids the chance of reverse causation, i.e. the possibility that in some way violent offending might determine dietary habit. ..."

Comment Re:Can't have digital security (Score 2, Interesting) 454

If it's digital, exact copies are possible.
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If it's digital, the process is fast and can be automated, and the threat is increased a million-fold (out of arse, of course) by sheer statistics. We need slow electronics

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If it's digital, tampering is undetectable.

hmm.. in fact, there are smart card with microprocessor empowered with strong public key encryption that would make cloning very difficult and always detectable.

But the government just don't care (or can't tell the different)

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