How will these tests be challenged?
https://www.pogowasright.org/to-solve-3-cold-cases-this-small-county-got-a-dna-crash-course/
To Solve 3 Cold Cases, This Small County Got a DNA Crash Course
Virginia Hughes reports that a small cottage industry is growing to help law enforcement solve cold cases. The techniques involve DNA and using genetic markers to build multigenerational family trees — like the techniques that helped law enforcement finally catch the Golden State Killer. Hughes reports:
Mr. McCord and his team are among a growing number of investigators that have joined the scientific vanguard to revive cold cases. Hundreds of cases, of both victims and perpetrators, have likely been solved. Some have involved extracting DNA from decades-old bones, hair or minute traces of skin cells. Others have benefited from the most comprehensive and expensive type of DNA testing, known as whole-genome sequencing.
[…]
Critics worry that the widening use of this investigational method could lead to what is essentially a national DNA database for law enforcement, giving police access to highly personal information from a wide swath of the public without their explicit consent. The only significant limit is the cost — typically several thousand dollars per case — and that is dropping rapidly, as demand surges.
Read more on The New York Times.
Individual disruptions are not uncommon. What happens if many are launched at one time?
Unidentified cyberattackers force Alaska Court System to disconnect from internet
James Brooks reports:
A cyberattack has caused the Alaska Court System to disconnect most of its operations from the internet, an act expected to block electronic court filings, disrupt online payments and prevent hearings from taking place by videoconference for several days.
The Courtview system used to look up court records has been taken offline, as has the court system’s website.
Read more on ADN.com.
I sense a competitive opportunity…
https://www.makeuseof.com/facebook-instagram-user-tracking/
Facebook and Instagram Add Notices That Say User Tracking Keeps Their Apps Free
You may soon have to pick your poison: pay to use social media, or use it for free in exchange for being tracked.
Not exactly Deep Fakes, but the homemade equivalent?
https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-turn-still-images-animated-avatars-tokkingheads/
How to Turn Still Images Into Animated Avatars Using TokkingHeads
… The TokkingHeads app allows you to turn still images of people's faces into animated avatars by applying prerecorded movement. The person in the picture will then move in accordance with the motion you chose.
Not a joke? Applicable to other subjects? (See my slides)
https://www.bespacific.com/the-powerpoint-channel/
The PowerPoint Channel
LoPucki, Lynn M., The PowerPoint Channel. forthcoming in the University of Massachusetts Law Review, UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 21-16, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3810195
“This Article is the first to present a comprehensive theory and style for using PowerPoint to teach law. The theory is that presentation software adds a channel of communication that enables the use of images in combination with words. [Law books should be like graphic novels? Bob] Studies have shown that combination to substantially enhance learning. The style is based on an extensive literature regarding the use of PowerPoint in teaching law and other higher education subjects as well as the author’s experimentation with PowerPoint over two decades. The Article states fourteen principles for slide or slide sequence design, provides the arguments from the literature for and against them, and explains the techniques by which the author implements them. It argues that PowerPoint is effective for eight kinds of presentation: (1) providing high-level overviews, (2) explaining concepts, (3) listing sets of rules or possibilities, (4) analyzing statutory or other language, (5) comparing statutes, rules, and concepts, (6) showing physical manifestations of the legal system such as documents or websites, (7) diagramming concepts, relationships, and transactions, and (8) supporting discussions by displaying the assumptions on which the discussions are based. The Article contains miniatures of fifteen slides that exemplify both these uses and the design principles. It concludes that a PowerPoint channel that is on all the time is inevitable. But before that happens, law teachers must design the imagery through which law will be taught.”
Another article pointing out my ignorance.
https://blog.oup.com/2021/05/five-things-you-need-to-know-about-pronouns/
Five things you need to know about pronouns
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