We can and should try to identify useless care before it's prescribed.
"The purpose of this technique is to render the IP-based block list — a popular tool for identifying malicious systems — useless for preventing attacks," says Adam O'Donnell, director of emerging technologies at security vendor Cloudmark.
The Correlates of War definition, moreover, is intended for the study of wars after the fact, and is therefore useless in identifying wars in advance.
Changes in the economy, including companies offering more stock options in lieu of cash compensation and taxpayers deducting interest on home equity loans and margin debt, make much of this data useless for identifying cheating.
The association is not exactly spurious — Dr. Goldstein calls it "synthetic" — but it is indirect, so much so as to make many SNPs useless for identifying the genes that cause disease.
Yet judging by its own CTO's analysis, Facebook's face recognition tech would actually be pretty useless for identifying "strangers" misusing your photographs — at least without being combined with a "basket" of other unmentioned (and doubtless equally privacy-hostile) technical measures.
Italian VC investors (I mean the ones based in Italy) are, in general, famously useless at identifying high growth businesses in their own country so it will be interesting to watch outside investors looking to pick up good deals in the country.
Ironically, a report from the FBI that was finally published in April 2015 shows that this vast effort was largely useless in identifying terrorists.
The IC3 group is not a representative sample, which makes it effectively useless for identifying the most significant threats and trends.
This is great for two reasons: A password is useless without identifying information, so even if hackers were able to get access to your password, they would have no idea who it belonged to because of the masked email address.
