It is manifestly useless as protection against accidents, suicidal or non-state groups, or simple human error.
There has been skullduggery on an industrial scale, from the laundering of Mexican drug funds to aggressive peddling of useless payment protection.
Rather than sending generic malware, hackers today carefully plot each and every attack, using unique, "zero-day" exploits that render signature-based protections nearly useless.
These so called protections are useless, however, when there are people who have been teaching others exactly how to commit nearly detection proof perjury and fill out the claim forms in order to get paid a $50,000 Pigford check.
"They're useless," Christian Catrina, head of security policy for the federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport, said in an interview.
Therefore, paralogous genes with nearly identical DNA sequences prove to be useless from the point of view of protection against RNAi since their mRNA products would be eliminated at nearly the same rate as the intended targets.
As he was fond of doing with the Tax Act, Barwick constructed the constitutional protection so narrowly as to make it useless.
This means a counterfeit green card is useless for entry into the US, where Customs and Border Protection agents scan it.
Critics have said new European data-protection laws have loopholes that could render the legislation useless.
Whatever protection the community's gates may offer from outside invasions, they're completely useless against the surges of fate.
