Michael, tempted as I am by this prospect, if I had a kilobuck to burn I wouldn’t burn it on this, precisely for the privacy and security issues of farming the decoding out to someone else and letting them store my data.

Jorge, I appreciate your excellent points. Also, thanks for the pointer to the Wired article; I don’t go there very much any more, as the quality and pro-freedom content of articles seems to be dwindling ... and their new structure is a mess to me.

For the record, if the price were to drop by about half, I think I might be seriously tempted, privacy concerns notwithstanding. Even though I know we are more than just a composite of our genes, being able to peek at them has always fascinated me.