It is rather unlikely that you have a massive corruption of actual data in multiple files--for that, you'd need a sustained write activity hitting all over the disk. Possible, but not very probable. Instead, I think you have metadata corruption, so that the filesystem points to wrong blocks. The glimmer of hope here is that the actual file data is mostly contiguous, so that you can scan through the image and identify individual files even without the filesystem information. There is a forensic tool called 'foremost' that does exactly that: rips through the binary filesystem image and as it finds headers of known data types (jpeg, gif, doc, mp3, etc. etc.), it tries to find as much following data as is consistent with known file layouts. The result of course has tons of cryptically named files of each type foremost knows about---not all of them are legitimate, even---but it's better than nothing.

Both Lowe and Home Depot stores in my area (suburban DC) have regular sales on a $9 standard pear-shaped E26 LED bulbs like those ones: http://slickdeals.net/forums/attachment.php?s=31e54508f1333ca3124e8f09193b7d10&attachmentid=1150528&d=1334012983 Even when there's no sale, there's a selection of LED bulbs in mid-$20 to mid-$30 price range. What is so novel about this one?

Apparently Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster have agreed to settle out of court, while Apple, MacMillan, and Penguin apparently mean to contest it. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCgQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.webpronews.com%2Fmacmillan-ceo-john-sargent-responds-to-doj-lawsuit-2012-04&ei=vu6FT8LLK9H4ggfzvozWBw&usg=AFQjCNGWnKvqJJnBbXAkg-k9tADur-eSJw

Similar sentiments here---and a sad comparison with Steve Jobs who as far as I can tell didn't do much charitable giving, and apparently was quite good at finding tax loopholes so he didn't pay much in taxes either.

Some of my Scout parent friends are military doctors and they told me that better field latrines were a measurable factor in WWII. All armies had established procedures for setting them up, and the fastidius Germans did a solid job of it, if you pardon the pun---but the Americans added an additional step of covering the latrine box with a burlap sack as a fly barrier. The flies are a major disease vector, and as a result American troops were healthier and more combat ready.

It's great that the RSAremote hack helped, but there's more work to do. For instance, SELinux developer Dan Walsh is struggling with RSA's PAM module for SecurID: http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/48571.html/ RSA recommends turning off enforcing mode, instead of fixing whatever the underlying problem is--not exactly the excellence you might expect from a prominent computer security outfit.

Read the blog---Walsh suspects there's more shenanigans lurking in their code.

FWIW, my favorite charities, in the order of how much I donate:

• Doctors Without Borders -- because they just go and help
• Amnesty Inernational -- because they have a track record of defending human rights
• EFF -- doesn't need explanation here
• WAMU -- local public radio station
• Miriam's kitchen -- local homeless food
• local community child care for their need-based grant fund

In 2006 there was an earthquake in Basel, Switzerland, caused by geothermal engineering. They drilled a 5km deep bore and injected water under pressure, which is very similar to what's done for fracking. Strangely enough, Switzerland has tectonic zones---Basel was wiped out by a major earthquake in 1356:

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/Home/Archive/Man-made_tremor_shakes_Basel.html?cid=46232

It's curious how we never hear about rogue traders caught _earning_ 2B$. The hedge traders are supposed to run balanced trades that do not have large downside risks, but consequently aren't supposed to earn fantastic profits---so a trader who suddenly earns a lot of money was likely to have violated his guidelines, and the risk management people in theory should police it just as vigorously. In practice, I can't remember anyone being fired for extra earnings, so I suspect that those controls are purposedly kept vague and/or easy to circumvent.

It's a perfect example of the network effect. The savings can only materialize if everybody agrees on the same standard, getting past the usual 'what we are currently doing must be the standard' bickering.

Standardization efforts are hard because they combine technology, business and cultural issues. A successful standard has to find a balance between negative feedback of skepticism and low expectations resulting in unsatisfactory outcomes, and hyper-enthusiasm that can bring over-specified unworkable monsters.

Historically, the best outcomes occurred in a relatively uncrowded fields where early players made a wise strategic commitment to interoperability (c.f. the "rough concensus and working code" mantra of Internet standards).

The government might be a good neutral referee if it plays its hand well.

By the way, a working DRM would actually be a desirable feature of the electronic health record system---only you and your delegates should control the access to the records. It will be hard for the government to propose such access restrictions, because of the public distrust towards the digital art content control and government secrecy.

Except that it is not as simple as that: a lot of Poles used to work in Ireland, which was one of the first EU countries that allowed labor migration from new Eastern EU members. Recently however, due to ecomomy tightening in Ireland, and relative economic boom in Poland, many Polish expatriates are returning eastward.

Labor cost is still important but not as much as it used to be: capital situation, tax incentives, closeness to large markets, etc., are gaining importance as a result of the current crisis.

The best characterization of LabView is:

(0.993)^3 would suck actually, resulting in 0.979---but fortunately the error rate is 1-(1-0.993)^3), i.e. a pretty awesome .9999997 (assuming independent errors and such)