Why do researchers have to sacrifice an industry paycheck to do it? In other words, why won't industrial pharma hire more talented scientists.
There is more money in treating a medical condition than in curing it. Once a disease is cured, there is no need to take expensive medications anymore. The financial incentives for both doctors and pharmaceutical companies is to keep a patient in treatment for as long as possible.
No because even junk bonds actually represent something of actual value.
Yeah, junk. The stuff you pay people to take away.
_WHY_ would this be important in a historic perspective?
The emails document correspondence to and from White House officials. That's an invaluable resource to future historians. All correspondence with the White House is.
And to top it all off, the information probably does exist somewhere on a government server
I'll bet it does. These are important historical documents. For that reason alone I'm sure someone is archiving them.
They may not become public for another 50 years or so but they'll turn up.
Wafers were called "slices", so your multiprobe yield was expressed in "good bars per slice".
Did they ever refer to the process of wafer testing "Looking for Mr. Goodbar?"
It's quite a coincidence that all seven of the computers storing information that Congress is requesting all "crashed" and the emails were lost to seven computer "glitches". Just think of the odds. What an uncanny streak of misfortune. The emails just vanished and the investigation can't continue. Oh well.
Just ignore the fact that the words "crashed" and "glitch" are not technical terms an IT professional would use and only serve to obfuscate rather than clarify how those emails might be retrieved. Those boxes with the blinky lights are just subject to the whims of fate, I reckon.
I can't really fault the IRS for not handing over evidence that would at a minimum would put them out of their jobs and/or ideally behind prison bars. What surprises me is what bad liars they are.
Actually, anyone who has handled email admin for a big business knows they have email "retention polices" [d4discovery.com] where they explicitly delete all email older than X days (often just 90 days) except for what each user deliberately saves off.
Except the IRS isn't a business; it's a government agency. It's completely irrelevant what retention policies businesses use because government officials work for and are accountable to the American people, amirite?
The alternative to saying "we lost the emails you want to use as evidence against us in a criminal inverstigation" is to hand over the emails and turn around to make it easier to put the handcuffs on. Not really surprising they chose the path they did.
All I claimed is that they told the truth. Unless you are claiming otherwise, I'll assume we are in complete agreement.
For what it's worth, the government has yet to use any of the information to actually destroy lives, at least lives of people that it wasn't coming to.
The most obvious counter-examples being Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, and Edward Snowden. The "crimes" these people committed were that they told the truth. I guess we could argue semantics about whether or not their lives were "destroyed" or not but I think we can all agree that their mobility is severely restricted and their long prospects aren't looking so hot.
The lesson to be learned here is to never tell the truth when discussing the working of government. It's the highest crime you can commit. Nothing good can possibly come from it.
That assumes that the information is classified because it's genuinely sensitive rather than classified because classifying it helps cover up wrongdoing.
"You can't handle the truth!" That's the thinking by political insiders and goes a long way to explain why so-called "whistle-blowers" are dealt with so harshly.
Once the public sees the extent classified status is used to cover up government malfeasance rather than issues of national security they become informed voters, and then they might vote in their own self-interest.
Have you examined the pattern of misprints? Maybe they're there to uniquely identify your copy of the e-book.
I think mostly people are talking about obvious OCR errors. Like a lower case L (l) turning into a numeral one (1) or an exclaimation point (!)
More interesting to me are the questions "If you purchase an eBook and what you receive is not a faithful representaion of the printed copy, what exactly have you purchased?" "Was that money well spent?"
I believe I would ask for my money back if my KIng James Bible eBook quoted God as saying "Let there be light: and there was blight."
'We had all the t's crossed and all the i's dotted and still there was a big daily surprise,' says industrial designer Colin Owen...
I'll assume Mt. Owen is just inexperienced, and not outright delusional. There are no inherent problems with hardware manufacturing supply lines that experienced managers can't compensate for. If one vendor flakes, you buy from the second or third source you already lined up. In advance, because you are not stupid/inexperienced/delusional.
Right now, the spotlight is shined on the NSA... but compared to other intel agencies, they are not the ones who are going to make you vanish in the middle of the night.
Perhaps not, but with a single false positive they could make my life a living hell.
I dont lie awake at night worrying about it; I'm not the type of guy intelligence people are interested in. I'd never hurt anybody. If I find an insect indoors I either leave him be or if he starts "bugging" me I'll make a paper shuttle to gently escort him outdoors and set him free.
But with the massive database the NSA has accrued, any analysis they do on it is going to generate many, many false positives. That's my real concern. Analysts are humans, humans make mistakes. Based on their assessment of WMD in Iraq and other failures being publically reported, they seem to be making a lot of them. So while I'm not exactly worried, I am concerned.
Can have secure encryption at all without the "if you lose your keys, you're hosed" part? I have never seen a solution to this fundamental problem.
In general you can't open any lock if you lose the keys. It's a feature, not a fundamental problem. All encryption schemes require that you provide some way of authenticating that you are the intended recipient. Protip: securely back up your keys.
And it should be the law: If you use the word `paradigm' without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions. -- David Jones
