I'm sure that IT security folks made billions of dollars making sure the electronic copies of the soft-tissue scans were not kept in the scanners themselves.
But then the person (and knowing how security works... probably an ex-military) reviewing the image whips out their cellphone, and wow.
I'm not very surprised that most smartphones have difficulty autofocusing on on a soft tissue scan.

This is just Intel jumping on the "extended warranty" bandwagon. "Extended warranty" always means gigantic profits for the guy selling the extended warranty.

Ever notice how hard they push extended warranties at the electronics and computer stores? There's a good reason, there's a huge profit margin in them. I bet they pay out $1 for every $20 they take in.

Only chumps buy the extended warranty. Maybe this is a sign... overclockers are chumps?

I'm going to start printing out Wikipedia today.

I figure I'll be done by Tuesday night.

If anyone needs something looked up on Wednesday, give me a call.

If you've got a Geiger counter, orange Fiestaware is the cat's meow.

1.6 mSv is 0.00162 mrem.

http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/consumer%20products/fiesta.htm Estimates for consumer exposure to the uranium in the glazing of orange Fiestaware show you could rack up to a mSv in just a few hours exposure.

Who wants to bet, that this batch of concrete had some orange Fiestaware mix into it, or perhaps just a natural concentration of pitchblende, and it has nothing to do with Fukushima?

All the consumer hard drive retailers (e.g. Newegg, microcenter, anywhere) hiked hard drive prices by 200-400% months ago as a response to the floods. I know the big name storage vendors spend less on spinning media and more on, well, overhead and profits, but they come out looking like good guys if they only hiked their prices 5 to 15 percent.

And that's why you don't use a one-armed man to scare someone.

A guy being treated for a decade for pancreatic cancer, certainly has more need for a handicapped spot than 90% of the folks I see using them.

The first internet-age era step was (at least in physics publishing) 20 years ago: the LANL Preprint Archive, later known as xxx.lanl.gov, now www.arxiv.org
Previous to that there were paper preprints mailed out for decades and decades.
Now other fields have indeed have a harder time getting out from under the thumb of the publishing houses and will indeed need the kick in the rear that Princeton is giving.
That doesn't mean that refereed journals are going away - just that they are not the bleeding edge anymore, I would argue they never were.

And the information will remain highly secure - right up until someone takes a non-secure camera and points it at the secure smartphone so they can get their job done.

1st Corollary to Hofstadter's Law: It always costs more than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

Hofstadter's original law actually only applies to time (not money). Typical usage: A couple years ago the NYC MTA Canarsie line "next train" countdown signs, originally a two year project, were running a couple years behind, and projected to take 5 years to complete.