i work at a major medical research institution. A few years ago, our CIO showed us a graph of data they'd gone through showing a large spike in heart attacks in otherwise healthy men. The spike then dropped a few years later. Normally someone wouldn't be looking at this data, so it wasn't until after the spike was gone that this was investigated. Turned out that Vioxx had been put on the market about a year before the spike started, and was pulled off the market about 6 months or so before the spike dropped off.
Getting massive amounts of data (anonymized of course) can show trends in public health that can give us a lot of information and save lives and money.
(and yes, I hate the term 'big data'. No sense of scale of how big it is.)
That depends on how literally you take your religion. Much of the voices you hear in the press and in places like the Creation Museum believe that the Bible was written directly by God and every word is the literal truth. In that case, you're right.
I'm religious(I'm not a minister, but I do attend services regularly along with serving on the governing body of the local parish). To me, there's symbolism all over the place in the Bible, so why isn't much of the Bible itself symbolism?
Absence of proof doesn't mean it didn't happen, but proof of something happening is pretty darn convincing. I can say God exists and Jesus rose from the dead, but I can't prove it. But I'm not going to try and convince you I'm right about that. There's plenty of evidence that the Big Bang happened and the universe is 14ish billion years old and monkey and humans share a common ancestor. There's plenty of things that science doesn't explain (yet): what happened before the Big Bang? What caused the bolt of lightning that caused the amino acids to come together? What caused humans to evolve the way we did? Those are all things where God acts within the laws of nature He created to make us the way we are.
Disagree? I'm cool with that. This works for me. I don't expect it to work for everyone.
I work for Harvard (but not FAS, another school), but getting into FAS is no longer strictly about having money or connections. A large portion of the students that go there get some sort of financial aid, and a family making less than $120k gets a massive amount of financial aid if they are accepted.
There's nothing preventing you from buying a phone at the unsubsidized price and then modifying it. You're making a deal with the cell phone provider: You agree that you'll honor the contract you signed, and they give you a phone at a discount. Hopefully this is going to be a bit easier over time as everyones moves to LTE (does this mean that CDMA finally bites the dust?) and phones become standardized like the rest of the civilized world.
For one thing, were the programmers paid for the work they did and was it clearly understood that their work may not be released as open source before they started (IOW, who holds copyright on the code?)
For another, that code could come back into play in 2014 for the midterm elections. Or it could be used sooner depending on how quickly 2016 starts to heat up.
Yes, and the next time some Hospice official thinks about not encrypting their data, they're going to remember this event and think better of it.
HIPAA violations are serious. People have likely lost their jobs over this. Even though I'm not in a position to routinely work with patient data, my employer requires that my laptop is encrypted - in the case of my Linux laptop I was able to convince them that using encrypted LVM was sufficient.
AT&T was convinced that circuit switching (rather than packet switching) was the way to go. It took DARPA (you know, the government) years to convince them otherwise, in some cases going behind their backs to do so. They also spent decades telling people that only AT&T equipment can be installed in their homes, and there's no way you can use your own phone since it may damage their circuitry.
Don't think that only government comes up with crappy rules.
Until you consider how expensive it's going to be for every single company out there to change their cash registers, bill scanners, etc. to handle a dollar coin. Sure, the companies themselves will pay it, but that's now a business expense. That they'll deduct from their taxes. And I'll take a bet that that writeoff will be in the billions of dollars over the next few years if it got implemented.
Look, dollar bills and the penny are here to stay, just like CDMA here in the states and left-hand driving in the UK. Squawk all you want, but it's not changing anytime soon.
While congress as a whole has a very low approval rating, looking at an individual's approval rating shows that a voter's own representative is regarded fairly highly. It's "the other guy/gal" that is causing the problems.
I think I mined part of a bitcoin then lost the files I used to generate them. Does that mean they're permanently out of circulation? How do they handle such a situation?
I can see why you're marked troll but I'll bite anyway.
Take a look at the amount of money that goes to other scientific disciplines from the government (the NIH for example). Do you think that biomedical research is being corrupted in the same way as global warming research? If yes, why not go after those research dollars in the same way? If no, then your reasoning on why the research is being conducted is fundamentally wrong.
1) Just because you're a monopoly means you're going to get sued for antitrust b) Just because you provide a bunch of services at once doesn't make you a monopoly iii) Verizon and AT&T better watch out
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i work at a major medical research institution. A few years ago, our CIO showed us a graph of data they'd gone through showing a large spike in heart attacks in otherwise healthy men. The spike then dropped a few years later. Normally someone wouldn't be looking at this data, so it wasn't until after the spike was gone that this was investigated. Turned out that Vioxx had been put on the market about a year before the spike started, and was pulled off the market about 6 months or so before the spike dropped off.
Getting massive amounts of data (anonymized of course) can show trends in public health that can give us a lot of information and save lives and money.
(and yes, I hate the term 'big data'. No sense of scale of how big it is.)
So you're saying that security through obscurity works?
How so?
^ This
That depends on how literally you take your religion. Much of the voices you hear in the press and in places like the Creation Museum believe that the Bible was written directly by God and every word is the literal truth. In that case, you're right.
I'm religious(I'm not a minister, but I do attend services regularly along with serving on the governing body of the local parish). To me, there's symbolism all over the place in the Bible, so why isn't much of the Bible itself symbolism?
Absence of proof doesn't mean it didn't happen, but proof of something happening is pretty darn convincing. I can say God exists and Jesus rose from the dead, but I can't prove it. But I'm not going to try and convince you I'm right about that. There's plenty of evidence that the Big Bang happened and the universe is 14ish billion years old and monkey and humans share a common ancestor. There's plenty of things that science doesn't explain (yet): what happened before the Big Bang? What caused the bolt of lightning that caused the amino acids to come together? What caused humans to evolve the way we did? Those are all things where God acts within the laws of nature He created to make us the way we are.
Disagree? I'm cool with that. This works for me. I don't expect it to work for everyone.
I work for Harvard (but not FAS, another school), but getting into FAS is no longer strictly about having money or connections. A large portion of the students that go there get some sort of financial aid, and a family making less than $120k gets a massive amount of financial aid if they are accepted.
FAS Financial Aid Office
Yeah, I'm a bit curious about this too. I've had two Thinkpads since the purchase and both have been as good of quality as when it was IBM.
There's nothing preventing you from buying a phone at the unsubsidized price and then modifying it. You're making a deal with the cell phone provider: You agree that you'll honor the contract you signed, and they give you a phone at a discount. Hopefully this is going to be a bit easier over time as everyones moves to LTE (does this mean that CDMA finally bites the dust?) and phones become standardized like the rest of the civilized world.
For one thing, were the programmers paid for the work they did and was it clearly understood that their work may not be released as open source before they started (IOW, who holds copyright on the code?)
For another, that code could come back into play in 2014 for the midterm elections. Or it could be used sooner depending on how quickly 2016 starts to heat up.
Pretty poor assumption.
Yes, and the next time some Hospice official thinks about not encrypting their data, they're going to remember this event and think better of it.
HIPAA violations are serious. People have likely lost their jobs over this. Even though I'm not in a position to routinely work with patient data, my employer requires that my laptop is encrypted - in the case of my Linux laptop I was able to convince them that using encrypted LVM was sufficient.
and cooking. Though you could file that under physics and chemistry too. Hrm...
AT&T was convinced that circuit switching (rather than packet switching) was the way to go. It took DARPA (you know, the government) years to convince them otherwise, in some cases going behind their backs to do so. They also spent decades telling people that only AT&T equipment can be installed in their homes, and there's no way you can use your own phone since it may damage their circuitry.
Don't think that only government comes up with crappy rules.
We're done here, no need for more comments.
Until you consider how expensive it's going to be for every single company out there to change their cash registers, bill scanners, etc. to handle a dollar coin. Sure, the companies themselves will pay it, but that's now a business expense. That they'll deduct from their taxes. And I'll take a bet that that writeoff will be in the billions of dollars over the next few years if it got implemented.
Look, dollar bills and the penny are here to stay, just like CDMA here in the states and left-hand driving in the UK. Squawk all you want, but it's not changing anytime soon.
Aside from the already listed reasons:
While congress as a whole has a very low approval rating, looking at an individual's approval rating shows that a voter's own representative is regarded fairly highly. It's "the other guy/gal" that is causing the problems.
In the House of Representatives. I think Ebola and North Korea are more popular in the US right now.
Maybe he really really means it this time. Based off his past, I highly doubt it or he's using this to get something else that's worse.
I think I mined part of a bitcoin then lost the files I used to generate them. Does that mean they're permanently out of circulation? How do they handle such a situation?
I can see why you're marked troll but I'll bite anyway.
Take a look at the amount of money that goes to other scientific disciplines from the government (the NIH for example). Do you think that biomedical research is being corrupted in the same way as global warming research? If yes, why not go after those research dollars in the same way? If no, then your reasoning on why the research is being conducted is fundamentally wrong.
Nyyyessss....You make $10k, I force you to put $2k/year into an IRA - no choice in the matter. You can live on $9k/year. What happens after 6 years?
1) Just because you're a monopoly means you're going to get sued for antitrust
b) Just because you provide a bunch of services at once doesn't make you a monopoly
iii) Verizon and AT&T better watch out
If you were in the middle of a minute when the call dropped they'd charge you for the full minute, so yeah, they do.
Are you really saying that gas pumped into an underground tank at 80F is still going to be 80F a day later?
Well there you go. Thanks!
You don't expect a discount on your cell phone service or refunded minutes if you have a dropped call.