Posts by Korev 6376 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Aug 2016
make the staff cleanup their crap files from five years ago because "we might need that!". Twats.
For us in genomics/imaging land, that doesn't help hugely as we'd only get rid of 10-20% of our data. You also come up against the trump card of "regulator/auditor" might want to see this; which is quite hard to argue against.
In ancient history we used to run Acopia (later F5) ARXs which made life as a (then) storage admin much easier as you could migrate data with zero downtime and the clients would be completely unaware. I kind of miss that technology although we did outgrow their system in terms of bandwidth and file number.
If I handed over my work phone (or computer) to a third party* and let them download whatever they felt like then I'd get in a lot of trouble with my employer's information security people and/or regulatory authorities**. I guess this could be seen as "unwilling to help with our investigation" to the cops.
*assuming there's no warrant
**it's possible that there will be clinical data in my email
I know someone with a channel dedicated to her diagnosis and recovery from a rareish cancer. It was an unexpected bonus for her to make a bit of money out of her channel (which came in handy for medical bills); I don't see why she should suffer because of spammers/scammers.
"Our research indicates that there are particular shortages of STEM skills at technician level, but an oversupply in other areas, such as biological science graduates, who are then often underemployed in an economy in which they are not in high demand," said the report.
Sadly successive UK governments sat back and did nothing while pharma life sciences R&D contracted sharply in the last decade or so.
I'm also slightly confused about why there are too few "technicians" and too many biological sciences graduates. There are many technicians (wth degrees) in biology labs...
"develop nuclear warheads for cruise missiles"Nuclear armed cruise missiles are not in any sense a Strategic Nuclear Deterrent.
Very true.
Moreover, a potential adversary would have no way of knowing if the incoming missile has a conventional or nuclear warhead until it hit its target. You can see how a commander's decision on how to retaliate would be guesswork with terrible consequences if s/he got the wrong option.
