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Organ transplant programs are very closely monitored for success rates and complications. It doesn't take many failures to really put a programs status in jeopardy. I definitely can see the temptation to remove the riskiest patients from the list even if they were eligible. I doubt there was any...

There's a special room in hell for executives at Nestle. Sure, soda companies sugar products are diabetic disasters, but Nestle increases infant mortality and drains aquifers to sell water. Why do people buy infant formula and water? In large part because Nestle (and their counterparts) have...

The problem is NOT the long acting formulations. I remember when this particular drug was being reviewed for approval. The manufacturer was asked why there were no anti-tampering features to prevent a repeat of the Oxycontin explosion of abuse. The manufacturer said they were planning on adding...

The title is misleading, this isn't a forfeiture case, it's a search question. I think people are misinterpreting what the court said about the magnetic strip. First that there is no expectation of privacy, because the strip would be used for public transactions read by others people's card...

Exactly. The auto industry always fights this problem. Huge fixed costs- research and design, tool and dye, employees, inventory of parts, factory space, etc. This is why the big auto companies start offering huge incentives when sales decrease. Once they sell enough to cover their fixed costs...

You're going to be waiting a long, long time. Say what you want about Daley, his ability to avoid being touched by corruption scandals is more like a superpower than a skill. When I first moved to the Chicago area from Michigan I was impressed at the differences between former Governor Ryan and...

My favorite part is the city council bringing up Comcast's access for the poor. That was a requirement imposed on them after their last merger, and they basically made it almost impossible to take advantage of. Like the cable card disaster, they'll just pull the same crap, complying with the...

You guys make it sound like the engineers have some sort of crystal ball to predict what will be needed in the future. By the time the current connectors come out they've already been designed and tested long before they get to production, so they would have to predict further out than just...

I don't think Apple cared all that much at the time. The emoji characters came from Japan where they were used extensively before migrating to other areas. That's why there are so many Japanese style foods and symbols. Apple just basically copied them over to be compatible, they didn't invent...

Ah, capitalism at its finest. Theres a reason why utilities are regulated, the economics that benefit a utility do not necessarily benefit their captive customers. Phone companies don't make the highest profit providing reliable phone service to everyone, nor do they want to invest in upgrading...

Neither iOS or WP claim to be open source. Google talks about Android as open source, while making it almost impossible for companies to use it that way. There isn't any complaint if they just say it isn't open source anymore. if thats the way to reduce fragmentation, so be it, but don't claim...

It's hard to imagine how an operation that requires 30 officers and an on call judge is not going to result in abuse. They have to show results with that kind of expense, every arrest counts. I understand sting operations with prostitutes where the person is actually cruising an area and has to...

The irony of that is while Smith Corona didn't innovate, there was another big typewriter company at the time... IBM. They've been up and down several times yet still keep coming back, so not all tech companies fail after one success.

I think they new who he was, but they had him under close enough watch they weren't worried he could carry out anything violent. They were probably wanted to get as much information on the rest of his organization as possible before taking him down.

They get appointed by the President. The names are frequently proposed by a states senators or other officials, but they can also be supporters of the President or even just old friends. They have to then be approved by the Senate. This has become a huge roadblock. In the past only horribly...

As people have said in previous posts, it sound like absorption rather than reflection. That could be a big problem depending on how much that warmer pane of glass expands. I realize engineers take these things into account, but I would think that will add to the complexity. It might be even...

Because many of us live in the north? That was the point of the article, block in the summer, let it in the winter. Florida? Block it all the time. Chicago? Not so much.

I guess that makes some sense, from an engineering standpoint you don't have to work so hard to cram everything in a tiny space in a big phone. I would imagine the perception of the weight goes down too, so they don't have to shave every little milligram off. That would somewhat explain why they...

It depends what part you want to replace. Assuming cars and trucks that use liquid fuels are going to be around for some time, replacing heavy and toxic lead acid starter batteries would be useful by itself. Those batteries shouldn't need the high number of duty cycles of an electric vehicle...

Does that matter? I thought the last time classified information was leaked accidentally by government lawyers to a plaintiff the courts ruled it still couldn't be used. The justification was it's classified until the government says it's not even if the public knows about it.