And they profited through the experience - if they're told 'meet certain goals or lose your job' ...or... 'conduct illegal activity and you might lose your job if caught, meanwhile earn your bonus'...if anything, these people know how to maximize their expectation value.

Full year 2015:
* Net income of $23.0 billion, consistent with 2014
* Diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $4.15, up 1 percent
* Revenue of $86.1 billion, up 2 percent
* Pre-tax pre-provision profit1 of $36.3 billion, up 3 percent
* Return on assets (ROA) of 1.32 percent and return on equity (ROE) of 12.68 percent
* Returned $12.6 billion to shareholders through dividends and net share repurchases

[source] https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww08.wellsfargomedia....

I just rewatched the pilot episode of Star Trek: TNG - I know how "fair trials" work.

With public sponsorship of research dwindling, many governments are forcing researchers to seek industrial partnerships and to work towards commercialization rather than basic science only. Researchers in fields like food and diet must often partner with producers, so as long as they declare all funding sources I don't have a problem with it. The alternative is to increase public funding of research, but that would cut into leader's pet projects...

Ancient Mesopotamian astronomers must be turning in their graves...

Possibly the most-submitted vista to /r/VillagePorn - at least now we can diversify the subreddit to include this pirated version.

Really? A lot of innovation comes from small and dynamic enterprises. I expect that big industry would just wait out the hardship of R&D and then reproduce finished produces after a five-year wait (relatively short in the scheme of many novel products), at a fraction of the cost and with the ability to distribute and mass market.

This sounds terrible, but Canada is far from the strictest in the world. Your experience crossing back into the US is tainted by holding a US passport. Unfortunately Canadian customs agents have fed off the TSA and DHS power trip. The US has actually had a strong hand in changing how US border control is exerted.

The applicant's CV is a MAJOR factor. How can it be double blind? Environment and resources are a common part of a grant review. They should be sufficient for the proposed work.

Have to agree with this. Bought the ipad as an experiment and haven't gone back. Can sync changes in iAnnotate with Dropbox.

And there is no guarantee the system will not be revoked in future - personal information cannot suddenly become private again.

It will also make North Americans better prepared to drive in Europe. Win-win.

Sadly my first thought was military.

Collecting and burning oil but using...solar for power? Seems odd. Maybe a mech eng can explain.

And in other news...a population of MONOG gene knock-out mice has just moved to Utah.