In stepped the investment bank industry with another solution: We'll take your mortgages, securitize them, slice them into categories based on default risk, use computer models to match default risk with yield and sell them to buyers around the world.
Toting around a computer filled with valuable data, however, is a growing risk: If the computer is lost or stolen, the user loses everything -- from a prized doctoral thesis to bank account numbers to records of passwords.
The answers are then analysed by a computer which generates a risk score based on ranking symptoms in order of importance.
TSE, which suspended trading in all shares last month after another computer problem, lacks transparency, risk controls and technological sophistication.
Mr Broughton said his boss, John Eardley, rang him a week after Mr Farr's death to ask him to retrospectively sign a method statement, a risk assessment and a computer-aided drawing of the barrier's construction.
Underscoring the risk, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) found that approximately 27 percent of the 42, 854 agency-reported security incidents during the 2011 fiscal year involved malicious code.
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Wonga says it has created a computer programme, called an "automatic risk decision engine", which collates data from lots of sources about applicants before deciding on whether to sanction a loan.
Every time a new gene is linked to a disease, people will be able to search their genomes using their home personal computer to learn whether they are at risk so that they can decide what, if anything, to do about it.
For example, the United States is working closely with Russia to reach an agreement that would establish links between our computer emergency response teams and our nuclear risk reduction centers to build cooperation and to set up lines of communication in the event of an alarming incident.
The main problem is that the complexity of computer networks makes it very difficult to quantify risk accurately.
The jobs will go in its Financial and Risk unit, responsible for renting out computer terminals to clients such as investment banks.
Web surfing increases your risk of having malware installed on your computer.
Given the chance to look at colleagues' salaries on the boss's computer only 27% of men would take the risk compared to 13% of women.
The tablet market will likely change the way people use computers, and so major computer companies need to have some competing product or risk missing out on the huge growth in this segment.
According to a posting on the Journal's Web site, editors at the world's top medical journal found by examining a computer diskette that relevant data about Vioxx's risk to the heart compared with an older pain drug, naproxen, were deleted two days before the paper was initially submitted to the Journal.
The computer model combined the monthly probabilities of conceiving, the risk of miscarriage and the probability of becoming permanently sterile through age.
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"We face a very real risk of seeing the democratically accountable policing of computer-assisted crime replaced by a combination of vigilante action and the covert privatisation of legitimate investigation, " said Philip Virgo, Secretary General of EURIM, the all-party e-commerce lobby group which commissioned the study.
Other companies that lack IBM's and Sun's levels of foreign revenue and could be more exposed to the risk of a chilling U.S. computer market are Cisco, which splits its business nearly evenly between the United States and the rest of the world, and Computer Sciences, which draws about 70% of its business from the United States.
Other companies that lack IBM's and Sun's levels of foreign revenue and could be more exposed to the risk of a chilling U.S. computer market are Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ), which splits its business nearly evenly between the United States and the rest of the world, and Computer Sciences (nyse: CSC - news - people ), which draws about 70% of its business from the United States.
It might seem like common sense that inactive people have a greater risk for heart disease than active people, but a new study has measured the risk in terms of time spent in front of a computer, according to the Deccan Herald.
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Risk management has suffered, partly from the difficulty in merging computer systems.
These tests, which build on our improved understanding of genetics and the faster computer processing, could he admits, help identify those at higher or lower risk.
Since only computer simulations and static and non-nuclear examinations are allowed, there is a risk significant technical issues will not be uncovered simply because we are not looking in the right way.
There are many different types of supposedly "ergonomic" keyboards that reduce the risk of suffering a WRULD and make it easier to type and interact with your computer.
In addition to medical devices, the Defense Information Systems Agency and the Defense Logistics Agency sold or donated more than 77, 900 pieces of computer equipment to various federal, state and local law enforcement agencies that also may be at risk of Year 2000 failures.
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Big Blue is hooking up with DeCode (nasdaq: DCGN - news - people ) in a pioneering three-year deal to jointly sell an integrated computer system that combines DeCode's unique gene-mining software, which sleuths out genetic risk factors for diseases, with IBM's (nyse: IBM - news - people ) servers and database software.
At the risk of being too simplistic to make silicon wafers, which is what you use to make computer chips and solar cells, you take a great big ingot of very pure silicon metal and then slice it very thinly.
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