First they hear from a galaxy of experts and interest groups about e-crime issues including privacy and security on social networks, digital forensics, measuring the cost of e-crime and international cooperation.

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Meanwhile, competition between Affymetrix of Santa Clara, Calif. and upstart Illumina in San Diego led to rapid declines in the cost of SNP-measuring chips, glass slides on which tiny pieces of DNA are affixed like bits of Velcro.

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"Measuring the specific global cost of illegal activities is a very difficult process, " he said.

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For those that don't know, PPP is a way of measuring the relative value of currencies, accounting for things like cost of living.

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Measuring how significant these effects are will be crucial to understanding the cost-effectiveness of the policy.

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But CAR takes a shot at measuring the magnitude of the economic disaster averted and whether it was worth the cost.

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