He has to come up with something that is impossible for the Republicans to say no to.

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In the movie, Q explains that if he makes it too easy for Silva to find them, he'll know something is up.

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Dr Field says he is determined to try to do something about this in the process leading up to the next set of assessments in 2013.

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Everyone has one, but no one is willing to open them up and fix them if something goes wrong, he said.

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As he made clear in the follow-up question that was asked by Ann Curry in that interview, this is not something he has had the luxury to focus on.

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He stood there -- again, he did not sound like someone standing before the U.S. Supreme Court to stand up for something that is a historic piece of law.

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He says it is also uncommon for an IT chief to even sit on a board, something that's backed up by a recent survey, which showed that just five per cent of U.S. companies and seven per cent of European companies have a CIO in an executive position.

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