Posted on 07/17/2014 4:52:14 AM PDT by Lockbox
The Justice Department said Wednesday that it was investigating the circumstances behind the disappearance of emails from a former senior Internal Revenue Service official, part of a broader criminal inquiry into whether the agency had targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status.
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In other news, I have assigned my children to investigate the missing candy.
I got this in an email. I didn’t do the actual math, so don’t have any idea how close this equation comes to reality.
The odds of winning the Florida lottery are 1 in 22,957,480.
The odds of winning the Powerball is 1 in 175,223,510.
The odds of winning Mega Millions is 1 in 258,890,850.
The odds of a disk drive failing in any given month are roughly one in 36. The odds of two different drives failing in the same month are roughly one in 36 squared, or 1 in about 1,300. The odds of three drives failing in the same month is 36 cubed or 1 in 46,656.
The odds of seven different drives failing in the same month (like what happened at the IRS when they received a letter asking about emails targeting conservative and pro Israeli groups) is 37 to the 7th power = 1 in 78,664,164,096. (that’s over 78 Billion) In other words, the odds are greater that you will win the Florida Lottery 342 times than having those seven IRS hard drives crashing in the same month.
Think about it… JUST FOR A MINUTE!
They’ll use it as a case study, then teach other departments how to lose e-mails with impunity.
We don't know how many people or which servers or what sort of redundancy might be built into the e-mail transmission and retention network, so we can't estimate the probability of this happening.
Out of say 100,000 drives, what is the probability of seven of them failing in any given month? If the odds are 1/36 for each drive, the odds of seven or more out of 100,000 failing in a given month are pretty good. You don't get to go back after the fact, pick the ones that fail, and assign some astronomical probability to the event.
So you’re saying we ought to buy lottery tickets, right?
/sarc
Before Eric investigates he must understand what an email is, don’t you think?
And where are all the SOLYNDRA FILES that the FBI swooped-in and fetched the day after that ‘scandal’ broke?
That was nothing but a criminal dump of money
1) Acquire $600 million of funding
2) Buy $100 million of stuff
3) Profit
Fox - henhouse
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