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If you're wondering whether it's worth upgrading your PC's video card for Vista's new graphics system Aero, check out Flip 3D - graphics technology that displays live thumbnail previews of windows when you Alt-Tab or Windows-Tab between open programs.
This quick (and dirty, sorry) screencast above shows Flip 3D in action, with a Google Video playing to display the whole "live thumbnail preview" bit. Notice the video continues playing in the "deck of cards" and Alt-Tab views.
Flip 3D also offers live thumbnail previews when you mouse over open windows in the taskbar (not shown in the video.)
While Flip 3D is quite a nice visual effect that makes Vista feel very state of the art, it's more "wow that's pretty" than "I can't live without this." Also, it's a bit wonky, even on the badass 64-bit Ferrarri notebook Microsoft pre-loaded Vista on for me. It's difficult to spot in this crappy video, but the Thunderbird thumbnail isn't a live preview, as it's not displaying the inbox. (Even though sometimes it does. Like I said, wonky.)
Flip 3D is a part of Windows Aero, which is not available in Windows Vista Basic, and will only get enabled on PCs that can handle it. Hit the link to find out whether or not your PC can shoulder the graphic goodness that is Aero right now.
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The election season is turning out to be an unprecedented showcase of dynastic hubris, with members of historically well-entrenched political families indicating their intent to seek important posts with hardly any or a minimum of qualifications and track record of public service, or any record, for that matter, of competence and vision.
The pervasiveness of political dynasties is something that the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines has noted in its latest pastoral letter, which says that as in business, there are "monopolies in politics" that "breed corruption and ineptitude" and "limit the entry [of other players] that can bring in new ideas and offer better services." The bishops included political dynasties among "a litany of storms" that faces the country.
Indeed, the list of national candidates read like a who's who of leading clans who have made political offices their family demesne. Check a few out: JV Ejercito, Jack Enrile, Nancy Binay, Juan Edgardo Angara, Alan Peter Cayetano, Juan Miguel Zubiri.
A study by the nongovernment Center for People Empowerment in Governance says there are at least 178 "dominant political dynasties" in the Philippines; these do not include local political clans. Of the total, 100 dynasties—or 56 percent—are "old elites," the rest being "new elites" that have emerged since the 1986 Edsa uprising that toppled the dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Of the Philippines' 80 provinces, 94 percent have political dynasties, the study said.
Businessman Louis Biraogo had filed a petition with the Supreme Court to compel the Commission on Elections to prohibit members of political dynasties from running in the May polls. But the tribunal turned it down, saying the constitutional ban on dynasties is not self-executing and must have an enabling law passed by Congress. But Congress itself is dominated by political clans.
Even the family of President Aquino is not immune from this malady. The President is ostensibly not encouraging the senatorial ambition of his aunt, Margarita "Tingting" Cojuangco, whose earlier desire to become governor of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao was scuttled when he had the election there reset; yet he has not discouraged a similar aspiration of his cousin, Bam Aquino, and in fact included the latter in the administration's Senate slate.
Unlike Cojuangco, who has at least served as governor of Tarlac and has two master's degrees and a doctorate in history, Bam Aquino's credentials are sorely wanting: Even his uncle Ninoy had a fairer estimation of himself when he chose to start his political career as mayor of lowly Concepcion town in Tarlac.
The young Aquino's only background in public administration is having been chair of the National Youth Commission, one of those populist agencies under the Office of the President that was obviously appended to the bloated bureaucracy in order to show the government's token concern for the youth sector. Now he wants to be catapulted to one of the highest offices in the land on the sheer strength of his family name and using the administration coalition machinery, which almost surely will be a beneficiary of indirect government funding. And he has the blessing of his cousin, the President. Blood is truly thicker than statesmanship.
Let's not even begin to discuss the Binays, Enriles, and Estradas, or the local political clans notorious for their lock on their claimed turf.
Unchecked political dynasties are a bane to nation-building for they perpetuate feudalism. They are also a symptom of Philippine underdevelopment. Many of these political families come from backward and very poor regions and provinces, which heavily depend on the central government for their sustenance. Political clans generally make themselves channels for Manila's beneficence and try to score kickbacks from public works and other projects along the way. In short, they make a family business out of dynastic politics. Ensured of funding support from Manila, they neglect programs to foster commerce and development in their territories, a task that requires vision, competence, and ethics, which they sorely lack.
It has been said in their defense that while they carry old names, many of the candidates are new faces who will inject young blood in the old body politic. But that apologia has been said before of today's old fogeys back when they were running as young Turks: New politics is nothing but a mask for the old rotten system.

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xVegitox at 8:21PM, Oct. 17, 2010
Soft MSN is the best. I used to have a skype
xVegitox at 7:14PM, Oct. 17, 2010
And never added Moi? firstname.lastname@example.com gogogo
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xVegitox at 4:33PM, Oct. 13, 2010
Don't worry squishy I'll figure out something :D Now you go study your muy thai
xVegitox at 8:33PM, Sept. 28, 2010
LOL I'm not that lazy e~e Just, uh... not feeling like doing it because a greater force tells me not to. Yea, thats the reason!
xVegitox at 9:54AM, Sept. 26, 2010
Hmm drawn wouldn't be too bad. Plus I'm too lazy to get medabop-bop-boppin' >;O
xVegitox at 7:13AM, Sept. 26, 2010
B-but you're supposed to assist with update >:U Also I don't know, I've been lazy lol
xVegitox at 10:07PM, Sept. 25, 2010
Then why not do the sleep powder + ultra ball combination, that one always works.
xVegitox at 9:59PM, Sept. 25, 2010
Yea B/W looks really nice, I'm glad some of the new pokemon aren't totally hideous too lol. Also Ho-oh wasn't hard to catch, have you forgotten about using a masterball? =P
xVegitox at 9:37PM, Sept. 25, 2010
LIES THE LINES MAKE MY PROFILE LOOK COOLER! :P And things are pretty good, grade 11 is a pain but I'm still hanging around. Currently I've had a sudden interest in Pokemon B/W. At first I didn't really care, but now I'm probably gonna pre order the game when the time comes XD
xVegitox at 9:23PM, Sept. 25, 2010
Don't be silly of course I can say more! Just provide me with 400 more characters on my profile and I can get started :) So how's it going?
ChrisTH at 4:55PM, Sept. 21, 2010
I got my router back, I'll be working on your art trade asap. Sorry for taking so long D:
Silversonic at 10:12PM, Aug. 29, 2010
Truth is, I'm actually just a box. The tomatoes are just what I'm used for ;___;
xVegitox at 4:57PM, July 18, 2010
Thank you very much Squishy, its for a digimon I plan on making ^_^
xVegitox at 4:37PM, July 18, 2010
Ohh ok thanks, I have a couple more if you don't mind. One Tail and Fox ^_^
xVegitox at 12:07PM, July 18, 2010
Once again, I need your vast anime knowledge. What arethe japanese words for the following: Ghoul, Dream, Wish. Thanks in advance ^_^
xVegitox at 8:07PM, July 1, 2010
Lol thats a bummer :/
xVegitox at 5:39PM, July 1, 2010
Sort of? =Z
xVegitox at 10:24AM, July 1, 2010
You still alive? =Z o_O
xVegitox at 2:25PM, June 14, 2010
Alrighty I think I might be leaning towards the yugioh idea. But yea I'll see what I can do with those suggestions.
xVegitox at 1:00PM, June 14, 2010
I need help with the 3 ideas for united. The old ones I suggested don't sound good to me. My new idea for one of scenario's is Sega' low Budget. I just need atleast 1 more and I get started. Got any scenario ideas?
xVegitox at 6:19PM, June 10, 2010
Do you happen to know some HTML by chance?
xVegitox at 7:46AM, June 5, 2010
I got off my lazy ass and made the Cover :) Does that mean I can have Gaku now?
xVegitox at 2:46PM, May 31, 2010
Lol you named it Gaku :3
xVegitox at 2:09PM, May 31, 2010
Why not I bet your tablet will love living up in Canada.


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As AFSCME members, we're committed to serving the public and giving back.
This holiday season, AFSCME Locals around the state lived our union values by taking part in a variety of community giving programs. It's just one more way we're walking our talk: helping our neighbors, lifting up working families and strengthening the communities where we work and live.
- Members of Local 3558 participated in multiple holiday giving projects. At the Duluth YWCA, members collected supplies for the Young Moms Program, a transitional housing program that helps young moms and their kids get into the workforce and build secure lives. At the Head of the Lakes United Way, members planned and hosted the AFL-CIO Community Services' annual kid's holiday party, where union families decorated cookies, met Santa, and received holiday meal baskets and gifts.
- Local 3800, University of Minnesota Clerical Workers, held a toy drive for the U of M Masonic Children's Hospital. In addition to collecting toys in the weeks leading up to the holidays, local leaders held union coffee breaks at multiple campuses to collect toys and organize members. The local also hosted a holiday cookie and craft party for union kids.
- Local 552, Hennepin County Probation and Parole, donated $1,000 to the John Servaty Toy Drive in Hennepin County.
- Local 404, Department of Human Services, participated in a campus-wide St. Peter Regional Treatment Center toy drive for Toys for Tots, collecting hundreds of toys for kids in need. They teamed up with their coworkers and members of other unions to collect the toys, which were given to children in Nicollet, Le Sueur, and Blue Earth Counties.
- Local 1539, Rush City Corrections, collected $725 for St. Jude's Children's Hospital.
- Local 638, Minnesota State University – Mankato, participated in a campus-wide "Unions United" food drive for those in need. Together, the union members raised $1216 in cash donations and collected 725 pounds of food to stock the pantry at the ECHO Food Shelf.
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SAN DIEGO, July 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- HUYA Bioscience International, a leader in globalizing China's biopharmaceutical innovations, today announced a strategic partnership with the Liaoning (Benxi) Bio-pharmaceutical Industry Base. The collaboration agreement will combine both parties' strength in aiding the advancement of China's drug innovation platform.
HUYA is one of the first companies to have recognized China's potential to help meet the global need for new preclinical and clinical stage compounds. The company is committed to facilitating and promoting the global development and commercialization of novel pharmaceutical products originating in China. HUYA has established a series of collaborations with leading universities and research institutions throughout China and has pioneered in-licensing clinical stage compounds from the country, utilizing its expertise to advance these compounds for global markets.
Liaoning (Benxi) Bio-pharmaceutical Industry Base is the third national biomedical industry base approved by the National Ministry of Science and Technology. Located between Benxi and Shenyang, Liaoning (Benxi) Bio-pharmaceutical Industry Base is now the northeast pharmaceutical center and has attracted both domestic and foreign pharmaceutical companies and research institutions to assemble at this base, including Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Liaoning Analytical Science Research Institute, and Liaoning TCM Research Institute.
Under the agreement, Liaoning (Benxi) Bio-pharmaceutical Industry Base and HUYA will collaborate to promote new drug development. HUYA will have the first opportunity to provide assistance in evaluating research and development projects conducted by pharmaceutical enterprises residing in Liaoning (Benxi) Bio-pharmaceutical Industry Base. HUYA will also be able to globalize select programs from Liaoning (Benxi) Bio-pharmaceutical Industry Base through HUYA's innovative co-development model and worldwide pharmaceutical partners.
"It's a great honor to form the partnership with Liaoning (Benxi) Bio-pharmaceutical Industry Base," said Clement Gingras, HUYA's CTO and COO, China. "Together, we will help promote the acceleration and development of China's emerging biopharmaceutical industry."
Xiaofan Zhang, Vice Director of Liaoning (Benxi) Bio-pharmaceutical Industry Base, commented, "Liaoning (Benxi) Bio-pharmaceutical Industry is committed to becoming the 'pharmaceutical valley' in northern China; with HUYA's knowledge and capacity in international drug development, Liaoning (Benxi) Bio-pharmaceutical Industry Base hopes to solidify its position as a leading medical and pharmaceutical base in China."
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You don't have to be in Buenos Aires long before you hear the haunting strains of the Tango wafting from an open window, or see the notorious dance itself, whose thrusting hip movements and intertwined limbs once shocked polite society in Europe. It may now be Argentina's beloved national music, but the Tango had a scurrilous birth in the 1890s, in the impoverished bars and brothels of La Boca—a disreputable underworld populated by lonely Italian immigrants, which explains the deep melancholy of most Tango lyrics. "Get yourself a drink," one typical Tango goes, "For today I must forget/That I'm without a friend/And far from home." Other jolly themes include betrayal, jealousy, despair and homesickness.
The erotically charged dance steps first infiltrated France and Britain in the early 1900s, but the Tango really took off in 1917, when an unknown 20-year-old singer from the Buenos Aires slum of Abasto recorded the song Mi Noche Triste (My Sad Night). The handsome baritone, Carlos Gardel, caused the sort of shock Elvis would later create in the 1950s. Dashing and romantic (he had once been shot in a barroom brawl with Che Guevara's father), Gardel became an overnight sensation around Latin America, soon touring to play before adoring crowds from Santiago to Mexico City, and even the clubs of New York and Paris.
From 1929, he made a series of Spanish-language movies that are now considered classics, including El Dia que Me Quieras. Then, in 1935, at the pinnacle of his fame, the plane carrying Gardel and some fellow musicians crashed in Colombia. Gardel was killed, ensuring his immortality. Recently, the Abasto house where he grew up has been turned into a museum, and digital remastering of old recordings have almost brought him back to life. As Argentines joke, "Gardel sings better every day."


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Sen. John Thune (S.D.) is still keeping his options open on whether he will run for Republican Whip or for National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman, and he doesn't expect decide on which until after the elections.
"It's going to be, in all likelihood, a post election type scenario, and things would have to happen fairly quickly then, but then that is usually what happens with these types of things," Thune said today of his plans.
Thune said in May that he was eyeing both positions. But waiting to decide until after the elections will give him precious little time to mount an insurgent campaign for Whip against current NRSC Chairman John Cornyn (Texas), who has been in the race since shortly after current Whip Jon Kyl (Ariz.) announced his retirement last year. If Thune decides to challenge Cornyn, he will likely have only two weeks to campaign before the secret-ballot leadership elections are held.
Thune – who was elected Senate Republican Conference chairman in January after Sen. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.) stepped down from the post – said that Senate Republicans are primarily focused on winning the majority and have decided to leave potentially distracting leadership decisions until the post-election season.
Thune also may decide to run for a full term as Conference chairman.
"I think there is an understanding," Thune said. "Right now we are doing every thing we can to keep our eye in the ball, which is to try to win the majority. So I think most of us … who have positions currently, or perhaps aspire to them, are just trying to do everything we can to help the team win.
"I think that our Conference has sort of adopted this view that there will be a time and a place for that," the South Dakota Republican continued. "I think anybody who wants to, obviously having run a couple of times before, you sort of have your lists ready to go. So I don't think it would be that hard to" ramp up.
"I think for the most part our colleagues appreciate the fact that right now there isn't a lot of that politicking going on and that people are focused on making sure that the team succeeds," Thune said.
The NRSC position might end up being the more attractive post for Thune, who is known to harbor national ambitions and who had been mentioned as a possible running mate for GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
Aides have said the NRSC chairman position may also be appealing next cycle because, as in the current cycle, there are fewer Republican seats to defend. In 2014, there will be 20 Democratic seats and only 13 Republican seats up for re-election.
Currently, Cornyn is the only candidate for the Whip post.
Republicans hold 47 votes in the Senate and if they win the majority, that could further boost Cornyn's chances. After all, the NRSC chairman would be given much of the credit for electing more Republicans to the Senate.
Both Thune and Cornyn are reasonably well-liked in the GOP Conference. But Thune could be a formidable opponent, given that lawmakers already expect to at least gain seats, if not be competitive for the majority.


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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) officially goes into effect on May 25. Will your organization be ready?
Very soon, the GDPR will replace the Data Protection Directive as the new global standard on data privacy for all government agencies and organizations that do business with European Union (EU) citizens. When it does, all organizations that control, maintain, or process information involving EU citizens will be required to comply with strict new rules regarding the protection of personal customer data. For companies that store and manage data in the cloud, assuming existing infrastructure will remain compliant with new regulatory requirements might result in significant fines.
It's important to understand that the differences between the new GDPR and the Data Protection Directive could impact your cloud data and security controls. For example, GDPR's broad interpretation of what constitutes personal information leaves relevant agencies and organizations responsible for providing "reasonable" protection for a wider range of data types, including genetic and biometric data. More than ever, this regulatory transition highlights the importance of implementing a comprehensive cloud security strategy for your company.
According to a recent GDPR benchmarking survey, although 89 percent of organizations have (or plan to have) a formal GDPR-readiness program, only 45 percent have completed a readiness assessment. At Microsoft, we've been preparing for GDPR compliance for the better part of a year and empowering our customers to do the same. Because Microsoft has extensive experience developing cloud solutions with security built-in, we've become a leading voice on solving GDPR-related privacy challenges in the cloud.
Now, we've turned this experience and insight into a free, four-part video series, Countdown: Preparing for GDPR. Be sure to watch GDPR and Azure to learn more from David Burt, Senior Compliance Marketing Manager for Azure. You can also read more about our point of view on this transition as the first hyper-scale cloud vendor to offer GDPR terms and conditions in the enterprise space.


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Unlocking the real value of the IoT
By Anne-Lindsay Beall, SAS Insights Editor
When you hear "Internet of Things," you naturally think smart homes, connected cars, wearable devices and other consumer applications, all of which will have an incredible impact on daily life. But according to analysts, the Internet of Things' biggest economic impact is expected to come on the factory floor, on the energy grid and in virtually any large-scale industrial setting.
It's the Industrial Internet of Things, and the potential is enormous: McKinsey & Co. estimates that more than half the nearly $6 trillion in economic value that the IoT could bring by 2025 is related to the industrial sector. The value is tied to the roughly 50 billion devices that will be deployed by 2020, most of which will be devices such as motors, controllers, pumps and chillers.
"Most of the devices are already there. It's just a matter of connecting them to the Internet – and that will change everything," says Shahram Mehraban, a Marketing Director in Intel's Internet of Things group.
"Connect them and suddenly you've got 44 zettabytes of data," Mehraban says. "But having the data and making sense of it are two different things." Improved productivity, better efficiency and lower costs only come if companies can figure out how to transmit the data securely and then quickly use the data.
"With the industrial IoT, there needs to be clear ROI to invest in connecting the devices,'' Mehraban says. "Margins are razor thin in manufacturing, so the investment has to yield a quick payback."
The perfect use of the IoT
Mehraban says the most obvious cases for IoT in the industrial settings are increasing production yield, and reducing waste. Anything that affects the yield, such as downtime or equipment degradation, is a blow to the bottom line. Data that can alert organizations to problems with yield, preventively alert workers to fix equipment that is about to fail, or otherwise highlight pending issues is the perfect use of the IoT.
"It's not hard to convince factory managers," Mehraban says. "They get it.'' In deploying the industrial IoT, companies will have to make decisions about when to use data in motion versus data at rest. "If you want to look at data across multiple factories to understand trends in yield, then you can use stored data that is analyzed after it is gathered,'' Mehraban says.
To catch parts before they fail (such as a wonky vibration on a motor), "You need to be able to analyze in real time,'' Mehraban says. For that, companies need to use a technology like event stream processing. "Real time is so critical.''
How Intel is using the IoT
One of Mehraban's roles at Intel is to figure out how to securely and efficiently move data from legacy systems into the IoT world. Intel's gateways provide a secure bridge from legacy to IoT, and they've employed them in their own factories.
Applying analytics to the data that comes off the equipment has helped Intel lower operating costs, increase yields and reduce the test times.
Intel pulls as much as five terabytes of data an hour from the entire factory network and analyzes the information to quickly determine when one of its manufacturing processes starts to deviate from normal tolerances. The analytics helps predict parts that are about to fail, allowing production to run for longer periods because planned maintenance takes less time.
"For example, when one of our testing tools breaks down, it rejects good units," says Mehraban. "With predictive maintenance analytics, breakdowns are avoided and good units aren't scrapped. Analytics helps us proactively detect processes that are getting out of control."
And the industrial IoT extends into the business side. "Supply chains benefit from their ability to dynamically react to before-and-after sales events," says Mehraban. "Retailers receive product more quickly, get better prices from manufacturers, and better-quality products to sell. Plus, they can adjust supply based on rapidly changing market demands. It's a win for everyone."
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3rd Party Risk Management , Critical Infrastructure Security , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks
NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab a Frequent Hack Victim: Audit
Report Outlines 10 Years' Worth of Serious IncidentsHackers have repeatedly stolen valuable data - including launch codes and flight trajectories for spacecraft - from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in recent years, according to a new inspector general audit, which describes weak security practices.
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The audit report released this week by the space agency's Office of Inspector General finds that over the course of 10 years, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, based in Pasadena, California, has been hacked numerous times, with individuals and nation-state actors stealing data about NASA's critical missions as well as other sensitive and proprietary information.
In 2018, for example, a hacker used a Raspberry Pi computer to access the lab's network, stealing 23 files that contained about 500MB of sensitive NASA data, the report found.
In addition to launch codes and flight trajectories, hackers have attempted to target NASA's research and development on earth science and advanced space technologies, the audit notes.
'Shadow IT' Problems
The report cites several examples of weak security practices. For example, it concludes that the Jet Propulsion Laboratory has a "shadow IT" problem - it does not keep rigorous track of what devices are connected to its network.
The inspector general also found that outside partners and contractors have access to a shared network at the lab, and the lab's IT and security departments do a poor job of segmenting this network to ensure that third parties don't have access to sensitive data.
"This shortcoming enabled an attacker to gain unauthorized access to JPL's mission network through a compromised external user system," according to the inspector general's summary of a 2018 incident involving the use of a Raspberry Pi.
Other issues the inspector general's report found include:
- Problems with NASA's IT ticketing system that helps identify and resolve vulnerabilities in software meant that some critical patches were not applied for over 180 days.
- The agency does not have a threat-hunting program to aggressively look for threats to its network.
- NASA's Security Operations Center does not maintain around-the-clock availability of incident responders, and this team does not always follow federal guidelines, such as the those from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, for responding to a cybersecurity incident.
- The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's has a longstanding contract with the California Institute of Technology, which provides some IT and security management resources. But Caltech's staff did not clearly relay all cybersecurity issues from the lab up through the chain of command at NASA.
In its conclusion, the inspector general recommends a series of improvements, including greater network segmentation to reign in third-party access, greater adherence to federal cybersecurity guidelines and improvement to the ticketing system to ensure vulnerabilities in software are patched faster.
NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory agreed to make nine out of the 10 recommendations that the report laid out. The only improvement that the agency will not make at this time is the creation of a threat-hunting team, the report notes.
10 Years' Worth of Hacks
Nor surprisingly, NASA and its Jet Propulsion Laboratory are a rich target for all kinds of hackers, whether they are working for nation-states or operating on their own, the audit finds.
The agency and its lab not only house a vast amount of data that is targeted by hackers, but NASA's openness to working with third parties and outside researchers - especially those connected with Caltech - means that it leaves itself more open to attack than more closed federal agencies, the report notes.
"The agency's substantial connectivity with nongovernmental educational and research institutions also presents cybercriminals with a larger, more attractive target than most other government agencies and offers cyberattackers multiple points of entry into the agency's various networks," according to the report.
The combination of openness and a lack of adequate controls for which devices and individuals have access to its network led to several incidents at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory between 2008 and 2018, the reports finds. In one 2011 case, hackers gained full access to 18 servers that supported several key NASA mission and stole 87GB worth of data, the inspector general found.
In 2018, an account belonging to an external user was compromised, providing access to a "major mission systems." In this case, the attacker used a Raspberry Pi, a small computer about the size of a credit card, to access the network and take 500MB of data, the report notes.
This particular incident at the lab got the notice of other NASA officials, who were concerned that an attacker could access one network and then move laterally across the entire agency's IT systems, putting mission critical operations in danger, the inspector general notes.
Unauthorized access to the lab's network, coupled with NASA's inability to respond faster, is a significant cause for concern, says Matt Walmsley, a director at Vectra, a San Jose, California-based threat detection and response firm.
"There has been a failing of appropriate policy definition and demonstrable compliance issues," Walmsley says. "There have been technical gaps, which have rendered JPL oblivious to devices connected to their network and left them nearly blind to indicators of active attackers who have defeated access and preventive controls and are now operating inside their network with impunity."
Restoring Trust
Despite the inspector general's issues with Caltech and how it's handled some of the cybersecurity incidents at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA signed a new, five-year agreement with the university to provide more IT and security services, the report notes.
Ultimately, NASA's leadership must do more to protect the its IT assets and data, the report concludes.
"NASA is responsible for ensuring its IT assets are protected from unauthorized or inappropriate access, including assets on the JPL network managed by Caltech pursuant to NASA's contract with the university," the report states. "Improvements to JPL's security controls and increased oversight by NASA is crucial to ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of agency data."


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A Renewed Invitation to Kernel Developers
In view of recent statements by developers of the Linux kernel, and the response by the Free Software Foundation, I would like to offer my personal views as the chief mediator in the GPLv3 process.
To begin with, I welcome the current expressions of opinion by kernel developers. As I have repeatedly said in private communications, and will now say again publicly, I will gladly take any steps possible to include the kernel developers in the ongoing discussion process. I invite them to represent themselves in any way they choose, and pledge to work with them to create, even at this late date, a form of participation in the deliberations about GPLv3 that would reflect their preferred means of work, and be appropriate to their position in the community of developers.
I appreciate the positions taken publicly by the kernel developers. To be clear, the process of deliberation in which FSF and everyone else has been engaged since January is not only a process of taking positions. It also involves listening to the positions others have taken: it's the effect of listening as well as talking that gives deliberative democracy its effectiveness as well as its legitimacy.
I have been doing a job this year, on behalf of the Free Software Foundation as a client of the Software Freedom Law Center. In this time, I have watched hundreds of serious-minded and busy people take time to listen to one another's needs, to explain their principles, to deliberate on the arrangements that affect their lives. For my colleagues and fellow citizens who develop the Linux kernel, I have nothing but respect. I ask them please to join the conversation that is going on, to listen to others whose views may not be theirs, and to help the community make the best possible choices about matters of deep common concern.
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The Fed Has Failed, Failed, Failed
Bernanke knows QE3 will fail to revive the real economy, but he doesn't care; his real job is to protect the Fed's political power and the banking sector's wealth.
Here is the translation of the Fed Chairman's public comments: whatever. Did you see any of his testimony? It was painfully obvious that either 1) he was sky-high on Ibogaine or 2) he was just going through the motions, duly enunciating PR "cover" that he finds tiresome to repeat and impossible to say with any sincerity or conviction.
"If people feel that their financial situation is better because their 401(k) looks better for whatever reason, or their house is worth more, they are more willing to go out and provide the demand."
It is clear Bernanke's policies have failed to spark a "wealth effect," even though the stock market has more than doubled from its March 2009 low.
Resistance, Revolution, Liberation: A Model for Positive Change (print $25)
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We are like passengers on the Titanic ten minutes after its fatal encounter with the iceberg: though our financial system seems unsinkable, its reliance on debt and financialization has already doomed it.We cannot know when the Central State and financial system will destabilize, we only know they will destabilize. We cannot know which of the State's fast-rising debts and obligations will be renounced; we only know they will be renounced in one fashion or another.
The process of the unsustainable collapsing and a new, more sustainable model emerging is called revolution.Rather than being powerless, we hold the fundamental building blocks of power. We need neither permission nor political change to liberate ourselves. A powerless individual becomes powerful when he renounces the lies and complicity that enable the doomed Status Quo's dominance.
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