Yesterday I rested up from Friday’s exertions and did a little extra research. The holiday weekend seems slow here, but that’s normal, as I’m sure many are vacationing. I’m current on replies.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today it took me 3:15 (average 4:07). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From LA Times: Lockheed Martin Corp., the world’s largest aerospace company, said Saturday it detected and thwarted "a significant and tenacious attack" on its information systems a week ago.
"As a result of the swift and deliberate actions taken to protect the network and increase IT security, our systems remain secure," said Jennifer Whitlow, a Lockheed spokeswoman. "No customer, program or employee personal data has been compromised."
The Department of Homeland Security and the Defense Department have offered to help gauge the scope of the incident involving the defense contractor.
I certainly appreciate the valid concern for security, when hackers can penetrate the manufacturer of many major weapons systems, but feel the need to emphasize that security must be achieved without trampling privacy in the process.
From NPR: Spending rose 0.4 percent in April but much of the increase was eaten up by higher food and energy prices. After discounting for the jump in prices, spending inched up 0.1 percent. After-tax incomes were flat for a second straight month.
This is no surprise. The top 2% are spending as fast as they can, and Republicans gave them all the money, except for what they stole.
From Daily Kos: So for those keeping score at home, Barack Obama, the Kenyan socialist, used NBC to funnel a payoff to Donald Trump to pretend to doubt the legitimacy of Obama’s birth certificate so he could work as a double-super-secret agent to get the birthers’ inside information to throw them off the trail as they diligently tried to uncover the truth about the forged birth certificate, and all of Trump’s claims of sending private investigators to Hawaii to look into the "supposed" birth certificate were all just part of a clever decoy cooked up by Trump and Obama because the president will go to any lengths to hide the truth about his forged birth certificate, including buying off The Donald.
AAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!! TEABUGGERY!!
Cartoon:
InsaniTEA is unlimited. (That was intended to be a factual statement.)
4 Responses to “Open Thread–5/29/2011”
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I’m not vacationing, but I do have a shit load to do.
Systems security is a really big deal at companies yet many people don’t take it as seriously as they should. A company like Lockheed Martin could lose their government contracts if they are penetrated. The government imposes all kinds of extra security measures on it’s contractors to the point of silliness. A friend of mine worked at Northrup Gruman and they would search my bags on the way in and out and I had to be escorted the entire time I was there (except into the bathroom, he couldn’t follow me in there). They had some not fucking around security measures.
Spending is not going to increase until the middle class gets their jobs back, which doesn’t look like a likely prospect anytime soon.
OMG, that’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard.
Scott Brown doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground; I’m not surprised he’s confused by this Medicare thing.
Those teabaggers are a bunch of trouble and noisy fuckers, but they are generally siphoning off Repub votes. I say, let them be and split that Repub ticket!
Hope you get it done, Lisa. 🙂
I agree. But can you imagine the chaos that would happen id someone hacked the IFF codes on military aircraft, for example?
Exactly my point.
The fool is trying to appeal to both left and right concurrently.
I think they are bringing in more votes than they siphon off.
3:59 I continue my slump! 47 out of 149 (315).
Jerry, you get a golden opportunity today.