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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
D'oh! Mitt Romney Press Secretary to reporters: ‘Kiss my ass, shove it’
Gorka: "Show some respect"NYT: "We haven't had another chance to ask a question..."Gorka: "Kiss my ass. This is a Holy site for the Polish people. Show some respect."Immediately after Gorka's verbal quarrel, the traveling press aide reportedly told Politico's Jonathan Martin to "shove it."
Monday, July 30, 2012
Oh. I see. The GOP requires absolute strict adherence too their wacko ideas.
When should we expect to see the new 'whites only' water fountains?
Conservatives work to cull moderate Republicans
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Frustrated by their inability to achieve some policy goals, conservatives in Republican states are turning against moderate members of their own party, trying to drive them out of state legislatures to clear the way for reshaping government across a wide swath of mid-America controlled by the GOP. Political groups are helping finance the efforts by supporting primary election c...
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Koch Brothers Flout Law Getting Richer With Secret Iran Sales- Bloomberg
These seems like some pretty unAmerican behavior. Why can they just buy their way out of consequences?
"How much lawless behavior are we going to tolerate from any one company?" asks David Uhlmann, who oversaw the prosecution of the Koch refinery division when he was chief of the environmental crimes unit at the U.S. Department of Justice. "Corporate cultures reflect the priorities of the corporation and its senior officials."
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http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-02/koch-brothers-flout-law-getting-richer-with-secret-iran-sales.html
"How much lawless behavior are we going to tolerate from any one company?" asks David Uhlmann, who oversaw the prosecution of the Koch refinery division when he was chief of the environmental crimes unit at the U.S. Department of Justice. "Corporate cultures reflect the priorities of the corporation and its senior officials."
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http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-02/koch-brothers-flout-law-getting-richer-with-secret-iran-sales.html
Friday, July 27, 2012
Darpa Funds Hack Machine You'd Never Notice | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
PwnieExpress' all-new Power Pwn. All Images: PwnieExpress
If you saw this bad boy under your desk, would you say anything?
It may look like a surge protector, but it's really a remote access machine that corporations can use to test security and log into branch offices. Called the Power Pwn, it's a stealthier version of the little box that can hack your network we wrote about last March.
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OS X Mountain Lion Dictation is sweet! Give it a try
Dictation
Dictation is a pretty great, welcome feature in Mountain Lion. Basically, if an app can accept text input via the keyboard it can accept input via Dictation. To start dictating, just press the function (fn) key twice. When you're done dictating, you can click the "done" button or press the function (fn) key twice again. OS X will take a moment and then provide you with the transcribed text. In addition to just offering words, you can say things like "period" or "comma" for punctuation and "new line" to make a new line.
http://lifehacker.com/5928792/everything-you-need-to-know-about-os-x-mountain-lion-in-five-minutes
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Romney and Bain Didn't Become Successful "On Their Own" Either!
I'd been trying to figure out just what bugged me so much when Mitt Romney said these words about "free stuff": "If you're looking for free stuff, if you're looking for free stuff you don't have to pay for, vote for the other guy. That's what he's all about, OK? That's not what I'm about."
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-m-granholm/romney-and-bain-got-milli_b_1683775.html
It wasn't just the apparent pander to his conservative crowd... something else was bugging me. And then I saw the clip below from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart this week, and it hit me.
It's that Romney is taking advantage of the government's "free stuff," too, and has been profiting from it handsomely for a long, long time -- even as he rails about the "free stuff" that the government provides other people.
Let's just take one example -- GST Steel. Here is a little Kansas City, Missouri steel company Bain Capital bought for $75 million, but put only $8 million of its own money into the deal. They borrowed the rest. Within a year, Romney and Bain put GST Steel further into debt, borrowing another $125 million. Some of that money was put to good use, modernizing the factory. But $36 million of the borrowed money was paid to Mitt Romney and Bain in the form of a dividend. Do you get that?
Less than a year after loading the company up with debt, Romney and Bain gave themselves bonuses four times bigger than the $8 million they had put into the deal. And guess what the tax rate they had to pay on that unearned income was? A lot less than yours. You guessed it: 15 percent. Thank you for all that extra "free stuff" from the U.S. Government's tax code.
Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!
Then, when GST Steel filed for bankruptcy and laid off 750 people, we learned that Bain had consciously underfunded its pension obligations to those employees. The company simply decided not to meet its legal responsibilities. The end result: the federal government's pension benefit guarantee corporation was stuck with a $44 million bill.More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-m-granholm/romney-and-bain-got-milli_b_1683775.html
Monday, July 23, 2012
Romney's twisted road on abortion - The Last Word
Will Saletan of Slate.com wrote an exhaustive piece on the path Mitt Romney took while determining his stand on Abortion. Saletan chronicles how it began in 1963 with the death of a woman who was close to the Romney family, from an illegal abortion which he mentioned in a debate with Senator Ted Kennedy. Saletan also found that Romney commissioned a poll in 1986 before running for election which found that a pro-life candidate could not win a statewide election in Massachusetts. The poll came before Romney took a position, though Saletan does not say Romney took the position based solely on the poll.
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AP IMPACT: Gas line safety valves resisted
Gas line safety valves resisted
"There were lives lost that did not need to be lost," said Robert Hall, deputy director of the National Transportation Safety Board, which is responsible for investigating pipeline accidents.
The NTSB recommended the valves 16 times, but only in 2009, under pressure from Congress, was a rule approved - to make the devices mandatory only on lines leading to new, single-family homes. Now, regulators are considering expanding that to new or replaced pipelines serving millions of multifamily homes and commercial buildings. And the utilities are objecting.
New iPad 4G Data Plans: AT&T vs. Verizon |
In addition to more reasonable plans, Verizon offers the option to use your iPad as a hotspot, to share its 4G connection with up to five additional devices, for no additional charge. AT&T doesn't offer a hotspot option at this time.
Aside from price, another important factor to take into consideration is coverage and speed. Take a look at PCMag's Fastest Mobile Networks feature to find out which wireless carrier has the fastest data network where you live. AT&T and Verizon both offer blazing fast 4G LTE speeds, though Verizon provides far more coverage than AT&T's fledgling network. On the other hand, if you still aren't covered by 4G, AT&T generally offers faster 3G than Verizon.
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Saturday, July 21, 2012
Corporation that Paid Nothing in Taxes for Four Years Tells Congress it Pays Too Much in Taxes
Over a four years period from 2008 to 2011, Corning Inc. was one of 26 companies that managed to avoid paying any American income taxes, even though it earned nearly $3 billion during that time. In fact, according to Citizens For Tax Justice, the company received a $4 million refund from 2008 to 2010. That didn't stop Susan Ford, a senior executive at the company, from telling the House Ways and Means Committee this week that America's high corporate tax rate was putting her company at a disadvantage:
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Thursday, July 19, 2012
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Who Is The Smallest Government Spender Since Eisenhower? Would You Believe It's Barack Obama? | Forbes
It's enough to make even the most ardent Obama cynic scratch his head in confusion.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/05/24/who-is-the-smallest-government-spender-since-eisenhower-would-you-believe-its-barack-obama/
Amidst all the cries of Barack Obama being the most prolific big government spender the nation has ever suffered, Marketwatch is reporting that our president has actually been tighter with a buck than any United States president since Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Who knew?
Check out the chart –
>Who knew?
WHO KNEW? I KNEW! Of course, I listen to real news, and look at the actual numbers...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/05/24/who-is-the-smallest-government-spender-since-eisenhower-would-you-believe-its-barack-obama/
Sunday, July 15, 2012
HIT Security Hinges on Mobile Device Management
One of the biggest technology trends hitting healthcare this year, mobile computing, poses one of the biggest security threats to healthcare that will last for many years to come.
Just last week, my first magazine feature story forHealthLeaders explored the surge in Bring-Your-Own-Device behavior in healthcare. As I researched the story, I became aware of efforts to improve mobile security being led by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.
James Brady, PhD, is chair of HIMSS's mobile security workgroup. Brady's day job is chief information security officer and director of technical services at Hawaii Health Systems Corporation in Honolulu. HHSC operates 1,275 licensed beds across five islands in the state of Hawaii, so Brady certainly has a vested interest in getting mobile security right.
The group is most concerned with getting it right on tablets, smartphones, and laptops. That's not to say that security on other medical devices isn't ofgrowing importance. It's just not the focus of the HIMSS group for now, and certainly there are efforts underway elsewhere in industry for those other devices.
Just last week, my first magazine feature story forHealthLeaders explored the surge in Bring-Your-Own-Device behavior in healthcare. As I researched the story, I became aware of efforts to improve mobile security being led by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.
James Brady, PhD, is chair of HIMSS's mobile security workgroup. Brady's day job is chief information security officer and director of technical services at Hawaii Health Systems Corporation in Honolulu. HHSC operates 1,275 licensed beds across five islands in the state of Hawaii, so Brady certainly has a vested interest in getting mobile security right.
The group is most concerned with getting it right on tablets, smartphones, and laptops. That's not to say that security on other medical devices isn't ofgrowing importance. It's just not the focus of the HIMSS group for now, and certainly there are efforts underway elsewhere in industry for those other devices.
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The truth speaks well of Kaine
It is still early summer and already Virginia airwaves are blanketed with false, negative campaign advertising against Tim Kaine, Democratic nominee to replace U.S.Sen. Jim Webb.
The attacks come from Americans for Prosperity, funded by the wealthy Koch brothers, which recently sponsored a road show through Virginia spreading falsehoods such as saying that as governor, Kaine left office with a budget deficit. This is, of course, false. As Virginians know, our constitution requires a balanced budget, unlike the federal system, so Kaine never signed a budget with a deficit.
In fact, The Associated Press reported, Kaine "never finished a fiscal year with insufficient funds."
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Saturday, July 14, 2012
BYOD: Businesses must be clear on data privacy
Businesses looking to implement a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) program must be aware that the parameters of what they can and cannot do with a mobile device management (MDM) platform are governed by local data privacy legislation, which inconveniently varies from market to market.
No business should look to deploy a BYOD policy until they understand the implications of monitoring an employee-owned device, the requirement to obtain consent from the employee, and the risk it poses if this consent is not achieved either at the point of MDM solution deployment or at the point of a data loss event.
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Research in Motion to Pay $147.2 Million to Settle Patent Suit
Not a good week for the BlackBerry maker as RIM must pay out $147.2 million in a patent suit and deny claims of developer flight.
Beleaguered BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) got some more bad news this weekend as a Northern California court ruled the company was guilty of patent infringement for the remote management system of its wireless devices. RIM was sued in 2008 by Mformation Technologies, a mobile device management software solutions specialist. The judge ordered RIM must pay an $8 royalty for each BlackBerry device connected to RIM's Enterprise Server software, which amounts to $147.2 million, Reuters reported.
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Friday, July 13, 2012
Commoners - Rootstrikers
A New York City donor a few cars back, who also would not give her name, said Romney needed to do a better job connecting. "I don't think the common person is getting it," she said from the passenger seat of a Range Rover stamped with East Hampton beach permits.
Commoners — really?
"We've got the message," she added. "But my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies — everybody who's got the right to vote — they don't understand what's going on. I just think if you're lower income — one, you're not as educated, two, they don't understand how it works, they don't understand how the systems work, they don't understand the impact."
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Advice to IT Departments: Miss the MDM Train at Your Own Risk
The survey found that more attention is being paid to mobility. The number of IT workers dedicated to MDM services per 1,000 employees has risen and is expected to continue to do so. The number of smartphones in use is rising as well. This is driving a parallel growth in MDM:
Among organizations that have not yet deployed an MDM solution, 32 percent said they would deploy one in 2013 and additional 24 percent plan to deploy one in 2014. The potential for loss of intellectual property was the leading factor for deploying an MDM solution, cited by 34 percent of respondents. Thirty-one percent of organizations switching to a new MDM platform, said they would likely select a cloud-based solution, and 55 percent of those respondents said they would choose a private cloud solution for security reasons.
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Thursday, July 12, 2012
So I pay for Windows 8, then I pay to use it remotely, *Unless* I am using a remote windows box?
Then I pay AGAIN to use it remotely, UNLESS am using a remote windows tablet or phone?
<sarcasm>Yeah, that seems about right</sarcasm>
Ballmer On Windows 8 VDI License For iPads: 'We Are In A Battle'
What is clear is that in Microsoft's view, organizations using iPads and Android tablets to access Windows through VDI are getting productivity benefits without paying for them. The CDL is Microsoft's way of closing this loophole.
In the interview earlier this week, Ballmer suggested that customers that purchase Windows 8 tablets will see a cost advantage from not having to also buy the CDL.
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http://www.crn.com/news/virtualization/240003555/ballmer-on-windows-8-vdi-license-for-ipads-we-are-in-a-battle.htm
<sarcasm>Yeah, that seems about right</sarcasm>
Ballmer On Windows 8 VDI License For iPads: 'We Are In A Battle'
What is clear is that in Microsoft's view, organizations using iPads and Android tablets to access Windows through VDI are getting productivity benefits without paying for them. The CDL is Microsoft's way of closing this loophole.
In the interview earlier this week, Ballmer suggested that customers that purchase Windows 8 tablets will see a cost advantage from not having to also buy the CDL.
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http://www.crn.com/news/virtualization/240003555/ballmer-on-windows-8-vdi-license-for-ipads-we-are-in-a-battle.htm
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
For nurses, Smartphones at work are the norm
Smartphones aren't just popular with docs, they're becoming a staple for nurses on the job, too. And the apps they're using are moving far beyond references and data-management tools, according to an article in the Online Journal of Nursing Informatics.
In 2010, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated that 72 percent of physicians use smartphones. Nurses aren't far behind, with 71 percent using smartphones on the job, according to a recent survey conducted by Wolters Kluwer Health, which is launching its Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Nursing 2013 Drug Handbook mobile app, MobiHealth News reports.
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