Published in 1906. A year after his bought his ranch property. The valley of the moon was published while he was living here. Jack london claimed that he worked two hours a day writing thousand words a day before breakfast. But i think a lot of his time was spent because he was trying to build the beauty ranch so it could be a model and that took a lot of his time. See all of our programs saturday at noon eastern on cspan 2s book tv and sunday afternoon at 2 00 on American History tv on cspan3. And a house Science Space Technology hearing. Discussing the potential of life on other planets and the recent discovery of liquid water on mars. Lamar smith chairs this hour and 40 minute hearing. Science space and technology will come to order. Without objection the chair is ordered to declare recesses of the committee at any time. Welcome to todays hearing, astrobiology and the search for life beyond earth in the neck decade. Let me make a couple of announcements. One is to say we expect more
Was 1999, 1998. Coming up on 20 years ago now. And the world is really changed, and our missions have evolved, and i want to make sure were optimized to meet the future. So ill receive the final input back on those three by the first of october. In fact, i think im going to review a draft this weekend, to be honest. Im told they think they have some initial work for me to look at this weekend. As i indicated previously, once we sit down and decide, its my intention to come back to the committee and say this is whats been recommending and this is what i intend to do and heres why. This is what i think it will generate in terms of value. Thank you. I think nsa is in good hands. Thank you very much. Admiral rogers, i seldom get the opportunity to highlight North Carolinas hightech successes. Especially given the fact that my vice chairman representing silicon valley, i keep reminding her, i have the Research Triangle park, but while there are 99 days in ns a lts code breaker challenge. No
Brought to you as a Public Service by your local cable or satellite provider. Aneesh chopra, in your book, innovative state, the first three words are government doesnt work. Why do you say that . Guest i think it captures the spirit if you ask the American People in general, are you satisfied, the numbers are at an alltime low, and the perception is it isnt working. And even early days in the Obama Administration we saw some of the more challenging launches of services that really we shouldnt expect today in successful, modern, techdriven economy. And closing this gap was a big part of the motivation both for my term of duty in Public Service as well as why i wanted to write the book. Host the subtitle is how new technologies can transform government. Guest yes. Host how does the u. S. Government use technology, and does it do it successfully . Guest well, were moving in the right direction, to be sure. I try to spend a lot of my time thinking about American History in the book. You g
Incidents, even the very high profile ones, start with a spear phishing campaign, start with an enough it shouldnt have been clicked on. I think in that sense some of the very simple things that any company can do in terms of training their employees, knowing what their Program Looks Like actually going to default security measures instead of no secret he measures can make a big difference. And i think from the perspective changing the cost for any given firm, making sure that if there are targets of opportunity that you deny them the simple opportunity to attack you. Any thoughts on your part . From our perspective all of these conversations go into building resilience. Using the framework coming taking the partnership, using collaboration. What i like to refer to is killing the profit model on this opportunistic sense that are adversaries have. All of that goes into making it less worth it for the anniversary. But even more important making us resilient. Even if all that were to work
In Public Service will always come from the contributions of those who served either under my command in the marine corps or on my staff. Our country has heard and will continue to hear from these talented men and women wherever they go and however they choose to serve, and a good number of them have made the trek over here the during a busy workweek to join us today. We did great things during those six years. They continue to show us that they are allstars in a multitude of endeavors, and id be praised if they would stand or wave and be recognized right now. [applause] there have been a lot of things going on in the last couple of days, and im sure im going to be get questions about them, but what im ready like to talk about in my opening remarks is whats going on in our country and what we can do to make things better. And let me begin by stealing a quote by gore vidal, one of the most irascible minds of the postworld war ii era. He once wrote you never know when you are happy, you