I first question is i have is for mr. Goldstein. Talked to this to some extent. I will come back and revisit it very briefly. In the past decade or so, you have overseen 12 independent reports of federal Facility Security. You have looked at the armed guard programs, you have collaborated with state and local Law Enforcement and the Human Capital planning. Gao has also conducted what we call them covert testing. You talked about some of that that is going on of federal facilities. In other words, you try to penetrate federal facilities to test how security works. It is like what we do in the Nuclear Power plant world. Again, for the record, how would you assess federal Facility Security today . Over 30,000 feet, how would you assess federal Facility Security today, realizing we are on a where folksum, focus on this, going back to 1995, Oklahoma City is it getting better, worse, it is uneven . I think it is very uneven, mr. Chairman. Yes, there have been improvements since Oklahoma City
Reached by congressman paul ryan and senator patty murray. Final passage is expected tomorrow in the senate and we will have some of the debate in a moment. On tonights first ladies, a look at the life of helen taft. Investigates panel be navy yard shooting. Three house members announced today that they do not intend to run for reelection in 2014. A republican from northern ,irginia, jim matheson of utah and tom latham all announced their retirement. Politico said that the most again begin departure came from utah where jim matheson is vacating a conservative seat, almost certainly handing it to republicans in next years midterms. Democrats got good news in iowa where tom latham declared that he was retiring from the swing district he has held for two terms. Virginia, another gop congressmen announced that he would not be running for reelection in and up for grabs district. Oft announcement marks three the most highprofile congressional retirements ahead of next years midterms. Raise t
People look. The protocol that was designed to bring together hvac systems and Industrial Systems that were running in businesses like this one. If you wanted the air conditioning to talk to the garage or the alarm, you could use this to do that. Echelon makes the system and they are stackable. There is a place in denmark that has one place controlling all the controllers in the city. The lower controllers were passwordprotected but the upper one that controls everything was not. I found a place that was like a Convention Center under that basketball floor, i guess, is an ice rink that you can defrost if you are up to it. Why these controllers are online, i am not sure. I am guessing it is for the convenience of the organization. They should have taken five minutes to think about what they were doing before they put it on the internet and i found it. They have conveniently placed their floor plans on their website so you want to mess with certain parts of the building, you can. Other o
For. And i think a fundamental reason for that is because of the way our personal data translates into dollar signs. So it took an executive at a Company Called nuance, which is a Voice Recognition company, to put it succinctly for me, this particular attitude. He said that privacy was an economic consideration. Now, this executive was helping nuance which does the Voice Recognition technology for the iphone siri to create a personal assistant technology separate to that, that could go beyond siri ins could referencing all the data between the different apps on our phones. Kind of like a butler that has the keys to all the doors in your house and all the cup boards and every safe, just to make them that little bit better at what they do. I asked him about, wouldnt consumers find that a little bit odd, to have their privacy unfringed like that . And he said, just again, i feel like this illustrates the attitudes in Silicon Valley, when do people feel their privacy has been breached . An
By law or by a regulatory body and whose cost on our Food Industry without at least acknowledging that we are going to do tremendous damage to the hungry in the world packs i oppose that as a question but in all of the discussions we have particularly bad that gets a lot of attention it is alleged that biotechnology is harmful for the human body without any evidence as of yet been put forth except by a few that have their opinion. I think we need to take that into consideration. User fees i render that argument from my days on the House Agricultural Committee and the meat and whole tree area. You have a little problem. If you are going to use the user fees you are immediately going to have criticism from all of the folks that are opposed to the way that we produce food today. The food factories as they are called. Then you are going to have them paying for the food safety and criticism and it is just a round circle coming back. So these are the areas that we need to acknowledge in the