Unlikely to be a coincidence. Build your own scenario.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100724/tc_pcworld/iranwasprimetargetofscadaworm

Iran Was Prime Target of SCADA Worm

Computers in Iran have been hardest hit by a dangerous computer worm that tries to steal information from industrial control systems.

According to data compiled by Symantec, nearly 60 percent of all systems infected by the worm are located in Iran.

I'd have a few more questions. Have any systems been added or updated in the past ten years? What is available and how is it used?

http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/024791.html

July 24, 2010

More Fallout from Failed Attempt to Modernize FBI Computer System

News release: "Senator Chuck Grassley is pressing the Director of the FBI for additional information about its latest attempt to modernize its antiquated computer system. Grassley sent a letter to Director Robert Mueller following reports that a stop work order had been placed on both phases 3 and 4 of the Sentinel contract with Lockheed Martin. “The FBI has been trying to get its computer system up to speed for a decade. It appears that the third iteration of a modern FBI computer system is about to fail. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on a system that is little more than a fancy personnel management system. Taxpayers deserve an answer about the continued failure of the FBI and where the hundreds of millions of dollars went,” Grassley said. “I want to know exactly how much more taxpayer money the FBI intends to spend and when the system will be completed and in working order. The FBI needs a modern computing system, on time and on budget, for our intelligence community to stay ahead of the new and evolving threats facing our country...”

Interesting business model and about time someone did this...

https://www.entrustet.com/

Entrustet

Create a secure list of digital assets

Designate heirs and a Digital Executor

Decide which assets are transferred to heirs and which are deleted

Legally protect your digital assets

An interesting mind exercise for my Small Business students. Create a business model that does not depend on the Internet...

http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/24/1514210/Adapting-the-Post-Office-To-the-Digital-Age?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29

Adapting the Post Office To the Digital Age

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday July 24, @12:24PM

"Paul B. Carroll and Chunka Mui write in the Washington Post that with projected deficits through 2020 of $238 billion, the debate over potential changes at the US Postal Service is like a fight over the dessert bar on the Titanic: email has already supplanted letters, more people will send money via PayPal rather than mail checks, people will download their movies and books, check their bills online, and receive information about their investments electronically. Delivery volume for first-class mail fell 22 percent from 1998 through 2007, tumbled an additional 13 percent last year and was down 3 percent in the first half of this year despite heavy mailings from the Census Bureau. USPS's future lies in things that need to be delivered physically: shoes, computers and other objects, and the USPS has assets that could let it take on UPS and FedEx. 'USPS needs to start with the future and work backward to the present,' write Carroll and Mui. 'It needs to forecast volumes for all types of its business five, 10 and 15 years out and design a business model that will thrive under those scenarios. Only then can it figure out what radical changes need to be made now.'"

Tools & Techniques

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/07/nine-survey-tools-for-teachers-and.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+freetech4teachers%2FcGEY+%28Free+Technology+for+Teachers%29

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Nine Survey Tools for Teachers and Students

Diagramming tool

http://live.gnome.org/Dia

Dia

Dia is a GTK+ based diagram creation program for GNU/Linux, Unix and Windows released under the GPL license.

Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program 'Visio', though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.

[Some examples: http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Examples

Project Management tool.

http://www.serena.com/products/openproj/index.html

OpenProj

OpenProj is a open source project management desktop software by Serena Software. It is replacement of Microsoft Project . Speaking of Microsoft Project, OpenProj does everything that Project does. It also adds a few tricks Project hasn’t learned: it works on Windows, Mac, Unix and Linux. And it’s completely free.

More capable spreadsheet than Excel? Includes 154 functions not found in Excel

http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/

Gnumeric

Gnumeric will import your existing Microsoft Excel files.

An upgrade for OpenOffice? Or Oprah Winfrey software?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ooop/

OxygenOffice Professional - Office Suite

OxygenOffice Professional(OOOP, O2OP)is an enhanced version of free OpenOffice.org what is a multi-platform office productivity suite. OxygenOffice Professional contains more extras like templates, clipart, samples, fonts and VBA support.