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Mitt Romney has slapped down about $360,000 for his first week of Wisconsin TV ads, signaling a serious if not overwhelming play for the traditionally Democratic-leaning state. The heaviest buy is in the Milwaukee media market, where Romney has put in $143,145. That's followed by $71,290 in Green Bay, $62,481 in Wausau, $44,685 in Madison and $39,615 in La Crosse-Eau Claire.
Romney drops $361k in Wisconsin
After the presidential inauguration in January, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough plans on publishing a memoir that will serve—no joke—as a vehicle to test the waters for a presidential run in 2016. He flirted with the idea of running against Barack Obama. An ex–Florida congressman and a moderate Republican, he conferred with fellow centrists just before the primaries, occasionally shuttling around with his friend Mike Bloomberg.
MSNBC’s Hot Ticket
There's already been a fair bit of controversy over Microsoft's decision to make the Do Not Track (DNT) setting turned on by default in Internet Explorer 10, and recently the brouhaha got even louder. Specifically, in a move that came to light last week, developers of the widely used Apache Web server application have added a patch to their software that ignores the DNT header altogether when it is sent by Microsoft's forthcoming IE10 browser. The only reason DNT exists is to express a non-default option, explained the patch's author, Roy Fielding, an Adobe employee who is also cofounder of Apache and a contributor to the DNT specification. It does not protect anyone's privacy unless the recipients believe it was set by a real human being, with a real preference for privacy over personalization.
Apache Web servers will ignore IE10's 'Do Not Track' settings
CBS is bowing to reality and making it official: on Sundays, when it carries late-afternoon National Football League games, the schedule of programs that follows will start at 7:30 p.m. and not 7. That is, it will be the starting time on paper for the Eastern time zone. (In Central time, the new start time will be 6:30 p.m.) CBS acknowledges that for many weeks the lineup will be pushed back still further by long N.F.L. games. But this ought to help viewers who record CBS’s Sunday shows. The disconnect between the scheduled times for Sunday shows and the time those shows actually appeared has been a concern for fans of programs like “The Good Wife.” With football games running long, viewers who regularly DVR that drama found themselves missing the ends of episodes if they did not also set up their machines to record the following show. Even with CBS issuing regular updates last year, fans of the series were especially irritated if episodes got cut off. “We’re just trying to be proactive and viewer friendly,” said Kelly Kahl, the chief scheduler for CBS.
CBS Adjusts Schedule to Account for Longer NFL Games
Glenn Lurie is in the fortunate position of being the executive at AT&T who gets to see all the new consumer devices before they have been released to the public. For the past seven years he has worked with Apple, and today the list of those who send him products includes many other device manufactures, like Amazon and other consumer electronics-makers that build navigation devices or home security systems. While not exactly a disinterested party, based on what he sees coming in the pipeline, he says that he is making the case to manufacturers that all computing devices in the future should ship with cellular data connectivity — and that it shouldn’t just be an option.
AT&T Says Wi-Fi Is Not Enough, Computing Devices Should Come With 4G
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) criticized the Administration for drafting an executive order on cybersecurity.
"I think the President really has tried to override congress for too long with executive orders," she said. Sen Hutchison acknowledged that lawmakers have not bridged their differences since a GOP filibuster blocked Sen. Joe Lieberman's (I-CT) cybersecurity bill in July. But she said the White House should let Congress continue to search for a compromise. "The President should let Congress act," she said. Sen Hutchison acknowledged that the President has legal authority to enact some protections without Congress, but she said she is concerned that he will overreach.
Sen Hutchison: Obama should not override Congress with cybersecurity order
[Commentary] Regardless of whether one believes that a cyber 9/11 or cyber Pearl Harbor is imminent, one thing is clear—the government’s efforts on cybersecurity have and will be intimately connected to terrorist threats to our critical infrastructure. The genesis of much of our cybersecurity efforts pre-dates 9/11, yet trace back to another attack on U.S. soil—the Oklahoma City bombings. While cybersecurity may have become a political football in recent months leading up to this year’s elections, hopefully government, industry, and political parties will be able to overcome the politicization and polarization to address an issue that is critical to our national security and efforts against terrorism that threatens our critical assets and infrastructure. While President Obama is contemplating issuing Executive Orders and Presidential Directives, it’s clear from the history of cybersecurity policy that Congress will need to act to truly further our nation’s efforts.
Waiting for a Cyber 9/11 is a Poor Security Strategy
More than a decade after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the tragedy haunts Washington policymakers who are deadlocked over how to protect the country against cyberattacks.
Current and former government officials have spent months pointing to 9/11 as a harbinger of what could occur if Congress, federal agencies, and businesses don’t act to update policies that govern how cyberthreat information is shared; how threats are monitored; and what standards should guide national cybersecurity. President Barack Obama is considering a number of ideas for a draft executive order that could be used to enact some reforms if Congress fails to act on cybersecurity, but no decision has been made. Even if Obama moves forward, he’s limited in the steps he can take and Congress will continue to face pressure. Throughout it all, 9/11 has cast its shadow as lawmakers and government officials seek to inoculate themselves against blame should a catastrophic attack happen.
9/11 Haunts Debate over Cybersecurity
The former heads of the commission that investigated the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, pointed to unfinished plans for a nationwide emergency communications system.
The attacks revealed the problems posed by a patchwork of emergency radio networks and devices that often do not work with each other. "Eleven years after the event, some important 9/11 Commission recommendations have still not been implemented and require immediate attention," former 9/11 Commission Chair and Vice Chair Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton said in a statement. "We call on the government to build out an interoperable, broadband network for first responders."
9/11 Commission Leaders Call For Emergency Communications Network
Sen. Dan Coats (R-IN) used the anniversary of Sept. 11 to highlight a looming security threat — a cyberattack. Sen Coats said Congress must act on the cybersecurity bill before it’s too late, comparing it to the intelligence breakdowns ahead of 9/11. “In the aftermath of tragedy, Congress put aside politics and worked to strengthen the country and security,” Sen Coats said in a floor speech. “Yet today, we face a different security threat ... a cyberattack, an attack using the Internet to address a system and taking it down.” Sen Coats said the threat of a cyberattack is “real and far-reaching,” and encouraged his colleagues to try once again to pass the legislation before the next recess.
Sen. Coats uses 9/11 to showcase cybersecurity as next big threat