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Nasa you are much braver than I. Thats a trip I haven't made for many years. I am thinking of going to the dentist this year if he/she uses laughing gas.
 
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Image: The Eastern Coast of the United States Seen at Night From the Space Station
Source: NASA HQ Posted Saturday, February 25, 2012

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One of the Expedition 30 crew members aboard the International Space Station took this nighttime photograph of much of the eastern (Atlantic) coast of the United States. Large metropolitan areas and other easily recognizable sites from the Virginia/Maryland/Washington, D.C. area spanning almost to Rhode Island are visible in the scene. Boston is just out of frame at right. Long Island and the Greater Metropolitan area of New York City are visible in the lower right quadrant. Large cities in Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Pittsburgh) are near center. Parts of two Russian vehicles parked at the orbital outpost are seen in left foreground. ISS030-E-078095 (6 Feb. 2012) --- high res (1.3 M) low res (89 K)

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grandma thought about you when I saw this picture.
 
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Labor auditors concerned about TSP computer security
February 27, 2012
Officials pledge to continue working on protecting the retirement plan’s electronic records.

Thrift Savings Plan officials on Monday pledged to develop “more robust” computer security controls after a recent Labor Department audit found the board overseeing the retirement program did not completely consider prior recommendations for improvements.
The audit revealed “security and privacy risks that might exist in this large system,” said Ian Dingwall, a Labor chief accountant.
Auditors are concerned about the risk of unauthorized access to the TSP online network, Dingwall said.
The Labor Department, which contracts with outside companies such as KPMG to audit various TSP operations, conducted its last full assessment of the 401(k)-type retirement savings plan's computer access and security controls in 2008. That audit recommended that the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board focus on security and privacy risk assessments and develop formal corrective action plans, as well as examine the authentication of TSP participants using the website.
The latest audit assessed progress on those recommendations in fiscal 2009 and none was fully implemented. Dingwall attributed some of the board’s failure to fully examine computer security issues to other priorities, such as its work on the new Roth plan, which will be available to federal employees this spring.
A review covering fiscal 2011 computer access and security controls was postponed; the previous recommendations remain open for fiscal 2012.
Additional audits showed positive results for TSP in other areas, such as compliance with the 1986 Federal Employees Retirement System Act, which established the rules governing federal employees retirement benefits after the plan was created; processes for withdrawals; and annuities procedures.
“We hear you,” TSP Executive Director Gregory Long told Labor representatives Monday. “I think we are going to be to be a little bit more open to hear what these challenges are and working with your colleagues to address some of these concerns.”
Long said the board also was having information technology auditors look into the issue and was in the process of identifying and appointing a chief information security officer.
“If that increase in manpower is insufficient I will be going to the board to seek additional resources,” Long said.
 
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nasa1974 said:
Image: The Eastern Coast of the United States Seen at Night From the Space Station
Source: NASA HQ Posted Saturday, February 25, 2012
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http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=40020
http://www.spaceref.com/

grandma thought about you when I saw this picture.
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Thank you nasa! - so clear, so close - want to reach out the window and touch!!
The Mars & Black Hole shots in the 2nd link were something else!
Intelligent Design outwits us all !! :cool:

-a very wise move on the part of any space programming left intact: increase the public arena for sharing of their photos -

Did anyone see the planets & moon at sunset Saturday eve? I went on a sudden urgent errand for a neighbor, and totally missed it.
Sunday eve was good, tho...
 
It looks like the S fund might have run its course. The C and I funds have been out performing as of late. Right now the I fund looks like it may come out the best performing for February.
 
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nasa1974 said:
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Labor auditors concerned about TSP computer security
February 27, 2012
Officials pledge to continue working on protecting the retirement plan’s electronic records.

Thrift Savings Plan officials on Monday pledged to develop “more robust” computer security controls after a recent Labor Department audit found the board overseeing the retirement program did not completely consider prior recommendations for improvements.
The audit revealed “security and privacy risks that might exist in this large system,” said Ian Dingwall, a Labor chief accountant.
Auditors are concerned about the risk of unauthorized access to the TSP online network, Dingwall said.
The Labor Department, which contracts with outside companies such as KPMG to audit various TSP operations, conducted its last full assessment of the 401(k)-type retirement savings plan's computer access and security controls in 2008. That audit recommended that the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board focus on security and privacy risk assessments and develop formal corrective action plans, as well as examine the authentication of TSP participants using the website.
The latest audit assessed progress on those recommendations in fiscal 2009 and none was fully implemented. Dingwall attributed some of the board’s failure to fully examine computer security issues to other priorities, such as its work on the new Roth plan, which will be available to federal employees this spring.
A review covering fiscal 2011 computer access and security controls was postponed; the previous recommendations remain open for fiscal 2012.
Additional audits showed positive results for TSP in other areas, such as compliance with the 1986 Federal Employees Retirement System Act, which established the rules governing federal employees retirement benefits after the plan was created; processes for withdrawals; and annuities procedures.
“We hear you,” TSP Executive Director Gregory Long told Labor representatives Monday. “I think we are going to be to be a little bit more open to hear what these challenges are and working with your colleagues to address some of these concerns.”
Long said the board also was having information technology auditors look into the issue and was in the process of identifying and appointing a chief information security officer.
“If that increase in manpower is insufficient I will be going to the board to seek additional resources,” Long said.
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*Emphasis mine.

We hear you? We hear you? I think we are going to be a little bit more open???

Excuse me, but as the Executive Director of the primary savings plan for millions of hardworking Americans, don't you think your statements are rather, uh, LAME???

This is shameful.

Mr. Long, if you hired a locksmith to come to your home, and he recommended that you install deadbolts on your front and back doors to prevent intruders, would you wait a few years to utter these asinine statements? Yet since 2008, you've known that the TSP system is prone to security breaches, and have done nothing about it except to say that you're now "a little bit more open".

How can you espouse this cavalier attitude regarding the security and privacy risks for our TSP system?

Mr. Long, if I were your boss, I would expose you for your shameful attitude, and you would be looking for another job right now.

*There. I'll get off my soap box now.*
 
Image: Nighttime Earth and Aurora Borealis As Seen From the Space Station
Source: NASA HQ Posted Tuesday, February 28, 2012

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This nighttime view of Earth's horizon and scattered city lights was photographed by one of the Expedition 30 crew members aboard the International Space Station. Activity of Aurora Borealis appears from behind one of the orbital outpost's solar array panels, then fades into an area where Earth's limb is visible and finally a small "slice" of daybreak appears at right. ISS030-E-075182 (4 Feb. 2012) --- high res (1.0 M) low res (54 K)

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