Rome museum opens windows on grand masters during spring heatwave. The Borghese boasts works including Caravaggio’s Boy with a Basket of Fruit and Titian’s Sacred and Profane Love.
Photograph: Michael Stephens/PA Concerns have been raised about the preservation of one of the world's finest art collections after it emerged that a cash-strapped museum in Rome had resorted to opening its windows to reduce humidity. Home to masterpieces by Caravaggio, Titian, Raphael and Rubens, Rome's Borghese Gallery has been without air conditioning in one section for two months due to a funding slowdown, just as Rome sweats through a hot spring.
While most of the world's most prized art is increasingly housed in climate-controlled rooms to shut out humidity and pollution, guards at the gallery are opening windows to try to lower the temperature. "We have been in the grip of this emergency for two months," the museum's director, Anna Coliva, told Italian daily La Repubblica. Daniela Porro, the head of Rome's museums, said the situation could be worse. Thwarted: Apple Wanted an Audacious $40 for Every Android Sold, But Lost — Consumers Win in Big Court Case. Apple CEO Tim CookPhoto Credit: Markus Spiering / Creative Commons May 5, 2014 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Although the weekend's headlines read that Apple was victorious in its latest patent suit against Samsung, nothing could be further from the truth. But the outcome of this lawsuit was actually a rare victory for consumers. Apple was looking for a patent royalty rate that would allow it to collect billions from Samsung every year for five features it claimed to have patented: data tapping, unified search, data synchronization, slide-to-unlock, and auto-complete.
Those numbers would have been startling when you consider that some 1.3 million Android phones are activated per day. This trial is only the latest in a series of news items over the past year that paint Apple as a corporation more and more motivated by unbridled avarice. Apple won't even let the U.S. government get its slice of the pie. Why Occupy Protester Cecily McMillan's Guilty Verdict is a Travesty. This Town Needs a Better Class of Racist - Ta-Nehisi Coates. It's easy for polite American society to condemn Cliven Bundy and banish Donald Sterling while turning away from the elegant, monstrous racism that remains.
Danny Moloshok/Associated Press The question Cliven Bundy put to his audience last week—Was the black family better off as property? —is as immoral as it unoriginal. As both Adam Serwer and Jamelle Bouie point out, the roster of conservative theorists who imply that black people were better off being whipped, worked, and raped are legion. Their ranks include economists Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell, former congressman Allen West, sitting Representative Trent Franks, singer Ted Nugent, and presidential aspirants Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann. A fair-minded reader will note that each of these conservatives is careful to not praise slavery and to note his or her disgust at the practice. But style is the hero. The problem with Cliven Bundy isn't that he is a racist but that he is an oafish racist. This graph is from Robert J. Asprox Botnet Reemerges in the Form of KULUOZ.
Botnets are one of the most effective means for cybercriminals to distribute malware and generate profit from unsuspecting users.
The Asprox botnet, which first emerged in the threat landscape in 2007, has resurfaced with a new and improved modular framework in the form of KULUOZ malware. Asprox sends out spammed messages using a wide array of social engineering lures (e.g. booking confirmations, postal-themed spam, etc.) to compromise systems, and consequently, increase the size of this botnet. Once systems are infected by KULUOZ, remote attackers can issue commands like downloading of pay-per-install malware (such as FAKEAV) to gain profit. How do KULUOZ variants enter systems? KULUOZ arrives as attachments to spammed messages disguised as notifications from postal companies as well as airline booking confirmations. Figure 1. What does KULUOZ do to an infected system?
In addition, KULUOZ downloads other malware like FAKEAV, thus further compromising system security. Yes. Former McDonald’s Store Managers Say They Withheld Wages. Two former McDonald’s Corp. store managers, assisting with a campaign to raise pay for fast-food workers, said they helped withhold employees’ wages at the restaurant chain after facing pressure to keep labor costs down.
The ex-managers, who came forward as part of an effort backed by worker advocacy group Fast Food Forward, said they engaged in tactics such as asking employees to continue working after they clocked out or adding unpaid breaks to time sheets. They took the steps to avoid exceeding a store’s strict goals for wage expenses, said Lakia Williams, a former assistant manager at a McDonald’s in Charleston, South Carolina. Those NSA Transparency Reports From Google Aren’t So Transparent.