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Mexico's incoming President Enrique Pena Nieto spreads out his arms after being sworn in at the inauguration ceremony in National Congress, in Mexico City, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012. Pena Nieto took the oath of office as Mexico's new president on Saturday, bringing the old ruling party back to power after a 12-year hiatus amid protests inside and outside the congressional chamber where he swore to protect the constitution and laws of the land. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)
Mexico's incoming President Enrique Pena Nieto spreads out his arms after being sworn in at the inauguration ceremony in National Congress, in Mexico City, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012. Pena Nieto took the oath of office as Mexico's new president on Saturday, bringing the old ruling party back to power after a 12-year hiatus amid protests inside and outside the congressional chamber where he swore to protect the constitution and laws of the land. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)
Mexico's incoming President, Enrique Pena Nieto, left, smiles as he stands with outgoing President Felipe Calderon during the inauguration ceremony at the National Congress in Mexico City, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012. Pena Nieto took the oath of office as Mexico's new president on Saturday, bringing the old ruling party back to power after a 12-year hiatus amid protests inside and outside the congressional chamber where he swore to protect the constitution and laws of the land. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)
Members of the National Congress hang a giant protest banner that reads in Spanish: "Imposition consummated. Mexico mourns," prior to the inauguration ceremony of new Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, in Mexico City, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012. Hundreds of protesters opposed to Pena Nieto's rule banged on the tall steel barriers surrounding the National Congress, threw rocks, bottle rockets and firecrackers at police and yelled "Mexico without PRI!" Pena Nieto took power at midnight in a symbolic ceremony and will formally take the oath of office Saturday morning. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)
A protestor throws a fire bottle over steel security barriers around the National Congress, where the swearing in of new Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto will take place in Mexico City, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2012. Pena Nieto took power at midnight in a symbolic ceremony and will formally take the oath of office Saturday morning after campaigning as the face of a new PRI _ a party that claims to be repentant and reconstructed after voted out of the presidency in 2000.(AP Photo / Marco Ugarte)
Riot police take cover under their shileds as protestor throw stones over the steel security barriers around the National Congress, where the swearing in of new Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto will take place in Mexico City, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2012. Pena Nieto took power at midnight in a symbolic ceremony and will formally take the oath of office Saturday morning after campaigning as the face of a new PRI _ a party that claims to be repentant and reconstructed after voted out of the presidency in 2000.(AP Photo / Marco Ugarte)
MEXICO CITY (AP) ? Enrique Pena Nieto took the oath of office as Mexico's new president on Saturday, promising a list of specific reforms that are part old-party populist handouts to the poor and new assaults on the entrenched systems and sacred cows that have hampered the country's development.
Pena Nieto, marking the return of the institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, promised everything from a new integrated program to prevent crime to ending the patronage and buying of teacher positions that rule the public education system and opening up broadband Internet service now dominated by just a few telecommunication monopolies.
"It's time to move Mexico and to achieve a national transformation," Pena Nieto said. "This is the moment for Mexico."
The return of the PRI after a 12-year hiatus started with violent confrontations in the streets and protest speeches from opposition parties inside the congress, where Pena Nieto took the oath of office. Protesters continued vandalizing downtown businesses, smashing plate glass windows and setting office furniture ablaze outside.
Protesters clashed with tear gas-wielding police, calling the inauguration of Pena Nieto an "imposition" of a party that ruled with a near-iron fist for 71 years using a mix of populist handouts, graft and rigged elections. At least two people were injured, one gravely, police said, and a police officer who was bleeding from the face was taken for medical treatment
Leftist congress members inside the chamber gave protest speeches and hung banners, including a giant one reading, "Imposition consummated. Mexico mourns."
One word sums up Dec. 1: The restoration. The return to the past," said Congressman Ricardo Monreal of the Citizens Movement party.
But PRI leaders denied that.
"This is a time of expectation, a time of hope," said PRI Senator Omar Fayat. "What we did well in the previous government we will preserve and strengthen. What we didn't, we will rebuild and reorient."
Pena Nieto had taken over at midnight in a symbolic ceremony after campaigning as the new face of the PRI, repentant and reconstructed after being voted out of the presidency in 2000.
Before his public swearing in later in the morning, hundreds banged on the tall steel security barriers around Congress, threw rocks, bottle rockets and firecrackers at police and yelled "Mexico without PRI!" Police responded by spraying tear gas from a truck and used fire extinguishers on flames from Molotov cocktails. One group of protesters rammed and dented the barrier with a large garbage-style truck before being driven off by police water cannons.
"We're against the oppression, the imposition of a person," said Alejandro, 25, a student and protester who didn't want to give his last name for fear of reprisals. "He gave groceries, money and a lot more so people would vote for him," the student said, referring to allegations that the PRI gave voters gifts to encourage them to cast their ballots for Pena Nieto.
Another banner inside the chamber read: "You're giving up a seat bathed in blood," referring to outgoing President Felipe Calderon's attack on organized crime and the deaths of 60,000 people during that six-year offensive by some counts.
Despite the protests, the swearing-in atmosphere at Congress was far less chaotic than six years ago, when a Calderon security unit literally had to muscle him past blockades and protesters to get him into Congress so he could take the oath of office after a razor-thin, disputed victory over a leftist candidate.
Calderon had worked hard for a smooth transition after that experience.
But vandalism and rock throwing continued throughout the day near the city center where Pena Nieto gave his inaugural speech.
Later in the afternoon, the new president planned a luncheon for invited guests, including U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, Prince Felipe of Spain and the presidents from Colombia, Peru, Honduras and Nicaragua, among other Latin American countries.
Lines of riot police closed down streets around the Palacio de Bellas Artes, the Fine Arts Palace. Police arrested a few protesters who were throwing rocks or pieces of wood at them. An AP reporter saw one of the windows of the Sears departmental store was smashed and the building marred with large splashes of white paint.
Protesters trailed the new president from the Congress to the National Palace, shouting, "Murderers, murderers!" and trying to break the barriers set up in the Zocalo, Mexico City's giant central plaza where the palace is located.
"The president is like Salinas, 'I don't see you, I don't hear you,' " said Aurelio Medina, 64, referring to PRI President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
Down the street at the Alameda Park, other protesters hung thousands of handkerchiefs with the names of drug-war victims.
"It's a very important day for us to take stock of the damage. They have first and last names," said Regina Mendez, a member of the group Embroidering for Peace.
Pena Nieto has promised to govern democratically with transparency. But his first moves even before the inauguration showed a solid link to the past. In announcing his Cabinet on Friday, he turned to the old guard as well as new technocrats to run his administration.
He also pledged to make economic growth and job creation the centerpiece of his administration, with campaign manager and long-time confidant Luis Videgaray the point person. Videgaray, a 44-year-old economist with a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will lead the treasury department.
Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, a 48-year-old former state governor who is known as a political operator and deal maker, has been named secretary of the interior, a post that will play a key role in security matters.
Pena Nieto has also promised to push for reforms that could bring major new private investment into Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, the crucial but struggling state-owned oil industry. Such changes that have been blocked for decades by nationalist suspicion of foreign meddling in the oil business.
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Associated Press writers Adriana Gomez Licon, Michael Weissenstein and Carlos Rodriguez contributed to this report.
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There's life deep under the sea, but not as much as we thought.
Scientists looking at the abundance of microbes in the sediments under the seafloor ? the so-called deep biosphere once thought to be teeming with more than 300 billion tons of life ? have found that the vast subterranean world is not quite so crowded.
The new research followed up on landmark findings from 15 years ago, when researchers from the University of Georgia estimated that subseafloor sediments housed 35.5 x 10^29 microbes (that's 1 followed by 29 zeroes), comprising 334 billion tons (303 x 10^12 kilograms) of carbon.
The new study calculates that a mere 4.1 x 10^29 microbes, made up of 4.5 billion tons (4.1 x 10^12 kilograms) of carbon, live in the subseafloor. The new tally is 92 percent smaller than the earlier estimate, but still indicates a significant amount of subseafloor microbial biomass.
Low levels of life
The difference comes from a larger sampling of ocean sediment environments, the researchers say.
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"Basically all the sites that were used in the previous studies were in high-productivity areas, so all estimates had to be skewed towards higher values," said Jens Kallmeyer, a geomicrobiologist at the University of Potsdam in Germany, who led the study. "The earlier cell counts are correct ? we also used them for our model ? but they do not cover the whole range of conditions in the world's oceans."
Sediments in upwelling zones ? where nutrient-rich waters from greater depths circulate into upper ocean layers ? and areas near the shore typically house the greatest number of microbes because they are the most nutrient-rich areas of the ocean floor. Farther from shore, however, fewer nutrients reach the bottom of the sea and microbial cell counts are typically much lower ? up to five times lower, Kallmeyer's team found. [ Strangest Places Where Life Is Found on Earth ]
As much as 40 percent of the ocean floor can be classified as ultra-oligotrophic, or extremely nutrient-poor, Kallmeyer said. In these areas, ocean sediments contain oxygen throughout their entire depth. Since microbial metabolism typically removes oxygen from ocean sediments, high oxygen levels are a telltale sign of very low levels of microbial life.
Really small, hard to count
Microbial cells found in deep subsurface environments are often extremely small ? close to the theoretical limit of how small such lifeforms can be ? thanks to extremely limited levels of nutrients, Kallmeyer said, which makes counting them difficult. His team had to sample large volumes of sediment to find enough microbes to count under the microscope.
"There isn't much life down there," Kallmeyer told OurAmazingPlanet.
According to the team's findings, detailed online Aug. 27 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the subseafloor houses about the same number of microbes as the planet's soil and seawater environments, though Kallmeyer thinks researchers may soon be spurred to re-examine those numbers.
"Given how drastically we changed the subseafloor sedimentary cell abundance by using just a larger dataset, I can't help but ask myself how well the numbers for other environments are actually constrained," he said.
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Last month, the social-media team at Russia's Kaspersky Lab decided to run a contest leading up to Halloween.
It asked Kaspersky's Facebook friends to share their scariest stories about computer crashes caused by malware. The prize was a year's free subscription to a Kaspersky Lab security product.?
Seventy-four people participated, and five were declared winners (or losers, depending on how you look at it) and awarded their prizes.
Kaspersky Lab shared three of the winning stories, as well as tips and lessons learned, to educate the public on ways to prevent these scenarios from happening again.
Jean's Story
Trying to keep up with two pre-teen children during the 1990s, Jean quickly needed to learn the basics of the computer in order to know what her kids were getting into online.
As part of her getting up to speed, her boys thoughtfully bought her a "Civilization"-type game.
As she was building her Egyptian empire, her screen suddenly went blue. Not knowing anything about the infamous Windows "blue screen of death," Jean popped the game out of the CD drive and rebooted the computer, thinking the game had some kind of glitch.
Not so much. Unfortunately, Jean was then informed that she had contracted the Bugbear email worm and in less than a minute her computer was going to shut down.
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Tips & Lessons Learned
The Bugbear worm (also known as Tanatos) is still active today in different variations. It infects computers through malicious email attachments, which is how Jean got infected, according to Kaspersky.
You can protect yourself from the Bugbear worm by never opening any suspicious emails, either as previews or by opening the whole message, according to Kaspersky researchers.
Instead, install and run a strong Internet security suite that includes anti-virus software and anti-spam and exploit-prevention capabilities.?
Pam's Story
Pam got her first computer in the mid-1990s, but, unfortunately, she didn't do all her due diligence before she bought it.
Without any anti-virus software or spyware downloaded, and without any files backed up, Pam was totally out of luck when her computer crashed. With money from a tax refund, she bought a brand-new computer.
But despite Pam's past experiences, her new computer eventually crashed as well, resulting in more lost files. Pam next bought a laptop, and then another new desktop, and then another.
Several computers later, Pam claims she's finally learned her lesson.
Tips & Lessons Learned
Pam should have made sure that all her software, including browsers, plug-ins and operating system, was updated with the latest security settings to stop malicious websites from exploiting vulnerabilities.
A trusted anti-virus software suite with a two-way firewall, which screens incoming and outgoing network traffic, will also help protect the user by blocking certain malicious subdomains. Anti-virus software can also issue warnings to the user before he or she points a browser to a malicious website.
Every user should back up all his or her files. That's another piece of good advice that most people ignore, according to Kaspersky researchers.
But if the day comes when your computer is hacked into, lost or destroyed, you will jump for joy when you realize a that lifetime's worth of photos, music, resumes and Web bookmarks aren't lost forever.?
There are plenty of online backup options available. Alternately, you can buy an external hard drive that's a bit bigger than your computer's hard drive, and "clone" your computer's drive to the external drive once a month.
Larry's Story
Larry was doing the usual stuff on eBay, browsing items and doing some shopping.
But this time, things seemed different. While he was looking at an item, he was whacked with a fake security scan. In a fraction of a second, his PC went black and he couldn't do a thing with it.
Tips & Lessons Learned
Don't be fooled by rogue or fake anti-virus pop-ups that claim your system is infected. These fraudulent notifications can come from multiple sources on the Internet.
Generally, fake anti-virus programs will try to scare you, which is why they're also called "scareware."
Usually a pop-up will appear, notifying you that your system is infected with a virus and inviting you to click and remove it.
But when you click on the pop-up, you in fact download malware. Bingo ? your computer is infected and you've been scammed into giving your credit-card information to continue with the fake "removal process."
The number of rogue anti-virus programs is huge. Kaspersky Lab detects hundreds of thousands of them every month.
Here are some tips to help you protect you against malicious pop-ups:
? Don't click on pop-up windows, even if they haven't been blocked by the browser security or other security solutions. Only your legitimate, installed anti-virus software should be giving you security warning messages. As for infection warning messages that appear randomly while you're browsing the Internet, ignore them.
? Legitimate programs designed to combat malware will never first scan a computer and then demand money for activation. You should never pay for a product that does this, according to Kaspersky researchers. Rather, install a genuine anti-virus solution developed by a well-known anti-virus company and use it to scan and clean your computer.
This story was provided by TechNewsDaily, a sister site to LiveScience.
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