Day archives: December 3rd, 2010

Global "Nuclear Fuel Bank Established with Buffett Endowment

Background via International Atomic Energy Agency: “A nuclear “fuel bank” – where the IAEA administers a nuclear fuel reserve…would assure a back-up supply for power reactors throughout the world on a non-discriminatory, non-political basis reducing the need for countries to develop their own uranium enrichment technologies at a time when concerns about nuclear proliferation are …

Subjects: Government Documents

BLS: Unemployment rate edges up in November

Employment Situation November 2010: The unemployment rate edged up to 9.8 percent in November, and nonfarm payroll employment was little changed (+39,000), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Temporary help services and health care continued to add jobs over the month, while employment fell in retail trade. Employment in most major industries changed …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Verizon White Paper: Escaping from Microsoft’s Protected Mode Internet Explorer

Escaping from Microsoft’s Protected Mode Internet Explorer – Evaluating a potential security boundary, November 2010 “In Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Vista, Microsoft introduced a new browser security feature called “Protected Mode”. According to Microsoft, this mechanism “significantly reduces the ability of an attack [against Internet Explorer] to write, alter or destroy data on the …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Internet, Microsoft, PC Security

U.S. DOT Proposes Rear View Visibility Rule to Protect Kids and the Elderly

News release: “The U.S. Department of Transportation today proposed a new safety regulation to help eliminate blind zones behind vehicles that can hide the presence of pedestrians, especially young children and the elderly. The proposed rule was required by Congress as part of the Cameron Gulbransen Kids Transportation Safety Act of 2007. Two-year old Cameron …

Subjects: Government Documents