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“The November 2011 McKinsey report, Resource Revolution: Meeting the worlds energy, materials, food, and water needs shows that the resource challenge can be met through a combination of expanding the supply of resources and a step change in the way they are extracted, converted, and used. Such resource productivity improvements, using existing technology, could satisfy …
News release: “The Government is too complacent about the UK’s nuclear research and development (R&D) capabilities, and associated expertise, which will be lost unless there is a fundamental change in the Governments approach. This is just one of the conclusions of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, which publishes its report [November 22, …
Mapping the Mal Web – The worlds riskiest domains, by Barbara Kay, CISSP, Secure by Design Group and Paula Greve, Director of Research, McAfee Labs “McAfee has found overall web risk is up from last year. We saw increasing risk in some already risky portions of the web, such as .INFO; some significant reductions in …
News release: “The loss of computer tapes by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) may have placed TRICARE patient data at risk. There is no evidence that any of the data has actually been accessed by a third party, and analysis shows the chance any data was actually compromised is low, but proactive measures are being …
Commission Staff Working Paper – Anti-money laundering supervision of and reporting by payment institutions in various cross-border situations, October 7, 2011 “The purpose of this working document is to provide guidance to EU supervisors and private stakeholders as regards the interaction of the Payment Services Directive (2007/64/EC, hereafter “the PSD”) and the Anti-Money Laundering Directive …
Simon Rogers: “US road accident casualties: every one mapped across America – 369,629 people died on America’s roads between 2001 and 2009. Following its analysis of UK casualties last week, transport data mapping experts ITO World have taken the official data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration – and produced this powerful map using …
Follow up to previous postings on The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls project, via NYT – “When the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, home to the Dead Sea Scrolls, reopened last year after an extensive renovation, it attracted a million visitors in the first 12 months. When the museum opened an enhanced Web site with newly digitized …
Weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS®) – Compilation of Weekly Survey Data for 2011: Average Rates for a 30 Year Fixed Rate Mortgage – 3.98%, November 23, 2011
Probation and Parole in the United States, 2010 – Thomas P. Bonczar, Lauren E. Glaze, November 21, 2011. NCJ 236019 “Presents statistics about adult offenders under community supervision while on probation or parole during 2010. It examines changes in community supervision populations during 2010 and prior years. The report documents a slowing of growth in …
News release: “The FCC is launching the Small Biz Cyber Planner, an online resource to help small businesses create customized cybersecurity plans. This is the result of an unprecedented public-private partnership between government experts and private IT and security companies, including DHS, NCSA, NIST, The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, The Chertoff Group, Symantec, Sophos, Visa, …
