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Coal Production in the United States – An Historical Overview, October 1, 2006 (19 pages, PDF) “Energy from coal has been important historically in the United States for a broad range of uses. Coal today is used principally as a fuel for electricity generation and other industrial processes. Coal mining practices and technologies have become …
CBO Report: Recruiting, Retention, and Future Levels of Military Personnel, October 2006 (106 pages, PDF).
Terrorist Watch List Screening: Efforts to Help Reduce Adverse Effects on the Public, Full text GAO-06-1031, and Highlights, September 29, 2006. “From December 2003 (when TSC began operations) to January 2006, agencies sent tens of thousands of names to TSC, and about half were misidentifications, according to TSC. While the total number of people misidentified …
Rebuilding Iraq: Status of Competition for Iraq Reconstruction Contracts, Full text GAO-07-40, and Highlights, October 6, 2006. “Since 2003, Congress has appropriated more than $20 billion through the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund (IRRF) to support Iraq rebuilding efforts. The majority of these efforts are being carried out through contracts awarded by the Departments of …
Pew Internet & American Life Project: “Web 2.0” has become a catch-all buzzword that people use to describe a wide range of online activities and applications, some of which the Pew Internet & American Life Project has been tracking for years. As researchers, we instinctively reach for our spreadsheets to see if there is evidence …
“The new Project Safe Childhood web site provides information to our community partners that will help protect our children from online exploitation and abuse.” Refer to Project Safe Childhood Guide (all documents are in PDF), for: chart of federal statutes; list of relevant national programs; list of relevant state and local programs; roster of Internet …
Following up on articles by Jonathan Band published on LLRX.com – The Google Library Project: The Copyright Debate, and The Authors Guild v. The Google Print Library Project – news from Bloomberg: “Google Inc. will subpoena information from Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. to help fight copyright lawsuits over its book-scanning project.”
Charlie Savage, Boston Globe: “In a 27-page report written for lawmakers [see related info below], the research service said the Bush administration is using signing statements as a means to slowly condition Congress into accepting the White House’s broad conception of presidential power, which includes a presidential right to ignore laws he believes are unconstitutional.” …
“…Google Code Search…gives programmers a single place to search publicly accessible source code.”
Follow-up to previous posting, Hastert Issues Preliminary Report on Ex-Rep Foley’s Improper Email Exchanges, these related government documents and news. H.RES. 1065, Raising a question of the privileges of the House. Sponsor: Rep Pelosi, Nancy [CA-8] (introduced 9/29/2006): “Directs the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to: (1) …
Press release: “An Internet business that advertised and sold consumers’ phone records and records of credit card accounts to third parties has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated federal law. The settlement bars the defendants from obtaining or selling consumers’ confidential phone and credit account records unless authorized by law or …
Press release, October 4, 2006: “Significant growth in newspaper Web usage is continuing to redefine the traditional newspaper audience, according to results released today by the Newspaper Association of America in its fall 2006 Newspaper Audience Database (NAdbase) report. The report shows that during the first half of 2006, unique visitors to newspaper Web sites …
