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Press release, Committee on Government Reform Minority Office, September 13, 2006: “Today the House Democratic Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Truth Squad introduced the “Clean Contracting Act of 2006.” The bill would end the abusive contracting practices that have been rampant under the Bush Administration and promote greater transparency and accountability in federal contracting. Contracts collectively …
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) press release: “A federal court has ruled that under the Freedom of Information Act the Justice Department must provide TRAC with additional information about the government’s enforcement of the law. The September 8, 2006 ruling by Judge Paul L. Friedman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia …
Follow-up to August 25, 2006 posting, Commission Calls on Member States to Contribute to European Digital Library, today’s news: “A new Digital Libraries Initiative Website was published today on the Europa portal. The site is action orientated. The main focus is on the Homepage’s “What’s New” section where the Information market Unit (Information Society and …
CyberSecurity: Protecting America’s Critical Infrastructure, Economy, and Consumers – Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet September 13, 2006 Links to Invited Witnesses and Member Statements
Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine by Ariel J. Feldman, J. Alex Halderman, and Edward W. Felten Abstract – “This paper presents a fully independent security study of a Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine, including its hardware and software. We obtained the machine from a private party. Analysis of the machine, in light of …
Press release, September 11, 2006: “The Customer Respect Group, an international research and consulting firm that focuses on how corporations treat their online customers, today released findings from its Annual Review of the Largest 100 US Companies… as defined by Fortune Magazine in April 2006. The average rating for the companies was 5.7 on a …
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services: July 2006 – released September 12, 2006. Full Release – PDF | Technical Note, Tables: XLS, Highlights – PDF
Press release: “Acting Attorney General Anne Milgram declares in a brief filed in federal court that the United States Justice Department’s move to block a state investigation into whether telephone companies provided call records to the National Security Agency without a court warrant interferes with the Attorney General’s ability to investigate violations of New Jersey …
Enterprise Architecture: Leadership Remains Key to Establishing and Leveraging Architectures for Organizational Transformation, Full-text GAO-06-831, and Highlights, August 14, 2006. “The state of the enterprise architecture programs at the 27 major federal departments and agencies is mixed, with several having very immature programs, several having more mature programs, and most being somewhere in between. Collectively, …
Inside Google Book Search Blog: “Starting today, you can visit http://www.google.com/bannedbooks to explore 42 banned or challenged books honored by the Radcliffe Publishing Course as among the Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century. You can see which of these novels have been targeted for banning, find out where you can buy or borrow them, …
From Diane K. Kovacs, an the results of an Essential Reference Tool Survey – Business Reference: includes Print, Free Web-Sites, Govdocs Sites, and Fee-Based Websites.
“The Electronic Frontier Foundation has developed the following search privacy tips. They range from straightforward steps that offer a little protection to more complicated measures that offer near-complete safety. While we strongly urge users to follow all six tips, a lesser level of protection might be sufficient depending on your particular situation and willingness to …
