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From the August 4, 2005 Federal Register: Supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking, Preregistration of Certain Unpublished Copyright Claims, Copyright Office, Library of Congress. Summary: The Copyright Office is supplementing its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on preregistration of copyright claims, issued July 22, 2005. That notice proposed procedures to preregister any unpublished work being prepared for …
Press release: Reagan Library to Open Additional Records Relating to Judge John Roberts See also Government Reports on Supreme Court Appointment Process
Following up on August 9 and August 10 postings on recent disclosures of intelligence agency knowledge regarding terrorist threats prior to 9/11, Rep. Curt Weldon yesterday released a memo contesting the position held by former 9/11 Commission members that they were not provided with key data for inclusion in their final report. Rep. Weldon is …
“The new National Vulnerability Database (NVD) from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will make it easier for system administrators and other security professionals to learn about vulnerabilities and how to remediate them. The NVD is a comprehensive database that integrates all publicly available U.S. government resources on vulnerabilities and provides links to …
From BBC News, Berners-Lee on the read/write web: “In August 1991, Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the first website. Fourteen years on, he tells BBC Newsnight’s Mark Lawson how blogging is closer to his original idea about a read/write web.”
Leahy Faults White House For ‘Slow-Walking’ Roberts Papers That Were Promised To The Senate…”comments of Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt., ranking member, Senate Judiciary Committee) on Wednesday’s Washington Post disclosure that White House officials are delaying the release of tens of thousands of pages of Reagan-era documents relating to Supreme Court nominee John Roberts.” Leahy’s Reply …
Following up on my posting yesterday, Government Data Mining Detailed Info on 9/11 Hijackers Back in 2000, this article from today’s New York Times, 9/11 Panel Seeks Inquiry on New Atta Report.
Press release from the National Archives: “Approximately 500 pages of material from five series of records from Record Group 60: Department of Justice have been processed for release. These records relate to Roberts tenure as Special Assistant to the Attorney General in 1981-82. The papers consist of notes, memoranda and other materials written by, or …
A First Look at IE 7 (includes screen shots of new features) Search in Beta 1
“If search engines were truly intelligent, you could just pose a question the same way you would ask a person. An alternative is to get the search engine to ‘fill in the blank.’ So instead of asking [who invented the parachute?], you can enter the query [the parachute was invented by *]. (The blank, or …
Yahoo! Everything: Links to all the services and specialty sites Yahoo offers.” The A to Z index includes links to a range of topic specific engines (such as finance, news, health…), as well as to shopping, entertainment and communications services.
M-05-23, Improving Information Technology (IT) Project Planning and Execution, August 4, 2005 (8 pages, PDF)
