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“They’ve been trying for more than a decade. They’ve built more than 2,000 databases to do the job. They’re spending nearly $19 billion a year. But, despite all that effort, Defense Department officials still haven’t come up with a way to track the Pentagon’s supplies, finances or people, according to a new congressional report.” [Link, …
AlwaysOn Network is hosting a blog for FCC Chairman Michael K. Powell, who published his first posting on July 8. There are also comments enabled from community members. “One reason I am participating in AlwaysOn Network’s blog is to hear from the tech community directly and to try to get beyond the traditional inside the …
Today the Senate Committee on Intelligence released a report detailing intelligence failures prior to the invasion of Iraq. Report Says Key Assertions Leading to War Were Wrong Conclusions Excerpted From Full Report , Conclusion 1. Most of the major key judgments in the Intelligence Community’s October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), Iraq’s Continuing Programs for …
This article from yesterday’s Washington Post (reg. req’d, articles archived 14 days after publication) reviews the pioneering proposal under consideration by the Montgomery County Council to regulate service standards for cable service providers. See also this Council press release dated July 7: “Montgomery County is about to be the first local jurisdiction to put in …
The press release and the decision (20 pages, PDF).
CyberJournalist.net has a list, which will be updated, of bloggers who have been credentialed for the Democratic Convention.
From the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse – Avoiding Online Job Scams: Critical Tips for Job Seekers
From the New York Times today: Fewer Noses Stuck in Books in America, Survey Finds Literary Reading in Dramatic Decline, According to National Endowment for the Arts Survey Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America (60 pages, PDF)
Statements of Administration Policy (July 7, 2004) H.R. 4754, Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, FY 2005 [Link, 3 pages, PDF] “If legislation were presented to the President that includes any provision that forces the courts to allow notice to criminal suspects before a search warrant is executed, …
The Four-Letter Word That Can Get People Excited About Your Products: “What do George Bush and John Kerry, IBM, and thousands of small businesses have in common? They all use a Web logor “blog” for shortto reach potential customers and get them interested in their products. But not all do so with equal success.”
Statement of Dara Corrigan Acting Principal Deputy Inspector General Department of Health and Human Services on Thomas Scully and Richard Foster Investigation (PDF) “Based on our investigation, we conclude that: CMS did not provide premium estimates that had been requested by Members of Congress. Additionally, CMS did not provide Congressional staff with some overall estimates …
Today the House Administration Committee held a hearing on Electronic Voting System Security. See this article on the hearing , which includes a statement fromTadayoshi Kohno of the UC San Diego Cryptography and Security Laboratory – “It is possible to have secure-enough paperless machines…But we dont have those machines today, and we cant have them …
