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From Tax-News.com a report on offshore tax return preparation, and the response, by IRS commissioner Mark Everson, to concerns expressed in this letter to him by Rep. Edward J. Markey, a member of the Congressional Privacy Caucus. [JURIST’s Paper Chase] See also this February 15, 2004 New York Times article, Outsourcing Abroad Applies to Tax …
The National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) released a new study, Exporting the Law: A Legal Analysis of State and Federal Outsourcing Legislation (pdf, 32 pages) [Donna Cavallini] “Legislators in at least 36 states have introduced more than 100 bills to restrict overseas outsourcing, and legislation on the issue has also proliferated at the federal …
From the UK National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC), Vulnerability Advisory Notice 236929, issued April 20, 2004. “The vulnerability described in this advisory affects implementations of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) that comply with the Internet Engineering Task Forces (IETFs) Requests For Comments (RFCs) for TCP…TCP is a core network protocol used in the majority …
Who Pays for Open Access? by Helen Doyle, Andy Gass, Rebecca Kennison. “Here we address…the perception that the publication-charge model puts an unfair burden on authors. Subsequently, we will address concerns about the long-term economic viability of the open-access model, the integrity and quality of work published in open-access journals, and the effect that open …
Broadband Penetration on the Upswing: 55% of Adult Internet Users Have Broadband at Home or Work. “As of March 1, the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that 68 million adult Americans log on via broadband either at home or work. Fully 48 million adult Americans have broadband connections at home.”
Digging Up Low Web Fares: Useful tips on how to locate competitive air fares online, with some work, persistence and flexibility in your choice of travel dates.
Deep Web Research Subject Tracer Information Blog, by Marcus P. Zillman, includes new sections on Peer to Peer File Sharing, Grid and Matrix Search Engines Resources and the Semantic Web Research.
PIP Data Memo: The rise of wireless connectivity and our latest findings: From the memo’s highlights: “17% of Internet users have logged on using a wireless device….73% of U.S. adults say they use a computer at work, at school, at home, or some other place. This is the highest reading ever found by the Pew …
Commentary: “Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) document “a record-breaking $22.9 billion spent on 10,656 pork-barrel projects.” And from the press release: “The 630 projects profiled in the Pig Book Summary will cost taxpayers more than $3.1 billion this year.” 2004 Report Introduction and Overview, arranged by federal agencies [Link]. This page provides links to reports …
H. R. 4129 – “Law Enforcement Access – (1) Requirements regarding assistance capabilities- Effective as provided in paragraph (3)(D), each provider of a connected VoIP application shall ensure that its equipment, facilities, or services are capable of — (A) enabling the government to intercept communications transmitted using such application and to access call-identifying information regarding …
According to an April 5 WSJ article, by June 1 Reuters will begin to scale back the range and number of news stories it allows other websites, such as Excite, to republish. Links will increasingly take readers directly to the Reuters site, and eventually users will be required to subscribe to “in-depth” and “high-profile” news.
From today’s New York Times, an article on how the print version of the monthly Reason is using personal data on readers in coordination with satellite technology to create magazine covers that picture the neighborhoods of respective subscribers.
