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“Microsoft has teamed up with the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) to help increase Internet security through a month-long awareness-raising campaign that provides information and sponsored events for consumers, small businesses, educators, and families. This year, the National Cyber Security Awareness Month campaign begins October 1, 2005…Events for this year’s campaign include conferences and workshops …
“What level of budgetary resources might be needed in the long term to execute the Administration’s current plan for defense, and what effect on that level would alternative defense plans have? This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) paper addresses those questions.” (The Long-Term Implications of Current Defense Plans and Alternatives: Summary Update for Fiscal Year 2006 …
On June 23, 2005 I posted Privacy and Consumer Groups Oppose Collection of Student Info For DoD Database. As a follow-up, today news that a coalition of 100 groups sent a letter to Sec. of Defense Rumsfeld requesting that he discontinue the Joint Advertising and Market Research Studies (JAMRS) Recruiting Database, which they state was …
From the National Security Archives press release today: “The National Security Archive today posted a series of declassified U.S. intelligence documents and other U.S. agency reports on Saddam Hussein’s human rights abuses, one of which is the subject of the first trial of Saddam which begins tomorrow in Iraq.” The documents span the period from …
Links from the Committee on Government Reform Minority Office: “A new report from the Department of Homeland Security IG finds significant deficiencies in FEMA’s program to upgrade flood maps, including insufficient funding, poor management, and contractor failures.” Released on October 18, 2005: Department of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector General report, Challenges in FEMA’s Flood …
A recent ppt presentation, Searching Scholarly Literature: A Google Scholar Perspective, by Google Scholar principal engineer Anurag Acharya, states that the goal of the service is to “find all scholarly work…journals, conferences, reprints, reports…[from] all countries, all languages, all sources…” The presentation briefly highlights coverage by publisher, by category (with medical at 22%), and lists …
U.S. Agriculture After Hurricane Katrina: Status and Issues (23 pages, PDF) The Role of HUD Housing Programs in Response to Disasters (21 pages, PDF) Hurricane Katrina: Medicaid Issues (34 pages, PDF) Tax Policy Options After Hurricane Katrina (17 pages, PDF) Hurricane Katrina: DOD Disaster Response (21 pages, PDF) 2005 Gulf Coast Hurricanes: The Pubic Health …
Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, October 17, 2005: “Weblogs are often too internally focused and ignore key usability issues, making it hard for new readers to understand the site and trust the author…The more focused your content, the more focused your readers. That, again, makes you more influential within your niche. Specialized sites rule the Web, so …
Many Hotels Quit Charging For Web Access – Discount Chains Lead Push, But Some Swanky Spots Balk; Where It’s Free, Where It’s Not (WSJ, sub. req’d) Press release: Broadband-Enabled Hotels to More Than Triple by 2009
October 11, 2005 – Text of Letter from Reps. Conyers, Harman, Lantos and Holt to U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald Concerning a Final Report on the CIA Leak Investigation (PDF) “We write to seek your assurance that, upon completion of your long running investigation into the leak of a CIA operative’s name, you will submit a …
“Welcome to the National Center for Open Source Policy and Research (NCOSPR), a non-profit organization established to promote the use of open source software solutions within government IT enterprise environments for the benefit of government agencies, and public sector entities. NCOSPR accomplishes this by serving as a facilitator and administrator of development and implementation services …
Press release from Trend Micro, October 11, 2005: “Trend Micro, Inc., a leader in antivirus and Internet content security, today announced key findings from a study that reveals that more than 87 percent of corporate end users are aware of spyware, and yet 53 percent of survey respondents demand greater education from IT to better …