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This final rule (35 pages, PDF) lists the requirements for 72 aircraft operators in the United States, stipulating that all their respective passenger name records (PNRs), “containing itineraries for domestic flights operated under a full security program and for which all flights segments… were flown between June 1, 2004 and June 30, 2004,” must be …
Exclusive: MSN Desktop Search Revealed includes screens shots of the new utility that will be released in December as part of the MSN Toolbar Suite. (via Slashdot)
Interstate Travel: Constitutional Challenges to the Identification Requirement and Other Transportation Security Regulations, Congressional Research Service, November 4, 2004 (via Secrecy News) Related postings on Gilmore v. Ashcroft: Requirement to Show ID for Ground and Air Transport
AP Leader Sees Internet As Future of News From the Online News Association conference keynote speech by AP President and CEO Tom Curley: the rate at which blogger post content “works out to roughly 16,000 posts an hour, or about as many stories as the AP sends out in an entire day.” Related article from …
Dow Jones to buy MarketWatch for $520M: “MarketWatch Inc., which owns the CBS.MarketWatch.com Web site, agreed to be bought by Dow Jones & Co. for $520 million on Sunday, ending a month-long bidding war for the online financial news and information provider.”
By Tara Calishain, this PC Magazine article reviews a number of options, provided by individuals and services, to obtain Google search results via email.
Major bugs found in Diebold vote systems More Key Reporting by Media on Election Problems The Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy, by Steven F. Freedman PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Nove. 11, 2004 (11 pages, PDF) “Systematic fraud or mistabulation is a premature conclusion, but the election’s unexplained exit poll discrepancies make it an unavoidable hypothesis, one …
Tyler Cowen, from Marginal Revolution and John Irons, Argmax present their views on current issues in a point, counterpoint style. An online discussion board is available (reg’s req’d), and links to current EconoBlog postings are as follows: day one: Social Security day two: Trade day three: Europe and Asia day four: Taxes day five: Bush …
Sometimes the internet goes out of its way to let other people get their hands on your intellectual property, says Simon Moores.
Using RFID tags to track library books could increase security and ease laborious stocktakes.
MSN Search (beta) About MSN Search Microsoft Unveils Its Internet Search Engine, Quietly Microsoft Web Searcher Isn’t as Good as Google, But in Time It Could Be
The following resources, from the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), reference the FCC’s proposed rule, published in the Federal Register September 23, 2003, on the Communications for Law Enforcement Assistance Act (CALEA). VoIP and Law Enforcement Surveillance Joint Comments of Industry and Public Interest [PDF], November 08, 2004 CDT Policy Post 10.20: Coalition Opposes …