Expert Tips for Leveraging Google Search
By Tara Calishain, this PC Magazine article reviews a number of options, provided by individuals and services, to obtain Google search results via email.
Questions About Voting Machine Accuracy Continues
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 …
New Econ Blog Over At WSJ
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 …
A Quick Overview of Digital IP Issues
Sometimes the internet goes out of its way to let other people get their hands on your intellectual property, says Simon Moores.
UK Article Reports Favorably on Use of RFID in Libraries
Using RFID tags to track library books could increase security and ease laborious stocktakes.
Soft Launch of MSN Search Beta
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
Range of Groups File Comments Opposing FCC Internet Wiretap Plan
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 …
Google Indexes 8 Billion Pages
This morning the Google homepage indicated “Searching 8,058,044,651 web pages.” From the Google Blog: “The documents in Google’s index are in dozens of file types from HTML to PDF, including PowerPoint, Flash, PostScript and JavaScript. Together these pages represent a good chunk of the world’s information, but hardly all of it. That’s why we keep …
GAO Reports on System to Evaluate Progress in America
Informing Our Nation: Improving How to Understand and Assess the USA’s Position and Progress GAO-05-1, November 10, 2004. Highlights. “There has been growing activity and interest in developing a system of key national indicators that would provide an independent, trusted, reliable, widely available, and usable source of information. Such a system would facilitate fact-based assessments …
Challenges to Preserving Personal and Institutional Digital Data Are Huge
Even Digital Memories Can Fade: “So dire and complex is the challenge of digital preservation in general that the Library of Congress has spent the last several years forming committees and issuing reports on the state of the nation’s preparedness for digital preservation.”
Request for GAO Investigation on E-Voting Machines and 2004 Election
November 8, 2004 – Text of Follow-up Letter from Reps. Conyers, Nadler, Wexler, Scott, Watt and Holt to GAO Comptroller Walker Requesting Investigation of Voting Machines and Technologies Used in 2004 Election November 5, 2004 – Text of Letter from Reps. Conyers, Nadler and Wexler to GAO Comptroller Walker Requesting Investigation of Voting Machines and …
GAO Report Highlights Lack of Gov’t Policy to Prevent Exposure of Social Security Numbers
Social Security Numbers: Governments Could Do More to Reduce Display in Public Records and on Identity Cards GAO-05-59, November 9, 2004. Highlights. “Social Security numbers appear in any number of records exposed to public view almost everywhere in the nation, primarily at the state and local levels of government. State agencies in 41 states and …