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From the press release: “On a monthly basis during 2004, the Infopro Web site will spotlight a law librarian from a different country. This month, our spotlight is on Moyra McAllister, National Library Manager at Blake Dawson Waldron in Australia. See also last month’s spotlight on the world renowned Lyonette (‘Lyo’) Louis-Jacques of the University …
An Economic Analysis of Domain Name Policy, by Karl M. Manheim and Lawrence B. Solum. From the abstract: “Based on the telecommunications experience, the best method for ICANN to allocate new Top Level Domains would be to conduct an auction. Many auction designs are possible. One proposal is to auction a fixed number of new …
HHS Secretary Thompson Calls for Investigation Into Whether Medicare Actuary Was Pressured To Withhold Estimates. From the New York Times: Inquiry Ordered on Medicare Official’s Charge Mysterious Fax Adds to Intrigue Over the Medicare Bill’s Cost The Actuary and the Actor: “Actors were hired by the Department of Health and Human Services to pose as …
From Wired, Honey, I Shrunk the URL, a review of a free tool that I use regularly, called TinyURL.com, to quickly and easily shorten the length of inordinately long urls.
See Google Local Search (beta), “Find local businesses and services on the web.” From the Google press release: “This new feature enables users to find relevant local information with neighborhood business listings, maps, directions, and useful web pages.” See also Yahoo’s Smart View, introduced March 9.
“The purpose of this hearing is to determine the status of the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (CAPPS II), and the progress made in addressing concerns regarding privacy, due process, accuracy, and the effectiveness of the system.” [Link] The Transportation Security Adminstration’s CAPPS II, by Paul Rosenzweig (Senior Legal Research Fellow in the Center for …
Information Security: Continued Efforts Needed to Sustain Progress in Implementing Statutory Requirements, by Robert F. Dacey, director, information security, before the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations, and the Census, House Committee on Government Reform. GAO-04-483T, March 16. Highlights.
Via CalPundit, a pdf version of the report, and from Cryptome, an HTML version with “redacted names and ommited footnotes in red.” Previous postings, Report on Unauthorized Access to Senate Judiciary Cmte. Computer Files and Prosecutor Requested to Investigate Unauthorized Access to Senate Judiciary Cmte. Computer Files.
From the University press release: “Researchers in North Carolina State Universitys Department of Computer Science have developed a new data transfer protocol for the Internet that makes todays high-speed Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) connections seem lethargic. The protocol is named BIC-TCP, which stands for Binary Increase Congestion Transmission Control Protocol. In a recent comparative study …
From Nielsen/MetRatings, 55 Million Europeans Using Google Online. MSN Search and Yahoo Search are distant second and third user choices.
Beyond Google – “The Web is so full of useful info that no search engine can find it all. But a multitude of specialty sites deliver shopping advice, reference databases, leisure-time ideas, and more–fast.”
Information Security: Technologies to Secure Federal Systems. GAO-04-467, March 9. Highlights. See also GAO offers security guide.