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According to this Pandia article (via Search Engine Guide): “…we have to announce that the AltaVista and AlltheWeb search engines are going to die. In the near future Yahoo! will replace these unique search engines with data from the new Yahoo! search engine.”
audio: Betty Ong’s Call from 9/11 Flight 11 “Played at the 9/11 hearings, this is a 4-1/2 minute segment of a flight attendant’s call from Flight 11 to an operations specialist.” [Link] 9/11 Transcripts and Police Reports “The Memory Hole has obtained 9/11 documents previously withheld by the Port Authority of New York and New …
Hastert u-turns on Commission: “Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) has dropped his opposition to a 60-day extension requested by a national commission to write a report analyzing the causes of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.” [the new deadline is July 26, 2004] Response by the Chair and Vice Chair of the Commission Bush to Limit …
From the Committee for Economic Development: “Promoting Innovation and Economic Growth: The Special Problem of Digital Intellectual Property, a new CED policy statement is now available. The statement includes an overview of copyright law and business innovation, as well as recommendations for overcoming the challenges inherent in digital media. Developing and testing new business models …
Welcome to FDA’s Heart Health Online: “This new web site gives you reliable information about the products used to prevent, diagnose, and treat cardiovascular disease. It includes full descriptions and patient instructions for many medications, medical devices, and diagnostic tests for cardiovascular disease.”
From the Pew Internet and Life Project: Content Creation Online: 44% of U.S. Internet users have contributed their thoughts and their files to the online world: “44% of Internet users have created content for the online world through building or posting to Web sites, creating blogs, and sharing files.” Download the full-text of the report …
Electronic Vote Faces Big Test of Its Security: “Millions of voters in 10 states will cast ballots on Tuesday in the single biggest test so far of new touchscreen voting machines that have been billed as one of the best answers to the Florida election debacle of 2000. But many computer security experts worry that …
Prepared by the Democratic Members of the House Select Committee on Homeland Security, February 2004: “America at Risk: Closing the Security Gap acknowledges that although the United States is safer than it was before September 11, significant security gaps remain. This 135-page report released on the first anniversary of the Department of Homeland Security identifies …
House Government Reform Hearing: You’ve Got Mail – But is it Secure? An Examination of Internet Vulnerabilities Affecting Businesses, Governments and Homes. October 16, 2003. Serial No. 108-95. GPO Stock No. 552-070-30848-2. Text; PDF (96 pages)
Find That Feed allows users to located RSS feeds by key word search request, “Search for a feed whose name is like…”
Code of Federal Regulations: Linking to Documents: “Documents that exist within the CFR on GPO Access cannot be bookmarked. In order to link to these documents, a unique URL string must be created. This string consists of six elements: the URL of the cgi script which retrieves the document the CFR Title the CFR part …
From an EFF press release this afternoon: “A California appeals court today overturned a 1999 injunction against Andrew Bunner that prohibited him from distributing the DeCSS DVD decryption computer code, because the court found there was no evidence that DVD Content Scrambling System (CSS) technology was still a trade secret by the time that Bunner …