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Giving E-mail back to the users: Using digital signatures to solve the spam problem: “This paper argues that current legislative and private attempts to stop spam are either ineffective, or involve unacceptable tradeoffs. The key to solving the spam problem is recognizing the importance of e-mail authentication and the granting of permissions. Properly used, digital …
Secrecy News reports on the names of the current eleven members of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA), along with the date each was appointed as well as when their respective appointments expire. The author of this report, Steven Aftergood, also states, “A full profile of the Court today — its members, their views of …
A New Proposal to Permit Lawyers To Cite “Unpublished” Opinions: Does It Go Far Enough?: A rule proposed by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts would allow attorneys to cite unpublished opinions. This would require an amendment to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure. If this change were to be adopted, it would not …
IE Patent Loss Aftershocks Reverberate. This article indicates that in the wake of the recent $521 milllion patent verdict against Microsoft, the company will make unspecified changes to its IE browser.
The American Lawyer has published a new survey, the A-List, which ranks the top 200 law firms according to the following methodology: revenue, pro bono, associate satisfaction, and diversity of the lawyers.
Chinese ID cards to carry genetic sample: The article reports that by 2004, government issued ID cards “will carry an 18-digit code representing a citizen’s genetic code, based on DNA from a blood, hair or cell sample.” This information comes via an article in the French news service transfert.net.
According to Matt Wells, owner of the search engine Gigablast, his site now supports boolean logic. “You should be able to do nested boolean queries using the traditional OR, AND, OR NOT and AND NOT boolean operators.” See his help page here.
Cost, Value and ROI for Knowledge Management in Law Firms Blogs for Public Lawyers Disaster Preparedness: Locking Out Former IT Personnel Choosing a Digital Camera Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) – Legal Definitions of Child P****graphy, Obs****ty and “Harmful to Minors” Notes from the Tech Trenches: Free News Alerts Privacy Under the FOIA vs. Historians/Journalists …
The Internet and Emergency Preparedness: A joint survey with Federal Computer Week magazine: this nine page (pdf) data memo documents 13 survey questions, and the answers provided by 1001 adult Americans (coincidentally conducted before the power outages that hit the eastern US, Toronto and Ottowa two weeks ago). From the summary: “Half of Americans fear …
This AP article documents the critical shortage of space at the Library of Congress, which houses the largest library collection in the world. The library is in the process of building offsite storage warehouses (as many as 13) in nearby Maryland.
From Jerry Lawson, news of a recently launched team blog with a distinguished and growing group of contributors, called eLawyer Blog, whose mission statement reads as follows: “This site has been established to promote the use of technology, especially the Internet, to improve the delivery of legal services to Americans of moderate to low income. …
As noted by OMB Watch, on August 29, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), an agency within the Office of Management and Budget, (OMB) released a draft bulletin “proposing a standardized process by which all significant regulatory documents (of the most important science disseminated by the federal government) will be subject to peer …