Federal Computer Week reported on “a crisis of confidence” in the Thrift Savings Plan” over “an overwhelming backlog of individual transactions” on the Thrift Savings Plan website. See also this press release from the Committee Government Reform on the July 24 hearing “on the customer service provided by the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB),… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: July 2003
New Fee-Based Magazine Portal Launches 7/28
KeepMedia Inc., which launches July 28, is a new service from Louis Borders, founder of Borders Books. News about this story was first reported on June 30 by paidContent.org, in the WSJ on July 21, and and today by News.com. This venture will allow subscribers to download content from an archive of more than 140… Continue Reading
AlltheWeb Search Queries
Fast AlltheWeb Q-card, and AllTheWeb Query prefixes: “AlltheWeb supports a number of simple Query Prefixes that allow you to access some basic site functions by simply prefixing your query term(s) with a supported prefix.” Continue Reading
FTC Relaunches GetNetWise
Federal Trade Commissioner Orson Swindle addressed the importance of safe computing practices at a press conference to re-launch GetNetWise, a public service Web site offering resources to make informed decisions about using the Internet. The media briefing is sponsored by the Internet Education Foundation. GetNetWise: Keeping Children Safe Online; Stopping Unwanted E-mail and Spam; Protecting… Continue Reading
FASB StatementsFull Text, Summaries, and Status
Now available on Financial Accounting Standards Board website: FASB StatementsFull Text, Summaries, and Status (required Adobe 5.0 or higher). The links provided on this site allow you to view the full text of all FASB Statements of Financial Accounting Standards issued since the FASBs inception in 1973. (thanks Donna) Continue Reading
Legal Research in a Nutshell
From Kent Olson, University of Virginia Law Library: Legal Research in a Nutshell Links provides convenient access to all of the more than three hundred URLs mentioned in the book (Legal Research in a Nutshell, 8th ed., 2003), including appendices. Sites are arranged thematically by chapter and page number, and the list will be updated… Continue Reading
Global Climate Change Report Released Today
From the US Climate Change Science Program: The US Climate Change Science Program. Vision for the Program and Highlights of the Scientific Strategic Plan. From the World Wildlife Foundation: “The ten year research proposal for the US Climate Change Science Program announced today by the Bush Administration appears to be another attempt to focus attention… Continue Reading
More on the 9/11 Joint Inquiry Report Released This Afternoon
From Secrecy News: “Of particular interest to Secrecy News readers may be the final Appendix on Access Limitations Encountered by the Joint Inquiry. It describes a number of documents or topical areas to which congressional investigators were denied access. These included the President’s Daily Brief, reports on foreign liaison relationships, information on intelligence budget requests,… Continue Reading
New FCC Order on CIPA
“In this Order, we adopt measures to ensure that our implementation of the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) complies with the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court. CIPA requires schools and libraries with computer Internet access to certify that they have Internet safety policies and technology protection measures, e.g., software filtering technology, to… Continue Reading
Report of the Inquiry Into the Terrorist Attacks of September 11
Report of the Inquiry Into the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Select Committee on Inteligence, December 2002 (pdf, 858 pages). Statement from GPO: “In February 2002, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence agreed to conduct… Continue Reading
Congress Continues to Attack Patriot Act
House Takes Aim at Patriot Act Secret Searches: “The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to roll back a key provision (amending H.R. 2799, see link below), which allows the government to conduct secret “sneak and peek” searches of private property, of a sweeping anti-terrorism law passed soon after the Sept. 11 attacks.”… Continue Reading
RIAA vs. MIT & Boston College Over File-Sharing Student Info
From MIT News (via The Register): “MIT recently received a subpoena from the Recording Industry Association of America that was issued under the terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The subpoena requests the name and address of the individual whose computer was, according to the RIAA, sending out copyrighted songs on the Internet…MIT of… Continue Reading
