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Daily Archives: March 2, 2004
New GAO Report Critical of USDA IT Security
Information Security: Further Efforts Needed to Address Serious Weaknesses at USDA. GAO-04-154, January 30. Highlights. Continue Reading
Yahoo Introduces New Program to Mine Deep Web
From the Yahoo press release issued today: “YAHOO! Search launches new content acquisition program providing more relevant, comprehensive online content for users. Includes telationships with NPR, The New York Public Library,…Wikipedia, a free, multilingual online encyclopedia with articles in more than 50 languages; and the National Science Digital Library (NSDL), the National Science Foundation’s online… Continue Reading
Supreme Ct. Heard Oral Arguments Today on Child Online Protection Act
This Washington Post (reg. req’d) article reviews today’s arguments in Ashcroft v. ACLU, No. 03-218. Child Online Protection Act (original statute); amended statute. Brief for Petitioner Brief for Respondents Continue Reading
Will Search Engine Consolidation Herald An End to AltaVista and AllTheWeb?
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.” Continue Reading
Memory Hole Posts 9/11 Audio and Transcripts
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… Continue Reading
