“U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force issued its final report to the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Canada, who formed the Task Force and commissioned its investigation of the August 14, 2003, power blackout that affected large parts of the United States and Canada.”
From this link, you may download the report in four separate parts.
“An experimental convertor that takes a Google News search and turns it into RSS” from Julian Bond at Voidstar resulted in a cease and desist response from Google. Continue Reading
A useful checklist of safety recommendations from the FTC, Better Business Bureau and the National Cyber Security Alliance focuses on issues that include password and virus protection, using firewalls and updating security patches, the risks of file sharing, the utility of encryption, and employee education. Continue Reading
Blogging is Booming: Interesting links to statistics on blog traffic, which on some sites apparently exceeds monthly readership of major mainstream newspapers. Continue Reading
From zFacts.com, using Google technology, Find ‘Congressional Research Service’ Reports provides a searchable interface to locate the 1,000 reports that are available to the public free on the web, hosted by a variety of advocacy sources. Supports keyword search as well as recommends and describes searching by report Order Code. Continue Reading
From a January 2004 Workshop Materials on Islamic Law (in pdf, 80 pages) conference held jointly by the American Association of Law Schools, American Society of Comparative and the Law and Society Association. See also Islamic and Middle Eastern Law Materials on the Net. (links via Lyonette Louis-Jacques) Continue Reading
Doubts about e-voting drive bilateral push for paper backups. Related postings on e-voting security issues. Continue Reading
