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Monthly Archives: August 2010

Obama Administration Announces Additional Support for Homeowners Struggling with Unemployment

News release: “The Obama Administration today announced additional support to help homeowners struggling with unemployment through two targeted foreclosure-prevention programs. Through the existing Housing Finance Agency (HFA) Innovation Fund for the Hardest Hit Housing Markets (the Hardest Hit Fund), the U.S. Department of the Treasury will make $2 billion of additional assistance available for HFA… Continue Reading

BP to pay $50.6 million to resolve US Labor Department litigation

Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, this news release: “The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced that BP Products North America Inc. will pay a full penalty of $50.6 million stemming from the 2005 explosion at its Texas City, Texas, refinery that killed 15 workers and… Continue Reading

CREW Files Suit Against Federal Election Commission

News release: “[August 11, 2010] Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and CREW Executive Director Melanie Sloan filed suit against the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, CREW v. Fed. Election Comm’n (D.D.C.). The suit seeks to end the FEC’s practice of summarily dismissing complaints… Continue Reading

New on LLRX.com – A Guide to Resources and Policy on Solitary Confinement

Solitary Confinement: Ken Strutin’s selected guide represents current research and thinking about the physical, psychological and legal implications of isolation as punishment, and the policy issues behind continuing this practice in the light of national and international standards and human rights declaration. Ken engages us to consider the ramifications of solitary confinement, the most extreme… Continue Reading

NBC News/Wall Street Journal Survey Finds Americans Dissatisfied With Economy, War and More

WSJ: Grim Mood Grows in America Pessimism Rises on Economy and War; Outlook Hurts Both Democrats and GOP “Americans are growing more pessimistic about the economy and the war in Afghanistan, and are losing faith that Democrats have better solutions than Republicans, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. Underpinning the gloom: Nearly… Continue Reading

New on LLRX.com: Hunting For A Job? Try the Internet

Hunting For A Job? Try the Internet: Barbara Fullerton is our guide to effectively engaging in an activity which has assumed increased importance in the face of the grim economy – searching for positions with a specific company, business or educational facility on the Internet. She details how webmasters have designed ways for prospective employees… Continue Reading

An Analysis of Private Browsing Modes in Modern Browsers

An Analysis of Private Browsing Modes in Modern Browsers, by Gaurav Aggarwal and Elie Bursztein, Stanford University; Collin Jackson, CMU; Dan Boneh, Stanford University “We study the security and privacy of private browsing modes recently added to all major browsers. We first propose a clean definition of the goals of private browsing and survey its… Continue Reading

Pew Internet Report: Home Broadband 2010

Home Broadband 2010 by Aaron Smith, August 11, 2010 “After several years of double digit growth, broadband adoption slowed dramatically in 2010. African-Americans experienced broadband adoption growth in 2010 well above the national average After several consecutive years of modest but consistent growth, broadband adoption slowed dramatically in 2010. Two-thirds of American adults (66%) currently… Continue Reading

New GAO Reports: Federal Housing Finance Agency, Electronic Waste, Homeland Security, Tactical Aircraft

Federal Housing Finance Agency: Oversight of the Federal Home Loan Banks’ Agricultural and Small Business Collateral Policies Could Be Improved, GAO-10-792, July 20, 2010 Electronic Waste: Considerations for Promoting Environmentally Sound Reuse and Recycling, GAO-10-626, July 12, 2010 Homeland Security: US-VISIT Pilot Evaluations Offer Limited Understanding of Air Exit Options, GAO-10-860, August 10, 2010 Tactical… Continue Reading

Cisco 2010 Midyear Security Report

Cisco 2010 Midyear Security Report – The impact of global security threats and trends on the enterprise “Web 2.0, mobility, virtualization, and other dramatic shifts in how we communicate and collaborate are carving out a new landscape for business and for enterprise security. The Cisco® Midyear Security Report examines these changes and their impact on… Continue Reading

News Consumption 2010: A portrait of "local news enthusiasts"

Understanding the Participatory News Consumer: Local News Enthusiasts – presentation by Kristen Purcell, Associate Director, Research/Pew Internet “Roughly four in ten adults say there is currently not enough news coverage of their neighborhood or local community (38%) or that there is not enough coverage of their state (39%). These “local news enthusiasts” are slightly younger… Continue Reading