- Drug Control – Initial Review of the National Strategy and Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Programs, GAO-12-744R, Jul 6, 2012
- Federal Real Property – Improved Data and a National Strategy Needed to Better Manage Excess and Underutilized Property, GAO-12-958T, August 6, 2012
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Daily Archives: August 6, 2012
OCLC recommends Open Data Commons Attribution License for WorldCat data
News release: “OCLC is recommending the Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-BY) for member institutions that would like to release their library catalog data on the Web. This open data license provides the means for users to share WorldCat-derived data in a manner that is consistent with the cooperatives community norms defined in the WorldCat… Continue Reading
Shifting Confidence in Homeownership: The Great Recession
Shifting Confidence in Homeownership: The Great Recession. Anat Bracha and Julian C. Jamison. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, June 26, 2012 “The authors study the responses to several questions related to real estate that were added to the Michigan Survey of Consumers in July and August 2011. In particular, they asked about attitudes toward renting… Continue Reading
Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group – SNMP Reflected Amplification DDoS Attack Mitigation
Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group, Technical work Group Report, August 2012 “A BITAG member and Internet Service Provider (ISP), Comcast, has observed large-scale Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Reflected Amplification Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. These attacks are significant and have been observed to result in tens of gigabits to over one hundred gigabits… Continue Reading
Pew Report – Mobile Phone Problem
Mobile Phone Problems – by Jan Lauren Boyles, Lee Rainie. August 2, 2012 Even though mobile technology often simplifies the completion of everyday tasks, cell phone owners can also encounter technical glitches and unwanted intrusions on their phones. In an April 2012 survey, the Pew Research Centers Internet & American Life Project assessed the prevalence… Continue Reading
Office of Director of National Intelligence Launches New Website
“The Office of the Director of National Intelligence debuted the redesign of DNI.gov enhancing the U.S. Intelligence Communitys web presence, increasing transparency and providing accurate, up-to-date information to the public. Through a complete overhaul of its front-end design, the new DNI.gov site provides a look and feel that better enables the ODNI to deliver… Continue Reading
Report – Melting Glaciers May Worsen Northwest Chinas Water Woes
Mike Ives: “In Chinas sprawling Xinjiang region, where the population is growing and cotton farming is booming, a key river has been running dry in summer. Now a team of international scientists is grappling with a problem facing the Tarim River basin and other mountainous regions how to secure water supplies as demands increase… Continue Reading
Study – Generic Prescription Drugs Saved Consumers and the U.S. Health Care System $1 Trillion in Past Decade
“The Generic Pharmaceutical Association (GPhA) released an independently conducted analysis showing that the savings to consumers and the U.S. health care system from the use of generic prescription drugs has risen to a current rate of $1 billion every other day totaling $193 billion in 2011 and more than $1 trillion over the last… Continue Reading
Medicares Payments to Physicians: The Budgetary Impact of Alternative Policies Relative to CBOs March 2012 Baseline
“Medicares payment rates for physicians services are scheduled to be reduced by 27 percent in 2013, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates, under the provisions of law known as Medicares Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) mechanism. The SGR mechanism consists of expenditure targets, which are established by applying a growth rate (calculated by formula) to spending… Continue Reading
