“The Justice Index is part of a growing movement in America and around the world that understands access to justice as the key not only to fairness and justice, but also to stability and prosperity. In the United States, chief judges and chief court administrators have committed the state courts to the goal of “100… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: May 2016
National Defense Authorization Act for FY2017 and Low Energy Nuclear Reactions
Via the New Energy Times, Excerpt from May 4, 2016, Report of the Committee on Armed Services House of Representatives on HR 4909 Together With Additional Views see Congress Directs Secretary of Defense to Provide LENR Briefing as follows: “The committee is aware of recent positive developments in developing low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), which produce… Continue Reading
Regulatory Transformations: An Introduction
Lange, Bettina and Haines, Fiona, Regulatory Transformations: An Introduction (2015). Regulatory Transformations: Rethinking Economy Society Interactions, Chapter 1, pp. 1-30, August 2015. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2777223 “Regulation is no longer the prerogative of either states or markets. Increasingly citizens in association with businesses catalyse regulation which marks the rise of a social sphere… Continue Reading
Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings on Mass Surveillance Statute
Via EFF: “The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendments Act Tuesday May 10. The Act, passed in 2008, created what is now known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Section 702 is used for mass spying, and government surveillance conducted under the law… Continue Reading
2013 Statistics of U.S. Businesses: Legal Form of Organization Tables
Via Census: “Data by legal form of organization, NAICS sector and enterprise employment size. Statistics include number of firms, number of establishments, employment and annual payroll.” Continue Reading
New FTC Business Guidance for Employment Background Screening Companies Helps With FCRA Compliance
“The Federal Trade Commission has created new guidance for businesses aimed at giving employment background screening companies information on how to comply with the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). The guidance helps companies understand when their work defines them as a consumer reporting agency under the FCRA. Consumer reporting agencies must meet a number of… Continue Reading
15 Facts About Our National Mammal: The American Bison
Big Day for Animals on beSpacific! Did you know that President Obama has declared the American Bison as our national mammal? Yes indeed he did. “On May 9, 2016, President Obama signed the National Bison Legacy Act into law, officially making the American bison the national mammal of the United States. This majestic animal joins… Continue Reading
NIST Report on Post-Quantum Cryptography
NISTIR 8105 Report on Post- Quantum Cryptography. Lily Chen, Stephen Jordan, Yi-Kai Liu, Dustin Moody, Rene Peralta, Ray Perlner, Daniel Smith-Tone. Computer Security Division Applied and Computational Mathematics Division Information Technology Laboratory. This publication is available free of charge from: http://dx.doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.8105. April 2016 U.S. Department of Commerce. “In recent years, there has been a substantial… Continue Reading
NYT – Top 10 Hedge Fund Chiefs Took Home a Combined $10.07 Billion
NYT DealBook: “Last year was tough for the swing-for-the-fences hedge fund managers who became synonymous with money-making in years past. Yet the top 25 hedge fund managers still took home nearly $13 billion in 2015, according to an annual ranking by Institutional Investor’s Alpha magazine. The pay estimates are based on the value of each… Continue Reading
SignAloud: Gloves that Translate Sign Language into Text and Speech
Via Lemelson-MIT Program: “Thomas Pryor and Navid Azodi are undergraduate sophomore students at the University of Washington (UW) studying Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering and Business Administration, respectively. The two met their freshman year and connected over a shared interest in invention and problem solving.” From the Fact Sheet: “Thomas and Navid developed SignAloud, a pair… Continue Reading
Interior Dept. issues final rule on offshore well control
CRS Insight – The Department of the Interior’s Final Rule on Offshore Well Control: “On April 14, 2016, the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) released final regulations concerning blowout preventer systems and well control for oil and gas operations on the U.S. outer continental shelf. The regulations aim to… Continue Reading
Delivery Drones: Coming to the Sky Near You?
CRS Reports & Analysis Legal Sidebar – Delivery Drones: Coming to the Sky Near You? – 05/06/2016: “Can you prevent a drone from flying over your house to deliver a package to your neighbor? Until now, that question has been of purely theoretical interest. However, the Senate recently passed a bill that could significantly change… Continue Reading
