It is mid-2016 – and this has just been implemented – well – welcome Sherlock!: “For the first time ever, air traffic researchers can view and analyze archived flight data collected and merged from all air traffic facilities across the U.S., with fast update rates ranging from one second to 12 seconds for every flight’s… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2016
SCOTUS – how disclosing revisions offers (confers?) benefits
Justices show how disclosing revisions offers (confers?) benefits – Adam Liptak, NYT – “Supreme Court opinions are not set in stone. Justices keep editing them after they are issued, correcting factual errors and even misstatements of law. For decades, those changes were made largely out of sight. But in October, on the first day of… Continue Reading
Updated Circular A-130, Managing Information as a Strategic Resource
White House – OMB: [July 26, 2016] “the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) …releas[ed] an update to the Federal Government’s governing document for the management of Federal information resources: Circular A-130, Managing Information as a Strategic Resource. The way we manage information technology (IT), security, data governance, and privacy has rapidly evolved since A-130… Continue Reading
How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind – And Changed the History of Free Speech in America
Cameron, Jamie, The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind – And Changed the History of Free Speech in America, by Thomas Healy (August 10, 2016). Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 65/2016. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2821109 “Thomas Healy’s The Great Dissent re-treads the familiar story of US Supreme Court Justice… Continue Reading
The Federal Circuit Rules on Trademarks Considered Offensive
CRS Reports & Analysis Legal Sidebar – The Federal Circuit Rules on Trademarks Considered Offensive: May Affect Redskins Trademark Dispute. August 4, 2016. “Two separate cases involving the revocation of the Washington Redskins’ federally registered trademarks (Pro-Football, Inc. v. Blackhorse) and the refusal to grant registration for a rock band’s name (In re Tam) raise… Continue Reading
Export.gov
“Developed by international trade experts and economists, Export.gov provides trusted market intelligence, practical advice and business tools to help U.S. companies expand in global markets.” Continue Reading
MEPs back plans to pool policing of EU external borders
“Plans to set up an EU border control system, bringing together the EU’s Frontex border agency and national border management authorities, were endorsed by MEPs (Members of the European Parliament) on Wednesday (August 10, 2016). Under these plans, national authorities will still manage their borders on a day-to-day basis but, if their EU external borders… Continue Reading
Updated in 2016, the Global Terrorism Database World Map
“Updated in 2016, the GTD World Map: 45 Years of Terrorism displays the concentration and intensity (combining fatalities and injuries) of terrorist attacks that occurred worldwide across 45 years of data.” Continue Reading
Unprecedented mass hack of Democratic members of Congress
PCWorld: “The hacker who claims to have breached the Democratic National Committee’s computers is now taking credit for hacking confidential files from a related campaign group. Guccifer 2.0 alleged on Friday that he also attacked the servers of the Democractic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). He posted some of the purported files on his blog, and… Continue Reading
2016 Olympics and Phelpsface – Influence of Manipulated Facial Expression on Stress Response
Grin and Bear It The Influence of Manipulated Facial Expression on the Stress Response – Tara L. Kraft and Sarah D. Pressman Abstract – “In the study reported here, we investigated whether covertly manipulating positive facial expressions would influence cardiovascular and affective responses to stress. Participants (N = 170) naive to the purpose of the… Continue Reading
Bing To Use Location for Requests To Be Forgotten
Via Bing Blog: “Bing has expanded the scope of our Right to be Forgotten (RTBF) filtering in Europe. In the past, when Bing accepted an RTBF request, the URL would be delisted from all applicable European versions of Bing (such as Bing.fr, Bing.de, Bing.co.uk) for searches of the requestor’s name. Going forward, in addition to… Continue Reading
Regaining Perspective: Constitutional Criminal Adjudication in the US Supreme Court
Crespo, Andrew Manuel, Regaining Perspective: Constitutional Criminal Adjudication in the U.S. Supreme Court (June 10, 2016). 100 Minn. L. Rev. 1985 (2016); Harvard Public Law Working Paper, No. 16-40. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.co/abstract=2794208 “This article analyzes the U.S. Supreme Court’s institutional shift over the past four decades toward a prosecutorial perspective. It does… Continue Reading
