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Recovery for Wisconsin: "Feingold has been a long-time proponent of investing in rural broadband as a way to erase the digital divide and improve business and employment opportunities in rural areas."
Baldwin Telecom got $9 million but they already offer broadband (at least 1 MB download) to all of there customers.
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
How Do Bureaucracies Work? | Jason Kuznicki | Cato Institute: Commentary
How Do Bureaucracies Work? | Jason Kuznicki | Cato Institute: Commentary: "Much of the material is clearly neither sensitive nor embarrassing, and a good deal of it appears to be so abbreviated that it's essentially uninformative, as war veteran and eyewitness Noah Schachtman has observed. Yet it was collected anyway and made classified. Perhaps this happened simply because information collection in the digital age is so ridiculously easy. More, though, does not always mean better, particularly not when what you really need is possibly a single piece of high-value information amid gigabytes of data."
Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images | Privacy Inc. - CNET News
Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images | Privacy Inc. - CNET News: "For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they're viewed. The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that 'scanned images cannot be stored or recorded.'
Now it turns out that some police agencies are storing the controversial images after all. The U.S. Marshals Service admitted this week that it had surreptitiously saved tens of thousands of images recorded with a millimeter wave system at the security checkpoint of a single Florida courthouse."
"William Bordley, an associate general counsel with the Marshals Service, acknowledged in the letter that 'approximately 35,314 images...have been stored on the Brijot Gen2 machine' used in the Orlando, Fla. federal courthouse. In addition, Bordley wrote, a Millivision machine was tested in the Washington, D.C. federal courthouse but it was sent back to the manufacturer, which now apparently possesses the image database."
Now it turns out that some police agencies are storing the controversial images after all. The U.S. Marshals Service admitted this week that it had surreptitiously saved tens of thousands of images recorded with a millimeter wave system at the security checkpoint of a single Florida courthouse."
"William Bordley, an associate general counsel with the Marshals Service, acknowledged in the letter that 'approximately 35,314 images...have been stored on the Brijot Gen2 machine' used in the Orlando, Fla. federal courthouse. In addition, Bordley wrote, a Millivision machine was tested in the Washington, D.C. federal courthouse but it was sent back to the manufacturer, which now apparently possesses the image database."
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