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U.S. sold 3,500 fake networking parts: U.S. sold 3,500 fake networking partsU.S. and fake networking partsWow!This is really discouraging. Our Federal government is so IT incompetent that they have bought fake parts. Even the Navy bought lousy stuff. They are lucky the fake parts did not cause a security problem or so they are saying...but do...; Tags: Federal government, networking part, fake networking part, Federal Reserve Board, network; Discussion threads 2008-05-12
eVoting systems come under fire: eVoting systems come under fireNot truly independent review...I'm sorry, but if Sequoia is hiring the outside vendor to conduct the audit, then the external parties' independence is already suspect.State vs FedRunning elections is a State power. I am always leery of stealing power from the Sates and moving it...; Tags: Quality, e-voting, standards, Federal Reserve Board; Discussion threads 2008-03-21
Fed slashes interest rates by half point: Fed slashes interest rates by half pointAfter some 20 increases in the last few years...They are gonna have to do more than that.One day they will learn to leave it the hell alone instead of upping them to stop inflation. That does NOT work and only sends us into...; Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, Financial services, housing market, Federal Reserve Board, inflation, interest rate; Discussion threads 2008-01-30
Found cure for higher energy prices: recession panic: Today the price of crude has dropped below $90 a barrel. Prices on a lot of other commodities have also dropped. However, it's not likely energy will become so cheap once again that homes and offices will be built with single-pane glass and no insulation like they were...; Tags: Green Technology, Federal Reserve Board, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-01-22
Financial geeks pound Federal Reserve site: As most market watchers know the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 50 basis points and announced the move at 2:15 p.m. EDT. Unfortunately, the Federal Reserve site needs a few more servers. The site was way slow in loading when I looked for the full text....; Tags: Federal Reserve Board, Financial, Site, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-09-18

Fed cutbacks strips schools of tech funding: Fed cutbacks strips schools of tech fundingFortunately, there is a way,using open-source software, which will allow maintaining obsolete PCs.Because Windows Vista is expensive, then the scheme of Windows virtual Machines on top of GNU/Linux should be a viable solution.And such a setup may last 10 years.In case addition of student...; Tags: Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, cutback, Federal Reserve Board; Discussion threads 2007-04-16
Fed cutbacks strips schools of tech funding: In a report indicative of many schools across the country, educators in Santa Clarita, CA, are concerned that decreased state and federal funding for technology will compromise future technology programs, reports the LA DailyNews. Despite the fact that computer technology is becoming more ubiquitous in the workplace and firms...; Tags: Funding, Education Technology; Blog posts 2007-04-13
Fed IT spending to increase, modestly: According to an industry trade association, the federal government's spending on information technology is only going to moderately increase over the next five years, reports The Washington Post. The Government Electronics and Information Technology Association, an association of government contractors including defense companies, information technology services providers...; Tags: Homeland security, Federal Reserve Board, information technology; Blog posts 2006-10-30
Fed IT budgets to drop by 50% in 2007: Fed IT budgets to drop by 50% in 2007Ouch.And this will protect America, how? (Now I'll admit I don't know the details; I'll try to find those from a news outlet that likes to give some details along with the empty sensationalism... but if there is reasonable means...; Tags: Fed IT Budgets, Fed IT, IT budget, Federal Reserve Board; Discussion threads 2006-10-15
Who's Asking?: Interviewers, Their Incentives, and Data Quality in Field Surveys: In all surveys except self-administered ones, interviewers have a critical role in representing the study to respondents. Because most of their work is difficult or impossible to observe directly, historically research has largely been obliged to deal with "Interviewer effects" in data collection as a type of statistical artifact, rather...; Tags: Data Quality, Incentive, Federal Reserve Board, Survey, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Sales, Marketing; White papers 2006-06-06
Online reporting system for lobbyists another failure for Fed IT: Lobbyists trying to electronically file their disclosure reports, as required by law, were frustrated this week as the Congressional filing system refused to take many submissions, the Washington Post reports. Paul A. Miller, president of the American League of Lobbyists, and Thomas M. Susman,...; Tags: Thomas M. Susman, House; Blog posts 2006-02-16
Wireless for mine safety? Fed. agency is looking into it: Can wireless technology save miners' lives in future accidents? The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration MSHA is looking "aggressively" into the possibilities. MSHA announced they are testing a personal emergency device and a locator system for underground mines. CONSOL Energy and Peabody Coal Company are testing...; Tags: MSHA, PED; Blog posts 2006-02-08
Fed's role in code testing is good news: Fed's role in code testing is good newsTotal ignorance of actual FLOSS practice"Without some central repository of changes to open source code, anyone could make a subtle change to open source code which might lead to vulnerabilities ... Without some central organization testing each and every modification to open source...; Tags: kernel development team, vulnerability, FLOSS, open source code, Federal Reserve Board; Discussion threads 2006-01-18
Fed's role in code testing is good news: In reference to Homeland Security spending $1.24M to test open source code, David Berlind noted that "No matter how this news is sliced, it isn't good for providers of commercial alternatives to these open source products." I disagree. Aside from the fact that the biggest providers of open source products...; Tags: open source; Blog posts 2006-01-18
Fed move to IPv6 heats up: The federal government will complete the transition to Internet Protocol v6 by June 2008. In a memo PDF released yesterday, Karen Evans, the head of the Office of Management and Budget's office of e-government and IT, unveiled a timeframe for completing the transition. By November 15, agencies...; Tags: INTERNET, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, IPv6, Federal Reserve Board; Blog posts 2005-08-03
Managing Data Quality on the 2004 Survey of Consumer Finances: The Survey of Consumer Finances gathers detailed household financial information from a sample of 4500 Americans. This survey faces the challenge of collecting high-quality numerical data from a complex interview on a subject that is often poorly understood by respondents and untrained interviewers alike. For the 2004 round of this...; Tags: Data Quality, Federal Reserve Board, Financial, Survey, Financial Information, Marketing Research, Financial Accounting, Databases, Marketing, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; White papers 2005-06-08
A Flexible Finite-Horizon Identification of Technology Shocks: Recent empirical studies using infinite horizon long-run restrictions question the validity of the technology-driven real business cycle hypothesis. These results have met with their own controversy, stemming from their sensitivity to changes in model specification and the general poor performance of long run restrictions in Monte Carlo experiments. This paper...; Tags: Federal Reserve Board, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2005-04-19
Adjusting Chinese Bilateral Trade Data: How Big Is China's Trade Surplus?: Hong Kong plays a prominent role as a re-exporter of a large percentage of trade bound for or coming from China. Current reporting practices in China and its trading partners do not fully reflect this role and therefore provide a misleading picture of the origin or ultimate destination of Chinese...; Tags: China, Federal Reserve Board, Hong Kong, Business Structures, Quality, Finance, Business Operations; White papers 2005-04-01
A Nonlinear Look at Trend MFP Growth and the Business Cycle: Results From a Hybrid Kalman/Markov Switching Model: This paper uses a nonlinear hybrid Kalman/Markov model to estimate trend MFP growth and compares the results from this model with the standard linear Kalman filter approach used elsewhere in the literature. The estimated parameters of the hybrid model suggest strongly that the business cycle is nonlinear, with four out...; Tags: Federal Reserve Board, Business; White papers 2005-02-22
Federal Reserve raises rate by quarter point: Federal Reserve raises rate by quarter pointMake sure the economy does not overheat!!It's good to see the fed's slow down the economy.There is so much prosperity, job growth and hopefulness out there, it was concerning that it would get out of hand.Umm.. sorry I must have gone to CNN by...; Tags: Microsoft Windows NT, Federal Reserve Board, Greenspan; Discussion threads 2004-08-10