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Government

Obama Orders Federal Agencies To Digitize All Records 186

Lucas123 writes "President Obama this week issued a directive to all federal agencies to upgrade records management processes from paper-based systems that have been around since President Truman's administration to electronic records systems with Web 2.0 capabilities. Agencies have four months to come up with plans to improve their records keeping. Part of the directive is to have the National Archives and Records Administration store all long-term records and oversee electronic records management efforts in other agencies. Unfortunately, NARA doesn't have a stellar record itself (PDF) in rolling out electronic records projects. Earlier this year, due to cost overruns and project mismanagement, NARA announced it was ending a 10-year effort to create an electronic records archive."

Comment Re:gnupg it (Score 1) 402

Or print the key (ideally not passphrase-protected, or with a memorable password given to your executor) in ASCII and attach it to your lawyer's copy of your will. Use an OCR-friendly font, maybe throw in a copy on a USB drive. Once you've backed-up the private key and made sure it's accessible without your intervention, you won't need it so delete it. Save a list of up-to-date passwords (or perhaps your keychain and it's password; which could be more automated) encrypted with the public key somewhere easily accessible (web storage? Google Docs?)

Comment Re:But (Score 1) 804

I think the argument is that people in other countries would say "The first of September, nineteen-ninety."

Which follows the conversational principle of adding relevant context in successively larger granularity.

  1. "At 3." (i.e. today)
  2. "At 3 PM."
  3. "At 3 PM, on the 23rd." (i.e. 'the next 23rd' - could be this month or next...)
  4. "At 3 PM, on the 23rd of June."
  5. "At 3 PM, on the 23rd of June, 2012."
Education

NCAA to Tighten Twitter Rules 116

theodp writes "Facebook and Twitter have made student athletes more accessible than ever, but Tweets that catch the watchful eye of the NCAA could be all that's needed to bring down a successful college athletic program. Among the allegations leveled against the Univ. of North Carolina by the NCAA is a failure to 'adequately and consistently monitor social networking activity,' which the NCAA argues would have caused the school to detect other violations sooner than they did. To cope with the daunting task of monitoring hundreds of accounts on a daily basis, some sports programs are turning to software like UDiligence, while others are opting for a simpler approach, such as having a coach frequently check on posts from the team's players."

Comment Re:Deep Thought (Score 1) 86

No, that is stealing because it's real property with distinct and unambiguous ownership.

I'm saying that if your car had a keypad immobiliser, and your mechanic wrote the code on a chalkboard behind the counter where anyone who looked could see it; you can't be angry at the people who look for knowing it.

In a similar situation, often referenced on /. - it would be the mechanic (AT&T) in trouble with the customers for 'making available' the information.

Comment Re:C++ still not attractive to me (Score 1) 385

A variable that is pushed to the stack make a register that can be used for something else. Yes, common architectures do often only have two or three registers available, once you take into account calling conventions that you aren't going to get around in any language as expressive as C or more so.

Re-using registers is A Good Thing - it's not like you can make more of them.

What makes you think a shift is more efficient than a divide? Are you taking into account the encoded instruction size, alignment, and variable decode latency? Instruction and jump caching?

If you want to write assembly for everything you do, go for it - I kind of like being able to say "strlen(var);". I like "var.size();" a bit more - but it's your call if you wanna say "push edi; sub ecx, ecx; mov edi, [esp+8]; not ecx; sub al, al; cld; repne scasb; not ecx; pop edi; lea eax, [ecx-1]; ret"; or some variant thereof. Go for it. I'll be over here, writing features.

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