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 <title><![CDATA[IRS has code ready for tax refund checks]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[IRS officials have gone out on a limb, predicting a smooth process for mailing out more than 25 million checks for one-time tax cut payments this summer. Unlike a similar situation in 2001, this time the agency has a road map.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[The heat is on dubious degrees]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As members of Congress, including Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., turn up the heat on federal workers&#146; use of academic degrees from unaccredited institutions, research conducted by Post Newsweek Tech Media publications has uncovered questionable credentials for more than 50 officials in IT-related jobs in government or with federal contractors.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Built for speed]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Need high-powered but relatively inexpensive desktop PCs that will satisfy users and keep the bean-counters happy? If you do, my advice is to build them yourself.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_17/22633-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on super PCs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What are they? The super PCs of the moment come with Intel Pentium 4 processors with multithreading technology running as fast as 3.06 GHz, or AMD Athlon XP 3000+ and 3200+ processors. They should have 512M or more of RAM, a large, 7,200-rpm or faster hard drive, at least one fast CD-RW optical drive, and one DVD-ROM read-only drive or a rewritable DVD drive. Video and sound cards with plenty of on-board RAM, dial-up and 10/100 Ethernet cards, and plenty of IEEE 1394 FireWire and Universal Serial Bus ports should round up the their basic features.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Craig Luigart, an IT leader at the Education Department since 1999, has moved over to the Veterans Affairs Department as associate deputy assistant secretary for policies, plans and programs.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Who&#146;s who, who&#146;s where on the IT ladder]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[One of the challenges in government IT is achieving continuity in systems and programs amid a changing landscape&#151;not only in technology but among the government&#146;s leaders. Since last year&#146;s CIO list, the Homeland Security Department has taken shape and many new faces have taken control at agencies. Here&#146;s the latest rundown on who&#146;s on first:]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_17/22669-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Feds knock the administration&#146;s A-76 initiative]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Government IT professionals responding to a recent GCN e-mail survey were overwhelmingly critical of the Bush administration&#146;s competitive-sourcing initiative.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Online Extra: Hiring, keeping the best IT workers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Here is a complete list of verbatim comments from respondents to a GCN e-mail survey about the Bush administration&#146;s work-force policies and competitive sourcing/A-76 initiative.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_17/22641-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Army portal team tests new apps]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Army Knowledge Online portal last month began user pilots, testing new features ranging from planning and collaboration software to disaster recovery applications.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Service wants portal to be one-stop shop for workers&#146; needs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Army officials are preparing the last of four memos asking IT managers to consolidate systems around the Army Knowledge Online portal.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_17/22627-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Navy will more than double NMCI seats this year]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[NEW ORLEANS&#151;Part revival tent, part sales pitch and part technology update, last month&#146;s Navy&#150;Marine Corps Intranet Symposium focused on the positive side of the largest-ever services outsourcing buy.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_17/22628-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[NNSA ordered to fix security at Energy labs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Energy secretary Spencer Abraham has told the National Nuclear Security Administration to overhaul security procedures at the department&#146;s nuclear laboratories.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[CWIN alerts agencies to cyberthreats]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department has fielded a network that lets government and industry groups swap information about cyberattacks and other system threats.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DHS agencies still struggle with net issues]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[PHILADELPHIA-- Unlike the cyborgs in the "Terminator 3" spectacle, homeland security IT systems are having trouble forming a seamless network.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[XBRL will cash in banks' paper financial filings]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has awarded Unisys Corp. a $39 million, 10-year contract to build and run a central financial data repository based on an offshoot of the Extensible Markup Language.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[SBA Business Compliance project redone]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As it becomes clearer that agencies will not be 100 percent compliant with the Government Paperwork Elimination Act by Oct. 21, the Office of Management and Budget has targeted 75 percent compliance for September 2004.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Military users can now get into the Groove]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The 4-year-old Defense Collaboration Tool Suite, assembled from commercial sources for secure sharing of military video and audio conferences and applications, last month got a new addition: Groove Workspace 2.5 from Groove Networks Inc. of Beverly, Mass.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Livermore lab cluster ranks third worldwide]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A Linux cluster at the Energy Department's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is the third-fastest in the world, according to the latest rankings at www.top500.org/lists/2003/06.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Site posts cancer studies]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Details of current cancer research funded by private groups and the governments of the United States and United Kingdom are now available on a Web site, www.cancerportfolio.org.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GSA will field new services initiatives]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[To describe his work at the General Services Administration, the Federal Technology Service&#146;s John Johnson likes this saying: &#147;I get to eat my own dog food.&#148;]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA["Did you hear..."]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[-- A billion here, a billion there ... Pretty soon you're talking real money, as the late Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R-Ill.) famously said. Last month, Labor secretary Elaine L. Chao slashed a few billion down to a few million with a politically embarrassing typo in a press release. ]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[The Rat's e-work strategy backfires]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As the wired one's workload escalates and Mrs. Rat pressures him to take time off for the family, the national holiday has become i-Dependence Day.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Find a word: Virus vaccination]]></title>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Agencies adjust to new A-76 rules]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Following initial reactions to the recent release of the revised OMB Circular A-76&#151;whether exuberance or anxiety&#151;agency officials are getting down to business to figure out how the new rules affect their plans to outsource jobs.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_17/22636-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Federal Contract Law: FAR change could be throwback to old-style software buying]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Proposed changes to Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 27 covering patents, data and copyrights won&#146;t be greeted with shouts of hallelujah. Still, it&#146;s nice to see that after 15 years the FAR Council has finally gotten around to updating the standard contract clause used to acquire software.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Calendar]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[4-8 USENIX Security SymposiumWashington. Contact Usenix; Web: www.usenix.org/events/sec03; phone: 510-528-8649.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_17/22639-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Transactions are a precursor to achieving transformation]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Can agencies deliver?The Government Paperwork Elimination Act, which requires agencies to provide the means for citizens and businesses to submit documents electronically, was signed into law five years ago. Now, its October deadline looms. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_17/22595-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[In Phase 2, online is just  the starting point]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The road to e-government might look like an uphill climb to government managers. But it&#146;s not like they have a choice.The 25 Quicksilver projects that have dominated the Office of Management and Budget&#146;s push toward e-government for the last couple of years are nearing completion. Now it&#146;s time for managers across government to join the march.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_17/22596-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Forman: The changes will touch feds, citizens and businesses]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Mark Forman, the Office of Management and Budget&#146;s administrator for e-government and IT, joined the administration in June 2001 to lead efforts toward e-government. Since then, his office has developed the first wave of consolidation projects, called Quicksilver, and set the table for others by demanding that agency leaders submit business cases that adhere to the President&#146;s Management Agenda and reflect Forman&#146;s familiar rallying cry of &#147;unify and simplify.&#148; ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_17/22597-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[At the crux of collaborative projects: joint business cases]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Agencies quickly found out how tough it is to meet the business case requirements the Office of Management and Budget laid out in its Circular A-11 guidance.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_17/22598-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Portal puts TRICARE in the transaction game]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[For Navy Capt. Brian Kelly, Web portals are happening. &#147;Information is great but the real value of portals&#151;the real return on investment&#151;is when you begin to move things to a self-service model,&#148; said Kelly, director of e-business, policy and standards for TRICARE, the Defense Department&#146;s military health service.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_17/22599-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Online Extra: Spotting diploma mills]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Council for Higher Education Accreditation in Washington has issued a fact sheet of warning signs that an organization might be a diploma mill.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_17/22647-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Defense defends appointee who has unaccredited grad degree ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A senior Pentagon political appointee lists a master&#146;s degree from an unaccredited, unlicensed university on his official biography and in his Senate confirmation statement. Charlie Abell, principal deputy undersecretary of Defense for personnel and readiness, holds a master&#146;s from Columbus University of New Orleans, which requires limited academic work for its degrees and has never been accredited.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Agency knew of CIO&#146;s &#145;degrees&#146;]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Jimmy Shirl Parker was named CIO of the Federal Technology Service in 2000. He brought with him more than 27 years of experience in the Army as both a military and civilian employee&#151;and bachelor&#146;s and master&#146;s degrees from California Coast University in Santa Ana, Calif.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_17/22650-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GAO says costs, schedule hamper IRS modernization]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The pace and scope of IRS modernization is moving faster than the agency&#146;s managers can keep up with, a government auditor said.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_17/22651-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OPM speeds IT security worker hiring]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[To meet what federal managers see as a dire need for cybersecurity experts, the Office of Personnel Management last month gave agencies the authority to hire IT security professionals much more quickly than other workers.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_17/22653-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Security gets thorough Hill vetting]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Members of Congress feel &#147;bipartisan frustration&#148; at the slow pace of improvement in federal IT security, Rep. Adam Putnam (R-Fla.) said last month. &#147;There is very little indication that anyone takes the security threat seriously.&#148;]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_17/22658-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Revisions to A-76 come under fire]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Union leaders and lawmakers have taken aim at the Bush administration&#146;s new procedures for opening federal jobs to competition with vendors.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[&#145;Governmental&#146; jobs to get OMB scrutiny]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Agencies are rejecting a Bush administration push to move thousands of jobs to vendors through competitive sourcing under reviews using new OMB Circular A-76 rules.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_17/22663-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Interior rebuffs GAO qualms, runs portal for geospatial data]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Even as the General Accounting Office questioned its value, the Interior Department launched the first version of its Geospatial One-Stop portal late last month.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[SSA underbids industry, wins contract]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A team of 36 Social Security Administration managers, programmers and analysts determined their costs for software validation to be less than any of four related contracts the agency had with the private sector and therefore won the agency's first competition for work under OMB Circular A-76.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_17/22670-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[For the lesson book]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[An old show biz axiom says, &#147;Make your mistakes in small rooms.&#148;To some extent, that&#146;s what the Defense Department did in Iraq. As noted in Dawn S. Onley&#146;s story about the continuing deployment in Iraq, DOD chieftains are poring over results from the recent war to find out how well networks worked and whether battlefield systems integration has improved.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_17/22610-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Another View: One man&#146;s battle against porn spam]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Every day I get the most disgusting e-mail. If a colleague posted this crud on a cubicle wall, the harassment suits would fly. Yet, thousands of federal employees are subjected to a daily onslaught of filth or the promise of filth. I have complained to my management, getting sympathy and renditions of their similar complaints. But nothing is done.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_17/22612-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Significa]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Government Printing Office&#146;s Federal Depository Library Program has issued specifications for public-access systems at federal depository libraries. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_17/22613-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Editorial Cartoon]]></title>
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 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_17/22614-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Make your Mac rock by  gearing up with new apps]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Federal employees who use Apple Macintosh hardware count heavily on the systems for mapping, imagery, training videos, Web design and old-fashioned paper publication.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_17/22635-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Food agencies queue up online]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Agriculture Department took a lesson from online retailers to overhaul its ordering process for state meal, emergency food assistance and food bank programs.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Indian Health Service tries &#145;insourcing&#146; IT work]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The 52-bed Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock, N.M.&#151;named for an 1,800-foot-tall soaring rock formation&#151;has created three Web-ready data applications for hospitals run by the Indian Health Service of the Health and Human Services Department.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[State lines]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Security flaws. The Michigan Treasury Department&#146;s mainframe system for processing taxes is vulnerable to unauthorized access and fraud, state auditors said.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[NASA Central]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[On Jan. 31, a server in the basement of NASA headquarters in Washington operated the NASA.gov Web site with a single shared T1 connection to the Internet.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_17/22615-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Internaut: Viruses aren&#146;t the same as pests]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Most users know they&#146;re vulnerable to malicious code and prying eyes on the Internet. But many don&#146;t comprehend the full sneakiness of methods used to spy, damage files or harness a PC&#146;s processing power without permission.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Do you have the rights for that app?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[An agency often can cut its initial investment in software in half through a multiuser license, but the savings can be lost if the agency abuses the license and gives more users access than the deal allows.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_17/22618-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[PC grid crunches smallpox model]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A project to help the Defense Department find smallpox antidotes is more than half finished, according to the company organizing the effort.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_17/22619-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Power User: Power User meets the nemesis at hacker meeting]]></title>
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