[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Thu May 31 2001 - 09:47:20 PDT

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    Here are some URL's.  All kinds of good stuff this week.  Thanks very
    much to everyone who contributed.  As a periodic reminder, you can also
    get these URL's on the following page:
    
      http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/urls.html
    
    This page also has a link to the RRE home page, which explains how to
    unsubscribe, where to find archives for the list, and much else.
    
    
    election
    
    further details on Florida's campaign to remove "felons" from voter rolls
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A99749-2001May30.html
    
    article on ChoicePoint, which supplied the bad "felon" lists to Florida
    http://www.gopbi.com/partners/pbpost/epaper/editions/tuesday/news_6.html
    
    conservative attack on "motor voter" under the guise of electoral reform
    http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20010531.me.03.rmm
    
    Bush v. Gore, Impeachment, and Beyond
    http://pup.princeton.edu/sunstein/echo.pdf
    
    A Tribute to the Honorable N. Sanders Sauls
    http://judicialwatch.org/press_release.asp?pr_id=1234
    
    
    politics
    
    the tax bill is peculiar, weird, absurd, bizarre, ridiculous, and a joke
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/30/opinion/30KRUG.html
    
    tax cuts for the very rich take priority over absolutely everything
    http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A93938-2001May29.html
    
    right is systematically and falsely applying Dems' Florida talk to Jeffords
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/31/politics/31CONS.html
    
    Bush a Veteran of Maneuvers 
    http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-05-27/News_and_Views/Beyond_the_City/a-112660.asp
    
    he promises humility, but he's an aristocrat who has no idea what that means
    http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A353-2001May31.html
    
    ploughing ahead with policies that are completely disconnected from reality
    http://www.latimes.com/print/editorials/20010531/t000045504.html
    
    "challenging the manipulative rhetoric that pervades American politics"
    http://www.spinsanity.org/
    
    hard-core psychological warfare is now a routine feature of American politics
    http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/05/31/nuremberg/
    
    Pro-Life Virginia -- Army of God
    http://www.armyofgod.com/
    
    the guy who filed irrational suits against Clinton is now after the Republicans
    http://www.tnr.com/052801/zengerle052801.html
    
    Paul Weyrich is suing The New Republic for defamation over this 1997 article
    http://www.tnr.com/archive/10/102797/grann102797.html
    
    
    cybercrime treaty
    
    Council of Europe Wraps Up Cybercrime Treaty
    http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/05/29/cybercrime.treaty.idg/
    
    Cyber-Crime Justifies World Government
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19321.html
    
    current draft of the treaty
    http://conventions.coe.int/treaty/EN/projets/cybercrime27.htm
    http://cryptome.org/cycrime-final.htm
    
    
    other privacy news
    
    Report of the Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System
    http://www.europarl.eu.int/tempcom/echelon/pdf/prechelon_en.pdf
    http://cryptome.org/echelon-ep.htm
    
    FTC letter confirming Amazon's Alexa privacy practices were "likely deceptive"
    http://www.ftc.gov/os/closings/staff/amazonalexa.pdf
    
    Supreme Court decision balancing privacy against media publication
    http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/00pdf/99-1687.pdf
    
    Congressional testimony on social security number privacy
    http://waysandmeans.house.gov/socsec/107cong/ss-4wit.htm
    
    Privacy, Speech, and Cyber-Liberties Bills in the 107th Congress
    http://www.epic.org/privacy/bill_track.html
    
    Employee Privacy Under Siege
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-202-6080066.html
    
    Foundation for Information Policy Research
    http://www.fipr.org/
    
    
    news from Microsoft
    
    "Microsoft may have to strong-arm its customers into adopting Office XP"
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-202-6046267.html
    
    Windows XP Will Make Internet Unstable
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19332.html
    
    The Strange Tale of the Denial of Service Attacks Against GRC.COM
    http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm
    
    Insurer Considers Microsoft NT High-Risk
    http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2766045,00.html
    
    
    three pictures of the Internet in China
    
    To Be Young, Chinese and Weiku
    http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/05/30/china_web/print.html
    
    Free Yang Zili
    http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/05/30/china_sidebar/print.html
    
    what the pages recently hacked by Chinese nationalists looked like (be careful)
    http://www.snapstream.com/hacked.htm
    
    
    everything else
    
    record companies' side of the music promotion disaster
    http://www.latimes.com/print/asection/20010531/t000045508.html
    
    PowerPoint indoctrination for five-year-olds!  ACK!!!
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/31/technology/31POWE.html
    
    another review of Nicholson Baker's rant about book preservation
    http://www.tnr.com/052801/star052801.html
    
    Scientology critic goes to Canda for asylum, gets jumped by SWAT team
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19319.html
    
    Technology Catches Plagiarists
    http://www.ucsdguardian.org/cgi-bin/news?art=2001_05_24_03
    
    ICANN draft advocating "a unique, authoritative root"
    http://www.icann.org/stockholm/unique-root-draft.htm
    
    risks of schools outsourcing their systems to ASP's
    http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.43.html#subj3
    
    new online political journal
    http://www.opendemocracy.net/
    
    NPR story about HR 1542 on broadband access
    http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20010529.me.08.rmm
    
    Making Media Connections Conference for Nonprofits, Chicago, 6-7 June 2001
    http://www.newstips.org/conf.html
    
    International Conference on Generative Art, Milan, 12-14 December 2001
    http://www.generativeart.com/
    
    "Lists of those targeted for death surface and disappear in campus corridors"
    http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A91622-2001May29.html
    
    with political correctness on the run, the culture of hate is back in style
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/30/arts/30SKUL.html?pagewanted=all
    
    The MBTA Has Zero Tolerance for Laughing
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/151/oped/MBTA_must_stop_harassing_black_kids+.shtml
    
    British elections insanely boring, but remind us of the meaning of civilization
    http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A88672-2001May28.html
    
    "If you heave, you leave"
    (in which the Japanese do American culture better than the Americans do)
    http://www.latimes.com/print/asection/20010528/t000044675.html
    
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