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 end
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