[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Fri Jun 29 2001 - 10:41:14 PDT

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    Here are some more URL's.  Thanks to everyone who contributed.
    
    
    politics
    
    Bush Nosedives in Public Opinion Polls
    http://www.salon.com/politics/wire/2001/06/28/bush_polls/
    http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=408
    
    Buyer Remorse Is Setting In with Bush Presidency
    http://www.ardemgaz.com/Week/wed/edi/wopLyons27.asp
    
    On Hill, Signs of a GOP Schism with Bush
    http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/06/28/p2s1.htm
    
    Tax Cut Shrinks Projected Surplus
    http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/june01/2001-06-27-taxcut.htm
    
    missile defense only makes sense as a first step in the militarization of space
    http://www.inthesetimes.com/web2517/parrish2517.html
    
    students know that nuclear power is dead; someone please tell the dinosaurs
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/28/national/28NUKE.html
    
    Power Shortage Not Real, Most Californians Say
    http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/calpol/20010628/t000053194.html
    
    
    the mental chains of conservatism
    
    John Adams is fashionable now because of his anti-democratic ideas
    (but as with Bush, hagiographers emphasize what a darned nice guy he was)
    http://www.thenewrepublic.com/070201/wilentz070201_print.html
    
    bizarre Supreme Court "takings" decision -- *this* is judicial activism
    (it's also a full employment act for conservative plaintiffs' attorneys)
    http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/00pdf/99-2047.pdf
    http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010628.atc.14.rmm
    
    weird trend: people who claim to be liberals ranting in crazy right-wing jargon
    http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/06/28/bawer/print.html
    
    more on the latest John Stossel scandal
    http://www.tompaine.com/news/2001/06/26/
    
    Republicans favor tax money for groups practicing religious discrimination
    http://news.findlaw.com/ap/a/w/1153/6-27-2001/20010627000413330.html
    
    anti-abortion terrorist's message board
    http://www.armyofgod.com/Claytonsmessage.html
    http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/06/27/waagner/
    
    
    privacy
    
    Surveillance Project
    http://qsilver.queensu.ca/sociology/Surveillance/intro.htm
    
    report on privacy issues in interactive television
    http://www.democraticmedia.org/privacyreport.pdf
    
    "lie detector" based on brain waves (potential for abuse: extreme)
    http://www.newscientist.com/newsletter/features.jsp?id=ns229411
    
    more on the car rental company that uses GPS to penalize customers who speed
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/28/technology/28SPEE.html
    
    applications and middleware for location-based services
    http://www.cursor-system.com/sitefiles/coverge/adintro.htm
    http://www.signalsoftcorp.com/products/li/li.html
    
    Building an Informed Citizenry for the Gene Age (genetic privacy etc)
    http://www.geneforum.org/
    
    
    security
    
    AOL Confirms ICQ Servers Hacked
    http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/printer/11568/
    
    I get a lot of virus mail from people whose machines are infected with this
    http://service1.symantec.com/sarc/sarc.nsf/html/W95.Hybris.gen.html
    
    Bill Backs FOIA Exemption for Cybersecurity Information
    http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0501/050801td.htm
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    Post-Tasini: Pity the Librarians
    http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,44905,00.html
    
    Why Is Microsoft Attacking the GPL?
    http://noframes.linuxjournal.com/articles/currents/0032.html
    
    rights management patent infringement suit against Microsoft
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZCB1CQHOC
    
    more on Real Networks' rights management software
    http://www.itworld.com/Man/2683/IDG010620real/
    http://www.xmcl.org/
    
    
    everything else
    
    Hague tribunal indictment against Slobodan Milosevic
    http://www.un.org/icty/indictment/english/mil-ii990524e.htm
    
    decision largely upholding the Microsoft verdict but vacating the breakup
    http://msft.cadc.uscourts.gov/cadc/00-5212a.pdf
    http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/06/28/microsoft_appeal/
    http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/06/28/appeals_reaction/
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/29/technology/29ANAL.html
    
    Ken Auletta claims the court's criticism of Jackson was factually incorrect
    http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010628.atc.02.rmm
    
    Reality Check for Video-on-Demand
    http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=662210
    
    creative Australian legislation against online gambling
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/20045.html
    
    extensive environmental information site
    http://earthtrends.wri.org/
    
    NPR's Katie Davis just seems like the nicest person
    (she tells stories about her neighborhood in Washington)
    http://www.thislife.org/ra/164.ram    (act 3, about 22 minutes into the show)
    http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20001206.atc.17.rmm
    http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010628.atc.10.rmm
    http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010413.atc.14.rmm
    http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20000330.atc.07.rmm
    http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/19990816.atc.18.ram
    http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20000501.atc.08.rmm
    http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20001228.atc.15.ram
    http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/19991027.atc.18.ram
    
    the new generation of interactive audio applications is getting under way
    http://salon.com/tech/feature/2001/06/27/fancast/print.html
    
    online materials from the Community Technology Conference
    http://www.ctcnet.org/conf2001/archive.html
    
    Internet (they mean Usenet) Pioneer Jim Ellis Dead at 45 
    http://www.postgazette.com/breaking/20010628ellisobitp3.asp
    
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