[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Thu Jul 19 2001 - 13:19:14 PDT

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    Here are some more URL's.  Thanks to everyone who contributed.
    
    
    politics
    
    Dirty Pool in Florida
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6450-2001Jul16.html
    
    critique of the NY Times' story about Florida absentee vote counting
    http://slate.msn.com/code/kausfiles/kausfiles.asp?Show=7/17/2001&idMessage=7994
    
    Bush predictions of disaster from TX patients' bill of rights didn't happen
    (this is the bill that he fought, refused to sign, and then took credit for)
    http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/07/17/patient/print.html
    
    dangers of deregulating the culture of brutality
    (ignore the title: it's not Jesus' fault)
    http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11193
    
    MIC plans for the militarization of space
    (out in the open for anyone to see)
    http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/spacechapter2.pdf
    
    science and politics of climate change
    http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWarchdisplay.cgi?20010705036R
    
    Bush Vows to Remove Toxic Petroleum from National Parks
    http://www.theonion.com/onion3724/bush_vows_to_remove.html
    
    Ann Coulter: The Jargon Vanguard
    http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20010716.html
    
    
    the world
    
    review of Wesley Clark's clueless book about the war in Kosovo
    (military people live in a dream, but war is now thoroughly mixed with politics)
    http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWarchdisplay.cgi?20010719016R
    
    more on ExxonMobil's involvement in human rights abuses in Indonesia
    http://preventconflict.org/portal/main/research/jereski.htm
    
    truth and reconciliation in Guatemala
    (and the same people who supported the butchers are again running US policy)
    http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWarchdisplay.cgi?20010621061R
    
    Daily Chronology of Atrocities (committed by the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe)
    http://www.zwnews.com/issuefull.cfm?ArticleID=1537
    
    Under Siege in Avondale
    http://www.zwnews.com/issuefull.cfm?ArticleID=2105
    
    Mugabe's Men on the Run from Witchcraft
    http://www.zwnews.com/print.cfm?ArticleID=1798
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    Mike Godwin's review of Jessica Litman's book about copyright abuses
    http://reason.com/0107/cr.mg.copywrong.html
    
    criminal complaint against Russian geek who hacked Adobe copy protection
    http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Sklyarov/20010707_complaint.html
    
    background on problems with Adobe
    http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/bplist/archive/2001/2001-07-19$2.html
    
    court case contesting private copyright of public laws (i.e., building codes)
    http://regionalweb.texoma.net/CR/
    
    legal train wreck after recent copyright rulings protecting authors
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZFEBIKBPC
    http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,27702,00.html
    
    the music industry is tanking
    http://www.salon.com/ent/music/feature/2001/07/19/industry_downturn/print.html
    
    Reading: The Digital Future
    http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWarchdisplay.cgi?20010705046F
    
    "articles freely available online are more highly cited"
    http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/papers/online-nature01/
    
    A Guide to Creating Community-Controlled Science Journals
    http://www.arl.org/sparc/DI/toc.html
    
    
    computer security
    
    New Connections for Museum Visitors, Cincinnati, 24-27 October 2001
    http://www.mcn.edu/mcn2001/index.htm
    
    Global Sustainability and Information Economy
    http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com/gmi/gmi32.htm
    
    Noise Pollution Clearinghouse  
    http://www.nonoise.org/
    
    "paper money could be transporting antibiotic resistant bacteria"
    http://www.newscientist.com/conferences/confarticle.jsp?conf=amsmi200105&id=ns9999788
    
    police attacks on medics at the anti-FTAA demonstrations in Quebec
    http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=38603
    
    Crowd Control Technologies
    http://www.europarl.eu.int/stoa/publi/pdf/99-14-01-a_en.pdf
    
    Security Role for Traffic Cameras
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,523483,00.html
    
    the need for laws on Internet privacy
    http://www.epic.org/privacy/internet/testimony_0701.html
    
    dissenting views on Steve Gibson's criticism of Windows XP security
    (true, the real headline is that it's too hard to defend against DDOS attacks)
    http://www.politechbot.com/p-02094.html
    
    "Code Red" Worm Claims 12,000 Servers Running Microsoft IIS
    (millions of servers are vulnerable -- why isn't anyone freaking out?)
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6604515.html
    
    Bad Human Factors Design  
    http://www.baddesigns.com/
    
    BBC World Service going off shortwave
    http://213.159.10.102/francemain.asp?pad=279,327,&item_id=10855
    
    destructive Navy sonar experiments are back, and they're bigger than ever
    http://www.nrdcaction.org/index.asp?step=2&item=518
    
    The Latest in Children and Media
    http://www.cme.org/publications/ecme/index_ecme.html
    
    Where Webvan Went Wrong
    http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-588.html#lnk2
    
    article about prosecution of geek who installed distributed.net
    http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/07/17/screensaver/print.html
    
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