[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Sat Jul 21 2001 - 11:11:15 PDT

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    Here are some more URL's.  Thanks to everyone who contributed.
    
    
    election
    
    Katherine Harris is resisting freedom-of-information requests
    http://www.sptimes.com/News/072001/news_pf/State/Records_issue_pits_Bu.shtml
    
    ethics complaint about military channels used to solicit absentee votes
    http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/07/20/deutsch/
    
    radio interview with authors of NY Times Florida absentee vote counting story
    http://search.npr.org/freshair/dayFA.cfm?display=day&todayDate=07%2F19%2F2001
     
    
    militarizing space
    
    What Is Missile Defense Really For?
    http://www.economist.com/printedition/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=702374
    
    The Marketing of Missile Defense, 1994-2000
    http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/tangled.htm
    
    The Feds Want to Zap Your Brain From Space
    (it's getting harder and harder to persuade people that they're crazy)
    http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0128/ridgeway2.shtml
    
    
    news from Planet Microsoft  (man, there's so *much* of it)
    
    having been found guilty of crippling Java, Microsoft kills it instead
    http://www.cw360.com/article&rd=&i=&ard=104137&fv=1
    
    Hotmail's Face-Lift Hints of HailStorm
    http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,28012,00.html?nl=dnh
    
    WinXP Product Activation Cracked: Totally, Horribly, Fatally
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/20433.html
    
    Mono: open-source project to embrace and extend .NET
    http://www.go-mono.com/faq.html
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/20270.html
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/20099.html
    http://www.softwareuncovered.com/news/cgram-20010716.html#1
    
    
    the latest worm  (ho, hum)
    
    Code Red Stopped -- For Now
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-201-6625599-0.html
    http://www.panix.com/~dannyb/code-red.wsj
    
    a major Microsoft site got whacked
    http://www.panix.com/~henry/mshacked.html
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/20545.html
    
    NTBugTraq Plans to Counter-Attack Against Code Red While It Sleeps
    http://www.securitynewsportal.com/article.php?sid=1167&mode=thread&order=0
    
    Code Red Is Really a Vaccine
    http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2792689,00.html
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    defending the Russian geek who broke Adobe copy protection
    http://www.boycottadobe.com/
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ8P3T7DPC
    http://www.eff.org/alerts/20010720_eff_sklyarov_alert.html
    
    DMCA and the UCITA Laws: A Deadly Combination
    http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/12143.html
    
    multiplying alternatives to Napster
    http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2001/07/20/napster_diaspora/print.html
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/20/technology/20MUSI.html
    
    Robert Christgau's Consumer Guide
    (he doesn't get Neil Young's "Silver and Gold", but otherwise he's cool)
    http://www.villagevoice.com/search_bidness.php3?keyword=consumer+guide&x=13&y=6
    
    
    privacy
    
    In the Future, You'll Pluck Your Info From Thin Air
    (good concept, and fashionable -- but they have no idea how to protect privacy)
    http://www.usatoday.com/money/bcovfri.htm
    
    Click. BEEP! Face Captured
    http://www.sptimes.com/News/071901/Floridian/Click_BEEP_Face_captu.shtml
    
    Continental Divide Licenses EtakMap Premium Digital Map Data to Track Parolees
    http://www.etak.com/News/continent.html
    
    addresses of Direct Marketing Association members
    (but hey, don't send them junk mail)
    http://storm.prohosting.com/~dmachaps/dmaindex.html
    
    
    everything else
    
    Society for Research into Higher Education, Cambridge, UK, 12-14 December 2001
    http://www.srhe.ac.uk/annualconf2001/cambridge1.htm
    
    Long Amazon.com Tale Still Written in Red Ink
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2D000059458jul21
    
    remember when the Internet epoch meant that giant companies were dinosaurs?
    http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=705249
    
    the culture of competition has gone too far
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000059355jul20.story
    
    China Shuts Down 2,000 Net Cafes
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/602905.asp?cp1=1
    
    propagandists caricature the views of globalization protesters with impunity
    (why is this utterly derivative "commentary" treated as news?)
    http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20010720.me.04.rmm
    
    here is the only column I've seen supporting them
    (but why get vapid poetry from communists, when you can get the real leaders?)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/20/opinion/20HARDT.html
    
    NAFTA's Seven-Year War on Farmers and Ranchers in the US, Canada and Mexico
    http://www.tradewatch.org/nafta/reports/naftaAG/NAFTAAGREPORT.htm
    
    Coke Sued Over Death Squad Claims
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1448000/1448962.stm
    
    libel suit against a journalist who mentioned an Amnesty International report
    http://www.salon.com/news/col/cona/2001/07/20/gold/print.html
    
    the National Rifle Association is globalizing
    http://slate.msn.com/pol/01-07-19/pol.asp
    
    amazingly ugly obituary on Katherine Graham from Richard Mellon Scaife's paper
    http://www.triblive.com/news/print_email.html?rkey=149526+sid=c8c7ff5bedef456eea9e2586ea6a9540+cat=editorial+related_name=+template=print_article.html
    
    a prodigious collection of weirdness
    http://earthfiles.com/headlines.html
    
    My Cat Hates You  (very funny)
    http://www.mycathatesyou.com/othercat.htm
    
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