[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Tue Jul 24 2001 - 11:40:42 PDT

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    Here are some more URL's.  Thanks to everyone who contributed.
    
    
    politics
    
    The Unexpected Origins of the Supreme Court's Worst Decision
    http://www.thenewrepublic.com/073001/adler073001_print.html
    
    Disabled Latch Could Skew Election Results
    http://www.newsday.com/coverage/current/news/sunday/nd1195.htm
    
    Bush is a weak leader with an unpopular agenda, as the HMO debate illustrates
    http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35265-2001Jul22.html
    
    Bush Employs Light Touch in Dealing with G-8 Leaders (really embarrassing)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32235-2001Jul21.html
    
    using lies and doubletalk to shut down Social Security
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/22/opinion/22KRUG.html
    
    Wall Street is a den of thieves (so let's give them our retirement funds!)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/22/business/yourmoney/22BROK.html?pagewanted=all
    
    you must read this very disturbed rant by Rush Limbaugh about Tom Daschle
    http://www.spinsanity.org/posts/limbaugh7-21-01.html
    
    Ashcroft's Assault on Gun Laws
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/202/oped/Ashcroft_s_assault_on_gun_lawsP.shtml
    
    praising the free market while subsidizing pollution
    http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/2001/07/18/
    
    Earth Likely to Warm 4-7 Degrees by 2100
    http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2001-07/ucfa-elt071301.php
    http://www.ucar.edu/ucar/
    
    "Theater" Missile Defense is the respectable kind, but it shouldn't be
    http://www.inthesetimes.com/web2517/parrish2517.html
    
    a flood of judicial activism (under the guise of stopping judicial activism)
    http://www.freep.com/voices/columnists/esedl18_20010718.htm
    
    
    globalization in action
    
    Truncheons Rained Down on Me in the Battle of Genoa
    (extreme brutality against journalists and bystanders is now the norm)
    http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/07/22/stifgneur02005.html
    
    accounts of the police attack on the media center and protest organizers
    (no sympathy for the guy who got shot, but that's no excuse)
    http://sf.indymedia.org/display.php?id=102064
    http://italy.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=5539
    
    a prominent pacifist's diary from Genoa
    http://starhawk.org/activism/genoa1.html
    http://starhawk.org/activism/genoa2.html
    
    Farm Unrest Roils Mexico, Challenging New President
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/22/international/22MEXI.html?pagewanted=all
    
    Leaked Memo Reveals WTO Plan to "Sell" Itself to American Youth
    http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11172
    
    
    privacy
    
    Concerns for ID Theft Are Often Unheeded
    http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27475-2001Jul20.html
    
    Review of "Covert" Speed Cameras
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/transport/Story/0,2763,526002,00.html
    
    Smart Cameras Will Spot the Guilty Before They Commit a Crime
    (people generally don't realize how much public video cameras can do)
    http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,525656,00.html
    
    Crypto Conference, Santa Barbara, 19-23 August 2001
    http://www.iacr.org/conferences/c2001/
    
    
    computer security
    
    SirCam Virus Clogs Mailboxes, Spreads Secrets
    (I've gotten a whole bunch of these -- why does Microsoft even still exist?)
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6647394.html
    
    Windshield Toll Transponders Used to Charge $4,000 at McDonald's
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000060199jul23.story
    
    Everyone Agrees: Wireless Security Stinks
    (*all* security stinks, because system architects are still in the 1970's)
    http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2795483,00.html
    
    CERT Advisory: Continuing Threats to Home Users
    http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-20.html
    
    
    everything else
    
    Preserving the Architecture of the Internet in the Broadband Era
    http://www.bepress.com/blewp/default/vol2000/iss2/art8/
    
    The DSL Debacle
    http://www.redherring.com/index.asp?layout=story&channel=10000001&doc_id=170019817
    
    appeal to PC manufacturers to install a standard Java virtual machine
    http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/07/24/java/print.html
    
    the technology boom was a mirage, and its continued implosion drags us all down
    (IT does change the world, but slowly, and hype just ends up making it slower)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/24/business/24FED.html
    
    radio is wall-to-wall payola
    (this is why people want to believe that the net destroys old institutions)
    http://www.salon.com/ent/music/feature/2001/07/24/urban_radio/print.html
    
    Adobe Calls for Programmer's Release
    http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Hacker-Convention-Arrest.html
    
    Africa Goes Online (maybe)
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/203/nation/Africa_goes_online+.shtml
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/204/nation/Entering_the_queue+.shtml
    
    Schools' Computers Keep Parents in the Know
    (beneath all the nonsense, normal people are quietly using the net to do good)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000059717jul22.story
    
    Anti-Insurance
    http://www.bepress.com/blewp/default/vol2001/iss1/art1/
    
    Torture Suspects Find US Haven
    http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/local/dade/digdocs/111553.htm
    
    Archives Detailing Radiation Closed
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000059722jul22.story
    
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