[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Tue Jul 31 2001 - 15:25:46 PDT


Here are some more URL's.  Thanks to everyone who contributed.


election

Final Report of the National Commission on Federal Election Reform
http://www.reformelections.org/data/reports/99_full_report.php
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8022-2001Jul30.html

Issues Affecting Military and Overseas Absentee Voters
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d01704t.pdf

Henry Waxman is asking whether Jack Welch interfered with NBC election coverage
http://www.tvinsite.com/multichannelnews/39129.html


politics

conservatives discover America's liberal majority (duh)
(their only winning tactic is "values" -- their code for personal destruction)
http://www.weeklystandard.com/magazine/mag_6_44_01/brooks_feat_6_44_01.asp

"bellicose adjectives and venomous invective filled the room"
http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/07/31/moderates/print.html

do you remember the surplus that was going to pay for all those tax cuts?
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/31/business/31BOND.html?pagewanted=print

The Rigged Missile Defense Test
http://www.salon.com/news/col/cona/2001/07/31/test/print.html

Double Talk on Missile Defense 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/opinion/A8875-2001Jul30.html

I used to get mad when people compared the Christian Coalition to the Klan
http://www.wjla.com/showstory.hrb?f=n&s=14914&f1=ite&f2=con


conferences

Informing Science, Cork, 19-21 June 2002
http://is2002.com/

Libraries Without Walls, Molyvos, Greece, 14-18 September 2001
http://www.cerlim.ac.uk/conf/lww4/

Music Information Retrieval, Bloomington, 15-17 October 2001
http://ismir2001.indiana.edu/

Ethics of Electronic Information in the 21st Century, Memphis, 18-21 October 2001
http://www.memphis.edu/ethics21/01eei/

The New Information Order and the Future of the Archive, Edinburgh, 21-23 March 2002 
http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/archive/International/0211.html

Special, Health and Law Libraries, Melbourne, 26-29 August 2001
http://www.alia.org.au/conferences/shllc/2001/call.for.papers.html


privacy

type in the Vehicle Identification Number of a car, get public records on it
(no, the car doesn't have to be yours)
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/29/technology/29USED.html

jargon watch: blaming reasonable proposals for what'll supposedly be next
(e.g., if we have speed limits then what's next? gov't ownership of all cars?)
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168401.html

Face Scanners Turn Lens on Selves
http://wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,45687,00.html

new move to legalize the CIA's domestic spying
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010730/pl/crime_spying_dc_1.html

article about the state of the National Security Agency
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A44781-2001Jul24?language=printer

project to encrypt Internet traffic
http://www.vpnc.org/draft-richardson-ipsec-opportunistic


computer security

Calm Before the Storm ("Code Red" worm)
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010730.html

Steve Gibson's "Code Red" analysis
http://grc.com/codered/codered.htm

Why Information Security Is Hard: An Economic Perspective
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/users/rja14/econ.pdf

column about perverse liability rules that promote security problems
(it's from last year but it's as relevant as ever)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/columns/060100econ-scene.html

Post-Napster Pirates Commandeer Computers
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000061971jul30.story

virus attacks on NTT DoCoMo I-mode mobile phones
http://industryclick.com/magazinearticle.asp?magazineid=7&releaseid=6832&magazinearticleid=113622&siteid=3

cool interview with the guy who runs the Honeypot Project to study black hats
http://play.rbn.com/?wgbh/world/demand/tu3.rm

"The Connection" show on hactivism
http://www.theconnection.org/archive/2001/07/0730a.shtml

Hack Attack Targets Verizon, AT&T Wireless
http://www.pcworld.com/features/article/0,aid,56403,00.asp


everything else

Digital TV a Remote Possibility
http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ37VTFOPC

Chile Court OK's Kissinger Queries in "Missing" Case
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010730/pl/rights_chile_kissinger_dc_1.html

Interdisciplinary Journal of Software History
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/iterations/tc.html

The Fact and Fiction of Bestseller Lists
http://www.mobylives.com/Bestseller_lists.html

Disney and Pat Robertson: they deserve each other
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/30/business/30ONTV.html

article about the guy who invented the Super Soaker
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/31/science/physical/31WATE.html?pagewanted=all

World Music Network
http://www.worldmusic.net/

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