Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. election Harris' Computers Held Bush Campaign Items http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000064592aug09.story The Imaginary Firewall http://www.stpetersburgtimes.com/News/080901/Opinion/The_imaginary_firewal.shtml Katherine Harris registered to vote in two different counties http://www.gopbi.com/partners/pbpost/epaper/editions/thursday/news_2.html jargon watch: if all else fails, accuse them of attacking an "easy target" (the jargon has an enormous arsenal of special-purpose phrases like this one) http://www.news-jrnl.com/2001/Aug/10/POL001.htm Report Calls for Justice Probe of 2000 Election http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53688-2001Aug9.html http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2001-08-09-election.htm http://www.electioncenter.org/ Workshop on Trustworthy Elections, Tomales Bay, California, 26-29 August 2001 http://www.vote.caltech.edu/wote01/ politics "Read his lips. He lied." (but conservatives called him "honest" when he was lying in their interest) http://www.nypost.com/commentary/31278.htm remember when Bush was going to peel off a cohort of moderate Democrats? (now it's a Bush "victory" when he keeps his grip on moderate Republicans) http://www.thenewrepublic.com/082001/crowley082001.html On a Mission to Unmask Pretenders to Military Glory (wasn't there a candidate who spent his National Guard time doing politics?) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/10/national/10FAKE.html Bush Aide Karl Rove Hid Business Link http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-08-09/News_and_Views/Beyond_the_City/a-121261.asp The Rumsfeld Death Watch ("the military no longer respects even conservative civilian authority") http://slate.msn.com/Code/chatterbox/chatterbox.asp?Show=8/7/2001&idMessage=8093 the conservative media's endless false claims about the "liberal media" (false claims of "bias" let them screen out all inconvenient reality) http://www.dailyhowler.com/h080801_1.shtml attacking Hillary for trying to regulate interstate traffic in fighting birds (very weird) http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/kstrassel/?id=95000940 jargon watch: portraying liberals as violently attacking an abstract symbol (it's a mechanical formula, in this case "the legal war against goodness") http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000064733aug09.story privacy dot-com privacy fallout: Web tracking info about 88 million users is for sale http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6831796.html article claiming Finland is thinking of embedding national ID's in cell phones http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/tech/yourphoneisyou.jsp very small computers with sensors and wireless that can be dropped anywhere (e.g., to monitor your movements) http://www.chronicle.com/free/2001/08/2001080201t.htm http://www-bsac.EECS.Berkeley.EDU/~pister/SmartDust/ Automated Traffic-Camera System Has Flaws, Motorists and Cities Discover http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134326067_trafficam05m.html Don't Smile, You're on Surveillance Camera (this is about policy more than technology) http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/aug2001/nf2001089_685.htm Encryption Cores Ramp for Pervasive Security (okay, it's AES, but pervasive embedded crypto hardware would be big progress) http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20010809S0046 security phenomena suggesting Code Red II back doors are being exploited in abundance http://grc.com/x/talk.exe?cmd=article&group=grc.news.feedback&item=23872 Code Red II hits FedEx, AT&T, the Associated Press, and especially Hotmail (oh, but I forgot: it's all hype!) http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168837.html http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/12679.html http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6826572.html http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-6820012.html http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6829312.html http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/08/09/code.red/ CAIDA Researchers Track New Infestations of "Code Red" http://www.npaci.edu/online/v5.16/wormreturns.html Code Red Virus "Most Expensive in History of Internet" (all such cost estimates are suspect, but send Microsoft the bill anyway) http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/12668.html intellectual property Big Music's Digital Nightmare (I like that: "big music", right up there with "big tobacco") http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=729127 NSI Supports Forcing All Domain Disputes to Virginia http://www.eff.org/Censorship/SLAPP/Forum_shopping/Heathmount_v_Technodome.com/20010802_eff_nsi_pr.html ICANN and the Problem of Legitimacy http://www.law.wayne.edu/weinberg/legitimacy.PDF everything else Windows XP: The Case for Unbundling It Now http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/aug2001/nf2001089_824.htm Microsoft's legal delaying tactics to get Windows XP into the market http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=730280 Baby Bell Breakup Movement Gains Ground http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-6818658.html broadband news and discussion site http://www.dslreports.com/ Warp Drive Underwater (the decline of Scientific American is sad, but this article is cool anyway) http://www.sciam.com/2001/0501issue/0501ashley.html The Internet's New Borders http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=730089 another article about the guy who got arrested for installing distributed.net http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2001/tc2001088_076.htm NSF announces funding for the Distributed Terascale Facility http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-supercomput.html http://www.npaci.edu/teragrid/ http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2001/nsf0151/nsf0151.pdf Toward a Unified View of Computer Supported Cooperative Work ftp://ftp.cti.dtu.dk/cscw/CSCWpapers/Mind_The_Gap.pdf ftp://ftp.cti.dtu.dk/cscw/CSCWpapers/CSCW_intro.pdf EU-funded research program on "The Disappearing Computer" http://www.disappearing-computer.net/ listen to Henry Kissinger rage as justice closes in (and study the PR techniques he uses to make and break mental associations) http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010808.atc.02.rmm "logging allies launch coordinated effort to cripple Rainforest Action Network" http://www.inthesetimes.com/web2520/hoffman2520.html LA Times Cutting 1,611 Positions http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/07/30/BU197866.DTL World of Debating Grows, and Vermont Is Its Lab http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/09/national/09DEBA.html end
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