[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Sun Aug 12 2001 - 15:00:58 PDT

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    Here are some more URL's.  Thanks to everyone who contributed.
    
    
    election
    
    Katherine Harris' speech to the Florida Republican meeting in Orlando
    (found on her official state computer)
    http://www.floridatoday.com/news/local/stories/2001/aug/loc081001harrisorl.htm
    
    Harris' "Firewall" Is Falling Apart 
    http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/news/081001/Opinion/ST001.shtml
    
    Election Reform: Late and Underpriced?
    http://web.tallahasseedemocrat.com/content/tallahassee/2001/08/12/local/0812.loc.elections.htm
    
    many conservatives are downright fanatical about voter suppression
    (note, e.g., the oft-repeated whopper that the only problem was with voters)
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/donfeder/df20010808.shtml
    
    Meager Turnout for Online Voting Project
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6840757.html
    
    citizen groups using computers to challenge redistricting proposals
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000065176aug11.story
    
    
    politics
    
    Bush claims he "pulled back a rushed piece of regulation" -- the arsenic rule
    (conservatives' false accusations of lying have numbed us to actual lies)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000065081aug11.story
    
    authoritarians push their own agenda no matter what the people want
    (conservatism implies a divinely ordained hierarchy of authority)
    http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=203539
    
    An Inside Look at ABA's Judicial Ratings Committee
    (the false rants about bias are just a means of escaping accountability)
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ5IHYH8QC
    
    Administration's Own Survey Indicates Little Need for Faith-Based Legislation
    http://www.aclu.org/congress/HUDSurveyReport.PDF
    
    Deconstructing John Ashcroft's Second Amendment
    http://www.vpc.org/studies/ashcont.htm
    
    global warming and urban sprawl are causing widespread water shortages
    (wasn't there a candidate who cared about those issues?)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/12/national/12WATE.html?pagewanted=all
    
    "the electricity deregulation fiasco is coming to a state near you"
    http://prospect.org/print/V12/15/goozner-m.html
    
    
    security
    
    Code Red II's port scanning strategy is fouling up a lot of local networks
    http://www.itworld.com/Sec/3832/NWw010810codered/pfindex.html
    http://www.internetwk.com/story/INW20010810S0006
    http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,57724,00.asp
    
    a snapshot of the widespread hassles with Code Red II
    http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/business/article/0,1299,DRMN_4_798272,00.html
    http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/business/article/0,1299,DRMN_4_799048,00.html
    
    Code Red Creates Hacker Hit List
    (and many people may be running IIS without knowing it -- they're hosed)
    http://www.antionline.com/showthread.php?threadid=87828
    
    A Warhol Worm: An Internet Plague in 15 Minutes!
    http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/warhol.html
    
    Tool to Remove Obvious Effects of the Code Red II Worm
    (they're still working on the tool to remove underlying causes)
    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/security/tools/redfix.asp
    
    
    privacy
    
    China to Share in US Firm's Face-Reading Technology 
    (think what they could do with a database of 1.2B mug shots!)
    http://www.washtimes.com/national/20010810-35270964.htm 
    
    Tampa face recognition cameras: "They made me feel like a criminal"
    http://www.sptimes.com/News/080801/TampaBay/_They_made_me_feel_li.shtml
    
    more on the war over Passport
    http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,57844,00.asp
    
    
    design
    
    Role Playing in Concept Design of Mobile Services and Devices
    http://www.cs.hut.fi/~pmrg/publications/2000/p193-iacucci.pdf
    
    Interaction Spaces for 21st Century Computing
    http://hci.stanford.edu/~winograd/papers/21st/
    
    introduction to a forthcoming journal issue on context-aware computing
    http://hci-journal.com/editorial/si-context-aware-intro.pdf
    
    Artists' Projects for the Web
    http://www.diacenter.org/rooftop/webproj/index.html
    
    European Network for Intelligent User Interfaces, Basel, 25-28 September 2001
    http://www.i3net.org/ac2001/orbitcomdex/
    
    online proceedings of earlier i3 conferences, plus the i3 magazine
    http://www.i3net.org/ser_pub/publications/
    
    Designing for Communities, Ivrea, Italy, 1-10 September 2001
    http://www.i3summerschool.org/
    
    
    everything else
    
    Cornell Library's site publicizing outrageous journal costs
    http://www.englib.cornell.edu/displays/stickershock/
    
    site that aggregates 1000 biologists' recommendations of research papers
    (one of those ideas that's great if it works)
    http://www.facultyof1000.com/info/
    
    "the bandwidth vs QoS debate continues as providers rethink overprovisioning"
    http://www.theneteconomy.com/article.asp?section=3&article_id=080601_net_1
    
    Credit Cards With Chips Have Little Use in US
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/12/business/12CARD.html?pagewanted=all
    
    how annoying can online advertising possibly get? just you wait
    (the latest fashion involves obscure applications snuck onto your machine)
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/07/30/BU231339.DTL
    
    story about knowledge-sharing at the Cemetery Skills Competition
    (fascinating hybrid of industrial work-discipline and professional conference)
    http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010809.atc.17.rmm
    
    ACLU Defends Ohio Eighth Grader Expelled for Humorous Web Site Created at Home
    http://www.aclu.org/news/2001/n072601f.html
    
    shape up with Steve Ballmer   (deeply disturbing)
    http://www.ntk.net/ballmer/mirrors.html
    
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