Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. election Voting Rights Group Sues Florida Over Election Reform (conservatives fight voting rights because they fear democracy) http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2001/08/15/florida/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17529-2001Aug15.html http://www.aclufl.org/electionlaw081501.html Republicans learn about "Winning Through Election Reform" from Katherine Harris http://www.orgop.org/OR2001-WesternLdrshpRegist.pdf Broward Officials Want Students to Try Hacking Mock Election http://ap.tbo.com/ap/florida/MGAJ6W8YGQC.html politics Congressional Budget Office says the Bush "budget" spends Social Security money http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20010816/3548419s.htm The Neglected Facts (this will seem boring at first, but slow down and give it a chance) http://www.tompaine.com/news/2001/08/13/ an impressively ugly story about the HMO "deal" and the Bush guy behind it http://www.thenewrepublic.com/082001/lizza082001.html Bush's Stem Cell Estimates Disputed http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26831-2001Aug17.html Bush Decided One Month Ago About Stem Cell Compromise http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010812/nysu005a.html Social Security Dismantling Commission to Have Closed Meetings http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-wh/2001/aug/17/081705780.html GAO Demands Bush Surrender Cheney Records http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26857-2001Aug17.html http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000066942aug18.story On Missile Defense: A Pattern of Deception http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/08/12/ED213628.DTL http://cgi.cbs.com/video/video.pl?url=cbs/cbs/demand/20000601/martin_cbs_scam_20.rm felony charges against missile defense "test" protesters http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,537084,00.html Republicans discover that the military acts like any other interest group http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20010813-6004592.htm media coverage of Al Gore is absolutely bizarre (and they're *still* saying that he claimed to have invented the Internet!) http://www.dailyhowler.com/h081401_1.shtml http://www.dailyhowler.com/h081101_1.shtml laugh-out-loud deconstruction of the WSJ's attack on Hillary over cockfighting (but it fits the party line: elitist Hillary hates the red states) http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2001/cockfight.html Rush versus Reality http://communities.msn.com/RushversusReality&naventryid=111 security SirCam: The Worm That Won't Die (Microsoft has convinced people this sort of travesty is just a fact of life) http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,46087,00.html Hacking IIS -- How Sweet It Is http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/20960.html Microsoft systems-engineer training downplays security http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/stories/0,1199,NAV47-81_STO63028,00.html Microsoft Retracts XP Virus-Protection Claim http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/08/17/microsoft.security.ap/ PDAs Increasingly Vulnerable to Hackers http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-202-6894699.html Microsoft's many threats to privacy (as distinct from its many threats to security) Privacy Group Attacks Windows XP, Passport http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6886386.html http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001-08-15-xp-privacy-complaint.htm Passport 2.0 Ready for a Stamp http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/08/17/passport.2.0.idg/ MS Passport: Straight to the FTC http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,46095,00.html Microsoft, Banks Battle to Control Your E-Info http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20010813/3540771s.htm everyone else's threats to privacy MTA Gives Court Toll-Use Data http://www.globe.com/dailyglobe2/225/business/MTA_gives_court_toll_use_data+.shtml Charlotte Car Tags to Be on Candid Camera http://www.wral.com/news/910501/ Green Light for Clever Speed Cameras http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,2763,536549,00.html DC Plans ID Card for Students http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12001-2001Aug14.html Web Sites Fail Global Privacy Standards http://news.excite.com/news/r/010816/11/net-tech-privacy-dc Think Tank Urges Face-Scanning of the Masses http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/20966.html Super Bowl Surveillance: Facing Up to Biometrics http://www.rand.org/publications/IP/IP209/IP209.pdf "group seeks recruits to take photos at clinics, post them on the Internet" http://www.starnews.com/print/articles/abort17.html news from Planet Microsoft (except for all of its many threats to security and privacy) Microsoft to Change Software After Kodak Complaint http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Microsoft-Kodak.html Lords of Net Duel -- But Probably Not to the Death (temporary URL) http://www.usatoday.com/money/bcovthu.htm How Microsoft Is Using Its Own Legal Defeat to Hurt Java http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010816.html everything else Will Open Source Lose the Battle for the Web? http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-08-13-009-20-OP Open Source Software Development, Newcastle, 25-26 February 2002 http://www.dirc.org.uk/events/ossdw_ncl.html Open Cultures and Free Knowledge, Berlin, 11-13 October 2001 http://www.mikro.org/Events/OS/wos2/topics-e.html Free Online Scholarship Newsletter http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/ The Internet Can Be Controlled http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/sep01/mannall.asp Open Relay Database (roughly 100,000 hosts that can be used to send spam) http://ordb.org/ Digital Camera Scam Takes New Twist http://www.msnbc.com/news/613759.asp Censorship in Action: Why I Don't Publish My HDCP Results http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.61.html#subj1 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/236 Computers, Freedom and Privacy, San Francisco, 16-19 April 2002 http://www.cfp2002.org/ UK dot.com Victims to Sue http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,538186,00.html Enron Goes Overboard http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/17/opinion/17KRUG.html state-of-the-art movie industry strategy: saturation hype for bad movies (pack 'em in on opening weekend so you don't get killed by word-of-mouth) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000065461aug12.story excerpts from Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber's new book on PR http://www.tompaine.com/features/2001/01/26/ http://www.tompaine.com/features/2001/01/29/ http://www.tompaine.com/features/2001/01/30/ http://www.tompaine.com/features/2001/01/30/2.html in a reasonable world, science would decide whether and when biotech is safe http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200107/charman.asp British police trying to prevent showing of a film about deaths in custody http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,535583,00.html end
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