[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Mon Aug 27 2001 - 16:33:05 PDT

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    Here are some more URL's.  Thanks to everyone who contributed.
    
    
    election
    
    Court Scrutinized for Supreme Intervention
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000069129aug26.story
    
    1 Person, 1 Vote -- Not in America
    http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59815-2001Aug24.html
    
    "J. Edgar Hoover waged a war of enmity against Al Gore Sr."
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48873-2001Aug22.html
    
    ... much like the war the Washington Post waged against Al Gore Jr.
    (the media especially despises Gore for his rational discussion of real issues)
    http://www.dailyhowler.com/h082301_1.shtml
    
    
    politics
    
    having gotten tax cuts, Bush has forgotten about his social spending promises
    (and he's acting like it's a surprise that there's no money)
    http://latimes.com/news/politics/la-082401tommy.story
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000068531aug24.story
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/238/oped/The_brutal_price_of_Bush_s_tax_cut+.shtml
    
    one thing's constant: he's pretending that the numbers add up when they don't
    (and having promised big spending, he's lecturing Congress not to spend!)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/24/opinion/24KRUG.html
    http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpcoc232332872aug23.column
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/24/opinion/24FRI11.html
    http://www.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/08/23/corporate.taxes/
    
    he viciously abuses the media, which then tells everyone what a nice guy he is
    http://www.consortiumnews.com/2001/082701a.html
    
    The Guards of Our "Captive Agencies"
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/239/oped/The_guards_of_our_captive_agencies_+.shtml
    
    Comments Presented to the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security
    http://www.cepr.net/Social_Security/baker_comments_to_committee.htm
    
    impressive new report of FBI bungling in the Lee case
    (Republicans ignored Louis Freeh's incompetence because he whacked Clinton)
    http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A623-2001Aug26.html
    
    let's remember who the conservatives' favorite, Jesse Helms, really was
    http://www.charlotte.com/observer/natwor/docs/hudson0823.htm
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/sunopinion/la-000069248aug26.story
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/25/politics/25LIVE.html
    
    The Enduring Legacy of the South's Civil War Victory
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/26/weekinreview/26DAVI.html?pagewanted=all
    
    restoring another conservative institution: hereditary aristocracy
    (one party's kids get elected; the other party's kids get appointed)
    http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010822/pl/bush_hiring_kin_1.html
    
    
    news from Planet Microsoft
    
    a new variant of the Code Red II Microsoft worm is spreading
    (but we sophisticates are used to the idea that the net is infested with worms)
    http://webserv.vnunet.com/News/1124977
    http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2807674,00.html
    
    another extremely dangerous attack on Windows machines
    (oh, but it spreads by e-mail, not automatically, so I guess it's all hype)
    http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,5096155,00.html
    http://webserv.vnunet.com/News/1124976
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6961705.html
    
    and *another* extremely dangerous attack on Windows machines
    (and yes, you're right, this one is a buffer-overflow attack)
    http://www.incidents.org/diary/august2001.php#132
    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms01-023.asp
    
    Microsoft's Browser Update Riles Critics
    (more details here on MS's unilateral destruction of the "plugin" standard)
    http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/ms082401.htm
    
    Antitrust Policy: A Century of Economic and Legal Thinking
    http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/~shapiro/century.pdf
    
    "the MS case now is officially under the supervision of Cheney's son-in-law"
    http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A715-2001Aug26.html
    
    
    privacy
    
    Borders is planning to use face recognition to identify shop-lifters
    http://www.sundayherald.com/18007/
    
    Florida City Moves to Ban Face-Recognition System
    http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/fcw2.htm
    
    Good Monitors Make for Better Contracts
    (interesting economics; too bad about the privacy policy)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/23/business/23SCEN.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Task Force on Privacy, Technology, and Criminal Justice Information
    http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/rntfptcj.htm
    
    As Public Records Go Online, Some Say They're Too Public
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/24/nyregion/24VOTE.html
    
    FBI's "Carnivore" Might Target Wireless Text
    http://www.washtech.com/news/regulation/12051-1.html
    
    alarming legal escalation in secrecy of digital surveillance technology
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/25/technology/25CODE.html
    
    Personal Privacy in the Digital Age, Blacksburg, VA, 28-30 October 2001
    http://www.conted.vt.edu/privacy.htm
    
    
    human rights
    
    interview with the author of a book about truth commissions
    (a globalized institution that isn't destructive)
    http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/wesat/20010825.wesat.12.ram
    
    "Humanrightsism" and the Int'l Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
    http://wwics.si.edu/ees/reports/2000/191hay.htm
    
    Colombia Support Network
    http://www.colombiasupport.net/
    
    Democracy and the Information Revolution
    http://www.ceip.org/files/Publications/idea.asp?p=5&from=pubdate
    
    
    everything else
    
    Global Warming: Early Warning Signs
    http://www.climatehotmap.org/
    
    "genetically modified crops are being driven into reluctant markets"
    http://www.monbiot.com/dsp_article.cfm?article_id=446
    
    Law and Politics Book Review
    http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/lpbr/
    
    another issue of Economics Reporting Review
    (I won't filter it regularly, but do give it a chance)
    http://www.tompaine.com/news/2001/08/20/
    
    An MLS via Distance Learning: A Conversation  
    http://librarians.about.com/library/weekly/aa081101a.htm
    
    Librarians Serving Genealogists  
    http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/genealib/
    
    Acoustics and Vibration Animations
    (you already know the first several slides, but scroll down and try again)
    http://www.kettering.edu/~drussell/demos.html
    
    the move to part-time faculty is destroying Australia's universities
    (and not just Australia's)
    http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/2001/08/26/FFXX1DDASQC.html
    
    Groups Ask States to Investigate Channel One's Payments to School Employees
    http://www.commercialalert.org/releases/agrel.html
    
    Mathematical Knowledge Management, Austria, 24-26 September 2001
    (let's create a global hyperlinked registry of theorems)
    http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/institute/conferences/MKM2001/
    
    Copy-Proof CDs Shrouded in Secrecy
    http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Stealth-CDs.html
    
    How the Sklyarov Case Exposes the Power of the Copyright Lobby
    http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20010821_chander.html
    
    interesting article about the fate of local newspaper sites online
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/27/business/media/27WEB.html
    
    Distributed Denial of Service Attacks: Who Pays?
    http://www.mazunetworks.com/radin-toc.html
    
    Online Submission Process Fails Medical School Hopefuls
    (why do bureaucrats keep believing lies about when systems will work?)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000068762aug25.story
    
    rant against hidden software that changes incoming Web pages
    http://www.scumware.com/
    
    The Construction of Marketplace Architecture
    http://www.stanford.edu/%7Efbar/Drafts/emarketplaces.pdf
    
    the cyberspace fad is a leading cause of a dangerous worldwide recession
    (and the real uses of information technology are making it more dangerous)
    http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=748689
    
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