Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. politics Trial Set for Suit on Voting Machines in California (if Bush v. Gore is a precedent then we should have dozens of these suits) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000070017aug29.story Bush's solemn promise to protect Social Security was only a "symbolic goal"! (this is why they worked so hard to stick the word "spin" on Clinton) http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20010828/3581245s.htm he made promises he knew were impossible to keep (this is not hindsight: serious economists explained it at length at the time) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/28/opinion/28KRUG.html http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/29/politics/29BUDG.html http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/28/politics/28BUDG.html The Congressional Budget Office Report http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/budget/cborpt801.pdf staggeringly vile conservative "humor" column from the Wall Street Journal (reviving another institution: ethnic jokes) http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=95001025 analysis of an impressively irrational article about the Klamath water fight (biggest lie: it's not "people vs. animals" -- other people eat those animals) http://www.spinsanity.org/posts/200108-4.html#23 privacy first Borders says it "suspended any plans to implement" face recognition ... http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO63359,00.html ... then it denies that it ever had any such intention http://www.politechbot.com/p-02447.html Church resistance to identity cards in Greece http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=97252 Davis Bids to Weaken Consumer Privacy Bill (bummer) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/08/29/MN169531.DTL What, No Privacy in Phone Calls? http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZIHKITWQC Pentagon Endorses Biometrics to Enhance Computer Security http://nationaldefense.ndia.org/article.cfm?Id=521 "Black Box" Recorder Developed for Operating Theatres (surgeons, okay, maybe, if it really helps, but where does it stop?) http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991197 threats to business from lack of security in instant messaging http://www.zdnet.com.au/biztech/ebusiness/story/0,2000010339,20257051,00.htm intellectual property California Panel May Affirm Prior Restraint in DVD Decryption Case http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZGZ3O4YQC Russian Programmer Indicted http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10349-2001Aug28.html http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/skylarov/indict82801.pdf http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Sklyarov/20010828_eff_sklyarov_elcomsoft_pr.html copyright: "institutions are trying to regain control over information flows" http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/9409/1.html Forecasts of an E-Book Era Were, It Seems, Premature (cyber people believed that having an idea meant that it could be done now) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/28/technology/ebusiness/28EBOO.html?pagewanted=all news from Planet Microsoft MS claims it dumped plug-ins for ActiveX for security reasons! (ActiveX is Exhibit A of MS's reckless approach to executing foreign code) http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/08/28/internet.explorer.ap/ Microsoft strategies to keep computers from running multiple operating systems http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1115/byt20010824s0001/ Campaign to Save WordPerfect for Mac http://www.geocities.com/bulgybear/wp.html Europe Information Society Technologies, Dusseldorf, 3-5 December 2001 http://www.europa.eu.int/information_society/newsroom/istevent/index_en.htm EU Information Society Technologies Programme http://www.cordis.lu/ist/home.html newsletter about "e-learning" in Europe http://www.prometeus.org/news/PROMETEUS_Newsletter9.pdf everything else The Changing Faces of Virtual Education http://www.col.org/virtualed/ US Settles with Internet Access Spammers (the punishment? they have to promise not to do it again) http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/13140.html Recordable DVD Standards Go Head-to-Head http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991208 Governments Push Open-Source Software http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6996393.html In Capitol, AT&T and Bells Fight to Control Web [sic] Access http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/29/technology/ebusiness/29NET.html article about the debate about how to report computer security problems http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/08/29/west/print.html funny story about Americans being natural organizers (walking around in shopping malls is an institution with interest groups!) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/28/national/28MALL.html?pagewanted=all GILC Alert (Global Internet Liberty Campaign) http://www.gilc.org/alert/ Neat New Stuff on the Net http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html Chicagoans Are Reading the Same Book at the Same Time (cool) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/28/books/28MOCK.html?pagewanted=all Baruch College Opens a Huge "Vertical Campus" (interesting story about design for density, which is a good thing) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/28/education/28BARU.html using bird costumes and ultralight planes to teach whooping cranes to migrate (savages control the government, but decent people are still fixing things) http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010827.atc.18.ram end
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