[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Fri Aug 31 2001 - 08:51:27 PDT


Here are some more URL's.  Thanks to everyone who contributed.


politics

economic perversity of those backloaded tax cuts
(Bush keeps saying they're arriving at just the right time, but he's lying)
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/31/opinion/31KRUG.html

"personal investment accounts" are government bureaucracy on androstenedione
(look, they're trying to shut down the public schools and Social Security)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/619528.asp

a good sampling of Bush quotes on the Social Security money he's spending
http://www.democrats.com/display.cfm?id=241

Bush Plans "Space Bomber"
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,529208,00.html

Intercepted Missiles Could Fall on Europe
(it's too hard to track all the stories on the stupidity of missile defense)
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991210

jargon watch: Reason article *again* repeats conservative smear of Paul Begala
(the logic here is extraordinarily twisted: you really must savor it)
http://www.reason.com/0103/co.cy.many.html

jargon watch: you can say *anything* if you just make it a little vague
(in this case, the wacky claim that Jesse Helms was indifferent to race)
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/iprn/20010829/cm/slandering_jesse_helms_1.html


news from Planet Microsoft

US Report: Code Red Computer Worm Born in China
http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem-printer/0-9900-1021-7017660.html
			       
campus networks continue to be scanned by Microsoft-infected machines
http://chronicle.com/free/2001/08/2001082901t.htm

Breaking Microsoft's e-Book Code
http://www.technologyreview.com/web/roush/roush083001.asp

a whole new world of security attacks on Microsoft products
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20010830/3589733s.htm

European Union Expands Antitrust Probe of Microsoft
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22236-2001Aug30.html


privacy

Ross Anderson on copyright and medical privacy
http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/med-privacy/2001q3/000276.html

latest on attempts to ban automatic face recognition in Florida
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/083101/met_7161286.html

International Day of Action Against Video Surveillance, 7 September 2001
http://sf.indymedia.org/display.php?id=103333

Australian ISP's Forced to Abet "Orwellian Creep"
http://www.zdnet.com.au/printfriendly?AT=2000020814-20257583

more economists defending privacy invasion on grounds of economic efficiency
(this case it's the rental car company with the GPS tracking devices)
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/31/opinion/31AYRE.html

Personal Information Handling Practices of the Canadian Firearms Program
(this, for you Americans, is what a privacy commissioner's report looks like)
http://www.privcom.gc.ca/information/fr_010813_e.pdf


intellectual property

legal and economic aspects of radio stations streaming on the net
(good news: independent stations with unique offerings are positioned best)
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010830.atc.15.ram

Reporter to the Register of Copyrights Pursuant to Section 104 of the DMCA
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/reports/sec-104-report-vol-1.pdf
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/08/31/dmca_report/print.html
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46440,00.html

the long arm of the DMCA reaches all the way to New Zealand
(remember when the Internet was going to make territorial laws obsolete?)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=211491


conferences

EU/IST Meeting on Technology Supported Learning, Luxembourg, 1 October 2001
http://www.proacte.com/challenge/

Institute of Museum and Library Services, Washington, 7-9 November 2001
http://www.imls.gov/conference/index.htm

Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, San Diego, 6-8 February 2002
http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/ndss/02/index.shtml

Computers in Libraries, Washington, 13-15 March 2002
http://www.infotoday.com/cil2002/default.htm


everything else

Making New Technologies Work for Human Development
http://www.undp.org/hdr2001/

Programmers to Encode Human Behaviour
(I've no idea whether this is connected to reality, but it's sure a phenomenon)
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991192
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2001-02-28-a.html
http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/humanML.html
http://www.virtuum.com/humanml.htm

court ruling that Australians can sue anyone worldwide for online defamation
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,2705557%255E421,00.html
http://australianit.news.com.au/common/storyPage/0,3811,2706219%5E442,00.html
http://australianit.news.com.au/common/storyPage/0,3811,2705264%5E442,00.html

Sysadmin Spy Left Digital Trail
(including details on the US intelligence intranet)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/21327.html

Tarnished New Economy Loses More Luster
(when you take the productivity numbers apart, there ain't no there there)
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/30/business/30SCEN.html

skeptical financial analysis of AOL Time Warner
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/aug2001/nf20010831_301.htm

bizarre right-wing site covering the Klamath water controversy
http://www.sierratimes.com/

debunking complaints about dropping SAT scores
(an ever-broader base of students has college ambitions, and that's good)
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/29/education/29LESS.html

article on PR critic John Stauber
(it's mind-boggling to realize we're saturated with antirational PR messages)
http://www.westchesterweekly.com/articles/prnation.html

the mother of all fences will protect the IMF meetings in Washington
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16237-2001Aug29.html

Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
http://www.journale.com/withoutsanctuary/

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