[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Wed Sep 05 2001 - 14:31:52 PDT

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    Here are some more URL's.  Thanks to everyone who contributed.
    
    
    politics
    
    Why the Supreme Court Should Not Have Decided the Presidential Election of 2000
    http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=281869
    
    article on four competing views of the future of Social Security
    (making clear just how wacky the Bush agenda is)
    http://www.usatoday.com/news/acovwed.htm
    
    Judicial Nominee Horsetrading Heats Up as Confirmation Process Gets Weighed
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ0136F2RC
    
    remember when Dear Leader was praised for recruiting a powerful cabinet?
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43165-2001Sep4.html
    
    conservatism means control of society by a narrow aristocracy, and it's back
    (don't believe me: go read Burke, Adams, Oakeshott, or Kirk)
    http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/orl-edpmargo03090301sep03.story
    
    Jesse Helms, White Racist
    (and conservative hero, eulogized with great eloquence and no visible dissent)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A10822-2001Aug28?language=printer
    
    
    news from Planet Microsoft
    
    yet another Microsoft worm
    (it's crazy that CNN has to carry reports this technical about security holes)
    http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/09/03/virus.exe.idg/
    
    SirCam Microsoft Worm Still a Serious Threat
    (does the damage from Microsoft viruses exceed Microsoft's annual sales?)
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7058505.html
    
    Experts Reject Code Red Microsoft II "Cleanup Worm" Plan
    http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/13322.html
    
    Did the FBI Ignore "Microsoft Code Red" Warning?
    http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/09/04/fbi.ignore.idg/
    
    Microsoft Aims to Be Entertainment King
    (it's talking big, but it's not clear what leverage it has)
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/624083.asp
    
    European Commission Adds Media Player to Microsoft Inquiry
    (get Linux, before the world is dominated by a company under endless EU review)
    http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20010831S0055
    
    
    security and privacy
    
    A Report on the Privacy Practices of Monster.com
    http://www.privacyfoundation.org/privacywatch/monster.asp
    
    "Verizon Wireless is leaking info about cell customers who use its Web site"
    (much technical follow-up at http://www.securityfocus.com/bugtraq/archive/)
    http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010904/13/1e560.html
    
    Dos and Don'ts of Client Authentication on the Web
    http://cookies.lcs.mit.edu/pubs/webauth:tr.pdf
    
    articles on the history of Web browser cookies
    (I wish they observed that a site doesn't know your name unless you tell it)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/04/technology/04COOK.html?pagewanted=all
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/05/technology/05COOK.html?pagewanted=all
    
    Technology Helps Authorities Keep a Constant Eye on Public
    (police in Virginia Beach plan to use face recognition technology)
    http://www.pilotonline.com/news/nw0827cam.html
    http://www.pilotonline.com/news/nw0706fac.html
    
    Coalition Declares December 24, 2001 to Be "World Subjectrights Day"
    (protest against surveillance cameras)
    http://wearcam.org/wsd.htm
    
    Judge Tosses Red-Light Camera Tickets
    (but on narrow grounds: a private firm had an incentive to make you guilty)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43080-2001Sep4.html
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000071732sep05.story
    
    A Broker on Your Dashboard
    ("somehow, it seems so 1999")
    http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/aug2001/nf2001094_043.htm
    
    Network Security, San Diego, 15-22 October 2001
    http://www.sans.org/NS2001/NS2001.htm
    
    archive of "Inside Risks" columns from Communications of the ACM
    http://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/insiderisks.html
    
    privacy and security links from University of Illinois
    http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/main.htm
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    How ICANN Policy Is Made (II)
    http://www.icannwatch.org/essays/dotau.htm
    http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=336
    
    Congressional politics of domain names
    http://www.interesting-people.org/200109/0030.html
    
    Adobe Says It Has No Responsibility For Dmitry
    http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,28875,00.html
    
    
    other technology-related stuff
    
    E-Government News From KableNET
    http://www.kable.co.uk/
    
    Ex-ORBS Owner Loses Defamation Suit
    (you'll recall that ORBS was the reason why spam regulation wasn't needed)
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/21439.html
    
    skeptical commentary on the HP-Compaq merger
    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=21247&threshold=1&mode=thread&commentsort=3
    
    Wearable Computing: Toward Humanistic Intelligence
    http://wearcam.org/ieeeis/ieeeis_intro.pdf
    
    Steve Mann's links relating to wearable computing
    http://wearcam.org/
    
    this Army recruiting site is one of the best Web sites I've ever seen
    (it's in the news because the Army surprisingly made its recruiting targets)
    http://www.goarmy.com/
    
    regular guy tries to get broadband working
    (imagine what broadband would be like under communism, and it's like that)
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/621462.asp
    
    design of a media art house/museum in Napa
    (their Tate Modern museum is an overrated mess, but this sounds interesting)
    http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=759571
    
    Tenure-Track Appointment in Social Implications of Computing
    http://www.sts.cornell.edu/position.htm
    
    
    everything else
    
    conference to promote a ban on human cloning, Boston, 21-22 September 2001
    http://www.bumc.bu.edu/www/sph/lw/website/index.htm
    
    collapse in fish stocks is caused by selfish people who don't respect democracy
    (everything is connected to everything else, but they pretend otherwise)
    http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/010910/misc/fishing.htm
    
    Consensus in Reading War If Sides Would Only Look
    (the extremists on both sides in the reading war are really scary)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/05/national/05LESS.html
    
    Long-Term Global Demographic Trends: Reshaping the Geopolitical Landscape
    http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/Demo_Trends_For_Web.pdf
    
    "huge operation to escort terrified Catholic children to a school in Belfast"
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,546763,00.html
    
    investigative report on the chaos at the World Bank
    http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_SeptOct_2001/fidler.html
    
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