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 end
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