Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. politics courts are applying Bush v. Gore as a voting rights precedent http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ8YHXHCRC their policies are a covert revolution, not attempts to solve real problems (e.g., back-loaded tax cuts that crush the economy under high interest rates) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/08/politics/08BUDG.html http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/09/opinion/09KRUG.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54940-2001Sep6.html http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/09/politics/09BUSH.html?pagewanted=all http://www.consortiumnews.com/2001/090901a.html Balanced Budget May Require $10 Billion From Social Security (if the recession started during Clinton, why did their tax plan ignore it?) http://www.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/09/07/bush.budget/ the solution to every problem, apparently, is a tax cut for the rich (oh, right, let's provoke a wave of capital-gains selling in a down market) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62418-2001Sep8.htm it's good to see a US "president" totally outplayed by the president of Mexico (but less good to see him totally outplayed by the president of Russia) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/08/international/americas/08ASSE.html a pleasingly ugly story about Phil Gramm's retirement http://j-marshall.com/talk/sept0102.html#090801138pm privacy generally depressing slashdot discussion of my face-recognition article (I've updated it with responses to the arguments I hadn't mentioned before) http://slashdot.org/articles/01/09/08/007202.shtml Law Enforcement Alliance of America's Opposition to Face Recognition Software http://www.notbored.org/leaa.html Webcams everywhere (this would have been cool five years ago, but now it's just surveillance) http://www.earthcam.com/ What's In the Driver's License Bar Code? http://schram.net/articles/barcode.html OBD-III Frequently Asked Questions (dangerous scheme to track your car for purposes of emissions enforcement) http://www.sema.org/faq/obdIII.cfm http://www.autotestreport.com/2001_Articles/04_articles.htm#OBD European Parliament Adopts "Echelon" Report http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/09/07/echelon.report.idg/ Telemarketer Fight a Real Call to Arms http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000072832sep09.story Workplace Surveillance, Denver, 25 September 2001 http://www.privacyfoundation.org/worksurv.asp "an online consumer privacy guide recently developed by Industry Canada" http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/ca01298e.html American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression http://www.abffe.org/ http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/editorial/sfl-edittdbookssep09.story jargon watch: exaggerated, trivialized straw man "myths" (note how they break rational arguments down into symbols and associations) http://www.pacificresearch.org/issues/tech/privacy/privacy_home.html jargon watch: some companies exploit the privacy issue, so it's all hype (it should be considered editorial malpractice to publish nonsense like this) http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-090901balzar.column intellectual property Microsoft's plan for world domination through rights management standards (downloadable zipped PowerPoint presentation) http://www.microsoft.com/winhec/presents/Security.zip proposed Security Systems Standards and Certification Act (bill that requires OS's to include gov't-appoved rights management software) http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/sssca-draft.pdf http://slashdot.org/articles/01/09/08/0238200.shtml security experts take their work off the Web for fear of prosecution under DMCA http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5096701,00.html Canadian "DMCA" in the Works -- Short Deadline http://www.eff.org/alerts/20010907_eff_canada_cpdci_alert.html critical coverage of last week's ICANN meeting in Uruguay http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=351 http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=350 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1528000/1528930.stm hackers got into the Lego Mindstorms OS -- so what happens next? http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,16981,FF.html other news from Planet Microsoft "Conduct" Remedy in Microsoft Draws Fire http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZSC6WECRC Code Blue Microsoft Worm Deemed Bigger Threat Than Code Red http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/09/07/010907hncodeblue.xml http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,61163,00.asp http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,46624,00.html .NET: Is Microsoft Its Own Worst Enemy? http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,,3_880821,00.html everything else The Information Society -- special issue on community networking http://www.slis.indiana.edu/TIS/basic_info/cfpict.html review of Internet art http://www.thenewrepublic.com/online/frye090701.html "the European parliament has bungled its latest attempt to outlaw spam" http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/21539.html Information Operations, Washington, DC, 14-15 November 2001 http://www.janes.com/security/conference/info_op/info_op.shtml "the first (so far as we know) fully-streamed, live-online-all-the-time prof" http://128.100.238.104:8080/ramgen/encoder/deibert.rm http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~rdeibert/teaching/pol108y/pol108y.html members of the LA Chowhound restaurant site who organized a F2F BBQ taste test (now this is what the Internet is for) http://chowhound.com/california/boards/losangeles/messages/10194.html http://chowhound.com/california/boards/losangeles/messages/10207.html http://chowhound.com/california/boards/losangeles/messages/9896.html "electronic actions and tools for the eActivist" http://www.eactivist.org/ review of an interesting book about British working-class intellectual life http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/08/arts/08CONN.html what counts as racial progress in Tuscaloosa http://www.salon.com/mwt/wire/2001/09/07/racial_barrier/ end
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