[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Thu Oct 04 2001 - 23:43:25 PDT

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    Here are some more URL's about normal subjects that don't cause
    children to have nightmares.  Thanks to everyone who contributed.
    
    RRE home page: <http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html>
    
    
    politics
    
    The Right and US Trade Law: Invalidating the 20th Century
    http://www.thenation.com/docPrint.mhtml?i=20011015&s=greider
    
    the smear machine is getting ready for John Edwards
    http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0110.green.html
    
    "John Dean talks about Richard Nixon's appointment of Chief Justice Rehnquist"
    http://www.salon.com/books/int/2001/10/02/dean/print.html
    
    
    news from Planet Microsoft
    
    Supreme Court to Take Up Microsoft Appeal on Friday
    http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO64408,00.html
    
    interview with Microsoft's antitrust expert witness
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1014-201-6271161-0.html
    
    Your Stolen Passport
    (including more Microsoft doubletalk about security)
    http://www.zdnet.com/filters/printerfriendly/0,6061,2814881-92,00.html
    
    Ban Outlook -- Now
    http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2814683,00.html
    
    All Public Hospitals in Gothenburg Sweden Crippled by Nimda Microsoft Worm
    http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.67.html#subj13
    
    80,000 Microsoft Servers "Disappear"
    (incredible)
    http://www.vnunet.com/News/1125766
    
    Microsoft Attempts to Allay Security Fears
    (pathetic)
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7396207.html
    http://www.secadministrator.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=22751
    
    Microsoft Stands by IIS Despite Gartner Recommendation
    (pathetic)
    http://www4.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/09/27/msoft.supports.IIS.idg/
    
    Mutiny Against Microsoft
    http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/cio/article/0,,11967_894871,00.html
    
    
    civil liberties
    
    Three Political Websites Downed After Government "Homeland Security" Threat
    http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/30/1859212
    
    Activists and Companies Confront Face Recognition Software
    http://www.notbored.org/ciberpais2.html
    
    Carnivore Substitute Keeps Feds Honest
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/21992.html
    
    New FTC Head Wants "Pause" in Push for Privacy Laws
    http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO64453,00.html
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/03/technology/03PRIV.html
    
    Zero-Knowledge Shelves Anonymity Tool
    (that sort of thing probably can't work unless it is built in)
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7412015.html
    
    Seeking Sunlight for a Prisoner in the Chinese Gulag
    http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000078572oct01.story
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    controversy over patent policy at the W3C
    http://davenet.userland.com/2001/09/30/patentsAndTheW3c
    http://www.openphd.net/W3C_Patent_Policy/
    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-patentpolicy-comment/2001Oct/
    
    Internal Memos Outline RIAA's Offensive Against Peer-To-Peer Networks
    http://www.dotcomscoop.com/riaamemo.html
    http://www.dotcomscoop.com/riaa1003.html
    
    
    wired university
    
    Hampshire College Favors Noncommercial Web Software Open to All
    http://chronicle.com/free/2001/10/2001100301t.htm
    
    Princeton Review Buys Online College-Admissions Service
    (important as "a sign of consolidation among dot-com college businesses")
    http://chronicle.com/free/2001/10/2001100401t.htm
    
    Scholar Calls Governments to Take a Realistic View Toward Distance Education
    http://chronicle.com/free/2001/10/2001100301u.htm
    
    Abilene Network Expands Beyond Research Universities
    http://chronicle.com/free/2001/10/2001100101t.htm
    
    
    wireless
    
    A Wireless Neighborhood Freenet
    http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1436/byt20010926s0003/1001_bar.html
    
    US wireless industry's fight for more spectrum
    http://www.redherring.com/index.asp?layout=story&channel=10000001&doc_id=790020279
    
    Impolite Cell Users, We Will Find You
    http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000079241oct04.column
    
    Motorola Creates Gas-Powered Cell Phones
    http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5097726,00.html
    
    
    everything else
    
    Digital Democracy and Civic Engagement, Washington, 15-17 November 2001 
    http://www.ncl.org/ncg/index.htm
    
    Electronic Voting at the Next ACT Legislative Assembly Election
    http://www.elections.act.gov.au/Elecvote.html
    http://www.elections.act.gov.au/media0104.html
    
    UN Wire
    http://www.unwire.org/
    
    Study of Science and Technology, York, UK, 31 July - 3 August 2002
    http://www.york.ac.uk/org/satsu/easst2002/
    
    Vulnerability of Transportation Infrastructure Relying on GPS
    http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/gps/geninfo/pressrelease.htm
    
    dot-com's blow up and people who bought inconsequential gadgets get hosed
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000079101oct03.story
    
    Postcard Purveyor to Sign Off
    (I used to live a couple of blocks from this shop)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000078576oct01.story
    
    American Field Guide
    ("over 1200 searchable video clips of American wilderness by PBS stations")
    http://www.pbs.org/americanfieldguide/
    
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