Here are some more URL's about issues unrelated to anthrax. Thanks to everyone who contributed. news from Planet Microsoft Microsoft Security Glitch Allowed Access to Customer Records on Web (this bug is unbelievably stupid even by Microsoft's standards) http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/22164.html http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171002.html Convergence Indeed: Picking Cotton for Bill (argues that SSSCA would make all OS's illegal except Microsoft's) http://www.farces.com/farces/1002668279/ (Un)Ethics of Microsoft End User License Agreements http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/15/011015opethics.xml impact of Code Red on use of Microsoft servers http://www.netcraft.com/survey/ There'll Be No XP for Me http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/08/011008oplivingston.xml European Union Extends Microsoft Deadline http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZQ82V5PSC Microsoft Denies It Tried to Hinder Inquiry http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/11/technology/11SOFT.html Supreme Court Declines to Review Microsoft Appeal http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZLRFZ4MSC How to End Microsoft's Monopoly http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZSV9CDQSC intellectual property Law Professor Sparks a New Debate Over Flaws in Digital-Copyright Act http://chronicle.com/free/2001/10/2001101202t.htm European Union Anti-Trust "Threat" Over Music Download Sites http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/new_media/newsid_1600000/1600064.stm Licensing Deal Clouds Hearing Over Napster http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZY56D2PSC RIAA: We'll Smother Song Swappers http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2818064,00.html http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7535856.html New Net Domain "Fiasco" http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1593000/1593396.stm the Machine Learning Journal editorial board moves en masse to the net http://www.cs.orst.edu/~dambrosi/uai-archive/0822.html interesting story on saving old African records http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/features/2001/0825/fea5.htm privacy Identity and Anonymity: Some Conceptual Distinctions and Issues for Research http://web.mit.edu/gtmarx/www/identity.html Legislators Renew Push for Privacy Rules http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7507041.html Committee of Scholars Proposes Ethics Guidelines for Research in Cyberspace http://chronicle.com/free/2001/10/2001101102t.htm The Easiest Way to Monitor Your PC! http://www.keykatcher.com/ wireless The Internet, Untethered http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=811934 In Europe, 2.5G Goes Nowhere Fast http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2001/nf2001109_1994.htm Cell Phone Messaging on the Rise in US http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-7507617.html An 802.11 ISP on Maine's Rocky Coast http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2001/10/12/maine.html Unofficial 802.11 Security Web Page http://www.drizzle.com/~aboba/IEEE/ home and school "the nature of the Internet is that it separates children from their families" (it depends what you mean by "the Internet") http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0920/p11s1-stin.htm profile of a primary school integrating computers into its curriculum http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/style/postmagazine/A19640-2001Sep12.html study of teens' use of the Internet for educational purposes http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/pdfs/PIP_Schools_Report.pdf Home Computers and Internet Use in the United States http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/p23-207.pdf A University Replaces Many PC's With "Information Appliances" http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i08/08a03101.htm Bandwidth Capped for Dorm Residents http://www.dailycal.org/article.asp?id=6538&ref=search technology Augmenting Individuals and Transforming Society http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2001/nsf01149/nsf01149.htm Collaborative Open Source Design http://www.thinkcycle.org/ http://www.mit.edu/~tprester/DtM/ Qwest First Phone Company Junking POTS for Internet Telephony http://www.interactiveweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D1825%2526a%253D16375,00.asp Google Lite (for PDA users and those who find Google's new home page too bloated) http://www.google.com/ie Circuits That Bug Out Bugs (I'm not entirely sure that this article is serious) http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,47361,00.html conferences Digital ID Forum, London, 7-8 November 2001 http://www.digitalidforum.com/ Robotics and Factories of the Future, Porto, 3-5 July 2002 http://www.inescporto.pt/~cars-fof Collective Cognition, Santa Fe, 21-25 January 2002 http://www.santafe.edu/~dynlearn/colcog/ International Society for Literature and Science, Aarhus, 8-12 May 2002 http://imv.au.dk/SLS-Europe/ everything else "companies represented by top Silicon Valley law firms received shoddy advice" http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZPHNVM0SC ethics of dot-com bankruptcy strategies http://news.findlaw.com/ap/ht/1700/10-14-2001/20011014180820440.html Is AOL Censoring Liberal E-Mail? http://www.bushnews.com/aol.htm like ROTC, but for computer security http://www.ciao.gov/Programs/sfs.htm FTC Promises Spam Crackdown http://www.wfaa.com/techarticle/1,3822,33067,00.html Directory of Public Libraries of Europe http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/ac940/eurolib.html "exploring artists' use of the global communications network" http://telematic.walkerart.org/ IT and Organizational Change in Digital Economies http://www.slis.indiana.edu/kling/pubs/ITorg_00.html Learning in Context: Computerized Work Groups as Communities-of-Practice http://www.slis.indiana.edu/kling/pubs/amit95d.htm Mexicans Move to Pry Open Potentially Explosive Files http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/12/international/americas/12MEXI.html?pagewanted=print Internet challenge to regional newspapers http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/sep01/jenkins.asp Cybernetics: Enhancing Human Performance (I regard cybernetics with mixed horror and fascination) http://stinet.dtic.mil/dticrev/vol5-number3.html Media Lab Europe http://www.medialabeurope.org/ Knowledge City project at the University of Sao Paolo http://www.cidade.usp.br/redemoinhos/ The Internet and Civil Society http://www.puaf.umd.edu/IPPP/reports/vol20fall00/Fall2000.pdf Community Works: The Revival of Civil Society in America http://brookings.nap.edu/books/0815718675/html/ Florida Is Developing New Rules for Counting Mismarked Ballots http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/12/politics/12VOTE.html GAO Finds Voting Problems Nationwide http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64788-2001Oct16.html by and about Joe Stiglitz, who won a Nobel economics prize the other day (his work on information is very deep and despised by conservatives) http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1591000/1591524.stm http://www.worldbank.org/html/prddr/trans/m&j96/art10.htm http://www.prospect.org/print/V10/45/chait-j.html http://www.dse.de/ef/instn/stiglitz.htm background on the attacks against Michael Bellesiles (I have no idea if he's right or wrong; it's the tone that's worrisome) http://www.linguafranca.com/0002/showdown.html http://www.google.com/search?q=Michael+Bellesiles&btnG=Google+Search http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/17/national/17GUNS.html?pagewanted=print http://www.law.nyu.edu/nobler/guncontrol/ lengthy, graphic radio report on the evidence against Slobodan Milosevic http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20011015.atc.06.ram end
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