[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Tue Oct 16 2001 - 21:28:21 PDT

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    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
    
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