[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Sat Oct 20 2001 - 10:42:11 PDT

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    Here are some more URL's on topics that don't involve ground troops in
    Afghanistan.  Thanks to everyone who contributed.
    
    
    election
    
    recent GAO reports about election reform
    http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?gao-02-3
    http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?gao-02-122
    http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?gao-02-52
    http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?gao-02-90
    
    Most Vote Machinery Worked, GAO Says
    ("most"? well I should hope so -- yet other problems are endemic)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5116-2001Oct16.html
    
    LA County Voting Machine Status Report
    http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.70.html#subj4
    
    new research on the failure modes of Votomatic voting machines
    (some ballot positions are much more prone to jamming than others)
    http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/cards/chad.html
    
    Recounting That Recount, Detail by Detail by Detail
    (reviews of his impeachment book, though, did not inspire confidence)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/18/books/18MASL.html
    
    
    politics
    
    the Republicans refuse to pass even noncontroversial anti-recession measures
    (instead, all of their "economic policies" are aimed at helping the rich)
    http://www.thenewrepublic.com/102901/chait102901.html
    
    $212 Billion House GOP "Stimulus" Tax Bill Would Almost Double Bush Tax Cuts
    (they will use *anything* to push their fixed agenda, no matter how senseless)
    http://www.ctj.org/html/stimulus.htm
    
    economic disaster in the states
    http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/editorial/1095707
    
    Norton's Questionable Data Heat Up Arctic Debate
    (they say "science science science" but then pick the bits that suit them)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000083440oct19.story
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18216-2001Oct18.html
    http://ens-news.com/ens/oct2001/2001L-10-19-06.html
    
    Alright, Let's Feel Real Bad For Limbaugh
    (don't mock his disability, but his mocking others' disabilities is fair game)
    http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpren182419763oct18.column
    
    conservative hero Ann Coulter is accused of plagiarism
    (though this column reporting the charges hardly proves them)
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/291/living/_High_Crimes_and_misuse_+.shtml
    
    Pat Robertson: His Liberia Deal
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24081-2001Oct19.html
    
    astoundingly vicious attack on non-Christians by conservatives in Georgia
    (more jargon: oppressing others by falsely accusing them of oppressing you)
    http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20011016.atc.09.ram
    
    
    news from Planet Microsoft
    
    Windows XP May Spark Ultimate Battle to Own the Net
    (week-long series)
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-201-7540650-0.html
    
    Office XP Error Reporting May Send Sensitive Documents to Microsoft
    (pathetic)
    http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/m-005.shtml
    
    Microsoft to Hackers: Don't Publish Code
    (Earth to Microsoft: Don't Sell Junk)
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7560391.html
    
    Microsoft Rallies Industry Against Bug Anarchy
    (it's trying to suppress reports on its security problems)
    http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171173.html
    http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20011017/tc/microsoft_stop_leaking_bug_code__1.html
    
    Consumer's Bid Against Microsoft Tests Federal Antitrust Doctrine
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ1TFKK0TC
    
    
    privacy
    
    Data Mining, Maebashi City, Japan, 26-29 November 2002
    http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/icdm02/
    
    Toyota, Sony Develop Mood-Sharing, Tail-Wagging Car
    (can you imagine how annoying it would be?)
    http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-autos-pod.html
    
    Phone Lie Detectors to Test Insurance Claims
    http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001361276,00.html
    
    A Federal Privacy Commission? That's Right
    http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2001/nf20011018_5933.htm
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    Government's Motion to Dismiss (Felten v. RIAA)
    (Ed Felten wants a court to say that his research is legal under the DMCA)
    http://www.eff.org/Legal/Cases/Felten_v_RIAA/20010925_doj_mtd_memo.pdf
    
    Music Industry's Plans Spark Antitrust Concern
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7577542.html
    
    Forty Computer Scientists Abandon a Print Journal for Its Online Competitor
    http://chronicle.com/free/2001/10/2001101801t.htm
    
    Towards Electronic Journals: Realities for Scientists, Librarians, and Publishers
    http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?11.084
    
    "virtual symposium on the Web's impact on reading, writing, and knowledge"
    http://www.text-e.org/index.cfm?switchLang=Eng
    
    
    everything else
    
    Internet Radios Aid Africa
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1608000/1608394.stm
    
    A Closer Look at Weblogs
    http://www.llrx.com/columns/notes46.htm
    
    FindSounds.com
    http://www.findsounds.com/
    
    New Spam Bill Introduced In Congress
    http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171295.html
    
    ACM Forum on Legal Regulation of Technology
    http://www.cs.princeton.edu/lawtech
    
    Cyber Protests: The Threat to the US Information Infrastructure
    (it's so weird that our taxes pay for officialese reports about Web defacement)
    http://www.nipc.gov/cyberprotests.pdf
    
    astounding inefficiency of software development
    http://www.cio.com/archive/101501/wasting.html
    
    article on electronic paper
    http://www.scientificamerican.com/2001/1101issue/1101ditlea.html
    
    Tech Support Breakdown: PC Companies Are Leaving Their Customers High and Dry
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2001/10/18/pctechsupport.DTL&type=printable
    
    Embedded Enterprise in Comparative Perspective, Princeton, 11-14 April 2002
    http://www.princeton.edu/~embedded/
    
    Human Rights Now
    http://www.humanrightsnow.org/
    
    In Northwest Canada, Thawing Permafrost Is Unearthing Ancestral Graves
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5317-2001Oct16.html
    
    Reuters Cuts 500 Jobs, Reports Growth Slip
    (bad news for diversity in news reporting)
    http://www.washtech.com/news/media/13168-1.html
    
    John McWhorter on Tupac Shakur
    http://www.thenewrepublic.com/102201/mcwhorter102201.html
    
    Nick Drake's Post-Posthumous Fame
    http://www.salon.com/ent/music/feature/2000/06/19/drake/
    
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