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/ end
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