Here are some more URL's on topics mostly unrelated to the war. Thanks to everyone who contributed. politics Election Reform Is Not Likely Soon http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/national/43802_reform23.shtml The Life and Death of the American Spectator http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/11/york.htm Norton Admits "Mistake" (but only one of many) http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-000083606oct20.story Paul O'Neill keeps telling the truth (he's toast) http://www.washtimes.com/national/20011022-73482376.htm outline of judicial nominations politics http://www.pfaw.org/issues/democracy/judicial_10-17.pdf Daschle Wins Struggle Over Judicial Nominations http://washingtontimes.com/national/20011024-657045.htm John McCain admits that Clinton was right about national service http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0110.mccain.html news from Planet Microsoft MSN Shuts Out Non-Microsoft Browsers http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7655334.html MSN Lockout Stirs Antitrust Rumblings http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7667367.html "Windows XP will advance Microsoft's domination over personal computing" http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/25/opinion/25CRIN.html public interest letter to FTC urging action on Windows XP and Passport http://www.epic.org/privacy/consumer/microsoft/ftcletter10.23.01.html Windows XP: The Cost of Progress http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/review/2001/10/24/winxp-costs.htm XP to Open Few New Windows http://www.latimes.com/technology/printedition/la-000084879oct25.story XP Safeguards Punish Consumers, Not Pirates http://www.latimes.com/technology/printedition/la-000084877oct25.column Virus Writers Are Industrial Terrorists: Microsoft (shameful) http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/22423.html http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=22883&cid=2461315 privacy Global Privacy Summit, New York, 13-14 November 2001 http://www.globalprivacysummit.net/ DaimlerChrysler Enlists Tech Titans http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5098781,00.html It's the Cars, Not the Tires, That Squeal http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/25/technology/circuits/25CARR.html interview with Verisign CEO Stratton Sclavos (see the strange bit about key escrow) http://www.cnbcdowjones.com/msnbc/October_01/102601/asx/1026scll.asx Liberties Fear Over Mobile Phone Details ("records which map out users' whereabouts held indefinitely") http://www.guardian.co.uk/mobile/article/0,2763,581763,00.html National ID Plan Could Mean Windfall for Tech Firms http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/hottopics/attack/idcard102501.htm intellectual property Mad as Hell About the DMCA http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2001/mad.html Disney's Peer-to-Peer Pressure http://wired.com/news/business/0,1367,47806,00.html EFF Lobbies Against New Zealand Copyright Law http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171435.html http://www.eff.org/IP/Foreign_and_local/New_Zealand/20011023_eff_dpdtca_pr.html Techs Broadside Anti-Piracy Plan http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5098618,00.html everything else M-Links: A User Interface for Web Interaction on Very Small Devices http://Quarry.stanford.edu/courses/cs547/011026-cs547-100.asx plain-English explanation of data synchronization (which is more important than it sounds) http://www.techreview.com/magazine/nov01/garfinkel.asp another article about the "semantic Web" http://www.techreview.com/magazine/nov01/frauenfelder.asp The Legal Challenges of Canning Spam http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ6IG205TC WorldCom threatens to sue ISP manager for revealing its failure to stop spam http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,3101006%5E15319%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html After Summit, China Again Censoring Web http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36527-2001Oct22.html Pakistani Group Strikes US Military Web Site http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171341.html http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171365.html Technical Hiccups Hit ACT Election Counting http://www.computerworld.com.au/IDG2.NSF/a/00046162?OpenDocument&n=e&c=CP Three Companies That Sell Course Software Say They Are Raking in Money http://chronicle.com/free/2001/10/2001102401u.htm Euro IT News http://www.inter-it.com/ AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowships http://www.fellowships.aaas.org/ Evidence Storage Overwhelming Courts http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000085193oct26.story Civil Society and the OECD http://www.oecd.org/pdf/M00018000/M00018283.pdf Free Drugs From Your Faucet http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/10/25/drugs_water/ Chemist's Errors Stir Fear: Did Oklahoma Execute Innocent? http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/STORY.e9b24bfda7.b0.af.0.a4.aa715.html Microwave Beam Weapon to Disperse Crowds http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991470 Harvard Asks Faculty to Justify Grading Methods http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/296/metro/Harvard_asks_faculty_to_justify_grading_methods+.shtml African Fossil Find: 40-Foot Croc (cool) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53118-2001Oct25.html end
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