Here are some more URL's on topics unrelated to the war. Thanks to everyone who contributed. politics Democracy, General Electric Style (background to the hideous media coverage of the election) http://makethemaccountable.com/coverup/Part_04.htm more on the NY Times' endless vendetta against Al Gore http://www.dailyhowler.com/h102901_1.shtml http://www.dailyhowler.com/h103001_1.shtml http://www.dailyhowler.com/h103101_1.shtml drilling for Arctic oil may violate a polar bear treaty (not that we care about treaties, or polar bears) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8697-2001Oct29.html Overhaul of Mining Law Called "Sham Reform" http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/44264_mine26.shtml Bush filled his administration with executives of Enron (who turn out -- surprise! -- to have been running a very dubious business) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/28/business/28ENRO.html?pagewanted=print Enron: Washington's Number One Behind-the-Scenes GATS Negotiator http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/wto/featured/2001/tclarke.html jargon watch: omit the relevant facts and then act mystified (they lie and smear, and when their victims take offense they attack again) http://www.frontpagemag.com/issue/dh_politicalwar_excerpt2.htm news from Planet Microsoft Microsoft XP Anti-Theft Features Cracked Within Hours of Product Launch http://www.newsbytes.com/bizwire/01/326057.html Windows XP piracy protection only works against consumers, not pirates http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029oplivingston.xml Windows XP is slower than Windows 2000 http://www2.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/10/29/011029tcwinxp.xml?Template=/storypages/printfriendly.html After an Online Ruckus, Microsoft Opens MSN Site to All http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/29/technology/29WEB.html?pagewanted=print http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7703818.html http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011026/tc/microsoft_browser_wars_3.html Microsoft's Digital Rights Management Scheme: Technical Details http://cryptome.org/ms-drm.htm New Microsoft Nimda Worm Offshoot Spreading http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7720534.html privacy paper on useability problems with PGP encryption (it's a few years old, but the world hasn't changed much) http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~alma/johnny.pdf Bankrupt Dot-Coms Ask to Sell User Data http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/depth/list102901.htm libertarian article predicting the demise of US/EU "safe harbor" privacy policy http://www.freetrade.org/pubs/pas/tpa-016es.html The Free Haven Project (for fully anonymous peer-to-peer publishing) http://freehaven.net/doc/freehaven.pdf comprehensive overview of anonymous communication channels http://www.cs.du.edu/~dm/anon.html Security as Plain as the Nose on Your Face http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/16_15/state/17338-1.html Technology Acceptance, Interoperability Are Keys to RFID Growth http://pd.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=Articles&Subsection=Display&ARTICLE_ID=124356 intellectual property Content Is a Pure Public Good http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=06604 http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-603.html#lnk3 outline of rights management technology http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.10/drm.html Online Music: Cranking Up the Antitrust Volume http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2001/nf20011026_0654.htm Bertlesmann Has Napster Stuck in Its Head http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2001/nf20011026_7583.htm criticism of ICANN's post-September 11th policies http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200110/msg00424.html http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200110/msg00413.html http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200110/msg00416.html open-source zealots' self-destructive assault on the desktop http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.10/linux.html innovative free software http://www.sweetcode.org/ advice printable version of "Advice for Undergraduates Considering Graduate School" http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/grad-school.pdf printable version of "How to Be a Leader in Your Field" http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/leader.pdf printable version of "Networking on the Network" http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/network.pdf everything else Canon Looks to Nanoholes to Drive Up Storage Densities http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/22539.html Boosting Broadband http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/302/business/Boosting_broadband+.shtml Internet Services: Who's Smiling Now? (the big guys, that's who) http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7671036.html Net Shopping Hooks Army of Addicts (a real problem imho despite the excessive title) http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,582206,00.html UK Government Wants to Decide Own Spam Policy http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/22542.html High Court Won't Hear Spam Case http://www.latimes.com/technology/wire/sns-ap-scotus-spam1029oct29.story tenure-track position in telecommunication media studies http://journalism.tamu.edu/Home/jobannounce2.html Government Science and Technology Resources http://www.scitechresources.gov/ Architectures for Collaborative Applications http://www.cs.unc.edu/~dewan/abstracts/arch2.html Digital Horizons book series http://www.dhorizons.org/ The Microbes That "Rule the World" http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1569000/1569264.stm Farewell Tuvalu http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,582445,00.html American Constitution Society for Law and Policy http://www.AmericanConstitutionSociety.org/ Mass Layoffs in September 2001 http://www.bls.gov/news.release/mmls.nr0.htm US Passed Names to Indonesia, Which Killed at Least 105,000 in 1965-66 http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB52/ end
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