Here are some more URL's on topics mostly unrelated to the war. Thanks to everyone who contributed. politics another sickening Republican campaign ad in Virginia (they claim their opponents are evil to justify becoming evil themselves) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27467-2001Nov1.html the total corruption of US political reporting (main exceptions are some regional papers, for example the Los Angeles Times) http://www.dailyhowler.com/h110201_1.shtml Wall Street Stunned by Treasury's Action on Long-Term Bonds (long-term interest rates stubbornly reflect the crazy back-loaded tax cuts) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/01/business/01PLAC.html O'Neill Feels the Heat http://www.rollcall.com/pages/news/00/2001/11/news1101c.html This Stimulus Plan Pushes the Wrong Buttons ("tax breaks aimed at investment won't work because of existing overcapacity") http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2001/nf20011030_3630.htm Bush Clamping Down on Presidential Papers (wartime is giving them an excuse for their worst authoritarian tendencies) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20731-2001Oct31.html http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0111020336nov02.story http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27293-2001Nov1.html A Review of John Dean's "The Rehnquist Choice" http://writ.news.findlaw.com/books/reviews/20011102_lazarus.html http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hilden/20011101.html National Journal Hotline -- hard drugs for political junkies (this is just a sample issue chosen at random) http://nationaljournal.com/pubs/hotline/h011031.htm news from Planet Microsoft Antitrust Deal Is Called Big Victory for Microsoft (the appeals court said that Microsoft broke the law, but who cares?) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/02/technology/02IMPA.html http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=851178 http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2001/11/02/microsoft_settlement/ http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/11/02/microsoft_settlement_reacts/ Circumstance Had a Role in the Microsoft Settlement (if you can't win in court, just buy the government) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32665-2001Nov2.html http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-201-7758969-0.html Is Microsoft Off the Hook? (you'll recall that Microsoft was paying several Bush campaign advisers) http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=844087 Still At Risk: Companies That Are Too Successful (sophistry: lots of successful companies don't break the law) http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000087172nov02.story Making Windows Transparent http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/04/opinion/04KRUG.html Browser Lockouts and Monopoly Power http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/10/31/msn.html Microsoft, Please Fix Your Software! http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20011102/tc/microsoft_please_fix_your_software__1.html Poor Microsoft Code Quality Contaminates Mental Models http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20011028.html Computers Hit Around Globe by New Form of Old Microsoft Virus http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/01/technology/01VIRU.html http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5098988,00.html New York Times Laid Low by Microsoft Nimda Offshoot http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7739301.html Stealing Microsoft Passport's Wallet (pathetic) http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,48105,00.html Microsoft to Force IT-Security Censorship http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22614.html intellectual property Movie Industry Dealt DVD-Cracking Blow http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7751876.html http://caselaw.findlaw.com/data2/californiastatecases/H021153.PDF Court Allows DVD Hacker Software (okay, we like the outcome, but is it a good idea for code to be speech?) http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-DVD-Software-Ruling.html http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ1KCQKKTC http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,48075,00.html http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/documents/H021153.PDF Whatever Happened to Fair Use? http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svtop/faruse110101.htm Sony uses DMCA to go after sites for hacking the Aibo (Earth to all sides: get a life!) http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000086726nov01.story Copyrights Apply to Buildings, and Suits Are Growing http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZPMELAGTC The DJ's New Mix: Digital Files and a Turntable http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/25/technology/25JOCK.html?pagewanted=print open source Amazon: Linux Saved Us Millions (what's interesting are the quotes from the Microsoft representative) http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0%2C4586%2C5098989%2C00.html Linux Goes to the Movies http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/11/01/linux_hollywood/print.html K12 Linux http://www.k12linux.org/ http://www.linuxforkids.org/ open source and open content internetworked education resources http://openlearningcommunity.org/ everything else Online Communities That Nurture Long-Distance Relationships and Local Ties http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=47 sailors blockading asylum-seekers banned from sending personal emails http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,3156258%5E15318%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html A Scary Look at the "Digital Divide" http://nationaljournal.com/pubs/techdaily/features/international/internat011031.htm http://nationaljournal.com/pubs/techdaily/features/scans/conference.pdf IT's Role in US Economic Growth Cast Into Doubt (improved efficiency of retail businesses was a greater factor) http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/articles.html?print=true&id=011017001841 Satellite TV Deal Would Be Sad Sign for Telecom Industry http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/opinion/dgillmor/dg103101.htm survey finds remarkably little consumer demand for broadband streaming media (so development of applications will be driven by the corporate market) http://www.nua.ie/surveys/analysis/weekly_editorial/archives/issue1no201.html Experiment Capture in the Biology Lab http://quarry.stanford.edu/courses/cs547/011102-cs547-100.asx Airports Press Ahead on Wireless Access http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/01/technology/circuits/01AIRP.html Futuresonic Festival, Manchester, UK (and elsewhere), 13-18 November 2001 http://www.futuresonic.com/ Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/ Computers in Education, Auckland, 3-6 December 2002 http://icce2002.massey.ac.nz/ Frustrated Blackboard Customers Form Independent Users' Group http://chronicle.com/free/2001/11/2001110201u.htm Internet Filters: a Public Policy Report http://www.ncac.org/issues/internetfilters.html Europe Goes After the Cookie http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48025,00.html Anti-Spam Fight Falls to the States http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7736505.html Meet the Computer Criminals: They'll See You in Your Office http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/features/story.jsp?story=99302 Recruitment at the Post-Graduate Level for Interdisciplinary Study in IT http://information.harvard.edu/jobs/ remarkably well-done trip planner for Los Angeles area public transportation (e.g., enter "UCLA" and "USC", select a day and time, and hit "submit") http://mtaweb5.mta.net/ New Life for Moore's Law (obligatory title for any article about improvements in chip technology) http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/10/fallows.htm WTO parody site http://www.gatt.org/ WTO flipping out about it http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news01_e/gattdotorg_e.htm more on the rise and fall of that national treasure, Enron (the real headline is that the creation of markets is a political matter) http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=842826 NASA Sucked Into an $8bn Black Hole http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,587276,00.html end
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