[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Wed Nov 21 2001 - 20:59:59 PST

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    Here are some more URL's.  Thanks to everyone who contributed.
    
    RRE home page: <http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html>
    
    Have a good Thanksgiving.
    
    
    war
    
    The British Connection: Judge Says Cleric Is Vital Link
    http://news.independent.co.uk/world/europe/story.jsp?story=105961
    
    In Utah, a Government Hater Sells a Germ-Warfare Book
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/21/national/21BOOK.html
    
    "the Justice Department isn't investigating violent militants on the right"
    http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/11/22/anthrax/
    
    No TV, No Chess, No Kites: Taliban Penal Code, From A to Z
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/international/asia/22PENA.html?pagewanted=print
    
    CIA-Backed Team Used Brutal Means to Break Up Terrorist Cell in Albania
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/660358.asp
    
    radio story about the caves of Afghanistan
    http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20011121.atc.13.ram
    
    article about a videotape of the attack on the World Trade Center
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/arts/design/22MAGN.html
    
    interviews with the people of Parkesburg, Pennsylvania (population 3,500)
    (i.e., the same number of people who were killed on September 11th)
    http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20011121.atc.06.ram
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    criticism of tribunals
    http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0147/dershowitz.php
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000092869nov21.story
    
    Waking Up in Another Country, Not Our Own
    (criticism of unlimited detentions of foreigners)
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZKKM629UC
    
    Police Are Split on Questioning of Mideast Men
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/national/22POLI.html
    
    US Government Interagency Domestic Terrorism Concept of Operations Plan
    http://www.fbi.gov/publications/conplan/conplan.pdf
    
    Council of Europe's Convention on Cybercrime
    http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/EN/projets/FinalCybercrime.htm
    
    Legal Controversy and the FBI's "Carnivore" Program
    http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/kubiszyn-2000-12a-p1.html
    
    FBI Pushes Telcos to Ease Monitoring
    (they've been doing that for several years)
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/661333.asp
    
    High-Tech Airport Security Devices Displayed
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000092978nov21.story
    
    conflicting views about chemical information on government Web sites
    http://www.stimson.org/cwc/dpnovtest.htm
    http://www.house.gov/transportation/water/11-08-01/baumann.html
    http://www.pogo.org/nuclear/security/doeweb.htm
    
    
    Lynne Cheney's denunciation of war dissenters
    
    the original version of Lynne Cheney's list of alleged enemies of civilization
    (try not to propagate these URL's -- download it yourself and post or forward)
    ftp://ftp.media.mit.edu/wex/defciv.pdf
    http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~aaron/defciv.pdf
    http://www.uwm.edu/~sands/defciv.pdf
    
    American Council of Trustees and Alumni Defends University of New Mexico Prof
    (when controversy erupted, they issued this)
    http://www.goacta.org/Press%20Releases/11-14-01PR.htm
    
    Sketches for a New Blacklist
    http://www.counterpunch.org/dprice2.html
    
    Lynne Cheney's Free Speech Blacklist
    http://www.tompaine.com/features/2001/11/15/2.html
    
    Up With Dissent
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/324/editorials/Up_with_dissent+.shtml
    
    
    everything else
    
    Microsoft Settles Product Pricing Class Action Lawsuits
    http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2001/nov01/11-20ClassActionPR.asp
    
    Bill Gates takes credit for open source software
    http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20011122.html
    
    Music Publishers File New Copyright Suit
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7935995.html
    http://www.nmpa.org/legal/Musiccity_.pdf
    
    Philip Morris Identity Crisis Never Seems to Go Away
    (very funny -- maybe they should try "Mortria" instead!)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/business/22NAME.html
    
    Canada's Chinese Spam Gangs
    http://www.spamhaus.org/newsdog.lasso?article=98
    
    The Technical Is Political
    http://ssdc.ucsd.edu/jj/OfSig3_1.pdf
    
    SIGGRAPH Public Policy Program
    http://www.siggraph.org/pub-policy/CGColumn-11-2001.html
    
    No Thumbprint, No Rental Car
    http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,48552,00.html
    
    Broadband ISP's Shouldn't Knock Down Firewalls
    http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/nov2001/nf20011120_6165.htm
    
    New Hacker Tool Could Target Web Servers
    http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=25497001
    
    The Anti-Thesaurus
    (proposed metadata standard to say your Web page *isn't* relevant to a topic)
    http://www.hastingsresearch.com/net/06-anti-thesaurus.shtml
    
    Murphy's Law, Evolving Species, and the Limits of Software Reliability
    http://www.ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/users/rja14/babtr.pdf
    
    The Limits of Teledemocracy
    http://www.prospect.org/print/V3/11/schudson-m.html
    
    US Tech Firms Abusing Visa Program, Critics Say
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000092857nov21.story
    
    eGovernment, Brussels, 29-30 November 2001
    http://europa.eu.int/information_society/eeurope/egovconf/index_en.htm
    
    Canadian Digital Library Symposium, Toronto, 28-29 November 2001
    http://www.digital-libraries.net/conf2001/program.html
    
    An Expert's Apology on the French Yahoo Case
    http://www.apache-ssl.org/apology.html
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/16/technology/16CYBERLAW.html
    
    jargon watch: accuse them of hidden motives -- they can never defend themselves
    (and chop the issues into vague symbols, which they are supposedly attacking)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000092999nov21.story
    
    Experts Predict Deficits Will Last Years
    (and it's not because of the attack and war, which don't actually cost much)
    http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/2001-11-20-deficit.htm
    
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