[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Fri Jan 25 2002 - 22:14:31 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
    
    Pick Hit: Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Collection
    
    
    war
    
    A Questionable US Strategy in Southeast Asia
    http://www.feer.com/articles/2002/0201_31/p019region.html
    
    Feuding Afghan Tribes Said Misleading US Forces
    http://afghan-info.com/afghnews.htm#Feuding
    
    US: Phase II of Our War Will Satisfy India
    http://www.indian-express.com/ie20020125/top1.html
    
    Differences Surface Between India and US: Issues Concerning Pakistan
    http://www.dawn.com/2002/01/24/top2.htm
    
    Warlord Death "Link With Sharon Case"
    (but then everyone had a motive)
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1780000/1780946.stm
    
    notice the weird writing style -- you can't quite tell who's being mocked
    (this sort of diffuse, dissociated nastiness is common in the Washington Times)
    http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20020124-23109880.htm
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    Will Walker's Statements Be Admitted Against Him?
    http://www.jurist.law.pitt.edu/forum/forumnew44.php
    
    Captives and the Law
    (the underlying problem is the confusion between war and crime)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/26/opinion/26LEWI.html
    
    Delegations Praise Detainees' Treatment
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40537-2002Jan25.html
    
    The Military Tribunals on Trial
    (it's amazing how much has been written on this, compared to other things)
    http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15122
    
    Bush Proposes Tracking System for Noncitizens
    (an infrastructure for tracking people, once set up, will find other uses)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37758-2002Jan25.html
    
    jargon watch: on profiling -- study the anti-logic in the first four paragraphs
    (this sort of thing is normal on the Journal's opinion pages)
    http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=95001778
    
    California Supreme Court decision on warrantless car searches
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/arturo/parturod012402casup.pdf
    
    A Guide to Judging Microsoft's Security Progress
    http://www.securityfocus.com/news/315
     
    Wireless Workplaces Asking for Trouble
    http://news.com.com/2100-1033-823033.html
    
    Mac Thief Caught Thanks to Applescript and Timbuktu
    http://slashdot.org/articles/02/01/23/2212221.shtml
    http://www.macscripter.net/unscripted.html
    
    federal depository libraries being made to destroy information
    http://www.news-gazette.com/story.cfm?Number=10892
    
    
    the Bush scandals
    
    Critic Who Quit Top Enron Post Is Found Dead
    (let's not spread rumors about this like others did about Vince Foster)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/26/business/26HOUS.html?pagewanted=print
    http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40635-2002Jan25.html
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/26/business/26SCEN.html
    
    Enron Vice Chairman Cliff Baxter Resigns (May 2001)
    http://www.enron.com/corp/pressroom/releases/2001/ene/41-CliffBaxter-05-02-01-LTR.html
    
    "being treated like Communists and gangsters is a warning to any industry"
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/25/business/25NORR.html?pagewanted=print
    
    more badly written, jargon-laced propaganda in the New York Times
    ("neither party was more tainted than the other" is party line and just false)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/25/business/25SCEN.html
    
    GAO Vows to Sue For Cheney Files
    http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40005-2002Jan25.html
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/26/business/26CHEN.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Ex-Workers Say Unit's Earnings Were "Illusory"
    (what a coincidence -- so were our projected surpluses)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/25/business/25SELL.html
    
    numerous copies of Enron's Corporate Ethics Manual now being auctioned on eBay
    (I find this intensely weird)
    http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&ht=1&SortProperty=MetaEndSort&query=Enron++ethics
    
    Army Chief Being Challenged on Ties to Enron
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/25/business/25WHIT.html
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/26/business/26WHIT.html
    
    Elizabeth Dole held a fund-raiser at Ken Lay's house on September 20th
    (is that what you were doing on that day?)
    http://www.journalnow.com/wsj/opinion/editorial/MGBJU388SWC.html
    
    Spreading It Around
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/25/opinion/25KRUG.html
    
    about now-SEC chair Pitt's 1990 letter on Anderson and auditor independence
    http://www.sec.gov/info/accountants/noaction/aaartan2.htm
    
    sorting out the Big 5 accounting firms and their relations to ASP's
    http://www.aspnews.com/trends/article/0,2350,10571_961791,00.html
    
    A Proposed New Way to Police Accounting Still Relies on Accountants
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/21/business/21PITT.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Companies With Asbestos Exposure Liabilities Rise on Possible Limits
    (taking responsibility is for other people)
    http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/020125/n25234994_1.html
    
    
    everything else
    
    argument that discounting creates an obstacle to Amazon success beyond books
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/26/technology/ebusiness/26AMAZ.html?pagewanted=print
    
    article about three consumer sites run by individuals
    http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=684
    
    Direct Marketing Association creates supposedly mandatory spam rules
    (but their track record of enforcing such rules is very poor)
    http://news.com.com/2100-1023-822053.html
    
    program that overwhelms spammers' address-harvesting spiders
    http://www.monkeys.com/wpoison/
    
    NTT Researchers Predict 10Gbps Wireless
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/23809.html
    
    Comcast Gunning for NAT Users
    http://slashdot.org/articles/02/01/24/1957236.shtml
    
    consumer groups' letter about Bush plan to move media mergers from FTC to DOJ
    http://www.consumersunion.org/telecom/hollingdc102.htm
    
    The NSDL Scout Reports
    (next generation of a longstanding service for scouring the Web)
    http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/nsdl-reports/
    
    IBM to Sell Linux-Only Mainframe
    http://news.com.com/2100-1001-822771.html
    
    George Bush endorses the blithering nonsense of "Bias"
    (this sort of photo-op is one way his handlers send messages to the right)
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020125/170/10o2j.html
    
    "Bias" Isn't Supported -- Because It's Not True
    http://www.arizonarepublic.com/viewpoints/articles/0120turn0120rendall.html
    
    jargon watch: study the despicable code-language in the first two paragraphs
    (translation: liberals are marginal frivolous terrorist criminal nuts)
    http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/dhenninger/?id=95001777
    
    there's no special hurry to confirm any Supreme Court nominees
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A35175-2002Jan24?language=printer
    
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