[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Tue Jan 29 2002 - 23:09:54 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
    
    
    war
    
    Before the Towers Fell, Fire Department Fought Chaos
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/30/nyregion/30FIRE.html
    
    
    privacy, civil liberties, and security
    
    suit to gain media access to legal hearings of detainee
    http://www.detroitnews.com/2002/metro/0201/29/d07-402500.htm
    http://news.findlaw.com/ap/o/1110/1-29-2002/200201291012328704.html
    http://www.freep.com/news/metro/suit29_20020129.htm
    
    Biometrics: Facing Up to Terrorism
    http://www.rand.org/publications/IP/IP218/
    
    Biometric Consortium Conference, Arlington, VA, 13-15 February 2002
    http://www.nist.gov/bcfeb02/
    
    introduction to electromagnetic pulse weapons
    http://www.house.gov/hasc/testimony/106thcongress/99-10-07wood.htm
    
    ChoicePoint Public Sector: Helping Government to Serve the Citizens
    ("search over 10 billion records on individuals and businesses")
    http://www.cpgov.com/
    
    "unfair and deceptive trade practices raised by Passport"
    http://www.epic.org/privacy/consumer/microsoft/stateagletter.html
    http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020129/tc/tech_privacy_dc_1.html
    
    FTC proposes telemarketing "do not call" list
    http://www.ftc.gov/os/2002/01/16cfr310.pdf
    
    Is Know-It-All Grocery Cart in Future?
    http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020128/tc/supermarket_privacy_1.html
    
    research on gadgetry for the future office
    http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020124S0028
    
    Privacy Preserving Communication in Ubiquitous Computing Environments
    http://choices.cs.uiuc.edu/~akapadia/papers/mist.pdf
    
    Navigation Aids: No Longer Just for Luxury Cars
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/technology/27NAVI.html?pagewanted=all
    
    Security-Conscious Groups Ban Wi-Fi
    http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/01/29/wifi.htm
    
    Wireless Carriers Exploit Firewall Bypass
    http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnport.xml
    
    Cookie Monster Bites Netscape and Mozilla Users
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/23865.html
    
    RealPlayer 8 Buffer Overrun Exploit
    (c'mon)
    http://www.service.real.com/help/faq/security/bufferoverrun.html
    
    
    the Bush scandals
    
    Prosecutors, FBI Pore Over Enron's Books
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58316-2002Jan29.html
    
    US to Probe Enron Tie to Energy Prices
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58301-2002Jan29.html
    
    "a sharp drop in long-term electricity prices after Enron declared bankruptcy"
    http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20020129/bs/enron_congress_1.html
    
    Enron Destroyed Documents by the Truckload
    http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/DailyNews/shredco020129.html
    
    Enron Says That Shredding Was Stopped Only Recently
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/30/business/30SHRE.html
    
    Florida's pension fund bought piles of Enron stock as it was collapsing
    (this is alarming even by Enron-scandal standards)
    http://j-marshall.com/talk/jan0204.html#012902119am
    
    Florida to Review Enron Investments
    http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/2561486.htm
    
    Enron Woes Spur Calls for Reform: Securities Law and Bankruptcy at Issue
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZXUGAFWWC
    
    campaign contributions from lawyers and the political complications thereof
    http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/2002/01/012902_Checkbooks_and_Balances.html
    
    jargon watch: going incredible lengths to misstate what Daschle said
    ("he blamed the recession on the tax cuts" is what the pros call a "strategy")
    http://www.dailyhowler.com/h012902_1.shtml
    
    Enronomics Explained
    (deliberately driving the country into bankruptcy)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52561-2002Jan28.html
    
    guess which accounting firm is auditing the White House?
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58616-2002Jan29.html
    
    
    everything else
    
    Airport to Offer Free Wireless Internet Service
    (unfortunately it sounds like a great way to send spam)
    http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/1130636.html
    
    How Wireless Handhelds May Change CSCL
    http://newmedia.colorado.edu/cscl/79.pdf
    
    Knowledge-Based Theores of the Firm in Strategic Management
    http://www.mit.edu/people/skaplan/kbv-0301.pdf
    
    Tech Downturn Doesn't Slow H-1B Visas
    (industry's visa agenda was never about worker shortages)
    http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2002/01/27/visas/
    
    Life in Hell's Forbidden Words
    (for various years, starting with 2002)
    http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Den/6460/2002jan26.htm
    http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Den/6460/1999dec20.htm
    http://www.nbtsc.org/~adriyel/humor/fwords.html
    http://djharter.www3.50megs.com/Digests/H9701100.htm#Joke11
    http://www.mich.com/~drhanna/fw96.htm
    
    10^30 prokaryotic bacteria beneath the earth's surface to a depth of 4km
    http://www.scientificamerican.com/explorations/2002/012802geomicro/
    
    more on the liberal beliefs of new college students
    http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20020128.atc.13.ram
    
    sample issue of the extremely excellent chownews
    (available for Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York)
    http://www.chowhound.com/chownews/la.html
    
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