[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Thu Feb 14 2002 - 07:53:31 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
    
    
    war
    
    US troops under Philippine command
    http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2002/feb/13/top_stories/20020213top4.html
    
    Officials Say Not All Detainees at Camp X-Ray Are Muslim
    http://www.nandotimes.com/world/v-text/story/250131p-2357116c.html
    
    Review: Afghan Civilian Deaths Lower
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=&u=/ap/20020211/ap_on_re_as/afghan_counting_the_dead_2
    
    John Poindexter Takes Over New Agency to Thwart Attacks on US
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/13/politics/13DARP.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Khatami Urges Immature US Leaders to Wake Up, Change Policy Toward Iran
    http://tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=2/12/02&Cat=2&Num=012
    
    what does it say that conservatives are organizing to promote Steve Emerson?
    (plenty of people warned of terrorism without getting major things wrong)
    http://www.jewishworldreview.com/on/media1.asp
    
    Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025 (August 1996)
    http://www.au.af.mil/au/2025/volume3/chap15/v3c15-1.htm
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    public interest groups' letter against driver's license as a national ID card
    http://www.epic.org/privacy/id_cards/presidentltr2.11.02.html
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1526-2002Feb12.html
    
    Your Papers, Please: From the State Drivers License to a National ID System
    http://www.epic.org/privacy/id_cards/yourpapersplease.pdf
    
    CIA, FBI Developing Intelligence Supercomputer
    http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/newswires/2002_2_12.html#1
        
    Why Your Digital Data Could One Day Disappear
    http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=2767&sid=0&pid=0&t=operations
    
    Big Brother Is Watching You Read
    http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/02/13/bookstores/print.html
    
    Watchdog Might Urge DNA Theft Be Made an Offence
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/genes/article/0,2763,649862,00.html
    
    Does the White House Have a Press Blacklist?
    http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/5/confessore-n.html
    
    Senate Debates Election Overhaul
    http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20020213/pl/election_changes_1.html
    
    Road Named for a Confederate Stirs Uncivil Debate
    (it doesn't even occur to us to label the threats as terrorism)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/14/national/14HIGH.html
    
    US Lets Airlines Continue Dealings With Argenbright
    (!)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000011534feb14.story
    
    Comcast Privacy Move Its Latest Woe
    (why does a self-inflected injury get to be called a "woe"?)
    http://news.com.com/2100-1023-836937.html
    http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2661735.htm
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020213/ap_on_hi_te/internet_privacy_16
    http://www.epic.org/privacy/internet/markey_comcast.html
    
    Microsoft Security Chief Has Work Cut Out for Him
    (anything but a radical change in architecture and culture is PR)
    http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000011075feb13.story
    
    links on telematics (i.e., computing in cars)
    http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20020211/0059239_F.shtml
    
    Spyware: How Your Personal Data Gets Stolen Online
    http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.asp?id=174
    
    Multiple Vulnerabilities in Many Implementations of SNMP
    http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-03.html
    http://www.sans.org/alerts/SNMP.php
    
    
    scandal
    
    Enron: The Betrayal of Capitalism
    http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15140
    
    Lay Helped Drive Bush's Tort Agenda
    http://www.tpj.org/Lobby_Watch/enrontlr.html
    
    Enron Is But a Pebble in the Wave
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-000011032feb13.story
    
    Enron in the Disinformation Economy
    http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/26/07/feature1.shtml
    
    Rule Makers Take on Loopholes That Enron Used to Do Business
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/14/business/14REGS.html?pagewanted=all
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000011521feb14.story
    
    Former SEC Chiefs Call for Broad Audit Reforms
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZX6K9RNXC
    
    Does Enron Need a Trustee?
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZQSR1ONXC
    
    Multinational Monitor Enron Web Page
    http://www.essential.org/monitor/enronindex.html
    
    Risk Management of "Fiasco" Stocks
    http://www.geocities.com/ritholtz/writing/fiasco.html
    
    
    music
    
    Village Voice Pazz and Jop Critics' Poll 2001
    http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/pazznjop/01/
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    proposed restrictions on webcasting under DMCA
    http://www.loc.gov/copyright/fedreg/2002/67fr5761.html
    http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~willr/cb/sos/
    http://www.CollegeBroadcasters.org/
    
    US Patent Debate to Pit IP Rights vs. Competition
    http://www.eet.com/printableArticle?doc_id=OEG20020208S0079
    
    decision in the Monsanto v. Schmeiser genetic pollution case
    http://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fct/2001/2001fct256.html
    http://www.biotech-info.net/phillipson_commentary.html
    
    
    politics
    
    more aggressive accounting on the budget
    http://www.thenewrepublic.com/021802/chait021802.html
    
    jargon watch: read the paragraph beginning "the supporters themselves"
    (I was no fan of Durban, the sophistry of this paragraph is off the charts)
    http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=95001818
    
    jargon watch: media conservative ranting that the media ignores conservatives
    (illogically accusing others of illogic, hysterically venomous rhetoric, etc)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000011287feb14.story
    
    
    everything else
    
    Factors Behind Global Crossing's Failure
    http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/whatshot.cfm
    
    Microsoft solves the utterly trivial buffer overflow problem -- not!
    http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.91.html#subj1
    
    how Lisp saved the startup making the Yahoo Store
    (I'm a Lisp person myself, and he's right)
    http://www.paulgraham.com/lib/paulgraham/sec.txt
    
    interesting technical analysis of .NET
    http://arstechnica.com/paedia/n/net/net-1.html
    
    Dot.Com Central: Boom and Bust in the Cyber City
    http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/5092/view/print
    
    Rising Generation of Tech Policy Professionals, Washington, 12-14 April 2002
    http://www.aaas.org/spp/nextgen/
    
    tool that encodes your e-mail address using numerical equivalents
    ("Win the Spam Arms Race")
    http://www.hivelogic.com/safeaddress.php
    
    resources on free community wireless networks
    http://www.business2.com/webguide/0,,70550,00.html
    
    The History of Libraries in the United States, Philadelphia, 11-13 April 2002
    http://www.librarycompany.org/LibraryConference/index.htm
    
    The Worldwide Computer
    http://www.scientificamerican.com/2002/0302issue/0302anderson.html
    
    Fires in Southern California and Mexico
    http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Fires/US_California/FSMHSusCA042_N2L.jpg
    http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Fires/US_California/FSMHSusCA042_N2.jpg
    
    Monitoring the Spread of West Nile Virus with Satellite Data
    http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=7283
    
    more on plans to "recycle" radioactive scrap metals
    http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12320
    
    Nearly Half Don't Store Guns Safely, Poll Finds
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000011259feb13.story
    
    "California teachers are leading a backlash against high-stakes exams"
    http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/26/07/feature2.shtml
    
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