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 Backing Helps Warlord Solidify Power http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25851-2002Feb17.html Bin Laden's No 2 "Captured in Iran" (who knows) http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,652071,00.html conservatives gung-ho for war with Iraq http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/2/17/122713.shtml the seriously creepy return of John Poindexter http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,651975,00.html Pentagon Readies Efforts to Sway Sentiment Abroad http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/international/19PENT.html leading politician gives major war speech -- press writes about his beard http://www.dailyhowler.com/h021802_1.shtml refugees dying in Afghanistan http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/17/magazine/17AFGHAN.html?pagewanted=all New York Debates Competing Visions for Rebuilding Devastated Downtown http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22040-2002Feb16.html civil liberties and security Where the Bodies Are Buried in Peru (if anyone has URL's for documents relating to the commission, do send) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/18/international/americas/18PERU.html French Decision Prompts Questions About Free Speech and Cyberspace http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/11/technology/11NECO.html Canadian Media Spat: Profit vs. Free Speech http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0215/p06s01-woam.html http://www.newsguild.org/gr/gr_display.php?storyID=605 http://www.newswire.ca/releases/February2002/05/c9098.html http://www.fpjq.org/canwest/ http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020131/1294510.html http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/columns/omalley/martin020104.html extensive censorship of biology research http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/17/politics/17SECR.html The USA PATRIOT Act and Patron Privacy on Library Internet Terminals http://www.llrx.com/features/usapatriotact.htm Justice Department Hiding Secret Weekly Reports to the Attorney General http://cryptome.org/doj-footshot.htm "smart" biometric ID cards in Hong Kong http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/18/technology/18KONG.html?pagewanted=print Center for Identification Technology Research http://www.csee.wvu.edu/citer/ Larry Smarr's talks on future Internet architecture and applications (some of which involve pervasive sensor networks with privacy implications) http://soeunix.ucsd.edu/~lsmarr/talks/ BMW's iDrive May Herald New Era http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/048/auto/BMW_s_iDrive_may_herald_new_era+.shtml impressive "This American Life" show about the mob mentality (listen and think about campus confrontationalists or talk radio ranters) http://www.thislife.org/ra/158.ram Scientists Recount US Biodefense Labs' Security Lapses http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30241-2002Feb18.html Airlines Fended Off Security Upgrades http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0202180177feb18.story scandal Bush in Verbal Japan Deflation-Devaluation Debacle (war suits him because the concepts are simple) http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20020218/pl/bush_japan_gaffe_dc_1.html Defense Department Cannot Account for 25% of Funds -- $2.3 Trillion http://www.cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,325985-412,00.shtml Records: Bush Smoothed Path for Enron http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/business/1258323 Bush 2000 Adviser Offered to Use Clout to Help Enron http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22380-2002Feb16.html Army Secretary's Enron Role Probed http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25816-2002Feb17.html Controversial US Army Secretary, Ex-Enron Exec, Building Home in Naples http://www.naplesnews.com/02/02/naples/d739795a.htm The Potemkin Populism of the Republicans' Chief Enron Investigator http://slate.msn.com/?id=2062048 Acting CEO Plans Legal Assault Amid Effort to Salvage Enron http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000012600feb18.story Enron Had More Than One Way to Disguise Rapid Rise in Debt http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/17/business/17BANK.html "documents show Enron hid a disastrous bookkeeping error from investors" http://www.msnbc.com/news/709343.asp Firms Reverting to by-the-Books Balance Sheets http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000012601feb18.story Congress to Investigate Wall Street's Ties With Enron http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/business/19WALL.html Enron Moved Accounts Offshore, Harder to Track http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/DailyNews/enron_cayman020214.html Cayman Islands Open to US Requests for Assistance on Enron Investigation http://www.cimoney.com.ky/templates/PressRelease/defaultDisplay.asp?text_id=PressRelease89858&button=1 Enron Case Shapes Up as Tough Legal Fight (the difference between rich and poor is that the crimes of the rich are legal) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25922-2002Feb17.html Enron Is Not Yet a Political Scandal, But It Will Become One http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20020215.html intellectual property article about the woes of the music industry (under the guise of an article about boomer come-back bands) http://www.usatoday.com/money/covers/2002-02-18-music.htm Record Labels Answer to Napster Still Has Artists Feeling Bypassed http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/18/technology/18SONG.html?pagewanted=print Entertainment Industry's Copyright Fight Puts Consumers in Cross Hairs http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2658555.htm scaling up Gnutella http://www.perfdynamics.com/Papers/Gnews.html Developing User-Friendly Digital Rights Management http://www.newarchitectmag.com/documents/s=2452/new1011653160573/index.html "defensive publishing" to prevent others from patenting your idea (we should organize "prior art parties" to brainstorm ideas to prevent patents) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/18/technology/ebusiness/18NECO.html Intellectual-Property Ecology http://www.techreview.com/articles/shulman0302.asp Searchable Intellectual Property Databases http://www.llrx.com/columns/roundup21.htm news from Planet Microsoft Ashcroft Queried Over Microsoft Campaign Contributions http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24086.html Microsoft's Lobbying Efforts Eclipse Enron http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-835267.html Microsoft Must Give States Windows Code, Says Judge http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/02/16/microsoft.code.reut/ New Microsoft Bug Problems Blamed on Globalization (foo) http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174512.html everything else An Open Grid Services Architecture for Distributed Systems Integration http://www.globus.org/research/papers.html#OGSA Bio IT World, Boston, 12-14 March 2002 http://www.bioitworld.com/ ArsDigita Shut Down (they tried to organize an independent computer science undergraduate program) http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/08/1319206&mode=thread Design Research News http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/design-research.html German Experience in the Construction of Virtual Town Halls and Market Places http://www.idt.unisg.ch/org/idt/egce.nsf/profile1-05/7D42F71BD6F9BFF1C1256AF8004B55A2 Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems, Orlando, 19 May 2002 (I don't know about this as science, but it's sure interesting as ideology) http://www.teccomm.les.inf.puc-rio.br/selmas2002/ Digital Resources for Information Research http://informationr.net/fr/subguide.html Search Engine Guide http://www.searchengineguide.com/ Information for Social Change http://libr.org/ISC/TOC.html Spam and Web-Visible E-Mail Addresses: Bait a Spammer and See the Results http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/15234 special report on the crisis on the cell phone industry http://www.businessweek.com/technology/tc_special/cellphone.htm end
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