[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Wed Feb 20 2002 - 10:42:04 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
    
    article on network-enabled US infantry
    http://www.mindjack.com/feature/landwarrior.html
    
    As US Teams Guided Pilots' Attacks, Civilian Presence Made Task Tougher
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35722-2002Feb19.html
    
    huge military budget proposals are mostly unrelated to defense against terror
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/050/editorials/Bush_s_radical_shift_in_military_policy+.shtml
    
    Expert: Anthrax Suspect Identified
    (this link is all over the net, though I'm not sure what's new in it)
    http://www.nj.com/mercer/times/index.ssf?/mercer/times/02-19-IZAR1IUB.html
    http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=134396
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    links to Peru Truth Commission documents
    http://www.aprodeh.org.pe/sem_verdad/comision_verdad/cv00.htm
    
    background on truth commissions around the world
    http://www.usip.org/library/truth.html
    
    First Big Brother Award in the Netherlands
    http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/11873/1.html
    
    Who Lost China's Internet?
    http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/922dgmtd.asp
    
    John Ashcroft announces that people who don't believe in God aren't civilized
    (that's not his job)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35555-2002Feb19.html
    
    "anti-terrorist" bill in CT legislature (now withdrawn) to register kayaks
    (scroll down to discussion starting February 17th)
    http://connyak.org/ConnYak%20FBBS%202002janjun/FBBSHome.htm
    
    "Black Box" Insurance for Motorists
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1831000/1831181.stm
    
    Thumb Is the New Currency at Store, at Bank, on the Job
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/20/national/20PRIN.html
    
    State AGs Urge FTC To Require Stronger Privacy Notices
    http://www.washtech.com/news/regulation/15210-1.html
    
    Net Users Distrust Corporate Privacy Policies
    http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174596.html
    
    Bank Privacy Laws Under Attack
    http://www.cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,329819-412,00.shtml
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZGZ33CWXC
    
    Bush Will Keep Wartime Office Promoting US
    (we need to stand up against abuses of the word "communicate")
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/20/international/20INFO.html
    
    Defense Department Divided Over Propaganda Plan
    (it's not a good headline: "United States Announces Plan to Spread Lies")
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35664-2002Feb19.html
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&u=/nm/20020219/ts_nm/attack_propaganda_dc_2
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/international/19PENT.html
    http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=134367
    http://www.azstarnet.com/attack/20220NPentagon-Media.html
    
    
    scandal
    
    A Discreet Way of Doing Business With Iraq (November 2000)
    (including Halliburton, despite Dick Cheney's clear denials)
    http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/articles.html?offset=&query=cheney+iraq+halliburton&multiViewArticleId001103000626=001103000626
    
    the case against Charles Pickering
    http://www.pfaw.org/issues/judiciary/pickering/WSJresponse.html
    
    Structuring Commercial and Financial Transactions: Enron
    (video lecture)
    http://www.law.duke.edu/webcast/schwarczenron.ram
    http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/schwarcz/cv.html
    
    Targeting Arthur Andersen
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZH2SYOUXC
    
    Clinton Prosecutor May Run for Senate 
    http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/2002/02/19/usat-ray.htm
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20020219/pl_usatoday/3870526
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    US Supreme Court to Determine Legality of Copyright Extension Law
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZO9NZ9WXC
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000013032feb20.story
    http://chronicle.com/free/2002/02/2002022002t.htm
    
    interview with Peter Suber on copyright law and Free Online Scholarship
    http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=15022002-015414-4119r
    http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=15022002-020541-2918r
    
    The DMCA and What's Worse
    http://cryptome.org/dmca-n-worse-mg.htm
    
    more on Canada's review of intellectual property laws
    http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/candmca.html
    
    
    wireless
    
    analysis of Microsoft/Intel's mobile telephone plans
    http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=997908
    http://www.commsdesign.com/story/OEG20020219S0035
    
    Unwitting Cell Calls Swamp 911 Systems
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000012715feb19.story
    
    Mobile Technologies and the Emergence of the New Workplace
    (papers from a workshop)
    http://www.fxpal.com/ConferencesWorkshops/ECSCW2001/default.htm
    
    Mobile Business, Athens, 8-9 July 2002
    http://www.mobiforum.org/mBusiness-2002/
    
    
    everything else
    
    Research Networks Join to Create a Global High-Speed Backbone
    http://chronicle.com/free/2002/02/2002022003t.htm
    
    state utility commissioners' letter against HR 1542 on broadband access
    http://www.naruc.org/tauzin_dingell.pdf
    
    Large Capacity Optical Disc Video Recording Format "Blu-Ray Disc" Established
    http://www.matsushita.co.jp/corp/news/official.data/data.dir/en020219-4/en020219-4.html
    
    papers about context-aware computing
    http://www1.ics.uci.edu/~jpd/NonTradUI/SpecialIssue/
    
    another university abandoning its distance education dot-com
    http://chronicle.com/free/2002/02/2002022001u.htm
    
    alleged bias in favor of distance education at the Department of Education
    (distance education has its uses, but for many it's an ideological campaign)
    http://chronicle.com/free/2002/02/2002021901u.htm
    
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