Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html Due to a miscommunication, I failed to note that the correct title of Andrew Feenberg's book that I excerpted here the other day is "Transforming Technology: A Critical Theory Revisited". It is the second edition, expanded and updated, of his "Critical Theory of Technology". war US Spy Planes Seek Out Filipino Guerrillas http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42212-2002Feb20.html full-blown war in Colombia http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000013614feb22.story Al-Qaeda: After Afghanistan http://specials.ft.com/attackonterrorism/FT3RSF1QVXC.html article about the Debkafile online news site (you too can be famous by running a shoddy, irresponsible Web site) http://ojr.usc.edu/content/print.cfm?print=694 "Reality" TV Eagerly Marches Off to War (making war cool again) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000013607feb22.story Anthrax Expert Stands By Her Claim http://www.njo.com/news/times/index.ssf?/news/times/02-21-I_AR1JBB.html http://stream.realimpact.org/rihurl.ram?file=webactive/radionation/rn20020131.rm&start="13:16.6" Behind the Brentwood Anthrax Attack http://www.wjla.com/news/showstory.hrb?f=n&s=31629&f1=ite The Story Behind the Towers http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15181 Imagine New York (public input to the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site) http://www.imaginenewyork.org/ civil liberties and security US Will Not Lie to Public, Defense Chief Says (unlikely -- they're rebuilding the Reagan administration in every other way) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000013384feb21.story http://www.msnbc.com/news/711387.asp http://www.fair.org/activism/osi-propaganda.html Two PAC Missiles Fail to Hit Target in US Land-Based Missile Defense Test http://spacedaily.com/news/020217211535.6h8kn7ih.html Using 21st Century Technology to Defend the Homeland http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/21st-technology.html FAA, Air Traffic Controllers at Odds Over Security http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49507-2002Feb21.html Airport Security Test Exposes Flaws http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000013650feb22.story Government Security, Washington, 23-25 July 2002 http://www.govsecinfo.com/ Guantanamo Bay lawsuit involving Australian detainee and others http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/rasulbush021902pet.pdf More Online Security Woes for FBI's Data Firm (this is the same company that supplied bad "felon" lists to Florida) http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174003.html "Smart" Biometric Passport Plans Mooted (a wise man said, "a little bit of smartness has a special name: stupidity") http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1832000/1832802.stm Tough Sell Ahead for the VeriChip Implant ID System http://computerbytesman.com/privacy/verichip.htm Consumer Claims Victory in CD Lawsuit (does anyone have details on this company's capture of personal information?) http://news.com.com/2100-1023-843114.html remote control of home electronics (the security and privacy issues are obvious) http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1776000/1776047.stm http://www.internethomealliance.com/about/faq.asp/#9 http://www.internethomealliance.com/pilot_pgms/overview_onstar.asp New Restrictions Loom for Malaysia's Internet http://dfn.org/news/malaysia/regulating-net.htm French Big Brother Awards http://www.bigbrotherawards.eu.org/2001/bba-f-en.txt Danish Big Brother Awards http://www.bigbrotherawards.dk/News/BBA2001Winners.html Chinese government requires ISP's to monitor their users http://www.cnd.org/Global/02/01/19/020119-1.html http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,3640521%5E15322%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html draft Council of Europe online hate speech protocol http://www.legal.coe.int/economiccrime/cybercrime/AvProjetProt2002E.pdf http://www.gilc.org/speech/coe_hatespeech_letter.html http://www.iris.sgdg.org/actions/cybercrime/pc-rx/ http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174285.html Robertson Calls Islam a Religion of Violence, Mayhem http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49436-2002Feb21.html review of a book on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights http://www.thenewrepublic.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020225&s=sunstein022502 Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/onassignment/truth/st/index.htm scandal interview with Doug Kellner about his book on the 2000 election http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/2002/02/Douglas_Kellner_021902.html GAO vs. Cheney: Coming Soon http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york022002.shtml http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48790-2002Feb21.html Enron Lobbyist's Playbook for Wielding Influence (showing the close coordination between the oil industry and administration) http://www.msnbc.com/news/709395.asp?cp1=1 jargon watch: strategy of the day is to associate Enron equally with both sides (keep your strategies a little vague and pundits can *always* implement them) http://www.dailyhowler.com/h022002_1.shtml Enron documents released by the House Energy and Commerce Committee http://energycommerce.house.gov/107/hearings/02142002Hearing489/hearing.htm#docs Enron a Rerun of History (we're returning to the 19th century) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000013610feb22.story CorpWatch articles on Enron http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PII.jsp?topicid=145 How to Make the Enron Gang Pay http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/feb2002/nf20020221_9187.htm?c=bwinsiderfeb22&n=link4&t=email Andersen Trying for Enron Settlement http://www.msnbc.com/news/712692.asp intellectual property Streaming Report Requirements Seem to Follow RIAA Wishes http://www.kurthanson.com/archive/news/021902/index.asp#story1 http://www.kurthanson.com/archive/news/022002/index.asp#story1 http://www.kurthanson.com/archive/news/022002/index.asp#story2 http://www.loc.gov/copyright/carp/webcasting_rates.html http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/local/2716445.htm http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43306-2002Feb21.html Europe Clamps Down on Software Patents http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-841704.html http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-842159.html http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/indprop/02-277.htm threats of intellectual property law to online scientific collaboration http://www-econ.stanford.edu/faculty/workp/swp01005.pdf news from Planet Microsoft Microsoft Program Tracks User Info http://news.lycos.com/news/story.asp?section=Technology&storyId=338698 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24152.html scripting under Explorer just got even more trustworthy (they're just talking unless they revolutionize their scripting architecture) http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24168.html Microsoft's Next Scandal: Secret DoJ Negotiations http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/02/20/1619205&mode=thread everything else the curse of negative learning culture http://www.thenewrepublic.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020225&s=weissbourd022502 90% worse off than 20 years ago http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-02/uow-npo022002.php Does a Bull Market and a Boom in 401(k)'s Mean Fat Pensions? ("the big gains went to the really rich") http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/business/21SCEN.html?pagewanted=print jargon watch: making the very concept of a democratic opposition unthinkable (these ads are a very dangerous abuse of the concept of wartime unity) http://riverfronttimes.com/issues/2002-02-20/ray.html/1/index.html Religious Broadcasters Force Out New President http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42615-2002Feb20.html court decision striking down FCC rules on broadcast diversity http://laws.findlaw.com/dc/001222a.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A35724-2002Feb19?language=printer Internet Returns to Somalia http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1775000/1775865.stm http://dfn.org/news/somalia/sparse-internet.htm http://allafrica.com/stories/200201230295.html Design Addict http://www.designaddict.com/ Understanding the Policy Implications of Open Source Software http://www.ics.uci.edu/~wscacchi/Papers/NSF-Workshop-Jan02/Scacchi-Position-Paper-Jan2002a.pdf Grid Computing Luring Mainstream Backers (it would be cool to have a grid system for playing superhuman chess) http://news.com.com/2100-1001-841789.html PayPal's IPO prospectus http://www.edgar-online.com/bin/edgardoc/finSys_main.asp?dcn=0000912057-01-543278 http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.92.html#subj6 The Secret Lives of Numbers http://www.turbulence.org/Works/nums/ article on the strange electrical properties of ice http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/technology/circuits/21NEXT.html?pagewanted=print end
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