Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html war Shadow Government Is at Work in Secret (they're right, which is why they shouldn't abandon nonproliferation programs) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20584-2002Feb28.html Right-Wing Montana Militia Plotted Killings, Sheriff Charges (does anyone have URL's with background on terrorism in the West?) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/01/national/01PLOT.html Official Count of September 11th Victims http://webcenter.newssearch.netscape.com/aolns_display.adp?key=200202252137000168373_aolns.src civil liberties and security Airports Screened Nine of September 11th Hijackers, Officials Say http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26149-2002Mar1.html this is very dangerous: permanent war, permanent delegitimation of dissent http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20006-2002Feb28.html http://www.salon.com/politics/col/spinsanity/2002/03/01/lott/ another argument for letting the CIA spy domestically (the goal, however, is to be a free country) http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_janfeb_2002/deutch.html Bag Scanning System Called Easily Foiled http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000015266feb28.story automated face recognition "for a state that has requested anonymity" (okay, if the state's citizens can do the same) http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020228/282396_1.html letter to FTC about eBay's privacy policy http://www.junkbusters.com/ebay.html scandal Nixon Sought to Tie Wallace Shooting to Democrats (the more things change, the more they stay the same) http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20020228/pl/politics_nixon_dc_1.html "War Crimes" Protest as Kissinger Visits Cork http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2002/0228/521960362HMKISSINGER.html EPA Official Quits, Rips White House http://www.msnbc.com/news/717430.asp The Enron-Cheney-Taliban Connection? http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12525 "eighteen of the energy industry's top 25 financial contributors ..." (what happened to the other seven?) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/01/business/01ENER.html?pagewanted=print Enron Paid Huge Bonuses in '01; Experts See a Motive for Cheating (performance-related bonuses suredly led to aggressive accounting elsewhere) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/01/business/01PAY.html?pagewanted=print "O'Neill wants CEOs to pay dearly for Enron-style bookkeeping" (if so then we're in danger of a CEO shortage) http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/mar2002/nf2002031_3779.htm Ken Lay's Nest Egg http://www.motherjones.com/web_exclusives/features/news/enron_insure.html Enron Code of Ethics (brand new, never used) http://www.thesmokinggun.com/enron/enronethics1.shtml summary of legislative responses to Enron http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1019435 the role of economic expansion in financial fraud http://slate.msn.com/?id=2062650&device= the wave of greed in Silicon Valley is finally being prosecuted (let's have a hard rain so that serious people can get back to business) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000015503mar01.story alternatives to HTTP framework for building new protocols (so hopefully people won't try building them on top of HTTP) http://www.beepcore.org/ "two-way" version of HTTP http://www.knownow.com/ http://www.knownow.com/news/216412.pdf Microsoft-backed security-free protocol, presumably for exchange of XML (one of those things that makes sense until you think about it) http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-nielsen-dime-01.txt http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3080.html http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3081.html intellectual property industry testimony for and against bill requiring rights management on PC's (this is a very big deal) http://www.senate.gov/~commerce/hearings/022802eisner.pdf http://www.senate.gov/~commerce/hearings/022802vasdasz.pdf CD Technology Stops Copies, But It Starts a Controversy (if you can play them on a PC, how can they literally be copyproof?) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/01/technology/01PROT.html?pagewanted=print W3C Releases New Draft of Patent Policy http://www.w3c.org/2002/02/pp-update-pressrelease Open Knowledge and Open Source Initiatives (interview about programs at MIT) http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=979 everything else jargon watch: "the goal ... is not to pound Microsoft into submission" (a standard straw man tactic -- dude, the appeals court said they were guilty!) http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZRB1C69YC special report on e-mail and spam http://www.businessweek.com/technology/tc_special/email.htm The Impact of the Internet on Society, University of Maryland, 3-14 June 2002 (workshop for graduate students) http://www.webuse.umd.edu/Summer_Webshop.htm the underground battle for control of Web services http://news.com.com/2010-1075-847893.html online paper by journalists in a labor practice complaint against their paper http://www.journalontrial.org/ Libraries and the Digital Divide http://www.ala.org/oitp/digitaldivide/brief_dd_libraries.html Lower-Income Students at America's Top-Ranked Universities (some remarkable stats, California versus everyone else) http://www.irvine.org/fr_news3_1_02.htm Radical New Views of Islam and the Origins of the Koran http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/arts/02ISLA.html?pagewanted=print "precision farming" http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/28feb_farming.htm all about kimchi http://www.kimchikorea.net/english/html/contents.html The Basics of Cooling Food (e.g., a big pot of food in the fridge may not cool fast enough to be safe) http://www.hi-tm.com/Documents/Basic-cool.html Tugboat: Do Not Try This at Home http://www.graddon.net/towboat/towboat.htm end
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