[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Wed Mar 20 2002 - 21:45:35 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
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    clear explanation of the problems with the new tribunal rules
    http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20020320.atc.05.ram
    
    US Faces High Hurdles in Seeking Death for Moussaoui
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/726828.asp
    
    investigation of alleged international money laundering
    http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/26/10/feature1_1.shtml
    
    US Arms Illegally Go to "Axis of Evil"
    http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020320/3954405s.htm
    
    $3.2 Million Stolen From Heathrow
    (once again, airport security at its best)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000020357mar20.story
    
    Biometrics to Get an XML Standard
    http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s=1490&a=24184,00.asp
    
    more on legal problems with fingerprints
    http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dorf/20020320.html
    
    the PR firm behind the strategy of associating environmentalists with terrorism
    http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/5246
    
    reaction to the Saudi anti-Semitic article
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020320/pl_nm/saudi_usa_article_dc_1
    http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=11072&intcategoryid=3
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-032002blood.story
    http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/03/20/News/News.45527.html
    http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/981mndkn.asp
    
    history of the article's claim
    http://www.jewishfrontier.org/frontier/jf_1-00_rosenthal.html
    
    jargon watch: the phrase "no moral equivalence" is dangerous
    (it means "their guys kill so they're bad; our guys are good so they can kill")
    http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=105001762
    
    International Campaign for Justice for the Victims of Sabra and Shatila
    http://www.indictsharon.net/
    
    German activist using media attention to help North Korean refugees
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-000020082mar19.story
    
    Why Finland Is Soft on Crime
    http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/story.asp?id={29AAA82B-0A0C-4F21-906F-22BC7D692B15}
    
    Old Alabama Won't Leave Politely
    http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1035137
    
    Blackhole List, Facing Legal Challenge, Closes
    http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article/0,,10_995251,00.html
    
    The Rising Tide of Spam
    (spam is indistinguishable from a denial-of-service attack on much of the net)
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/03/18/spmlmt.DTL
    
    more on "419" scams from Nigeria, including law enforcement contact information
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/03/14/nigerscam.DTL
    
    First Amendment, Privacy and Mass Mailers
    http://dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=19744&dest=article
    
    Morpheus Gives Web Surfers a Detour
    http://news.com.com/2100-1023-864086.html
    
    Mobile Marketing Association Pushes Privacy
    (they are impressed by the odds of legislation if they aren't seen to act)
    http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/article/0,,12_994451,00.html
    
    Finding Pay Dirt in Scannable Driver's Licenses
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/21/technology/circuits/21DRIV.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Zero-Knowledge Systems' Privacy Program Returns, Less Anonymous Than Before
    (privacy needs to be useable)
    http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/v-text/story/300063p-2626720c.html
    
    Hackers Deface Thousands of Domains Parked at Verisign
    (Verisign is a single point of failure for much of the Internet)
    http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175343.html
    
    
    scandal
    
    evidence or no, the Whitewater spin-points must be repeated
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/727051.asp
    
    and study here how the report uses the "guilty unless proven innocent" standard
    http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/03/20/whitewater.clintons.ap/
    
    contrast to this report, which is relatively objective
    (surprisingly, given that the NY Times hawked the misleading accusations early)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/20/politics/20CND-WHITE.html
    
    but check out the title and lead at Fox News
    (total exoneration of the Clintons does not compute over there)
    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,48380,00.html
    
    Ex-Independent Counsel May Face Investigation
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000020380mar20.story
    
    Starr: "Unethical and Unscrupulous"
    http://www.bartcop.com/032002lyons.htm
    
    jargon watch: tossing around words like "lies" with zero evidence
    (even the defenders of Ashcroft, Olson, Pickering, etc don't deny the facts)
    http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/bfpnews/editorial/thursday/1000h.htm
    
    hagiography and projection in the work of Peggy Noonan
    http://www.thenewrepublic.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020325&s=chait032502
    
    outline of the allegations relating Bush, Cheney, Enron, the Taliban, etc
    (I have no opinion)
    http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.asp?id=183
    
    Just 17% Say White House Is Telling Whole Truth on Enron
    (temporary link)
    http://hotlinescoop.com/web/content/polls/wednesday.htm
    
    roundup of Enron stories
    http://www.alternet.org/issues/index.html?IssueAreaID=30
    
    The Daily Enron
    http://www.thedailyenron.com/
    
    the alleged Exhibit A for "liberal media bias" is the opposite of the truth
    (that's exactly the purpose of jargon: to turn reality on its head)
    http://www-csli.stanford.edu/%7Enunberg/bias.html
    http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/fa/20020319.fa.02.ram
    
    US v. Arthur Andersen, LLP
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/enron/usandersen030702ind.html
    
    The Andersen Defection Directory
    http://www.forbes.com/home/2002/03/13/0313andersen.html
    
    The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business
    http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/print/0,1643,38604,00.html
    
    
    everything else
    
    The Broadband Militia
    http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0203.behar.html
    
    wireless: European standards versus American chaos
    (neither approach is looking very good at the moment)
    http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1034659
    
    more detail on the threat to Microsoft's "Windows" trademark
    (e.g., they haven't challenged people who refer to "windows" on the Mac)
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZYH39A0ZC
    
    Networks for the Future: To .Net or Not
    http://netaction.org/futures/networks.html
    http://www.netaction.org/msoft/doj-reply.html
    
    Voice Recognition Leaps Out of the Lab and Into Appliances
    (we're gonna regret this)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/21/technology/circuits/21TALK.html?pagewanted=print
    
    How To Ask Questions the Smart Way by Eric Raymond
    http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
    
    An Avant-Garde Design For a New-Media Center
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/21/arts/design/21DILL.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Network Worlds, Kingston, Ontario, 31 May - 1 June 2002
    http://www.networkworlds.ca/
    
    more on claims that we didn't go through a recession after all
    (making former claims of a $4T surplus all the more suspicious)
    http://latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-000019411mar17.story
    
    Sucking the Oxygen Out of a Cave
    http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/005abyvw.asp
    
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