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 end
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