[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Mon Mar 25 2002 - 19:58:27 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
    
    Fierce Fight in Afghan Valley Tests US Soldiers and Strategy
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000021436mar24.story
    
    The Strange Battle of Shah-i-Kot
    (I have no opinion)
    http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000006D851.htm
    
    "Friendly Fire" Deaths Traced to Dead Battery
    ("the machine was programmed to come back on displaying its own coordinates")
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8853-2002Mar23.html
    
    Pentagon Juggles Politics of Creating North American Command
    http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0302/032202nj1a.htm
    
    leading Colombian presidential candidate responds to drug dealing allegations
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/725431.asp
    
    liberal Jewish criticism of Israel's policy toward Arafat
    http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/index.cfm/action/tikkun/issue/tik0203/article/020312b.html
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    Tests Show No Airport Screening Improvements Post-September 11th
    http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020325/3966489s.htm
    
    Terrorism Fears Push Maryland Toward Wider Police Power
    ("a deluge of measures under consideration in nearly every state capital")
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12099-2002Mar24.html
    
    ACLU Calls for Denver Police to Stop Keeping Files on Peaceful Protesters
    (this problem goes back decades)
    http://www.aclu-co.org/news/pressrelease/release_spyfiles.htm
    
    The War on Dissent Widens
    http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12612
    
    Backlash Grows Against White House Secrecy
    http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0325/p03s01-uspo.html
    http://www.sptimes.com/2002/03/24/Columns/The_outrages_of_secre.shtml
    
    The Smart Highway
    (or not)
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/083/metro/The_smart_highwayP.shtml
    
    1024-Bit RSA Keys in Danger of Compromise
    http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography%40wasabisystems.com/msg01950.html
    
    The New-Nuke Chorus Tunes Up
    http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/2001/ja01/ja01schwartz.html
    
    Black Hole in Nuclear Plant Security: US Lawmaker
    http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20020325_72.html
    
    commission report on Swiss complicity in the Holocaust
    http://www.uek.ch/en/index.htm
    
    New Killings and "Disappearances" in Chechnya
    http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/03/chechnya0322.htm
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    It's War, Folks -- SSSCA Formally Introduced
    http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/msg15574.html
    
    Revealing the Surprises in Software's Fine Print
    http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=ptcontract09&date=20020309
    
    threat to civilization posed by the copyright interests
    http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2922052.htm
    
    
    everything else
    
    FBI Raids Pro-Republicans
    (by jargon logic this means that Republicans in general are a "fifth column")
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4380933,00.html
    
    Canadians are flipping out at the latest Bush protectionism
    (just like Reagan)
    http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/story.asp?id={99EA1854-6A6A-483E-802A-4F585F3AEE2C}
    
    How Public Institutions Bankrolled Enron's Globalization Game
    http://www.seen.org/PDFs/pawns.PDF
    
    Telecom, Tangled in Its Own Web
    (best article on the subject)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/24/technology/24TELE.html?pagewanted=all
    
    Let's Return to Responsible Capitalism
    http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=49984
    
    Ex-Gateway Executive Says Microsoft Bullies PC Makers
    (a small sample of what we'd heard at the trial if not for the code of omerta)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/22/technology/22SOFT.html
    
    Industry Chiefs Say 3G and WiFi May Not Be Rivals But Collaborators
    (who cares what they say; the article is just interesting as a window)
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/081/business/Wireless_connection+.shtml
    
    New Services Spur Growth of Public Access Wi-Fi
    http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/Printer_Friendly_Version/0,1212,NAV47_STO69388-,00.html
    
    explosion of new compression standards
    http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20020322S0105
    
    Defense Technical Information Center Conference, Arlington, 15-18 April 2002
    http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/annualconf/
    
    extremely weird new US postage stamp
    (may not work under Explorer)
    http://shop.usps.com/cgi-bin/vsbv/postal_store_non_ssl/display_products/productDetail.jsp?OID=1003615&BV_UseBVCookie=yes
    
    Latest Way to Cut Grade School Stress: Yoga
    (this is why we have San Francisco)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/24/education/24YOGA.html
    
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