[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Tue May 07 2002 - 08:35:34 PDT

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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
    
    planning for war on Iraq
    (the fact that we're even having this conversation is too weird for me)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/sunopinion/la-000031814may05.story
    
    Jenin War Crimes Investigation Needed
    http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/05/jenin0503.htm
    
    Demand Dick Armey Retract Call for Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians
    (he says insane things without consequence)
    http://www.adc.org/action/2002/02May2002.htm
    
    Stop Blaming Europe
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42401-2002May6.html
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18441-2002May1.html
    
    Iran News
    http://payvand.com/news/
    
    US Offensive in Latin America: Coups, Retreats, and Radicalization
    http://www.monthlyreview.org/0502petras.htm
    
    Guerrillas, Drugs and Human Rights in US-Colombia Policy, 1988-2002
    http://www.nsarchive.org/NSAEBB/NSAEBB69
    
    Army Confirms Making Anthrax in Recent Years
    http://www.sunspot.net/news/health/bal-te.anthrax13dec13.story
    
    Anthrax Sent Through Mail Gained Potency by the Letter
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/07/national/07ANTH.html
    
    World Trade Center Building Performance Study
    http://www.house.gov/science/hot/wtc/wtcreport.htm
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    Free Burma Coalition
    http://www.freeburmacoalition.org/frames/home.htm
    
    In Michigan, Anti-Terrorism Effort Goes Public
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A37210-2002May5?language=printer
    
    latest national ID card and driver's license politics
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/747901.asp
    http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/privacy/story/0,10801,70721,00.html
    http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=02052002-072009-4333r
    http://www.idg.net/ic_855521_1794_9-10000.html
    
    Federated Identity Management by Dan Geer
    http://www.simc-inc.org/archive0002/February02/Speakers/geer-keynote.htm
    
    UK Plan to Make Identity Theft a Criminal Offense
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,2763,710798,00.html
    
    public-interest groups' comments on financial information-sharing practices
    http://www.epic.org/privacy/financial/glb_comments.pdf
    
    SonicBlue Ordered to Track ReplayTV Users' Viewing Choices
    http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3186191.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
    http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/3194142.htm
    
    First-Ever VeriChip "Chipping" Procedure on May 10th
    (I demand a boycott on the word "chipping")
    http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020502/22172_1.html
    
    police access to personal identification of Canadian air travelers
    http://www.privcom.gc.ca/media/nr-c/02_05_b_020501_e.asp
    
    Facial Recognition Vendor Test 2002
    http://www.frvt.org/FRVT2002/default.htm
    
    California DMV -- click on "Vehicle Smog Check History"
    (entering the license plate of any car gets you its VIN and smog history)
    http://www.smogcheck.ca.gov/
    
    Knives, Tanks, Whales: Airport Screeners Now Failing to Catch Anything
    http://www.satirewire.com/news/march02/screeners.shtml
    
    Chinese Hacker Group
    http://www.counterpane.com/alert-ceu.html
    
    CERT's Top Six Attack Trends
    http://www.cert.org/archive/pdf/attack_trends.pdf
    
    security problems threatening Web services
    http://news.com.com/2009-1017-893230.html
    
    
    the bottomless corruption of Enron
    
    Enron Forced Up California Energy Prices, Documents Show
    (are any of these documents online?)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/07/business/07ENRO.html
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A42867-2002May6?language=printer
    
    Enron Pipeline Leaves Scar on South America
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A37365-2002May5?language=printer
    
    preview of the Enron trial
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZOWHRIS0D
    
    
    politics
    
    "the budget is worse than even the most dour pessimists had thought possible"
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/03/opinion/03KRUG.html
    http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/05/06/economy/
    
    The NRA's Moral Equivalence
    http://slate.msn.com/default.aspx?id=2065227
    
    "this continuum of Republican attack politics from Watergate to W"
    http://www.consortiumnews.com/2002/050602a.html
    
    article on Bush and the Christian right
    http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/9/easton-n.html
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    Why Entertainment Companies Want to Hack Your Computer
    (hack it? they want to outlaw it)
    http://www.reason.com/0205/fe.mg.hollywood.shtml
    
    it seems people who don't watch the commercials on TV are committing "theft"
    http://www.inside.com/product/product.asp?entity=CableWorld&pf_ID=7A2ACA71-FAAD-41FC-A100-0B8A11C30373
    http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/3200101.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
    
    Drug Companies Maintain "Astounding" Profits
    http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/324/7345/1054/b
    
    Microsoft in Peruvian Open-Source Nightmare
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25157.html
    
    
    everything else
    
    court finally allows an ISP to cut off a spammer
    (now I can think of some whole countries that should get cut off)
    http://litigation.paetec.net/
    
    a new low point in the long-running debacle that is digital television
    (actually, at least three of them)
    http://www.tvinsite.com/multichannelnews/index.asp?layout=story_stocks&articleid=CA214798
    http://mccain.senate.gov/dtvfloor02.htm
    http://www.democraticmedia.org/news/washingtonwatch/drmUpdate.html
    
    Collection of Software Bugs
    (i.e., bugs that caused death and destruction)
    http://wwwzenger.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/persons/huckle/bugse.html
    
    Theatre und Internet
    (course syllabus in German with excerpts from some readings in English)
    http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/sem1.htm
    http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/sem2.htm
    http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/perfa.htm
    http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/perfb.htm
    
    Media in Transition 2, MIT, 10-12 May 2002
    http://cms.mit.edu/conf/mit2/
    
    electronic proceedings for a peer-to-peer workshop back in March
    http://www.cs.rice.edu/Conferences/IPTPS02/
    
    Wireless Linux Router Brings in Subscribers for Ghana's Largest ISP
    http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=23733
    
    Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries
    http://www.ejisdc.org/
    
    IT, Communications & Development, Katmandu, 1-3 December 2002
    http://www.itcd.net/
    
    Jellyfish "Blooms" Could Be Sign of Ailing Seas
    (you haven't lived till you've found yourself swimming amid stinging jellyfish)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A37617-2002May5?language=printer
    
    Ever Precise, Scientists Describe New Form of Life as "Weird Bug"
    (does anyone have public URL's for scientific reports on these things?)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000032145may06.story
    
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