[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Fri Jul 12 2002 - 08:01:36 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
    
    Pick Hit: David S. Ware Quartet, Wisdom of Uncertainty
    
    
    war
    
    A War of Robots, All Chattering on the Western Front
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/11/technology/circuits/11NEXT.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (X-45)
    http://www.boeing.com/phantom/ucav.html
    
    the Army's online recruitment game
    http://www.americasarmy.com/
    
    argument for RICO prosecution of al-Qaeda
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/778166.asp
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    HR 5005 -- Homeland Security Act of 2002
    http://www.house.gov/hasc/billsandreports/107thcongress/hr5005ih.pdf
    
    testimony against secrecy in proposed Homeland Security Department
    http://www.epic.org/security/infowar/07_02_testimony.html
    
    using computer models to predict the effectiveness of biowar defense
    http://www.nature.com/nsu/020708/020708-5.html
    
    Scientists Build Polio Virus From Scratch
    (just what we need: a virus printer)
    http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992539
    
    jargon watch: Middle Easterner, killed someone, ergo terrorist
    (jargon promises its victims liberation from reason, logic, and sanity)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-oe-vincent11jul11.story
    
    annual report of CNIL (French privacy agency)
    http://www.ladocumentationfrancaise.fr/BRP/024000377/0000.pdf
    http://www.cnil.fr/
    http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dossiers/cnil.asp
    
    Windows Worm, Multiple Bugs Haunt Microsoft Users
    (but that's always true)
    http://www.esecurityplanet.com/trends/print/0,,10751_1384131,00.html
    
    Top 10 Enterprise Security Risks
    http://www.esecurityplanet.com/trends/article/0,,10751_1384081,00.html
    
    Can We Trust Microsoft's Palladium?
    (it's hard to tell what their evil plan is because there are too many options)
    http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/07/11/palladium/print.html
    
    
    the criminal class
    
    outline of the alleged criminal activities at Harken and Halliburton
    (by the editor of the excellent Daily Enron)
    http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=2988
    
    Bush Took Oil Firm's Loans as Director
    (it was Bill Clinton's fault)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52488-2002Jul10.html
    
    Did President Bush Profit on His Harken Loans?
    http://slate.msn.com/?id=2067952&device=
    http://www.latimes.com/business/la-na-aloha12jul12.story
    
    More Harken Documents
    (the key word is "Aloha", the subsidiary that was "sold" to mislead investors)
    http://www.public-i.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=386&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0
    
    Bush Uncooperative at First in 1990 Probe, SEC Memo Suggests
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A58469-2002Jul11?language=printer
    
    the case against Bush having been guilty of insider trading
    http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.asp?ref=/york/york071002.asp
    
    but that case depends on the shallowness of the SEC's investigation
    (a real investigation would have found ... subscription required)
    http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/07/12/harken/
    
    The Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week
    (market confidence restored -- not)
    http://www.thestreet.com/markets/dumbest/10031295.html
    
    Dick Cheney, Man of Mystery
    http://www.moveon.org/moveonbulletin/bulletin1.html
    
    Andersen Video Puts Cheney on Spot
    (as to Judicial Watch, I have no reason to believe they've grown sane)
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_2119000/2119981.stm
    
    Public Citizen Calls on Bush to Name Special Counsel to Probe Halliburton
    http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=1147
    
    Capitalism in Crisis
    http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/Page/SpecialLevel1&cid=1024578257992
    http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1224700
    
    McCain vs. Bush on Corporate Corruption
    http://slate.msn.com/?id=2067955&device=
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/08/opinion/08MCCA.html
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A52712-2002Jul10?language=printer
    
    Some in GOP Moving Past Bush on Business Fraud
    ("summary executions would get about 85 votes in the Senate right now")
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/12/business/12SENA.html?pagewanted=print
    
    jargon watch: study how one party gets the first and last word on Bush's speech
    (e.g., pinning the crime wave on Clinton though it started under Reagan)
    http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020710-72630360.htm
    
    "Mr. Bush is not a real reformer; he just plays one on TV"
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/12/opinion/12KRUG.html
    
    jargon watch: from Canada, a rant against corporate reform
    (it's *packed* with standard, time-tested rhetorical devices for this purpose)
    http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost/story.html?id={66AA7E46-3C7D-4DCB-9339-22A4F01D8AE0}
    
    Qwest Discloses US Attorney Is Investigating the Company
    ("management sold an awful lot of stock")
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/10/technology/10CND-QWEST.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Investor Protection and Earnings Management: An International Comparison
    http://credit.wharton.upenn.edu/faculty/leuz/EM_Draft.pdf
    
    
    politics
    
    Uncertainties of the Yucca Project
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/gao/yuccamtndec2001rpt.pdf
    
    jargon watch: study the methods used to read "bias" into a news report
    (fabulating hidden messages, complaining at GOP spin points left out, etc)
    http://www.aim.org/publications/briefings/2002/jul10.html
    
    on Bush's accusations that the Senate is obstructing business in Washington
    http://www.ndol.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=250641&kaid=131&subid=192
    
    GOP Figure Behind Greens Offer, New Mexico Official Says
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58236-2002Jul11.html
    
    
    European studies of wireless users
    
    Mobile End-User Service Adoption Studies
    http://ikt.hia.no/perep/pedersen_ling.pdf
    
    Designing Everyday Computational Things
    http://www.viktoria.se/~johan/thesis/
    
    Designing Mobile Ad Hoc Collaborative Applications
    http://www.viktoria.se/groups/play/publications/2002/smartits.chi.pdf
    
    Domestication and Mobile Telephony
    http://members.aol.com/leshaddon/Domestication.html
    
    When Are Information and Communication Technologies Coming Home?
    http://www.ita.hsr.ch/cost248/repository/blurring_boundaries/blurring_boundaries_chapters.html
    
    The Use of Mobile Telephony Among Norwegian Youth
    http://www.telenor.no/fou/program/nomadiske/articles/12.pdf
    
    The Consumption of ICT's and Mobility in Everyday Life
    http://www.cost269.org/working%20group/Mobility%20and%20ICTs2.htm
    
    
    everything else
    
    The Importance of ISP's in the Growth of the Commercial Internet
    (arguing against a broadband network that's closed to small service providers)
    http://www.consumerfed.org/backpage/ispstudy070102.pdf
    
    filters that falsely reject e-mailed newsletters as worms or spam
    (RRE has had some of this problem but fortunately not much)
    http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=06866
    
    article advocating the obnoxious practice of asking strangers to link to you
    (reciprocal linking campaigns should *not* be considered legitimate)
    http://sewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0711-linktips-long.html
    
    the Commerce Dept seeks your comments on "Digital Entertainment and Rights Mgt"
    (provided you can fit them into a window the size of a postage stamp)
    http://www.ta.doc.gov/comments/comments.htm
    
    Taking the Piracy Fight Too Far
    http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2002/tc2002079_7636.htm?c=bwtechjul12&n=link13&t=email
    
    "online games are proliferating because more people have computers at home"
    (some technologies can't happen until the market is big enough)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/11/technology/circuits/11HOWW.html?pagewanted=print
    
    the coming of digital cinema
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fi-highdef11jul11005058.story
    
    Open Content Network
    http://open-content.net/
    
    Reconceptualizing the Digital Divide
    http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue7_7/warschauer/
    
    wood-ferrite wall panels make a space (e.g., a cinema) dead to cell phones
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2067000/2067672.stm
    
    a running bull looking inquisitively into a camera while falling down
    http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2002/07/12/international/12SPAIready.html
    
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