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 end
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