Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html war arguments against the conspiracy theories that the war is all about oil http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/14/silverstein-k.html http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=special&s=web20020712 escalating war-noises about Iraq http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20020718-124132-5174r someone should explain neoconservatives' ideas about war to voters (they think we should start a lot more of them and not worry how they end) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/21/books/review/21SCHWART.html?pagewanted=print Flaws in US Air War Left Hundreds of Civilians Dead http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/21/international/asia/21CIVI.html?pagewanted=print not-completely-irrational conservative analysis of US-European differences http://www.policyreview.org/JUN02/kagan_print.html The Strategic Defence Review: A New Chapter http://www.mod.uk/issues/sdr/newchapter.htm Opening the Secret Files on Lumumba's Murder http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A35560-2002Jul20?language=printer universal scorn for the six WTC corporate redevelopment "concepts" (and refusal to accept them as starting-points for negotiation) http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?020729ta_talk_goldberger http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/21/nyregion/21COMM.html http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/21/weekinreview/21BERG.html http://slate.msn.com/?id=2068270 http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/45459.htm http://www.calendarlive.com/top/1,1419,L-LATimes-Print-X!ArticleDetail-66567,00.html http://www.gothamgazette.com/iotw/sixplans/ WTC: pesky citizens getting in the way of a neat corporate planning process (9/11 survivors emerging as a force for good design) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/22/nyregion/22LOWE.html?pagewanted=print http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/columnists/ny-vpdol232796366jul23.column Deepening Democracy in a Fragmented World http://www.undp.org/hdr2002/ civil liberties and security The NSA Draws Fire http://www.time.com/time/nation/printout/0,8816,322587,00.html Domestic Military Role Under Review http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/06/20/politics/printable512881.shtml Ashcroft's Terrorism Policies Dismay Some Conservatives (the conservative alliance of libertarians and authoritarians can't last) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/24/politics/24ASHC.html?pagewanted=print An Algorithm for Defeating the Computer-Assisted Passenger Screening System (one more reason why racial profiling is less secure than random screening) http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/6805/student-papers/spring02-papers/caps.htm Critical Infrastructure Protection http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02474.pdf Home Users Part of Net Security Plan http://news.findlaw.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=/ap/ht/1700/7-17-2002/20020717140016_046.html WebTV Virus Dials 911 (police are not happy) http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/TechTV/techtv_911virus020723.html Wireless Security Blackpaper http://arstechnica.com/paedia/w/wireless/security-1.html Security in Pervasive Computing, Boppard, Germany, 12-14 March 2003 http://www.dfki.de/SPC2003/ Fingerprinting of UK School Kids Causes Outcry http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26305.html http://www.privacyinternational.org/countries/uk/kidsprint/fingerprint-release-702.html "our systems maintain databases of tens of millions of finger images" http://www.morpho.com/ http://www.foodserve.com/fprint.htm more on Liberty Alliance's new identity system spec (does anyone have URL's for privacy and security analyses of it?) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=74&u=/cmp/20020715/tc_cmp/inw20020715s0008&printer=1 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cmp/20020715/tc_cmp/inw20020715s0007 Exposing Ticket Camera Flaws http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-camera24jul24.story more on "nonlethal weapons" http://www.time.com/time/nation/printout/0,8816,322588,00.html Tunisia imprisons an online dissident http://news.zdnet.fr/story/0,,t118-s2118983,00.html http://www.tunezine.com/ repression of independent media in Kazakhstan http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-kazakh22jul22.story Center for Justice and Accountability http://www.cja.org/ yet another recitation of the simplistic argument that tech creates freedom (as usual, a world of complexity and contrary evidence is just ignored) http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/print_version/wo_muller071202.asp corruption Harken Energy Corporation Internal Documents http://www.publicintegrity.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=450&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0 Bush's Role in Corporate Fraud http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/204/oped/Bush_s_role_in_corporate_fraudP.shtml Harvard Fund Poured Millions Into Bush-Connected Oil Firm http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/199/nation/Harvard_fund_poured_millions_into_Bush_connected_oil_firmP.shtml extensive analogy between Harken and the Bush budget scam (they come from a subculture that's made a science of fraudulent accounting) http://www.thenewrepublic.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020729&s=chait072902 What Happened to Harken? http://www.fortune.com/indext.jhtml?channel=print_article.jhtml&doc_id=208814 conservatives are figuring out that Bush is their worst possible symbol (luckily for them, liberals don't have five dozen pundits explaining why) http://www.nypress.com/15/29/news&columns/beans.cfm http://www.msnbc.com/news/784014.asp http://www.time.com/time/nation/printout/0,8816,320730,00.html http://www.ipsos-reid.com/media/dsp_displaypr.prnt.cfm?ID_to_view=1568 Cheney is their second worst symbol (it is to laugh) http://www.msnbc.com/news/783040.asp jargon watch: very disturbed, very twisted rant against liberals and Europeans (anyone who takes this seriously might as well stir their brains with a fork) http://mfile.akamai.com/5020/wma/rushlimb.download.akamai.com/5020/clips/02/07/071702_9_liberalelitists.asx http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_071802/content/wed_liberal_elitists.guest.html "even to be seen meeting with the accounting lobbyists could be damaging" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47300-2002Jul22.html How Big Media Missed the Big Story on Corporate Corruption http://www.msnbc.com/news/783126.asp Warren Buffett's rant about options accounting http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/24/opinion/24BUFF.html 1995 Tort Reform Act Said to Provide Safe Harbor for Fraud http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-suits21jul21002055.story NASD to Take Action on Salomon "Analyst" http://www.msnbc.com/news/783805.asp http://www.forbes.com/home/newswire/2002/07/22/rtr670337.html Top Execs Land Safely Atop Wall Street Debris (scroll down) http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0230/ridgeway.php http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020718/4285061s.htm jargon watch: the stock market slump is partly caused by corporate reforms! (crackpot mechanically invoking what Hirschman calls the "perversity thesis") http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/wesun/20020721.wesun.11.ram said author's celebrated prediction for a Dow of 36,000 (he's clearly trying to defend himself in his interview above) http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99sep/9909dow.htm though Hirschman's argument also has implications for reformers http://www.prospect.org/print/V4/14/hirschman-a.html House GOP Targets "Attempted" Crimes http://news.findlaw.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=/ap/a/w/1153/7-23-2002/20020723091501_25.html Citigroup Deals Helped Enron to Hide Its Debts http://www.msnbc.com/news/783808.asp http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/24/business/24PLAC.html "WorldCom book-cooking was laid out chapter and verse in a shareholder suit" (and the judge who threw it out was ...) http://biz.yahoo.com/fo/020717/asleep_at_the_switch_1.html George Gilder's 1997 encomium to WorldCom (I have to say I respect him a little for keeping it on his Web site) http://www.gildertech.com/public/articles_by/baron.html looming shortage of corporate bankruptcy lawyers (makes sense: Silicon Valley ran out of start-up lawyers in 2000) http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1024079035607 Can Liberals Save Capitalism (Again)? (it gets harder every time) http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V13/14/kuttner-r.html politics maybe Bush is trying to talk up the markets because he's afraid they'll crash (why else? it's generally considered an unwise thing for a politician to do) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/23/opinion/23KRUG.html Markets Continue Downward Trend; S&P 500 Hits 5-Year Low (does anyone have a URL for a graph of S&P 500 aggregate P/E over 20 years?) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/24/business/24MARK.html?pagewanted=print interview with Mark Crispin Miller on Bush and the press http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/2002/07/19_Mark_Crispin_Miller.html No Strong Voice Is Heard on Bush's Economic Team (they have no economic policy, just a long-term, high-risk political strategy) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/21/politics/21ECON.html?pagewanted=print http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A53511-2002Jul23?language=printer jargon watch: denouncing as "junk" any science whose results you don't like (yet another example of projection) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-me-fish22jul22005042.story much coverage of Ann Coulter's slander and pundits garbling the Bush scandals (the Howler's new format won't let me link to individual items) http://www.dailyhowler.com/ Coulter's book, bizarre as it is, is not much different from dozens of others (we're waking up to a world of people who lie indignantly) http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0201.mnookin.html good riddance to Cokie Roberts, the worst-ever celebrity-insider "journalist" http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020805&s=alterman more conservative arguments that the fall elections will bring a change ("domestically, the Republican Party is bereft of plausible policy ideas") http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/486typqt.asp http://www.salon.com/politics/wire/2002/07/23/gop_pollsters/ the Florida rioters: where are they now? (running the country) http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/3656186.htm http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/3666728.htm Expert: Palm Beach's New Voting Machines Have Problems http://info.mgnetwork.com/printthispage.cgi?url=http%3A//ap.tbo.com/ap/florida/MGAIFTWBQ3D.html&oaspagename=www.tbo.com/ap/story.htm&image=tbologo80x60.jpg intellectual property No More JPEGs: ISO to Withdraw Image Standard (because a Texas company is claiming a patent on it) http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/26339.html The TCPA: What's Wrong, What's Right, and What to Do About It http://www.cs.umd.edu/~waa/TCPA/TCPA-goodnbad.html Royalty Fees Killing Most Internet Radio Stations http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2002-07-21-radio_x.htm KPIG Snuffs Web's First Online Radio Simulcast http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/3694190.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp http://www.kpig.com/ fine print of RealNetworks' open-source initiative http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=36511&cid=3931316 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26314.html new academic papers about open source software http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/omahony.pdf http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/lakhanivonhippelusersupport.pdf http://www.researchoninnovation.org/opensrc.pdf Open Standard: Role of Externalities and Impact on the Industry Structure http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/lecocqdemil.pdf spam geek lawyer gets his machine put on a spam black hole list (and gets ready to sue under the regrettable "trespass to chattels" theory) http://www.newarchitectmag.com/print/documentID=27051 Spammers Hit by Korean Fines (several Korean ISP's are still totally out of control) http://zdnet.com.com/2110-1106-945453.html Nigerian Letter Scam Is Raking in Millions a Year (a steady stream of people actually fall for it -- it's the culture of greed) http://www.dallasnews.com/latestnews/stories/072302dnmetemailscheme.62c69.html wonders of nature "the walking forest machine is Plustech's best-known innovation" http://www.plustech.fi/Walking1.html Climate Change: Myths and Realities Remarks http://www.pewclimate.org/media/transcript_swiss-re.cfm Manufacturing Drugs and Chemicals in Crops http://www.gefoodalert.org/library/admin/uploadedfiles/showfile.cfm?FileName=Manufacturing_Drugs_and_Chemicals_in_Crops.doc Nonindigenous Aquatic Species http://nas.er.usgs.gov/ there must be a dozen good reasons not to eat industrial beef http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/20/national/20BEEF.html?pagewanted=print "all centipedes are predators with poisonous fangs" http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/24/science/24BUGS.html?pagewanted=print everything else Hitachi's new water-cooled Pentium-4 Wintel laptop (plus Dada-esque Altavista translation) http://www.hitachi.co.jp/Prod/comp/OSD/pc/flora/prod/note/flora270wnw4/index.html http://makeashorterlink.com/?I1D021651 KPNQwest Employees Abandon Posts ("leaving a vast chunk of communications infrastructure running on auto-pilot") http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26295.html Did Telecom Reformers Dial the Wrong Number? http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fi-telcombust24jul24005042.story Search Engine Strategies, San Jose, 12-14 August 2002 (fascinating that an industry is growing up around this) http://www.intmediaevents.com/sew/summer02/ IT & Society: An Online Journal http://itandsociety.org/ Music and Technology: A Roundtable Discussion http://www.andante.com/magazine/article.cfm?id=17375 amusing article about workers in Ghana who process New York parking tickets http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/22/nyregion/22GHAN.html?pagewanted=print article about lawyers bidding for evidence on eBay (strikingly weird) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fi-ebay21jul21005056.story India to Provide Clinical Services to the US http://www.siliconindia.com/shownewsdata.asp?newsno=16072&newscat=Technology RISC Inventor Passes Away (it's hard to appreciate now what a work of genius the 801 was at the time) http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/26293.html road construction that encourages calmer driving habits http://www.dot.state.pa.us/Internet/hwyinths.nsf/frmTrafficCalming end
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