[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Tue Aug 06 2002 - 11:33:26 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
    
    Could 9/11 Have Been Prevented?
    http://www.time.com/time/nation/printout/0,8816,333835,00.html
    http://news.lycos.com/news/forms/printstory.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=482381
    
    Exposing Al Qaeda's European Network
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/216/nation/Exposing_Al_Qaeda_s_European_networkP.shtml
    
    Who Declares a War?
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/04/opinion/04RAKO.html?pagewanted=print
    
    The Hunt for the Anthrax Killer
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/789805.asp
    
    Performance Maintenance During Continuous Flight Operations
    (about amphetamine use by military pilots)
    http://www.thememoryhole.org/mil/NAVMEDP-6410.pdf
    http://www.aerospacemed.org/downloads/gopills97.ppt
    
    Lost Voices of Firefighters, Some on the 78th Floor
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/04/nyregion/04WTC.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Post-9/11 Thefts From ATM Lead to NY Arrests
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Dfraud6aug06
    
    tacky WTC souvenirs from Canal Street
    http://graphics.nytimes.com/images/2002/08/01/magazine/04gallery.1.jpg
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    After September 11th, a Legal Battle Over Limits of Civil Liberty
    ("secret arrests are a concept odious to a democratic society")
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/04/national/04CIVI.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Charges Dropped Against Bomb Suspect at Library
    http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20020801&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=208010564&Template=printart
    
    high levels of management turnover at the FBI
    (given the FBI's record, why does the Post treat this as bad news?)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A40928-2002Aug3?language=printer
    
    Reliability of Face-Scan Technology in Dispute
    (vendors focus on accuracy rates, not false positives and database problems)
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/217/business/Reliability_of_face_scan_technology_in_disputeP.shtml
    
    New ID System Off to a Rough Start in Japan
    (does anyone have URL's for more detailed coverage of Japan's ID system?)
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Db%2Did6aug06
    
    Privacy, Security, and Data Mining, Maebashi City, Japan, 9 December 2002
    http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/clifton/psdm.html
    
    infrared cameras in wild areas to prevent auto collisions with animals
    (I'd like to see cameras in cities to measure on-time performance of the buses)
    http://www.stockhouse.com/news/news.asp?tick=RBP&newsid=1253038
    
    Legal Issues in Monitoring Network Use, Webcast on Wednesday afternoon
    http://sans.digisle.tv/audiocast_080702/brief.htm
    
    Freedom and Privacy by Design
    http://foner.www.media.mit.edu/people/foner/Reports/TIS-WFPD/TIS-article.html
    
    lame Bush response to a civil liberties disaster in Egypt
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/04/opinion/04FRIE.html?pagewanted=print
    
    
    the bubble and the crash
    
    analysis of the Internet bubble
    http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/06/buy_lie_sell_high/print.html
    
    what happened at Andersen
    http://www.businessweek.com:/print/magazine/content/02_32/b3795001.htm
    
    more on the foolishness of "Dow 36,000"
    (at least some of the people who promoted the stock bubble are saying "oops")
    http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/dow36K.html
    http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/archives/000451.html
    
    "foreign ownership has made its way into almost every industry in the US"
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/04/business/04INVE.html?pagewanted=print
    
    some questions Dick Cheney would have to answer if he were answering questions
    http://www.salon.com/news/col/huff/2002/08/06/tax_havens/print.html
    
    
    politics
    
    Bush's Conspiracy to Riot
    http://www.consortiumnews.com/Print/080502a.html
    
    "you have to imply the falsehood without actually saying it outright"
    (jargonists treat politics as war against an infinitely evil foe)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/06/opinion/06KRUG.html?pagewanted=print
    http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2002_07_28_archive.html#85306714
    http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2002_08_04_archive.html#85316637
    
    "conservatives who hide the true cost of private Social Security accounts"
    (in the new language of politics, "truth" means whatever is expedient)
    http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2002_07_28_archive.html#85310293
    
    confident now, conservatives are increasingly honest about what conservatism is
    (and it's not a pretty sight)
    http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.asp?ref=/derbyshire/derbyshire080202.asp
    
    jargon watch: "when senators get together to fix prices on prescription drugs"
    (take the phrase stuck to us, "fix prices", blur it, and stick it to them)
    http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/511nqhkj.asp
    
    Majority Status Enriched GOP Areas
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A48314-2002Aug6?language=printer
    
    jargon watch: "an unabashedly liberal campaign book"
    (media regularly treats liberalism as something to be abashed about)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/04/books/review/04BELLUCT.html?pagewanted=print
    
    "this time, the Democrats cannot blame a Bush for a problematic voting process"
    (huh? can you make any sense out of the final paragraph of this?)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/04/politics/04FLOR.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Once Again, Florida Ballot Spurs Drumbeat of Complaints
    (Katherine Harris' final gift before moving along to Congress)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-florida4aug04.story
    
    Al Gore's rant against George Bush
    (what if five dozen pundits were ranting like this all day long?)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/04/opinion/04GORE.html?pagewanted=print
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    Microsoft License Agreement Asks for Root Rights -- Again
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26517.html
    
    survey of corporate enclosures of various types
    (it's a boringly familiar argument, but this collation of specifics is useful)
    http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR27.3/bollier.html
    
    Cambridge University trying to take faculty's patents
    (we'll be happy to hire Cambridge's most productive scientists over here)
    http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/expropriation.html
    
    ICANN: Nothing to Hide
    http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=888
    
    
    everything else
    
    The HDTV Fiasco Gets Worse
    (trying to make things happen before they're ready)
    http://www.cato.org/cgi-bin/scripts/printtech.cgi/tech/tk/020805-tk.html
    
    more on the spread of Linux
    http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techreviews/products/software/2002-08-04-linux_x.htm
    
    Stupid Linking Policies
    http://www.dontlink.com/
    
    Amtrak Subsidy Support Strong, Survey Shows
    (use the money to redesign the trains, or at least get the old ones back)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A43767-2002Aug4?language=printer
    
    The Food Timeline
    http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/kid/food.html
    
    Neil Halstead
    http://www.beggars.com/cgi-bin/sound.cgi?l=HALSN-CAD2202CD-02-MP3-US
    
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