[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Sun Aug 25 2002 - 14:33:58 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
    
    more on the NRO plane crash exercise that was scheduled for September 11th
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020821/ap_on_go_ot/sept_11_plane_exercise_2
    
    the road to war
    http://www.ucomics.com/patoliphant/2002/08/21/
    
    thank goodness the Taliban isn't destroying archaeological sites any more
    (no, now it's the free market that's destroying archaeological sites)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/25/magazine/25AFGHAN.html?pagewanted=print
    
    one-sided democratization policy gives no credit to the world's intelligence
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/21/opinion/21FRIE.html
    
    a brief history of PR in war
    ("when our neighbors call us vermin / we send out Woody Herman")
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/25/weekinreview/25DEGR.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Media "Ground Rules Agreement" in Afghanistan
    http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/ground-rules.htm
    
    the Washington Times publishes a hit piece on the NEA's Sept. 11th curriculum
    (including some really disturbing quotes, e.g., about Islam)
    http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020819-34549100.htm
    
    but the NEA's rebuttal doesn't even bother explaining what is wrong with it
    (most liberals are just ignoring conservatives and hoping they'll go away)
    http://www.nea.org/nr/nr020820b.html
    
    September 11 Digital Archive
    http://www.911digitalarchive.org/
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    Secret Court Says FBI Aides Misled Judges in 75 Cases
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/23/national/23FBI.html?pagewanted=print
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/fisa51702opn.pdf
    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/july-dec02/court_8-23.html
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Dfisabox24aug24
    
    Who Decides Whether Yaser Hamdi, or Any Other Citizen, Is an Enemy Combatant?
    http://writ.news.findlaw.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=/dorf/20020821.html
    http://writ.news.findlaw.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=/ramasastry/20020821.html
    
    Transport Worker ID in Works
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/236/nation/Transport_worker_ID_in_worksP.shtml
    
    more on the Japanese ID system
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A51216-2002Aug22?language=printer
    
    latest on tracking devices for people
    http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1280634
    
    Big Brother Hiding Inside Cars' Airbags
    http://www.activedayton.com/ddn/local/0822car.html
    
    NASA Rejects Washington Times Claims It Plans Mind Reading Capability
    http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=9061
    http://www.nasawatch.com/misc/08.19.02.mindreading.html
    
    Microsoft Discloses "Critical" Security Flaws
    (the reporters' laptops must have a function key programmed with that headline)
    http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/08/23/microsoft.security.reut/
    
    Worm Spreads Through KaZaA Network, Again
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/26794.html
    
    Extent of Money Laundering Through Credit Cards Is Unknown
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/gao/gao72202ccmlrpt.pdf
    
    Argentine Military Believed US Gave Go-Ahead for Dirty War
    http://www.nsarchive.org/NSAEBB/NSAEBB73/index3.htm
    
    Kissinger Watch
    http://www.icai-online.org/xp_resources/kissingerwatch/kw9.pdf
    
    new problem with Palm Beach County's touch-screen voting system
    http://www.gopbi.com/partners/pbpost/epaper/editions/wednesday/news_d336f01410bb815f1090.html
    
    
    corruption
    
    Targeting Skilling, Lay May Prove Tough
    http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/front/1546605
    
    Prosecutors Target Millions Held by Enron Execs
    (but they're using forfeiture laws that are famously short on due process)
    http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/front/1544312
    http://news.findlaw.com/ap/f/1310/8-22-2002/20020822051501_02.html
    
    Deals Within Telecom Deals
    (remember to say "alleged")
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/25/business/yourmoney/25TELE.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Executive Compensation in America: Optimal Contracting or Extraction of Rents?
    http://papers.nber.org/papers/w8661
    
    Cheney Ruthless as a CEO
    http://www.thedailyenron.com/documents/20020820094250-29013.asp
    
    
    politics
    
    raving madness fills the media and goes nearly unremarked
    ("drugged and controlled by demagoguery" -- Karl Mannheim, 1933)
    http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh082202.shtml
    
    oh, and the machine went after Steve Earle a while back
    (a whole industry now circulates falsehoods about one person after another)
    http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=84
    
    The White House: Fat Cat Hotel Still Open for Business
    http://www.publicintegrity.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=460&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0
    
    
    everything else
    
    a more interesting scenario for the future of the laptop
    http://www.nonsensical.com/viridian/notebook/
    
    article on security in a distributed operating system
    http://www.askemos.org:9080/RomePaper.pdf
    
    open source strong cryptography for Internet telephony and the like
    http://www.nah6.com/nah6-h2k2_files/v3_document.html
    
    Spam Crusaders Slog It Out in Court
    http://news.com.com/2102-1023-954960.html
    
    Critique of the Proposed UK Implementation of the EU Copyright Directive
    http://uk.eurorights.org/issues/eucd/ukimpl/critique_uk_impl.html
    
    decision rejecting claimed patent on hyperlinks
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/cyberlaw/btelprdgy82202dec.pdf
    http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1029689057140
    
    "the supply of programmers exceeds demand"
    http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/07/15/020715opsurvival.xml?Template=/storypages/printfriendly.html
    
    Central Banking for a New Era
    http://www.fmcenter.org/pdf/ACCBreportonline.pdf
    
    computing and sustainable development
    http://www.panda.org/resources/publications/ict.cfm
    
    World Development Report
    http://econ.worldbank.org/wdr/wdr2003/
    
    NPR Worldwide
    http://npr.org/worldwide/
    
    A "Red River" in Spain May Yield Clues to Life on the Red Planet
    (does anyone have URL's for cool scientific papers about extremophiles?)
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dfg%2Dtinto24aug24
    
    When Ad Offends, Cadbury Eats Its Words
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-briefs23.7aug23.story
    
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