[RRE]pointers (fwd)

this seems a particularly rich grouping:



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Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 10:55:08 -0700
From: Phil Agre <pagre@alpha.oac.ucla.edu>
To: Red Rock Eater News Service <rre@lists.gseis.ucla.edu>
Subject: [RRE]pointers

Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed.

RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html


civil liberties and security

Terrorists at Threshold of Using Internet as Tool of Bloodshed, Experts Say
(somehow they manage to overhype and underhype the problem at the same time)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A50765-2002Jun26?language=printer

claim that al-Qaeda cyberterrorism threat is nothing but industry FUD
(curiously timed to coincide with the publicity for Microsoft Palladium)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25938.html

The Role of Science and Technology in Countering Terrorism
http://books.nap.edu/books/0309084814/html/

Fourth Generation Warfare
http://www.d-n-i.net/second_level/fourth_generation_warfare.htm

350 Revenge Crimes After September 11th
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,744142,00.html

Even a "Bad Man" Has Rights
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39143-2002Jun24.html

Deadly Soviet Caesium Is Missing
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992445

FBI Wants to Track Your Web Trail
(from a few weeks ago)
http://zdnet.com.com/2102-1105-933202.html

The FBI in Your Library
http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/fbiinyourlibrary.html
http://www.holtuncensored.com/members/column330.html

Richard Nixon's "Enemies" List
http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~polisci/calvert/PolSci3103/watergate/enemy.htm

Calgary Gets Taste of Martial Law
http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?idF22B46-47FA-48CB-8B27-996AD12AEA4D

"a picture of the heat in your face detects lies as well as polygraph machines"
http://aolsvc.health.webmd.aol.com/printing/article/1668.51354

some treasonous satire
http://homepage.mac.com/leperous/PhotoAlbum1.html

Maher Sounds Off With Final "Politically Incorrect"
http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/28/tv.maher.ap/

he was chased off the air by liars and thugs …
http://www.charm.net/~somerby/h100101_1.shtml

… when in reality many people including conservatives had said the same thing
http://www.charm.net/~somerby/h092901_1.shtml


scandal

more detail on George Bush's serial lies about his statements on deficits
(all the more egregious, of course, given his lies about Gore's supposed lies)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/773123.asp

a blog devoted to fact-checking conservative hero Ann Coulter's "Slander"
(which, needless to say, lives up to its name)
http://www.anncoulter.blogspot.com/

projection hall of fame! "I detest you and will do my best to destroy you"
(this may be the most primitive example of projection I have ever encountered)
http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue 02-06-22&id78

a study in just how spurious establishment claims of "liberal bias" can be
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~nunberg/MRC.html

How Corrupt Is Wall Street?
(and what % of Bush campaign funds came from companies with major frauds?)
http://aol.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_19/b3782001.htm

Flavors of Fraud
("each of the major business scandals so far involved a different scam")
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/28/opinion/28KRUG.html

no prizes for guessing who WorldCom's auditor was
("you wonder how the entire analyst community missed something so egregious")
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/28/business/28TELE.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A44367-2002Jun25?language=printer
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/27/business/27RECO.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cidS6&ncidp3&e=1&u=/ap/20020627/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/hard_times_1
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/28/business/28AUDI.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58584-2002Jun27.html

Telecom in Financial Chaos
(it turns out that the greedhead corruption of the 1980's never stopped)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/772602.asp

Enron Criminal Investigation Is Said to Expand to Bankers
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/26/business/26ENRO.html
http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/06/27/enron.bankers.charged.ap/

danger of capital flight from the corrupt US economy
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story09438

In House Bid, Democrats Target Corporate Abuse
(it's only "risky" because they don't have five dozen pundits working on it)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A44930-2002Jun25?language=printer


intellectual property

more on Microsoft Palladium
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,274309,00.asp
http://zdnet.com.com/2102-1104-938968.html
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25843.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25852.html
http://www.infowarrior.org/articles/2002-08.html
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-938973.html
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020627.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/25905.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25891.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/25892.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/11/opinion/11ZITT.html

Digital Rights Management Operating System (Microsoft Patent 6,330,670)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?C42325821

critical security flaw in Microsoft's rights management software
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-940050.html

Microsoft's attempt to push proprietary media formats
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-938997.html

more on Scientology's attack on Google
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id23826492846

bill to allow copyright interests to disrupt P2P services
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25903.html

Corrupt Audio Discs, aka "Copy-Protected CDs"
http://uk.eurorights.org/issues/cd/quick/
http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart829

Yahoo!'s RIAA Deal Was Designed to Stifle Competition!
(I have no idea)
http://www.kurthanson.com/cuban/


everything else

chalk-marking wireless access points
http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/

US Senator Takes Up Open Source Fight Against … the Auto Industry
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/6/17/3394/78895

Clueless Mailers: The Latest Ugly Trend in Spamming
http://www.cluelessmailers.org/spamdemic/mapfullsize3.html

Your PC's Enemy Within
http://news.com.com/2009-1023-937457.html

article on next-generation Windows
http://www.fortune.com/indext.jhtml?channel=print_article.jhtml&doc_id 8505

"experimental latent semantic search engine" for blog posts
http://www.idlewords.com/semantic/

Richard Saul Wurman's "Understanding USA"
(I find it needlessly garish, but it does include some good design features)
http://www.understandingusa.com/

Babbage's Intelligence: Calculating Engines and the Factory System
http://cci.wmin.ac.uk/schaffer/schaffer01.html

How the GOP Abandoned Social Security Privatization
(but left a privatization paper trail a mile long)
http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/06/kuttner-r-06-24.html

Supreme Court decision in Cleveland vouchers case
(now Republican politicians will have to defend their unpopular voucher stands)
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/01pdf/00-1751.pdf

"why cities without gays and rock bands are losing the economic race"
(gays and rock bands obviously need tax cuts)
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0205.florida.html

Fighting Global Warming Would Barely Dent the World's Economy
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/greenhouse-02g.html

special issue of Journal of Molecular Biology on life sciences and society
http://www.idealibrary.com/links/toc/jmbi/319/4/0

Unwise Microwave Oven Experiments
(don't try this at home)
http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/weird/microexp.html

Antique Instruments to Raise Money for Berkeley Physics Department
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2002/06/27_physics.html

Beyond T. Rex
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020701/misc/1dino.htm

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