[EAS][RRE]pointers of 8/3

pjk pjk at design.eng.yale.edu
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Since I'm about to go off-line for a while, as I mentioned, I don't
have time to select particularly interesting items for EAS-INFO from
Phil Agre's latest RRE mailing. So I'm taking the liberty to show
you what his mailings look like.  --PJK

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Date: 8/3/02 6:24 PM
From: Phil Agre
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: Myra Melford, Dance Beyond the Color

Did anybody tape CNN on the morning of 9/11?  Can you send me a dub?


war

Aggressive New Tactics Proposed for Terror War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A38165-2002Aug2?language=printer

US Returns to Theory of Iraq Link to September 11th
("despite deep doubts by the CIA and FBI ...")
http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dfg%2Diraq2aug02

Mobilizations Hint at Date and Strategy for Iraq War
(probably a temporary link)
http://www.stratfor.com/fib/topStory_print.php?ID=205579

Rumsfeld's role in dealing with Saddam while Iraq was using chemical weapons
http://commondreams.org/views02/0802-01.htm

article about bin Laden's relations with the Taliban
http://www.msnbc.com/news/788932.asp

more on amphetamine use by US fighter pilots
(gives new meaning to the phrase "war on drugs")
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I53E21D61

Future Combat Systems
http://www.boeing.com/fcs/

UN Report on Jenin
(in which the PA wrests propaganda defeat from the jaws of victory)
http://www.un.org/peace/jenin/

Bush's Support for Reformers Again Backfires in Iran
(so, idiot or jerk? I say jerk)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A38398-2002Aug2?language=printer

Scientist Says FBI Asked About Setup
(it's the Washington Times so who knows, but it sure is weird)
http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20020803-26337484.htm

Fire Department Lapses on 9/11 Are Cited
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/03/nyregion/03FIRE.html?pagewanted=print

New York Plans Code Overhaul for High-Rises
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/02/nyregion/02CODE.html?pagewanted=print


civil liberties and security

decision that US courts have no jurisdiction over prisoners at Guantanamo
(so the US government can detain anyone and hold them indefinitely w/o trial)
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/rasulvbush073102dsm.pdf

Order Directing the Department of Justice to Disclose Identities of Detainees
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/cnssvdoj080202ord.pdf

GM Unveiling OnStar Service That Will Automatically Relay Crash Data
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/personal_technology/3774573.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

a lot of big talk about a war between hackers and the FBI
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,766789,00.html

Klez Microsoft Worm Tops the Virus Charts
(I get several Klez messages a day)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/26473.html

speakers and abstracts from Defcon
http://www.defcon.org/dcx-speakers.html

New Security Paradigms, Virginia Beach, 23-26 September 2002
http://www.nspw.org/current/

papers from a workshop on "economics and information security"
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/affiliates/workshops/econsecurity/


corruption

Florida Recount Funded by Enron/Halliburton
http://www.thedailyenron.com/documents/20020730085550-68379.asp
http://makeashorterlink.com/?O2EC52D61

Bush-Cheney Recount Fund Filed Disclosure Forms Plagued With Errors
http://www.publiccitizen.org/hot_issues/issue.cfm?ID=348

Bush, Cheney Under Fire Over Offshore Subsidiaries
http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/07/31/bush.harken.reut/
http://www.nydailynews.com/business/story/7314p-6742c.html
http://www.citizenworks.org/admin/press/halliburton-pr.php

Bush Admits Offshore Tax Haven Problem
(he's sure got a problem)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=536&e=1&cid=536&u=/ap/20020801/ap_on_go_co/tax_havens_21

Questions on Halliburton Deal Under Cheney
(caution, though: it's by Jeff Gerth, chronic recycler of partisan half-truth)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/01/business/01HALL.html?pagewanted=print

Deputy AG Thompson Made Providian Profit
("the stock plummeted when the company surprised investors with problem loans")
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A33804-2002Aug1?language=printer

summary of Democratic allegations against Bush, Cheney, Thompson, and White
(but the important thing isn't crimes but the larger pattern)
http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/bushcorpltrattach72402.pdf

incredulous chortling as Bill Simon's company is found guilty of fraud
(Republican candidate for governor of California)
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-me-simon2aug02005054.story
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-me-support2aug02005054.story

fraudulent budget accounting in New Jersey under Whitman
(e.g., the lame-duck GOP legislature deliberately ran crippling deficits)
http://www.njpp.org/moneyrun.html

WorldCom Execs Surrender
(okay, they're being handcuffed, good, but what kind of prison are they in?)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/788228.asp
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/worldcom/usvsull080102comp.pdf
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1024079088274

More Perp Walks, Please
(whatever happened to the Justice Department's Enron investigation?)
http://money.cnn.com/2002/08/01/news/perpwalk/index.htm 

Executives in Top US Collapses Made $3.3bn
(and to think there are kids who want to be drug dealers when they grow up)
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1028039797414&p=1027953298906

the accounting accusations against AOL are less serious than others
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2068762

SEC Web Site Provides Link to CEO, CFO Certifications of Financial Statements
http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2002-115.htm
http://www.sec.gov/rules/extra/staff21a1.htm

poll of CFO's on pressure to commit fraud
http://www.cfo.com/printarticle/0,5317,7502|,00.html

Enron Pact Troubled Merrill Employee
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A23497-2002Jul30?language=printer
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/business/3769254.htm

corporate bankruptcies being filed in New York, allegedly to get better deals
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1024079068893

Another Accounting Issue: Pension Funds and Executive Pay
http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/6115/view/print

the new business reform law
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/gwbush/sarbanesoxley072302.pdf

Legal Reasons to Keep E-Mail, Web Pages and Other Records
http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/2000-all/gall-2000-09-all.html

Corporate Lawyers Subject to New Reporting Obligations
http://radio.weblogs.com/0110692/2002/07/26.html#a31

many facts that I hadn't known about the S&P 500 stock index
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2068724

Protesters Say Bill Is Designed to Halt Berlusconi's Trial
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4473291,00.html


politics

Bill Would Grant Executive Branch Sweeping Authority to Override Federal Laws
http://www.cbpp.org/5-13-02tanf.pdf

What Is Going On With the Justice Department and Guns?
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1024079069179

Ancient History: The Deficits of the 1980s
(except it's not ancient history: we're reliving the 1980s without the growth)
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/archives/000432.html

the sort of person that George Bush thinks should be a judge for life
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/lazarus/20020725.html

the latest antics of Katherine Harris
(what's going *on* down there?)
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-harris3aug03.story
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/02/national/02HARR.html?pagewanted=print

false accusations of media bias are projection
(if people can be persuaded to screen out the news, then they'll believe lies)
http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh072902.shtml
http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh073002.shtml
http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh073102.shtml

Will Hillary And Bill Clinton Be Reimbursed For Whitewater Legal Fees?
("a pattern in favor of reimbursement of conservatives")
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20020802.html

read the first of these letters about the article on the "Left Behind" books
(some of the others are interesting too, though I don't endorse them all)
http://www.salon.com/books/letters/2002/08/02/aug02/print.html

FEC Rules on "Issue Ads" Decried
(campaigns are a mess, but those ads are totally protected speech)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A29076-2002Jul31?language=printer


intellectual property

Digital Library for Nuclear Issues
(an actual small example of a digital library)
http://alsos.wlu.edu/

death throes of UCITA, once considered unstoppable
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-947182.html

why starving Zimbabwe is rational to reject US genetically engineered corn
(the zealots here are the people using famine to force GE on vulnerable people)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A23728-2002Jul30?language=printer

more on the sad life of a Microsoft customer
(open source open source open source)
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-947164.html

article on changing relations between open source and corporate vendors
http://www.economist.com/business/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=1251254

Pressplay Revamps Online Music Service
(do they have any customers at all?)
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/3777666.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

Save Internet Radio
http://www.saveinternetradio.org/

Institutional Repositories' Critical Role in Reforming Scholarly Communication
http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=f60


design

Don Norman's design columns
http://www.jnd.org/

Everything I Need to Know About Usability, I Learned at the Arcade
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/us-cranky17.html

tech design and customer support for people with disabilities in US versus EU
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2165893.stm


everything else

The Impact of State Anti-Spam Laws
(with, ahem, "practical tips for companies that want to use e-mail marketing")
http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/2002-all/wood-2002-03-all.html
http://caag.state.ca.us/_misc/content/spam.htm

Social and Ethical Impacts of ICT's, Lisbon, 13-15 November 2002
http://www.ccsr.cse.dmu.ac.uk/conferences/ethicomp2002/

The Digital Divide From an Ethical Viewpoint, Augsburg, 3-5 October 2002
http://www.capurro.de/augsburg2.htm

fraud vigilantes on eBay
http://www.msnbc.com/news/784132.asp

cool online map collection
http://www.davidrumsey.com/

GPS Sparks Boundary Wars
http://www.msnbc.com/news/789040.asp

overview of economists' schools of thought
http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/home.htm

"the disconnect between trade rules and development"
http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/070280.html

Matthew Jay
rtsp://212.135.73.204/matthew_jay/youre_always_going_too_soon.rm

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