Friday, August 30, 2002

One year ago on t'other blog: Encryption, decryption, and values. U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship Further China news: 2 Men Arrested Trying to Export Encryption Devices Other China coverage in the X-Ray Net weblog. Computing Research Association's declaration and the Association for Computing Machinery's declaration concerning the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in the Felten v. RIAA lawsuit. Larry Lessig's NYT op-ed on the legal foundation for the Skylarov arrest. (The issue is how many other values get sacrificed in the name of protecting copyright.) More DMCA related activities from USACM. Study Decries Financial Firms' Online Privacy Policies H.R. 2148 would re-establish the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), which, for 23 years before it closed in 1995 provided Congressional members and committees with objective and authoritative analysis of complex scientific and technical issues. European Union says Microsoft may be violating antitrust laws by tying its Media Player product into its Windows operating system and allegedly trying to extend its strength in personal computers into other markets. (AP) Commodity and Community: Institutional Design for the Networked University, by Philip E. Agre. Ethical and Policy Issues in Research Involving Human Participants (Volume I), the Report and Recommendations of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, Bethesda, Maryland August 2001. (Also available in PDF.) Responsible computing, or how much trouble can you buy with a computer? Pretty funny video parody of a Monster.com ad (Real format) from UVa to make a point. Audio culled from the big Brother 2 feeds Great analysis of the good news in recent reports of test scores: SAT Scores Aren't Up. Not Bad, Not Bad at All. Karl Auerbach, ICANN Board Member Blasts Governance Study R.I.P., Michael L. Dertouzos. 5:17:41 PM    comment []