Dear Kopimists and the People who Love Them.
For the featured Filo delicacy for Friday Filosophy, we will have potato burekas.
I propose we talk about the difference between source code, object code, and executable code in regards to 1st Amendment protection. In other words, when is code speech and when is it a speech-act subject to less legal protection?
Below is an excerpt from an essay by Lee Tien, a brilliant EFF attorney for more than a decade, on Software as Speech (2000). These two paragraphs are in the section: Viruses and other "dangerous" software.
Of course, as always, we can talk about whatever else. Such as conscience and the unconscionable, perhaps.
Lee Tien, Publishing Software as a Speech Act, Vol. 15 Berkeley Tech. Law Journal (2000)
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/journals/btlj/articles/vol15/tien/tien.html
> Let’s return to the virus hypothetical.192 The main concern lies in the fact that the software may be “diverted” toward unlawful purposes, regardless of the speaker’s intent. This concern is, however, not unique to software. It also applies to other types of information usable for mischief or harassment, whether highly technical like information about nuclear weapons, or utterly mundane like a person’s name, address or telephone number.
> Even if the virus author merely posts the source code and fails to release it in active form, the issue remains whether the posting was done with an intent to communicate. If the author claims that she intended it to communicate, we would need to examine the context to decide the plausibility of that claim. There will often be a plausible claim. There is no question that people study viruses and other dangerous software in order to prevent or relieve harm.193 One way to control a virus is to publish its source code so that systems operators can disable or protect against it. Communicating a virus’ source code as part of such an effort qualifies as a speech act because the publisher intends to communicate how the virus works in a conventional way. In fact, one could imagine entire journals or Internet sites devoted to viruses and other dangerous software.194 When such publications aim to alert the world to these dangers, their intent is clearly communicative.
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hi all,
we've been having discussions around membership and access. as part of that
discussion, i volunteered to consolidate some of the various ideas for
benefits that we can tie to membership.
check out the suggestions, add your own, keep a discussion going:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Membership_Benefits_Discussion
- marina
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Thanks,
Tracy
I want to thank everyone who came together last night to collaboratively
bust their butts and get the event organized and running smoothly! Major
props to the night owls who helped with final cleanup and with luggin those
ginormous speakers back to my house! In the end we made ~$200, which was
4/9 of the total donations (4/9 went to Bike Smut and 1/9 went to Rock
Paper Scissors for hooking it up with the beer). Maybe we should have a big
event where 100% goes to SR? :] :]
I had a wonderful time! The major highlights for me were absolutely Ray's
aphrodesiac ice cream and witnessing the Sudo Mateists working hard the day
before (Not trying to toot horns--in all seriousness, I find food to be way
more sensual than porn).
After the show was over, I walked around and solicited people's feedback
for the show. Some members of the audience...
- wished there would have been a greater presence of male-bodied people,
transgender people and people of color, as well as a greater diversity of
non/gendered roles played out. (I spoke afterward with Phil about the high
presence of female-bodied people, and he said that the majority of the
production crew are female-bodied as well, and that they would like more
diversity in the films they recieve and is open to input.)
- wondered how crowdsourcing porn affects demographic of submissions
- were not surprised at the lack of diversity in queer porn
- had not seen strap-on sex before, and were delighted
- were displeased that there was no warning about two films with
(staged) nonconsensual acts
- want to hack sexuality
- might want to have a screening of very diverse porn
- think it would be really good to have a follow-up conversation!
Sorry if I missed your point--if you pm me I can add it in, or please
respond to the list. On the latter point, would anyone be interested in
organizing this?
Hugs,
Vicky
Say you have two houses near each other that want to share their Internet
connections with eacth other as one wireless node.
So, for example, they could both connect to Neighborhood WIFI and get a
connection that uses their combined bandwidth.
How is this possible? What's the best way to set this up so that other
houses could join in and share their bandwidth as well.
Thanks,
Andrew
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http://www.vagabondballroom.com
Hi Sudoers,
I've received some inquiries about when we could do a second batch of sudo shirts. Herein I will lay the groundwork for such shirts to happen.
First of all, today I was struck with a very simple sudo shirt design, which combines a few ideals that I've developed from my time screen printing: Using a colored shirt, minimizing ink use through tactful shirt color choice, creating focus from the graphical elements instead of the text. Also since this design would be a one-screen design, it would be ideal for doing an in-house screen printing workshop using water based inks (another environmentally superior decision), not to mention the possibility of keeping the screen on location for impromptu sudo prints.
This design is not actually the original sudo-button .svg that goes around. I modified this one (attached) to enhance the lines, fix a couple corner-jag issues, and to tweak some of the sides to be more parallel.
I'm pretty sure the edges are not all "perfectly parallel" here, and if we have any illustrator gurus on the list, that might be a cool thing to do. That said, this is a more precise sudo logo than we've had before, let me know if the subtle imperfections were cherished and I can revert this design. (Btw- What's the constellation depicted? Any?)
I and other sudo members have volunteered to donate the labor involved in producing these shirts, which would bring the price down to "cost", which will be $4.55 per shirt (American Apparel runs more expensive, but has some good-labor practices, so unless there's another preferred manufacturer, it seems the morally superior choice for now).
I donated the previous batch of shirts, but I'm currently donating what I can per month in dollars, so I'd like the Sudo Room's help to buy the blank shirts. If resold at $20 each, there would be a 339% profit on each shirt sold, which is probably a good thing to ask, since it doesn't require change, and it's a fundraising shirt anyway.
So: How's support for this design, and at $4.55/shirt, how many would we like Sudo Room to stock up on?
When the time to print comes around, I'll organize the volunteer effort, thanks for all the offers I've received!
-Dan Finlay
Check out DIY.org. Basically there are skills badges that kids earn by
photographing there work and adding it to there profile. There are great
instructationals for inspiration to satisfy the requirements for each badge.
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> 1. Youth engagement ideas via Ace Monster (Vicky Knox)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 12:17:48 -0800
> From: Vicky Knox <vknoxsironi(a)gmail.com>
> To: Sudo Room discuss <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org>
> Subject: [sudo-discuss] Youth engagement ideas via Ace Monster
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> Hey people!
>
> During Oakland Wiki's hackerspaces-themed editathon last Sunday, I worked
> on the Ace Monster page, and through that discovered "Hacker Scouts", an
> amazing mentorship program for young people interested in hacking stuff.
> Today while lurking Ace Monster's discuss listserv, I ran into a great
> convo on it. If you are interested in developing a youth engagement program
> at Sudo Room, these people would definitely be great allies and provide
> good solid insight. There already seems to be a collaboration going between
> them and Mothership Hackermoms.
>
> (Message 10 is quite beautiful.)
>
> V
>
> 7. Maker Faire Fundraiser for Hacker Scout Teen! (Samantha Cook)
> 8. Re: Maker Faire Fundraiser for Hacker Scout Teen!
> (Al Jigong Billings)
> 9. Re: Maker Faire Fundraiser for Hacker Scout Teen!
> (Christopher Cook)
> 10. Re: Maker Faire Fundraiser for Hacker Scout Teen! (Samantha Cook)
> 11. Re: Maker Faire Fundraiser for Hacker Scout Teen! (Lyra)
>
>
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 14:44:22 -0800
> From: Samantha Cook <sam(a)hackermoms.org>
> To: undisclosed-recipients:;
> Subject: [AMTD] Maker Faire Fundraiser for Hacker Scout Teen!
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> Dear Friends,
> We have an amazing teen at Hacker Scouts who is trying to fund his
> ambitious and amazing project for this year's Maker Faire. Cameron is a 17
> year old, homeschooled guy that paints, plays with lightning, makes
> electronic mechanical contraptions, writes computer programs, and
> builds/fixes computers.His project, the TARDIS tesla is very cool and
> ingenious in it's design and entertainment capabilities.
>
> We are proud to be helping Cam reach his Maker Faire goal. As a member of
> our Hacker Scouts Guild 001 in Oakland, we have the privilege of seeing him
> work on a variety of projects with precision, ingenuity and passion. He
> also mentors the younger members of the Guild with compassion and a cool
> ability to share knowledge. Between the Hacker Scouts mentors and his
> mentors at Arc Attack, he has the support to achieve his dream. We believe
> in him and his TARDIS Tesla, and ask you to contribute to his
> campaign<http://www.gofundme.com/TARDIS-Tesla>.
>
> You can find his fundraising page here<
> http://www.gofundme.com/TARDIS-Tesla
> >,
> and our article about it on the Hacker Scouts
> Website<http://hackerscouts.acemonstertoys.org/?p=530>.
>
> Even if you can't contribute, will you help out by sharing this?
>
> Thank you so much for your time,
> Samantha Cook, homeschooling mom of 3 and Executive Director, Hacker Scouts
>
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> Message: 8
> Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 09:40:38 -0800
> From: Al Jigong Billings <albill(a)openbuddha.com>
> To: AMT General Discussion <discuss(a)lists.acemonstertoys.org>
> Subject: Re: [AMTD] Maker Faire Fundraiser for Hacker Scout Teen!
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> I contributed. I encourage others to do the same.
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> Message: 9
> Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 09:56:15 -0800
> From: Christopher Cook <ccook(a)dirtylittlemonkey.com>
> To: AMT General Discussion <discuss(a)lists.acemonstertoys.org>
> Subject: Re: [AMTD] Maker Faire Fundraiser for Hacker Scout Teen!
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> Yeah Cam has brought his Tesla coil into the space a few times to show it
> off, impressive stuff. I think he and Costa worked together on the laser
> cutter to build the control panel for it.
>
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> Message: 10
> Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 09:58:52 -0800
> From: Samantha Cook <sam(a)hackermoms.org>
> To: AMT General Discussion <discuss(a)lists.acemonstertoys.org>
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> Thank you! Last night he was speaking so enthusiastically about his
> project; I hope we can help him achieve his goal! If anyone is interested
> in the current Tesla Coils he has, he will be bringing them to the next
> Open Lab on 2/17. Sam
>
>
> --
> web: http://mothership.hackermoms.org
> email: info(a)hackermoms.org
> twitter: @hackermoms
> eavesdrop: mothershiphackermoms(a)googlegroups.com
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> Message: 11
> Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 10:24:44 -0800
> From: Lyra <elevin(a)MIT.EDU>
> To: AMT General Discussion <discuss(a)lists.acemonstertoys.org>
> Subject: Re: [AMTD] Maker Faire Fundraiser for Hacker Scout Teen!
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> Shared and shown off. Encouraging ambition like this is one of the best
> things we can do for the world - Cthulu knows we need more Doctors and Mad
> Scientists!
>
> <3
> L
>
Dear Sudoers,
Give us your old, your broken,
your wireless routers yearning to be free...
We will take them, and make them
great once more (access points too!)
–part of the mesh, the metamycelia
of our dreams.
In the stack of crates
that creates our cubbies,
there is a place...
For your lost ones, potential nodes
in a network more aptly befitting
of the revolution.
Contribute them, anonymously if you wish,
or sudonoymously, be you a phish!
Love,
the Seriously Silly Sudo Society
(https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh)
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Jenny
http://jennyryan.nethttp://thepyre.orghttp://thevirtualcampfire.orghttp://technomadic.tumblr.com
`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories."
-Laurie Anderson
"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
-Hannah Arendt
"To define is to kill. To suggest is to create."
-Stéphane Mallarmé
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Please join us this Saturday June 1st at 2pm for the FREE workshop “*Today
I Learned: The Simple Computer*.” Perhaps you’ve heard of the 0′s and the
1′s. Perhaps you’ve heard of bits and bytes. But how do the 0′s and 1′s
tell your computer to do things? How do we go from 0′s and 1′s to lolcats
and code? How does the little box of plastic and circuits do anything at
all?
Want to have the most basic introduction to what a computer is and how it
works? We will break a computer down to its most basic concept and answer
any and all questions you will have (dumb questions, smart questions,
normal questions – all questions are welcome!).
Finally, we will take what we’ve learned and build a very simple computer!
If we have enough folks come, we will BUILD A COMPUTER OUT OF HUMANS
(WHAT?!)(YES.).
Specifically, during this “Today I Learned” workshop we will:
- Go on a quest to make computers *as simple as possible*. Intro to
computer science. Understand how computers work!
- Cover binary math and boolean logic
- Make half & full adders made of water, marbles, rocks, dominos, people…
- Build a very simple computer with 64 bytes of memory and 4 instructions
*This workshop is part of the series “Today I Learned,” a series of free
workshops that take place every Saturday at 2PM at Sudo Room, a creative
community and hackerspace in downtown Oakland. Check out the full schedule
at http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned and please forward widely.*
here enjoy
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:96468
I'd print some myself but I don't know how to switch the filament (since it
obviously must be printed in red)
Maybe we'll have hundreds of these things infesting the room soon, like in
that movie or tv show about the things that reproduced too much. You know,
that one.
