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by Marc Juul

Thanks for an awesome meeting everyone! The discussion. The food. Just everything. The only thing bad about it was that I feel kinda sorry for the sudoers who missed it. -- marc/juul

11 years, 5 months

Newbie Night

by Timothy Baron

Hey everyone! I totally forgot that I was suppose to be hosting newbie night tonight. Would somebody who's already there be willing to cover for me, just in case a newbie actually shows up? It's suppose to run from 5 until 7. -Timothy

11 years, 5 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] Breaking: Oakland to lead country in, diverting anti-terror funding to ubiquitous warrantless surveillance

by Shawn Lesniak

On 2013-10-13 22:49, sudo-discuss-request(a)lists.sudoroom.org wrote: > Lastly, shot-spotters shouldn't be controversial, even among those of us > who support the personal rights interpretation of the 2nd Amendment. A > gunshot on a city street means one of two things: a criminal has just > shot a victim, or a criminal's would-be victim has just shot their > attacker in self-defense. Either of those things merits getting the > police and paramedics on the scene, pronto. Shotspotters are microphones. They can capture other sounds and it is not clear how many other sounds and how long those sounds are retained. Their use would be less controversial if they were an oracle that just spit out 4 .40 caliber rounds were fired at the intersection of Grand and Broadway at 23:12:32 (15 seconds ago) instead of capturing any audio at all.

11 years, 5 months

Friday Filosophy: Software as Speech

by Eddan Katz

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. sent from eddan.com

11 years, 5 months

Recording Everything: Digital Storage as an Enabler of Authoritarian Governments (fwd)

by Jake

wow prescient, look at the date: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:42:41 -0600 From: Roger Baker Subject: Recording Everything: Digital Storage as an Enabler of Authoritarian Governments http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2011/1214_digital_storage_… Conclusions Declining storage costs will soon make it practical for authoritarian governments to create permanent digital archives of the data gathered from pervasive surveillance systems. In countries where there is no meaningful public debate on privacy, there is no reason to expect governments not to fully exploit the ability to build databases containing every phone conversation, location data for almost every person and vehicle, and video from every public space in an entire country. This will greatly expand the ability of repressive regimes to perform surveillance of opponents and to anticipate and react to unrest. In addition, the awareness among the populace of pervasive surveillance will reduce the willingness of people to engage in dissent. The coming era of ubiquitous surveillance in authoritarian countries has important implications for American foreign policy. Strategies for engaging with these countries will benefit from specific consideration of the presence, growth and increasing impact of these enormous digital databases. This will impact human rights, trade, export control, intellectual property security, and the operation of multinational businesses with in-country facilities, subsidiaries, or subcontractors. Finally, the use by authoritarian governments of systems that record everything in the complete absence of privacy considerations will lead to a long list of other unforeseen and generally negative consequences. Unfortunately, the residents of those countries, as well as the rest of us, will soon start to find out just what those consequences are

11 years, 5 months

Microduino workshop at Sunday Afternoon--everyone is a creator

by Microduino

Are you a young maker with brilliant ideas? Are you an engineer with tight deadline making prototypes? Are you a teacher trying to inspire student's creativity? Are you a designer with little knowledge of electronics? Microduino can help to turn your ideas into realization. With Microduino modules, everyone is a creator. The purpose of this workshop is to show you how we can help to turn your ideas into realization with our over 50 small, stackable, powerful, expandable Microduino modules. The Workshop will first briefly introduce Microduino, followed by case studies of design realization in different areas. This workshop will concentrate on various applications and all kinds of cool stuff made with Microduino modules, such as quadcopter, GPS tracker, mini robots, 3D printer, Joypad, open-source watch, smart garden, etc. We will also bring some samples for you to play with. Microduino is... Arduino compatible + Small size + Stackable pin-out + Various extension modules + Open source + Cost Effective == Awesome! Best Regards, Microduino Team Website: www.microduino.cc Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Microduino Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/Microduino Wiki: http://wiki.Microduino.cc G+: https://plus.google.com/+MicroduinoStudio

11 years, 5 months

book: Low Power to the People

by Jake

this book is super awesome. it's about putting up FM radio stations around the country in the last ten years (and more) and the group of activists and former pirates that pushed for and won legislation to increase legal access to the FM radio band. it's an anthropological work mostly, and it has a lot of coverage of the gender gap and dynamics which relate closely to what we're doing in the hackerspace movement. -jake ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2014 13:04:28 -0500 From: christina dunbar-hester <c.dunbarhester(a)gmail.com> To: Christina Dunbar-Hester <c.dunbarhester(a)gmail.com> Subject: announcing Low Power to the People Dear friends far and wide, Apologies for spam, but I'm pleased to announce that Low Power to the People, my book on radio activism, exists in the world... just out with MIT Press!! Wanted to share the news with the valued folks who contributed as friends, interlocutors, etc. along the way. Please feel free to share with interested parties or lists (especially the activists amongst you who are on lists I may not be on). with thanks and best wishes-- c [IMAGE] -- Christina Dunbar-Hester, Ph.D. Author of Low Power to the People, MIT Press Journalism & Media Studies, School of Communication & Information Affiliated Faculty, Women's & Gender Studies Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey email: christdh(a)rutgers.edu office: DeWitt 101 (185 College Ave.) web: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/directory/christdh/index.html phone: +1 848-932-7112 fax: +1 732-932-6916 mail: 4 Huntington St., New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA

11 years, 5 months

Can anyone watch my "bookshop" for 30 min?

by Scott Nanos

Any time today! I need to run and grab some more stock from my stash at owl and co! Plz txt and let me know if you can! Xoxo and thanks Scott

11 years, 5 months

green auto-ranging multmeter

by Brendan Reddy-Best

I seem to have misplaced my multimeter at sudoroom over the weekend: it's greenish grey, autoranging, probably has 2 probes on it with very pointy ends. It's got my friend greg's name written on the back in faint letters. any leads are extremely appreciated!

11 years, 5 months

Loaner bike?

by Rikke Rasmussen

Hey all, Have just lost my only reliable means of transportation - my bicycle - and desperately need a replacement asap so I can get to and from work. Does anyone have a decent spare bike sitting around they'd be willing to loan me for a few weeks until I can get a new one? I'll clean it, patch it, fix it and generally do everything I can to return it better than I receive it. Anyone able to help me out? /Rikke

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