Rock paper scissors just offered sudo this deal.
They have a lot of donate bottled Guiness Black. They will donate it to us.
We cant have events that we charge for door entry (say $5-10) where we give
away free unlimited beer. Then we return 30% of our profits to RPS for
giving us the beer.
Just to inform you of all our options,
notconfusing
Alcides Gutierrez
http://e64.us
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From: "Aaron Newcomb" <anewcomb2(a)gmail.com>
Date: Jun 14, 2013 10:22 PM
Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] New potential hackerspace in Benicia
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Cc:
We are in the beginning stages of getting a hackerspace started in
Benicia. We seem to have good support right now from the town as well
as other groups. We would really like someone from NoiseBridge to come
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started. Is there anyone familiar enough with how NoiseBridge is run
that would be willing to join us in the next few weeks?
Thanks,
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Hi All,
I will be giving a talk on the history of hacking.
Knowing where we come from will help us to move forward without repeating
the mistakes of the past. We live in a decisive time. How we act in the
next few months will mold "hacker" culture for years to come.
Come Saturday at 2pm to learn and discuss what it means to be a hacker and
how that meaning has changed for better or worse.
Hack The Planet.
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned#June_15:_From_Phone_Phreaks_to_Wi…
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have applied scientific research – published through Open Access – to
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individual or team. Individuals are also free to nominate themselves.
BADcamp is a most excellent free Drupal unconference, highly recommend to
get involved if you're interested in collaborating with a great open source
web development community.
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Planning Meeting June 19th, 6:30pm - 8:00pm
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Now's …
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Planning is well under way for BADCamp 2013, October 24-27 at University of
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We will be launching the website and opening session submission and
registration in about a month and we're locked in for venues. All we need
now is YOU.
Come meet some of the planning team and get caught up on the current
progress and see what we have in store for the 2013 edition. We're still
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The Supreme Court opinion on the Myriad Genetics case about the BRCA1 & BRCA2 patents is out. Great news for science and medicine. Opinion was 9-0, invalidating the patent Myriad used to exercise a monopoly over breast cancer diagnostic tests.
> http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-398_8njq.pdf
>
> Held: "A naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature andnot patent eligible merely because it has been isolated, but cDNA ispatent eligible because it is not …
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From the introductory summary --
> Each human gene is encoded as deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), which takes the shape of a “double helix.” Each “cross-bar” in that helix consists of two chemically joined nucleotides. Sequences of DNA nu- cleotides contain the information necessary to create strings of amino acids used to build proteins in the body. The nucleotides that code for amino acids are “exons,” and those that do not are “introns.” Sci- entists can extract DNA from cells to isolate specific segments for study. They can also synthetically create exons-only strands of nu- cleotides known as composite DNA (cDNA). cDNA contains only the exons that occur in DNA, omitting the intervening introns.
>
> Respondent Myriad Genetics, Inc. (Myriad), obtained several patents after discovering the precise location and sequence of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, mutations of which can dramatically in- crease the risk of breast and ovarian cancer. This knowledge allowed Myriad to determine the genes’ typical nucleotide sequence, which, in turn, enabled it to develop medical tests useful for detecting muta- tions in these genes in a particular patient to assess the patient’s cancer risk. If valid, Myriad’s patents would give it the exclusive right to isolate an individual’s BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, and would give Myriad the exclusive right to synthetically create BRCA cDNA. Petitioners filed suit, seeking a declaration that Myriad’s patents are invalid under 35 U. S. C. §101. As relevant here, the District Court granted summary judgment to petitioners, concluding that Myriad’s claims were invalid because they covered products of nature. The Federal Circuit initially reversed, but on remand in light of Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., 566 U. S. ___, the Circuit found both isolated DNA and cDNA patent eligible.
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A Sudo- Call to Action.
http://thebea.st/18vg9Eh
It’s Time to Rewrite the Internet to Give Us Better Privacy, and Security
It’s not too late to restore confidence, writes “digital Cassandra” Lawrence Lessig, but we need to start by asking the right questions.
sent from eddan.com
I'm mystified how any of this helps.
Even in a fully encrypted world, the destination ip and where it came from
is not encrypted. Like with phone numbers, if you make a peer-to-peer
connection and they can correlate it with any other information
(geotagging, etc) they don't need to decrypt or even know what the two
people are talking about.
I strongly suspect that the decoding of content, while it may be of use, is
not sufficiently advanced. There's no agreed protocol for semantic network
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forever) a completely secure form of communication because it requires a
realm of shared meaning. It means just as much to a NLP computer as "darmok
and jelad at tanagra"
But connections are already neatly encoded. Lumeta has nailed this, and I
saw early prototypes of their Internet networking mapping before this was
spun off from Lucent in the mid 1990's, and you can see the results of this
work at http://www.cheswick.com/ches/map/
Think about it. Do you think, just from types of cars (no license plates,
no text or color info, just (sedan, hatchback, pickup, SUV) moving between
addresses, you couldn't figure out who worked for a particular corporation?
While big business is still stumbling around in the dark, the creation of
accurate, time-dependent maps of all electronic networks tells more about
people than any other piece of information, because it is not subject to
translation error during the process of encoding and analyzing semantic
content. And the precious content which is protected by these tools doesn't
even need to be decoded. They can do that later, after the arrest, to
retconn a story about how they knew.
Putting together lists like this of "what you can do" just makes n00bs that
much easier to track by their metadata. If Ford and GM put tracking chips
in all their cars and you reacted by driving around only Yugos, DeLoreans,
or a DIY car, doesn't that make your metadata easier to track?
So, for my vote, following recommendations like this is a terrible idea.
Matt.
On Wednesday, June 12, 2013, Andrew wrote:
> this is an awesome list of great software. I also think it's important
> that people understand that privacy, anonymity, and securing require more
> than just switching to Ubuntu, using Firefox, etc... It requires real
> changes in behavior, as well as technical solutions. For example, you can
> use encrypted email all you want, but if the person you are communicating
> with doesn't also have good security practices they can be compromised and
> all your communications can be made available to anyone with access to
> their computer.
>
> Also keep in mind that these technical solutions will never be enough. For
> example, keyloggers are easy to trick someone in to installing or can even
> be placed in to "legitimate" via automatic updates without the user
> knowing. At any moment Apple, Microsoft, and Google could switch on a
> network of spying computers unprecedented in American history, (are you
> sure you and everyone you are communicating with are using 0% software from
> these companies?).
>
> The point is that this is not a technical problem. And, so far it's still
> very difficult for the NSA to gain human intelligence, so if you want to
> share secrets, the best way to do it is over drinks at your friends house
> surrounded by people you trust.
>
> --Andrew
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Eddan Katz <eddan(a)clear.net<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'eddan(a)clear.net');>
> > wrote:
>
>> "Opt out of PRISM, the NSA’s global data surveillance program. Stop
>> reporting your online activities to the American government with these free
>> alternatives to proprietary software."
>>
>>
>> http://prism-break.org/
>>
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