*An Engineer's Diuers Obseruations Concernynge *
*Security *
*Made After Some Contemplation Of** *
*SudoRoom*
*Campus, Disposition, Maintenance, &c,*
*That Are Deserving*
*Of A Most Full *
*&*
*Rapt *
*Attention*
❝
*Crime prevention through environmental design*
*
(CPTED) is a multi-disciplinary approach to deterring criminal behavior
through environmental design. CPTED strategies rely upon the ability to
influence offender decisions that precede criminal acts. As of 2012, most
implementations of CPTED occur solely within the built environment.
Changing the areas we reside in to deter criminals from committing acts in
our communities is the main goal of CPTED. With urban design and the
planning that goes into the creation of new and reformation of older
communities, citizens in these neighborhoods and places of business can
feel safer at all hours.❞ [Read
more<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_prevention_through_environmental_design>at
Wikipedia]
*
*(1)*
*The Overhead Light In The Entryway*
The Landlord MUST replace this light and make sure that its operational.
There should be no hesitation: you ask, he replaces. It should have been
done yesterday.
*(2)*
*The Trees Across The Street*
Get the City of Oakland to trim back the trees (hopefully) just around the
street-lamps across the street. There are three lights up on the building
across the street, meant to light the street: it could be much better
lit. See the double-plus-good discussion on Anti-Blight, below.
*(3)*
*The Parking Deck Next Door*
The building owner may be the owner of the parking deck. If he does,
getting the lights that are busted fixed is as easy as it was in number
(1). He is required to do it. And he should know this, if he has owned
property for more than a month. Because he should know first or secondhand
that if he does not fix it there is a damn good possibility (based on
precedent in case law) that he will be financially liable for damages
resultant from any further criminal activity.
*if he’s not the same owner, then it’s a research question whether a
property owner owes a duty of care to next door neighbors. I guess that
would be why there are blight laws, huh?*
*which means, if he does nothing, SRers may have a case against him for
what has already occurred (?).*
If it’s things like lights in the alley then there are 10 lights. There
were 7 that were spaced at regular intervals as you go down the alley,
mounted 15- 20 feet up on the wall of the parking deck. If they were there
they would be shining light down into that darkness from where they are no
longer mounted about 20 feet up. Only one non-functional one remains. Once
you see it you’ll be able to see where the others were.
Then there are the three lights whose bulbs are burnt out where the bank
drive thru is (was?) down at the other end of the alley.
*(4)*
*The Intersection Of 22nd & Broadway*
Street-lamps each have two super bright bulbs by means of which they light
up the night. This in turn enables people to see other people at a greater
distance than they would otherwise, and avoid interaction if that is
prudent.
At the intersection of 22nd & Broadway one of the streetlight's bulbs is
out. On the SR side of the street. This does in fact make things more
dangerous.
The city has to replace it, and pronto -- same deal -- we need to bug the
fuck out of them until they do it.
*Conclusion*
Three different departments and one council-person; one or two building
owners.
Call them once a day until its done.
it is a principle of sound design that good lighting is essential to a
secure building. building codes are written stemming from, and
reinforcing, this. There are, consequently, social, political, and legal
mechanisms whereby certain actions that prevent and/or counteract blight
can be taken. The point is to do so with the least amount of delay or
opportunity for that action to devolve into inaction, which leads to more
blight, and directly and indirectly may result in harm to people or
property. Which we do not want. Which is the point.
*Further Instruction*
Is it a part of fire code? The fire department requires trees be trimmed
back so that people will not be able to break into other people's houses
without being seen...
*A Note Concerning Insistent Constituents*
Without delving into the ethical underpinnings, that ism, without agreeing
or disagreeing with this social principle, one can see that it is
empirically true that the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Applying this to
the situation at hand, the axiom becomes: if you keep bugging them, they
will do it.
SR has a landlord, who may or may not be the building owner. It also has a
council-person, and a person who runs the department responsible for the
city's control of urban blight, and a person who runs the department
responsible for the city's trimming of trees. A month of hearing from
someone every daywill probably motivate the necessary action. They are
limited in the resources that they have, including attention. A kindly
daily reminder/report of status will help focus that attention.
as far as organizing the once a day calling
*it’s important to actually reach them*
*[what if you can’t? –ed] [i would be willing to go in person –ed] *
come up with talking points or even specific phrases,
( like republicans do) such as “constituent service”
remind them that there have been “five events in the past month *[accuracy
check, please –ed] *requiring police intervention at SR”* [as i/we
understand it -- i do not have all the details myself –ed]*
*- the pepper spraying incident *
*- the car break-in*
*- the stolen ipad*
*- the being held up at gunpoint*
*- the guy messing with the keypad trying to get in*
maybe give a status report such as X,Y and Z await action; A is scheduled
for <day>,<date>; B is underway; C has been promised, but no date has been
scheduled/estimated/committed to
* a secondhand bit of info, FWIW: where SR is, at the edge of Koreatown
Northgate, or KoNo, there are no beat cops because supposedly Northgate has
the lowest incidence of violent crime -- but this is only because the city
does not count armed robbery as a violent crime. KoNo has the highest
incidence of armed robbery.*
*[fontsize emphasis mine –ed]*
*Notes On Finding Property Owners*
Get APN
zoom in on map (assessors map at http://www.acgov.org/assessor/maps2.htm)
to get the parcel # (APN) then you can get more details here also
take APN and/or other details and feed them in to http://rechart1.acgov.org
I forgotten the exact method of feeding the APN into the link above to
find the current owner, mainly because I can’t remember right now what the
right combo of leading, trailing, and extra middle zeros to trim is, but
we hack right? 3 quick ideas
*1. Brute force – *
try the different combinations of zeroes etc
*2. Use knowledge that you have of a property already – *
and feed it in to retrieve that property’s info to backward engineer the
right format
*3. Go to courthouse – *
and look on their property info computers. They rarely have a queue and
seem to be available for just this kind of use by the public. Unrestricted
access 8:30-2:30 or 4 except for passage through the courthouse entrance:
metal-detector for your person and the x-ray machine for your effects.
*[following are the results of the Speaker's engaging in the above research
technique –ed]*
Parking deck
8-648-16-3
[Owned by “exempt public agency” per Assessor’s,
so very likely city of Oakland]
Parcel of SR building
8-648-1
Parcel facing Broadway at other end of block from SR
8-648-18
Middle of block and alley next to SR building
8-648-17
Having found out that the City of Oakland owns the parking deck next door,
and they’re responsible for its blight makes me both more and less
optimistic about whether they alone will fix the blight depending on my
estimation of their willingness to fix their own problems. OTOH, since they
are responsible to the citizenry in general, and they have geographic
knowledge of problems via mapping crime and they are the landlords of the
blighted property they arguably already have the kind of legal liability
for what has happened recently, the kind that was mentioned above only in
prospect for SR’s landlord. As I understand it, it’s established law that
if a government is performing a function that isn’t unique to government
(the set of which seems to be shrinking), that it has no sovereign immunity
for doing it poorly.
Please forgive the upcoming caps: WARNING: GO TO AN ACTUAL LAWYER IF YOU
WANT A LEGAL OPINION RENDITIONED RENDERED. I only offer my opinion which is
not withheld pending ransom retainer. (Sorry for the caps –CYA.)
The point is court action possibly offers another stick (but it is a blunt
instrument). A carrot might be to offer to help correct the situation, but
that would be poisonous to relations with city unions, probably, even if a
qualified person could be fielded. The greater point you already know well
and practice: to think (sideways or whatever direction) to the extent you
believe the issues are salient. Hope my modest thought offering is helpful.
*see also wikipedia:*
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_prevention_through_environmental_design*
*and its reading list:*
• International CPTED Association
• European Designing Out Crime Association
• Stichting Veilig Ontwerp en Beheer (the Netherlands)
• California Designing Out Crime Association
• Crime prevention and the built environment.
• Washington State University CPTED Annotated Bibliography. Url last
accessed May 6, 2006.
• Oscar Newman, *Creating Defensible Space* (pdf) (Washington, D.C.: U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development
and Research, 1996). Url last accessed May 6, 2006.
• CPTED LinkedIn Discussion Group
• SmartCode Module on CPTED
• Secured by Design (UK)
*N.B.: These are the near verbatim notes I took of an impromptu talk. They
have been reviewed and edited by both the Scribe and the Speaker, & unless
bracketed & followed by attribution, (as in "[...in respect of
actionability alone these ideas are robust indeed. –ed.]") represent the
ideas mostly in the exact words of the Speaker.*
i was hesitating before sending this but then, maybe this will appeal to
people. i'll not send stuff like this if it produces a strong negative
reaction. it's a nice change of pace after all these kickstarters and porn
discussions.
https://www.facebook.com/events/326355650829180/
Hip Hop and Punk Feminisms: Genealogy, Theory, Performance
December 5-6, 2013
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Proposals due: Friday, 23 August 2013
This conference will bring together artists, activists and academics to
stage new conversations about women of color and women of color feminisms
across cultural forms too often perceived to be wholly distinct – hip hop
and punk. Both hip hop and punk have received significant scholarly
attention since the 1970s, but despite their near-simultaneous emergence in
global cities wrought anew through multiple, devastating wars and global
economic restructuring, rarely are the two brought into conversation with
each the other.
With this conference, we hope to disrupt status quo narratives and present
wholly new analytic and aesthetic investigations about race, sex, and the
creation of categories of deviance; race, gender, and sexuality in cultural
studies and the politics of aesthetics; queer of color critique and women
of color feminist epistemologies; social movements, activism, and art;
norms of respectability, morality, and propriety and their politics of
value; and, systems and structures of violence and human value. Perceiving
a need for a greater nuanced comparative analyses and collaborations across
disciplines or fields of inquiry, itself a topic of ongoing scholarship,
this conference aims to break ground on what that looks, feels, and sounds
like.
We invite presentations, papers, performances, work-in-progress, new media,
workshops, panels, related to (or building on) the following themes/issues:
• Genealogies and as well multiple origin stories for hip hop and/or punk
across diasporas and the globe (against a wholly distinct and discrete
genealogy, or singular origin story, for each)
• Inter-genre corporeal practices and body aesthetics
• Theories of aesthetics and value that emerge from hip hop and/or punk
cultures
• Critical conversations on hip hop and/or punk organizing and
disorganization
• New media, web series, blogs, zines, and ciphers
• Critiques and political polemics that imagine futurity or negativity (and
the uses and challenges to them from women of color feminisms)
• Disruptive youth cultures and oppositional activism, or their lack (e.g.,
can we necessarily presume disruption or opposition? what conditions are
required? through what measures do we recognize these?)
• The ephemeral and haptic qualities of hip hop and punk performances
(including the events, actions, and encounters between bodies that shape
social and cultural formations within hip hop and punk cultures)
• Art and music inspired by hip hop and punk collaborations
• Experimental hip hop/punk methodologies and pedagogies
What to send:
For individual proposals: Please send a 350-word (maximum) abstract of your
conference contribution. All submissions will be reviewed by the conference
co-organizers.
For collective/panel proposals: Please send a 300-word (maximum)
description of the overall goal, vision, and content for the collective
contribution. In addition, please provide no more than a 250-word abstract
of each individual’s contribution. All submissions will be reviewed by the
conference co-organizers.
All proposals must also include the following information:
1. Author(s) name, affiliation(s), and brief bio
2. Email address or preferred contact
3. Title of presentation
4. Key words
Send proposals to HipHopAndPunkFeminisms(a)gmail.com with the following
subject heading: abstract submission.
Conference Co-organizers:
Ruth Nicole Brown
Karen Flynn
Fiona I.B. Ngô
Mimi Thi Nguyen
All proposals accepted for and presented at the conference will be
considered for publication in a collection Hip Hop and Punk Feminisms:
Genealogy, Theory, Performance.
I meant to send this earlier, but spaced it out.
If any sudoers are interested in either bringing in some broken stuff to
fix, or in being a Fixit Coach, come on down to Albany on Sunday afternoon.
If that doesn't work for you, we will be at the Temescal Branch of the
Oakland Public Library on Saturday, June 22 from 12-3.
See you there,
Steve
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: *Peter Mui*
Date: Saturday, June 8, 2013
Subject: TOMORROW: Fixit Clinic LII (#52) Sunday, June 9 1PM-4PM Albany
Community Center
To: fixit-clinic(a)googlegroups.com
Hi Fixit Coaches:
We're a "Go" for Fixit Clinic LII (#52) TOMORROW Sunday, June 9 1PM-4PM at
the Albany Community Center: here's the Fixit Clinic Coach lineup as far as
I know:
Elanor
Jeff (and Samuel)
Jessie
Kent
Mark Putzer (Chelle's Dad)
Martin
Peter
Richard
Roy
Steve
Any other coaches: please feel free to join in on the fun!
I plan to get there about 12:30. See you there!
Cheers, -Peter
Peter Mui petermui(a)gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
'petermui(a)gmail.com');>
510 540 8318 / 408 647 5790
1715 Eola St. Berkeley CA 94703
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Fixit Clinic at Albany Community Center
Fix your broken stuff -- Or at least learn more about it disassembling it.
Bring your broken, non-functioning things -- electronics, appliances,
computers, toys, etc.-- for assessment, disassembly, and possible repair.
We'll provide workspace, specialty tools, and guidance to help you
disassemble and troubleshoot your item. Whether we fix it or not, you'll
learn more about how it was manufactured and how it worked. This is a
family-friendly event: children are heartily invited!
WHAT: Fixit Clinic LII (#52) at Albany Community Center
WHEN: Sunday, June 9, 2013 1-4PM
WHERE: Albany Community Center, 1249 Marin Avenue, Albany, CA
http://www.albanyca.org
HOW: Bring: 1) your broken or non-working thing (carry-in only: no
oversize items)
2) accessories and tools you already own that might be helpful (e.g.
phillips head screwdriver)
3) any knowledge or advance research you've done on the issue
4) boxes, bags and/or small containers to organize (and carry away)
parts.
COST: Free!
WHY: To make friends, learn how things work, and have fun!
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another legal aspect of the sudo-mesh project is patent busting prior art research. ...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/mesh-networking-good-overbroad-patent…
> JUNE 21, 2013 | BY JULIE SAMUELS
> Mesh Networking, Good. Overbroad Patents, Bad. Help Us Protect Mesh Networking.
> Earlier this year, we announced that along with the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, we were challenging six patent applications that, if granted, could threaten the development of 3D printing technology. We asked you—the community—for help, and your input was invaluable. We're still waiting to hear from the Patent Office on those applications, but our work is not done. We need your help again, this time to challenge dangerous patent applications that threaten mesh networking technology.
>
> Mesh networking allows users to form their own networks without a centralized infrastructure, making them inherently resistant to censorship, surveillance, and disruption. Given recent revelations showing widespread surveillance of the phone calls and online activities of innocent Americans and others around the globe, the development of mesh networks more important than ever. Governments and commercial actors have taken advantage of intermediaries as “weak links” in order to censor, surveil, and disrupt communications and social movements. Already in the United States, cell towers have been deactivated in response to planned protest, while activists in countries such as Egypt, Libya, and Syria have suffered massive blackouts that shut down all access from within the country to the wider Internet. Mesh networking technology can help activists fight back.
>
> Wireless Mesh Networks
>
> For more than a decade the open-source community has been developing networks that use multi-hop connectivity to bypass the current ISP-dominated model of Internet access. These Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have tremendous potential for enabling the free flow of information without exposure to censorship and monitoring. Because they lack a central access point, mesh networks are also harder to take down, as the removal of one node won’t terminate the entire network. And WMNs, by not relying on infrastructure provided by ISPs, can provide connectivity in areas where that infrastructure is inaccessible, damaged, or prohibitively expensive.
>
> The open source community has developed innovative tools and applications of mesh networking technology including the B.A.T.M.A.N. routing protocol developed by Freifunk, a system for internet access in remote areas of Afghanistan and Kenya (FabFi), and community controlled telephone systems in Nigeria, Columbia, Puerto Rico, South Africa, East Timor, and Brazil (VillageTelco). Harvard Law Professor Jonathan Zittrain and former FCC chairman Julius Genachowski recently advocated for the use of mesh networks to provide phone access during times of crisis when mobile networks are overloaded.
>
> The Problem
>
> Wireless Mesh Networking is still in its nascent stages, and the innovations and experimentation of the open source community are playing a vital role in advancing the technology. However, there has also been significant proprietary and military interest in the technology, and companies are seeking patents in many areas of WMN already explored by the open source community. We unfortunately know what can happen when overbroad patents get granted—the rise of patent trolls, lawsuits that can threaten growing businesses, and threats that target entire areas of technology. We don't want to see that happen to mesh networking.
>
> This is where you come in!
>
> We have identified several patent applications that we believe particularly threaten the free development of mesh networking technology. There is a danger that these patents, if granted, will lock up the basic mesh network infrastructure and restrict advancement of and access to the technology.
>
> We have been using the Patent Office’s new Preissuance Submissions procedure, which gives third parties an opportunity to tell patent examiners when they think a patent application shouldn't be granted. The procedure requires those third parties to submit publications predating the application that prove the ideas in the patent were not novel.
>
> Which is why we need your help. We are again partnering with Ask Patents so you can help us identify the best prior art to reign in these applications. While prior art for issued patents must date back many years, these are recently filed applications for which relatively recent publications may be helpful. Look at each “Request for Prior Art” we post to learn the exact priority date.
>
> Working together we can protect the mesh networking community from overbroad, illegitimate patents that threaten to stifle innovation and access to technologies that preserve personal freedoms.
>
> APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING WIRELESS MESH NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS
>
> ADAPTING EXTENSIBLE AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOL FOR LAYER 3 MESH NETWORKS
>
> MESH NETWORK GATEWAY AND SECURITY SYSTEM
Tonight, we found the sudo room bike locked up outside the door on 22nd St.
It had only a light chain locking it to the post. Then an evil man stole
it! >.<
...
Just kidding. Marc cut the chain with our boltcutters from home and brought
it back up to the space. Please don't do this with the lovely bike Matt put
together for us all with his very own sweat, tears, and freecycled parts!
Or paint it hot pink! With 3D printed flair!
On agenda for next week: Bike protocol :)
Be well,
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
~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
sudoers!
With your support, the plan to mesh the world is progressing rapidly.
If you are interested in becoming part of the mesh by hosting a mesh node
in the near future, then please add yourself to the node map:
http://meshmap.sudoroom.org/
Hosting a node involves:
1. Letting us mount a router on your roof, or on the side of your house,
or pointing out your window (they come in different sizes, but even the big
ones are pretty small and unobtrusive) and run a single cable (choice of
colors!) to your existing modem / access point / router.
2. Paying for the routers power usage. They use only 8 watts of power,
which is less than 5.9 kilowatt-hours a month, which at an average bay area
price of 22.8 cents each comes to about $1.35 a month.
3. Optionally paying for the router! $25 to $110 depending on distance to
nearest other mesh node.
4. Optionally donating e.g. 10% internet bandwidth to the mesh if you
already have an internet connection (strongly encouraged!).
Add yourseeeelf!!!:
http://meshmap.sudoroom.org/
--
Marc
Mesh the planet!
hey all,
a few of us went to a screening this evening of edible city, a documentary
about the food justice movement in the bay area (and what was particularly
awesome is that the filmmakers and lots of the people in the movie were at
the screening and answered questions!).
the whole movie is available here:
http://ediblecitythemovie.com/help-us-grow/
- marina
