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I recommend that anybody interested in seamless IP encryption that supports any IP application without any changes look into IPSec. There's a free implementation called FreeS/WAN for linux. For PCs and Macs there are free client-side implementations availible in the form of PGP Freeware's PGPNet module.

IPSec can easily be set up to support an entire Internet subnet, where it encrypts all data between IPSec-enabled gateways, or encryption and authentication directly between two IPSec configured hosts.

As an added bonus, the Internet Engineering Task Force has included IPSec in the IPv6 specification, so there's a very high chance the protocol will become widely adopted in the near future.

FreeS/WAn can be found here and PGP Freeware here.

Uhg... Sickening... Getting a patent and using two freeware/sourceware programs as a reference (FIPS and presizer). From the way US5675769 reads, I'm not sure what exactly they're patenting. From the looks of it, they've covered everything from the partition operation to the error recovery situation to the PartitionMagic GUI. Oh, what a wonderful world this would be if software patents did not exist. How can anyone find any sanity in a patent system that takes 2-3 years to grant a patent that lasts for 17 years in an industry that can drastically change in less than 6 months?

The recently announced Oxygen Project at MIT refers to the RAW processor as part of its design. The chip will rewrite its internal wiring using logic gates and microcode, compiled in some HLL. Sounds like chips are getting so big that it isn't worth the effort to customized them anymore. Just install FPGAs in everything and change the configurations as needed.

First, everyone remember that UCITA is not Federal legislation; it's a recommended addition to the UCC, which means that it must be passed at the state level.

While this means that we haven't lost yet, it makes fighting the thing a real pain, as we have to do it at each and every state legislature.

Back on track.... Cem did a dead-on critique of the proposal last May. I saved it, and everyone interested should read it, as it's very, very, good.

Cem's critique of UCITA

UCITA sucks all over; it's one of the few pieces of legalese that I've seen that has absolutely, positively no redeeming qualities.

-Erik

If you're coming to the library to do research, then unless you just happen to be researching porn or hate groups, you'll probably enjoy the fact that there's not someone on the computer across from you staring at women in all sorts of unnatural positions.

Hrmm, Lets take a look at some of the popular "hate groups" these various blocking software blocks, shall we?

National Organization for Women
Covenant of the Goddess and The Witches Voice, Wicca is a nationaly recognized religion in the US
Yahoo Search Engine
MIT Project on Mathematics and Computation
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Laboratories
The University of Arizona
Stonewall Inc., gourmet coffees, teas, food and gifts.
...and of course...
Peacefire, A site telling people how to disable this blocking software

The problem with commercial blocking software is the lists of blocked sites are not published, and often contain OVERBLOCKS, Stonewall Inc is blocked under the "Gay Sites" area of Cyberpatrol, but it has absolutely nothing to do with homosexuality.

This is the reason we need to keep these "filters" out of our libraries and schools.

-- iCEBaLM

• Slrn - possibly the best news reader
• JED - good text editor including support for folding
• slang - alternative to curses and scripting language used in mutt

The creation of new algorithms is difficult. It's one of the things that cannot be done easily by the open source community, which has brought us a lot of very high-quality products in other areas, because you need a very specialized knowledge (signal processing, lossless compression etc.) that only few people have. There was a very well-written comment by Eric Scheirer on this on Slashdot months (a year?) ago, but I couldn't find it.

This webnoise article, linked on slashdot in may is probably what's being referred to here. The comment in question is toward the end of the article.

Now, generally people say this sort of thing for two reasons. Most commonly, they actually believe that no one else on the planet is as smart/knowlegeable/experienced as they are, and couldn't possibly produce rocket science of the requisite level. This is despressingly common, and one of the psychological hurdles (like fear of being judged on work-in-progress as if it's the best one could do in a polished effort) that holds people back from adopting open development practices. This is another strain of what RMS called the Cathedral style of development. It's what was said about writing compilers, operating system kernels and desktop applications, and I don't buy it here either.

The other reason is when the authors are trying to create a aura of "professionalization" around their work, usually so they can remain well placed in their employer's finances. The arguments are similar: "We're trained professionals. Do not try this at home," but the motivation usually has more to do with greed (or at least comfort) than fear.

Neither of these arguments are in line with the values of Open Source, and they amount to arrogant selfishness from that point of view. I'm not arguing that codec design doesn't require specialized knowledge, clever research, etc. Just that it's a fallacy that no one but Eric Schrier &c. can do it.

He did make some other points that a little harder to refute. For example, that the unfair 'fair licensing' patent situation is an historic artefact of the designing bodies being large corporations I can't dispute. He also makes the argument that allowing patented technology into the mpeg standard helps ensure that major corporate players use the standard, that the standard includes the best technology, and that the best technology be patented, rather than buried in an undisclosed proprietary standard. This appears to be well-reasoned, and is certainly consistent with his other claims.

I differ about this being the best course, mostly based on what we've learned about network effects and life in an exponentially-growing market. And vis á vis the dvd stuff, it appears that patents are more restrictive than trade secrets in an open source context.

With so many Web sites, Web logs, mailing lists, networks, magazines, instant messages, conferences, shows, gasbags, lobbyists, experts, scholars, junk mail and politicians bombarding us that we really have no idea what might or might not be true. The public is beseiged to the point of stalemate, a possible explanation of the dead tie in the presidential election.

As it was, it is now, and always shall be.

I really don't see what the problem is here...

If a slime mold covers up the world, it's bad because everything else dies, incapable of receiving light. That's really bad.

But information (in itself) isn't harming people.

So, I'm going to give Jon Katz the benefit of the doubt and assume that he is joining the party of Internet intellectuals (such as the recently mentioned Caleb Carr), that is fond of saying, "People are getting information, but they aren't forming a framework out of that information." (Caleb's solution was to put a "truth rating" on every web tidbit...)

It is true; If you are into the advancement of mind, this is indeed a great obstacle. But I don't think it's a new thing. Perhaps I should complain, "People are learning things on the net, but they aren't learning that these are things that have always been true, and will be true in the future."

Sometimes I read these Internet Pundits, and it just sounds like they are shouting this remarkably arrogant, "Just Get Smarter!"

People have lives, jobs, family, emotions, issues that they are sorting out, mystic quests and sagas, dramas, vengences, whatever. There's a lot more than just this mental churning going on out there. People don't necessarily want a coherent mental framework. Personally, I think it's really important, and a good thing. Consistency and clarity are nice. But I wouldn't go around saying, "Morasses of information are falling on these poor rubes who can't figure out how to seperate the wheat from the chaff" as if the sky was falling.

A particularly odd post by JonKatz.

MPEG-4 might be better for low bitrates. But the problems come with the patents. See this more audio-oriented FAQ on MPEG-related patent issues. Especially interesting:
18. If the open source community develops a new compression standard, can we use it without paying FhG?

But MIT isn't just an engineering college. They have significant departments for the humanities too

Did you follow the links in my posting? The statistics page from the MIT Online Women's Center showed that, of the students who weren't first-year students (and who thus haven't yet declared a major) or second-year students who had deferred selection of a major, most of them were, err, umm, engineering students (2,036 engineering; 913 science; 169 humanities and social science; 131 management; 78 architecture and planning; 14 "Third-year Special Students"), and the page with the graphs showed that in many of those engineering departments, a significant number of graduates (> 50%, for chemical engineering, materials science, biology, and chemistry) were women.

The latter page also mentioned the "adjusted ratio of women to men", i.e. the ratio of the fraction of all women at the school who are in the department to the fraction of all men at the school who are in the department; the ratios for degrees granted in 1991 and 1993 for EE/CS are closer to "women at MIT are only about half as likely as men to major in EECS" than to the 7-to-1 ratio the person in the posting to which I was responding spoke of. (For engineering as a whole, that page says "...for the School of Engineering overall, women and men major in engineering at the same rate."

Check out the ratios at engineering only schools like Caltech and Harvey Mudd.

To quote the page with the graphs:

All schools except for CalTech showed significant disparity in the rate at which men were attracted to EE over women.

(emphasis mine). Unless I'm misreading the graphs, for CalTech, in EE, it looks as if, for 1991 degree recipients, about 17% of men, and about 23% of women, got degrees in EE - i.e., it appears that the chances that a randomly-chosen class-of-1991 woman at CalTech got her degree in EE are higher than the chances that a randomly-chosen class-of-1991 man at CalTech got his degree in EE. I.e., the "adjusted ratio of women to men" was greater than 1.

But MIT isn't just an engineering college. They have significant departments for the humanities too

Did you follow the links in my posting? The statistics page from the MIT Online Women's Center showed that, of the students who weren't first-year students (and who thus haven't yet declared a major) or second-year students who had deferred selection of a major, most of them were, err, umm, engineering students (2,036 engineering; 913 science; 169 humanities and social science; 131 management; 78 architecture and planning; 14 "Third-year Special Students"), and the page with the graphs showed that in many of those engineering departments, a significant number of graduates (> 50%, for chemical engineering, materials science, biology, and chemistry) were women.

The latter page also mentioned the "adjusted ratio of women to men", i.e. the ratio of the fraction of all women at the school who are in the department to the fraction of all men at the school who are in the department; the ratios for degrees granted in 1991 and 1993 for EE/CS are closer to "women at MIT are only about half as likely as men to major in EECS" than to the 7-to-1 ratio the person in the posting to which I was responding spoke of. (For engineering as a whole, that page says "...for the School of Engineering overall, women and men major in engineering at the same rate."

Check out the ratios at engineering only schools like Caltech and Harvey Mudd.

To quote the page with the graphs:

All schools except for CalTech showed significant disparity in the rate at which men were attracted to EE over women.

(emphasis mine). Unless I'm misreading the graphs, for CalTech, in EE, it looks as if, for 1991 degree recipients, about 17% of men, and about 23% of women, got degrees in EE - i.e., it appears that the chances that a randomly-chosen class-of-1991 woman at CalTech got her degree in EE are higher than the chances that a randomly-chosen class-of-1991 man at CalTech got his degree in EE. I.e., the "adjusted ratio of women to men" was greater than 1.

I received my bachelor's degree in 1985 from a small engineering college on the East Coast. Formerly a men-only institution, they had been co-ed for at least 10 years by the time I matriculated. The male-to-female ratio was 7:1, and from what I hear this hasn't changed. Similar trends obtain nationwide.

I received my bachelor's degree in 1975 from an East Coast university paralyzed^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpolarized around science and technology; a page there indicates that

Women have attended MIT since 1871. In 1995-96, there were 1,705 women enrolled as undergraduates (38%) and 1,308 as graduate students (24%).

A report on "Women Undergraduate Enrollment in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT" has some statistics on degree recipients that appear to indicate that, in some engineering departments (chemical engineering, chemistry), more than 50% of the degree recipients were women.

However, it also indicates that, in EE and computer science, the percentage of degree recipients who were women was low.

The report might be worth reading for those who want to opine on this topic.

I received my bachelor's degree in 1985 from a small engineering college on the East Coast. Formerly a men-only institution, they had been co-ed for at least 10 years by the time I matriculated. The male-to-female ratio was 7:1, and from what I hear this hasn't changed. Similar trends obtain nationwide.

I received my bachelor's degree in 1975 from an East Coast university paralyzed^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpolarized around science and technology; a page there indicates that

Women have attended MIT since 1871. In 1995-96, there were 1,705 women enrolled as undergraduates (38%) and 1,308 as graduate students (24%).

A report on "Women Undergraduate Enrollment in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT" has some statistics on degree recipients that appear to indicate that, in some engineering departments (chemical engineering, chemistry), more than 50% of the degree recipients were women.

However, it also indicates that, in EE and computer science, the percentage of degree recipients who were women was low.

The report might be worth reading for those who want to opine on this topic.

I received my bachelor's degree in 1985 from a small engineering college on the East Coast. Formerly a men-only institution, they had been co-ed for at least 10 years by the time I matriculated. The male-to-female ratio was 7:1, and from what I hear this hasn't changed. Similar trends obtain nationwide.

I received my bachelor's degree in 1975 from an East Coast university paralyzed^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpolarized around science and technology; a page there indicates that

Women have attended MIT since 1871. In 1995-96, there were 1,705 women enrolled as undergraduates (38%) and 1,308 as graduate students (24%).

A report on "Women Undergraduate Enrollment in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT" has some statistics on degree recipients that appear to indicate that, in some engineering departments (chemical engineering, chemistry), more than 50% of the degree recipients were women.

However, it also indicates that, in EE and computer science, the percentage of degree recipients who were women was low.

The report might be worth reading for those who want to opine on this topic.

Who else thinks it would be cool to have a Game Boy cartridge with a flash ROM, a couple A/D inputs, a serial port, etc.? Kinda like a bargain Handyboard, since you already have the display and CPU. Dunno if it's really practical, but I'd buy one...

-F

Phone and cable may be "natural monopolies" or they might not... we don't know because the government stepped in and handed them an exclusive franchise long before any kind of economic equilibrium was reached.

(Goddamn reality. Never stays where I put it.)

Anyway, some relevant quotations from Chairman Bruce:

After Bell's exclusive patents expired, rival telephone companies sprang up all over America. Bell's company, American Bell Telephone, was soon in deep trouble. In 1907, it fell into the hands of the rather sinister J. P. Morgan financial cartel, robber-baron speculators who dominated Wall Street.

At this point, history might have taken a different turn. America might well have been served forever by a patchwork of locally owned telephone companies. Many state politicians and local businessmen considered this an excellent solution.

But the new Bell holding company, American Telephone and Telegraph, or AT&T, put in a new man at the helm [...] Vail quickly saw to it that AT&T seized the technological edge once again [...] By controlling long distance -- the links between, over and above the smaller local phone companies -- AT&T swiftly gained the whip hand over them, and was soon devouring them right and left.

[...]

Vail, the former Post Office official, was quite willing to accommodate the U.S. government; in fact, he would forge an active alliance with it. AT&T would become almost a wing of the American government, almost another Post Office -- though not quite. AT&T would willingly submit to federal regulation, but in return, it would use the government's regulators as its own police, who would keep out competitors and assure the Bell system's profits and preeminence.

The full text of this book is available on-line in various places. Here's one: The Hacker Crackdown

Hal Abelson and I taught a course between MIT and Harvard Law School. Half the students were MIT, half were law students. They were split into groups, each group half-and-half, and each group was assigned a policy problem (privacy, identity, etc.). The assignment in each group was to write a white paper that addressed the policy problem, and the intuition was that the problem could be solved either through law, or through technology, or through a mix of both.

The papers were great, though I found it the most difficult class I had taught (and I did an awful job teaching it.)

The hardest thing was to get both sides to understand a bit of humility. There is something to what law is about: there is a bunch of insights about behavior, and about rights, etc. And there is something to what technology is about: related insights, and important values. What we tried to get both to see is the value in each, and more importantly, the need to integrate the insights of each.

Reagle is a good one from the tech side who is trying this integration. There are a scad of lawyers trying to do the same. But I do think lawyers have the advantage here: the best know they don't know anything, and so the best learn humility as a first lesson.

Besided the suggestions for the ISDN router, which are good suggestions I think some mention should be made for the external terminal adapter option. The two best IMO are the 3com impact and the zyxel omni.net plus.

This option is really appealing if you are used to POTS modems because they behave just like them. They hook up to your serial port and they have dial out commands just like modems. They work seemlessly with ppp and do not require that one get involved in any isdn4linux stuff. It isn't that the isdn4linux stuff is bad it is a little hard to work with if you don't live in europe. And the isdn4linux debate on it's regular inclusion in the linux kernel is still not completely resolved.

The reason I like both the 3com and the zyxel product is because they both have the capability to do 230kbps or more across the serial port. This is important if you want to use all 128kbps of ISDN. USB would make the whole serial port discussion a null issue but it is not quite ready in linux. The 3com impact does 230kbps and the zyxel does 460kbps. Don't let the zyxel fool you 460kbps is better then 230kbps but only marginally. Instead, let the zyxel price lure you. The zyxel is generally cheaper then 3com but has just as high customer satisfaction (I own a zyxel myself and am very happy with it).

This brings up an important point. Most serial ports have the 16550A UART which does a smashing good job of 115kbps. This is more then enough for 56K modems. But for ISDN even at 115kbps one will find that the best throughput is really only 95kbps due to overhead on the UART. And if one can make a 128kbps connection the throughput is even worse. So if you go the route I describe I suggest picking up a serial port board with a 16750 or 16950 UART. These UARTs are supported in linux kernel 2.2.x or newer. A good manufacturer is pacific commware. Their turboexpress 920 board is isa pnp which will require isapnptools and a little elbow grease. I need to stress that the newer UARTs are not supported in the older 2.0.x kernels.

And now the URLs:

• 3Com Impact IQ
• Zyxel Omninet plus
• Pacific Commware's Turbo Express 920
• Serial HOWTO
• ISA PnP tools
• Theodore Tso's serial port driver, not necessary with 2.2.x kernels.

Emacspeak is a speech enabled interface
for computer users who are blind.

Written by T.V. Raman who is blind himself,
Emacspeak has opened the door of high performance
computing to many others who would be locked out otherwise.

Even the NSA is using it. So it has to be powerful :)

Emacspeak provides speech enabled web browsing,
spread sheets, speech icons, speech locking
(different kinds of text are spoken with different
voices, similar to text colorisation in Vim),
speech enabled handling of formulas, email, news
and so many more features. Check it out yourself.

Did you ever see a blind person playing Tetris?

I did and this was the final kick that convinced me,
that Emacspeak is the most advanced
non graphical user interface available on this planet.
(It is IMHO even more advanced than many GUIs :)

I therefore nominate Emacspeak for /.'s
Best Designed Interface in a Non-GUI App Award.

Enjoy!
Hans



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Jed, the programmer's editor, is the best open-source editor. Why?

• No ESC key needed.
• Help and menus available if you forget your key bindings
• Key bindings are configurable.
• Reasonable size and footprint (i.e. it fits in one package instead of a disk series, *cough*emacs*cough)
• Good syntax highlighting
• Available for both Linux, DOS, and Win32 (though I've had some problems under Win2k)--this is vital for those of us that work in MS-based places. One of my biggest gripes about the Win32 OS line is the lack of a good text editor anywhere. edit.com comes pretty close, but it isn't graphical and copy-and-paste gets weird (though the latter can also be a problem with the DOS version of Jed in a DOS box, the Windows version works pretty well).

In case you missed the link above, the homepage is at http://space.mit.edu/~davis/jed.html.

Jed, the programmer's editor, is the best open-source editor. Why?

• No ESC key needed.
• Help and menus available if you forget your key bindings
• Key bindings are configurable.
• Reasonable size and footprint (i.e. it fits in one package instead of a disk series, *cough*emacs*cough)
• Good syntax highlighting
• Available for both Linux, DOS, and Win32 (though I've had some problems under Win2k)--this is vital for those of us that work in MS-based places. One of my biggest gripes about the Win32 OS line is the lack of a good text editor anywhere. edit.com comes pretty close, but it isn't graphical and copy-and-paste gets weird (though the latter can also be a problem with the DOS version of Jed in a DOS box, the Windows version works pretty well).

In case you missed the link above, the homepage is at http://space.mit.edu/~davis/jed.html.

The $35 version has 256 bytes of EEPROM (program memory), 7 word registers (data memory) and 8 I/O lines that can drive a LED (barely). The $59 version has 16K of EEPROM, 16 registers and 63 bytes scratchpad RAM. In order to drive a motor, you need extra circuitry. It is programmable with, well, BASIC.

Mindstorms RCX brick has 16K EEPROM, 32K RAM, 3 outputs that can drive Lego motors directly, 3 I/O lines that can read sensors (some of them are active sensors, so there are I/O lines rather than just input lines), a built-in IR port, an LCD, a buzzer, and a couple of buttons. (And of course a Lego-compatible case.) It costs around $100. (The complete Mindstorms kit is about $200). RCX is programmable with any number of languages, including regular C and C++.

The Handy Board has 32K RAM (upgradeable to 64K, and of course one can build a serially addressable memory too), 4 outputs that can drive DC motors, two servo outputs, 16x2 character LCD, two user-programmable buttons, one knob, piezo beeper, 7 analog and 9 digital sensor inputs, and an IR port. And, above and beyond everything, an open, documented design. It costs $200 to $300 built and tested, and is available from any number of manufacturers. PCBs are available too, cheaply. It runs Interactive C (a bytecode-interpreted C variant) and some varianto of Java.

There is an expansion board for Handy Board too (10 analog inputs, 4 inputs for active Lego sensors, 9 digital outputs, 6 servo outputs, and general prototyping area).

Moderate this down (-1, Obssessive)
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There seem to be 14 points

This is actually not a new idea. In fact, it's come up in converstaions with various folks for over a year by now. It started with some conversations which I had with Jim Gettys, who is widely credited as being the "father" of the X Windows system.

His basic observation was this: Many companies made various improvements to the X code, which they would keep as proprietary and give them a temporary edge in the marketplace. However, since the X code base was continually evolving, over time it became less attractive to maintain, since it would mean that they would have to be continually merging their changes into the evolving code base. Also, typically the advantage in having the proprietary new feature or speed enhancement typically degraded over time, since most companies are quite happy if it takes 18-24 months for their competitor to match a feature in their release.

So sometime later, the companies would very often donate their heretofore proprietary extension to the X consortium, which would then fold it into the public release of X. Jim Gettys' complaint about the GPL is that it by removing this ability for companies to recoup the investment needed to make major developmental improvements to Open Source code bases, companies don't have the incentive do this type of infrastructural improvements to GPL'ed projects.

Anyway, I had written up a more detailed writeup of my ideas, which I called the "Temporary Propietary License". I'd appreciate comments from folks as to what the think. Please note that I am not doctrinaire about licenses. Licenses are tools which software authors use to achieve certain goals, and nothing more. This is just one more tool which might be useful for certain projects.

Temporary restraining order DENIED!

Thanks to the efforts of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the organization and support provided by a few of our fellow defendants we are still here! Another hearing is scheduled for January 14th.

We would like to point out to all of the mirror sites with things like "fuck the lawyers" on them that it is because of a generous group of lawyers that we are still here. These lawyers are working for free (or much less than they could get by going over to the Dark Side) and don't deserve this kind of abuse.

Here is the EFF's stance on this case.
If you need a REAL reason to host these files, try reading this. Truth has never been more purely distilled.

Save a copy of this web page now!

We have just been informed that the DVD Copy Control Association is seeking a restraining order against us (named as "Doe 28") for distributing DeCSS and linking to pages that distribute it and linking to pages that link to pages that distribute it.

Section 48 of this request states that we supposedly "have received notice through the MPA and refused to remove the information at issue". This is absolutely false! We have never received any such request (from the MPA or anybody else for that matter) and we obviously were not given the opportunity to refuse! Either Jared Bobrow needs to go back to law school or the DVD CCA needs to get a new firm. This is the kind of sloppy work that could get an important document thrown out.

Here is a 2600 story on this.

Explanation on legality of this information

The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed because it was published under the GNU General Public License. The purpose of this software is not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information necessary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) DVD content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way an encryption scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or its members. The sources and programs on this site were written by third parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods which are (ready?) completly legal.

Attention www.rhythm.cx was hosting a list of mirrors for these files. That list of mirrors has been replaced with a page reading "This site has been taken down for legal reasons." Here's what the maintainer put on the site the day it was shut down:

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.

Current Mirrors Last updated: Thu, Dec 30, 2:55am EST
Numbers are only for the maintainer's convenience

Much thanks to this site for listing mirrors of the mirror lists.

1. http://www.humpin.org/decss/DeCSS.zip and http://www.humpin.org/decss/decss.tar.gz
   
   
2. http://www.2600.com/news/1999/11 12-files/DeCSS.zip/ and http://www.2600.com/news/1 999/1112-files/css-auth.tar.gz
   
3. http://douglas.min.net/~drw/css-auth/
   
4. http://www.devzero.org/freecss.html
   
5. http://www.chello.nl/~f .vanwaveren/css-auth/css-auth.tar.gz
   
6. http://www.geociti es.com/ResearchTriangle/Campus/8877/index.html
   
7. http://www.angelfire.com/mt/popefelix/
8. http://www.vexed.net/CSS
   
9. http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~j.vr eeken/
   
10. http://www.dvd.eavy.de/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.dvd.eavy.de/DeCSS.zip
    
11. http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/css-aut h.tar.gz and http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/DeCSS.zip
    
12. http://frozenlinux.com/local/decss/in dex.html
    
13. http://www.unitycode.org/
    
14. http://dirtass.beyatch.net/decss.zip
    
15. http://decss.tripod.com/index.html
    
16. http://www.free-dvd.org.lu/
    
17. http://www.angelfire.com/in2/mirror/
    
18. http://batman.jytol.fi/~vuori/dvd/
    
19. http://www.zpok.demon.co.uk/deCSS/CSS.ht ml
    
20. http://plato.nebulanet.net:88/css/
    
21. http://www.logorrhea.com/main.html
    
22. http://people.delphi.com/salfter/LiVi d.tar.gz
    
23. ftp://193.219.56.32/pub/dvd/LiVi d.CVS-11.06.tar.gz and ftp://193.219.56. 32/pub/dvd/LiVid.CVS-11.06.css-stuff-only.tar.gz
    
24. http://merlin.keble.ox.ac.uk/~a drian/css/index.html
    
25. http://www.dvd-copy.com/
    
26. http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css /css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css/DeCSS .zip
    
27. http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/css -auth.tar.gz and http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/DeCSS.zip
    
28. http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/jvz/
    
29. http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS/
    
30. http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderm an/dvd.htm
    
31. http://remco.xgov.net/dvd/
    
32. ftp://dvd:dvd@206.98.63.136
    
33. http://www.twistedlogic.com/htm l/tl_archive_map.htm
    
34. http://mu nitions.vipul.net/software/algorithms/streamcipher s/decss.tar.gz
    
35. http:/ /munitions.polkaroo.net/software/algorithms/stream ciphers/decss.tar.gz
    
36. http://muni tions.dyn.org/software/algorithms/streamciphers/de css.tar.gz
    
37. http://uk1. munitions.net/software/algorithms/streamciphers/de css.tar.gz
    
38. http://134.100.185.221/decss/
    
39. http://muni tions.firenze.linux.it/algorithms/streamciphers/de css.tar.gz
    
40. http://www.tasam.com/~fenkt/dvd/
    
41. http://therapy.endorphin.org/DVD/
    
42. http://killer.discordia.ch /Politics/Copyprotection.phtml
    
43. http://livid.on.openprojects.net
    
44. http://www.geocities.com/SiliconV alley/Port/3224/
    
45. ftp://ftp.one.net/pub/user s/dmahurin/files/software/dvd/
    
46. ftp://ftp.charm.net/pub/usr/home/dutch/ or http://www.charm.net/~dutch/
    
47. http://dsl129.drizzle.com:2001/downlo ads/DVD/
    
48. http://perso.libertysurf. fr/ortal98/dvd_rip/decss_12b.zip
49. http://users.drak.net/bem ann/software/css/css-auth.tar.gz and http://users.drak.net/bemann/so ftware/css/DeCSS.zip
    
50. http://www.angelfire.com/movies/decss
    
51. http://members.tripod.co.uk/bap/css/cs s.html
    
52. http://www.angelfire.com/myband/decss/
53. http://josefine.ben.tuwien.ac.at/~davi d/dvd/
    
54. http://www.c0ke.com/DVD/
    
55. http://rockme.virtualave.net/
    
56. http://amor.rz.hu-berlin.de/~h0444t2v/
57. http://www.quintessenz.at/q/index.html
58. http://www.dvdlinks.co.uk/css/
    
59. http://www.fortunecit y.com/tinpan/tylerbridge/679/dvdcss.html
    
60. http://www.crosswinds.net/~valo/DeCSS/
61. http://members.home.com/christopherlee/ dvd/
    
62. http://members.xoom.com/freedecss/
    
63. http://63.225.181.97/decss/
    
64. ftp://alma.dhs.org/pub/DVD/
    
65. http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/DeCSS.zip and http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/css -auth.tar.gz
    
66. http://mun itions.cifs.org/software/algorithms/streamciphers/ decss.tar.gz
    
67. http://www.able-towers.com/~flow/
    
68. http://www.cgocable.net/~jdionne/css/
    
69. http://people.mn.mediaone.net/bojay/s lashdot/
    
70. http://www.capital.net/~mazzic
    
71. http://24.108.23.121/DeCSS/
    
72. http://ananke.hack.pl/
    
73. http://www.geocities.com/donotsueme/
    
74. http://members.tripod.com/donotsueme/
    
75. http://donotsueme.homepage.com
    
76. http://www.homestead.com/donotsueme/ index.html
    
77. http://donotsueme.freeservers.com/
    
78. http://www.angelfire.com/punk/donotsueme/
    
79. http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~marsie/
    
80. http://209.178.22.9/protest/
    
81. http://www.bard.org.il/~marc/dvd
    
82. http://www.geocities.com/RainFor est/4360/decss.zip
    
83. http://www.altern.com/tfagart/decss.zip
    
84. http://www.itouch.net/~jm/dvd.html
    
85. http://ils.unc.edu/inls183/resources .shtml#DVD
    
86. http://avdira.cc.duth.gr/~kkonstan/css/
    
87. http://www.multimania.com/sxpert/decss/
    
88. http://www.posexperts.com.pl/peopl e/wrobell/css/
    
89. http://www.koek.net/dvd/
    
90. http://www.cyberchrist.org/freecss.html
    
91. http://www.ozemail.com.au/~cybe rchrist/freecss.html
    
92. http://www.planet.net.au/~coram/
    
93. http://www.geek.co.il/css/
    
94. http://www.datacomm.ch/adrien/decss/ index.html
    
95. http://home.rmci.net/bert/fuckthelawyers/
    
96. http://unimatrix.dyndns.org/fucklawyers/
    
97. http://www.isn.net/~dsimeone/DeCSS.zip
98. http://logical-solutions.com.au/DeCSS.zip
    
99. http://www.sarahandcasey.com/decss/
    
100. http://www.fsp.com/
     
101. http://www.warren-wilson.edu/~echerry/dvd
     
102. http://www.mafkees.com/dvd
     
103. http://dB.org/dvd/
     
104. http://dcwi.com/~wench/decss
     
105. http://dvdcss.newmail.ru
     
106. http://www.subcor.com
     
107. http://www.frankw.net/decss
     
108. http://danger-island.com/~dav/any.lawyer.who/quote s.this.url/gives.permission/for .his.residence.to.be.searched/any.bootleg.audio/vi deo/tape.found/nullifies.legal.and.moral .standing/
     
109. http://www.fortunecity.com/vi ctorian/parkwood/95/DVD/
     
110. http://www.asleep.net/dvd
     
111. http://members.xoom.com/NiKeX
     
112. http://www.geocit ies.com/ResearchTriangle/Station/2819/index.html
     
113. http://www.execpc.com/~unicorn/dvdmirr or.htm
     
114. http://members.xoom.com/chapter3/Mamma No.htm
     
115. http://wiw.org/~drz/css/
     
116. http://merlinjim.freeservers.com/dvd/
     
117. http://www.visi.com/~adept/liberty
     
118. http://mikedotd.penguinpowered.com/deccs
     
119. http://www.ct2600.org/2600-DVD.html
     
120. http://magic.hurrah.com/~fireball/dvd/
121. http://www.jonhanson.com/dvd
     
122. ftp://ftp.foon.net/pub/decss
     
123. http://osiris.978.org/~brianr/css/
     
124. http://earnestdesigns.com/dvd
     
125. http://www.satl.com/~satlpop6/
     
126. http://xempt.darpa.org:81/decss/
     
127. ftp://cm-d0415.resnet.ucsc.edu/p ub/css-auth.tar.gz
     
128. http://www.mit.edu/afs/sipb/user /mycroft/css-auth/
     
129. http://www.eyrie.demon.co.uk/derek/dvd/c ss
     
130. http://ananke.hack.pl
     
131. http://budice.ancients.net/www.free -dvd.org.lu/
     
132. http://defiance.darktech.org/decss/
     
133. http://kesagatame.tripod.com
     
134. http://www.angelfire.com/pokemon/decss
135. http://www.gnosis.cx/download/DeCSS.zip
     
136. http://bone.powersurfr.com/DeCSS/
     
137. http://wakeupthe.net/dvd/
     
138. http://everest.yooniks.org/dvd
     
139. http://cubicmetercrystal.com/decss/
     
140. http://analyzethis.acmecity.com/triboro /90/
     
141. http://homepages.together.net/~ib nzahid/DeCSS.zip
     
142. http://www.save2600.8m.com
     
143. http://people.ne.mediaone.net/dantepsn/
     
144. http://members.xoom.com/mxpxguy/dvd/
     
145. http://decss.fall0ut.com
     
146. http://vedaa.tripod.com/decss.html
     
147. http://members.xoom.com/iox
     
148. http://www.hackunlimited.com/dvd/
     
149. http://hem.fyristorg.com/police/css.htm
     
150. http://elknews.netpedia.net/dvd/
     
151. http://www.idrive.com/decss/web
     
152. http://quintessenz.at/q
     
153. http://www.clug.com/~vodak/dvd/
     
154. http://www.nacs.net/~vodak/dvd/
     
155. http://ny2600.iwarp.com
     
156. http://www.wpi.edu/~nassar/dvd/
     
157. http://www.glue.umd.edu/~castongj
     
158. http://www.geocities.com/cold_dvd/
     
159. http://www.projectgamma.com/deccs/
     
160. http://members.xoom.com/mogreen/decss/
161. http://thrash.webjump.com/decss.zip
     
162. http://www.angelfire.com/de2/decss/dec ss.htm
     
163. http://www.krackdown.com/decss
     
164. http://www.ithink.org/dvd/
     
165. http://www.fortunecit y.com/skyscraper/motorola/1415/decss.htm
     
166. http://chaz.fsgs.com/misc/DvD/
     
167. http://www.linuxstart.com/~kv ance/projects/decss.html
     
168. http://www.darkkingz.com/DeCSS.zip
     
169. http://come.to/intelex
     
170. http://ebmedia.net/dvd/
     
171. http://www.geocities.com/decss_forever/
     
172. http://revolution.3-cities.com/~spack/dv d/
     
173. http://www.geocities.com/Sili conValley/Software/8762/
     
174. http://members.xoom.com/s_o_sam/help.html
     
175. http://smokering.org
     
176. http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/css -auth.tar.gz
     
177. http://dlsf.org
     
178. http://home.rmci.net/bert/dvd
     
179. http://thrash.webjump.com/decss.zip
     
180. http://linux.uci.agh.edu.pl/~outlaw/ decss.html
     
181. http://debian.mps.krakow.pl/mirror/css/
     
182. http://www.fission.org/~mangino
     
183. http://212.187.12.197/decss/
     
184. http://www.clarkson.edu/~andrixjr /decss/DeCSS.zip
     
185. http://www.geocities.com/Capitol Hill/1583/dvd.html
     
186. http://members.xoom.com/freedecss/
     
187. http://www.csd.net/~cgadd/dvd.htm
     
188. http://www.members.home.net/normanlorrai n/
     
189. http://home.swipnet.se/~w-18931/decss/
190. http://home.soneraplaza.nl/qn/prive/v alhalla/
     
191. http://www.robotslave.net
     
192. http://www.angelfire.com/punk/freedom/
193. http://www.corova.com/dvd/
     
194. http://2600.dk/mirrors/css/
     
195. http://dvdcrack.homepage.com
     
196. http://www.copkiller.org
     
197. http://www.worldcity.nl/~frank/dvd
     
198. http://members.xoom.com/iamkeenan/master/
     
199. http://www.adulation.net/css/
     
200. http://homepage.interacces s.com/~mycroft/decss/DeCSS.zip
     
201. http://underground.pl/dvd/
     
202. http://members.xoom.com/nyc2600
     
203. http://zerosoft.hypermart.net/warez/ DVDcrK.txt
     
204. http://www.deforest.org/CSS
     
205. http://nickd.org/decss
     
206. http://www.xenoclast.demon.co.uk/main.ht ml
     
207. http://www.ctol.net/~ross/css-auth.tar.gz
     

Save a copy of this web page now!

We have just been informed that the DVD Copy Control Association is seeking a restraining order against us (named as "Doe 28") for distributing DeCSS and linking to pages that distribute it and linking to pages that link to pages that distribute it.

Section 48 of this request states that we supposedly "have received notice through the MPA and refused to remove the information at issue". This is absolutely false! We have never received any such request (from the MPA or anybody else for that matter) and we obviously were not given the opportunity to refuse! Either Jared Bobrow needs to go back to law school or the DVD CCA needs to get a new firm. This is the kind of sloppy work that could get an important document thrown out.

Here is a 2600 story on this.

Explanation on legality of this information

The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed because it was published under the GNU General Public License. The purpose of this software is not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information necessary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) DVD content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way an encryption scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or its members. The sources and programs on this site were written by third parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods which are (ready?) completly legal.

Attention www.rhythm.cx was hosting a list of mirrors for these files. That list of mirrors has been replaced with a page reading "This site has been taken down for legal reasons." Here's what the maintainer put on the site the day it was shut down:

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.

Current Mirrors Last updated: Wed, Dec 29, 3:14pm EST
Numbers are only for the maintainer's convenience

Much thanks to this site for listing mirrors of the mirror lists.

1. http://www.humpin.org/decss/DeCSS.zip and http://www.humpin.org/decss/decss.tar.gz
   
   
2. http://www.2600.com/news/1999/11 12-files/DeCSS.zip/ and http://www.2600.com/news/1 999/1112-files/css-auth.tar.gz
   
3. http://douglas.min.net/~drw/css-auth/
   
4. http://www.devzero.org/freecss.html
   
5. http://www.chello.nl/~f .vanwaveren/css-auth/css-auth.tar.gz
   
6. http://www.geociti es.com/ResearchTriangle/Campus/8877/index.html
   
7. http://www.angelfire.com/mt/popefelix/
8. http://www.vexed.net/CSS
   
9. http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~j.vr eeken/
   
10. http://www.dvd.eavy.de/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.dvd.eavy.de/DeCSS.zip
    
11. http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/css-aut h.tar.gz and http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/DeCSS.zip
    
12. http://frozenlinux.com/local/decss/in dex.html
    
13. http://www.unitycode.org/
    
14. http://dirtass.beyatch.net/decss.zip
    
15. http://decss.tripod.com/index.html
    
16. http://www.free-dvd.org.lu/
    
17. http://www.angelfire.com/in2/mirror/
    
18. http://batman.jytol.fi/~vuori/dvd/
    
19. http://www.zpok.demon.co.uk/deCSS/CSS.ht ml
    
20. http://plato.nebulanet.net:88/css/
    
21. http://www.logorrhea.com/main.html
    
22. http://people.delphi.com/salfter/LiVi d.tar.gz
    
23. ftp://193.219.56.32/pub/dvd/LiVi d.CVS-11.06.tar.gz and ftp://193.219.56. 32/pub/dvd/LiVid.CVS-11.06.css-stuff-only.tar.gz
    
24. http://merlin.keble.ox.ac.uk/~a drian/css/index.html
    
25. http://www.dvd-copy.com/
    
26. http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css /css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css/DeCSS .zip
    
27. http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/css -auth.tar.gz and http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/DeCSS.zip
    
28. http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/jvz/
    
29. http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS/
    
30. http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderm an/dvd.htm
    
31. http://remco.xgov.net/dvd/
    
32. ftp://dvd:dvd@206.98.63.136
    
33. http://www.twistedlogic.com/htm l/tl_archive_map.htm
    
34. http://mu nitions.vipul.net/software/algorithms/streamcipher s/decss.tar.gz
    
35. http:/ /munitions.polkaroo.net/software/algorithms/stream ciphers/decss.tar.gz
    
36. http://muni tions.dyn.org/software/algorithms/streamciphers/de css.tar.gz
    
37. http://uk1. munitions.net/software/algorithms/streamciphers/de css.tar.gz
    
38. http://134.100.185.221/decss/
    
39. http://muni tions.firenze.linux.it/algorithms/streamciphers/de css.tar.gz
    
40. http://www.tasam.com/~fenkt/dvd/
    
41. http://therapy.endorphin.org/DVD/
    
42. http://killer.discordia.ch /Politics/Copyprotection.phtml
    
43. http://livid.on.openprojects.net
    
44. http://www.geocities.com/SiliconV alley/Port/3224/
    
45. ftp://ftp.one.net/pub/user s/dmahurin/files/software/dvd/
    
46. ftp://ftp.charm.net/pub/usr/home/dutch/ or http://www.charm.net/~dutch/
    
47. http://dsl129.drizzle.com:2001/downlo ads/DVD/
    
48. http://perso.libertysurf. fr/ortal98/dvd_rip/decss_12b.zip
49. http://users.drak.net/bem ann/software/css/css-auth.tar.gz and http://users.drak.net/bemann/so ftware/css/DeCSS.zip
    
50. http://www.angelfire.com/movies/decss
    
51. http://members.tripod.co.uk/bap/css/cs s.html
    
52. http://www.angelfire.com/myband/decss/
53. http://josefine.ben.tuwien.ac.at/~davi d/dvd/
    
54. http://www.c0ke.com/DVD/
    
55. http://rockme.virtualave.net/
    
56. http://amor.rz.hu-berlin.de/~h0444t2v/
57. http://www.quintessenz.at/q/index.html
58. http://www.dvdlinks.co.uk/css/
    
59. http://www.fortunecit y.com/tinpan/tylerbridge/679/dvdcss.html
    
60. http://www.crosswinds.net/~valo/DeCSS/
61. http://members.home.com/christopherlee/ dvd/
    
62. http://members.xoom.com/freedecss/
    
63. http://63.225.181.97/decss/
    
64. ftp://alma.dhs.org/pub/DVD/
    
65. http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/DeCSS.zip and http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/css -auth.tar.gz
    
66. http://mun itions.cifs.org/software/algorithms/streamciphers/ decss.tar.gz
    
67. http://www.able-towers.com/~flow/
    
68. http://www.cgocable.net/~jdionne/css/
    
69. http://people.mn.mediaone.net/bojay/s lashdot/
    
70. http://www.capital.net/~mazzic
    
71. http://24.108.23.121/DeCSS/
    
72. http://ananke.hack.pl/
    
73. http://www.geocities.com/donotsueme/
    
74. http://members.tripod.com/donotsueme/
    
75. http://donotsueme.homepage.com
    
76. http://www.homestead.com/donotsueme/ index.html
    
77. http://donotsueme.freeservers.com/
    
78. http://www.angelfire.com/punk/donotsueme/
    
79. http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~marsie/
    
80. http://209.178.22.9/protest/
    
81. http://www.bard.org.il/~marc/dvd
    
82. http://www.geocities.com/RainFor est/4360/decss.zip
    
83. http://www.altern.com/tfagart/decss.zip
    
84. http://www.itouch.net/~jm/dvd.html
    
85. http://ils.unc.edu/inls183/resources .shtml#DVD
    
86. http://avdira.cc.duth.gr/~kkonstan/css/
    
87. http://www.multimania.com/sxpert/decss/
    
88. http://www.posexperts.com.pl/peopl e/wrobell/css/
    
89. http://www.koek.net/dvd/
    
90. http://www.cyberchrist.org/freecss.html
    
91. http://www.ozemail.com.au/~cybe rchrist/freecss.html
    
92. http://www.planet.net.au/~coram/
    
93. http://www.geek.co.il/css/
    
94. http://www.datacomm.ch/adrien/decss/ index.html
    
95. http://home.rmci.net/bert/fuckthelawyers/
    
96. http://unimatrix.dyndns.org/fucklawyers/
    
97. http://www.isn.net/~dsimeone/DeCSS.zip
98. http://logical-solutions.com.au/DeCSS.zip
    
99. http://www.sarahandcasey.com/decss/
    
100. http://www.fsp.com/
     
101. http://www.warren-wilson.edu/~echerry/dvd
     
102. http://www.mafkees.com/dvd
     
103. http://dB.org/dvd/
     
104. http://dcwi.com/~wench/decss
     
105. http://dvdcss.newmail.ru
     
106. http://www.subcor.com
     
107. http://www.frankw.net/decss
     
108. http://danger-island.com/~dav/any.lawyer.who/quote s.this.url/gives.permission/for .his.residence.to.be.searched/any.bootleg.audio/vi deo/tape.found/nullifies.legal.and.moral .standing/
     
109. http://www.fortunecity.com/vi ctorian/parkwood/95/DVD/
     
110. http://www.asleep.net/dvd
     
111. http://members.xoom.com/NiKeX
     
112. http://www.geocit ies.com/ResearchTriangle/Station/2819/index.html
     
113. http://www.execpc.com/~unicorn/dvdmirr or.htm
     
114. http://members.xoom.com/chapter3/Mamma No.htm
     
115. http://wiw.org/~drz/css/
     
116. http://merlinjim.freeservers.com/dvd/
     
117. http://www.visi.com/~adept/liberty
     
118. http://mikedotd.penguinpowered.com/deccs
     
119. http://www.ct2600.org/2600-DVD.html
     
120. http://magic.hurrah.com/~fireball/dvd/
121. http://www.jonhanson.com/dvd
     
122. ftp://ftp.foon.net/pub/decss
     
123. http://osiris.978.org/~brianr/css/
     
124. http://earnestdesigns.com/dvd
     
125. http://www.satl.com/~satlpop6/
     
126. http://xempt.darpa.org:81/decss/
     
127. ftp://cm-d0415.resnet.ucsc.edu/p ub/css-auth.tar.gz
     
128. http://www.mit.edu/afs/sipb/user /mycroft/css-auth/
     
129. http://www.eyrie.demon.co.uk/derek/dvd/c ss
     
130. http://ananke.hack.pl
     
131. http://budice.ancients.net/www.free -dvd.org.lu/
     
132. http://defiance.darktech.org/decss/
     
133. http://kesagatame.tripod.com
     
134. http://www.angelfire.com/pokemon/decss
135. http://www.gnosis.cx/download/DeCSS.zip
     
136. http://bone.powersurfr.com/DeCSS/
     
137. http://wakeupthe.net/dvd/
     
138. http://everest.yooniks.org/dvd
     
139. http://cubicmetercrystal.com/decss/
     
140. http://analyzethis.acmecity.com/triboro /90/
     
141. http://homepages.together.net/~ib nzahid/DeCSS.zip
     
142. http://www.save2600.8m.com
     
143. http://people.ne.mediaone.net/dantepsn/
     
144. http://members.xoom.com/mxpxguy/dvd/
     
145. http://decss.fall0ut.com
     
146. http://vedaa.tripod.com/decss.html
     
147. http://members.xoom.com/iox
     
148. http://www.hackunlimited.com/dvd/
     
149. http://hem.fyristorg.com/police/css.htm
     
150. http://elknews.netpedia.net/dvd/
     
151. http://www.idrive.com/decss/web
     
152. http://quintessenz.at/q
     
153. http://www.clug.com/~vodak/dvd/
     
154. http://www.nacs.net/~vodak/dvd/
     
155. http://ny2600.iwarp.com
     
156. http://www.wpi.edu/~nassar/dvd/
     
157. http://www.glue.umd.edu/~castongj
     
158. http://www.geocities.com/cold_dvd/
     
159. http://www.projectgamma.com/deccs/
     
160. http://members.xoom.com/mogreen/decss/
161. http://thrash.webjump.com/decss.zip
     
162. http://www.angelfire.com/de2/decss/dec ss.htm
     
163. http://www.krackdown.com/decss
     
164. http://www.ithink.org/dvd/
     
165. http://www.fortunecit y.com/skyscraper/motorola/1415/decss.htm
     
166. http://chaz.fsgs.com/misc/DvD/
     
167. http://www.linuxstart.com/~kv ance/projects/decss.html
     
168. http://www.darkkingz.com/DeCSS.zip
     
169. http://come.to/intelex
     
170. http://ebmedia.net/dvd/
     
171. http://www.geocities.com/decss_forever/
     
172. http://revolution.3-cities.com/~spack/dv d/
     
173. http://www.geocities.com/Sili conValley/Software/8762/
     
174. http://members.xoom.com/s_o_sam/help.html
     
175. http://smokering.org
     
176. http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/css -auth.tar.gz
     
177. http://dlsf.org
     
178. http://home.rmci.net/bert/dvd
     
179. http://thrash.webjump.com/decss.zip
     
180. http://linux.uci.agh.edu.pl/~outlaw/ decss.html
     
181. http://debian.mps.krakow.pl/mirror/css/
     
182. http://www.fission.org/~mangino
     
183. http://212.187.12.197/decss/
     
184. www.clarkson.edu/~andrixjr/decss/DeCSS.z ip
     
185. http://www.geocities.com/Capitol Hill/1583/dvd.html
     
186. http://members.xoom.com/freedecss/
     
187. http://www.csd.net/~cgadd/dvd.htm
     
188. http://www.members.home.net/normanlorrai n/
     

Lots of information on Bhopal, as well as a number of other technological safety disasters - such as Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and the Therac-25 - can be found in the excellent book Safeware by Nancy Leveson. Have a look here at the software safety research unit at MIT.

Here are some excerpts from Appendix C.4 of Safeware;

The Indian government required the Bhopal plant to be operated completely by Indians. [...] Several Indian staff who were trained in the US resigned and were replaced by less experienced technicians. [...] In 1983, the chemical engineer resigned because of falling safety standards and was replaced by an electrical engineer.

[...] contrary to official government policy, the plant was located in a highly populated area.

Union Carbide and the Indian Government pointed to the relatively minor nature of chemical accidents at the plant to support their refusal to install backup safety equipment or move the plant away from populated areas.

The management and the state government ignored the risk and warning signs before the accident and then made the consequences of the leak worse by repeated denials of the urgency and magnitude of the disaster.

Designers did not anticipate an MIC release of anywhere near the magnitude that occurred. Emergency equipment was inadequate for the job, and the plant was not designed to cope with a major leak. Emergency training and procedures were also inadequate, such as the policy of turning off the warning sign after five minutes.

Lots of information on Bhopal, as well as a number of other technological safety disasters - such as Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and the Therac-25 - can be found in the excellent book Safeware by Nancy Leveson. Have a look here at the software safety research unit at MIT.

Here are some excerpts from Appendix C.4 of Safeware;

The Indian government required the Bhopal plant to be operated completely by Indians. [...] Several Indian staff who were trained in the US resigned and were replaced by less experienced technicians. [...] In 1983, the chemical engineer resigned because of falling safety standards and was replaced by an electrical engineer.

[...] contrary to official government policy, the plant was located in a highly populated area.

Union Carbide and the Indian Government pointed to the relatively minor nature of chemical accidents at the plant to support their refusal to install backup safety equipment or move the plant away from populated areas.

The management and the state government ignored the risk and warning signs before the accident and then made the consequences of the leak worse by repeated denials of the urgency and magnitude of the disaster.

Designers did not anticipate an MIC release of anywhere near the magnitude that occurred. Emergency equipment was inadequate for the job, and the plant was not designed to cope with a major leak. Emergency training and procedures were also inadequate, such as the policy of turning off the warning sign after five minutes.

Once you fight your way past the bimbos and the crowd shot (is that Bill Gates?), some of the technical wear looks very functional. Check out the funding: "Carnegie Mellon devices funded and supported by: The Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance, Sandbox Advanced Development, DARPA, and The Telxon Corporation." Nice cash flow there.

Ok. Granted the Hands Free Poultry Inspection System should be in a copy of Skin Two but take a look at that audience. These people do not get laid often enough

What depressed me the most was the complete lack of any links to the hardware in question (even most of my searches came up empty.)

I guess the term "Vaporware for the Vapid to Wear" finally applies.

Fred Martin's excellent page has a section on using a Mac w/MStorms.

Visit the secure anti-censorship proxy at https://lm.lcs.mit.edu.

You can read about the Leonardo case at http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/Leo nardo/ Whats worse is that the founder's widdow of the Leonardo journal (the people being sued) home got raided by the french police. Seriously.

Sure, the waves are low power, but perhaps the most salient use of this tech is wearables. What happens when you are using this radio keyboard, with a Personal Area Network, and a constant WAN link to the net? Imagine you do all this walking in a crowded room full of people you don't know, and the ability to keep your keystrokes less then faint becomes a definite asset.

For example the press release (a different page) has a very intensive history of Leonardo before going into great detail about the lawsuit.

http://mitpress.mit .edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/pres1220.html

here is more information on the raid, and a snippet:

The search warrant was served by a squad of eight French policemen accompanied by a locksmith. They had instructions to copy all papers with the word "Leonardo" on them. More absurdly, they had instructions to log into the Internet from my mother's home, presumably to show that the Leonardo web sites could be accessed from this location. They left with copies of papers dating back to the 1960s.

It's not an independant source, but the link to Leonardo Online tells their side of the story... nothing about the police raid except in the headline.
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ABSTRACT Since the early 1980s, artist Hubert Duprat has been utilizing insects to construct some of his "sculptures." By removing caddis fly larvae from their natural habitat and providing them with precious materials, he prompts them to manufacture cases that resemble jewelers' creations. Information theory, as explained by biologists such as Jacques Monod and Henri Atlan, helps us understand what seems to be the insect's aesthetic behavior. The activities of the caddis worm, as manipulated by Hubert Duprat, are prompted by the "noise"---beads, pearls and 18-karat gold pieces---introduced by the artist into the insect's environment. This article is based on a conversation between the artist and art critic Christian Besson.

The lawsuit is not against the journal based at MIT. It is against the French non-for-profit organization ``Association Leonardo'', the French chapter of the Leonardo Network.

See this page for more details. As it is hosted by MIT Press, I don't think the whole affair is BS.

The lawsuit is not against the journal based at MIT. It is against the French non-for-profit organization ``Association Leonardo'', the French chapter of the Leonardo Network.

See this page for more details. As it is hosted by MIT Press, I don't think the whole affair is BS.

Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.

This is not an anti-Linux remark; there's a similar hack for NT that puts a mini-OS under NT, and it has the same problems. I can understand why Linus isn't that thrilled with RTLinux. The right way to do this is to start with a message-passing microkernel and build upward from there, not start with a UNIX-type kernel and build down. I'd like to see an open-source microkernel catch on. The GNU Hurd people were on the right track, but that project seems to be moribund.

The key to doing this right is to have a very, very limited microkernel with fast message-passing. If you do it right, drivers, file systems, and almost everything but message passing and scheduling is outside the kernel and can't crash it. This is how you build systems that work when it matters.

A limitation of such systems is supporting hardware boards that do complicated DMA. Devices that look like channels (SCSI, FireWire, USB, etc.) are fine, but graphics accelerators create problems, as do random ISA and PCI boards that do DMA. Safely managing a device that can store anywhere in physical memory from outside the kernel is tough. QNX generally supports display devices in plain VGA mode for this reason.

Handspring, now being paralleled by Palm, seems to understand already that color is not king. It's the applications. Palm III's and V's (especially) are fairly difficult to extend, in a physical sense, without disrupting their sleek form factor. Handspring's Springboards (which even Jeff Hawkins admits was inspired by the Game Boy's cartridge slot) and, now, Palm's future use of Sony's Memory Stick are the next step. The ability to modify the capabilities of your handheld/PDA - specifically, to add in plug in communications capability is just the first step.

The answer is Oxygen or something like the "Globals" that appear on the television program Earth: Final Conflict. Look at all of the two-in-one PDA/cellphones on the market already: Nokia, Ericson, Motorola (well, sort of, anyway), etc. Sure, color is nice, but communication is king. Just my (sort of) humble opinion

• Union for the Public Domain: their page on Business Practice Patents.
• The League for Programming Freedom: their page on Software Patents
• freepatents.org for activism in the EU
• Phil Karn: his "The US Patent System is Out of Control"

Here I reproduce the Abstract and the claims. Judge for yourself. I agree this is a BOGUS patent - to think that using cookies like this in September of 1997 was innovative....

Boycott Amazon. Check out the pages of the League for Programming Freedom

IBM Intellectual Property Network

US5960411: Method and system for placing a purchase order via a communications network
Applicant(s): Amazon.com, Inc., Seattle, WA
Issued/Filed Dates: Sept. 28, 1999 / Sept. 12, 1997

Abstract:
A method and system for placing an order to purchase an item via the Internet. The order is placed by a purchaser at a client system and received by a server system. The server system receives purchaser information including identification of the purchaser, payment information, and shipment information from the client system. The server system then assigns a client identifier to the client system and associates the assigned client identifier with the received purchaser information. The server system sends to the client system the assigned client identifier and an HTML document identifying the item and including an order button. The client system receives and stores the assigned client identifier and receives and displays the HTML document. In response to the selection of the order button, the client system sends to the server system a request to purchase the identified item. The server system receives the request and combines the purchaser information associated with the client identifier of the client system to generate an order to purchase the item in accordance with the billing and shipment information whereby the purchaser effects the ordering of the product by selection of the order button.

CLAIMS:
We claim:
1. A method of placing an order for an item comprising:

• under control of a client system,
• • displaying information identifying the item; and
  • in response to only a single action being performed, sending a request to order the item along with an identifier of a purchaser of the item to a server system;
• under control of a single-action ordering component of the server system,
• • receiving the request;
  • retrieving additional information previously stored for the purchaser identified by the identifier in the received request; and
• generating an order to purchase the requested item for the purchaser identified by the identifier in the received request using the retrieved additional information; and
• fulfilling the generated order to complete purchase of the item
• whereby the item is ordered without using a shopping cart ordering model.

• an identifier that identifies a customer;
• a display component for displaying information identifying the item;
• a single-action ordering component that in response to performance of only a single action, sends a request to a server system to order the identified item, the request including the identifier so that the server system can locate additional information needed to complete the order and so that the server system can fulfill the generated order to complete purchase of the item; and
• a shopping cart ordering component that in response to performance of an add-to-shopping-cart action, sends a request to the server system to add the item to a shopping cart.

• a shopping cart ordering component; and
• a single-action ordering component including:
• • a data storage medium storing information for a plurality of users;
  • a receiving component for receiving requests to order an item, a request including an indication of one of the plurality of users, the request being sent in response to only a single action being performed; and
  • an order placement component that retrieves from the data storage medium information for the indicated user and that uses the retrieved information to place an order for the indicated user for the item; and
• an order fulfillment component that completes a purchase of the item in accordance with the order placed by the single-action ordering component.

• displaying information identifying the item and displaying an indication of a single action that is to be performed to order the identified item; and
• in response to only the indicated single action being performed, sending to a server system a request to order the identified item
• whereby the item is ordered independently of a shopping cart model and the order is fulfilled to complete a purchase of the item.

The MIT robotic micro ants have mood lights. They are used for debugging. Link to ants.

Ryan

This was done along with the VT100 and music-on-demand system in the bathroom so you could listen to music (realize that this was long before the MP3 age) while showering, or you could log into your machine while you were logging into the toilet. Unfortunately not just anyone could telnet to the toilet (we DO have to pay for water, ya know) but you could telnet to the control computer if you had an account, and yes, you could flush the toilet remotely, or play music in the bathroom remotely, from anywhere in the world.

Here's a picture of the control keypad that let you choose music and flush the toilet.

We later got rid of the hard drive (it kept falling off the wall into the toilet) and replaced it with an extra printer screwed to the wall. We attached a cable from the printhead to the flapper in the toilet, so that when you sent data and did a carriage return, it would flush. Unfortunately the high humidity in the bathroom made the printer rust and seize up within a week. Eit!

This was done along with the VT100 and music-on-demand system in the bathroom so you could listen to music (realize that this was long before the MP3 age) while showering, or you could log into your machine while you were logging into the toilet. Unfortunately not just anyone could telnet to the toilet (we DO have to pay for water, ya know) but you could telnet to the control computer if you had an account, and yes, you could flush the toilet remotely, or play music in the bathroom remotely, from anywhere in the world.

Here's a picture of the control keypad that let you choose music and flush the toilet.

We later got rid of the hard drive (it kept falling off the wall into the toilet) and replaced it with an extra printer screwed to the wall. We attached a cable from the printhead to the flapper in the toilet, so that when you sent data and did a carriage return, it would flush. Unfortunately the high humidity in the bathroom made the printer rust and seize up within a week. Eit!

Try Scwm. Not only does it let you do everything with the keyboard, it also allows you to bind keystrokes to synthetic mouse events so you can avoid using the rodent even in programs that would otherwise require it.

The reason that Scheme is not as well known as a programming language is that it is sort of the "learning beater car" of programming languages. Scheme's main utility advocates are in AI and its sub-disciplines, so commercial applications will not be written in Scheme. There is no great market for Scheme programmers, but there is a market for programmers who can understand the fundamentals behind great programming. I think that this book especially lends itself to the beginning programmer- and for web support of all kinds the Scheme Repository of Indiana University is rivalled only by the Schem Underground at MIT.

Good luck in your programming endeavors!

I think that this was the best Perl book I have ever read (Programming Perl and all the other ORA Perl books coming in close, but then again I've only read Perl books by ORA so Ihave to broaden my horizons), but it is a first printing of it. It has a lot of major errors. I highly reccomend that you visit the author's errata page before reading it and fix at least all of the major errors (there are a few). The author's errata page is more complete and will be updated as errors are found more than I would expect the ORA site is, so I reccomend that you use his site instead of ORA's site for errata concerning this book. Don't make the list of errata scare you though it is a great read and I myself am halfway through reading it in full for the third time.

If you think you know what the hell is going on you're probably full of shit.