Wednesday, May 02, 2007

I don't even rip movies, but....

As usual, when data escapes the control of its "owners," a group of MNCs with deep pockets and first-tier law school grads have sent out cease and desist letters. They wanted to stop this:

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It's like up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, start, but it disables copy protection on certain DVD's instead of giving you thirty lives.

The djinn doesn't go back in the lamp very easily.

ADDED 5.3.07:

The EFF's counsel explains why posting this key could land people in trouble...


but try and put THIS back in the bottle!

My Reading of the Theaetetus of Plato

I've worked through the Theaetetus of Plato several times and have become rather convinced that the point of the work is to illustrate that knowledge supervenes on connectivity. It's interesting to imagine that Plato, the great proponent of censorship and xenophobia, advocate of antidemocratic regimes, might have found knowledge and wisdom to be products of interaction and integration.

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On Islamic Extremism and Suicide Terrorism

This is a copy of a paper that I had a rather fun time writing on the nature of suicide terrorism in the Islamic world. Of course, I have a theory....

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