Internet: May 2007 Archives

If Panorama were getting all worked up over a few wireless access points in schools, what are they going to think of this monster! Look at all the antennas on it! That can't be healthy! What the Slurp actually does is connect to as many wifi networks as it can, up to a maximum of six. It then presents all the wifi networks as one super fast connection to your PC. The legality of this is probably questionable in a lot of countries, but it's still a very cool piece of kit.

I posted before about a big hole in Unison.ie's old site. Instead of fixing the problem, Unison.ie seems to just released a new and improved site. Besides the lack of a subscription wall, they have also implemented RSS feeds on Independent.ie as well as on the regional papers. The only flaw I've found so far is that the edition of the Kerryman that's there seems to be a week out of date, and I'm sure that will be sorted soon enough.

After all the fun with the AACS last week, it turns out that anyone can get their own 128bit number which can then be defended using the DCMA :) This is done by generating a Haiku which is then copyrighted. The Haiku generated for me was as follows:

The haiku is copyright 2007 by Edward W. Felten:

We own integers, Says AACS LA. You can own one too.

Here is your very own 128-bit integer, which we hereby deed to you:

02 BA D1 6C B8 DD 0F B8 30 76 41 7A 08 53 0D D1

Not sure how well this would stand up in court, but it's interesting none the less.