Here are the slides from the open access panel on Feb. 15:

• Gavin Baker
• Stephanie Haas
• Ashley Wills

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It’s taken us a while to get this posted, but on Jan. 22, our adviser, Jordan Wiens, published an article in Networking Computing titled “Mirage and the USPTO: Patently Ridiculous.”

Can you patent a hack? The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office seems to think so. Mirage Networks has been granted patent No. 7,124,197 for its description of techniques such as ARP poisoning to control access to protected network devices.

But ARP poisoning, which lets one host intercept traffic intended for another, isn’t a new idea. In fact, it predates Mirage’s patent application (filed in 2002) by at least five years

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“Open Art” is a Creative Commons art show presented by Florida Free Culture. The show will be in the Reitz Union Gallery (second floor) from February 19th til March 2nd. There will be a reception on February 22nd from 7:00-9:00pm with refreshments and music. The art is also be available for downloading and sharing online. For more info, visit uf.freeculture.org/openart.

Culture confined by an increasingly extreme intellectual property regime may appear to be culture in appearance, but it is not culture in spirit. The artists exhibited in Open Art understand that culture is not simply passive appreciation and that any attempt to force society to accept it as such should be rejected.

These artists recognize that culture is not and has never been a zero sum game - that as a society, the wider availability of culture can only enrich us. As Thomas Jefferson wrote, “He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.” Culture should be “free” in the sense that it at once belongs to no one and to everyone.

All art on display is under a Creative Commons license. You are enabled and encouraged to freely copy, share, and, in some cases, create derivative works. Rip mix burn!

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Shouldn’t the way we share research be as advanced as the Internet?

Florida Free Culture and Universities Allied for Essential Medicine present a panel on access to research. Come hear from students, researchers, and librarians on how open access is changing science — and how you can get involved.

The event will take place on Thursday, Feb. 15 at 7 pm in CSE room E221. (The Computer Science & Engineering building is located near the Hub, on Turlington Plaza between Marston Science Library and Turlington Hall.)

For more information, visit the student resource page from the Alliance for Taxpayer Access.

Funded by Student Government.

UPDATE: Links to Facebook event and press release.

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Our first meeting of the Spring will be on Monday, Jan. 22. We will meet at 6:30 pm in the Johnson Lounge, Reitz Union room 121. We’ll discuss our events this semester — there are a lot, so you’ll want to hear what’s going on. And yes, there will be free food. Yay!

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Well, we didn’t end up blogging much at the conference. It happens. We were too busy doing things, or when not doing that, sleeping. But we returned safely and will provide a fuller update in the near future.

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It’s been a long day, and it doesn’t stop coming.

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