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Music 1 - The Autons are an electro punk band from Portsmouth, UK
who will be performing and launching their new album at Bleepfest Paris on Nov
8 and 9.
Interview
Music 2 - Assemblage 23 is an Industrial/EMO act out of Seattle
recently moved from Philadelphia. Michael Powell has a chat.
Interview
Music 3 - Bill Hsu is an associate professor in Computer Science
at San Francisco State. He's also a keen performer of Free Improv music
using a Wacom tablet and Max/MSP.
Interview
Hardware - The list is getting quite long of auto makers offerring
hybrid power - electricity and gas - models. Here we have a look at the
Lexus 600hL, their top of the line car.
Report
Games - We go along to the second biggest video games fair in the
world, the Leipzig Games Convention, for six halls full of stuff and
wonder whether the Germans are in the process of shooting themselves in
the foot.
Report
Music - Podcast! Assemblage 23 - See interview above.
Podcast
More Music - Monthly Video Picks
This month's pick is ... a Kraftwek track with a video even more retro than
they already are!
Videos
Music - Pop/dance Thunderfinger has a look at the nature of performance,
phoniness, and wonders whether he should lighten up.
Commentary Music - Classical Baron K looks at two DVD's - Handel's Messiah
and Hayden's The Creation..
Commentary
Books - Discs for a Desert Island (and perhaps writing too), Madonna, Le Dossier
Reviews
...Meanwhile, Exxon Mobil and its carbon cronies continue to pour money into think tanks whose purpose is to deceive the American public into believing that global warming is a fantasy. In 1998, these companies plotted to deceive American citizens about climate science. Their goal, according to a meeting memo, was to orchestrate information so that "recognition of uncertainties become part of the conventional wisdom" and that "those promoting the Kyoto treaty ... appear to be out of touch with reality.
Since that meeting, Exxon has funneled $23 million into the climate-denial industry, according to Greenpeace, which combs the company's annual report each year. Since 2006, Exxon has cut off some of the worst offenders, but 28 climate-denial groups will still get funding this year.
Corporate America's media toadies continue to amplify Exxon's deceptive message. The company can count on its hand puppets -- Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, John Stossel and Glenn Beck -- to shamelessly mouth skepticism about man-made climate change and give political cover to the oil industry's indentured servants on Capitol Hill. Oklahoma's Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe calls global warming "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American public."
Now John McCain has chosen as his running mate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a diligent student of Big Oil's crib sheets. She's something of a flat-earther who shares the current administration's contempt for science. Palin has expressed skepticism about evolution (which is like not believing in gravity), putting it on par with "creationism," which posits that the Earth was created 6,000 years ago.
from Robert F. Kennedy jr article at the L.A. Times
Mstation just bumped into a couple hundred kids wearing Mellow Park
t-shirts and carrying their skateboards and placards, and not, we have to
say, looking too happy.
We asked "what gives?" and were told that their skateboard/bmx/etc park
was being closed down by developers and that no replacement park was
being planned ... something they hope to change.
Fresh and timely from Google Labs, In Quotes [labs.google.com]
lets you compare speech and interview quotes from various political and
government figures on various topics. Browse by subject or hit the Spin
button for extra randomness. The U.S. version starts with Obama and
McCain by default, but the appropriate cast of characters shows up on
versions for the U.K., Canada and India. (The U.K. default start page
[labs.google.com], at least at the moment, is pretty amusing. comparing
Prime Minister Gordon Brown with opposition leader David Cameron and
indicating that as far as Google knows, Cameron has never said anything
of note on the subjects of China or Afghanistan.)
There is growing evidence that noise-related stress is a significant public health hazard. According to a report from the World Health Organisation, unwanted noise is causing hearing impairment including tinnitus, disturbing our sleep and triggering stress hormones which could in turn affect the immune system and metabolism.
It also makes us feel helpless and more aggressive and increases the chances of having a heart attack or stroke, accounting for an estimated 3% of ischeamic heart disease (the most common cause of death in the EU) in Europe. "There is increasing evidence that air and road traffic noise might be related to high blood pressure," says Stephen Stansfeld, professor of psychiatry at Barts and the London School of Medicine. "Exposure in school to aircraft noise is also linked to reading impairment in children."
Another study, by Cornell University in New York, found that workers in an open-plan office with constant exposure to hubbub from machinery, telephones and office chatter had higher levels of adrenaline in their urine than workers in a quiet, self-contained work station. The open-plan group were also less effective at puzzle solving than the quiet group, who slept better, had better digestion, and were less irritable.
"When people get annoyed by noise they get stressed," says Stewart, who went on to set up the National Noise Association pressure group. "Constant exposure to even moderate levels of noise can be harmful. One Austrian study showed that children living on a main road had shorter concentration spans than those who didn't."
More at The Guardian including a list of things to do.
More Hitchhiker's Guide - sort of
NUMBER-ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR EOIN COLFER IS CHOSEN TO WRITE THE SIXTH HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
London, 17 September 2008... Penguin announced today that it is to publish the sixth novel in the ever-more increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. Eight years after the tragically early death of its creator, Douglas Adams, widow Jane Belson has sanctioned the project to be written by the international number-one bestselling children's writer, Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl novels. The new book is entitled "And Another Thing..." and will be published in hardback by Penguin in October 2009.
Douglas Adams himself said in an interview: 'I suspect at some point in the future I will write a sixth Hitchhiker book ... I would love to finish Hitchhiker on a slightly more upbeat note. Five seems to be a wrong kind of number, six is a better kind of number.' *
Jane Belson, the widow of Douglas Adams said, 'I am delighted that Eoin Colfer has agreed to continue the Hitchhiker series. I love his books and could not think of a better person to transport Arthur, Zaphod and Marvin to pastures new. The project has my full support.'
Eoin Colfer has introduced a new generation of readers to the absurdities of life, the universe and everything through his bestselling Artemis Fowl series, in which a teenage criminal mastermind wreaks havoc in this world, the next and any others that happen to be nearby. The Sunday Times has said, 'Colfer has the ability to make you laugh twice over: first in sheer subversive joy at the inventiveness of the writing, and again at the energy of the humour.'
Colfer has been a fan of Hitchhiker since his schooldays and said, 'Being given the chance to write this book is like suddenly being offered the superpower of your choice. For years I have been finishing this incredible story in my head and now I have the opportunity to do it in the real world. It is a gift from the gods. So, thank you Thor and Odin.'
Penguin Managing Director, Helen Fraser commented, 'In 1992 I was lucky enough to be involved in the publication of Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams's last brilliant volume of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. He was an extraordinary writer, with an ability to come at the reader from the most unexpected angles, knock them off balance and make them laugh at the same time. Eoin Colfer is an inspired choice as Douglas's successor. Eoin burst on the world in 2001 with his incredibly popular Artemis Fowl series, which is beloved by readers of all ages. He is a huge talent and a fantastically funny writer, and this new book will bring as many new young readers to Douglas Adams's work as it will introduce adults to the brilliance of Eoin Colfer.'
- Ends -
Eoin Colfer
EOIN (pronounced 'Owen') COLFER was a primary school teacher in Wexford, Ireland up until he secured the largest ever advance for a children's novel by an unknown author in October 2000. He cast a spell on the publishing and film industries with his fantastically original novel, Artemis Fowl, and hasn't looked back since. Miramax and Tribeca productions teamed up for a film option before the book had even been auctioned at the Frankfurt Book Fair that year. The film is now slated to go into production next year.
Total UK sales of Artemis Fowl titles now exceed a staggering 4.5 million copies in the UK and Ireland and over 18 million worldwide. His work is published in 44 countries. He has achieved huge international critical acclaim in the media and the book trade and is ranked alongside Philip Pullman, Jacqueline Wilson and Anthony Horowitz as one of the UK's most popular and best-selling children's authors.
Eoin is also an extremely talented performer. Recipient of a Herald Angel Award for Performance at the 2004 Edinburgh Fringe (the first author to win such an award), in April 2006 Eoin took his hilarious one man show, Fairies, Fiends and Flatulence, an adrenaline-fuelled exposé of teenage criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl to theatres nationwide. Following the sell-out success of his regional UK tour, Eoin made his West End debut at the Trafalgar Theatre in October 2006 receiving wide acclaim:
'Brilliantly surreal . . . full of farting, gentle mockery and subversiveness' - The Times
'Like Dave Allen for juniors' - Sunday Times
'The ex-teacher's lesson is the frothy tale of his childhood and his mischievous siblings, illustrated by beautifully evocative photographs . . . our amiable, pixie-like host is never dull' - Evening Standard, Four Stars
Artemis Fowl won the WHSmith 'People's Choice' Children's Book of the Year Award 2002, The Children's Book of the Year at the British Book Awards and was shortlisted for both the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year 2001 and The Blue Peter Book Award 2002. Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident was shortlisted for the Red House Children's Book Award 2002.
Colfer, who is 43, lives in Wexford, a seaside town in the south-east of Ireland, with his wife Jackie and their sons Finn and Sean.
Eoin Colfer on The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
I first read the Hitchhiker's Guide in my late teens when Ted Roche, a libertine friend of mine, pressed it into my sweaty palms and hissed at me with fanatical intensity that I must read it or be ridiculed forever by the school literati. Relax, dude, I remember saying with eighties' insouciance. Ridicule is nothing to be scared of.
But I was scared. Petrified in fact. If one was not a sportsman, the only other circle to belong to was the readers' circle. Places were limited and expulsions were swift and ruthless. If one had not read the livre du jour then one would not be offered book swapsies on Friday. If this happened, then a person might be forced to turn to his own siblings for conversation.
So, in this spirit of quasi-persecution I scuttled home after double chemistry and found a quiet bathroom where I could settle down and read what I was certain would be a thinly veiled version of Star Wars. Vogons destroy the Earth and a single hero survives. Please. I could almost write the rest myself.
Never have I been so happy to be proven wrong.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was like nothing I had read before, or since for that matter. If you have read it then you know exactly what I am talking about. If you haven't then read it now, moron. The problem is the hyperbole puts people off. If it's so popular then it must be middle of the road, brimming with clichés and easily digested on the sands of Ibiza.
All false assumptions. The Guide is a slice of satirical genius. A marvel of quantum tomfoolery. A dissection of the absurdities of our human condition. A space odyssey that forces us to face ourselves and collapse in hysterics. Imagine if Messrs. Hawking and Fry were locked in a room with the entire cast of Monty Python and forced to write a book which would subsequently be edited by Pink Floyd, then the result would need a lot of work before it could be cut from Douglas Adams' first draft.
For the next couple of decades I followed the exploits of Arthur Dent and his intergalactic troupe as they stumbled through space and time befuddled and bereft, drinking tea in the face of impossible odds and generally failing to find enlightenment at every turn. It's like a quest for the holy grail where the grail is neither holy nor grail-shaped. I travelled with Arthur Dent as he lost his planet, learned to fly, found love, made sandwiches, got to know his daughter, found his planet again briefly and finally got blown to atoms.
Blown to atoms! Surely not, but no need to panic, Douglas Adams would surely reassemble Arthur somehow in the next book.
But as we all know, the next book never came and the legions of Hitchhiker fans were left with their hearts beating a little too quickly for all eternity.
It became a whimsy of mine to finish the story, just for my own peace of mind. I often wondered how Douglas Adams would have resurrected his beloved characters. And now, almost quarter of a century after first reading Hitchhiker, I have been given the incredible opportunity of writing the next chapter in the saga myself. In an actual book rather than in my head.
My first reaction was semi-outrage that anyone should be allowed to tamper with this incredible series. But on reflection I realised that this is a wonderful opportunity to work with characters I have loved since childhood and give them something of my own voice while holding onto the spirit of Douglas Adams and not laying a single finger on his five books.
Once again I am terrified by a Hitchhiker book and this time it is my own. I feel more pressure to perform now than I ever have with my own books, and that is why I am bloody determined that this will be the best thing I have ever written. And if it isn't then I will make sure that the cover is extremely pretty.
For the first time in decades I feel the uncertainty that I last felt in my teenage years. There are people out there that really want to like this book. Ted Roche is one. I will track him down in eight months time, with a proof copy in my sweaty grip, press it into his hands and tell him with fanatical intensity that he really has to read this book. Then I will sit on the corner of his sofa until he is finished and await the verdict.
©Eoin Colfer
Wexford, September 2008
HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY (H2G2) - a brief chronology
Douglas Adam's creation has been five radio series, a TV series, a comic, a play, a film, a game and, of course, five books.
The origins of the idea apparently came to Douglas in a field outside Innsbruck as far back as 1971 but the first radio series was broadcast by the BBC in 1978, with a play and the first book appearing the following year. The second book (The Rest, at the End of the Universe) and radio series came in 1980, and in 1981 Hitchhiker was adapted for television. In 1982 book three, (Life, The Universe and Everything) was published. Book four (So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish) and a computer game came in 1984 and in 1992 book five, Mostly Harmless.
Douglas Adams died of heart failure in May 2001, aged 49. Since then there have been more radio adaptations and the release of a Hitchhiker film.
Book six, And Another Thing... by Eoin Colfer will be published in autumn 2009.
Approximately 16 million copies of Hitchhiker books have been sold worldwide and have been translated into 35 languages.
For more interesting and amusing information on Douglas's life and work, go to h2g2 ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A3790659) the unconventional guide to life, the universe and everything inspired by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy itself.
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Google have issued a new web browser called Chrome. Based on Webkit,
it is fast and has a summary page of pages you've been to.
For info and download
SAN FRANCISCO: Intel has made progress in a technology that could lead to the wireless recharging of gadgets and the end of the power-cord spaghetti behind electronic devices.
It says it has increased the efficiency of a technique for wirelessly powering consumer gadgets and computers, a development that could allow a person to simply place a device on a desktop countertop to power it. It could bring the consumer electronics industry a step closer to a world without wires.
On Thursday, the chip maker plans to demonstrate the use of a magnetic field to broadcast up to 60 watts of power two to three feet. It says it can do that losing only 25 percent of the power in transmission.
More at IHT
However, in recent years sports scientists have discovered that it is just as risky to drink too much during exercise. Indeed, in many endurance activities, hyponatraemia - or fluid intoxication - is more prevalent than dehydration. Caused by sodium levels and other body salts (or electrolytes) becoming dangerously dilute, hyponatraemia can result in dizziness, vomiting, respiratory problems and fatigue. "During intense or prolonged exercise, the kidneys are unable to excrete fluid as efficiently as normal," Sutton says. "In extreme cases, water is retained, especially in highly absorbent brain cells, and the pressure causes the body to shut down its primary functions, such as breathing and heart rate. Treatment involves a small volume of highly concentrated salt solution. But it can be fatal."
After the 2003 London Marathon, 14 of the runners taken to hospital had hyponatraemia, and a study by Harvard University researchers found that 13% of competitors in the Boston marathon drank enough to cause fluid toxicity. And despite what bottled water and sports drink manufacturers (sports drinks are as likely to cause water toxicity as water) would have us believe, many top athletes drink only small amounts. According to Dr Dan Tunstall-Pedoe, the emeritus medical director of the London marathon, "it's surprising how little elite runners do drink ... they are able to run 26.2 miles at speed with very little fluid on board."
More at The Guardian
Smartphone is expected via Google
By Laura M. Holson and Miguel Helft Published: August 15, 2008
T-Mobile will be the first carrier to offer a mobile phone powered by Google's Android software, according to people briefed on the company's plans. The phone will be made by HTC, one of the largest makers of mobile phones in the world, and is expected to go on sale in the United States before Christmas, perhaps as early as October.
The high-end phone is expected to match many of the capabilities of Apple's iPhone and other so-called smartphones that run software from Palm, Research in Motion, Microsoft and Nokia to access the Internet and perform computerlike functions.
The HTC phone, which many gadget sites are calling the "dream," will have a touch screen, like the iPhone. But the screen also slides out to expose a full five-row keyboard. A video of the phone has been posted recently on YouTube. A person who has seen the HTC device said it matched the one in the video.
The phone's release date depends on how soon the Federal Communications Commission certifies that the Google software and the HTC phone meet network standards. Executives at all three companies are hoping to announce the phone in September because they would benefit from holiday season sales. The people briefed on the discussions declined to be named because they were not authorized to discuss the project.
more at IHT
Victory for Open Source in US Court
In a ruling Wednesday, the federal appeals court in Washington said that just because a software programmer gave his work away did not mean it could not be protected.
The decision legitimizes the use of commercial contracts for the distribution of computer software and digital artistic works for the public good. The court ruling also bolsters the open-source movement by easing the concerns of large organizations about relying on free software from hobbyists and hackers who have freely contributed time and energy without pay.
It also has implications for the Creative Commons license, a framework for modifying and sharing creative works that was developed in 2002 by Larry Lessig, a law professor at Stanford.
That license is now used widely by organizations like MIT for distributing courseware, and Wikipedia, the Web-based encyclopedia. In March, the rock band Nine Inch Nails released a collection of musical tracks under a Creative Commons license.
more at IHT
MIT Students Gagged by Federal Court Judge
Mstation general News
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Wed, 01 Oct 2008
f e a t u r e s: Big Music Issue!! October 08
Thu, 25 Sep 2008
Big Oil, Palin and Deception
Mellow Park to be shut?
Job at Free Geek, Portland, OR
'Hi there,
Here’s a new position at Free Geek:
Business innovator / volunteer coordinator
You could be Free Geek's next Sales Coordinator! The ideal candidate need
not possess an in-depth knowledge of computers and/or electronic gizmos
but rather a willingness to learn about Free Geek culture and a desire to
help increase income for the organization. There will be some months of
training before candidate is fully up-to-speed, so patience is crucial.
In fact, the first 6 months of your time at Free Geek are as a
probationary member. The ideal candidate will be able to work well under
stress in a somewhat chaotic setting and maintain a positive attitude.
The candidate will not be afraid to ask questions but will be able to
work on projects almost entirely without supervision. The candidate will
be able to remain flexible as Free Geek grows and changes. The position
emphasizes coordinating and empowering Free Geek volunteers to
participate in daily Thrift Store functioning as much as possible.
Additionally, this position is responsible for keeping the store running
in a consistent fashion.
Read on, intrepid soul!
www.freegeek.org
Quotes from Google Labs
Wed, 24 Sep 2008
Corruption Table
The table is compiled each year by the global anti-corruption group, from polls taken around the world. The results are used to assess how much corruption is perceived to exist among public officials and politicians in 180 countries.
At a glance
Least corrupt countries
1= Denmark
1= New Zealand
1= Sweden
4 Singapore
5= Finland
5= Switzerland
Most corrupt countries
180 Somalia
178= Burma
178= Iraq
177 Haiti
176 Afghanistan
Tue, 23 Sep 2008
Studies show noise is a health risk
Thu, 18 Sep 2008
EFF Sues NSA, President Bush, and Vice President Cheney to
Stop Illegal Surveillance
New Legal Challenge to Unconstitutional Domestic Spying
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
filed a lawsuit against the National Security Agency (NSA)
and other government agencies today on behalf of AT&T
customers to stop the illegal, unconstitutional, and
ongoing dragnet surveillance of their communications and
communications records. The five individual plaintiffs are
also suing President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick
Cheney, Cheney's chief of staff David Addington, former
Attorney General and White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales
and other individuals who ordered or participated in the
warrantless domestic surveillance.
The lawsuit, Jewel v. NSA, is aimed at ending the NSA's
dragnet surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans and
holding accountable the government officials who illegally
authorized it. Evidence in the case includes undisputed
documents provided by former AT&T telecommunications
technician Mark Klein showing AT&T has routed copies of
Internet traffic to a secret room in San Francisco
controlled by the NSA.
That same evidence is central to Hepting v. AT&T, a
class-action lawsuit filed by EFF in 2006 to stop the
telecom giant's participation in the illegal surveillance
program. Earlier this year, Congress passed a law
attempting to derail that case by unconstitutionally
granting immunity to AT&T and other companies that took
part in the dragnet. Hepting v. AT&T is now stalled in
federal court while EFF argues with the government over
whether the immunity is constitutional and applies in that
case -- litigation that is likely to continue well into
2009.
"In addition to suing AT&T, we've now opened a second front
in the battle to stop the NSA's illegal surveillance of
millions of ordinary Americans and hold personally
responsible those who authorized or participated in the
spying program," said Senior Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston.
"For years, the NSA has been engaged in a massive and
massively illegal fishing expedition through AT&T's
domestic networks and databases of customer records. Our
goal in this new case against the government, as in our
case against AT&T, is to dismantle this dragnet
surveillance program as soon as possible."
In addition to suing the government agencies involved in
the domestic dragnet, the lawsuit also targets the
individuals responsible for creating, authorizing, and
implementing the illegal program, including President Bush
and Vice President Cheney.
"Demanding personal accountability from President Bush,
Vice President Cheney and others responsible for the NSA's
dragnet surveillance of ordinary Americans' communications
is the best way to guarantee that such blatantly illegal
spying will not be authorized in the future," said EFF
Legal Director Cindy Cohn. "Our lawsuit today should sound
a clear warning to future occupants of the White House: if
you break the law and violate Americans' privacy, there
will be consequences."
For the full complaint in Jewel v. NSA:
www.eff.org/files/filenode/jewel/jewel.complaint.pdf
For more on the case:
www.eff.org/cases/jewel
Wed, 17 Sep 2008
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Sun, 10 Aug 2008
EFF Backs Researchers Forced to Cancel Presentation on
Transit Fare Payment System
Las Vegas - Three students at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT) were ordered this morning by a federal
court judge to cancel their scheduled presentation about
vulnerabilities in Boston's transit fare payment system,
violating their First Amendment right to discuss their
important research.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) represents Zack
Anderson, RJ Ryan and Alessandro Chiesa, who were set to
present their findings Sunday at DEFCON, a security
conference held in Las Vegas. However, the Massachusetts
Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) sued the students and MIT in
United States District Court in Massachusetts on Friday,
claiming that the students violated the Computer Fraud and
Abuse Act (CFAA) by delivering information to conference
attendees that could be used to defraud the MBTA of transit
fares. This morning District Judge Douglas P. Woodlock,
meeting in a special Saturday session, ordered the trio not
to disclose for ten days any information that could be used
by others to get free subway rides.
"We wanted to share our academic work with the security
community and had planned to withhold a key detail of our
results so that a malicious attacker could not use our
research for fraudulent purposes," said Anderson. "We're
disappointed that the court is preventing us from
presenting our findings even with this safeguard."
Vulnerabilities in magnetic stripe and RFID card payment
systems implemented by many urban transit systems are
generally known. The student research applied this
information to the specific case of Boston's Charlie Card
and Charlie Ticket, and the project earned an A from
renowned computer scientist and MIT professor Dr. Ron
Rivest.
The court relied on a federal law aimed at computer
intrusions in issuing its order, holding that even
discussing the flaws at a public conference constituted a
"transmission" of a computer program that could harm the
fare collection system.
"The court's order is an illegal prior restraint on
legitimate academic research in violation of the First
Amendment," said EFF Civil Liberties Director Jennifer
Granick. "The court has adopted an interpretation of the
statute that is blatantly unconstitutional, equating
discussion in a public forum with computer intrusion.
Security and the public interest benefit immensely from the
free flow of ideas and information on vulnerabilities. More
importantly, squelching research and scientific discussion
won't stop the attackers. It will just stop the public
from knowing that these systems are vulnerable and from
pressuring the companies that develop and implement them to
fix security holes."
This case is part of EFF's Coders' Rights Project, launched
just this week to protect programmers and developers from
legal threats hampering their cutting-edge research. EFF
will seek relief for the researchers in the courts.
For the full temporary restraining order:
http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/MIT%20students%20TRO.pdf
For more on the Coders' Rights Project:
http://www.eff.org/issues/coders
(EFF)