The High-tech Anti-bush Bike
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Join Date: 2003-09-06 Member: 20615Members
Join Date: 2003-09-06 Member: 20615Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">o_O 56K Watch out.</div> I was reading <a href='http://www.wired.com' target='_blank'>Wired</a> just a little bit ago and I came across an article about a guy who made this crazy WiFi-Bluetooth sidewalk painter.
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<!--QuoteBegin-Wired News+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Wired News)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->NEW YORK -- Two days before a yearlong project to create a Wi-Fi-enabled bicycle-mounted dot-matrix printer could spray anti-Bush messages in chalk on city streets, it came to a grinding halt.
On Saturday, New York City police confiscated the gadgetry-laden bike following the arrest of its inventor, who had just concluded an interview with MSNBC.
Activist Joshua Kinberg created a wireless, bike-mounted dot-matrix printer to spray protest messages in the streets at the Republican National Convention this week. On Saturday, New York City police confiscated the gadgetry-laden bike following the arrest of Kingberg, who had just concluded an interview with MSNBC.
Joshua Kinberg, the 25-year-old creator of Bikes Against Bush, was arrested on charges of criminal mischief and criminal possession of graffiti instruments, according to Sgt. Mary Christine Doherty of the New York City Police Department. He was held for 24 hours and was released on Sunday morning without bail.
Kinberg maintains that what he was planning to do is legal.
"This is the type of speech that is essentially protected in the Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution," he said. "It's nonviolent, it's peaceful. It's not graffiti, it's chalk -- it washes off with water."
Kinberg, who graduated in May 2004 from the Parsons School of Design in New York City, used the bike project for a large part of his master's thesis. He had planned to ride for two hours each day of the Republican National Convention, which began Monday, to spread his anti-Bush messages.
His invention combined an Apple PowerBook computer, a cell phone and a series of spray chalk canisters.
He would receive anti-Bush messages sent from the Internet or via SMS to the phone. While riding the bike, he could then decide which messages to send to the attached computer via Bluetooth, which would then relay the messages to the canisters of soluble water-based marking chalk.
Now that his invention has been taken away, Kinberg feels he is powerless, but still believes his anti-Bush message will get across.
"It sucks that I can't do the performance as was intended," he said. "But I think in some ways it gets out the point more strongly that our free speech isn't so free, is it?"
His lawyer, Linda J. Stanch of the National Lawyers Guild, said Kinberg's possessions are in custody until Friday when he has a court appearance before a judge, where she will make a motion to have the case dismissed.
If Kinberg's case is dismissed, she said, his belongings will be returned to him. However, she added, he may face up to 60 days in jail or a $10,000 fine if he is found guilty, and his possessions would remain in police custody.
"I am confident that there are sufficient grounds for a judge to dismiss the case because of the constitutional issues regarding the statute itself," she said. "As well as how it was applied in this instance -- that these are graffiti statutes that are applied to spray paint and permanent paint that was intentionally done to remain permanent."
Kinberg's thesis adviser, Yury Gitman, who witnessed the arrest, said that while he is disappointed with Kinberg's arrest and the confiscation of the bicycle, Bikes Against Bush will ride on.
"The only thing that's going to change in the equation is that the Republican National Convention won't be in town," he said. "But there's a whole election coming up and there's more opportunities, and there might be even better events in better places to work on this."<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
THe greater part of the article is about the judge's ruling and court stuff, blah blah blah. My real question here is WTH. I mean, how long would it take the average geek to figure this out? Probably a long time. An this guy has WAY to much time on his hands.
Full Article: <a href='http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64782,00.html?tw=wn_6polihead' target='_blank'>Linkage</a>
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<!--QuoteBegin-Wired News+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Wired News)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->NEW YORK -- Two days before a yearlong project to create a Wi-Fi-enabled bicycle-mounted dot-matrix printer could spray anti-Bush messages in chalk on city streets, it came to a grinding halt.
On Saturday, New York City police confiscated the gadgetry-laden bike following the arrest of its inventor, who had just concluded an interview with MSNBC.
Activist Joshua Kinberg created a wireless, bike-mounted dot-matrix printer to spray protest messages in the streets at the Republican National Convention this week. On Saturday, New York City police confiscated the gadgetry-laden bike following the arrest of Kingberg, who had just concluded an interview with MSNBC.
Joshua Kinberg, the 25-year-old creator of Bikes Against Bush, was arrested on charges of criminal mischief and criminal possession of graffiti instruments, according to Sgt. Mary Christine Doherty of the New York City Police Department. He was held for 24 hours and was released on Sunday morning without bail.
Kinberg maintains that what he was planning to do is legal.
"This is the type of speech that is essentially protected in the Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution," he said. "It's nonviolent, it's peaceful. It's not graffiti, it's chalk -- it washes off with water."
Kinberg, who graduated in May 2004 from the Parsons School of Design in New York City, used the bike project for a large part of his master's thesis. He had planned to ride for two hours each day of the Republican National Convention, which began Monday, to spread his anti-Bush messages.
His invention combined an Apple PowerBook computer, a cell phone and a series of spray chalk canisters.
He would receive anti-Bush messages sent from the Internet or via SMS to the phone. While riding the bike, he could then decide which messages to send to the attached computer via Bluetooth, which would then relay the messages to the canisters of soluble water-based marking chalk.
Now that his invention has been taken away, Kinberg feels he is powerless, but still believes his anti-Bush message will get across.
"It sucks that I can't do the performance as was intended," he said. "But I think in some ways it gets out the point more strongly that our free speech isn't so free, is it?"
His lawyer, Linda J. Stanch of the National Lawyers Guild, said Kinberg's possessions are in custody until Friday when he has a court appearance before a judge, where she will make a motion to have the case dismissed.
If Kinberg's case is dismissed, she said, his belongings will be returned to him. However, she added, he may face up to 60 days in jail or a $10,000 fine if he is found guilty, and his possessions would remain in police custody.
"I am confident that there are sufficient grounds for a judge to dismiss the case because of the constitutional issues regarding the statute itself," she said. "As well as how it was applied in this instance -- that these are graffiti statutes that are applied to spray paint and permanent paint that was intentionally done to remain permanent."
Kinberg's thesis adviser, Yury Gitman, who witnessed the arrest, said that while he is disappointed with Kinberg's arrest and the confiscation of the bicycle, Bikes Against Bush will ride on.
"The only thing that's going to change in the equation is that the Republican National Convention won't be in town," he said. "But there's a whole election coming up and there's more opportunities, and there might be even better events in better places to work on this."<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
THe greater part of the article is about the judge's ruling and court stuff, blah blah blah. My real question here is WTH. I mean, how long would it take the average geek to figure this out? Probably a long time. An this guy has WAY to much time on his hands.
Full Article: <a href='http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64782,00.html?tw=wn_6polihead' target='_blank'>Linkage</a>
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