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diff --git a/microposts/decss-haiku.md b/microposts/decss-haiku.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5a8d155 --- /dev/null +++ b/microposts/decss-haiku.md @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +--- +date: 2019-03-16 +--- +>``` +>Muse! When we learned to +>count, little did we know all +>the things we could do +> +>some day by shuffling +>those numbers: Pythagoras +>said "All is number" +> +>long before he saw +>computers and their effects, +>or what they could do +> +>by computation, +>naive and mechanical +>fast arithmetic. +> +>It changed the world, it +>changed our consciousness and lives +>to have such fast math +> +>available to +>us and anyone who cared +>to learn programming. +> +>Now help me, Muse, for +>I wish to tell a piece of +>controversial math, +> +>for which the lawyers +>of DVD CCA +>don't forbear to sue: +> +>that they alone should +>know or have the right to teach +>these skills and these rules. +> +>(Do they understand +>the content, or is it just +>the effects they see?) +> +>And all mathematics +>is full of stories (just read +>Eric Temple Bell); +> +>and CSS is +>no exception to this rule. +>Sing, Muse, decryption +> +>once secret, as all +>knowledge, once unknown: how to +>decrypt DVDs. +>``` + +- Seth Schoen, [DeCSS haiku](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS_haiku) |