The Command Line Podcast (Ogg Feed) http://thecommandline.net/ A regularly published podcast by a self-described hacker, curmudgeon and hacktivist about the practice and profession of programming drawing on over a decade of professional experience and a lifetime spent hacking, the intersection of politics and society with technology and anything else clever, elegant or funny that catches my mind as a die hard technology geek. Feeder 2.0.7(1195) http://reinventedsoftware.com/feeder/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en 2005-2009 cmdln@thecommandline.com cmdln@thecommandline.net Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:21:55 -0500 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:21:55 -0500 180 http://media.libsyn.com/media/cmdln/color_cover_art.jpg The Command Line http://thecommandline.net/ Logo thanks to Jared Axelrod of Free Planet X. 2005-2009cmdln@thecommandline.comnoA regularly published podcast by a self-described hacker, curmudgeon and hacktivist about the practice and profession of programming drawing on over a decade of professional experience and a lifetime spent hacking, the intersection of politics and societyhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ TCLP 2009-11-08 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/11/08/news_196/ This is news cast 196.

This week's security alerts are the latest issues arising from Windows autorun and using cloud computing to brute force crypto.

In this week's news more on the FCC's power to regulate the internet, first general election to test some novel election crypto, using better investigative techniques to help preserve online privacy, and a weekend hackathon for open government.

Following up this week the latest info and analysis on ACTA.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:21:34 -0500 tclp-20091108-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 196. This week's security alerts are the latest issues arising from Windows autorun and using cloud computing to brute force crypto. In this week's news more on the FCC's power to regulate the internet, first general election to test so This is news cast 196. This week's security alerts are the latest issues arising from Windows autorun and using cloud computing to brute force crypto. In this week's news more on the FCC's power to regulate the internet, first general election to test some novel election crypto, using better investigative techniques to help preserve online privacy, and a weekend hackathon for open government. Following up this week the latest info and analysis on ACTA. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-11-04 Monologue: Social Identity (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/11/04/social_identity/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro, a reminder that if you want to win one of three signed copies of J.C. Hutchins' "7th Son: Descent" you need to get your email in to 7thSonNovel@gmail.com by this Friday. Use the subject line "cmdln sent me", and in the body include both the phrase, "Kilroy 2.0 is everywhere", and your mailing address.

Also, I will be at Philcon, just for the day on Saturday the 21st of November. I will be heading up to meet up with some friends and to interview Cory Doctorow about his just released novel, "MAKERS". If anyone is interested in a meet up while I am there, send me a note at feedback@thecommandline.net.

Lastly, the intro includes a brief clarification and comment about the experimental opening music from the last show.

There is no listener feedback this week.

The hacker word of the week this week is Eric Conspiracy.

The feature this week is a monologue on social identity.

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]]> Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:37:50 -0500 tclp-20091104-monologue-social-identity-commen This is a feature cast. In the intro, a reminder that if you want to win one of three signed copies of J.C. Hutchins' "7th Son: Descent" you need to get your email in to 7thSonNovel@gmail.com by this Friday. Use the subject line "cmdln sent me", and in t This is a feature cast. In the intro, a reminder that if you want to win one of three signed copies of J.C. Hutchins' "7th Son: Descent" you need to get your email in to 7thSonNovel@gmail.com by this Friday. Use the subject line "cmdln sent me", and in the body include both the phrase, "Kilroy 2.0 is everywhere", and your mailing address. Also, I will be at Philcon, just for the day on Saturday the 21st of November. I will be heading up to meet up with some friends and to interview Cory Doctorow about his just released novel, "MAKERS". If anyone is interested in a meet up while I am there, send me a note at feedback@thecommandline.net. Lastly, the intro includes a brief clarification and comment about the experimental opening music from the last show. There is no listener feedback this week. The hacker word of the week this week is Eric Conspiracy. The feature this week is a monologue on social identity. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-11-01 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/11/01/news_195/ This is news cast 195.

In the intro, an experiment, playing some CC-licensed and interesting music instead of the usual theme music.

This week's security alerts are executing attack code via the ldd utility and a former anti-virus research seemingly turning against the industry.

In this week's news in search of a truly open smart phone, an open protocol for aggregating comments, industry releases its first open source voting system which includes all of the sources for recording and management, and a startup produces the first 100-core processor.

Following up this week Mandelson is still pushing for three strikes in the UK and unlikely opponents, law enforcers.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:27:05 -0500 tclp-20091101-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 195. In the intro, an experiment, playing some CC-licensed and interesting music instead of the usual theme music. This week's security alerts are executing attack code via the ldd utility and a former anti-virus research seemingly turn This is news cast 195. In the intro, an experiment, playing some CC-licensed and interesting music instead of the usual theme music. This week's security alerts are executing attack code via the ldd utility and a former anti-virus research seemingly turning against the industry. In this week's news in search of a truly open smart phone, an open protocol for aggregating comments, industry releases its first open source voting system which includes all of the sources for recording and management, and a startup produces the first 100-core processor. Following up this week Mandelson is still pushing for three strikes in the UK and unlikely opponents, law enforcers. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-10-28 Inner Chapter: Perfection and Compromise (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/10/28/perfection_compromise/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro, two books that just launched that I want to recommend to you, J.C. Hutchins' "7th Son: Descent" is now in print and Cory Doctorow's "MAKERS" was released today. Additionally, J.C. has offered to give away three signed copies of his book to listeners. Send a note to 7thSonNovel at gmail dot com with the subject line, "cmdln sent me", and the phrase, "Kilroy 2.0 is everywhere", and your mailing address in the body. J.C. will draw three lucky winners on November 6th so get your emails in now.

There is no listener feedback this week.

The hacker word of the week this week is epsilon squared.

The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the subject of perfection and compromise.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:58:25 -0400 tclp-20091028-inner-chapter-perfection-and-comp This is a feature cast. In the intro, two books that just launched that I want to recommend to you, J.C. Hutchins' "7th Son: Descent" is now in print and Cory Doctorow's "MAKERS" was released today. Additionally, J.C. has offered to give away three signe This is a feature cast. In the intro, two books that just launched that I want to recommend to you, J.C. Hutchins' "7th Son: Descent" is now in print and Cory Doctorow's "MAKERS" was released today. Additionally, J.C. has offered to give away three signed copies of his book to listeners. Send a note to 7thSonNovel at gmail dot com with the subject line, "cmdln sent me", and the phrase, "Kilroy 2.0 is everywhere", and your mailing address in the body. J.C. will draw three lucky winners on November 6th so get your emails in now. There is no listener feedback this week. The hacker word of the week this week is epsilon squared. The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the subject of perfection and compromise. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-10-25 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/10/25/news_194/ This is news cast 194.

In the intro, a quick reminder about tomorrow night's CopyNight here in DC.

This week's security alerts are the "evil maid" attack on encrypted disks and first impressions of security in Google Wave.

In this week's news considering the punk in steampunk which echoes a rant of mine, a plan for an open web of books, leaked voting machine code reveals a vendor's blunders, and new research into massively dense info storage.

Following up this week raising concerns over jurisdiction and enforcement in the FCC's net neutrality plan and a House bill was introduced to curtail the PATRIOT Act during its consideration for renewal.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:25:09 -0400 tclp-20091025-news This is news cast 194. In the intro, a quick reminder about tomorrow night's CopyNight here in DC. This week's security alerts are the "evil maid" attack on encrypted disks and first impressions of security in Google Wave. In this week's news considering This is news cast 194. In the intro, a quick reminder about tomorrow night's CopyNight here in DC. This week's security alerts are the "evil maid" attack on encrypted disks and first impressions of security in Google Wave. In this week's news considering the punk in steampunk which echoes a rant of mine, a plan for an open web of books, leaked voting machine code reveals a vendor's blunders, and new research into massively dense info storage. Following up this week raising concerns over jurisdiction and enforcement in the FCC's net neutrality plan and a House bill was introduced to curtail the PATRIOT Act during its consideration for renewal. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-10-21 Interview: Randal Schwartz (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/10/21/randal_schwartz/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro, letting you know that part one of a two part interview with me is up at the Life after Law School podcast.

There is no listener feedback this week.

Due to the length of the feature, there is no hacker word of the week this week.

The feature this week is an interview with Randal Schwartz. I first met Randal through his talk on his experience being snared under one of the problematic computer fraud and abuse laws. We don't discuss that topic in the interview but if you are curious, he recommends his appearance on the Security Catalyst podcast and his interview with Stephen Euin Cobb on the Future and You. Randal also mentions the Squeak by Example book in the interview which is available as a free electronic edition and a print-on-demand edition. You can also hear Randal on the excellent FLOSS Weekly podcast which I also recommend for its consistently superb coverage of free software and open source projects of all varieties.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:09:26 -0400 tclp-20091021-interview-randal-schwartz-commen This is a feature cast. In the intro, letting you know that part one of a two part interview with me is up at the Life after Law School podcast. There is no listener feedback this week. Due to the length of the feature, there is no hacker word of the wee This is a feature cast. In the intro, letting you know that part one of a two part interview with me is up at the Life after Law School podcast. There is no listener feedback this week. Due to the length of the feature, there is no hacker word of the week this week. The feature this week is an interview with Randal Schwartz. I first met Randal through his talk on his experience being snared under one of the problematic computer fraud and abuse laws. We don't discuss that topic in the interview but if you are curious, he recommends his appearance on the Security Catalyst podcast and his interview with Stephen Euin Cobb on the Future and You. Randal also mentions the Squeak by Example book in the interview which is available as a free electronic edition and a print-on-demand edition. You can also hear Randal on the excellent FLOSS Weekly podcast which I also recommend for its consistently superb coverage of free software and open source projects of all varieties. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-10-18 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/10/18/news_193/ This is news cast 193.

In the intro, my initial impressions of Google's Wave. You can find me there as cmdln dot net at googlewave dot com. I have also stared public Waves which you are welcome to join for the DC area CopyNight and for this podcast.

This week's security alerts are figuring out whether Facebook apps are safe and Microsoft's un-invited Firefox add-on has a vulnerability though Mozilla has acted to disable it for everyone.

In this week's news Professor Lessig's provocative piece on naked transparency as inspired by Brandeis and some thoughtful responses, why Charlies Stross doesn't like Star Trek, a fundamental limit on the speed of computation, and working on a recommendation and plan for an open repository of the text of US law.

Following up this week 42 people gain access under NDA to the ACTA drafts.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:59:30 -0400 tclp-20091018-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 193. In the intro, my initial impressions of Google's Wave. You can find me there as cmdln dot net at googlewave dot com. I have also stared public Waves which you are welcome to join for the DC area CopyNight and for this podcast. This This is news cast 193. In the intro, my initial impressions of Google's Wave. You can find me there as cmdln dot net at googlewave dot com. I have also stared public Waves which you are welcome to join for the DC area CopyNight and for this podcast. This week's security alerts are figuring out whether Facebook apps are safe and Microsoft's un-invited Firefox add-on has a vulnerability though Mozilla has acted to disable it for everyone. In this week's news Professor Lessig's provocative piece on naked transparency as inspired by Brandeis and some thoughtful responses, why Charlies Stross doesn't like Star Trek, a fundamental limit on the speed of computation, and working on a recommendation and plan for an open repository of the text of US law. Following up this week 42 people gain access under NDA to the ACTA drafts. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-10-14 Rant: My Love-Hate Relationship with CS (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/10/14/love_hate_cs/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro, I mention two upcoming events you might like to check out. The first is OggCamp and the second is the Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference.

Listener feedback this week is from Kaity and from Erwin.

The hacker word of the week this week is epsilon .

The feature this week is a rant trying to explain my odd, love-hate relationship with computer science.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:22:14 -0400 tclp-20091014-rant-my-lovehate-relationship-wi This is a feature cast. In the intro, I mention two upcoming events you might like to check out. The first is OggCamp and the second is the Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference. Listener feedback this week is from Kaity and from Erwin. The hacker This is a feature cast. In the intro, I mention two upcoming events you might like to check out. The first is OggCamp and the second is the Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference. Listener feedback this week is from Kaity and from Erwin. The hacker word of the week this week is epsilon . The feature this week is a rant trying to explain my odd, love-hate relationship with computer science. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-10-11 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/10/11/news_192/ This is news cast 192.

In the intro, some information on a new conference, ConFoo.ca, being held in Montreal in March of next year. I will be adding this to my list for consideration as well as submitting for the CFP if I decide to go.

This week's security alerts are researchers hijack a botnet to study drive-by attacks and Comcast to start sending warnings to customers whose PCs are snared in botnets.

In this week's news the first application to make use of the Federal Register's open data, EFF's 2009 Pioneer Award winners, key ruling on the first sale doctrine may be more messy than we'd like, and Patriot Act renewal passes committee almost entirely without reforms.

Following up this week copyright suit over distributing Green Dam and Senate panel to examine sale of Diebold's voting machine division.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:07:51 -0400 tclp-20091011-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 192. In the intro, some information on a new conference, ConFoo.ca, being held in Montreal in March of next year. I will be adding this to my list for consideration as well as submitting for the CFP if I decide to go. This week's securi This is news cast 192. In the intro, some information on a new conference, ConFoo.ca, being held in Montreal in March of next year. I will be adding this to my list for consideration as well as submitting for the CFP if I decide to go. This week's security alerts are researchers hijack a botnet to study drive-by attacks and Comcast to start sending warnings to customers whose PCs are snared in botnets. In this week's news the first application to make use of the Federal Register's open data, EFF's 2009 Pioneer Award winners, key ruling on the first sale doctrine may be more messy than we'd like, and Patriot Act renewal passes committee almost entirely without reforms. Following up this week copyright suit over distributing Green Dam and Senate panel to examine sale of Diebold's voting machine division. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-10-07 Inner Chapter: Personal Advocacy (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/10/07/personal_advocacy/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro, a request that you consider contributing to the Creative Commons 5th annual fundraising campaign.

Listener feedback this week is from Eric who writes with a question about a disclaimer on public domain photos.

The hacker word of the week this week is epoch.

The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on personal advocacy. This was inspired partly by a Coding Horror post and my reaction to it. I relate it to both effecting change and thought leadership which I've discussed previously.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:20:07 -0400 tclp-20091007-inner-chapter-personal-advocacy- This is a feature cast. In the intro, a request that you consider contributing to the Creative Commons 5th annual fundraising campaign. Listener feedback this week is from Eric who writes with a question about a disclaimer on public domain photos. The ha This is a feature cast. In the intro, a request that you consider contributing to the Creative Commons 5th annual fundraising campaign. Listener feedback this week is from Eric who writes with a question about a disclaimer on public domain photos. The hacker word of the week this week is epoch. The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on personal advocacy. This was inspired partly by a Coding Horror post and my reaction to it. I relate it to both effecting change and thought leadership which I've discussed previously. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-09-30 Copyright Panel at D*C 2009 (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/09/30/dc_copyright_09/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro, a correction from Randal on the correct pronunciation of "Kernighan". Also, Gail Martin interviewed me for her podcast, Ghost in the Machine. We chatted about peer media, open content and media advocacy. You can download the interview or subscribe to her feed, she interviews many other fascinating, aspiring authors on her show.

I'm going to push off on listener feedback until next week. Also, no hacker word of the week for the same reason, the length of the feature.

The feature this week is the recording of the "Creative Commons and Legal Issues" panel from the podcasting track at Dragon*Con 2009, otherwise known simply as the copyright panel. I was joined by Thomas Vincent, Randy Chertkow of Beatnik Turtle, and Courtney Lytle Perry. This is the third time Randy and Courtney have joined me for this panel and it was a sheer pleasure. The audio is a little over driven, we were having speaker issues this year, but I think I managed to get things a bit under control.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:17:11 -0400 tclp-20090930-copyright-panel-at-dc-2009-comme This is a feature cast. In the intro, a correction from Randal on the correct pronunciation of "Kernighan". Also, Gail Martin interviewed me for her podcast, Ghost in the Machine. We chatted about peer media, open content and media advocacy. You can down This is a feature cast. In the intro, a correction from Randal on the correct pronunciation of "Kernighan". Also, Gail Martin interviewed me for her podcast, Ghost in the Machine. We chatted about peer media, open content and media advocacy. You can download the interview or subscribe to her feed, she interviews many other fascinating, aspiring authors on her show. I'm going to push off on listener feedback until next week. Also, no hacker word of the week for the same reason, the length of the feature. The feature this week is the recording of the "Creative Commons and Legal Issues" panel from the podcasting track at Dragon*Con 2009, otherwise known simply as the copyright panel. I was joined by Thomas Vincent, Randy Chertkow of Beatnik Turtle, and Courtney Lytle Perry. This is the third time Randy and Courtney have joined me for this panel and it was a sheer pleasure. The audio is a little over driven, we were having speaker issues this year, but I think I managed to get things a bit under control. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-09-27 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/09/27/news_191/ This is news cast 191.

In the intro, a reminder that this month's CopyNight here in DC is tomorrow night, at 6:30PM at the Teaism in Penn Quarter. The discussion will at least include the Google Books settlement and the FCC rules on network neutrality and more besides no doubt.

This week's security alerts are AES explained by stick figures and bounties on infected Macs.

In this week's news FCC chair calls for rules on network neutrality including early challenges and resistance and a web site detailing the details as the rules will be implemented, Netflix second release of anonymized data could be a privacy disaster, re-booting the book which at least partly continues Clive Thomson's consideration of the future of reading, and duct tape programmers.

Following up this week authors and other plaintiffs ask for a delay in the Google Books settlement which is granted and the French Senate passes an amended three strikes law though it still requires debate and passage by the National Assembly.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:19:12 -0400 tclp-20090927-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 191. In the intro, a reminder that this month's CopyNight here in DC is tomorrow night, at 6:30PM at the Teaism in Penn Quarter. The discussion will at least include the Google Books settlement and the FCC rules on network neutrality an This is news cast 191. In the intro, a reminder that this month's CopyNight here in DC is tomorrow night, at 6:30PM at the Teaism in Penn Quarter. The discussion will at least include the Google Books settlement and the FCC rules on network neutrality and more besides no doubt. This week's security alerts are AES explained by stick figures and bounties on infected Macs. In this week's news FCC chair calls for rules on network neutrality including early challenges and resistance and a web site detailing the details as the rules will be implemented, Netflix second release of anonymized data could be a privacy disaster, re-booting the book which at least partly continues Clive Thomson's consideration of the future of reading, and duct tape programmers. Following up this week authors and other plaintiffs ask for a delay in the Google Books settlement which is granted and the French Senate passes an amended three strikes law though it still requires debate and passage by the National Assembly. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-09-23 Importance of Open Formats (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/09/23/open_formats/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro, letting you know my interview with the ladies of Podioracket is now available. We discuss my recently released podiobook, a collection of the first set of Inner Chapters essays I produced for this very podcast. I also wanted to mention my last guest appearance before this one, in episode 24 of The Secret Lair podcast (because I am embarrassed to admit I think I forgot to mention it at that time).

Listener feedback this week is a voice mail from Jed in response to my discussion of the Vanish project discussed in the September 13th news cast.

The hacker word of the week this week is EOU.

The feature this week is the recording I took of my talk on the importance of open formats at the local Software Freedom Day celebration.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:56:42 -0400 tclp-20090923-important-of-open-formats-comment This is a feature cast. In the intro, letting you know my interview with the ladies of Podioracket is now available. We discuss my recently released podiobook, a collection of the first set of Inner Chapters essays I produced for this very podcast. I als This is a feature cast. In the intro, letting you know my interview with the ladies of Podioracket is now available. We discuss my recently released podiobook, a collection of the first set of Inner Chapters essays I produced for this very podcast. I also wanted to mention my last guest appearance before this one, in episode 24 of The Secret Lair podcast (because I am embarrassed to admit I think I forgot to mention it at that time). Listener feedback this week is a voice mail from Jed in response to my discussion of the Vanish project discussed in the September 13th news cast. The hacker word of the week this week is EOU. The feature this week is the recording I took of my talk on the importance of open formats at the local Software Freedom Day celebration. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-09-16 Hacking 101: Golden Hammer Syndrome (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/09/16/golden_hammer/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro, a request that you consider making a sustaining donation to your favorite free software project or open content producer, whether or not that happens to be me. The thought was inspired by my finally adding a recurring donation button to my web site.

Also, a clarification in case there was any confusion. My talk for the local Software Freedom Day is at 11:30, the event starts at 10:30 in the computer lab at the Miller Branch of the Howard County Library. The schedule of talks is now available online.

Listener feedback this week (catching up) comes from Paul Fischer who writes in response to the August 23rd show, specifically to the stories about Menuet and cracking the SecurID token.

The hacker word of the week this week is ENQ.

The feature this week is a Hacking 101 on the subject of Golden Hammer Syndrome, something all beginning hackers need to beware of.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:52:09 -0400 tclp-20090916-hacking-101-golden-hammer-syndrom This is a feature cast. In the intro, a request that you consider making a sustaining donation to your favorite free software project or open content producer, whether or not that happens to be me. The thought was inspired by my finally adding a recurrin This is a feature cast. In the intro, a request that you consider making a sustaining donation to your favorite free software project or open content producer, whether or not that happens to be me. The thought was inspired by my finally adding a recurring donation button to my web site. Also, a clarification in case there was any confusion. My talk for the local Software Freedom Day is at 11:30, the event starts at 10:30 in the computer lab at the Miller Branch of the Howard County Library. The schedule of talks is now available online. Listener feedback this week (catching up) comes from Paul Fischer who writes in response to the August 23rd show, specifically to the stories about Menuet and cracking the SecurID token. The hacker word of the week this week is ENQ. The feature this week is a Hacking 101 on the subject of Golden Hammer Syndrome, something all beginning hackers need to beware of. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-09-13 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/09/13/news_190/ This is news cast 190.

In the intro, a reminder I will be speaking at the Maryland Ubuntu Loco for Software Freedom Day on the 19th. That will be at the Miller Branch of the Howard County Library. You can visit that second link to find an event in your area or to register to host your own.

I also share a few thoughts on my experiences at this year's Dragon*Con including a round of thanks. First, thanks to my follow volunteers: Swoopy, Sam Chupp, Laura Ross, Andrew Wilson, Kreg Steppe and Jonathan Strickland. A special thanks to my room mates for the weekend, the hosts of Technorama, Chuck Tomasi and Kreg Steppe. There wasn't time to thank them in the intro but I also wanted to thank my friends Chooch and Viv (of the COH Podcast and Into the Blender) who dragged me away from the podcast track to make sure I ate, saw the rest of the con and socialized (mostly with them and their own room mates, P.G. Holyfield and Patrick McLean.)

I documented my experiences at the con extensively on the blog and may still try to sum up my experiences for this year, beyond just that journal of events.

This week's security alerts are Windows 7 restores a vintage remote BSoD and researchers discover the first Linux web server based botnet.

In this week's news emulating scarce property in an attempt to improve on DRM, Boyle's thoughts on the copyright black hole and the Google Books settlement, why motivation may matter to artificial intelligence which reminds me of my own ruminations on love, sex and artificial intelligence, and reliable remote file deletion in the cloud.

Following up this week just i4i's side of the story about its patent claims against Microsoft.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:56:26 -0400 tclp-20090913-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 190. In the intro, a reminder I will be speaking at the Maryland Ubuntu Loco for Software Freedom Day on the 19th. That will be at the Miller Branch of the Howard County Library. You can visit that second link to find an event in your a This is news cast 190. In the intro, a reminder I will be speaking at the Maryland Ubuntu Loco for Software Freedom Day on the 19th. That will be at the Miller Branch of the Howard County Library. You can visit that second link to find an event in your area or to register to host your own. I also share a few thoughts on my experiences at this year's Dragon*Con including a round of thanks. First, thanks to my follow volunteers: Swoopy, Sam Chupp, Laura Ross, Andrew Wilson, Kreg Steppe and Jonathan Strickland. A special thanks to my room mates for the weekend, the hosts of Technorama, Chuck Tomasi and Kreg Steppe. There wasn't time to thank them in the intro but I also wanted to thank my friends Chooch and Viv (of the COH Podcast and Into the Blender) who dragged me away from the podcast track to make sure I ate, saw the rest of the con and socialized (mostly with them and their own room mates, P.G. Holyfield and Patrick McLean.) I documented my experiences at the con extensively on the blog and may still try to sum up my experiences for this year, beyond just that journal of events. This week's security alerts are Windows 7 restores a vintage remote BSoD and researchers discover the first Linux web server based botnet. In this week's news emulating scarce property in an attempt to improve on DRM, Boyle's thoughts on the copyright black hole and the Google Books settlement, why motivation may matter to artificial intelligence which reminds me of my own ruminations on love, sex and artificial intelligence, and reliable remote file deletion in the cloud. Following up this week just i4i's side of the story about its patent claims against Microsoft. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-09-09 Interview: Beatnik Turtle (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/09/09/beatnik_turtle3/ This is a feature cast.

No hacker word of the week because of the length of the feature. Also, though I have some listener feedback, I am saving it until next Wednesday for the same reason.

The feature this week is an interview with Beatnik Turtle, actually just Randy Chertkow, one of the band's members. Although there is no just about Randy if you've listened to the past two (Two! It's a tradition now!) interviews with members of the band.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:18:01 -0400 tclp-20090909-interview-beatnik-turtle-comment This is a feature cast. No hacker word of the week because of the length of the feature. Also, though I have some listener feedback, I am saving it until next Wednesday for the same reason. The feature this week is an interview with Beatnik Turtle, actua This is a feature cast. No hacker word of the week because of the length of the feature. Also, though I have some listener feedback, I am saving it until next Wednesday for the same reason. The feature this week is an interview with Beatnik Turtle, actually just Randy Chertkow, one of the band's members. Although there is no just about Randy if you've listened to the past two (Two! It's a tradition now!) interviews with members of the band. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-08-30 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/08/30/news_189/ This is news cast 189.

In the intro, the final reminder I will be at Dragon*Con over Labor Day weekend. No show on the 2nd or the 6th.

This week's security alerts are an application the exposes how insecure the Facebook apps are building on prio warnings from the ACLU though Facebook has already promised to change its policies to address the issue and a so-called 60 second crack of WPA.

In this week's news a new rapid application development tool for Linux building on past efforts to make development more accessible, James Boyle considers what IP law should learn from software, after last year's FCC ruling allowing them new technical specs for white space devices start to emerge, and using anti-ferromagnetism to potentially speed disk writes.

Following up this week Nina Paley shares some positive economic data on sharing her work openly and Mozilla launches Test Swarm.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:51:08 -0400 tclp-20090830-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 189. In the intro, the final reminder I will be at Dragon*Con over Labor Day weekend. No show on the 2nd or the 6th. This week's security alerts are an application the exposes how insecure the Facebook apps are building on prio warnings This is news cast 189. In the intro, the final reminder I will be at Dragon*Con over Labor Day weekend. No show on the 2nd or the 6th. This week's security alerts are an application the exposes how insecure the Facebook apps are building on prio warnings from the ACLU though Facebook has already promised to change its policies to address the issue and a so-called 60 second crack of WPA. In this week's news a new rapid application development tool for Linux building on past efforts to make development more accessible, James Boyle considers what IP law should learn from software, after last year's FCC ruling allowing them new technical specs for white space devices start to emerge, and using anti-ferromagnetism to potentially speed disk writes. Following up this week Nina Paley shares some positive economic data on sharing her work openly and Mozilla launches Test Swarm. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-08-26 Embracing Fair Use (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/08/26/embracing_fair_use/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro a quick review of the file, "Sita Sings the Blues", by Nina Paley.

The hacker word of the week this week is enhancement.

The feature this week is a monologue on embracing fair use. Here's the promised links defining fair use and fair use for trademarks. I mention Open Media Review and The Arbiter Chronicles.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:33:51 -0400 tclp-20090826-embracing-fair-use This is a feature cast. In the intro a quick review of the file, "Sita Sings the Blues", by Nina Paley. The hacker word of the week this week is enhancement. The feature this week is a monologue on embracing fair use. Here's the promised links defining f This is a feature cast. In the intro a quick review of the file, "Sita Sings the Blues", by Nina Paley. The hacker word of the week this week is enhancement. The feature this week is a monologue on embracing fair use. Here's the promised links defining fair use and fair use for trademarks. I mention Open Media Review and The Arbiter Chronicles. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-08-23 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/08/23/news_188/ This is news cast 188.

In the intro, I will be speaking at the Maryland gathering for Software Freedom Day on September 19th. More details after Dragon*Con.

This week's security alerts are new research to predict online attacks and cracking real time ID generators.

In this week's news new research into nanoscale lasers using surface plasmons to break the previous scale limits with some more good technical detail in Ars' coverage, an excellent discussion of transformative works, URL shortening service Tr.im cheats death by opening its source and its data, and an operating system programmed in assembly.

Following up this week i4i confirms OpenOffice doesn't violate its patent and Nina Paley shares the source files to her wonderful open content work "Sita Sings the Blues".

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:23:42 -0400 tclp-20090823-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 188. In the intro, I will be speaking at the Maryland gathering for Software Freedom Day on September 19th. More details after Dragon*Con. This week's security alerts are new research to predict online attacks and cracking real time ID This is news cast 188. In the intro, I will be speaking at the Maryland gathering for Software Freedom Day on September 19th. More details after Dragon*Con. This week's security alerts are new research to predict online attacks and cracking real time ID generators. In this week's news new research into nanoscale lasers using surface plasmons to break the previous scale limits with some more good technical detail in Ars' coverage, an excellent discussion of transformative works, URL shortening service Tr.im cheats death by opening its source and its data, and an operating system programmed in assembly. Following up this week i4i confirms OpenOffice doesn't violate its patent and Nina Paley shares the source files to her wonderful open content work "Sita Sings the Blues". More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-08-19 Rant: Owning Innovation (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/08/19/owning_innovation/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro a quick review of the movie, District 9.

The hacker word of the week this week is engine.

The feature this week is a rant on owning innovation. In it I mention VoloMedia claiming to have the patent on podcasting including their own words on the matter, Iain Bank's publisher claiming first podcast novel, Christiana Ellis wins the preposterous claims contest that followed on Twitter, the Creative Commons and the Free Idea eXchange.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:27:42 -0400 tclp-20090819-rant-owning-innovation-comment-l This is a feature cast. In the intro a quick review of the movie, District 9. The hacker word of the week this week is engine. The feature this week is a rant on owning innovation. In it I mention VoloMedia claiming to have the patent on podcasting inclu This is a feature cast. In the intro a quick review of the movie, District 9. The hacker word of the week this week is engine. The feature this week is a rant on owning innovation. In it I mention VoloMedia claiming to have the patent on podcasting including their own words on the matter, Iain Bank's publisher claiming first podcast novel, Christiana Ellis wins the preposterous claims contest that followed on Twitter, the Creative Commons and the Free Idea eXchange. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-08-16 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/08/16/news_187/ This is news cast 187.

In the intro, a quick reminder I will be at Dragon*Con September 4 through 7. My schedule is already on my Google calendar and will be updated as I learn more.

This week's security alerts are self enforcing protocols and RSA threatens trademark infringment over a security disclosure.

In this week's news super critical fluids may fuel future chip miniaturization, Twitter outages have folks considering the future of micro blogging, judge rules against Real in its DMCA suit though confusion remains on her remarks about fair use, and an XML patent ruling could have implications for open file formats.

Following up this week researchers demonstrate that attacks on voting systems are practical without any special knowledge and the latest on the Supreme Court appeal of Bilski.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:47:29 -0400 tclp-20090816-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 187. In the intro, a quick reminder I will be at Dragon*Con September 4 through 7. My schedule is already on my Google calendar and will be updated as I learn more. This week's security alerts are self enforcing protocols and RSA threat This is news cast 187. In the intro, a quick reminder I will be at Dragon*Con September 4 through 7. My schedule is already on my Google calendar and will be updated as I learn more. This week's security alerts are self enforcing protocols and RSA threatens trademark infringment over a security disclosure. In this week's news super critical fluids may fuel future chip miniaturization, Twitter outages have folks considering the future of micro blogging, judge rules against Real in its DMCA suit though confusion remains on her remarks about fair use, and an XML patent ruling could have implications for open file formats. Following up this week researchers demonstrate that attacks on voting systems are practical without any special knowledge and the latest on the Supreme Court appeal of Bilski. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-08-12 Inner Chapter: Thought Leadership (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/08/12/thought_leadership/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro a mention that I will be at Dragon*Con September 4-7. My speaking commitments are on my Google calendar, otherwise I will be volunteering. If anyone else is attending or in the area and wants to have a meet up, let me know.

Lots of listener feedback this week, so no hacker word of the week. Nido Media writes with a question about the phrase "reader's note" which I use occasionally in the hacker words of the week segments. Jed Reynolds and Jonas write in about my rant on software frameworks. Jonas recommends the Herding Code Podcast #56. Nah tass

The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on thought leadership.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:19:03 -0400 tclp-20090812-inner-chapter-thought-leadership This is a feature cast. In the intro a mention that I will be at Dragon*Con September 4-7. My speaking commitments are on my Google calendar, otherwise I will be volunteering. If anyone else is attending or in the area and wants to have a meet up, let me This is a feature cast. In the intro a mention that I will be at Dragon*Con September 4-7. My speaking commitments are on my Google calendar, otherwise I will be volunteering. If anyone else is attending or in the area and wants to have a meet up, let me know. Lots of listener feedback this week, so no hacker word of the week. Nido Media writes with a question about the phrase "reader's note" which I use occasionally in the hacker words of the week segments. Jed Reynolds and Jonas write in about my rant on software frameworks. Jonas recommends the Herding Code Podcast #56. Nah tass The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on thought leadership. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-08-09 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/08/09/news_186/ This is news cast 186.

In the intro, an update on the state of the podiobook project.

This week's security alerts are a persistent attack through the firmware in new Mac keyboards and many XML libraries share common critical flaws.

In this week's news small telcos and ISPs are making up the gap in fiber rollouts to rural areas, consumer friendly music services drop features to maintain uneasy alliance with big content, considering with Google's support of open source has patent defense implications a theory that builds on previous suggestions along these lines, and Microsoft finally joins the discussion of the HMTL5 standard with some further details of what that means.

Following up this week a new network neutrality bill has been introduced and the EFF's analysis of potential outcomes for the Kindle class action suit.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:24:56 -0400 tclp-20090809-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 186. In the intro, an update on the state of the podiobook project. This week's security alerts are a persistent attack through the firmware in new Mac keyboards and many XML libraries share common critical flaws. In this week's news sm This is news cast 186. In the intro, an update on the state of the podiobook project. This week's security alerts are a persistent attack through the firmware in new Mac keyboards and many XML libraries share common critical flaws. In this week's news small telcos and ISPs are making up the gap in fiber rollouts to rural areas, consumer friendly music services drop features to maintain uneasy alliance with big content, considering with Google's support of open source has patent defense implications a theory that builds on previous suggestions along these lines, and Microsoft finally joins the discussion of the HMTL5 standard with some further details of what that means. Following up this week a new network neutrality bill has been introduced and the EFF's analysis of potential outcomes for the Kindle class action suit. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-08-05 Rant: Software Frameworks (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/08/05/frameworks/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro just sharing the news that my podiobook has been released. You can visit the new page for The Inner Chapters for details on how you can help promote it.

The hacker word of the week this week is email.

The feature this week is a rant on software frameworks.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:09:23 -0400 tclp-20090805-rant-software-frameworks-comment This is a feature cast. In the intro just sharing the news that my podiobook has been released. You can visit the new page for The Inner Chapters for details on how you can help promote it. The hacker word of the week this week is email. The feature this This is a feature cast. In the intro just sharing the news that my podiobook has been released. You can visit the new page for The Inner Chapters for details on how you can help promote it. The hacker word of the week this week is email. The feature this week is a rant on software frameworks. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-07-29 Inner Chapter: Tradition (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/07/29/tradition/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro a heads up that there will be no news cast this weekend. And a bit of a mini rant and news discussion of the announcement of the awarding of a patent for podcasting. Dave Winer's blog, not surprisingly, has the details as well as a pretty strong claim that he has prior art.

Listener Feedback this week comes from Randal Schwartz who adds some good explanation to my coverage of the OSFA announcement for the last news cast. Randal also points out an organization with which he works, LinuxFund, is a member of OSFA and worth your consideration for causes to help.

The hacker word of the week this week is EMACS.

The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on tradition.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:21:11 -0400 tclp-20090729-inner-chapter-tradition This is a feature cast. In the intro a heads up that there will be no news cast this weekend. And a bit of a mini rant and news discussion of the announcement of the awarding of a patent for podcasting. Dave Winer's blog, not surprisingly, has the detail This is a feature cast. In the intro a heads up that there will be no news cast this weekend. And a bit of a mini rant and news discussion of the announcement of the awarding of a patent for podcasting. Dave Winer's blog, not surprisingly, has the details as well as a pretty strong claim that he has prior art. Listener Feedback this week comes from Randal Schwartz who adds some good explanation to my coverage of the OSFA announcement for the last news cast. Randal also points out an organization with which he works, LinuxFund, is a member of OSFA and worth your consideration for causes to help. The hacker word of the week this week is EMACS. The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on tradition. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-07-26 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/07/26/news_185/ This is news cast 185.

In the intro, an update on the state of the podiobook project.

This week's security alerts are Mozilla claims a new Firefox 3.5 flaw is not exploitable and a zero day PDF, Flash flaw is being exploited.

In this week's news commenting on an article on the death of software engineering as a discipline by one of its earliest and staunchest advocates, a new coalition to advocate for open source in the federal government, Microsoft releases a driver under the GPL possibly because they were already in violation of that license though they claim otherwise, and Glyn Moody contemplates the productive tension between pragmatist and purists in open source.

Following up this week Bezos personally apologizes for the remote Kindle deletions and GGF is back pedalling on its acquisition of The Pirate Bay.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:22:50 -0400 tclp-20090726-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 185. In the intro, an update on the state of the podiobook project. This week's security alerts are Mozilla claims a new Firefox 3.5 flaw is not exploitable and a zero day PDF, Flash flaw is being exploited. In this week's news commenti This is news cast 185. In the intro, an update on the state of the podiobook project. This week's security alerts are Mozilla claims a new Firefox 3.5 flaw is not exploitable and a zero day PDF, Flash flaw is being exploited. In this week's news commenting on an article on the death of software engineering as a discipline by one of its earliest and staunchest advocates, a new coalition to advocate for open source in the federal government, Microsoft releases a driver under the GPL possibly because they were already in violation of that license though they claim otherwise, and Glyn Moody contemplates the productive tension between pragmatist and purists in open source. Following up this week Bezos personally apologizes for the remote Kindle deletions and GGF is back pedalling on its acquisition of The Pirate Bay. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-07-22 Hacking 101: How to Contribute to Open Source (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/07/22/contribute_to_open_source/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro a heads up that I will be at CopyNight here in DC on Monday the 27th. We're being hosted by the ALA this time, please RSVP as they will be providing refreshments and will need a head count.

The hacker word of the week this week is ELIZA effect

The feature this week is a Hacking 101 providing some advice and ideas for how to contribute to your first open source project.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:07:05 -0400 tclp-20090715-hacking-101-how-to-contribute-to This is a feature cast. In the intro a heads up that I will be at CopyNight here in DC on Monday the 27th. We're being hosted by the ALA this time, please RSVP as they will be providing refreshments and will need a head count. The hacker word of the week This is a feature cast. In the intro a heads up that I will be at CopyNight here in DC on Monday the 27th. We're being hosted by the ALA this time, please RSVP as they will be providing refreshments and will need a head count. The hacker word of the week this week is ELIZA effect The feature this week is a Hacking 101 providing some advice and ideas for how to contribute to your first open source project. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-07-19 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/07/19/news_184/ This is news cast 184.

In the intro, an update on the state of the podiobook project.

This week's security alert is a critical flaw in Firefox 3.5 for which there is already an exploit. Thankfully, there is also already a fix.

In this week's news a new free and open source software law journal, an Ignite talk on hackers in DC, new technology to update a running Linux kernel without restarting, and Amazon remote deletes unathorized editions remotely from Kindles.

Following up this week the state of Neuros' set top box (I'm also a big fan of their Unlocked mark which folks are free to use) and details on GGF's plan for The Pirate Bay site.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:08:02 -0400 tclp-20090719-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 184. In the intro, an update on the state of the podiobook project. This week's security alert is a critical flaw in Firefox 3.5 for which there is already an exploit. Thankfully, there is also already a fix. In this week's news a new f This is news cast 184. In the intro, an update on the state of the podiobook project. This week's security alert is a critical flaw in Firefox 3.5 for which there is already an exploit. Thankfully, there is also already a fix. In this week's news a new free and open source software law journal, an Ignite talk on hackers in DC, new technology to update a running Linux kernel without restarting, and Amazon remote deletes unathorized editions remotely from Kindles. Following up this week the state of Neuros' set top box (I'm also a big fan of their Unlocked mark which folks are free to use) and details on GGF's plan for The Pirate Bay site. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-07-15 Inner Chapter: Focus (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/07/15/focus/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro a quick review of the family friendly game, Qwirkle.

Listener Feedback this week comes from Marc who commented on the new Inner Chapter theme music and Dave who commented on the Inner Chapter of the role of leader as law giver.

The hacker word of the week this week is elite

The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on focus. This builds on my previous chapters on will and yak shaving.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:47:51 -0400 tclp-20090715-inner-chapter-focus-comment-line This is a feature cast. In the intro a quick review of the family friendly game, Qwirkle. Listener Feedback this week comes from Marc who commented on the new Inner Chapter theme music and Dave who commented on the Inner Chapter of the role of leader as This is a feature cast. In the intro a quick review of the family friendly game, Qwirkle. Listener Feedback this week comes from Marc who commented on the new Inner Chapter theme music and Dave who commented on the Inner Chapter of the role of leader as law giver. The hacker word of the week this week is elite The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on focus. This builds on my previous chapters on will and yak shaving. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-07-12 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/07/12/news_183/ This is news cast 183.

In the intro, an update on the state of the podiobook and unbook projects.

This week's security alert is new research allows better than random guessing of SSNs.

In this week's news the big story is Google announcing its own operating system. Ars has some good detail on the challenges and potential up side. Also in the news decoding the HTML5 video codec debate and Chris Anderson considering how to manage technology for abundance.

Following up this week SoundExchange and the webcasters reach and agreement but it definitely isn't all it is cracked up to be.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:19:34 -0400 tclp-20090712-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 183. In the intro, an update on the state of the podiobook and unbook projects. This week's security alert is new research allows better than random guessing of SSNs. In this week's news the big story is Google announcing its own operat This is news cast 183. In the intro, an update on the state of the podiobook and unbook projects. This week's security alert is new research allows better than random guessing of SSNs. In this week's news the big story is Google announcing its own operating system. Ars has some good detail on the challenges and potential up side. Also in the news decoding the HTML5 video codec debate and Chris Anderson considering how to manage technology for abundance. Following up this week SoundExchange and the webcasters reach and agreement but it definitely isn't all it is cracked up to be. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-07-08 Inner Chapter: Leader as Law Giver (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/07/08/leader_as_law_giver/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro a quick review of the family friendly game, Cheeky Monkey.

Listener Feedback this week comes from Philip Durbin who writes about using frameworks to help manage code complexity and Gladwell's review of Anderson's new book, "Free".

The hacker word of the week this week is elephantine.

The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on when a leader must act as law giver. This builds on my previous chapter on leadership.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:42:12 -0400 tclp-20090708-inner-chapter-leader-as-law-giver This is a feature cast. In the intro a quick review of the family friendly game, Cheeky Monkey. Listener Feedback this week comes from Philip Durbin who writes about using frameworks to help manage code complexity and Gladwell's review of Anderson's new This is a feature cast. In the intro a quick review of the family friendly game, Cheeky Monkey. Listener Feedback this week comes from Philip Durbin who writes about using frameworks to help manage code complexity and Gladwell's review of Anderson's new book, "Free". The hacker word of the week this week is elephantine. The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on when a leader must act as law giver. This builds on my previous chapter on leadership. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-07-05 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/07/05/news_182/ This is news cast 182.

In the intro, a reflection on liberty, in honor of the Holiday this weekend in the US.

This week's security alerts are a a new form of click fraud and a new attack on the AES encryption algorithm .

In this week's news the big story is that of The Pirate Bay selling its web site. Both the crew and the buyer have issued statements. The site has also undergone some technical changes in its operation. This has also raised interesting questions around who owns the site with some surprising new information. Also in the news BPI thinks better of having pursued Napster and asking whether the hacker ethic is harming programmers.

Following up this week the current state of Blu-ray's DRM and a Linux kernel patch to circumvent patent claims against the FAT filesystem.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:06:52 -0400 tclp-20090705-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 182. In the intro, a reflection on liberty, in honor of the Holiday this weekend in the US. This week's security alerts are a a new form of click fraud and a new attack on the AES encryption algorithm . In this week's news the big story This is news cast 182. In the intro, a reflection on liberty, in honor of the Holiday this weekend in the US. This week's security alerts are a a new form of click fraud and a new attack on the AES encryption algorithm . In this week's news the big story is that of The Pirate Bay selling its web site. Both the crew and the buyer have issued statements. The site has also undergone some technical changes in its operation. This has also raised interesting questions around who owns the site with some surprising new information. Also in the news BPI thinks better of having pursued Napster and asking whether the hacker ethic is harming programmers. Following up this week the current state of Blu-ray's DRM and a Linux kernel patch to circumvent patent claims against the FAT filesystem. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-07-01 Ideas vs. Execution (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/07/01/ideas_execution/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro a discussion of my recently started podiobook and unbook projects. I just wrote this up for the blog, too.

Listener feedback this week is from Thomas Vincent with some more info on the USTR including the only story he could find on the current appointee, rglog on Twitter asking about the privacy risk of appliancized clients like Hulu Desktop, and Vasking curious about the history and current state of open codecs and HTML5.

The hacker word of the week this week is elegant.

The feature this week is a monologue on ideas vs. execution inspired by the FLOSS Weekly discussing the CouchDB project. I mention the idea-expression dichotomy in copyright and the News from Poughkeepsie blog series by Mur Lafferty.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:43:03 -0400 tclp-20090701-ideas-vs-execution-comment-line This is a feature cast. In the intro a discussion of my recently started podiobook and unbook projects. I just wrote this up for the blog, too. Listener feedback this week is from Thomas Vincent with some more info on the USTR including the only story he This is a feature cast. In the intro a discussion of my recently started podiobook and unbook projects. I just wrote this up for the blog, too. Listener feedback this week is from Thomas Vincent with some more info on the USTR including the only story he could find on the current appointee, rglog on Twitter asking about the privacy risk of appliancized clients like Hulu Desktop, and Vasking curious about the history and current state of open codecs and HTML5. The hacker word of the week this week is elegant. The feature this week is a monologue on ideas vs. execution inspired by the FLOSS Weekly discussing the CouchDB project. I mention the idea-expression dichotomy in copyright and the News from Poughkeepsie blog series by Mur Lafferty. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-06-28 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/06/28/news_181/ This is news cast 181.

In the intro, a discussion of starting a podiobook of the first set of Inner Chapters. More details to come as the project progresses.

This week's security alerts are a new project from Mozilla to help cope with XSS attacks and a security expert urges rewards for disposing of weak, MD5 based SSL certificates.

In this week's news organizing to improve access to the Internet's middle-mile, a consideration of when to use and not use a CC license, a usability guru recommends against using password masking, and IBM claims a privacy breakthrough for cloud computing.

Following up this week could the massive award in the Thomas retrial invite reform around statutory damages? And more on the Chinese mandated filter-ware.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:39:45 -0400 tclp-20090628-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 181. In the intro, a discussion of starting a podiobook of the first set of Inner Chapters. More details to come as the project progresses. This week's security alerts are a new project from Mozilla to help cope with XSS attacks and a s This is news cast 181. In the intro, a discussion of starting a podiobook of the first set of Inner Chapters. More details to come as the project progresses. This week's security alerts are a new project from Mozilla to help cope with XSS attacks and a security expert urges rewards for disposing of weak, MD5 based SSL certificates. In this week's news organizing to improve access to the Internet's middle-mile, a consideration of when to use and not use a CC license, a usability guru recommends against using password masking, and IBM claims a privacy breakthrough for cloud computing. Following up this week could the massive award in the Thomas retrial invite reform around statutory damages? And more on the Chinese mandated filter-ware. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-06-24 4th Anniversary (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/06/24/4th_anniversary/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro the winners of the prize drawing. The personalized copy of J.C. Hutchins' "Personal Effects: Dark Art" goes to Kevin Crosby and the signed galley of Cory Doctorow's "Makers" goes to Jonathan David.

The story submission, in order of receipt and playback, are from Kevin Crosby, Nido Media, Chris Miller, imag1nary number and Jonathan David.

The feature this week is a a monologue on the state of the podcast. I mention the SPaMCast, Fanboyhell, The Secret Lair and Teaching for the Future. I also mention Tee Morris as my role model for public speaking and participation at cons.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:46:27 -0400 tclp-20090624-4th-anniversary This is a feature cast. In the intro the winners of the prize drawing. The personalized copy of J.C. Hutchins' "Personal Effects: Dark Art" goes to Kevin Crosby and the signed galley of Cory Doctorow's "Makers" goes to Jonathan David. The story submissio This is a feature cast. In the intro the winners of the prize drawing. The personalized copy of J.C. Hutchins' "Personal Effects: Dark Art" goes to Kevin Crosby and the signed galley of Cory Doctorow's "Makers" goes to Jonathan David. The story submission, in order of receipt and playback, are from Kevin Crosby, Nido Media, Chris Miller, imag1nary number and Jonathan David. The feature this week is a a monologue on the state of the podcast. I mention the SPaMCast, Fanboyhell, The Secret Lair and Teaching for the Future. I also mention Tee Morris as my role model for public speaking and participation at cons. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-06-17 Hacking 101: Responsibilities and Relationships (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/06/17/responsibilities_relationships/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro sharing my decision to extend the submission deadline for stories for my 4th anniversary show.

Listener feedback this week is from nahtass who writes about the evolution of print on demand, imag1nary_number who writes about a more chilling unintended use of the Chinese PC filter software, and Philip who shares a conversation about open data. The group blog I mentioned in response is autonomo.us.

The hacker word of the week this week is elder days.

The feature this week is a new Hacking 101 piece of approaching design by understanding responsibilities and relationships.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:12:22 -0400 tclp-20090617-hacking-101-responsibilities-and This is a feature cast. In the intro sharing my decision to extend the submission deadline for stories for my 4th anniversary show. Listener feedback this week is from nahtass who writes about the evolution of print on demand, imag1nary_number who writes This is a feature cast. In the intro sharing my decision to extend the submission deadline for stories for my 4th anniversary show. Listener feedback this week is from nahtass who writes about the evolution of print on demand, imag1nary_number who writes about a more chilling unintended use of the Chinese PC filter software, and Philip who shares a conversation about open data. The group blog I mentioned in response is autonomo.us. The hacker word of the week this week is elder days. The feature this week is a new Hacking 101 piece of approaching design by understanding responsibilities and relationships. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-06-14 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/06/14/news_180/ This is news cast 180.

In the intro, yet another reminder to get your submissions in for the upcoming anniversary show and to qualify for one of two amazing prizes: a personalized copy of J.C. Hutchins' and Jordan Weisman's new book, "Personal Effects: Dark Art" or a signed homemade, limited edition galley of Cory Doctorow's forthcoming novel, "Makers". Submissions are due by this Wednesday, the 17th but I may extend the deadline to Friday if folks need more time.

This week's security alerts are new researcher further weakening SHA1 and a JavaScript attack against intranets and VPNs.

In this week's news the Pirate Party in Sweden wins an EU Parliament seat standing by their commitment after failing two years ago, China mandates filtering software on new PCs, a service to help standards tags for categorizing content, and a new low power, cheap to produce memristor further the state of this six month old breakthrough.

Following up this week French three strikes law is gutted and Obama administration commits to ACTA.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:25:19 -0400 tclp-20090614-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 180. In the intro, yet another reminder to get your submissions in for the upcoming anniversary show and to qualify for one of two amazing prizes: a personalized copy of J.C. Hutchins' and Jordan Weisman's new book, "Personal Effects: D This is news cast 180. In the intro, yet another reminder to get your submissions in for the upcoming anniversary show and to qualify for one of two amazing prizes: a personalized copy of J.C. Hutchins' and Jordan Weisman's new book, "Personal Effects: Dark Art" or a signed homemade, limited edition galley of Cory Doctorow's forthcoming novel, "Makers". Submissions are due by this Wednesday, the 17th but I may extend the deadline to Friday if folks need more time. This week's security alerts are new researcher further weakening SHA1 and a JavaScript attack against intranets and VPNs. In this week's news the Pirate Party in Sweden wins an EU Parliament seat standing by their commitment after failing two years ago, China mandates filtering software on new PCs, a service to help standards tags for categorizing content, and a new low power, cheap to produce memristor further the state of this six month old breakthrough. Following up this week French three strikes law is gutted and Obama administration commits to ACTA. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-06-10 Balticon 43: Copyright (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/06/10/balticon43_copyright/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro a correction and a reminder about my upcoming 4th anniversary show.

There is no listener feedback this week. There is also no hacker word of the week due to the length of the feature.

The feature this week is the recording of the Copyright panel at Balticon 43. I was joined by Thomas Vincent, a former congressional staffer and known amongst podcasters for his work on the upcoming Parsec Awards for this year.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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In the intro, a quick review of J.C. Hutchins and Jordan Weisman's new book launching this Tuesday and more details on how you can contribute to my upcoming anniversary show and possibly even win a prize for doing so. Visit J.C.'s site for more details about his work and for the prequel novella he is podcasting for a taste of what to expect in the novel. The reason I am reviewing this book, other than the fact that I am friends with one of the authors, is that Jordan Weisman is a giant in the gaming industry, largely responsible for fleshing out the genre of Alternate Reality Games but going all the way back to table top and RPG games and having worked with video games and some very recognizable franchies. PE:DA includes an ARG that ties in with the very compelling psychological thriller that is the novel itself.

This week's security alerts are a mass drive by injection attack and the .org zone moving forward with DNSSEC.

In this week's news gathering support for native media support in HTML5, Knuth speaks out against software patents, the EFF launches a terms of service change tracker, and a dreaded intellectual monopoly for fashion bill is resurrected including a form you can use to lodge your complaint and even an email address of a House Judiciary Committee member looking for feedback.

Following up this week the Bilksi appeal moves forward and a preview of the Jammie Thomas re-trial.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:58:36 -0400 tclp-20090607-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 179. In the intro, a quick review of J.C. Hutchins and Jordan Weisman's new book launching this Tuesday and more details on how you can contribute to my upcoming anniversary show and possibly even win a prize for doing so. Visit J.C.'s This is news cast 179. In the intro, a quick review of J.C. Hutchins and Jordan Weisman's new book launching this Tuesday and more details on how you can contribute to my upcoming anniversary show and possibly even win a prize for doing so. Visit J.C.'s site for more details about his work and for the prequel novella he is podcasting for a taste of what to expect in the novel. The reason I am reviewing this book, other than the fact that I am friends with one of the authors, is that Jordan Weisman is a giant in the gaming industry, largely responsible for fleshing out the genre of Alternate Reality Games but going all the way back to table top and RPG games and having worked with video games and some very recognizable franchies. PE:DA includes an ARG that ties in with the very compelling psychological thriller that is the novel itself. This week's security alerts are a mass drive by injection attack and the .org zone moving forward with DNSSEC. In this week's news gathering support for native media support in HTML5, Knuth speaks out against software patents, the EFF launches a terms of service change tracker, and a dreaded intellectual monopoly for fashion bill is resurrected including a form you can use to lodge your complaint and even an email address of a House Judiciary Committee member looking for feedback. Following up this week the Bilksi appeal moves forward and a preview of the Jammie Thomas re-trial. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States Lice TCLP 2009-06-03 Balticon 43: Technology, Podcasting's Rocket Fuel (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/06/03/tech_in_podcasting/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro a reminder that the 4th anniversary episode of the show is coming up, June 24th. Please send me any recollections, thoughts, or well wishes you'd like me to share on that show.

There is no listener feedback this week. There is also no hacker word of the week due to the length of the feature.

The feature this week is the recording of the Technology: Podcasting's Rocket Fuel panel at Balticon 43. I was joined by Steve Eley, Jim Van Verth and Chooch Schubert.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:26:51 -0400 tclp-20090603-balticon-43-technology-podcastin This is a feature cast. In the intro a reminder that the 4th anniversary episode of the show is coming up, June 24th. Please send me any recollections, thoughts, or well wishes you'd like me to share on that show. There is no listener feedback this week. This is a feature cast. In the intro a reminder that the 4th anniversary episode of the show is coming up, June 24th. Please send me any recollections, thoughts, or well wishes you'd like me to share on that show. There is no listener feedback this week. There is also no hacker word of the week due to the length of the feature. The feature this week is the recording of the Technology: Podcasting's Rocket Fuel panel at Balticon 43. I was joined by Steve Eley, Jim Van Verth and Chooch Schubert. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-05-31 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/05/31/news_178/ This is news cast 178.

In the intro, a reminder that the show's 4th anniversary is coming up. The June 24th feature cast will be the anniversary show. Send in your recollections of the past four years or anything else you want to share to celebrate.

This week's security alerts are research demonstrating that the Twitter API is not equipped to handled the coming security threats and a dangerous vulnerability in DirectX with an in the wild exploit.

In this week's news research on a new type of memory that could last one billion years solving at least one problem discussed in a recent Spark episode, the EFF launches a new educational effort around copyright, Google re-invents online communications, and Wikipedia bans the Church of Scientology.

Following up this week another new wrinkle in the already fascinating Pirate Bay case and judge threatens sanctions in the NSA wiretap case.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2009 18:42:41 -0400 tclp-20090531-news This is news cast 178. In the intro, a reminder that the show's 4th anniversary is coming up. The June 24th feature cast will be the anniversary show. Send in your recollections of the past four years or anything else you want to share to celebrate. This This is news cast 178. In the intro, a reminder that the show's 4th anniversary is coming up. The June 24th feature cast will be the anniversary show. Send in your recollections of the past four years or anything else you want to share to celebrate. This week's security alerts are research demonstrating that the Twitter API is not equipped to handled the coming security threats and a dangerous vulnerability in DirectX with an in the wild exploit. In this week's news research on a new type of memory that could last one billion years solving at least one problem discussed in a recent Spark episode, the EFF launches a new educational effort around copyright, Google re-invents online communications, and Wikipedia bans the Church of Scientology. Following up this week another new wrinkle in the already fascinating Pirate Bay case and judge threatens sanctions in the NSA wiretap case. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-05-27 Balticon 43: Peer Media vs. Broadcast Media (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/05/27/b43_peer_media/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro a heart felt thank you to my good friend, Chris Miller, for his support and advice without which my recent experience at Balticon would not have been anywhere near as phenomenal.

There is no listener feedback this week. There is also no hacker word of the week due to the length of the feature.

The feature this week is the recording of the Peer Media vs. Broadcast Media panel at Balticon 43. I was joined by Earl Newton, Dave Slusher and Patrick McLean all of whom I owe a debt of gratitude for this great discussion. For clarification, the book Patrick mentions is "Against Intellectual Monopoly" by Michele Boldrin and David Levine. Patrick also sent me a link to an interview with Boldrin which led me to the web site, Against Monopoly, which furthers the discussion with contributions from several other scholars.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2009 20:26:14 -0400 tclp-20090527-balticon-43-peer-media-vs-broadc This is a feature cast. In the intro a heart felt thank you to my good friend, Chris Miller, for his support and advice without which my recent experience at Balticon would not have been anywhere near as phenomenal. There is no listener feedback this wee This is a feature cast. In the intro a heart felt thank you to my good friend, Chris Miller, for his support and advice without which my recent experience at Balticon would not have been anywhere near as phenomenal. There is no listener feedback this week. There is also no hacker word of the week due to the length of the feature. The feature this week is the recording of the Peer Media vs. Broadcast Media panel at Balticon 43. I was joined by Earl Newton, Dave Slusher and Patrick McLean all of whom I owe a debt of gratitude for this great discussion. For clarification, the book Patrick mentions is "Against Intellectual Monopoly" by Michele Boldrin and David Levine. Patrick also sent me a link to an interview with Boldrin which led me to the web site, Against Monopoly, which furthers the discussion with contributions from several other scholars. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-05-20 Inner Chapter: Criticism (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/05/20/criticism/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro a final reminder I will be at Balticon this weekend, so new news show this Sunday. If you are going to be at Balticon, come and find me in the bar area Friday night, after opening ceremonies.

Listener Feedback this week comes from Billy, Randal, Jed and Evan. Billy shares his thoughts on the corrections of my pronunciations. Randal sends a citation for the correct pronunciation of MySQL. Jed send another video of Monty Widenius from LFNW. Evan posted a thoughtful comment, with a question, in response to my recent monologue on the amateur-pro divide.

The hacker word of the week this week is egg.

The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the practice of criticism.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2009 21:16:00 -0400 tclp-20090520-inner-chapter-criticism-comment This is a feature cast. In the intro a final reminder I will be at Balticon this weekend, so new news show this Sunday. If you are going to be at Balticon, come and find me in the bar area Friday night, after opening ceremonies. Listener Feedback this we This is a feature cast. In the intro a final reminder I will be at Balticon this weekend, so new news show this Sunday. If you are going to be at Balticon, come and find me in the bar area Friday night, after opening ceremonies. Listener Feedback this week comes from Billy, Randal, Jed and Evan. Billy shares his thoughts on the corrections of my pronunciations. Randal sends a citation for the correct pronunciation of MySQL. Jed send another video of Monty Widenius from LFNW. Evan posted a thoughtful comment, with a question, in response to my recent monologue on the amateur-pro divide. The hacker word of the week this week is egg. The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the practice of criticism. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-05-17 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/05/17/news_177/ This is news cast 177.

In the intro, an explanation of what happened for my live appearance on Teaching for the Future. We'll reschedule for after Balticon, which leads me to a reminder there will be no news show on the 24th.

I also want to thank Verbal, who found my show from my appearance on The Linux Link Tech Show, and Emil for their donations this week.

This week's security alerts are D-Link adds CAPTCHAs to its home routers and Apple hires OLPC's former security chief.

In this week's news Apple removes BitTorrent remote control application from its App Store, free books effects on sales, the NYT considers current trends in copyright infringement of print books featuring a couple of others who have clashed on this topic, and is Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 an also ran?

Following up this week The Pirate Bay's plan for paying its fine and Monty on the fate of MySQL post-Oracle, a bit of video from Linuxfest Northwest.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2009 18:58:03 -0400 httplinuxfestnorthwestorg This is news cast 177. In the intro, an explanation of what happened for my live appearance on Teaching for the Future. We'll reschedule for after Balticon, which leads me to a reminder there will be no news show on the 24th. I also want to thank Verbal, This is news cast 177. In the intro, an explanation of what happened for my live appearance on Teaching for the Future. We'll reschedule for after Balticon, which leads me to a reminder there will be no news show on the 24th. I also want to thank Verbal, who found my show from my appearance on The Linux Link Tech Show, and Emil for their donations this week. This week's security alerts are D-Link adds CAPTCHAs to its home routers and Apple hires OLPC's former security chief. In this week's news Apple removes BitTorrent remote control application from its App Store, free books effects on sales, the NYT considers current trends in copyright infringement of print books featuring a couple of others who have clashed on this topic, and is Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 an also ran? Following up this week The Pirate Bay's plan for paying its fine and Monty on the fate of MySQL post-Oracle, a bit of video from Linuxfest Northwest. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-05-13 Monologue: Amateur-Pro Divide (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/05/13/amateur_pro_divide/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro another mention of my very enjoyable interview on Fanboyhell.

Listener Feedback this week is Nahtass with some additional thoughts on learning new languages, Randal with a correction of my pronunciation of MySQL, and Sarah with the correct, full content feed for 2D Goggles.

The hacker word of the week this week is ed.

The feature this week is a monologue consider the gap between amateur and professional creatives and what it is exactly that makes up the gap. This builds a bit on my previous monologue on peer media.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 13 May 2009 20:03:21 -0400 tclp-20090513-monologue-amateurpro-divide-com This is a feature cast. In the intro another mention of my very enjoyable interview on Fanboyhell. Listener Feedback this week is Nahtass with some additional thoughts on learning new languages, Randal with a correction of my pronunciation of MySQL, and This is a feature cast. In the intro another mention of my very enjoyable interview on Fanboyhell. Listener Feedback this week is Nahtass with some additional thoughts on learning new languages, Randal with a correction of my pronunciation of MySQL, and Sarah with the correct, full content feed for 2D Goggles. The hacker word of the week this week is ed. The feature this week is a monologue consider the gap between amateur and professional creatives and what it is exactly that makes up the gap. This builds a bit on my previous monologue on peer media. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-05-10 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/05/10/news_176/ This is news cast 176.

In the intro, an update on my schedule at Balticon 43 which is May 22nd to the 25th. In addition to my official schedule, I will be reprising my role as Doc Tech for the Live Mr. Adventure, Saturday night at 10PM.

Cory posted an article of Locus mentioning flashbake, to welcome to any new readers or listeners checking the show out from that. Additionally, thanks to Adam Mercer (ram), flashbake is now available through MacPorts. I'll post a bit later on with more details and update the project's wiki to reflect the even easier installation for Mac users.

A reminder that I'll be on The Linux Link Tech Show live this Wednesday, the 13th, at 8:30PM Eastern. I've also been invited on Dave LaMorte's Teaching for the Future podcast where he's recently been discussing open source and free software in the class room. We're going to attempt a live show on his UStream.tv channel. We're targeting this Thursday, the 14th, at 8:30PM. More details as they develop and for both those appearances I'll post links to the regular podcast episodes if you cannot view the live events themselves.

This week's security alerts are researchers hijack and dissect a botnet and a Windows 7 rootkit already.

In this week's news a conflict between two Firefox extensions and the policy Mozilla issues in response, the US places Canada on its priority IP watch list, Mozilla is planning on separating UI and content handling into separate processes in future Firefox versions, and the maker of the long promised Duke Nukem Forever closes its doors.

Following up this week the European Parliament rejects the three strikes rule as part of the pending telecoms reform package and Oracle's views on the future of some Sun projects after the acquisition.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 10 May 2009 20:37:06 -0400 tclp-20090510-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 176. In the intro, an update on my schedule at Balticon 43 which is May 22nd to the 25th. In addition to my official schedule, I will be reprising my role as Doc Tech for the Live Mr. Adventure, Saturday night at 10PM. Cory posted an ar This is news cast 176. In the intro, an update on my schedule at Balticon 43 which is May 22nd to the 25th. In addition to my official schedule, I will be reprising my role as Doc Tech for the Live Mr. Adventure, Saturday night at 10PM. Cory posted an article of Locus mentioning flashbake, to welcome to any new readers or listeners checking the show out from that. Additionally, thanks to Adam Mercer (ram), flashbake is now available through MacPorts. I'll post a bit later on with more details and update the project's wiki to reflect the even easier installation for Mac users. A reminder that I'll be on The Linux Link Tech Show live this Wednesday, the 13th, at 8:30PM Eastern. I've also been invited on Dave LaMorte's Teaching for the Future podcast where he's recently been discussing open source and free software in the class room. We're going to attempt a live show on his UStream.tv channel. We're targeting this Thursday, the 14th, at 8:30PM. More details as they develop and for both those appearances I'll post links to the regular podcast episodes if you cannot view the live events themselves. This week's security alerts are researchers hijack and dissect a botnet and a Windows 7 rootkit already. In this week's news a conflict between two Firefox extensions and the policy Mozilla issues in response, the US places Canada on its priority IP watch list, Mozilla is planning on separating UI and content handling into separate processes in future Firefox versions, and the maker of the long promised Duke Nukem Forever closes its doors. Following up this week the European Parliament rejects the three strikes rule as part of the pending telecoms reform package and Oracle's views on the future of some Sun projects after the acquisition. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-04-29 Inner Chapter: Research (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/05/06/research/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro a reminder that my interview with Thomas Cagley of the SPamCast is up if you haven't checked it out already. Also a quick and spoiler free review of X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Listener Feedback this week is from Alex who compliments and asks after the audio from my interview with Jonathan Zittrain. He also has a meta-correction, yes, I got DEE-bold wrong yet again.

The hacker word of the week this week is eat flaming death.

The feature this week is a new Inner Chapter on the practice of research.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 06 May 2009 20:14:03 -0400 tclp-20090429-inner-chapter-research-comment-l This is a feature cast. In the intro a reminder that my interview with Thomas Cagley of the SPamCast is up if you haven't checked it out already. Also a quick and spoiler free review of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Listener Feedback this week is from Alex w This is a feature cast. In the intro a reminder that my interview with Thomas Cagley of the SPamCast is up if you haven't checked it out already. Also a quick and spoiler free review of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Listener Feedback this week is from Alex who compliments and asks after the audio from my interview with Jonathan Zittrain. He also has a meta-correction, yes, I got DEE-bold wrong yet again. The hacker word of the week this week is eat flaming death. The feature this week is a new Inner Chapter on the practice of research. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-04-29 Hacking 101: Learning New Languages (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/04/29/learning_new_languages/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro a welcome to LifeHacker readers coming from Gina Trapani's article. Also there may not be a news program this weekend, if not there will still be a new feature cast next Wednesday. And lastly, I will be at Balticon 43 Memorial Day weekend, May 22-25. I will be speaking a variety of topics, including copyright, technical audio geekery at a variety of experience levels, and more. See my Google calendar for details. I will also be volunteering with recording author readings for the Balticon Podcast as I have for the past two years.

Listener Feedback this week is from Alex who corrects my pronunciation of Brendan Eich's name with multiple citations. Thanks as always for the constructive and well put feedback.

The hacker word of the week this week is easter egg.

The feature this week is a new Hacking 101 segment on learning new programming languages.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:26:39 -0400 tclp-20090429-hacking-101-learning-new-language This is a feature cast. In the intro a welcome to LifeHacker readers coming from Gina Trapani's article. Also there may not be a news program this weekend, if not there will still be a new feature cast next Wednesday. And lastly, I will be at Balticon 43 This is a feature cast. In the intro a welcome to LifeHacker readers coming from Gina Trapani's article. Also there may not be a news program this weekend, if not there will still be a new feature cast next Wednesday. And lastly, I will be at Balticon 43 Memorial Day weekend, May 22-25. I will be speaking a variety of topics, including copyright, technical audio geekery at a variety of experience levels, and more. See my Google calendar for details. I will also be volunteering with recording author readings for the Balticon Podcast as I have for the past two years. Listener Feedback this week is from Alex who corrects my pronunciation of Brendan Eich's name with multiple citations. Thanks as always for the constructive and well put feedback. The hacker word of the week this week is easter egg. The feature this week is a new Hacking 101 segment on learning new programming languages. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-04-26 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/04/26/news_175/ This is news cast 175.

In the intro, more updates on my upcoming guest appearances. The latest episode of the SPaMCast went out on the 20th and I am next in the pipe, so my appearance there should be out on May 4th. I recorded a review of the film, "Six String Samurai", for Fanboy Hell, just yesterday and that should also be out the week of the 4th. Dan and M.A. release every two weeks and just but out a new episode, today. Dan takes a very similar approach to his show's production to mine and M.A. and he delve into wonderful depths in their discussions. I cannot recommend their show highly enough. Last but certainly not least, I was invited onto the live streaming of The Linux Link Tech Show. I will be on the stream the evening of the 13th and the podcast version should be available soon after.

This week's security alert is just how the OAuth protocol was founded to have a critical flaw and the astonishing story of the coordination and efforts that went into fixing the highest profile services using it.

In this week's news Anonymous targets copyright enforcers, Wikipedia pursues trademark and domain name disputes with a pair of artists despite reasonable fair use, cable operators try to convince Congress that deep packet inspection is harmless, and questioning whether CAPTCHAs are measuring the right human qualities.

Following up this week a conflict of interest has arisen in The Pirate Bay sentencing and a call for re-trial.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:58:52 -0400 tclp-20090426-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 175. In the intro, more updates on my upcoming guest appearances. The latest episode of the SPaMCast went out on the 20th and I am next in the pipe, so my appearance there should be out on May 4th. I recorded a review of the film, "Six This is news cast 175. In the intro, more updates on my upcoming guest appearances. The latest episode of the SPaMCast went out on the 20th and I am next in the pipe, so my appearance there should be out on May 4th. I recorded a review of the film, "Six String Samurai", for Fanboy Hell, just yesterday and that should also be out the week of the 4th. Dan and M.A. release every two weeks and just but out a new episode, today. Dan takes a very similar approach to his show's production to mine and M.A. and he delve into wonderful depths in their discussions. I cannot recommend their show highly enough. Last but certainly not least, I was invited onto the live streaming of The Linux Link Tech Show. I will be on the stream the evening of the 13th and the podcast version should be available soon after. This week's security alert is just how the OAuth protocol was founded to have a critical flaw and the astonishing story of the coordination and efforts that went into fixing the highest profile services using it. In this week's news Anonymous targets copyright enforcers, Wikipedia pursues trademark and domain name disputes with a pair of artists despite reasonable fair use, cable operators try to convince Congress that deep packet inspection is harmless, and questioning whether CAPTCHAs are measuring the right human qualities. Following up this week a conflict of interest has arisen in The Pirate Bay sentencing and a call for re-trial. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-04-22 Interview: Jonathan Zittrain (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/04/22/jonathan_zittrain/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro I point out that I have been using Herdict Web for a while now. I encourage you to check it out, as well. This is one of the projects Prof. Zittrain has started to tackle the challenges discussed in his book.

Listener Feedback this week is from Nido who sent a link to the Hacking at Random 2009 event coming up in The Netherlands in August. There's plenty of time to plan if this is within reasonable travel distance and looks like a great hacker gathering. They also have an audio promo, which I share, that has all the details.

The hacker word of the week this week is DWIM.

The feature this week is an interview with Harvard Law professor, Jonathan Zittrain, where we discuss his latest book, "The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It", as well as his work more generally. I mentioned a TED talk given by Clay Shirky during the interview but in searching for the link I was clearly thinking of Shirky's Web 2.0 Expo talk. Both talks are worth checking out.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:09:48 -0400 tclp-20090422-interview-jonathan-zittrain-comm This is a feature cast. In the intro I point out that I have been using Herdict Web for a while now. I encourage you to check it out, as well. This is one of the projects Prof. Zittrain has started to tackle the challenges discussed in his book. Listener This is a feature cast. In the intro I point out that I have been using Herdict Web for a while now. I encourage you to check it out, as well. This is one of the projects Prof. Zittrain has started to tackle the challenges discussed in his book. Listener Feedback this week is from Nido who sent a link to the Hacking at Random 2009 event coming up in The Netherlands in August. There's plenty of time to plan if this is within reasonable travel distance and looks like a great hacker gathering. They also have an audio promo, which I share, that has all the details. The hacker word of the week this week is DWIM. The feature this week is an interview with Harvard Law professor, Jonathan Zittrain, where we discuss his latest book, "The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It", as well as his work more generally. I mentioned a TED talk given by Clay Shirky during the interview but in searching for the link I was clearly thinking of Shirky's Web 2.0 Expo talk. Both talks are worth checking out. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-04-19 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/04/19/news_174/ This is news cast 174.

In the intro, a heads up on some future guest appearances. Thomas Cagley Jr. of the very enjoyable Software Process and Measurement Podcast (SPaMCast) interviewed me this past week and that should go out two weeks for Monday, the 20th. If you like Software Engineering Radio, I think you'll like the SPaMCast. I will also be the guest blogger this coming Saturdy at Oh Get a Grip! the group blog written by six writers working in the genre of erotica. My piece will be safe for work but I will warn you that you might not find the site in general safe for work if you are concerned about such things. My article was inspired by a panel I was on with Helen Madden, one of the bloggers at OGG, discussing some of the more profound threads of love, sex and artificial intelligence. Look for my post to go up on April 25th.

This week's security alert is just a discussion of arguably the first all Mac botnet on which Brian Krebs sheds a bit more light.

In this week's news TorrentFreak's analysis of the recently leaked ACTA draft, a rant on the fragmentation in the space of social messaging, experiments in 'hyperlocal' news sites on the web, and JavaScript's creator Brendan Ellch discusses the final draft of ECMAScript 3.1.

Following up this week an update on EFF's wiretap cases and The Pirate Bay found guilty.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:56:57 -0400 tclp-20090419-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 174. In the intro, a heads up on some future guest appearances. Thomas Cagley Jr. of the very enjoyable Software Process and Measurement Podcast (SPaMCast) interviewed me this past week and that should go out two weeks for Monday, the 2 This is news cast 174. In the intro, a heads up on some future guest appearances. Thomas Cagley Jr. of the very enjoyable Software Process and Measurement Podcast (SPaMCast) interviewed me this past week and that should go out two weeks for Monday, the 20th. If you like Software Engineering Radio, I think you'll like the SPaMCast. I will also be the guest blogger this coming Saturdy at Oh Get a Grip! the group blog written by six writers working in the genre of erotica. My piece will be safe for work but I will warn you that you might not find the site in general safe for work if you are concerned about such things. My article was inspired by a panel I was on with Helen Madden, one of the bloggers at OGG, discussing some of the more profound threads of love, sex and artificial intelligence. Look for my post to go up on April 25th. This week's security alert is just a discussion of arguably the first all Mac botnet on which Brian Krebs sheds a bit more light. In this week's news TorrentFreak's analysis of the recently leaked ACTA draft, a rant on the fragmentation in the space of social messaging, experiments in 'hyperlocal' news sites on the web, and JavaScript's creator Brendan Ellch discusses the final draft of ECMAScript 3.1. Following up this week an update on EFF's wiretap cases and The Pirate Bay found guilty. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-04-15 Book Review: Hackers, by Steven Levy (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/04/15/levys_hackers/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro I chat up Penguicon and share a promo. Also, on a sadder note, the co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, Dave Arneson passed away recently. Tor.com has a very nice remembrance.

Listener Feedback this week is from Naht Ass who writes with some clarifications on the Shepard Fairey, Manny Garcia, AP case over the Obama Hope image. He shared a link to an episode of NPR's Fresh Air on which most of the principals were interviewed.

The hacker word of the week this week is dumpster diving.

The feature this week is a book review of an excellent book I finished recently, Hackers by Steven Levy. As I mention in the review, the first two chapters are freely available.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:40:58 -0400 tclp-20090415-book-review-hackers-by-steven-le This is a feature cast. In the intro I chat up Penguicon and share a promo. Also, on a sadder note, the co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, Dave Arneson passed away recently. Tor.com has a very nice remembrance. Listener Feedback this week is from Naht A This is a feature cast. In the intro I chat up Penguicon and share a promo. Also, on a sadder note, the co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, Dave Arneson passed away recently. Tor.com has a very nice remembrance. Listener Feedback this week is from Naht Ass who writes with some clarifications on the Shepard Fairey, Manny Garcia, AP case over the Obama Hope image. He shared a link to an episode of NPR's Fresh Air on which most of the principals were interviewed. The hacker word of the week this week is dumpster diving. The feature this week is a book review of an excellent book I finished recently, Hackers by Steven Levy. As I mention in the review, the first two chapters are freely available. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-04-08 Monologue: Choosing a Development Platform (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/04/08/choosing_platforms/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro a quick review of the geek family friendly movie, Monsters vs. Aliens.

The hacker word of the week this week is dump.

The feature this week is a monologue on choosing development platforms. I wrote this in response to a question from Brand Gamblin the genius behind Calls for Cthulhu. Brand is one of the first people I know personally who got a G1 and also recently looked into learning Flex.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:24:58 -0400 tclp-20090408-monologue-choosing-a-development This is a feature cast. In the intro a quick review of the geek family friendly movie, Monsters vs. Aliens. The hacker word of the week this week is dump. The feature this week is a monologue on choosing development platforms. I wrote this in response to This is a feature cast. In the intro a quick review of the geek family friendly movie, Monsters vs. Aliens. The hacker word of the week this week is dump. The feature this week is a monologue on choosing development platforms. I wrote this in response to a question from Brand Gamblin the genius behind Calls for Cthulhu. Brand is one of the first people I know personally who got a G1 and also recently looked into learning Flex. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-04-01 Inner Chapter: Team Dynamics (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/04/01/team_dynamics/ This is a feature cast and I remember Joe Murphy.

Listener feedback this week is from Jon who highly recommends the podcast software, BeyondPod, for any G1 users. Both Jon and I would like to know if there is any software for the G1 for reading OPML or PDF files.

The hacker word of the week this week is Duff's device.

The feature this week is a new Inner Chapter on team dynamics. I mention a study on the benefit of info sharing and teams and a forthcoming book from O'Reilly.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:41:02 -0400 tclp-20090401-inner-chapter-team-dynamics-comm This is a feature cast and I remember Joe Murphy. Listener feedback this week is from Jon who highly recommends the podcast software, BeyondPod, for any G1 users. Both Jon and I would like to know if there is any software for the G1 for reading OPML or P This is a feature cast and I remember Joe Murphy. Listener feedback this week is from Jon who highly recommends the podcast software, BeyondPod, for any G1 users. Both Jon and I would like to know if there is any software for the G1 for reading OPML or PDF files. The hacker word of the week this week is Duff's device. The feature this week is a new Inner Chapter on team dynamics. I mention a study on the benefit of info sharing and teams and a forthcoming book from O'Reilly. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-03-29 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/03/29/news_173news_173/ This is news cast 173.

I will be traveling from the 4th of April to the 13th and will not have my audio gear with me. This is a family trip, not a conference or convention. I should be able to keep on writing for the show but no promises on the blog. There will be no news shows on the 5th or the 12th but I should be able to produce a second feature this week to post on the 8th. I'll include reminders in the next couple of shows of the missed news shows.

This week's security alerts are FireFox fixes two critical flaws including one exploited at Pwn2Own at CanSecWest and the first 3D CAPTCHAs are implemented which reminds me of my discussion of next generation CAPTCHAs from back in January.

In this week's news Shepard Fairey talks about the infringement claims against his Hope poster, a new tool for crowd sourcing JavaScript testing, a breakthrough using Graphene for computing elements, and Google announces a project to speed up Python.

Following up this week controversional section 92a copyright amendment completely scrapped in New Zealand and the troubling EU telecoms package is back along with its three strikes amendment.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:33:35 -0400 tclp-20090329-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 173. I will be traveling from the 4th of April to the 13th and will not have my audio gear with me. This is a family trip, not a conference or convention. I should be able to keep on writing for the show but no promises on the blog. The This is news cast 173. I will be traveling from the 4th of April to the 13th and will not have my audio gear with me. This is a family trip, not a conference or convention. I should be able to keep on writing for the show but no promises on the blog. There will be no news shows on the 5th or the 12th but I should be able to produce a second feature this week to post on the 8th. I'll include reminders in the next couple of shows of the missed news shows. This week's security alerts are FireFox fixes two critical flaws including one exploited at Pwn2Own at CanSecWest and the first 3D CAPTCHAs are implemented which reminds me of my discussion of next generation CAPTCHAs from back in January. In this week's news Shepard Fairey talks about the infringement claims against his Hope poster, a new tool for crowd sourcing JavaScript testing, a breakthrough using Graphene for computing elements, and Google announces a project to speed up Python. Following up this week controversional section 92a copyright amendment completely scrapped in New Zealand and the troubling EU telecoms package is back along with its three strikes amendment. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-03-25 Inner Chapter: Coding Style (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/03/25/code_stylecode_style/ This is a feature cast.

The hacker word of the week this week is drunken mouse syndrome.

The feature this week is a new Inner Chapter on coding style. I mentioned this article of Python do's and don't's and Sun's coding conventions for Java. And here is the Wikipedia article on Hungarian notation if you are unfamiliar.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:27:39 -0400 tclp-20090325-inner-chapter-coding-style-comme This is a feature cast. The hacker word of the week this week is drunken mouse syndrome. The feature this week is a new Inner Chapter on coding style. I mentioned this article of Python do's and don't's and Sun's coding conventions for Java. And here is This is a feature cast. The hacker word of the week this week is drunken mouse syndrome. The feature this week is a new Inner Chapter on coding style. I mentioned this article of Python do's and don't's and Sun's coding conventions for Java. And here is the Wikipedia article on Hungarian notation if you are unfamiliar. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-03-22 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/03/22/news_172/ This is news cast 172.

This week's security alerts are community driven malware defense and Mozilla releases a CSS fuzzer.

In this week's news a new tool for parallel programming in embedded environments, IBM may be in talks to purchase Sun, Chris Soghoian betters Google's opt out plugin and releases his own, and RMS on the JavaScript "Trap".

Following up this week research being on memristance, adding spintronics.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:58:35 -0400 tclp-20090322-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 172. This week's security alerts are community driven malware defense and Mozilla releases a CSS fuzzer. In this week's news a new tool for parallel programming in embedded environments, IBM may be in talks to purchase Sun, Chris Soghoi This is news cast 172. This week's security alerts are community driven malware defense and Mozilla releases a CSS fuzzer. In this week's news a new tool for parallel programming in embedded environments, IBM may be in talks to purchase Sun, Chris Soghoian betters Google's opt out plugin and releases his own, and RMS on the JavaScript "Trap". Following up this week research being on memristance, adding spintronics. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. And Now for the Lab, Carpet http://thecommandline.net/2009/03/15/and-now-for-the-lab-carpet/ As promised, here's another weekly update. Week two of my semi-hiatus should see new carpet and the furniture moved. I should be back to regular production next Sunday. I especially appreciate the new listeners who are checking the show out as a result of hearing my promo on Linux Outlaws. Hopefully you are checking out some of the archived shows in the meantime.

The other news of the week is that I received the new computer I ordered, a Mac Pro. I believe I may have gotten the last Harpertown eight core system Apple assembled. Unfortunately, the price point for Apple's least expensive eight core is now higher. That system ships with more memory and storage than the one I ordered. Compared to my G5, though, this new system is a rocket and I am happier with my budgeting choice. 8GB of after market RAM also helps smooth out the difference between the 5400 and 5500 based system.

I spent yesterday afternoon configuring a dual boot for Linux. It went smoothly and I am happy to have a native Linux system, again, for working from home and testing my personal projects. Since the new system is a desktop, Linux recognized all of the hardware with no trouble at all. I may experiment with Audacity, just to see how it compares, now that I can do so easily.

This week I received a bit of feedback. I have one questions for Vaskin and I to dig into in the planned show on license choices for hackers. Paul Fischer also sent a bit of audio feedback asking after location capabilities for flashbake. He suggests that I ought to be able to code something up similar to the iPod Touch which doesn't have a GPS chip but can still approximate location. It turns out he is right and there are plenty of tools for doing location based on public IP address. I expect to have something hacked together in the next week or two.

I have been hesitant about location services as part of my own lifestream, just because of the privacy risk. But for a private, local-only git repository, I think it would make sense for users who travel a lot, as a more fine grained bit of context than the city used for the time zone module. I have to say that on the whole, flashbake has me thinking a bit more about the various social services and pieces of other information I publish as more of a cohesive whole, as the term life stream suggests.

The next update on the lab will be on the log Wednesday night. I may post another update Thursday for with photos of the furniture on place. If I still have a good number of books and other material to move in, I may wait for a final update when everything is in place.

Once again, thanks for your patience.

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]]> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:04:49 -0400 and-now-for-the-lab-carpet As promised, here's another weekly update. Week two of my semi-hiatus should see new carpet and the furniture moved. I should be back to regular production next Sunday. I especially appreciate the new listeners who are checking the show out as a result o As promised, here's another weekly update. Week two of my semi-hiatus should see new carpet and the furniture moved. I should be back to regular production next Sunday. I especially appreciate the new listeners who are checking the show out as a result of hearing my promo on Linux Outlaws. Hopefully you are checking out some of the archived shows in the meantime. The other news of the week is that I received the new computer I ordered, a Mac Pro. I believe I may have gotten the last Harpertown eight core system Apple assembled. Unfortunately, the price point for Apple's least expensive eight core is now higher. That system ships with more memory and storage than the one I ordered. Compared to my G5, though, this new system is a rocket and I am happier with my budgeting choice. 8GB of after market RAM also helps smooth out the difference between the 5400 and 5500 based system. I spent yesterday afternoon configuring a dual boot for Linux. It went smoothly and I am happy to have a native Linux system, again, for working from home and testing my personal projects. Since the new system is a desktop, Linux recognized all of the hardware with no trouble at all. I may experiment with Audacity, just to see how it compares, now that I can do so easily. This week I received a bit of feedback. I have one questions for Vaskin and I to dig into in the planned show on license choices for hackers. Paul Fischer also sent a bit of audio feedback asking after location capabilities for flashbake. He suggests that I ought to be able to code something up similar to the iPod Touch which doesn't have a GPS chip but can still approximate location. It turns out he is right and there are plenty of tools for doing location based on public IP address. I expect to have something hacked together in the next week or two. I have been hesitant about location services as part of my own lifestream, just because of the privacy risk. But for a private, local-only git repository, I think it would make sense for users who travel a lot, as a more fine grained bit of context than the city used for the time zone module. I have to say that on the whole, flashbake has me thinking a bit more about the various social services and pieces of other information I publish as more of a cohesive whole, as the term life stream suggests. The next update on the lab will be on the log Wednesday night. I may post another update Thursday for with photos of the furniture on place. If I still have a good number of books and other material to move in, I may wait for a final update when everything is in place. Once again, thanks for your patience. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Lab Move Status and Show Hiatus http://thecommandline.net/2009/03/08/lab-move-status-and-show-hiatus/ As I mentioned in the last two shows, I am in the process of moving my lab to a different room in my home. I call it my lab because it is both a home office and a studio. That and I have the domain name, bitbucketlabs.net.

Today we cleared one of the major hurdles in this process. I completely emptied the old room. We moved my younger son's bedroom into the old room and cleared the room into which my lab will be moved in the process. The room into which I am moving my lab was our original nursery for the boys and has been hard used as such, then a shared bedroom, and then just a bedroom for the younger of the two. It needs paint, carpeting, and several small repairs.

Now that it is empty, we can schedule the painting. We have a contractor that we've used for some other serious home improvement work who coincidentally called the other day offering a discount on painting for the rest of this month. Hopefully once we have the estimate and date, then everything else should go quickly. We've used a national carpet retailer who does installation before with good results so are confident we can have that done within days of the paint being dry.

I have my great grandfather's large, nara wood desk which is the last obstacle. I love this desk since it is simply huge so affords plenty of space for my mixer, mics, monitor, mouse, keyboard, etc. It has several slide out panels, too, for temporary, additional workspace. It is, however, quite huge. I cannot move it myself up two flights of tight stairs and I am thinking it is probably worth the price to pay for a few hours of some professional movers time to move it. I also have my father-in-law's tall, teak book shelves which will line one wall of the new lab. If we are getting pro movers, they can take care of those, too.

Painting, carpeting, and moving will probably take a couple of weeks. I am optimistic I can have it all done by the end of the month, before I am scheduled to interview Jonathan Zittrain.

In the meantime, I'll experiment with trying to get one or the other computer setup in a temporary space for recording in the meantime. I am less optimistic about that working so well. I get the house to myself on Sundays, which may be workable, but the only space I can use is adjacent to our living room, which simply may not work for weeknight recording.

I will post some audio tonight with this same explanation and to announce that the show will be on semi-hiatus for the next couple of weeks. I will post regular updates, both on the blog and will try to get corresponding audio out for those who do not subscribe to the blog. If I can, I'll try to get a few episodes out during this transition but realistically, it just may not happen until my new computer is hooked up to the new FIOS router in the new lab. Regardless of my audio production, I have a couple of ideas for the next features so may just be able to get a bit ahead of writing for the show if I don't get any episodes out.

]]> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:38:40 -0400 lab-move-status-and-show-hiatus As I mentioned in the last two shows, I am in the process of moving my lab to a different room in my home. I call it my lab because it is both a home office and a studio. That and I have the domain name, bitbucketlabs.net. Today we cleared one of the maj As I mentioned in the last two shows, I am in the process of moving my lab to a different room in my home. I call it my lab because it is both a home office and a studio. That and I have the domain name, bitbucketlabs.net. Today we cleared one of the major hurdles in this process. I completely emptied the old room. We moved my younger son's bedroom into the old room and cleared the room into which my lab will be moved in the process. The room into which I am moving my lab was our original nursery for the boys and has been hard used as such, then a shared bedroom, and then just a bedroom for the younger of the two. It needs paint, carpeting, and several small repairs. Now that it is empty, we can schedule the painting. We have a contractor that we've used for some other serious home improvement work who coincidentally called the other day offering a discount on painting for the rest of this month. Hopefully once we have the estimate and date, then everything else should go quickly. We've used a national carpet retailer who does installation before with good results so are confident we can have that done within days of the paint being dry. I have my great grandfather's large, nara wood desk which is the last obstacle. I love this desk since it is simply huge so affords plenty of space for my mixer, mics, monitor, mouse, keyboard, etc. It has several slide out panels, too, for temporary, additional workspace. It is, however, quite huge. I cannot move it myself up two flights of tight stairs and I am thinking it is probably worth the price to pay for a few hours of some professional movers time to move it. I also have my father-in-law's tall, teak book shelves which will line one wall of the new lab. If we are getting pro movers, they can take care of those, too. Painting, carpeting, and moving will probably take a couple of weeks. I am optimistic I can have it all done by the end of the month, before I am scheduled to interview Jonathan Zittrain. In the meantime, I'll experiment with trying to get one or the other computer setup in a temporary space for recording in the meantime. I am less optimistic about that working so well. I get the house to myself on Sundays, which may be workable, but the only space I can use is adjacent to our living room, which simply may not work for weeknight recording. I will post some audio tonight with this same explanation and to announce that the show will be on semi-hiatus for the next couple of weeks. I will post regular updates, both on the blog and will try to get corresponding audio out for those who do not subscribe to the blog. If I can, I'll try to get a few episodes out during this transition but realistically, it just may not happen until my new computer is hooked up to the new FIOS router in the new lab. Regardless of my audio production, I have a couple of ideas for the next features so may just be able to get a bit ahead of writing for the show if I don't get any episodes out. TCLP 2009-02-25 SCaLE7x (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/03/04/scale7x/ This is a feature cast.

The hacker word of the week this week is drop-outs.

The feature this week is Chris Miller's report from SCaLE7x. Here's Ars Technica's coverage of Bradley Kuhn's key note which we discuss. The key note was similar to a talk he shared on his podcast, the Software Freedom Law Show. The Franklin Street Statement is the position paper that informed the development of the Affero GPL.

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]]> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:31:43 -0500 tclp-20090225-scale7x-comment-line-2409492638 This is a feature cast. The hacker word of the week this week is drop-outs. The feature this week is Chris Miller's report from SCaLE7x. Here's Ars Technica's coverage of Bradley Kuhn's key note which we discuss. The key note was similar to a talk he sha This is a feature cast. The hacker word of the week this week is drop-outs. The feature this week is Chris Miller's report from SCaLE7x. Here's Ars Technica's coverage of Bradley Kuhn's key note which we discuss. The key note was similar to a talk he shared on his podcast, the Software Freedom Law Show. The Franklin Street Statement is the position paper that informed the development of the Affero GPL. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-03-01 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) This is news cast 171.

This week's security alerts are a remotely exploitable flaw in Flash and Microsoft fixes a problem in dealing with autorun exploits.

In this week's news Amazone caves to the demands of the authors' guild (their exact statement on the matter) and the troubling antecedents and precedents, Microsoft releases some promising research on secure browsing though Neil McAllister reminds us where we've seen this before, Microsoft sues TomTom possibly over Linux patent infringment though I remain to be entirely convinced, and proxying data to JavaScript through Flash.

Following up this week the D programming language has been ported to OS X. I wrote about D's 1.0 release a while back.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:16:00 -0500 tclp-20090301-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 171. This week's security alerts are a remotely exploitable flaw in Flash and Microsoft fixes a problem in dealing with autorun exploits. In this week's news Amazone caves to the demands of the authors' guild (their exact statement on t This is news cast 171. This week's security alerts are a remotely exploitable flaw in Flash and Microsoft fixes a problem in dealing with autorun exploits. In this week's news Amazone caves to the demands of the authors' guild (their exact statement on the matter) and the troubling antecedents and precedents, Microsoft releases some promising research on secure browsing though Neil McAllister reminds us where we've seen this before, Microsoft sues TomTom possibly over Linux patent infringment though I remain to be entirely convinced, and proxying data to JavaScript through Flash. Following up this week the D programming language has been ported to OS X. I wrote about D's 1.0 release a while back. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-02-25 Flashbake (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/02/22/monologue_flashbake/ This is a feature cast.

The hacker word of the week this week is drool-proof paper.

The feature this week is a monologue on flashbake, the scripting project I launched last week.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:06:10 -0500 tclp-20090225-flashbake-comment-line-24094926 This is a feature cast. The hacker word of the week this week is drool-proof paper. The feature this week is a monologue on flashbake, the scripting project I launched last week. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes a This is a feature cast. The hacker word of the week this week is drool-proof paper. The feature this week is a monologue on flashbake, the scripting project I launched last week. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-02-22 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/02/22/news_170 This is news cast 170.

This week's security alerts are a new SSL man-in-the-middle attack and cooperating intelligent agents for network defense.

In this week's news The Pirate Bay copyright case started this week in Sweden though the prosecution already dropped half the charges, Facebook updates then thinks better of its Terms of Service, pondering why we haven't seen a CC model for privacy yet, and Hulu requests content removal from Boxee.

Following up this week Mozilla and Skype add their support to the EFF's DMCA petition.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:09:29 -0500 tclp-20090222-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 170. This week's security alerts are a new SSL man-in-the-middle attack and cooperating intelligent agents for network defense. In this week's news The Pirate Bay copyright case started this week in Sweden though the prosecution already This is news cast 170. This week's security alerts are a new SSL man-in-the-middle attack and cooperating intelligent agents for network defense. In this week's news The Pirate Bay copyright case started this week in Sweden though the prosecution already dropped half the charges, Facebook updates then thinks better of its Terms of Service, pondering why we haven't seen a CC model for privacy yet, and Hulu requests content removal from Boxee. Following up this week Mozilla and Skype add their support to the EFF's DMCA petition. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-02-18 Copyright Panel at Farpoint (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/02/18/farpoint_2009/ This is a feature cast.

There is no hacker word of the week this week due to the length of the feature.

The feature this week is a recording of the copyright panel I moderated at Farpoint this past weekend. Please bear with the audio quality as I used the unpowered mic that came with my record. I was joined in the discussion by Helen Madden (who mentions Epicon and ERWA), Paul Fischer and Martha Holloway of the Balticon Podcast and the ADDCast, Jared Axelrod of too many creative projects to name but notably the creator of my podcast's cover art, J.R. Blackwell, an amazing photographer and writer as well, and aspiring writer Paulette Jaxton who also recently started the Form Letter Rejection Theater podcast.

The book I mention is "The Pirate's Dilemma" and it was in the context of Gail Z. Martins forthcoming interview with me. I also mentioned the 75/22/3 rule, explored by PhD economics candidate David Blackburn. Doctorow's Law, that I cited but never explained was coined by Andrew Savikas in his coverage of the Tools of Change conference: "If someone takes something that belongs to you, and puts a lock on it that you don't have a key for, that lock isn't in your best interests". I also mentioned Bookworm which was covered at ToC. Paulette mentioned that she uses Fictionwise which may support ePub but I couldn't find any clear and easier reference for such support.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:16:03 -0500 tclp-20090218-copyright-panel-at-farpoint-comme This is a feature cast. There is no hacker word of the week this week due to the length of the feature. The feature this week is a recording of the copyright panel I moderated at Farpoint this past weekend. Please bear with the audio quality as I used th This is a feature cast. There is no hacker word of the week this week due to the length of the feature. The feature this week is a recording of the copyright panel I moderated at Farpoint this past weekend. Please bear with the audio quality as I used the unpowered mic that came with my record. I was joined in the discussion by Helen Madden (who mentions Epicon and ERWA), Paul Fischer and Martha Holloway of the Balticon Podcast and the ADDCast, Jared Axelrod of too many creative projects to name but notably the creator of my podcast's cover art, J.R. Blackwell, an amazing photographer and writer as well, and aspiring writer Paulette Jaxton who also recently started the Form Letter Rejection Theater podcast. The book I mention is "The Pirate's Dilemma" and it was in the context of Gail Z. Martins forthcoming interview with me. I also mentioned the 75/22/3 rule, explored by PhD economics candidate David Blackburn. Doctorow's Law, that I cited but never explained was coined by Andrew Savikas in his coverage of the Tools of Change conference: "If someone takes something that belongs to you, and puts a lock on it that you don't have a key for, that lock isn't in your best interests". I also mentioned Bookworm which was covered at ToC. Paulette mentioned that she uses Fictionwise which may support ePub but I couldn't find any clear and easier reference for such support. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-02-11 Shmoocon V (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/02/11/shmoocon_v/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro, a shout out to the Traveling Terabyte project and to the Linux Outlaws podcast.

Also, there will not be a news show this weekend, again, as I will be at Farpoint.

There hacker word of the week this week is droid

The feature this week are highlights from the talks I attended at Shmoocon V this past weekend. Here is the coverage of Hamiel and Moyer's Fail 2.0 talk. You can follow CSRF blocker at hexsec labs. And here's the site for The Agreement.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:39:55 -0500 tclp-20090211-shmoocon-v-comment-line-2409492 This is a feature cast. In the intro, a shout out to the Traveling Terabyte project and to the Linux Outlaws podcast. Also, there will not be a news show this weekend, again, as I will be at Farpoint. There hacker word of the week this week is droid The This is a feature cast. In the intro, a shout out to the Traveling Terabyte project and to the Linux Outlaws podcast. Also, there will not be a news show this weekend, again, as I will be at Farpoint. There hacker word of the week this week is droid The feature this week are highlights from the talks I attended at Shmoocon V this past weekend. Here is the coverage of Hamiel and Moyer's Fail 2.0 talk. You can follow CSRF blocker at hexsec labs. And here's the site for The Agreement. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-02-04 Monologue: Peer Media (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/02/04/peer_media/ This is a feature cast.

There hacker word of the week this week is driver

The feature this week is a monologue deconstructing my issues with the term, "new media", and suggesting a more evocative alternative (at least for my own use), "peer media".

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:25:34 -0500 tclp-20090204-monologue-peer-media-comment-lin This is a feature cast. There hacker word of the week this week is driver The feature this week is a monologue deconstructing my issues with the term, "new media", and suggesting a more evocative alternative (at least for my own use), "peer media". More This is a feature cast. There hacker word of the week this week is driver The feature this week is a monologue deconstructing my issues with the term, "new media", and suggesting a more evocative alternative (at least for my own use), "peer media". More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-02-01 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/02/01/news_169/ This is news cast 169.

In the intro, a reminder that I will be at Shmoocon this weekend. Contact me if you are interested in a listener meetup. I've also got the list of panels I will be on at Farpoint the following weekend. Some really good discussions await.

This week's security alerts are using TinyURL to bypass browser safety filters and ICANN tackles but doesn't commit to doing anything about fast flux hosting.

In this week's news possible problems with an Android appthough the issue may have less to do with Google's model than an irate community, video tutorials for programming the PDP 11/10, Google launches a program to measure the open-ness of the net, and processing using the waste heat from CPUs.

Following up this week a new edition of the anti-DRM kid's book, "The Pig and the Box" and judge rules against WoW bot maker.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:30:17 -0500 tclp-20090201-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 169. In the intro, a reminder that I will be at Shmoocon this weekend. Contact me if you are interested in a listener meetup. I've also got the list of panels I will be on at Farpoint the following weekend. Some really good discussions This is news cast 169. In the intro, a reminder that I will be at Shmoocon this weekend. Contact me if you are interested in a listener meetup. I've also got the list of panels I will be on at Farpoint the following weekend. Some really good discussions await. This week's security alerts are using TinyURL to bypass browser safety filters and ICANN tackles but doesn't commit to doing anything about fast flux hosting. In this week's news possible problems with an Android appthough the issue may have less to do with Google's model than an irate community, video tutorials for programming the PDP 11/10, Google launches a program to measure the open-ness of the net, and processing using the waste heat from CPUs. Following up this week a new edition of the anti-DRM kid's book, "The Pig and the Box" and judge rules against WoW bot maker. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-01-28 Interview: Celeste Lyn Paul (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/01/28/celeste_lyn_paul/ This is a feature cast.

I forget to mention that the folks who run the superb EFF track at Dragon*Con have a new web site. You can find archival audio and video from last year and this will be the first place to find programming information for this year. They will post links to older archival material as it becomes available.

There is no hacker word of the week this week due to the length of the interview.

The feature this week is an interview with usability expert and interaction architect, Celeste Lyn Paul. Here is the link to her discussion and research in response to the Canonical notification proposal. We also discussed the KDE project, specifically the KDE usability project, and the open usability project.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:18:40 -0500 tclp-20090128-interview-celeste-lyn-paul This is a feature cast. I forget to mention that the folks who run the superb EFF track at Dragon*Con have a new web site. You can find archival audio and video from last year and this will be the first place to find programming information for this year This is a feature cast. I forget to mention that the folks who run the superb EFF track at Dragon*Con have a new web site. You can find archival audio and video from last year and this will be the first place to find programming information for this year. They will post links to older archival material as it becomes available. There is no hacker word of the week this week due to the length of the interview. The feature this week is an interview with usability expert and interaction architect, Celeste Lyn Paul. Here is the link to her discussion and research in response to the Canonical notification proposal. We also discussed the KDE project, specifically the KDE usability project, and the open usability project. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-01-25 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/01/25/news_168/ This is news cast 168.

In the intro, a reminder that I will be at Shmoocon in a little under two weeks. I won't be speaking, just going as an attendee but for this con, I enjoy just soaking up all the great presentations and activities. The week after I will be on panels at Farpoint talking about the usual topics, plus I may manage to get some new panels on the schedule. Also, in a bit of good news, though this affects my schedule farther out, I will be going to Dragon*Con this year after all.

This week's security alerts are an expert is claiming a single re-write pass may be enough to securely delete data though he has drawn critics from credible experts and the new and highly infectious Conficker worm may affect the forthcoming Windows 7 .

In this week's news a new Gnome project that brings JavaScript to that desktop with what looks like impressive results, COPA is finally dead, next generation CAPTCHAs, and Twitter is experimenting with OAuth to better secure third party access to their data.

Following up this week ACTA's secret negotiations may run afoul of EU law and how will Obama's DoJ appointees act on the issue of warrant-less wire tapping.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:03:25 -0500 tclp-20090125-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 168. In the intro, a reminder that I will be at Shmoocon in a little under two weeks. I won't be speaking, just going as an attendee but for this con, I enjoy just soaking up all the great presentations and activities. The week after I This is news cast 168. In the intro, a reminder that I will be at Shmoocon in a little under two weeks. I won't be speaking, just going as an attendee but for this con, I enjoy just soaking up all the great presentations and activities. The week after I will be on panels at Farpoint talking about the usual topics, plus I may manage to get some new panels on the schedule. Also, in a bit of good news, though this affects my schedule farther out, I will be going to Dragon*Con this year after all. This week's security alerts are an expert is claiming a single re-write pass may be enough to securely delete data though he has drawn critics from credible experts and the new and highly infectious Conficker worm may affect the forthcoming Windows 7 . In this week's news a new Gnome project that brings JavaScript to that desktop with what looks like impressive results, COPA is finally dead, next generation CAPTCHAs, and Twitter is experimenting with OAuth to better secure third party access to their data. Following up this week ACTA's secret negotiations may run afoul of EU law and how will Obama's DoJ appointees act on the issue of warrant-less wire tapping. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-01-21 Hacking 101: Build Tools (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/01/21/build_tools/ This is a feature cast.

The DC area CopyNight is next week, Tuesday the 27th, at the Teaism in Penn Quarter, starting around 6:20PM. Join us to discuss the first week of Obama's administration with regards to concerns of intellectual property.

The hacker word of the week this week is Dr. Fred Mbogo.

The feature this week is a Hacking 101 segment on build tools.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:50:18 -0500 tclp-20090121-hacking-101-build-tools This is a feature cast. The DC area CopyNight is next week, Tuesday the 27th, at the Teaism in Penn Quarter, starting around 6:20PM. Join us to discuss the first week of Obama's administration with regards to concerns of intellectual property. The hacker This is a feature cast. The DC area CopyNight is next week, Tuesday the 27th, at the Teaism in Penn Quarter, starting around 6:20PM. Join us to discuss the first week of Obama's administration with regards to concerns of intellectual property. The hacker word of the week this week is Dr. Fred Mbogo. The feature this week is a Hacking 101 segment on build tools. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-01-14 Inner Chapter: Effecting Change (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/01/14/effecting_change/ This is a feature cast.

I have two promos I wanted to share, for the Law after Law School podcast and SCALE X7.

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The hacker word of the week this week is down.

The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on effecting change.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:54:25 -0500 tclp-20090114-inner-chapter-effecting-change This is a feature cast. I have two promos I wanted to share, for the Law after Law School podcast and SCALE X7. The hacker word of the week this week is down. The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on effecting change. More news and commentary, the al This is a feature cast. I have two promos I wanted to share, for the Law after Law School podcast and SCALE X7. The hacker word of the week this week is down. The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on effecting change. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-01-11 News Fixed (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/01/11/news_167/ This is news cast 167.

Apologies for a cut and paste mistake in the original feed entry, you should get the correct episode with this entry.

In the intro, a quick discussion of Professor Lessig's appearance on the Colbert Report. I have included the first audio remix of that interview as the outro bed music, the rights to that belong to Sam King though I am assuming replaying such a mash up is OK despite the lack of info at his MySpace page. Also a bit of confusion over the availability of Remix from the Colbert Nation site. I am sure it is just a consequence of the delay of the CC-licensed e-book.

This week's security alert is just 1 in 7 SSL certificates are based on the weaker MD5 hash though I've talked about how you can use SSL Black List to help spot these and DNSSEC now has a flaw (via slashdot).

In this week's news a lot of press over an EU council to broaden use of remote searching (via slashdot) though all may not be as dire as it appears, the best indie film you may never see because of barriers to distribute over music sync rights though you can donate and help, Wikipedia over DNS, and the OLPC project under takes some severe belt tightening.

Following up this week the EFF will be able to continue pursuing a key warrant-less wiretapping case and Reznor's Ghosts I-IV tops Amazon's digital music chart for 2008.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:03:08 -0500 tclp-20090111-news-comment-line-2409492638-1 This is news cast 167. Apologies for a cut and paste mistake in the original feed entry, you should get the correct episode with this entry. In the intro, a quick discussion of Professor Lessig's appearance on the Colbert Report. I have included the firs This is news cast 167. Apologies for a cut and paste mistake in the original feed entry, you should get the correct episode with this entry. In the intro, a quick discussion of Professor Lessig's appearance on the Colbert Report. I have included the first audio remix of that interview as the outro bed music, the rights to that belong to Sam King though I am assuming replaying such a mash up is OK despite the lack of info at his MySpace page. Also a bit of confusion over the availability of Remix from the Colbert Nation site. I am sure it is just a consequence of the delay of the CC-licensed e-book. This week's security alert is just 1 in 7 SSL certificates are based on the weaker MD5 hash though I've talked about how you can use SSL Black List to help spot these and DNSSEC now has a flaw (via slashdot). In this week's news a lot of press over an EU council to broaden use of remote searching (via slashdot) though all may not be as dire as it appears, the best indie film you may never see because of barriers to distribute over music sync rights though you can donate and help, Wikipedia over DNS, and the OLPC project under takes some severe belt tightening. Following up this week the EFF will be able to continue pursuing a key warrant-less wiretapping case and Reznor's Ghosts I-IV tops Amazon's digital music chart for 2008. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.249 TCLP 2009-01-07 Year in Review, Part 3 (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/01/07/year_2008_3/ This is a feature cast.

The feature this week is part three of a round table discussion of some of the issues that were prominent this year. I was joined by Kevin Crosby, Vaskin Kissoyan, and Eric Christensen. The topic of this part is the future of computing and we got into a fun, far ranging discussion of cloud computing and some of the technical and non-technical issues it raises.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:53:27 -0500 tclp-20090107-year-in-review-part-3-comment-li This is a feature cast. The feature this week is part three of a round table discussion of some of the issues that were prominent this year. I was joined by Kevin Crosby, Vaskin Kissoyan, and Eric Christensen. The topic of this part is the future of comp This is a feature cast. The feature this week is part three of a round table discussion of some of the issues that were prominent this year. I was joined by Kevin Crosby, Vaskin Kissoyan, and Eric Christensen. The topic of this part is the future of computing and we got into a fun, far ranging discussion of cloud computing and some of the technical and non-technical issues it raises. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2009-01-04 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2009/01/04/news_166/ This is news cast 166.

In the intro, just a quick round up of events for this month and the coming year including Farpoint, Balticon 43 and Shmoocon. I'll also be attending Wiki White House at Google's DC office this week and a luncheon discussion of the Jacobsen case put together by the DC bar. The former appears to be full up and the latter does involve a fee.

If you want to help me get to Penguicon and/or Dragon*Con this year, please make a donation.

This week's security alert is just a lengthy discussion of an attack on the public key infrastructure based on the well researched possibility of collisions with the MD5 algorithm.

In this week's news the web comic User Friendly calls attention to the end of the VHS, a new project exploring molecular computing, a book and project bring design patterns to social activism much like they were adopted for software development (you can purchase the book on Amazon), and a paper testing how well the four common browsers handle private data, the problem of Flash cookies being the most disturbing finding.

Following up this week Flickr's The Commons project put into question with a Yahoo layoff and an unconfirmed report that the RIAA may be firing MediaSentry.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:49:05 -0500 tclp-20090104-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 166. In the intro, just a quick round up of events for this month and the coming year including Farpoint, Balticon 43 and Shmoocon. I'll also be attending Wiki White House at Google's DC office this week and a luncheon discussion of the This is news cast 166. In the intro, just a quick round up of events for this month and the coming year including Farpoint, Balticon 43 and Shmoocon. I'll also be attending Wiki White House at Google's DC office this week and a luncheon discussion of the Jacobsen case put together by the DC bar. The former appears to be full up and the latter does involve a fee. If you want to help me get to Penguicon and/or Dragon*Con this year, please make a donation. This week's security alert is just a lengthy discussion of an attack on the public key infrastructure based on the well researched possibility of collisions with the MD5 algorithm. In this week's news the web comic User Friendly calls attention to the end of the VHS, a new project exploring molecular computing, a book and project bring design patterns to social activism much like they were adopted for software development (you can purchase the book on Amazon), and a paper testing how well the four common browsers handle private data, the problem of Flash cookies being the most disturbing finding. Following up this week Flickr's The Commons project put into question with a Yahoo layoff and an unconfirmed report that the RIAA may be firing MediaSentry. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-12-31 Year in Review, Part 2 (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/12/31/year_2008_2/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro, I share my review of Ed Piskor's "Wizzywig Volume 1: Phreak".

The feature this week is part two of a round table discussion of some of the issues that were prominent this year. I was joined by Kevin Crosby, Vaskin Kissoyan, and Eric Christensen. The topic of this part is where we are at with copyright infringement and enforcement. Most recently the RIAA has announced it is stopping its individual law suits. However, they are pressing an unusual criminal case against an individual. The risk of the urge to perfect enforcement is the increasing irrelevance of copyright to the average person.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:54:45 -0500 tclp-20081231-year-in-review-part-2-comment-li This is a feature cast. In the intro, I share my review of Ed Piskor's "Wizzywig Volume 1: Phreak". The feature this week is part two of a round table discussion of some of the issues that were prominent this year. I was joined by Kevin Crosby, Vaskin Ki This is a feature cast. In the intro, I share my review of Ed Piskor's "Wizzywig Volume 1: Phreak". The feature this week is part two of a round table discussion of some of the issues that were prominent this year. I was joined by Kevin Crosby, Vaskin Kissoyan, and Eric Christensen. The topic of this part is where we are at with copyright infringement and enforcement. Most recently the RIAA has announced it is stopping its individual law suits. However, they are pressing an unusual criminal case against an individual. The risk of the urge to perfect enforcement is the increasing irrelevance of copyright to the average person. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-12-24 Year in Review, Part 1 (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/12/24/year_2008_1/ This is a feature cast.

The feature this week is part one of a round table discussion of some of the issues that were prominent this year. I was joined by Kevin Crosby, Vaskin Kissoyan, and Eric Christensen. The topic of this part is the state of copyright, taking into consideration this year's petitions for exemptions to the DMCA and the defeated Canadian DMCA. We quickly veered into a discussion of generation gaps and norms, however.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:23:07 -0500 tclp-20081224-year-in-review-part-1 This is a feature cast. The feature this week is part one of a round table discussion of some of the issues that were prominent this year. I was joined by Kevin Crosby, Vaskin Kissoyan, and Eric Christensen. The topic of this part is the state of copyrig This is a feature cast. The feature this week is part one of a round table discussion of some of the issues that were prominent this year. I was joined by Kevin Crosby, Vaskin Kissoyan, and Eric Christensen. The topic of this part is the state of copyright, taking into consideration this year's petitions for exemptions to the DMCA and the defeated Canadian DMCA. We quickly veered into a discussion of generation gaps and norms, however. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-12-21 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/12/21/news_165/ This is news cast 165.

This week's security alerts are disappointing security test results for browsers' password handling and Microsoft announces and delivers a critical patch to the IE flaw I discussed last week.

In this week's news the Wall Street Journal confuses Google's efforts to spread caching with backing down on net neutrality thankfully Lessig and Google have responded directly, a new tool to make access tor's hidden services easier, a very clever use of existing DNS queries for dead drop messaging, and Neuros announces software development bounties for their latest offering, the Link.

Following up this week the Open Rights Group has some good analysis of the IWF/Wikipedia fiasco and McAllister digs out some more details about Google's native client.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:36:36 -0500 tclp-20081214-news-comment-line-2409492638-1 This is news cast 165. This week's security alerts are disappointing security test results for browsers' password handling and Microsoft announces and delivers a critical patch to the IE flaw I discussed last week. In this week's news the Wall Street Jou This is news cast 165. This week's security alerts are disappointing security test results for browsers' password handling and Microsoft announces and delivers a critical patch to the IE flaw I discussed last week. In this week's news the Wall Street Journal confuses Google's efforts to spread caching with backing down on net neutrality thankfully Lessig and Google have responded directly, a new tool to make access tor's hidden services easier, a very clever use of existing DNS queries for dead drop messaging, and Neuros announces software development bounties for their latest offering, the Link. Following up this week the Open Rights Group has some good analysis of the IWF/Wikipedia fiasco and McAllister digs out some more details about Google's native client. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-12-17 Rant: Race to the Bottom (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/12/17/race_to_the_bottom/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro, a quick wrap up on the Creative Commons 6th birthday part hosted by Public Knowledge and the DC CopyNight crew. The first set of pictures are already up. The other pictures don't appear to be up yet, I'll post separately with the link once I have it. I could not find the band the SoundSprout guys brought, if anyone else remembers and sends it to me, I'll also post that link.

Listener feedback this week is from Jed who had some thoughts on the recent discussion of MVC, unity and PHP.

The hacker word of the week this week is dot file.

The feature this week is a rant inspired by this article about Dell's race to the bottom.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:05:05 -0500 tclp-20081217-rant-race-to-the-bottom-comment This is a feature cast. In the intro, a quick wrap up on the Creative Commons 6th birthday part hosted by Public Knowledge and the DC CopyNight crew. The first set of pictures are already up. The other pictures don't appear to be up yet, I'll post separa This is a feature cast. In the intro, a quick wrap up on the Creative Commons 6th birthday part hosted by Public Knowledge and the DC CopyNight crew. The first set of pictures are already up. The other pictures don't appear to be up yet, I'll post separately with the link once I have it. I could not find the band the SoundSprout guys brought, if anyone else remembers and sends it to me, I'll also post that link. Listener feedback this week is from Jed who had some thoughts on the recent discussion of MVC, unity and PHP. The hacker word of the week this week is dot file. The feature this week is a rant inspired by this article about Dell's race to the bottom. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-12-14 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/12/14/news_164/ This is news cast 164.

If you are in the DC area, come to the Creative Commons 6th Birthday Party being coordinated by the DC CopyNight crew and generously hosted by Public Knowledge.

This week's security alerts are a massive distributed attack on SSH servers and a zero day exploit in Microsoft's WordPad and Internet Explorer the latter apparently affecting all versions of the browser.

In this week's news British ISPs catch Wikipedia in their censorship net then relent, Google introduces a way to run native code in browsers, Ed Piskor releases a graphic novel covering the history of hackers and phreakers, a self destructing poem from Agrippa, an art book launched in the early nineties, has been recovered and run under emulation.

Following up this week RedBox continues to fight for survival and the UK and the EU again consider term extensions for music copyrights.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:26:59 -0500 tclp-20081214-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 164. If you are in the DC area, come to the Creative Commons 6th Birthday Party being coordinated by the DC CopyNight crew and generously hosted by Public Knowledge. This week's security alerts are a massive distributed attack on SSH se This is news cast 164. If you are in the DC area, come to the Creative Commons 6th Birthday Party being coordinated by the DC CopyNight crew and generously hosted by Public Knowledge. This week's security alerts are a massive distributed attack on SSH servers and a zero day exploit in Microsoft's WordPad and Internet Explorer the latter apparently affecting all versions of the browser. In this week's news British ISPs catch Wikipedia in their censorship net then relent, Google introduces a way to run native code in browsers, Ed Piskor releases a graphic novel covering the history of hackers and phreakers, a self destructing poem from Agrippa, an art book launched in the early nineties, has been recovered and run under emulation. Following up this week RedBox continues to fight for survival and the UK and the EU again consider term extensions for music copyrights. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-12-10 Book Review: The Hacker Ethic (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/12/10/the_hacker_ethic/ This is a feature cast.

Listener feedback this week is from Vaskin continuing the discussion of git.

The hacker word of the week this week is dongle.

The feature this week is a review of the book, "The Hacker Ethic", by Pekka Himanen. Here's the synthetic biology debate that I mention in the piece in relation to Castells tie-in of bio-science with informationalism.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:55:37 -0500 tclp-20081210-book-review-the-hacker-ethic-com This is a feature cast. Listener feedback this week is from Vaskin continuing the discussion of git. The hacker word of the week this week is dongle. The feature this week is a review of the book, "The Hacker Ethic", by Pekka Himanen. Here's the syntheti This is a feature cast. Listener feedback this week is from Vaskin continuing the discussion of git. The hacker word of the week this week is dongle. The feature this week is a review of the book, "The Hacker Ethic", by Pekka Himanen. Here's the synthetic biology debate that I mention in the piece in relation to Castells tie-in of bio-science with informationalism. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-12-07 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/12/07/news_163/ This is news cast 163.

This week's security alerts are confusion around Apple's recommendation of AV software then their retraction and a Firefox trojan that identifies itself as the popular Greasemonkey extenions.

In this week's news worry over a change for one BitTorrent client to favor UDP traffic along with a clarification of their intentions about network congestion management, Facebook rolls out their latest data sharing effort though it is far from a true data portability play, the EFF and others file their petitions for DMCA exemptions, and Python 3.0 has been released amidst criticism of its breaking backwards compatibility though some are offering very well reasoned defenses.

Following up this week the judicial oversight amendment to the EU telecoms package has been stripped and Spore is the most pirated game of the year despite EA's insistence of draconian DRM.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:08:58 -0500 tclp-20081207-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 163. This week's security alerts are confusion around Apple's recommendation of AV software then their retraction and a Firefox trojan that identifies itself as the popular Greasemonkey extenions. In this week's news worry over a change This is news cast 163. This week's security alerts are confusion around Apple's recommendation of AV software then their retraction and a Firefox trojan that identifies itself as the popular Greasemonkey extenions. In this week's news worry over a change for one BitTorrent client to favor UDP traffic along with a clarification of their intentions about network congestion management, Facebook rolls out their latest data sharing effort though it is far from a true data portability play, the EFF and others file their petitions for DMCA exemptions, and Python 3.0 has been released amidst criticism of its breaking backwards compatibility though some are offering very well reasoned defenses. Following up this week the judicial oversight amendment to the EU telecoms package has been stripped and Spore is the most pirated game of the year despite EA's insistence of draconian DRM. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-11-26 Inner Chapter: Mastery (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/12/03/mastery/ This is a feature cast.

Listener feedback this week is from Walker Hale continuing the discussion of git.

The hacker word of the week this week is dogpile.

The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on mastery.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:51:54 -0500 tclp-20081126-inner-chapter-mastery-comment-li This is a feature cast. Listener feedback this week is from Walker Hale continuing the discussion of git. The hacker word of the week this week is dogpile. The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on mastery. More news and commentary, the alternate feed This is a feature cast. Listener feedback this week is from Walker Hale continuing the discussion of git. The hacker word of the week this week is dogpile. The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on mastery. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-11-30 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/30/news_162/ This is news cast 162.

In the intro, a correction on the authorship and history of git from Randal Schwartz.

This week's security alerts are WordPress fixes a critical XSS flaw and a rootkit found in some network security software.

In this week's news the final SCO judgement, Sealand's data haven goes dark, a triple engine web browser, and tackling the erosion of MVC based designs by the adoption of AJAX.

Following up this week the EU rebuffs the French three strikes rule and a Quicktime update relaxes HDCP for standard defintion video.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:33:07 -0500 tclp-20081130-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 162. In the intro, a correction on the authorship and history of git from Randal Schwartz. This week's security alerts are WordPress fixes a critical XSS flaw and a rootkit found in some network security software. In this week's news th This is news cast 162. In the intro, a correction on the authorship and history of git from Randal Schwartz. This week's security alerts are WordPress fixes a critical XSS flaw and a rootkit found in some network security software. In this week's news the final SCO judgement, Sealand's data haven goes dark, a triple engine web browser, and tackling the erosion of MVC based designs by the adoption of AJAX. Following up this week the EU rebuffs the French three strikes rule and a Quicktime update relaxes HDCP for standard defintion video. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-11-26 Hacking 101: Source Control (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/26/source_control/ This is a feature cast.

Listener feedback this week is from Paul Fischer on my coverage of DRM concerns with video in the iTunes store.

The hacker word of the week this week is dogcow.

The feature this week is a Hacking 101 on source control.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:23:17 -0500 tclp-20081126-hacking-101-source-control This is a feature cast. Listener feedback this week is from Paul Fischer on my coverage of DRM concerns with video in the iTunes store. The hacker word of the week this week is dogcow. The feature this week is a Hacking 101 on source control. More news a This is a feature cast. Listener feedback this week is from Paul Fischer on my coverage of DRM concerns with video in the iTunes store. The hacker word of the week this week is dogcow. The feature this week is a Hacking 101 on source control. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-11-23 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/23/news_161/ This is news cast 161.

This week's security alerts are a hard to exploit but critical crypto flaw in SSH and a new bit of malware for the Mac.

In this week's news the state of free software friendly social networking, Apple has added DRM supporting hardware to its new unibody Mac portables, a great how to on using the project hosting site, github, and screen casts on more advanced git usage, and a contentious but thoughtful paper that considers the open nature of the internet as more likely to preserve neutrality than legislation.

Following up this week Adobe says it will still back standards despite loss in JavaScript 2.0 fight and Apple is in talks with the other three labels over DRM-free music.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:56:40 -0500 tclp-20081123-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 161. This week's security alerts are a hard to exploit but critical crypto flaw in SSH and a new bit of malware for the Mac. In this week's news the state of free software friendly social networking, Apple has added DRM supporting hardw This is news cast 161. This week's security alerts are a hard to exploit but critical crypto flaw in SSH and a new bit of malware for the Mac. In this week's news the state of free software friendly social networking, Apple has added DRM supporting hardware to its new unibody Mac portables, a great how to on using the project hosting site, github, and screen casts on more advanced git usage, and a contentious but thoughtful paper that considers the open nature of the internet as more likely to preserve neutrality than legislation. Following up this week Adobe says it will still back standards despite loss in JavaScript 2.0 fight and Apple is in talks with the other three labels over DRM-free music. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-11-19 Hacking 101: Structured Data (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/19/structured_data/ This is a feature cast.

Listener feedback this week is from Chris Miller who has some additional advice for overcoming obstacles.

The hacker word of the week this week is documentation.

The feature this week is a Hacking 101 on structured data and designing your own file formats.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:14:45 -0500 tclp-20081119-hacking-101-structured-data-comm This is a feature cast. Listener feedback this week is from Chris Miller who has some additional advice for overcoming obstacles. The hacker word of the week this week is documentation. The feature this week is a Hacking 101 on structured data and design This is a feature cast. Listener feedback this week is from Chris Miller who has some additional advice for overcoming obstacles. The hacker word of the week this week is documentation. The feature this week is a Hacking 101 on structured data and designing your own file formats. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. No Podcast Tonight http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/16/no-podcast-tonight-2/ Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:22:59 -0500 no-podcast-tonight-1 I was out of town over night last night, taking a much deserved break. My voice is a bit shot from partying last night and, well, instead of doing my reading and researching I was playing my reward for successfully securing a job offer: Lego Batman.I was out of town over night last night, taking a much deserved break. My voice is a bit shot from partying last night and, well, instead of doing my reading and researching I was playing my reward for successfully securing a job offer: Lego Batman. TCLP 2008-11-13 Inner Chapter: Overcoming Obstacles (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/13/overcoming_obstacles/ This is a feature cast.

Listener feedback this week is from Robert, Michael and Bruce on info overload, access to info in the hacking with a social conscience piece and weighing in against re-recordinbg the early Inner Chapters respectively.

The hacker word of the week this week is do protocol.

The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on overcoming obstacles. Kaity's site and online support group for generalized dystonia is here.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:41:27 -0500 tclp-20081113-inner-chapter-overcoming-obstacle This is a feature cast. Listener feedback this week is from Robert, Michael and Bruce on info overload, access to info in the hacking with a social conscience piece and weighing in against re-recordinbg the early Inner Chapters respectively. The hacker w This is a feature cast. Listener feedback this week is from Robert, Michael and Bruce on info overload, access to info in the hacking with a social conscience piece and weighing in against re-recordinbg the early Inner Chapters respectively. The hacker word of the week this week is do protocol. The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on overcoming obstacles. Kaity's site and online support group for generalized dystonia is here. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-11-09 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/09/news_160/ This is news cast 160.

This week's security alerts are a severe bug in the G1 and more research on cracking WPA at least partially.

In this week's news new version of the GNU Free Document License would allow Wikipedia to re-license under a CC license which may yield more freedom than GFDL, Diebold being sued for a GPL violation, Android based G1 is jail broken then re-jailed by Google, and new research disputing the Long Tail model with a response from its author.

Following up this week FCC approves white spaces for unlicensed use and the WIPO broadcast treaty is back though no imminent threat.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:27:55 -0500 tclp-20081109-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 160. This week's security alerts are a severe bug in the G1 and more research on cracking WPA at least partially. In this week's news new version of the GNU Free Document License would allow Wikipedia to re-license under a CC license wh This is news cast 160. This week's security alerts are a severe bug in the G1 and more research on cracking WPA at least partially. In this week's news new version of the GNU Free Document License would allow Wikipedia to re-license under a CC license which may yield more freedom than GFDL, Diebold being sued for a GPL violation, Android based G1 is jail broken then re-jailed by Google, and new research disputing the Long Tail model with a response from its author. Following up this week FCC approves white spaces for unlicensed use and the WIPO broadcast treaty is back though no imminent threat. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-11-05 Monologue: Hacking with a Social Conscience (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/05/hacking_conscience/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro, a correction on my pronunciation of Diebold. Alex offers a CNN story, a a PBS story, and this one on the research out of Princeton to substantiate the case for the correct pronunciation. Also note that the first two YouTube links are to specific time codes--kewl.

Listener feedback this week is from Alex and Wouter, both in response to the last Inner Chapter on Info Overload. Here's the Waxy story about using Amazon Mechanical Turk for transcription and the Firefox extension Alex recommends. Here's the screen cast and the features apparently include Google Reader integration, syncing between systems and offline reader.

The hacker word of the week this week is distribution.

The feature this week is a monologue on hacking with a social conscience.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:15:36 -0500 tclp-20081105-monologue-hacking-with-a-social-c This is a feature cast. In the intro, a correction on my pronunciation of Diebold. Alex offers a CNN story, a a PBS story, and this one on the research out of Princeton to substantiate the case for the correct pronunciation. Also note that the first two This is a feature cast. In the intro, a correction on my pronunciation of Diebold. Alex offers a CNN story, a a PBS story, and this one on the research out of Princeton to substantiate the case for the correct pronunciation. Also note that the first two YouTube links are to specific time codes--kewl. Listener feedback this week is from Alex and Wouter, both in response to the last Inner Chapter on Info Overload. Here's the Waxy story about using Amazon Mechanical Turk for transcription and the Firefox extension Alex recommends. Here's the screen cast and the features apparently include Google Reader integration, syncing between systems and offline reader. The hacker word of the week this week is distribution. The feature this week is a monologue on hacking with a social conscience. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-11-02 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/02/news_159/ This is news cast 159.

In the intro, a reminder to vote, news that I will be attending the debate between Zittrain and Thierer at the New America Foundation, and asking your opinions on releasing archival material through podiobooks.com and PodDisc.com.

This week's security alerts are more info on remote key logging and software research to duplicate physical keys from photos.

In this week's news the EFF launches a new election monitoring project, Microsoft announces their cloud OS, Windows Azure, and Neil McAllister offers some initial analysis, Schneier and colleagues announce their submission for NIST's secure hash algorithm competition, and the Bilski decision on busines method patents is in from the Federal Circuit.

Following up this week just a guide to the news that the Google Books case has reached settlement plus one particular criticism that stands out.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:30:47 -0500 tclp-20081102-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 159. In the intro, a reminder to vote, news that I will be attending the debate between Zittrain and Thierer at the New America Foundation, and asking your opinions on releasing archival material through podiobooks.com and PodDisc.com. This is news cast 159. In the intro, a reminder to vote, news that I will be attending the debate between Zittrain and Thierer at the New America Foundation, and asking your opinions on releasing archival material through podiobooks.com and PodDisc.com. This week's security alerts are more info on remote key logging and software research to duplicate physical keys from photos. In this week's news the EFF launches a new election monitoring project, Microsoft announces their cloud OS, Windows Azure, and Neil McAllister offers some initial analysis, Schneier and colleagues announce their submission for NIST's secure hash algorithm competition, and the Bilski decision on busines method patents is in from the Federal Circuit. Following up this week just a guide to the news that the Google Books case has reached settlement plus one particular criticism that stands out. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-10-29 Rant: Information Overload (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/10/29/info_overload/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro, a quick review of Neal Stephenson's Anathem.

Listener feedback this week is from Alex and Paul Fischer. The RADIUS server that Paul mentioned is StellarRADIUS.

The hacker word of the week this week is display hack.

The feature this week is a rant on the phenomenon of information overload.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:22:04 -0400 tclp-20081029-rant-information-overload-commen This is a feature cast. In the intro, a quick review of Neal Stephenson's Anathem. Listener feedback this week is from Alex and Paul Fischer. The RADIUS server that Paul mentioned is StellarRADIUS. The hacker word of the week this week is display hack. T This is a feature cast. In the intro, a quick review of Neal Stephenson's Anathem. Listener feedback this week is from Alex and Paul Fischer. The RADIUS server that Paul mentioned is StellarRADIUS. The hacker word of the week this week is display hack. The feature this week is a rant on the phenomenon of information overload. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-10-26 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/10/26/news_158/ This is news cast 157.

This week's security alerts are the first security flaw in the new G1 and vendor offers a security suite for Android.

In this week's news the 40th anniversary of the FCC's Carterfone ruling, content aware image resizing with an open source implementation already, Android first impressions along with news Google has released all the sources and that there may be some availability issues, and virtual crimes with real punishments, a digital theft and a virtual murder.

Following up this week EFF, Public Citizen respond to McCain's YouTube letter and Amazon deletes negative reviews for another EA video game riddled with DRM.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:58:48 -0400 tclp-20081026-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 157. This week's security alerts are the first security flaw in the new G1 and vendor offers a security suite for Android. In this week's news the 40th anniversary of the FCC's Carterfone ruling, content aware image resizing with an ope This is news cast 157. This week's security alerts are the first security flaw in the new G1 and vendor offers a security suite for Android. In this week's news the 40th anniversary of the FCC's Carterfone ruling, content aware image resizing with an open source implementation already, Android first impressions along with news Google has released all the sources and that there may be some availability issues, and virtual crimes with real punishments, a digital theft and a virtual murder. Following up this week EFF, Public Citizen respond to McCain's YouTube letter and Amazon deletes negative reviews for another EA video game riddled with DRM. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-10-22 Inner Chapter: Emotional Investment (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/10/22/emotional_investment/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro, the reveal of the new audio promo. I mentioned that I'd reveal the winners and then forgot to do so. I'll announce them here, Lutz and Paul are the two winners and I will make arrangements directly with them to send them their prizes. Thanks to everyone who participated. You can check out the final product at http://thecommandline.net/promos/.

The hacker word of the week this week is deliminator.

The feature this week is a new Inner Chapter on the topic of emotional investment and how it can affect, for good and ill, our experience of hacking.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:22:52 -0400 tclp-20081022-inner-chapter-emotional-investmen This is a feature cast. In the intro, the reveal of the new audio promo. I mentioned that I'd reveal the winners and then forgot to do so. I'll announce them here, Lutz and Paul are the two winners and I will make arrangements directly with them to send This is a feature cast. In the intro, the reveal of the new audio promo. I mentioned that I'd reveal the winners and then forgot to do so. I'll announce them here, Lutz and Paul are the two winners and I will make arrangements directly with them to send them their prizes. Thanks to everyone who participated. You can check out the final product at http://thecommandline.net/promos/. The hacker word of the week this week is deliminator. The feature this week is a new Inner Chapter on the topic of emotional investment and how it can affect, for good and ill, our experience of hacking. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-10-19 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/10/19/news_157/ This is news cast 157.

This week's security alerts are Elcomsoft declares WPA dead due to their new GPU/distributed attack software though Schneier is skeptical and dealing with the privacy risks of Flash's "cookies".

In this week's news latest response to RMS' critic of cloud computing which is pretty consistent with one of the quickest reponses originally, more details and questions about Obfuscated TCP, Yahoo's usability study around OpenID suggests why adoption may be slow, and McCain seeks special treatment for his fair use under the DMCA.

Following up this week Bush signs Pro-IP bill into law and the EFF presses the fight against the FISA Amendments Act in federal court, as promised.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:46:21 -0400 tclp-20081019-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 157. This week's security alerts are Elcomsoft declares WPA dead due to their new GPU/distributed attack software though Schneier is skeptical and dealing with the privacy risks of Flash's "cookies". In this week's news latest response This is news cast 157. This week's security alerts are Elcomsoft declares WPA dead due to their new GPU/distributed attack software though Schneier is skeptical and dealing with the privacy risks of Flash's "cookies". In this week's news latest response to RMS' critic of cloud computing which is pretty consistent with one of the quickest reponses originally, more details and questions about Obfuscated TCP, Yahoo's usability study around OpenID suggests why adoption may be slow, and McCain seeks special treatment for his fair use under the DMCA. Following up this week Bush signs Pro-IP bill into law and the EFF presses the fight against the FISA Amendments Act in federal court, as promised. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-10-15 Hacking 101: Static Analysis (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/10/15/static_analysis/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro, a quick review of Charles Stross' Halting State and some final thoughts on the collaborative audio promo contest.

The hacker word of the week this week is dinosaur.

The feature this week is a new Hacking 101 segment on the practice of static analysis of source code.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:17:51 -0400 tclp-20081015-hacking-101-static-analysis-comm This is a feature cast. In the intro, a quick review of Charles Stross' Halting State and some final thoughts on the collaborative audio promo contest. The hacker word of the week this week is dinosaur. The feature this week is a new Hacking 101 segment This is a feature cast. In the intro, a quick review of Charles Stross' Halting State and some final thoughts on the collaborative audio promo contest. The hacker word of the week this week is dinosaur. The feature this week is a new Hacking 101 segment on the practice of static analysis of source code. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-10-08 Inner Chapter: Job Search (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/10/08/job_search/ This is a feature cast.

The feature this week is a longer Inner Chapter sharing my thought, experiences and advice for conducting a job search inspired by my own recent transition and Chris Miller's request.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:41:42 -0400 tclp-20081008-inner-chapter-job-search-comment This is a feature cast. The feature this week is a longer Inner Chapter sharing my thought, experiences and advice for conducting a job search inspired by my own recent transition and Chris Miller's request. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, This is a feature cast. The feature this week is a longer Inner Chapter sharing my thought, experiences and advice for conducting a job search inspired by my own recent transition and Chris Miller's request. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. No Podcast Tonight http://thecommandline.net/2008/10/05/no-podcast-tonight/ Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:14:56 -0400 no-podcast-tonight I let half the day get away from me and am feeling a bit under the weather, so no new show, tonight. I should, however, be able to produce the Wednesday feature cast as planned.I let half the day get away from me and am feeling a bit under the weather, so no new show, tonight. I should, however, be able to produce the Wednesday feature cast as planned. TCLP 2008-10-01 Interview: Evan Prodromou (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/10/01/evan_prodromou/ This is a feature cast.

The feature this week is an interview with super prolific hacker and entrepreneur, Evan Prodromou. Even may be most known for Wikitravel but has been garnering a lot of attention for Laconi.ca and identi.ca.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:28:16 -0400 tclp-20081001-interview-evan-prodromou-comment This is a feature cast. The feature this week is an interview with super prolific hacker and entrepreneur, Evan Prodromou. Even may be most known for Wikitravel but has been garnering a lot of attention for Laconi.ca and identi.ca. More news and commenta This is a feature cast. The feature this week is an interview with super prolific hacker and entrepreneur, Evan Prodromou. Even may be most known for Wikitravel but has been garnering a lot of attention for Laconi.ca and identi.ca. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-09-28 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/09/28/news_156/ This is news cast 156.

This week's security alerts are a full security suite on a phone and a new or under appreciated browser exploit with some practical defense but also a bit of skepticism.

In this week’s news, Iron produced as a more privacy protecting variation of Google's Chromium code, Muxtape is the latest pirate's dilemma, open source life streaming, and Adobe's reasons, such as they are, for keeping Flash closed.

Following up this week, the PRO-IP act passes the Senate without the troubling civil enforcement provision but plenty more to worry about and Senate updates allowable internet service policies.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:52:22 -0400 tclp-20080928-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 156. This week's security alerts are a full security suite on a phone and a new or under appreciated browser exploit with some practical defense but also a bit of skepticism. In this week’s news, Iron produced as a more privacy protecti This is news cast 156. This week's security alerts are a full security suite on a phone and a new or under appreciated browser exploit with some practical defense but also a bit of skepticism. In this week’s news, Iron produced as a more privacy protecting variation of Google's Chromium code, Muxtape is the latest pirate's dilemma, open source life streaming, and Adobe's reasons, such as they are, for keeping Flash closed. Following up this week, the PRO-IP act passes the Senate without the troubling civil enforcement provision but plenty more to worry about and Senate updates allowable internet service policies. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-09-24 Interview: Brad Sucks, Fixed (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/09/24/brad_sucks/ This is a feature cast.

The feature this week is an interview with indie musician and open source techie, Brad Sucks. He has a brand new album out, "Out of It", which is a worthy successor to his first album, "i don't know what i'm doing". You can preview his music on his site and all of his music is podsafe. Oh, and he publishes the source, too.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:57:36 -0400 tclp-20080924-interview-brad-sucks-comment-lin-1 This is a feature cast. The feature this week is an interview with indie musician and open source techie, Brad Sucks. He has a brand new album out, "Out of It", which is a worthy successor to his first album, "i don't know what i'm doing". You can previe This is a feature cast. The feature this week is an interview with indie musician and open source techie, Brad Sucks. He has a brand new album out, "Out of It", which is a worthy successor to his first album, "i don't know what i'm doing". You can preview his music on his site and all of his music is podsafe. Oh, and he publishes the source, too. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-09-21 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/09/21/news_155/ This is news cast 155.

In the intro, I will be at CopyNight DC this Tuesday, it will be at Teaism on 8th Street near the Chinatown Metro Station. Also, tomorrow is One Web Day. And lastly, I have started some planned improvements by renaming the blog to The Command Line Citizen, more to come.

This week's security alerts are anti key logging software and using password recovery options more securely.

In this week’s news, Tim Berners-Lee announces a new World Wide Web Foundation, open source database replication, Mozilla clarifies some confusion around a new popup license ultimately revising it to address community criticism, and the RIAA wants to fine defense attorney Ray Beckerman.

Following up this week, the latest IP bill is being fast track make sure you take action now and Neuros launches their latest set top box adding HD encoding along with a bevy of other improvements.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:58:05 -0400 tclp-20080921-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 155. In the intro, I will be at CopyNight DC this Tuesday, it will be at Teaism on 8th Street near the Chinatown Metro Station. Also, tomorrow is One Web Day. And lastly, I have started some planned improvements by renaming the blog to This is news cast 155. In the intro, I will be at CopyNight DC this Tuesday, it will be at Teaism on 8th Street near the Chinatown Metro Station. Also, tomorrow is One Web Day. And lastly, I have started some planned improvements by renaming the blog to The Command Line Citizen, more to come. This week's security alerts are anti key logging software and using password recovery options more securely. In this week’s news, Tim Berners-Lee announces a new World Wide Web Foundation, open source database replication, Mozilla clarifies some confusion around a new popup license ultimately revising it to address community criticism, and the RIAA wants to fine defense attorney Ray Beckerman. Following up this week, the latest IP bill is being fast track make sure you take action now and Neuros launches their latest set top box adding HD encoding along with a bevy of other improvements. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License TCLP 2008-09-10 New Book: Content (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/09/17/content/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro, a quick review of Cory Doctorow's new book, hist first non-fiction title, (c)ontent: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future.

The hacker word of the week this week is dink.

The feature this week is a reading of two of my favorite selections from Cory's new book.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:27:53 -0400 tclp-20080910-new-book-content-comment-line-24 This is a feature cast. In the intro, a quick review of Cory Doctorow's new book, hist first non-fiction title, (c)ontent: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future. The hacker word of the week this week is dink. T This is a feature cast. In the intro, a quick review of Cory Doctorow's new book, hist first non-fiction title, (c)ontent: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future. The hacker word of the week this week is dink. The feature this week is a reading of two of my favorite selections from Cory's new book. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-09-14 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/09/14/news_154/ This is news cast 154.

In the intro, remarking the end on the Voice of Free Planet X.

This week's security alerts are malware has started generating fake infringement notices and incidental risks to privacy and security exposed with the iPhone.

In this week’s news, Real set to launch a DVD copying product despite the presence of existing better though not entirely legal tools and the history of DVD copying product thus far, user reaction to EA's choice of DRM for the hot game Spore inspires them to bomb its Amazon reviews so much so that there were some shenanigans around those reviews, a legislative test balloon for giving open source more support in government IT, Samba's Jeremy Allison talks about mentors and other tools to help the self taught programmer.

Following up this week, it is that time to start talking about e-voting as the GAO criticize the certification process for testing labs and Neil McAllister takes a look at the Chromium source code in the wake of the big launch.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:51:37 -0400 tclp-20080914-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 154. In the intro, remarking the end on the Voice of Free Planet X. This week's security alerts are malware has started generating fake infringement notices and incidental risks to privacy and security exposed with the iPhone. In this w This is news cast 154. In the intro, remarking the end on the Voice of Free Planet X. This week's security alerts are malware has started generating fake infringement notices and incidental risks to privacy and security exposed with the iPhone. In this week’s news, Real set to launch a DVD copying product despite the presence of existing better though not entirely legal tools and the history of DVD copying product thus far, user reaction to EA's choice of DRM for the hot game Spore inspires them to bomb its Amazon reviews so much so that there were some shenanigans around those reviews, a legislative test balloon for giving open source more support in government IT, Samba's Jeremy Allison talks about mentors and other tools to help the self taught programmer. Following up this week, it is that time to start talking about e-voting as the GAO criticize the certification process for testing labs and Neil McAllister takes a look at the Chromium source code in the wake of the big launch. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-09-10 Interview: Beatnik Turtle, Fixed (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/09/10/beatnik_turtle_2/ This is a feature cast.

Listener feedback is overdue this week in the form an a lengthy but appreciated email from Walker.

The feature this week is an interview with indie band and all around superb guys, Beatnik Turtle. Mentioned in the show is the awesome companion site, The Indie Band Survival Guide, to go along with Jason's and Randy's newly published book. We also mentioned Brad Sucks who as it happens just released his second album.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:50:37 -0400 tclp-20080910-interview-beatnik-turtle-fixed- This is a feature cast. Listener feedback is overdue this week in the form an a lengthy but appreciated email from Walker. The feature this week is an interview with indie band and all around superb guys, Beatnik Turtle. Mentioned in the show is the awes This is a feature cast. Listener feedback is overdue this week in the form an a lengthy but appreciated email from Walker. The feature this week is an interview with indie band and all around superb guys, Beatnik Turtle. Mentioned in the show is the awesome companion site, The Indie Band Survival Guide, to go along with Jason's and Randy's newly published book. We also mentioned Brad Sucks who as it happens just released his second album. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-09-07 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/09/07/news_153/ This is news cast 153.

This week's security alerts are captcha solving services raise difficult security questions and an up tick in the number of zombie PCs.

In this week’s news, Google enters the browser war with a comic explaining their technology and goals meanwhile Mozilla seems unconcerned, Googles over reaching EULA is definite cause for concern though they reacted quickly to address the criticisms, Washington state court deals a blow against unbalanced EULAs, and Neal Stephenson explains what is wrong with cell phones.

Following up this week, a new report shows internet capacity is outpacing demand despite the recurrent claims of a bandwidth meltdown and the Canadian DMCA may be about to fail.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:38:31 -0400 tclp-20080907-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 153. This week's security alerts are captcha solving services raise difficult security questions and an up tick in the number of zombie PCs. In this week’s news, Google enters the browser war with a comic explaining their technology and This is news cast 153. This week's security alerts are captcha solving services raise difficult security questions and an up tick in the number of zombie PCs. In this week’s news, Google enters the browser war with a comic explaining their technology and goals meanwhile Mozilla seems unconcerned, Googles over reaching EULA is definite cause for concern though they reacted quickly to address the criticisms, Washington state court deals a blow against unbalanced EULAs, and Neal Stephenson explains what is wrong with cell phones. Following up this week, a new report shows internet capacity is outpacing demand despite the recurrent claims of a bandwidth meltdown and the Canadian DMCA may be about to fail. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-09-03 Copyright Panel at Dragon*Con 2008 (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/09/03/copyright_panel_dc08/ This is a feature cast.

I'm back from Dragon*Con with the first of two pieces of audio I acquired there. Thanks to the entire DragonPod staff for making this my best one yet, especially as a volunteer. Special thanks above and beyond to Sam Chupp for making this audio, in particular, possible.

The feature this week is the audio from the legal issues and podcasting panel at Dragon*Con 2008, otherwise known as the copyright or creative commons panel. I was delighted to have Randy and Jason from Beatnik Turtle and Courtney back this year. It was a treat to have Geek Radio's The Vicar, Jon Stallard, on the panel and a regret that Matthew Wayne Selznick was not at Dragon*Con this year so unable to join us.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:54:37 -0400 tclp-20080903-copyright-panel-at-dragoncon-2008 This is a feature cast. I'm back from Dragon*Con with the first of two pieces of audio I acquired there. Thanks to the entire DragonPod staff for making this my best one yet, especially as a volunteer. Special thanks above and beyond to Sam Chupp for mak This is a feature cast. I'm back from Dragon*Con with the first of two pieces of audio I acquired there. Thanks to the entire DragonPod staff for making this my best one yet, especially as a volunteer. Special thanks above and beyond to Sam Chupp for making this audio, in particular, possible. The feature this week is the audio from the legal issues and podcasting panel at Dragon*Con 2008, otherwise known as the copyright or creative commons panel. I was delighted to have Randy and Jason from Beatnik Turtle and Courtney back this year. It was a treat to have Geek Radio's The Vicar, Jon Stallard, on the panel and a regret that Matthew Wayne Selznick was not at Dragon*Con this year so unable to join us. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-08-24 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/08/24/news_152/ This is news cast 152.

In the intro, the last reminder I'll be at Dragon*Con from the 29th to the 1st so there'll be no show on the 27th or the 31st.

This week's security alerts are a clipboard hijacknig attack and a new crypto attack from Adi Shamir.

In this week’s news, recent Google outages beg some serious questions about cloud computing, a new visual search engine for finding possible infringements, a judge rules fair use should be a consideration in DMCA takedowns, and question whether standardizing on JavaScript may have been a mistake.

Following up this week, Elektra v. Barker was settled and a victory for the MIT students against the MBTAthough the 1st Amendment issues were dodged. Apparently the transit authority itself has admitted to problems and is undertaking some spin control though the students story has consistently been one of cooperation throughout.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:57:00 -0400 tclp-20080824-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 152. In the intro, the last reminder I'll be at Dragon*Con from the 29th to the 1st so there'll be no show on the 27th or the 31st. This week's security alerts are a clipboard hijacknig attack and a new crypto attack from Adi Shamir. In This is news cast 152. In the intro, the last reminder I'll be at Dragon*Con from the 29th to the 1st so there'll be no show on the 27th or the 31st. This week's security alerts are a clipboard hijacknig attack and a new crypto attack from Adi Shamir. In this week’s news, recent Google outages beg some serious questions about cloud computing, a new visual search engine for finding possible infringements, a judge rules fair use should be a consideration in DMCA takedowns, and question whether standardizing on JavaScript may have been a mistake. Following up this week, Elektra v. Barker was settled and a victory for the MIT students against the MBTAthough the 1st Amendment issues were dodged. Apparently the transit authority itself has admitted to problems and is undertaking some spin control though the students story has consistently been one of cooperation throughout. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-08-20 Hacking 101: Errors and Exceptions (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/08/20/errors_exceptions/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro, a heads up that I will again be traveling to Dragon*Con in one weeks where I will be volunteering, among other things, on the podcasting track. If you'll be at the con or live in the area, let me know, I'd love to organize a mini-meetup.

There is also time to submit questions, written or as audio, for the audio promo. And if you don't regularly read the web site, there has been an interesting discussion on the latest week in review post.

The hacker word of the week this week is dike.

The feature this week is a new Hacking 101 on errors and exceptions. You may also be interested in the older Inner Chapter on failures and errors, I think the two pieces complement each other nicely. Also, here is the Wikipedia entry on design by contract which I mention in the feature.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:15:52 -0400 tclp-20080820-hacking-101-errors-and-exceptions This is a feature cast. In the intro, a heads up that I will again be traveling to Dragon*Con in one weeks where I will be volunteering, among other things, on the podcasting track. If you'll be at the con or live in the area, let me know, I'd love to or This is a feature cast. In the intro, a heads up that I will again be traveling to Dragon*Con in one weeks where I will be volunteering, among other things, on the podcasting track. If you'll be at the con or live in the area, let me know, I'd love to organize a mini-meetup. There is also time to submit questions, written or as audio, for the audio promo. And if you don't regularly read the web site, there has been an interesting discussion on the latest week in review post. The hacker word of the week this week is dike. The feature this week is a new Hacking 101 on errors and exceptions. You may also be interested in the older Inner Chapter on failures and errors, I think the two pieces complement each other nicely. Also, here is the Wikipedia entry on design by contract which I mention in the feature. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-08-17 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/08/17/news_151/ This is news cast 151.

In the intro, another reminder I'll be at Dragon*Con from the 29th to the 1st so there'll be no show on the 27th or the 31st. Also, send me your audio or written questions to help with the audio promo.

This week's security alerts are an automated tool for hijacking session cookies and password reset tools are almost as bad as poor password security itself.

In this week’s news, the EFF has stepped in to defend the MIT students who were enjoined from presenting at DefCon even though the students clearly cooperated with the MBTA and an official back their version of events but despite considerable support the the gag order stands until at least next week, a key decision in support of open source licenses which may mean it is time to get more legal experts involved and that there may be a need to clarify who this may also affect the enforcement of EULAs, using CAPTCHAs to help digitize text, and the push for JavaScript has renewed despite some change in focus.

Following up this week, music streaming service Pandora may be closing up shop and RIAA pays defendants legal fees with interest.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:54:58 -0400 tclp-20080817-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 151. In the intro, another reminder I'll be at Dragon*Con from the 29th to the 1st so there'll be no show on the 27th or the 31st. Also, send me your audio or written questions to help with the audio promo. This week's security alerts a This is news cast 151. In the intro, another reminder I'll be at Dragon*Con from the 29th to the 1st so there'll be no show on the 27th or the 31st. Also, send me your audio or written questions to help with the audio promo. This week's security alerts are an automated tool for hijacking session cookies and password reset tools are almost as bad as poor password security itself. In this week’s news, the EFF has stepped in to defend the MIT students who were enjoined from presenting at DefCon even though the students clearly cooperated with the MBTA and an official back their version of events but despite considerable support the the gag order stands until at least next week, a key decision in support of open source licenses which may mean it is time to get more legal experts involved and that there may be a need to clarify who this may also affect the enforcement of EULAs, using CAPTCHAs to help digitize text, and the push for JavaScript has renewed despite some change in focus. Following up this week, music streaming service Pandora may be closing up shop and RIAA pays defendants legal fees with interest. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-08-13 Inner Chapter: Inspiration (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/08/13/inspiration/ This is a feature cast.

In the intro, a heads up that I will again be traveling to Dragon*Con in two short weeks where I will be volunteering, among other things, on the podcasting track.

The hacker word of the week this week is defflicted.

The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on inspiration.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:31:45 -0400 tclp-20080813-inner-chapter-inspiration-commen This is a feature cast. In the intro, a heads up that I will again be traveling to Dragon*Con in two short weeks where I will be volunteering, among other things, on the podcasting track. The hacker word of the week this week is defflicted. The feature t This is a feature cast. In the intro, a heads up that I will again be traveling to Dragon*Con in two short weeks where I will be volunteering, among other things, on the podcasting track. The hacker word of the week this week is defflicted. The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on inspiration. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-08-10 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/08/10/news_150/ This is news cast 149.

In the intro, final thoughts on the Reiser case.

This week's security alerts are full details on the DNS flaw including attacks few had considered though there appears to be an exploitable regression in one patch already and three reporters ejected from Black Hat for hacking.

In this week’s news, a software solution to unreliable storage media, HEA act finalized in both the House and Senate including provisions for universities to filter their networks, the EFF launches a new project to educate and protect coders, and considering ubiquitous data in the cloud.

Following up this week, Judge in Thomas case may consider a mistrial/re-trial and Blizzard seeking to stop open source release of Glider code.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:05:37 -0400 tclp-20080810-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 149. In the intro, final thoughts on the Reiser case. This week's security alerts are full details on the DNS flaw including attacks few had considered though there appears to be an exploitable regression in one patch already and three This is news cast 149. In the intro, final thoughts on the Reiser case. This week's security alerts are full details on the DNS flaw including attacks few had considered though there appears to be an exploitable regression in one patch already and three reporters ejected from Black Hat for hacking. In this week’s news, a software solution to unreliable storage media, HEA act finalized in both the House and Senate including provisions for universities to filter their networks, the EFF launches a new project to educate and protect coders, and considering ubiquitous data in the cloud. Following up this week, Judge in Thomas case may consider a mistrial/re-trial and Blizzard seeking to stop open source release of Glider code. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-08-06 Rant: Steam Punk (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/08/06/steam_punk/ This is a feature cast.

The hacker word of the week this week is demon.

The feature this week is a rant on my sole complaint with the genre of steam punk.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:06:10 -0400 tclp-20080806-rant-steam-punk-comment-line-240 This is a feature cast. The hacker word of the week this week is demon. The feature this week is a rant on my sole complaint with the genre of steam punk. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://theco This is a feature cast. The hacker word of the week this week is demon. The feature this week is a rant on my sole complaint with the genre of steam punk. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-08-03 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/08/03/news_149/ This is news cast 149.

In the intro, a quick discussion of my new personal software project and a reminder on the testing of the new Ogg feed and contributions to the audio promo.

This week's security alerts are an exploit that uses the near ubiquitous automatic software update channels and a new attack that embeds executable Java in innocuous image files.

In this week’s news, debating whether Congress members should be able to use the same online tools as the rest of us, affordable ads for individual to buy speaking out against telecom immunity, the EFF releases their ISP testing tool, and a Congressional investigation turns up the DHS procedures on the contested US border seizures of personal laptops.

Following up this week, the FCC rules against Comcast though some are questioning its legal ability to enforce that ruling and Tim O'Reilly's thoughts on open cloud computing.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:07:18 -0400 tclp-20080803-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 149. In the intro, a quick discussion of my new personal software project and a reminder on the testing of the new Ogg feed and contributions to the audio promo. This week's security alerts are an exploit that uses the near ubiquitous a This is news cast 149. In the intro, a quick discussion of my new personal software project and a reminder on the testing of the new Ogg feed and contributions to the audio promo. This week's security alerts are an exploit that uses the near ubiquitous automatic software update channels and a new attack that embeds executable Java in innocuous image files. In this week’s news, debating whether Congress members should be able to use the same online tools as the rest of us, affordable ads for individual to buy speaking out against telecom immunity, the EFF releases their ISP testing tool, and a Congressional investigation turns up the DHS procedures on the contested US border seizures of personal laptops. Following up this week, the FCC rules against Comcast though some are questioning its legal ability to enforce that ruling and Tim O'Reilly's thoughts on open cloud computing. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-07-30 Grass Roots Hacktivism (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/07/31/grass_roots_hacktivismgrass_roots_hacktivism/ This is a feature cast.

Listener feedback this week is from Matt, Kaity and Bashar.

The hacker word of the week this week is demo.

The feature this week is a monologue on the topic of grass roots hacktivism.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:43:26 -0400 tclp-20080730-grass-roots-hacktivism-comment-li This is a feature cast. Listener feedback this week is from Matt, Kaity and Bashar. The hacker word of the week this week is demo. The feature this week is a monologue on the topic of grass roots hacktivism. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, This is a feature cast. Listener feedback this week is from Matt, Kaity and Bashar. The hacker word of the week this week is demo. The feature this week is a monologue on the topic of grass roots hacktivism. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-07-27 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/07/h7/news_148 This is news cast 147.

In the intro, a quick review of Settlers of Catan.

The only security alert this week is a lengthy discussion of Kaminsky's research on a DNS cache poisoning problem he discovered. Despite his plan not to disclose until vendors had thirty days to patch, details have been leaked. Wired caught up with Dan to discuss how he discovered the problem and other information about it.Bruce Schneier uses the efforts to coordinate patches as an example of why the discover-disclose-patch cycle is not enough. Since details have been leaked, there is now attack code in the wild. Many of the big ISPs are still dragging their feet though you can protect yourself by using a trusted provider like OpenDNS.

In this week’s news, a comment and link from Mike Linksvayer have me considering this piece on open cloud computing, FCC comment period on MPAA's plea for a waiver on SOC with a summary of initial comments and a clearer explanation than mine from Jef at PK, asking whether some current case activity woudl invalidate many if not most software patents though PK at Groklaw is skeptical, and a new foundation to support open web standards that is different from the W3C and IETF..

Following up this week, the researchers who demonstrated the cold boot crypto attack release their code and a lament for the state of OpenID adoption.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:15:54 -0400 tclp-20080727-news-comment-line-2409492638 This is news cast 147. In the intro, a quick review of Settlers of Catan. The only security alert this week is a lengthy discussion of Kaminsky's research on a DNS cache poisoning problem he discovered. Despite his plan not to disclose until vendors had This is news cast 147. In the intro, a quick review of Settlers of Catan. The only security alert this week is a lengthy discussion of Kaminsky's research on a DNS cache poisoning problem he discovered. Despite his plan not to disclose until vendors had thirty days to patch, details have been leaked. Wired caught up with Dan to discuss how he discovered the problem and other information about it.Bruce Schneier uses the efforts to coordinate patches as an example of why the discover-disclose-patch cycle is not enough. Since details have been leaked, there is now attack code in the wild. Many of the big ISPs are still dragging their feet though you can protect yourself by using a trusted provider like OpenDNS. In this week’s news, a comment and link from Mike Linksvayer have me considering this piece on open cloud computing, FCC comment period on MPAA's plea for a waiver on SOC with a summary of initial comments and a clearer explanation than mine from Jef at PK, asking whether some current case activity woudl invalidate many if not most software patents though PK at Groklaw is skeptical, and a new foundation to support open web standards that is different from the W3C and IETF.. Following up this week, the researchers who demonstrated the cold boot crypto attack release their code and a lament for the state of OpenID adoption. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. TCLP 2008-07-23 The Last HOPE (Comment Line 240-949-2638) http://thecommandline.net/2008/07/23/last_hope/ This is a feature cast.

Listener feedback this week is from psionandy, who sent a couple of links, and Matt.

The hacker word of the week this week is demigod.

The feature this week is an interview with long time listener and friend, Wouter de Bie, who attended the Last HOPE in NYC this past weekend.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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]]> Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:28:18 -0400 tclp-20080723-the-last-hope-comment-line-24094 This is a feature cast. Listener feedback this week is from psionandy, who sent a couple of links, and Matt. The hacker word of the week this week is demigod. The feature this week is an interview with long time listener and friend, Wouter de Bie, who at This is a feature cast. Listener feedback this week is from psionandy, who sent a couple of links, and Matt. The hacker word of the week this week is demigod. The feature this week is an interview with long time listener and friend, Wouter de Bie, who attended the Last HOPE in NYC this past weekend. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. nonadult