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    <title>cmdln.net_2007-04-22</title>
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    <outline text="Intro" Offset="00:17">
      <outline text="DSL is out again">
        <outline text="SpeakEasy wants me tromping around in the ivy to troubleshoot"/>
        <outline text="Order DSL from the local RBOC"/>
        <outline text="Will cancel exisiting DSL through SpeakEasy, Covad"/>
        <outline text="Wanted Fiber but can't get it"/>
        <outline text="Maybe it will be better with only one provider to yell at instead of three"/>
        <outline text="At least it is cheaper for the same data rates"/>
        <outline text="ToS suck, but have moved all hosting out of the house"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="BaltiCon 41">
        <outline text="Memorial day weekend, May 25th-28th"/>
        <outline text="http://balticon.org/"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="My public radio talent quest entry">
        <outline text="http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/359"/>
        <outline text="I'd love to take a sabbatical and produce a radio program"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Moment of silence for VT, JSC tragedies"/>
    </outline>
    <outline text="Security Alerts" Offset="04:47">
      <outline text="Bad security products pushing out the good" Offset="05:06">
        <outline text="http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/topheadlines/~3/110231890/securitymatters_0419"/>
        <outline text="Refers to the Tweakers.net review of Secustick"/>
        <outline text="I wrote about that, too"/>
        <outline text="Qualifies Secustick as snake oil"/>
        <outline text="http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9902.html#snakeoil"/>
        <outline text="Ask the larger question of how so many bad products thrive"/>
        <outline text="References an economic model based on asymmetric information">
          <outline text="If the seller has more info, the buyer will base willingness to buy on averages"/>
          <outline text="Talked about unverifiable claims in his snake oil paper"/>
          <outline text="Quickly leads to a spiral where mediocre products pin the market and quality and price mutually decline"/>
          <outline text="Wonders that in security, if even an expert cannot differentiate claims, how can the average buyer?"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Also mentions time to market and feature vs. security compromises"/>
        <outline text="Does propose some solutions">
          <outline text="Signals, like warranties"/>
          <outline text="Availability of experts for hire"/>
          <outline text="Does indicate that even these are hard and turn out to be less helpful in practice"/>
        </outline>
      </outline>
      <outline text="JavaScripts attacks now using obfuscation" Offset="09:29">
        <outline text="http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/04/20/javascript_obfuscation_attacks/"/>
        <outline text="Coupled with AJAX vulnerabilities, flaws, indicates an alarming trend"/>
        <outline text="Marks a shift from the victim to fooling the analyst, researcher"/>
        <outline text="Refers to Jikto, which I saw demonstrated at ShmooCon"/>
        <outline text="Think metasploit for AJAX"/>
        <outline text="Also mentions that Jikto sources were leaked"/>
        <outline text="I find that a more credible reason for AJAX malware to worsen"/>
      </outline>
    </outline>
    <outline text="News" Offset="11:06">
      <outline text="Teen pranks YouTube with fake DMCA takedown" Offset="11:21">
        <outline text="http://techdirt.com/articles/20070416/003202.shtml"/>
        <outline text="According to the article">
          <outline text="Show was &quot;The Chaser's War on Everything&quot;"/>
          <outline text="The show producers were happy to have clips posted"/>
          <outline text="Apparently is a prank show, so may have inspired the teen"/>
          <outline text="Filing a bogus takedown is illegal"/>
          <outline text="Teen sent a letter representing himself as being from the ABC"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="This is not surprising in the least, given the climate"/>
        <outline text="Companies consistently abuse all flavors of IP law"/>
        <outline text="This only differs in that a third party was involved"/>
        <outline text="Where is the incentive for the host to verify false claims?"/>
        <outline text="Fair use is so murky and no allowances for the positive effects of discovery"/>
        <outline text="A CC license might have helped this"/>
        <outline text="Might have at least put this in a court and positively tested CC"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="YouTube auto filtering almost ready" Offset="15:20">
        <outline text="http://feeds.downloadsquad.com/~r/weblogsinc/downloadsquad/~3/109781155/"/>
        <outline text="No details on how it will work"/>
        <outline text="&quot;Claim Your Content&quot; implies perhaps an automated takedown?"/>
        <outline text="Articles all seem to imply it auto detects protected material"/>
        <outline text="What little details I could find bolster the interpretation of automated takedown"/>
        <outline text="If that is so, what about counter claims?"/>
        <outline text="Some read the delays as an unwillingness by Google to stem infringement"/>
        <outline text="As many others have pointed out, none of this excuses the utter cluelessness of big media"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Microsoft takes on OLPC" Offset="17:57">
        <outline text="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6571139.stm"/>
        <outline text="The OLPC plenary session at ShmooCon made the projects goal clear"/>
        <outline text="Distribute and enable independent education"/>
        <outline text="Not about creating more Linux users"/>
        <outline text="Distinct UI makes it clear its not a play to foster any given platform"/>
        <outline text="Ethos of user ownership also supports that"/>
        <outline text="Microsoft's play has little to do with helping developing nations"/>
        <outline text="You cannot own Vista or Office"/>
        <outline text="Developing nations will need to supply the computers to qualify"/>
        <outline text="Compare to Google's scheme, free app downloads, even some support"/>
        <outline text="Does raise consciousness, Intel and AMD have hardware offerings"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Software releases" Offset="22:11">
        <outline text="ThunderBird 2.0.0 released">
          <outline text="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/slashdot/eqWf/~3/110311089/article.pl"/>
          <outline text="I've been the beta using this for a while"/>
          <outline text="A good incremental improvement over 1.5"/>
          <outline text="With Lightning, is a pretty good Outlook replacement"/>
          <outline text="Will have to see if issues have been addressed">
            <outline text="Recognized Outlook invites"/>
            <outline text="Removing tags"/>
          </outline>
        </outline>
        <outline text="New Ubuntu release">
          <outline text="http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu704"/>
          <outline text="So popular that users swamped the download servers"/>
          <outline text="Live CDs, so easy to test out"/>
          <outline text="Not a lot of details on what the release includes"/>
          <outline text="Unclear what relation, if any, this bears to features, packages in Etch"/>
        </outline>
      </outline>
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    <outline text="tail -f" Offset="25:11">
      <outline text="Jamendo does discovery right" Offset="25:29">
        <outline text="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7406"/>
        <outline text="I've been pretty happy with Jamendo"/>
        <outline text="Recently surpassed some sales benchmarks">
          <outline text="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7301"/>
          <outline text="One millionth download"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Like Magnatunes, their catalog is available for streaming"/>
        <outline text="Makes it easier to just shuffle through and happen upon good music"/>
        <outline text="Added a search feature that takes a known artist and provides recommendations"/>
        <outline text="Jamendo+Radioblog"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Judge denies appeal over webcaster rates" Offset="27:37">
        <outline text="http://techdirt.com/articles/20070416/152555.shtml"/>
        <outline text="Some had predicted this would blow over"/>
        <outline text="Cited that the last time the CRB raised rates, it was protested and they yielded"/>
        <outline text="In the past Congress allowed smaller casters to pay a fraction of revenue rather than CRB rates"/>
        <outline text="CRB judges rejected claims and refused to move May 15th deadline"/>
        <outline text="Opponents will definitely appeal"/>
        <outline text="Some also have started campaign to raise awareness"/>
        <outline text="Will also run afoul of pending deadline"/>
        <outline text="Still threatens to put small casters out of business and pinch larger ones"/>
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    <outline text="Outro" Offset="29:01">
      <outline text="Contact me">
        <outline text="Email to feedback@thecommandline.net"/>
        <outline text="Web site at http://thecommandline.net/"/>
        <outline text="IM to command.line@skype"/>
        <outline text="Listener comment line is 360-252-7284"/>
        <outline text="del.icio.us tag is &quot;for:cmdln&quot;"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="I'd like to thank libsyn.com for AAC hosting and Wouter de Bie for MP3 hosting"/>
      <outline text="These notes and the show audio and music are covered by a Creative Commons license">
        <outline text="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/"/>
        <outline text="Attribution, non-commercial, share alike"/>
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