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    <outline text="Intro" Offset="00:17">
      <outline text="Open Media Review">
        <outline text="New site edited by Mur Lafferty"/>
        <outline text="Podcaster, author, currently podcasting her novel"/>
        <outline text="Formerly of Lulu.tv, Open Media Watch"/>
        <outline text="Asked me to contribute"/>
        <outline text="Will be writing about tech, news"/>
        <outline text="Will also be contributing to taste making pieces, &quot;favorites&quot;"/>
        <outline text="Feel free to suggest a link"/>
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    <outline text="Listener Feedback" Offset="2:49">
      <outline text="Wouter on Dutch RFID travel pass">
        <outline text="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4252367680974396650"/>
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    <outline text="Security Alerts" Offset="07:59">
      <outline text="Home router attack spotted in the wild" Offset="08:18">
        <outline text="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/23/pharming_attack_in_the_wild/"/>
        <outline text="This is apparently a XSRF at its core"/>
        <outline text="Delivered via embedded JavaScript in emails"/>
        <outline text="Attacks the web interfaces in home routers"/>
        <outline text="Uses malicious DNS servers to alter the name to address mapping"/>
        <outline text="A form of phishing or pharming attack"/>
        <outline text="Meant to collect users identities for profit"/>
        <outline text="Doesn't specify which home routers"/>
        <outline text="Can almost certainly be foiled by changing your routers password"/>
        <outline text="May help to disable HTML rendering in email"/>
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      <outline text="Confirmed data leakage bug in Firefox" Offset="10:19">
        <outline text="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/24/firefox_data_leakage_bug/"/>
        <outline text="Researcher, Gerry Eisenhaur, posted proof of concept code"/>
        <outline text="Window Snyder confirmed"/>
        <outline text="The bug is in the chrome protocol"/>
        <outline text="With certain extensions installed, allows directory traversal"/>
        <outline text="If you don't have those extensions, you are not vulnerable"/>
        <outline text="No comprehensive list"/>
        <outline text="No instructions on determining if your extensions are in the risk category"/>
        <outline text="Could be used to determine programs present for a more invasive attack"/>
        <outline text="Disabling JavaScript or using NoScript extension will work short term"/>
        <outline text="Security team is working on a fix"/>
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    </outline>
    <outline text="News" Offset="12:55">
      <outline text="Tiny, distributed virtual worlds" Offset="13:09">
        <outline text="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/220224038/metaplace-tiny-perso.html"/>
        <outline text="A cute idea"/>
        <outline text="Been tried before, see VRML"/>
        <outline text="Authoring does sound simpler"/>
        <outline text="Client is a Flash application, rather than requiring direct browser support"/>
        <outline text="Flash limits it to 2D worlds, so even as capable as VRML was"/>
        <outline text="Emphasis on presence may also be different"/>
        <outline text="I think the synchronous nature may be part of the drawback"/>
        <outline text="Have to draw like a traditional MMORPG"/>
        <outline text="Not for the casual content site, need to understand building a synchronous destination"/>
        <outline text="Premium hosting may be other limiter"/>
        <outline text="For all its warts, VRML was as free as HTML"/>
        <outline text="Other existing content services don't charge for hosting"/>
        <outline text="Subsidize via ads, offer premium as an option"/>
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      <outline text="First ever album released under CC, endorsed by collecting societies" Offset="16:38">
        <outline text="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/220867430/firstever-electronic.html"/>
        <outline text="In book publishing, others have pioneered free distribution with traditional sales"/>
        <outline text="This is apparently the first music to do so"/>
        <outline text="The collecting society is in Denmark, which seems to me to be progressive"/>
        <outline text="Proves that the model can work"/>
        <outline text="Remains to be seen how well the commercial uses go"/>
        <outline text="The CC license is explicitly non-commercial"/>
        <outline text="The deal may apply more widely to the label in question"/>
        <outline text="This boils down to a similar experiment to Radiohead, but with a smaller player"/>
        <outline text="Still, one single hit #4 on the Danish national charts, so not entirely obscure"/>
        <outline text="Radiohead could do so because they are established"/>
        <outline text="Interesting to note the label has a PayPal donate button on the download page"/>
        <outline text="Tone should benefit by the increases exposure"/>
        <outline text="Commercially, the album is coming out in multiple formats"/>
        <outline text="Label seems more innovative, trying to create more choices value"/>
        <outline text="The for pay option does seem to be more than the free version"/>
        <outline text="Similar to the Radiohead boxed set"/>
        <outline text="Still, this seems like a good way to reward fans and encourage new audience"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Inefficient code is less green?" Offset="20:57">
        <outline text="http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/01/save_the_planet_disable_adobe.html?CMP=OTC-6YE827253101&amp;ATT=Save+the+Planet+Disable+Adobe+Flash"/>
        <outline text="May have started as a lark"/>
        <outline text="Despite rationale for hating MySpace, Flash raises real issues"/>
        <outline text="Excellent details in the PDF article"/>
        <outline text="Idling is only one opportunity for power savings"/>
        <outline text="Moore's law has allowed developers to increasingly ignore efficiency"/>
        <outline text="Computational cost is more than just time"/>
        <outline text="This highlights how inefficient code can increase thermal wear, energy use"/>
        <outline text="Doesn't matter if you agree with the particulars"/>
        <outline text="A good reason to still try to write more efficient code"/>
        <outline text="Not as efficient when there were hard limits of CPU cycles"/>
        <outline text="Reminds me of other steps developers often miss"/>
        <outline text="Always a good place to get a program working correctly"/>
        <outline text="Shouldn't stop there"/>
        <outline text="Can you make it simpler, easier to maintain?"/>
        <outline text="Can you also easily improve performance without giving up simplicity?"/>
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      <outline text="Spaceship 2 supposedly has &quot;open architecture&quot;" Offset="24:12">
        <outline text="http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/BAaf/~3/222123438/20080124-spaceshiptwo-unveiled-with-open-architecture-like-linux.html"/>
        <outline text="Comparison was specifically to Linux"/>
        <outline text="Details reveal sharing of wing design, development of add ons"/>
        <outline text="A bit more like the open-ness of original IBM PCs"/>
        <outline text="Standard architecture helps enable market, innovation"/>
        <outline text="Commercial pay off of Virgin's efforts remains to be seen"/>
        <outline text="If it is successful, open-ness could help others access space"/>
        <outline text="Curious about how they will address safety?"/>
        <outline text="High risk venture, collaboration would still need to be tested"/>
        <outline text="Maybe cost savings will improve safety by freeing more money"/>
        <outline text="Nice that open aspect is intentional"/>
        <outline text="Add ons in particular seem especially practical, not marketing only"/>
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    <outline text="tail -f" Offset="28:10">
      <outline text="Explanation of &quot;standards mode&quot; in MSIE8" Offset="28:29">
        <outline text="http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/BAaf/~3/222678531/ie8-super-standards-mode.ars"/>
        <outline text="Not user selectable"/>
        <outline text="Full standards compliance breaks compatibility apparently"/>
        <outline text="This problem existed in earlier versions"/>
        <outline text="In the past tried to use doctype to figure out mode"/>
        <outline text="Mislabeling made this difficult, though"/>
        <outline text="Authors would label as standards compliant because it seemed fashionable"/>
        <outline text="Would not validate"/>
        <outline text="Meant the browser just could not tell the authors intent"/>
        <outline text="Added a third mode, requires a meta tag"/>
        <outline text="Compatible and old standards mode remain, work the same"/>
        <outline text="Meta tag actually a suggestion from WaSP"/>
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      <outline text="Spectrum auction started" Offset="31:45">
        <outline text="http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/BAaf/~3/222996933/20080125-spectrum-auction-starts-draws-over-2-7-billion-in-first-day-bids.html"/>
        <outline text="Former analog TV spectrum"/>
        <outline text="Tech companies very interest for possible national wireless broadband"/>
        <outline text="Google, others argued with Martin over open access terms"/>
        <outline text="Started on the 24th with three rounds of bidding, 214 participants"/>
        <outline text="Identity of participants private to help prevent collusion"/>
        <outline text="FCC took some heat for procedural issues"/>
        <outline text="Over 3.2B USD bid so far"/>
        <outline text="Five blocks up for bid, no reserve met on any, yet"/>
        <outline text="Block C is the one with open access provisions"/>
        <outline text="Block D will need to be shared with a national public safety network"/>
        <outline text="Both blocks have favorable propagation, penetration"/>
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    <outline text="Outro" Offset="34:06">
      <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 240-949-2638"/>
        <outline text="del.icio.us tag is &quot;for:cmdln&quot;"/>
        <outline text="http://twitter.com/cmdln"/>
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      <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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