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    <title>cmdln.net_2008-03-16</title>
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    <outline text="Intro" Offset="00:17">
      <outline text="Help Escape Pod grow">
        <outline text="http://escapepod.org/"/>
        <outline text="Consider donating"/>
        <outline text="Listen to the metacast for other ways to help"/>
        <outline text="http://escapepod.org/2008/03/11/ep-metacast-3/"/>
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    <outline text="Listener feedback" Offset="04:05"/>
    <outline text="Security Alerts" Offset="10:29">
      <outline text="More details on hacking medial devices" Offset="10:49">
        <outline text="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/hacking_medical_1.html"/>
        <outline text="Researchers in the lab were able to read private data"/>
        <outline text="Sniffed normal RF messages from implantable device"/>
        <outline text="Also able to alter control settings"/>
        <outline text="Could disable or send a jolt that might have fatal results"/>
        <outline text="Researchers want device makers to consider security"/>
        <outline text="No known attacks"/>
        <outline text="Utility of devices still outweighs attack risk"/>
        <outline text="Schneier thinks the maker just overlooked it"/>
        <outline text="Vendor is being naive in its response"/>
        <outline text="Claims it used proprietary security technology"/>
        <outline text="At odds with researchers seeing data in the clear over RF"/>
        <outline text="Any place a general purpose computer goes, now, security has to be considered"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Inappropriate ads on kids' site" Offset="13:21">
        <outline text="http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/03/when_ads_go_bad.html"/>
        <outline text="Started with reports from a trusted source of age inappropriate ads on Neopets.com"/>
        <outline text="Not porn, per se, but for adult dating site"/>
        <outline text="Viacom, site operator, denied responsibility"/>
        <outline text="Claimed it is malware on source's system"/>
        <outline text="Said it was not possible with their ad network"/>
        <outline text="Security expert says problem can occur when ad networks sublet space"/>
        <outline text="Found another example, even less appropriate"/>
        <outline text="From adware company, Zango"/>
        <outline text="Zango admits to issue, to be looking into it"/>
        <outline text="Shows that you have to be even more vigilant as parent"/>
        <outline text="Reminds me to talk to my kids, both like Neopets.com"/>
        <outline text="Had been using Safari, may switch to Firefox only with NoScript"/>
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    <outline text="News" Offset="16:08">
      <outline text="Insider's story about Atari" Offset="16:22">
        <outline text="http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=987"/>
        <outline text="Captures the spirit of hacking on little known system">
          <outline text="Hard won knowledge through trial and error"/>
          <outline text="Especially appreciate the image of the visual design on graph paper"/>
          <outline text="Color triplets cribbed in the margin"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="At the time, the industry was small enough for an enthusiast to get hired"/>
        <outline text="Studying the game he was to port during down time shows enthusiasm">
          <outline text="This despite his obvious dislike of DK"/>
          <outline text="Turned out this was a necessity"/>
          <outline text="Licensing deals at the time were simple"/>
          <outline text="No support from then original game maker"/>
          <outline text="This explains why my memories of some ports revealed why they were so bad"/>
          <outline text="Were basically just licensing the name"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Another indicator of trouble, that management received his draft spec as final"/>
        <outline text="Also captures what it is to be a young hacker">
          <outline text="Oblivious all nighters"/>
          <outline text="Working just for the joy of it"/>
          <outline text="Would have done it anyway"/>
          <outline text="Some of the late hours were necessitate by time sharing on a DG mini"/>
          <outline text="Same vintage machine my Dad used for business when I was first hacking"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="First day and experience with room mate as a portent of ho things were to be">
          <outline text="Little out of order, mentions the spec first"/>
          <outline text="Clearly that was after realizing average skill level as low"/>
          <outline text="Seeing setting up an 800 as something needing special knowledge"/>
          <outline text="I had access to an 800 in grade school, could probably have figured it out then"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Self taught, arriving at important of code comments and finding ways to ease development"/>
        <outline text="Tales of decline mirror later bubbles">
          <outline text="Excess on achieving success"/>
          <outline text="Over hiring, usually of under qualified staff"/>
          <outline text="Rush to deliver, nothing ever gets done with enough quality"/>
          <outline text="Drastic adjustment to try to stay afloat"/>
          <outline text="Ultimately nothing works"/>
        </outline>
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      <outline text="KY legislator wants to ban anonymous free speech online" Offset="21:36">
        <outline text="http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/BAaf/~3/249257306/20080310-lawmakers-attempt-to-criminalize-anonymous-posting-doomed.html"/>
        <outline text="Proposed state law in Kentucky by legislator Tim Couch"/>
        <outline text="Would require all service providers to collect detailed identifying information">
          <outline text="Also that some of this info be carried along with post"/>
          <outline text="And allow procedures for revealing the rest"/>
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        <outline text="Case law has repeatedly supported that state regulation of the internet violates the commerce clause"/>
        <outline text="Also runs afoul of freedom of speech"/>
        <outline text="Might also seem to violate CDA safe harbor">
          <outline text="Doesn't speak to identity"/>
          <outline text="But does speak to operators responsibilities to monitor, intervene"/>
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        <outline text="Certainly is against our traditional conception of anonymous publication"/>
        <outline text="Couch admits he doesn't expect the bill to pass or stand if it does"/>
        <outline text="Says he wants to call attention to online bullying"/>
        <outline text="Gross waste of tax payers money, state legislations time"/>
        <outline text="Already laws to deal with real harms, like defamation"/>
        <outline text="Bullying is one risk of supporting anonymous free speech"/>
        <outline text="In the case of online fora, have a choice, can always leave"/>
        <outline text="Providers often have abuse mechanisms, though some burden of proof has to be met"/>
        <outline text="Norms are going to be fuzzy, some will always disagree, have a lower threshold"/>
        <outline text="Externally enforced standards of behavior rarely work, see Code 2.0 for plenty of examples"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Examining gap between desired privacy and accepted privacy" Offset="24:35">
        <outline text="http://feeds.freedom-to-tinker.com/~r/freedom-to-tinker/~3/249492490/"/>
        <outline text="Customers claim to want more privacy"/>
        <outline text="Yet still give custom to companies that don't provide adequate protection"/>
        <outline text="Privacy contracts are hard for customers to decipher"/>
        <outline text="Signals of good intention on privacy are easy to fake"/>
        <outline text="In both cases, incentive to sellout may become too great"/>
        <outline text="Customers need to be willing to pay enough to offset lure of selling out"/>
        <outline text="Won't do so without some real expectation of privacy"/>
        <outline text="Overcoming commitment gap around privacy">
          <outline text="http://feeds.freedom-to-tinker.com/~r/freedom-to-tinker/~3/250313641/"/>
          <outline text="A standard contract could alleviate burden of customer review"/>
          <outline text="Enforcement could be done with up front escrow from provider"/>
          <outline text="How to prevent cheating from parties unafraid of breach-of-contract?"/>
          <outline text="Could stipulate using third part for storage of private data"/>
          <outline text="Companies implement to an API but more reliable operator held liable"/>
          <outline text="Significant technical challenges to adequately walling off"/>
          <outline text="What prevents application provider from skimming data it forwards to permanent storage elsewhere?"/>
          <outline text="Not a perfect solution, but good thought on possible solutions"/>
          <outline text="Like PunchScan, 3-Ballot for e-voting"/>
          <outline text="Someone needs to keep the conversation going"/>
          <outline text="How do you involve consumers again who appear to have given up?"/>
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      <outline text="Verizon, standards group tries to improve on P2P rather than stop it" Offset="28:14">
        <outline text="http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/BAaf/~3/251360113/20080314-verizon-embraces-p4p-a-more-efficient-peer-to-peer-tech.html"/>
        <outline text="Technology is being developed by The Distributed Computing Industry Association's P4P workgroup"/>
        <outline text="Verizon has been testing the new protocol"/>
        <outline text="Reports improvement in download performance, reduction in congestion"/>
        <outline text="Hook a feedback loop into P2P clients"/>
        <outline text="Lets network operators tell clients about conditions that will inform their selection of peers"/>
        <outline text="Clients will make decisions that yield more efficient routing"/>
        <outline text="Adds management to P2P without just trying to slow or bar it"/>
        <outline text="Verizon and working group lobbying for standard"/>
        <outline text="In many ways and admission P2P is here to stay"/>
        <outline text="Would require operators to reveal some aspects of their topology"/>
        <outline text="Would regain some measure of control that they have lost"/>
        <outline text="Stated goal is to support only legitimate uses, how can they tell?"/>
        <outline text="What stops P2P applications from abusing this new information?"/>
        <outline text="Many have argued motivation for P2P is flat out fast download, regardless of impact on network"/>
        <outline text="I see a subtle implication of continued interference with non-P4P traffic to drive new standard"/>
        <outline text="Still seems like a win-win, especially since tests show such good results"/>
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    <outline text="tail -f" Offset="32:15">
      <outline text="More examples of fan funded artists" Offset="32:35">
        <outline text="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MichaelGeistsBlog/~3/250020609/"/>
        <outline text="Includes Jill Sobule that Kelly mentioned"/>
        <outline text="Other examples of up front micro-funding or patronage"/>
        <outline text="Another micro-funding site, Slicethepie.com"/>
        <outline text="No examples of other models"/>
        <outline text="Raises same question of risk"/>
        <outline text="Fundable.com addresses directly"/>
        <outline text="Slicethepie.com apparently doesn't address as clearly"/>
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      <outline text="Scalzi on 1K True Fans essay" Offset="33:31">
        <outline text="http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=484"/>
        <outline text="Understands why Kelly's idea appeals"/>
        <outline text="Kelly admits it is not entirely his idea, just names it"/>
        <outline text="Suggests some reasons the model is not as simple as Kelly describes"/>
        <outline text="The are all about the practicalities of genre fiction"/>
        <outline text="Don't disagree with any of them"/>
        <outline text="Don't think it erodes the argument that you have to be a best seller"/>
        <outline text="Concluding point is valid, 1KTF is no short cut to success"/>
        <outline text="Doesn't invalidate the idea of new, alternate models"/>
        <outline text="Just suggests they take hard work, too"/>
        <outline text="My take is that the more venues there are to success, the easier it is for a new creator to succeed"/>
        <outline text="Certainly doesn't guarantee success"/>
        <outline text="Doesn't pin success on traditional gatekeepers, though, opens more bottom up opportunities"/>
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    <outline text="Outro" Offset="35:34">
      <outline text="Contact me">
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