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    <outline text="Intro" Offset="00:17">
      <outline text="No feature this past week">
        <outline text="In crunch mode at work"/>
        <outline text="DSL outage makes the logistics more time consuming"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="DSL update">
        <outline text="Activation date was Friday"/>
        <outline text="No joy"/>
        <outline text="Got a live tech Saturday and schedule a field tech to come out"/>
        <outline text="Two punch blocks"/>
        <outline text="Older one doesn't have enough copper and that's probably where the line test is show the circuit up"/>
        <outline text="Newer one probably requires special configuration"/>
        <outline text="Hopefully they can sort it quickly, considering they installed it that way in the first place"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Second anniversary coming up">
        <outline text="June 22nd"/>
        <outline text="Maybe do a feature cast on the 20th for it"/>
        <outline text="Start thinking about submissions and send them in"/>
        <outline text="IDs, promos and stories--whatever you like"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="BaltiCon">
        <outline text="May 25th through 28th"/>
        <outline text="balticon.org"/>
      </outline>
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    <outline text="Security Alerts" Offset="06:55">
      <outline text="Botnet briefing in the capital" Offset="07:14">
        <outline text="http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1150"/>
        <outline text="Sounds like a reasonable briefing"/>
        <outline text="Doesn't seem like much is needed legislatively beyond more support for research and law enforcement"/>
        <outline text="Did discuss changing the threshold in existing computer crime laws"/>
        <outline text="Felten mentions the Paul Ohm piece I discussed last week"/>
        <outline text="Good to see argument for better empiricism before tweaking legislation"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Laying physical malware traps" Offset="09:14">
        <outline text="http://www.theregister.com/2007/04/25/usb_malware/"/>
        <outline text="Conceptually similar to bypassing security by tricking user to load malware"/>
        <outline text="Trojan designed to capture banking data"/>
        <outline text="May mark shift in techniques, technological and otherwise, by same fraudsters"/>
        <outline text="Details in the article indicate this is most likely criminally motivated and organized"/>
        <outline text="Mentioned a few malware vendors, in Russia, so may also be related to the malware subscription trend"/>
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    <outline text="News" Offset="11:28">
      <outline text="Google offers panoptic sort as a feature" Offset="11:42">
        <outline text="http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-google21apr21,1,3373421.story?coll=la-headlines-technology&amp;ctrack=2&amp;cset=true"/>
        <outline text="New offering, Web History"/>
        <outline text="Opt in, thankfully"/>
        <outline text="Similar to the way bookmarks have become an online service"/>
        <outline text="With cheap, ubiquitous bookmark offerings, not sure why this is so attractive"/>
        <outline text="No expiration, though, on Google's service"/>
        <outline text="Dove tails with concerns over Double Click acquisition"/>
        <outline text="Opponents, Epic and others, claiming Google's privacy policy is deceptive"/>
        <outline text="Issue is that they do not clarify how easy it is to correlate search queries to users"/>
        <outline text="In order to stay competitive, Google is going to keep acquiring and collating more data"/>
        <outline text="Since their revenue is from ads, that is unlikely to change"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Looking at the current dot-com bubble" Offset="18:13">
        <outline text="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000843.html"/>
        <outline text="A reasonable history of the first bubble"/>
        <outline text="Scant substantiation of his claim of a second bubble, though I don't entirely disagree"/>
        <outline text="Doesn't cite anything hard but agree particularly with his points about the job market"/>
        <outline text="Good points about what is different this time around">
          <outline text="For text, agree about the ads"/>
          <outline text="Not sure other media are their yet"/>
          <outline text="Much of the new activity are new media offerings"/>
          <outline text="More computing power may be available but have we learned any better to scale?"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="What will I do different?">
          <outline text="Ignore the hype"/>
          <outline text="Some of the apps and offerings are fun, like Twitter"/>
          <outline text="I have learned if anything sounds too good to be true, it is"/>
          <outline text="Grand visions are no substitute for proven business practices"/>
          <outline text="Outside of ads, how are essentially free offerings going to make enough money to survive?"/>
          <outline text="Especially true of new media, the resistance of monetization of podcasting and video"/>
        </outline>
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      <outline text="MPAA offers lip service to fair use" Offset="23:28">
        <outline text="http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/BAaf/~3/112062966/20070426-mpaa-drm-must-be-interoperable-dvds-should-be-rippable.html"/>
        <outline text="Not likely to abandon DRM any time soon"/>
        <outline text="Instead, are pursuing interoperable DRM"/>
        <outline text="Open DRM is a joke, even easier to crack than today"/>
        <outline text="See Cory's paper on why DRM will never technically work"/>
        <outline text="http://www.craphound.com/msftdrm.txt"/>
        <outline text="Specifically the section on crypto"/>
        <outline text="According to the article, fair use ripping would still have to bear DRM"/>
        <outline text="Seem to think the problem will just sort itself"/>
        <outline text="DRM cannot anticipate new formats, devices"/>
        <outline text="So they are now conceding to proven innovation"/>
        <outline text="Still trying to keep the door closed to future innovation"/>
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      <outline text="New chip architecture" Offset="27:27">
        <outline text="http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/next-generation-high-performance-processor-unveiled-13080.html"/>
        <outline text="U of TX, Austin"/>
        <outline text="According to the article, potential to reach trillions of calculations per second"/>
        <outline text="TRIPS (Tera-op, Reliable, Intelligently adaptive Processing System), is a first prototype"/>
        <outline text="Seven years of development to date"/>
        <outline text="See it as the first step on a roadmap, hints at some longevity to the technology, which is key"/>
        <outline text="New class of processor, Explicit Data Graph Execution (EDGE)"/>
        <outline text="Apparently processes chunks of data/instructions, rather than singly"/>
        <outline text="Sounds like SIMD or MIMD on steriods"/>
        <outline text="Prototype executes 16 ops per cycle, as opposed to four"/>
        <outline text="Has two cores"/>
        <outline text="Apparently looking to scale in op width and number of cores"/>
        <outline text="Sounds like it may make paralellism even harder for programmers"/>
        <outline text="No mention of new tools, software to help bridge from even existing multi-core systems"/>
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    <outline text="tail -f" Offset="31:28">
      <outline text="Legislation to overturn CRB's latest rates?" Offset="31:47">
        <outline text="http://techdirt.com/articles/20070426/161749.shtml"/>
        <outline text="Internet Radio Equality Act,&quot; introduced by Reps. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) and Don Manzullo (R-Ill.)"/>
        <outline text="Would repeal the CRB ruling"/>
        <outline text="Offering a compromise rate, instead"/>
        <outline text="According to quotes from the sponsors, definitely about preserving space for innovation"/>
        <outline text="Would allow discretion between two alternate fee models to the caster"/>
        <outline text="Would also apply to satellite and cable radio operators"/>
        <outline text="Taps public radio to help determine future rates"/>
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      <outline text="IPRED2 passes" Offset="33:37">
        <outline text="http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.com/2007/04/26/ipred2_passed/"/>
        <outline text="Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED2)"/>
        <outline text="Passed almost unchanged"/>
        <outline text="Threats to criminalize much more activity, even the marginal"/>
        <outline text="According to Italian MEP, Umberto Guidoni, an opponent does exclude private, not for profit file sharing"/>
        <outline text="Would have been acceptable, according to Danny O'Brien from EFF, if restricted to copyright piracy and trademark counterfeiting"/>
        <outline text="Questions how this is effective at harmonizing when it seems to do the opposite"/>
        <outline text="Bill as passed is overly vague and broad"/>
        <outline text="This sort of criminal legislation is new for the EC, however, so may serve as a broader test of how well that works"/>
        <outline text="Still up to the members to implement locally"/>
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    <outline text="Outro" Offset="36:42">
      <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"/>
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      <outline text="I'd like to thank libsyn.com for AAC hosting and Wouter de Bie for MP3 hosting"/>
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