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    <title>cmdln.net_2007-09-16</title>
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    <outline text="Intro" Offset="00:17">
      <outline text="Quick game review">
        <outline text="Hey! That's My Penguin!"/>
        <outline text="http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/8203"/>
        <outline text="Picked it up at D*C to bring back for the kids"/>
        <outline text="Easy enough for the five year old"/>
        <outline text="Very simple mechanics"/>
        <outline text="Decent strategy for younger players"/>
        <outline text="Like Sputnik, enjoyable for the whole family"/>
      </outline>
    </outline>
    <outline text="Security Alerts" Offset="03:35">
      <outline text="Quantum computing and today's cryptography" Offset="03:54">
        <outline text="Ars deflates claims of quantum computing advancements">
          <outline text="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070914-quantum-computing-burns-through-another-two-graduate-students.html"/>
          <outline text="Peter Shor proposed an algorithm for factoring primes"/>
          <outline text="Could be run on a quantum computer much faster than traditional"/>
          <outline text="Fast enough to make current cryptography very weak">
            <outline text="Adding digits doubles time to factor through existing means"/>
            <outline text="Quantum computer would solve in more constant time, despite size of factors"/>
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          <outline text="Researcher cited apparently can only factor a small integer, 15"/>
          <outline text="Way over optimistic statements on scaling to larger integers"/>
          <outline text="Are some true advances in the research">
            <outline text="First demonstration of Shor on optical computers"/>
            <outline text="Qubits probably entangled, no previous work conclusively did so"/>
            <outline text="Shor relies on entanglement, so this is the first real compelling proof"/>
            <outline text="Shor is also a demonstrate of BPP complex problems"/>
            <outline text="First positive proof of what real quantum computers could do"/>
          </outline>
          <outline text="Quantum computing has been working on expanding to a reasonable number of qubits"/>
          <outline text="Progress has been slow, so far"/>
          <outline text="True breakthrough in register size would create a bigger splash"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Explanation of how quantum computing, Shor's algorithm work">
          <outline text="http://www.hackszine.com/blog/archive/2007/09/how_a_quantum_computer_can_fac.html?CMP=OTC-7G2N43923558"/>
          <outline text="Just a quick explanation to help understand the potential"/>
        </outline>
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      <outline text="Vulnerability in system call wrappers, often used for security" Offset="09:23">
        <outline text="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/14/system_call_sploits/"/>
        <outline text="Relies on common security technique, system call wrapping"/>
        <outline text="Wrapper copies data, a race condition allows attacker to overwrite"/>
        <outline text="Some aspects of vulnerabilities already known or suspect"/>
        <outline text="First real demonstration"/>
        <outline text="All kinds of systems are vulnerable"/>
        <outline text="Multiple core is marginally easier"/>
        <outline text="No specific to multiple core as some are reporting"/>
        <outline text="This is link dangling pointers, a common programming technique that now affords opportunity for attack"/>
        <outline text="Article has an in-depth Q&amp;A with the researcher"/>
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    <outline text="News" Offset="11:34">
      <outline text="Stage magic also thrives without heavy use of IP law" Offset="11:47">
        <outline text="http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1196"/>
        <outline text="Draft paper by Jacob Loshin"/>
        <outline text="When considering alternatives to current copyright, what form would they take?"/>
        <outline text="Paper on magic considers a space where IP law has little to no effect"/>
        <outline text="Like fashion, cuisine, unique view into &quot;natural&quot; state if ideas, innovation">
          <outline text="Unlike fashion, inventions have value"/>
          <outline text="Paper examines how value is retained without law"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Much modern practice originates from the turn of the 20th century"/>
        <outline text="Deep history to consider"/>
        <outline text="Norm of respect for sharing"/>
        <outline text="Implication that personal style, performance generates value as much as mechanics"/>
        <outline text="Also identifies unique damages of theft, exposure"/>
        <outline text="A good illustration of different types of IP law, especially limits, with magic as practical examples"/>
        <outline text="A working commons, uses norms, architecture to guard resources"/>
        <outline text="Enforcement is done by professional organizations, not corporations with their own interests"/>
        <outline text="Much of this is owed to the unique nature of magic as IP, rivalrous"/>
        <outline text="Felten observes self organized group may not be best way to decided benefit to society"/>
        <outline text="Also questions the damage of exposure, knowing how an iPod works doesn't decrease its value"/>
        <outline text="Feel secrecy doesn't benefit innovators more broadly"/>
        <outline text="Would innovation go faster if more open?"/>
        <outline text="I wonder more if norms based regime could be translated"/>
        <outline text="Can we rub out the unique character of magic, anything of value left to IP generally?"/>
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      <outline text="P2P phones tested in Sweden" Offset="18:36">
        <outline text="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/slashdot/eqWf/~3/155121034/article.pl"/>
        <outline text="Working example of mesh network"/>
        <outline text="No hub, if one node has access, gets shared throughout"/>
        <outline text="Different than other mesh applications, sharing access"/>
        <outline text="Telephony gets large part of its utility in network"/>
        <outline text="Designed for under served areas"/>
        <outline text="Launched in Tanzania and Ecuador"/>
        <outline text="How well will this work when a node is on the &quot;opposite&quot; side of a mesh to a traditional telephony gateway?"/>
        <outline text="Currently proprietary, sounds like they want it to be a standard feature on all mobile phones"/>
        <outline text="How do they do billing?  Telcos rely on centralization"/>
        <outline text="Article glosses over problems, like radio frequency availability"/>
        <outline text="Still, hope this succeeds as meshes have much promise"/>
        <outline text="OLPC, for example, is planned to use a mesh"/>
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      <outline text="Using puzzles to illustrate CS concepts" Offset="22:35">
        <outline text="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000951.html"/>
        <outline text="Agree with his description of the dichotomy between puzzles, practical solutions"/>
        <outline text="Also agree that I'd rather see a practical test in a recruiting interview"/>
        <outline text="Provides some good examples">
          <outline text="Dining philosophers"/>
          <outline text="Traveling salesmen"/>
          <outline text="Eight queens"/>
          <outline text="Two generals"/>
          <outline text="Towers of Hanoi"/>
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        <outline text="Mentions the concepts these help illustrate"/>
        <outline text="Doesn't tie them to real world problems, though"/>
        <outline text="Concepts are less useful without application"/>
        <outline text="The puzzle only illuminates the concept"/>
        <outline text="Dining philosophers and thread synchronization"/>
        <outline text="Towers of Hanoi and parsing XML of arbitrary depth"/>
        <outline text="Given a clear understanding of the concept and one application, a programmer can find other applications"/>
        <outline text="Lacking even that one practical application can be a static friction"/>
        <outline text="That first gap is the widest, even if the connection is obvious in retrospect"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Google to propose global privacy standard" Offset="25:50">
        <outline text="http://www.news.com/Google+proposes+global+privacy+standard/2100-1030_3-6207927.html?part=rss&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20&amp;subj=news"/>
        <outline text="Other privacy actions have been weak"/>
        <outline text="Shortening retention by token amounts"/>
        <outline text="Actually follows existing work, framework from APEC, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation"/>
        <outline text="Proposing government, industry cooperation in implementing"/>
        <outline text="Article lists nine principles"/>
        <outline text="Overall focus seems to be in material harm"/>
        <outline text="Question is, though, whether privacy is an issue of dignity instead of or as much as harm"/>
        <outline text="Critics describe it as weaker than current standards"/>
        <outline text="Apparently compiled before current data on costs of identity theft"/>
        <outline text="Unfortunately, any discussion from industry is going to always be biased to a market interpretation"/>
        <outline text="We need to convince more governments to represent the dignity interpretation"/>
        <outline text="Even better solutions available, like P3P, Higgins, OpenID, which give discretion, control, to consumer"/>
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    <outline text="tail -f" Offset="29:07">
      <outline text="Criticism of paper trails for e-voting" Offset="29:27">
        <outline text="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/slashdot/eqWf/~3/156345207/article.pl"/>
        <outline text="Information Technology and Innovation Foundation says paper trails increase cost">
          <outline text="ITIF is a non-profit think tank"/>
          <outline text="Don't know enough to speak to any bias, for or against current vendors"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Also claim can decrease accuracy of counts"/>
        <outline text="May be a reasonable argument, depending on forthcoming report"/>
        <outline text="Claim they want to increase verifiability without specifying paper, per se"/>
        <outline text="Wouldn't exclude paper"/>
        <outline text="Want legislation to be more open to technologies that meet a more general requirement"/>
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      <outline text="Study of economic benefits of fair use" Offset="31:18">
        <outline text="http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005436.php"/>
        <outline text="Released by CCIA, same as made the FTC copyright warning complaint"/>
        <outline text="Used methodologies created by WIPO"/>
        <outline text="In the US, industries that depend in limits in copyright contribute one-sixth of GDP"/>
        <outline text="That's 2.2 trillion USD, 17 million jobs"/>
        <outline text="Critics cite bias in the industries sampled"/>
        <outline text="Bias couldn't be any worse than that in typical piracy report"/>
        <outline text="Again, CCIA is trying to make the point that economy works in absence of perfect control of IP"/>
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    <outline text="Outro" Offset="33:13">
      <outline text="Contact me">
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