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    <outline text="Intro" Offset="00:17">
      <outline text="Jesse Brown from Search Engine on Burmese protests">
        <outline text="http://www.cbc.ca/searchengine/blog/2007/10/whats_left_to_say_about_burma_1.html#more"/>
        <outline text="Skeptical that even the presence of the internet made a difference"/>
        <outline text="Hard to argue, brutality was ultimately employed, again, despite scrutiny"/>
        <outline text="I take this as a challenge, a question"/>
        <outline text="What more can the internet do?"/>
        <outline text="I run up against the sort of machinations that have snarled others before"/>
        <outline text="Cannot arm dissidents without making things worse"/>
        <outline text="That's not even an option for average citizens"/>
        <outline text="Petitioning for sanctions is all that is left, as ineffectual as that is"/>
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    <outline text="Listener Feedback" Offset="03:50">
      <outline text="Paul on bandwidth crunch">
        <outline text="Speaks to some specifics, in particular cable's complaints"/>
        <outline text="Encoding matters, talks about QAM64, similar to WDM for fiber but for coax"/>
        <outline text="Points to running 1Gbps, 10Gbps over same fiber as 100Mbps 15 years ago"/>
        <outline text="Sometimes fiber needs to be upgrade but anything from 90's onward likely to be capable of running up to 10Gbps with just encoding changes"/>
        <outline text="SNR becomes more important with higher encoding density"/>
        <outline text="In closed cable system, at least, this is more manageable"/>
        <outline text="Observes use is growing more slowing than capacity"/>
        <outline text="Cites business, management as problem, specifically with cable cos"/>
        <outline text="Traditional cable is low on tech sophistication"/>
        <outline text="ISPs are much more tech savvy"/>
        <outline text="Old guard resents new ISP engineers"/>
        <outline text="Don't like needing to know more tech to roll out new services"/>
        <outline text="Old guard has been promoted first into management"/>
        <outline text="These are the ones telling stories about crunch"/>
        <outline text="Thinks telcos have gone through similar changes"/>
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    <outline text="Security Alerts" Offset="08:55">
      <outline text="IP surveillance camera hack" Offset="09:15">
        <outline text="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/10/hacking_securit.html"/>
        <outline text="Researchers Azam and Pastor discovered vulnerability"/>
        <outline text="Applies to web enabled security cameras, specifically an AXIS 2100"/>
        <outline text="Basically is the old movie conceit of replaying captive video instead of a live stream"/>
        <outline text="Utilizes an XSS attack against the camera's web stack"/>
        <outline text="Attack allows attacker to create new account and take control of camera"/>
        <outline text="Broader ramifications, simply quietly collecting video without altering camera settings"/>
        <outline text="2100 has been phased out but doesn't mean they aren't still in use"/>
        <outline text="Vendor won't patch because of limited ROM, 8MB"/>
        <outline text="Points to the dangers in combining more and more technologies"/>
        <outline text="Begs that installers, maintainers have to be more sophisticated than with dumber, arguably more secure device"/>
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      <outline text="Future installation of OnStar to include remote shutdown, for law enforcers" Offset="13:07">
        <outline text="http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000313.html"/>
        <outline text="OnStar is allowing law enforcement to remote shut down vehicles"/>
        <outline text="Done to curb damages from high speed chases"/>
        <outline text="Vehicle retains power steering, breaks"/>
        <outline text="Supposed limits">
          <outline text="Must have owner's permission"/>
          <outline text="Law enforcer must have vehicle in sight"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="If someone is going to break the law, resulting in chase, why would they give permission?"/>
        <outline text="How will OnStar operators confirm law officer can see vehicle?"/>
        <outline text="If OnStar can do this legitimately, what about criminals?"/>
        <outline text="Despite speeding fatalities, we still have not installed governors in cars"/>
        <outline text="So this argument doesn't follow"/>
        <outline text="I would bet speeding fatalities are higher than high speed pursuit"/>
        <outline text="Difference is an officer is directly involved in the latter"/>
        <outline text="Wonder what kind of pressure departments are under to want to see this system in wide use?"/>
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    <outline text="News" Offset="16:59">
      <outline text="Free music, label-less artists reaching a tipping point?" Offset="17:14">
        <outline text="http://techdirt.com/articles/20071008/154529.shtml"/>
        <outline text="Several data points indicate a possible trend"/>
        <outline text="Last week Radiohead offered name your own price downloads"/>
        <outline text="Stats showed a strong response"/>
        <outline text="This has other bands, like Oasis, Jamiraquai considering similar moves"/>
        <outline text="Those two are no longer contracted with labels"/>
        <outline text="Many artists doing this are using it to promote sales of CD, merchandise, concert tickets"/>
        <outline text="Many seem to be putting more effort into albums to make them stand out from free downloads"/>
        <outline text="Very much gives the lie to the label positions that free downloads will hirt album sales"/>
        <outline text="Radiohead stats showed many visitors to the bands site did not download but pre-ordered the &quot;discbox&quot;"/>
        <outline text="That's the real story, that artists are proving the theories of the recording industry wrong"/>
        <outline text="How is this different than radio as we grew up with it?">
          <outline text="Wasn't perfect but worked"/>
          <outline text="Received free songs all day long"/>
          <outline text="If you wanted more, you bought it"/>
          <outline text="Radio stations also promoted concerts, often giving tickets away to do so"/>
          <outline text="Industry mistakenly things perfect copies change things, are totally substitutable for whole albums, concert performances, listener loyalty"/>
          <outline text="There were also those who record the radio and never paid a cent"/>
          <outline text="This will continue but also won't erode music as a whole, an industry"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Reznor escapes labels, goes to direct sales">
          <outline text="http://www.deliberatepixel.com/index.php?id=125"/>
          <outline text="Was already experimenting successfully with free downloads"/>
          <outline text="Even released GarageBand files for listeners to remix"/>
          <outline text="Unfortunately, labels may retain rights to older recordings for some time to come"/>
          <outline text="Does mean new works will be totally under his control"/>
          <outline text="Expect to see more experiments, more digital and/or free downloads"/>
          <outline text="The question is how many more mainstream artists will follow?"/>
          <outline text="Partially answered by Radiohead, Oasis, Jamiraquai"/>
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        <outline text="Yahoo! extolling DRM-free music to labels">
          <outline text="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/167391149/yahoo-music-to-recor.html"/>
          <outline text="Speaks to Amazon's MP3 store launch"/>
          <outline text="Fills in his, Ian Rogers, background leading up to working at Yahoo!"/>
          <outline text="Will not sign up to distribute music with DRM from here on"/>
          <outline text="Left unsaid is existing agreements around music with DRM"/>
          <outline text="Cites user inconvenience"/>
          <outline text="Sees opportunity for Yahoo to use content around music"/>
          <outline text="Thinks this valuable, extra content could help drive music sales"/>
        </outline>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Criminal charges in UK over possession of Anarchist Cookbook" Offset="25:06">
        <outline text="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/slashdot/eqWf/~3/166923046/article.pl"/>
        <outline text="Under Terrorism Act of 2000"/>
        <outline text="Similar act, of 2006, bans speech &quot;glorifying terrorism&quot;"/>
        <outline text="Project by genre writers protesting the act, mentioned by Charlie Stross"/>
        <outline text="http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/02/indignant_and_illegal_fictions.html"/>
        <outline text="Teen has already appeared in court, once, with a second date pending"/>
        <outline text="Charged with two counts under the act"/>
        <outline text="Another teen has already appeared in court with similar charges"/>
        <outline text="Human Rights Act doesn't appear to protect free speech as strongly as First Amendment"/>
        <outline text="HRA normalizes British law with European Convention on Human Rights"/>
        <outline text="Specifically, if UK law is incompatible with EC on Human Rights, cannot strike it down"/>
        <outline text="Can only call out the incompatibility"/>
        <outline text="Cases can be taken to the Strasbourg court"/>
        <outline text="Anarchist Cookbook is widely disseminated"/>
        <outline text="Appeals to teenage boys, whether they use it or not"/>
        <outline text="Not sure on the accuracy of its contents, though"/>
        <outline text="As a recognizable document, easy to discover who has acquired"/>
        <outline text="Cross reference URLs with download sizes"/>
        <outline text="Has a history of begging the question of whether possession begs intent"/>
        <outline text="What if the book were on civil disobedience, instead of bombs?"/>
        <outline text="Book was supposedly first written in protest to the Vietnam War"/>
        <outline text="Unlikely the average teen grabs it for political reasons"/>
        <outline text="But should the book be blocked from those who wish to legitimately protest blocks to free speech?"/>
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      <outline text="Running an ISP as a co-op" Offset="30:44">
        <outline text="http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/BAaf/~3/168268750/sticking-it-to-lhomme-canadian-co-op-forms-own-isp.ars"/>
        <outline text="Talked about Copowi, a US ISP, in the 8/26/2007 show"/>
        <outline text="That ISP values open source, network neutrality"/>
        <outline text="Canadian Wireless Nomad is subscriber owned"/>
        <outline text="Reminds me more of Cringely's suggestion of fiber coops"/>
        <outline text="Volunteer run, open source friendly"/>
        <outline text="Also dedicated to neutral connections, no caps and wireless sharing"/>
        <outline text="Have been running for two years, unlike Copowi that just launched"/>
        <outline text="Apparently very competitive with Bell Canada's DSL offering"/>
        <outline text="Made possible by line sharing regulations that were avoided by cable or scrapped for telcos in US"/>
        <outline text="Nomad also only serves one urban area, Toronto"/>
        <outline text="Apparently part of a thriving reseller market of 100+ participants"/>
        <outline text="Nomad's story also shows a thriving reseller market, key to their survival with only around 100 subscribers"/>
        <outline text="Could shop for better deal to server smaller interest"/>
        <outline text="Even with competition enabled by regulation, business for ISPs is not without friction"/>
        <outline text="Still beholden to line owners for activation which may rely on arbitrary rules, bureaucracy"/>
        <outline text="Object lesson in challenges of a coop model"/>
        <outline text="Also a counter-example to anti-regulation advocates"/>
        <outline text="Outfits like Copowi have to go large or not at all"/>
        <outline text="Has anyone heard of an ISP with only 100 subscribers in the US, especially in an urban area?"/>
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      <outline text="Guide to bypassing censorware" Offset="36:46">
        <outline text="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/168460937/everyones-guide-to-b.html"/>
        <outline text="Link to a 31+ page PDF by Citizen Lab"/>
        <outline text="Citizen Lab is part of Munk Centre for International Studies at University of Toronto, Canada"/>
        <outline text="Guide targeted at non-technical users"/>
        <outline text="The explanation of the problem indicates one of the points of Lessig's Code"/>
        <outline text="The internet is not, by its nature, as free of regulation as activists like to think"/>
        <outline text="Does set the issues up clearly and accessibly"/>
        <outline text="Assumes access to knowledge is a basic human right"/>
        <outline text="I am inclined to agree"/>
        <outline text="Does a pretty good job of laying out the additional risks"/>
        <outline text="Risks of defying a censoring regime are assumed"/>
        <outline text="Does speak to national security risks and of belonging to high profile human rights or activist groups"/>
        <outline text="After a long setup, was surprised to see specific listings of circumvention services, sites"/>
        <outline text="Fully have the guide is listing of sites, services and software"/>
        <outline text="This is incredibly brave and risky"/>
        <outline text="Wonder how widely this is circulated?"/>
        <outline text="As a PDF, easy to print and pass on in low tech, less discoverable fashion"/>
        <outline text="Lab is also working on translations"/>
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    <outline text="tail -f" Offset="39:35">
      <outline text="Aftermath of Capital v. Thomas case" Offset="39:55">
        <outline text="Chances of RIAA repeat victory probably slim">
          <outline text="http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/BAaf/~3/166793820/riaa-first-judgement.ars"/>
          <outline text="Basically examines the strength of the industry's case"/>
          <outline text="Suggests this is why it went to court, they knew ahead of time they could win"/>
          <outline text="Interesting to note making available jury instruction originally read the opposite, that transfer had to take place"/>
          <outline text="Hints that strength of this case may set unusually high bar for subsequent cases"/>
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        <outline text="Thomas to appeal RIAA verdict">
          <outline text="http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/BAaf/~3/167003366/20071008-thomas-to-appeal-riaas-222000-file-sharing-verdict.html"/>
          <outline text="Basis of appeal will be jury instruction 15, making available issue"/>
          <outline text="Even if overturned, would have to be re-tried, may result in settlement"/>
          <outline text="Article speculates neither part would want another trial"/>
          <outline text="Not so sure about RIAA though having to prove transfer could seriously undermine case"/>
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        <outline text="Juror from Thomas trial">
          <outline text="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/slashdot/eqWf/~3/167712736/article.pl"/>
          <outline text="Award amount took up most of the verdict deliberation time"/>
          <outline text="Only other really interesting statement is that he believes even if proof of transfer was required, verdict would have been the same"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Capitol v. Thomas appeal to hinge on making available argument">
          <outline text="http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/10/capitol-v-thomas-key-appeal-issue"/>
          <outline text="More details on making available"/>
          <outline text="Pointers to past briefs by EFF on the issue"/>
          <outline text="Argument goes that Copyright act requires physical object change hands"/>
          <outline text="Also requires copyright owner prove distribution took place"/>
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    <outline text="Outro" Offset="45:05">
      <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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