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    <outline text="Intro" Offset="00:17">
      <outline text="Cloverfield review">
        <outline text="One of Abrams first big screen efforts"/>
        <outline text="It shows, the jumpy camera work would be better on small screen"/>
        <outline text="I didn't hate it, but it wasn't great, either"/>
        <outline text="Friends reactions were equally mixed"/>
        <outline text="Listen to ADDCast for complete review"/>
        <outline text="Will probably rent to see how it plays on the small screen"/>
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    <outline text="Listener Feedback" Offset="02:51">
      <outline text="James' link to motivational article">
        <outline text="http://www.gobignetwork.com/wil/2008/1/14/how-to-deal-with-motivational-loss-or-demotivation/10233/view.aspx"/>
        <outline text="Emotional detachment"/>
        <outline text="Don't let mood drive productivity"/>
        <outline text="Requires cultivating a rote practice mode"/>
        <outline text="Some practical advice on actually doing so"/>
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    <outline text="Security Alerts" Offset="05:23">
      <outline text="Flash based uPnP attack against home routers" Offset="05:42">
        <outline text="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/slashdot/eqWf/~3/216446997/article.pl"/>
        <outline text="Highly detailed article"/>
        <outline text="Includes a downloadable proof of concept"/>
        <outline text="uPnP was meant to make Firewall configuration easier"/>
        <outline text="Turns out to be too easy"/>
        <outline text="Devices, applications can open holes, establish port forwards"/>
        <outline text="Intended for gaming, other applications"/>
        <outline text="uPnP has been plagued with security problems"/>
        <outline text="This just shows how dangerous it is to leave enabled"/>
        <outline text="Safari and Firefox apparently not vulnerable"/>
        <outline text="Still better to simply disable uPnP"/>
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      <outline text="Advice for safe, private use of public computers" Offset="08:06">
        <outline text="http://feeds.downloadsquad.com/~r/weblogsinc/downloadsquad/~3/218902341/"/>
        <outline text="Mentions cardinal rule"/>
        <outline text="Don't store private data on public machine"/>
        <outline text="Pragmatic, though, realizes even this rule needs to be broken"/>
        <outline text="Ask staff if it is OK to reset profile or if they will do so"/>
        <outline text="Use portable applications, meant to run from removable media"/>
        <outline text="Reminds us to be mindful of non-technical threats"/>
        <outline text="Don't be shy about asking other patrons to give you space"/>
        <outline text="Don't trust virus scanners"/>
        <outline text="Re-scan on your own system before copying"/>
        <outline text="Be careful with portable apps, boot CDs"/>
        <outline text="Some staff may think you are up to no good"/>
        <outline text="Can't hurt to ask ahead, try another branch until you find an agreeable one"/>
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    <outline text="News" Offset="11:45">
      <outline text="Mozilla hires usability developers" Offset="11:59">
        <outline text="http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/journals/openended/~3/217247661/mozilla-hires-developers-from-humanized"/>
        <outline text="Mozilla hired three principals from Humanized"/>
        <outline text="Will work in Mozilla Labs, on Firefox and others"/>
        <outline text="Humanized president, Aza Raskin, is Jef Raskin's son"/>
        <outline text="Curious to see what they produce"/>
        <outline text="Folks are well habituated to browsers"/>
        <outline text="Sure, could use some incremental improvements"/>
        <outline text="Large innovations are what will be most compelling"/>
        <outline text="http://www.humanized.com/weblog/2008/01/16/joining-mozilla"/>
        <outline text="Their flagship is a software pipeline, sounds similar to Unix pipe"/>
        <outline text="Will be bringing that technology along"/>
        <outline text="This discourages me somewhat"/>
        <outline text="Made worse by their discussion of allowing typical user to mashup services"/>
        <outline text="Sounds like Yahoo! tubes or Automator"/>
        <outline text="I am unconvinced this is what the web, browser needs"/>
        <outline text="This will have unintended security, stability consequences"/>
        <outline text="Also talk about going beyond the browser"/>
        <outline text="Does this mean they will be pushing on HTML5, XHTML2?"/>
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      <outline text="Multicore memory" Offset="16:01">
        <outline text="http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/217590356/"/>
        <outline text="New means of access"/>
        <outline text="Parallel, rather than sequential, memory access"/>
        <outline text="Ashwood is a cryptographer"/>
        <outline text="Claims crypto research led him to the design"/>
        <outline text="Is also apparently smaller than traditional approaches"/>
        <outline text="Vetted by CMU"/>
        <outline text="Article mentions RAM but quotes talk about &quot;nonvolatile memory&quot;"/>
        <outline text="Which is it?"/>
        <outline text="Quotes about revitalize flash seem to indicate nonvolatile"/>
        <outline text="The design is only on paper, not even a prototype"/>
        <outline text="Some loss of speed for individual memory access"/>
        <outline text="Overhead of parallelism, made up in quantity"/>
        <outline text="Worry that this will increase programming complexity"/>
        <outline text="Not enough detail on the interface to the parallel controller"/>
        <outline text="Right now, single load and store"/>
        <outline text="With this, data could get distributed non-locally throughout memory"/>
        <outline text="Does the programmer have to track what data is in which cell?"/>
        <outline text="Adding data coordination to task coordination"/>
        <outline text="Speed, efficiency boosts are no good if programming complexity increases"/>
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      <outline text="LoC using Flickr to crowd source generating metadata" Offset="21:34">
        <outline text="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/217809620/library-of-congress.html"/>
        <outline text="An experiment"/>
        <outline text="3000 out of 14M prints being made available"/>
        <outline text="Only non-copyright or public domain photos"/>
        <outline text="Just asking Flickr members to tag, comment and annotate like any other photos"/>
        <outline text="Goal of the project is also to improve access"/>
        <outline text="Done with Flickr's cooperation"/>
        <outline text="They have created a new publication model, &quot;The Commons&quot;"/>
        <outline text="Mention this is the first phase"/>
        <outline text="Don't mention what subsequent phases will involve"/>
        <outline text="Hope that Yahoo! has sufficient storage, bandwidth"/>
        <outline text="Otherwise, this is an excellent hack"/>
        <outline text="Re-uses what is already available"/>
        <outline text="Very active community of taggers on Flickr"/>
        <outline text="Flickr already has good tools for metadata"/>
        <outline text="Still the question of what happens if/when Yahoo! introduces ads or some other revenue mechanism"/>
        <outline text="Still, if LoC did alone, would probably take longer, cost more"/>
        <outline text="What about quality, editorial control?"/>
        <outline text="Wikipedia already suffers through these issue, has a system built to address"/>
        <outline text="Flickr has never had to address issues of validity of citation"/>
        <outline text="Smithsonian may join the party" Offset="1/19/08">
          <outline text="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/219305516/can-the-smithsonians.html"/>
          <outline text="Discussion on open government list"/>
          <outline text="Interest from other collections"/>
          <outline text="Culminated in proposal to Smithsonian to offer 2K photos to The Commons"/>
          <outline text="Credit the enthusiasm"/>
          <outline text="Think it is wise to wait to see how phase 1 goes before jumping on board"/>
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      <outline text="Yet another programming paradigm" Offset="26:11">
        <outline text="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/01/16/concept_programming/"/>
        <outline text="Concept programming, developed at HP in 2000"/>
        <outline text="An updated description published last year"/>
        <outline text="The idea is code should reflect concept or intent"/>
        <outline text="Sounds like intentional or communicative programming"/>
        <outline text="Developed to heuristics"/>
        <outline text="One measures concept, the other code"/>
        <outline text="Assumably these can be used to gauge the drift between the two"/>
        <outline text="Dinechin, author, has been working on XL, programming language"/>
        <outline text="Sounds even less concrete than AOP"/>
        <outline text="Claims to be applicable to widely different domains"/>
        <outline text="XL has no fixed keywords"/>
        <outline text="Actually sounds like XML, but for function, behavior"/>
        <outline text="I think there is a flaw in the underlying assumptions"/>
        <outline text="Concept programming assumes all problem domain ideas map to solution space"/>
        <outline text="And vice versa"/>
        <outline text="In my experience, there is not always a perfect meshing of the two"/>
        <outline text="I think this is way CASE and successor tools have failed"/>
        <outline text="It is a clever idea but like XML, if successful, I think it will lead to a fixed set of languages"/>
        <outline text="Few hackers deal well with completely open ended tools"/>
        <outline text="The fact that some tools are biased means they actually can save work"/>
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    <outline text="tail -f" Offset="31:57">
      <outline text="Data Portability explained" Offset="32:17">
        <outline text="http://feeds.downloadsquad.com/~r/weblogsinc/downloadsquad/~3/217270121/"/>
        <outline text="Not a bad explanation"/>
        <outline text="Knew about profile/ID and relationships"/>
        <outline text="Didn't realize they extended to media"/>
        <outline text="Not sure how content makes as much sense"/>
        <outline text="Media/content would seem to be more of a publish once, few times"/>
        <outline text="I don't embed video in my sites or social network profiles, though"/>
        <outline text="Still leaves me with questions about scope of consent for relationship data"/>
        <outline text="If this drives OpenID, good thing"/>
        <outline text="I can see simply networks just pointing to other OpenIDs sidestepping consent"/>
        <outline text="Wonder how this relates to proponents of microformats?"/>
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      <outline text="Global Pandora shut down" Offset="34:48">
        <outline text="http://feeds.downloadsquad.com/~r/weblogsinc/downloadsquad/~3/219547600/"/>
        <outline text="Mentioned last week that the closure of Pandora streams in UK would prompt hacks"/>
        <outline text="GlobalPandora is such a hack"/>
        <outline text="Pandora identified their IPs, though and shut them down"/>
        <outline text="When I checked, they were back up"/>
        <outline text="Not sure if this is because I am in the US or not"/>
        <outline text="Regardless, if one could do it, others can"/>
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    <outline text="Outro" Offset="36:47">
      <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"/>
      </outline>
      <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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