The Command Line Podcast

This is news cast 233, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. This week’s security alerts are security tool uncovers multiple bugs in every browser and security hole in VLC media player. In this week’s news, in a project reminiscent of RAMP and Intel’s CPU+FPGA researchers claim to have squeezed 1000 cores on a chip, Intel announces CPU+GPU with DRM support which may raise antitrust concerns despite the vendor’s claims it isn’t meant to be used for DRM, Dave Winer’s latest attempt to re-invent the web, and Microsoft announces ARM port of Windows despite its poor history of ports vs. Linux. Following up this week State department solicits project ideas support internet freedom and VLC yanked from the Apple app store. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. Thanks to Terry and Robert for their generous donations over the hiatus. In the intro, I also attend to some other matters relating to the financial support of the podcast. Here is the article by Audrey Waters at ReadWriteWeb that I mentioned about flattr’s new direction donations. Listener feed back this week was about my interview with Jon “The Nice Guy” Spriggs and cchits.net. Mike from the Creative Commons left a comment with some clarifications and a bit of trivia. Tony from the band Broken Cities shared how the interview led him to connect with Jon and with some other music podcasters besides. The hacker word of the week this week is FISH queue. The feature this week is a monologue in which I share my confessions as an autodidact. It is similar in style to the monologue that shared my habits as an infovore. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. Thanks to Simon, John, and Duane for their support through BitCoin and to Wild Biker for his generous year end donation. There is no new hacker word of the week this week due to the length of the feature. The feature this week is my interview with Jon Spriggs about his new project, cchits.net. In the course of the interview we mention Hacman, Glyn Moody, PRS going after a barber, the singing shop worker who also got snared by a performance rights complaint, The Bug Cast, Music Manumit, James Corachea, SoX, Festival, ur1.ca, my interview with Evan Prodromou, Open Database License, and Open Street Maps. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Human Readable, read by Spider Robinson

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. There is no new hacker word of the week this week due to the length of the feature. The feature this week is my interview with Cory Doctorow about his newly launched anthology, “With a Little Help“. Look for an article soon at Publishers Weekly from Cory about the experimental nature of the project so far. Russell Galen is Cory’s agent who included a piece in the anthology. Ideo’s innovation platform is OpenIdeo. Even after fifteen editions, editors are still correcting typos in Steven Brust’s “The Phoenix Guards“. Not all anthologies have the long commercial life of J.D. Salinger’s “Frenny and Zooey“. John Berry is the renowned typographer with whom Cory has worked. The book club anthology Cory mentions is “Godlike Machines“, another one edited by Jonathan Strahan. The chap book Cory mentions will be from PM Press. Here is James Boyles’ call for evidence based policy. When we are talking about Google Editions, I mention Ryan Singel’s coverage at Wired and my own inference that Google may be smarting from the Books settlement. Cory linked on BoingBoing to a video of a British student involved with the protests eloquently calling for social justice. Cory may finally write an idea that has been bouncing around his head, sort of his response to Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road“. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is news cast 232, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, along with my friend, John Taylor Williams, I was BoingBoing’ed this week for the beer I helped John brew, The Rogue Archivist. We talked about the making of this beer on our new podcast, Living Proof. I will also be taking some time off for travel and family commitments over the holidays. I have content for the next three shows lined up, including a story from Cory Doctorow’s new anthology, “With a Little Help“. This week’s security alerts are WebSockets disabled in Firefox 4 until the protocol can be secured and SHA-3 finalists announced by NIST. In this week’s news, Google finally launches its ebook service, a new and encoded da Vinci manuscript was found, pursuing a real life sonic screwdriver as inspired by Dr. Who, and a more fully de-centralized BitTorrent client. Following up this week one target of domain seizures plans to fight back and domain seizures for copyright infringement are just going to get more common. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. There is no new hacker word of the week this week due to the length of the feature. The feature this week is my interview with Professor Lewis Hyde about his new book, “Common as Air“. During the course of the interview, I mention the copyright reform proposals by Jessica Litman and Pamela Samuelson. Professor Hyde discusses his work at American University on fair use. He also mentions his collaboration on Oxherding with Max Gimblett. If you are in New York any time between now and January, go and enjoy the exhibit. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is news cast 231, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. This week’s security alerts are Facebook like button tracks more activity than suspected on 3rd party sites and who is spying on your browsing history. In this week’s news, earliest worries about information overload which interests me as an infovore. Augmenting computers directly by harnessing human brains which reminds me of Michael Crichton’s “Looker“. The FCC announced its latest draft plan for network neutrality. Wired has some good background material. The Washington Post has a transcript of the chairman’s speech. Ars Technica followed up with some deeper, not very optimistic analysis. Commissioner Copps would seem to concur. In better news, the FTC released an encouraging draft report on privacy. Following up this week artificial life forms evolve communications and Xbox modder trial dropped on fairness grounds. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, I wanted to give a heartfelt thanks to Chris Miller for his work helping me with the drafts of my features in the last few months. Chris has been on my podcast, too, a couple of times. I also want to thank Rob and Curtis for their donations. Listener feedback this week was from Jed in response to the feature on API design and Ethan to revisiting geek fatigue. The hacker word of the week this week is fish. The feature this week is another science fiction monologue, this time on the zombie apocalypse. I mention Alas, Babylon, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Night of the Living Dead, Jennifer Ouellete’s new book, The Affinity Bridge, and gray goo. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, an announcement that I will be taking this coming week off. There will be no new shows on 11/21, 11/24 or 11/28. I have have a feature topic for the 12/1 and hope to catch up on feature planning and writing during my down time. Listener feedback this week was Wild Biker who had some thoughts on my network neutrality rant. I mention this episode of Search Engine in my response. The hacker word of the week this week is firmware. The feature this week is a monologue revisiting the topic of geek fatigue. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is news cast 230, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, my thanks to Wild Biker and a heads up that the DC CopyNight gathering for the month is coming in just a bit over a week. This week’s security alerts are Firesheep developer explains how mitigation tools are far from foolproof and a text based CAPTCHA using logic questions that though promising provably needs hardening. In this week’s news Facebook co-founder builds social network for causes, the hacking potential of Microsoft’s motion controller, intellectual property’s potential threat to 3D printing which closely echoes Cory Doctorow’s Printcrime, and adopting a tax on curtailing sharing. Following up this week a group of tech experts recommend separating open internet from specialized services and judicial review may bring an end to UK’s Digital Economy Act. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, a quick review of “The Dervish House” by Ian McDonald. Listener feedback this week was Wild Biker who was curious for my thoughts on Ballotpedia. The hacker word of the week this week is fireworks mode. The feature this week is a rant on how I think the current network neutrality debate came to be. The Berkman Center had an excellent podcast episode recently that serves as a good backgrounder. I mention the Carterfone case as the antecedent for open access to networks. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is news cast 229, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, sharing my new podcast, Living Proof. This week’s security alerts are keyboard input “anti-spoofing” and 88 high risk vulnerabilities discovered in Android kernel. In this week’s news VLC developers attempted stand on GPL in the Apple app store, the impact of social apps on voting, Boucher loss will be tech, telecom policy’s loss with some more expansive memories of his work over the years and possible causes for hope despite his absence this term, and location services have not caught one according to report. Following up this week new verdict in Thomas-Rasset retrial, $1.5M in damages, and New Zealand copyright bill may still include three strikes. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. Listener feedback this week was from Ethan who asked about the experience of being a hacker who is self taught the closest to which I’ve come is a segment on my love-hate relationship with computer science and Jonathan who was curious whather I’d read Kevin Kelly’s latest book and recommended his web site. The hacker word of the week this week is firewall code. The feature this week is a hacking 101 piece of designing APIs. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. There is no new hacker word of the week this week. The feature this week is an interview with one of my very favorite authors, Rudy Rucker. Rudy is also a mathematician and a computer scientist. It was “Spaceland” his notional sequel to “Flatland” that first got me interest in his work. I also was immensely intrigued by his non-fiction work, “The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul“, which I’ve reviewed here previously. In addition to discussing his latest books–the duology, “Postsingular” and “Hylozoic“, and the re-released Ware Tetralogy–we also touch on his thoughts on the limits of VR, chaos and complexity, the state of computing, the role of the alien where Rudy mentions his novel “The Secret of Life“, continuing the story of “Hylozoic” where I mentioned a previous interview with Tor.com on the subject (on page 172 of this PDF, from July of 2009), 3D printing and natural gnarl, and Rudy’s upcoming books. On the topic of 3D printing, it was Scott Summit’s talk I was thinking of but couldn’t recall. The architect of the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Guggenheim Bilbao that Rudy mentioned was Frank Gehry. He also mentioned the design group, Nervous System, who uses the Processing library for their 3D printed objects. If you want a taste for the story about Turing, Rudy has released three short stories that may make up the first three chapters of a new novel: “The Imitation Game“, “The Skug” and “Tangier Routines“. Updated: I re-exported the audio for the episode. I’ve replaced the original audio file with the new version that should fix the missing intro and outro material. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.