The Command Line Podcast

This is news cast 217, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, an apology for missing the last news cast. This week's security alerts are attacking the attackers and anti-malware is a poor substitute for common sense. In this week's news NY meet Silicon Valley, the first report from the new IP enforcement czar and some analysis and some reactions, looking at HTML5 beyond video, and an explanation why Share Alike is open and Non Commercial is not. Following up this week, the debate around C-32 turns adversarial and judge rules in Viacom case that YouTube is protected by DMCA safe harbors. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. 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, thanks to Paul, Steve and Ryan for their new monthly donations starting this week. Badges are on their way or should be soon. I also remark on my upcoming 5th anniversary as a podcaster for those that don't read the blog. Listener feedback this week is from Jed in response to the Inner Chapter on why programming is hard. I mention the news cast from the 13th, the piece Bruce Sterling mentions about smart-aleck programmers by Jonathan Edwards. The hacker word of the week this week is fence. The feature this week is a monologue discussing my decision to move back to an open stack here in the lab. I mention Dan Gillmor's Salon article discussing the very same thing and my Nowhere to Go rant. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. 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 mention of the merit badges arriving and the first pictures. Also a quick review of "The Affinity Bridge" by George Mann. There is no listener feedback this week. The hacker word of the week this week is feetch feetch. The feature this week is an Inner Chapter consider the question of why programming is hard. In it, I mention "Dreaming in Code " by Scott Rosenberg, an interview about the CHAOS reports, Kolmogorov complexity, Jordan Peterson's talk on TVO's Big Ideas. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is news cast 216, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, an update on the badge experiment. This week's security alerts are diffusing botnet control makes them more robust and bad passwords and the economics around perpetuating them. In this week's news open source could make attackers' jobs easier, understanding the real risks of Android fragmentation, programmers should stop being smart-alecks, and heated atomic force microscopes for 12nm graphene elements. Following up this week, another social network bill of rights and judge may dismiss most defendants from US Copyright Group suits. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. 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. I will save listener feedback for the next show. There is no hacker word of the week this week due to the length of the feature. The feature this week is the second of two panel recordings I captured at Balticon 44. The panel was titled, "Free Yourself: Open Source Software for Everyday Use". My co-panelists were Brad Smith and none other than Eric Raymond. I found ESR to be especially fascinating on this panel, with some thought provoking ideas and fun stories. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is news cast 215, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, just a pointer to my thoughts on Balticon 44 and a recap on advertising, the badge experiment, and Flattr so far. This week's security alerts are OS choice does not equal security and an Android rootkit. In this week's news Google drops Microsoft for internal use citing security reasons though some are skeptical, figuring out if Wikileaks spun up using documents intercepted from Tor with thoughts from both the Tor project and Wikileaks itself, IBM's 40 year old Muppet sales films, and a new paper debunks certain suggested advantages of quantum computing. Following up this week, if you are tired of Facebook then check out a Firefox extension that aims to help preserve your privacy while using it and India tries to gather opposition to ACTA. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. 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. I will save listener feedback for the next show or the one after that. There is no listener feedback this week due to the length of the feature. The feature this week is the first of two panel recordings I captured at Balticon 44. The panel was titled, "Art, Music and Literature in the Age of Digital Reproducibility", and was a fantastic, far ranging discussion. My co-panelists where Norm Sherman of The Drabblecast, Dave Slusher of Evil Genius Chronicles, Phil Rossi, and Dan Tabor of Geekadelphia. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. 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 reminder there will be no news show this Sunday as I'll be at Balticon. Also, a quick review of "Dreaming in Code", by Scott Rosenberg. Listener feedback this week is from Randal on the Dr. Who as a hacker and DeepGeek in response to my discussion of Danah Boyd's essay on Facebook as a utility. The hacker word of the week this week is featurectomy. The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the subject of legacy code. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is news cast 214, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, thanks to new monthly donor, John Taylor Williams and his wife, Mia. Thank you to fellow Flattr beta testers who have been flattring my posts. I should have an update on how this service compares to donations and ads at the end of the month. My Balticon schedule is up, if you are going to be there, come and say high. Better yet, join me for the unofficial FLOSS and Tech Geek BoF. There will be no news show that Sunday but should be feature casts before and after the weekend. This week's security alerts are Chrome's private mode leaks info and FTC looks into privacy concerns with digital copiers. In this week's news opening of VP-8 video codec becomes so much more including news event Microsoft will support it (kind of) and YouTube will switch to it for larger videos going forward, a technical analysis of VP-8 now that it is open, Facebook's urge towards social utility will invite regulation, and an early, official history of NSA computers. Following up this week The Pirate Party steps in to host The Pirate Bay and EFF issues a strong criticism of Google's latest privacy mistake. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. 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 few quick announcements. I will be at Balticon Memorial Day weekend and posting my speaking schedule soon. If you are going to be there, come and say, "Hi". May's CopyNight will be next Tuesday, the 25th, with special guest Carl Malamud. Next month's CopyNight will also have a special guest, Cory Doctorow as it happens. That CopyNight will be June 28th, a Monday. For more details about the DC CopyNight, visit the web site. Due to the length of the interview, I didn't get to any listener feedback this week. There also is no new hacker word of the week for the same reason. The feature this week is an interview with Cory Doctorow discussing the issues explored in his latest book just released from Tor, "For the Win". I caught up with him over Skype on his current book tour. We mention quite a bit of material, roughly in chronological order: * "Amerika" * "English as She Is Spoken" * Anda's Game * Beyond Circumvention, by Ethan Zuxker * How to Stop Worrying and Love the Internet, by Douglas Adams * It was Michael Weinberg, from Public Knowledge, on This Week in Law who proposed thinking about three strikes with the telephone * "Content" is the essay collection containing World of Democracycraft * Facebook is a Utility, All Utilities are Regulated, by Danah Boyd * Diaspora*, Kickstarter, and Quit Facebook Day * Jane McGonigal created Superstruct and the other game I couldn't remember properly is Evoke * Alice commissioned the award winning game, Smokescreen * Power Punctuation! in three parts: part 1, part 2, part 3 * The Geertz mentioned is anthropologist, Clifford Geertz * io9 scooped me and has more details on "Rapture of the Nerds" More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. 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 is Philip, Jed and Brad who all commented on my Dr. Who monologue. Sergio, Claudio, and Curtis also chatted up the segment on Identi.ca. Mr wrote in about my NoSQL rant. And pseudomorph wrote in response to the Mozilla Account Manager story from the 2nd news cast. He shared a couple of links on digital identity and whether intellectual monopoly is making us dumb. The hacker word of the week this week is fear and loathing. The feature this week is an in depth book review of "Postsingular" and "Hylozoic" by Rudy Rucker. In the review, I mention the two short stories from which the first book was developed, Rucker's blog post questioning the wisdom of computronium, my earlier review of one of Rucker's non-fiction works, the internet of things, and the free download edition of "Postsingular". More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is news cast 213, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, thanks to new monthly donor, Jamie. Also, I was interviewed for Uber Leet Hacker Force Radio, part of Hacker Public Radio. My part starts around minute twenty-three. Lastly, I will be interviewing Cory Doctorow about his latest YA novel, "For the Win". I'm scheduled to do so on Thursday, the 13th, so if you have any questions for him, get them to me before then. This week's security alerts are a new attack technique that bypasses most common antivirus programs demonstrated by matousec.com and study that shows programming language choice doesn't affect security. In this week's news Hugo Gernsback as futurist (I've read more about him as a publisher) including some criticism of his views of the place of science in science fiction, why computers crash but biology does not, a rallying cry for parallelism even though the trend is well established and the challenges hard then first supposed, and Google releases a code lab and sources to teach and learn security through reading code and hands on exercises. Following up this week the FCC's third way to pursue network neutrality and the FCC allows selectable output control with some qualifications. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. 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, thanks to Graham and [si]dragon for their donations. Also, a quick review of "Permanence", by Karl Schroeder. Listener feedback this week is from Robert who posted a comment in response to my NoSQL rant. The hacker word of the week this week is block transfer computations. The feature this week is a monologue consider Dr. Who as a hacker. In it, I mention a section from the Wikipedia page on Dr. Who. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is news cast 212, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, a quick update on the advertising experiment. This week's security alerts are Symantec plans to PGP and a massive quantity of GoDaddy hosted WordPress sites are under attack. In this week's news Cyber Privacy Act introduced that would use takedowns against personal info including the flaws that would go along with it, new report shows trillions contributed to the economy by fair use with specific examples of what that means though the point is how the report was produced, Mozilla releases first code for its identity system (which I briefly wrote about earlier ), and raised by Radio Shack inspired by a Wired article and resonating with Levy's "Hackers". Following up this week USTR claims official ACTA draft proves prior rumors were false and MSIE9 to support HTML5 video but only with H.264. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. 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, thanks to Josh for his donation and a call for ideas for a premium for larger donations. I'm looking for something as unique and distinctive as the merit badges that would be appropriate for $50 or more and monthly donations of $5 or more. There is no listener feedback this week. The hacker word of the week this week is fat-finger . The feature this week is a rant where I try to get to exactly what it is that bugs me about NoSQL. In it, I refer to my hacking 101 piece on databases. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.