TCLP 2011-06-26 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)




The Command Line Podcast show

Summary: This is a news cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, thanks to Charles and David for their recent, generous donations. This week’s feature cast will be a day late do to a crazy schedule this coming week. And AdBard is shutting down at the end of this month. This week’s security alerts are storing passwords in uncrackable form and Android NFC bug may be the first of many exploits of this new capability. In this week’s news, British Library encloses the public domain including a few more details from the announced digitization project, kind of screwed, building an AI guide to online content, and a neural prosthesis that could improve our memories. Following up this week BT’s and TalkTalk’s appeal of their failed judicial review of the Digital Economy Act is denied and the musician behind a clever sonification of Pi is embroiled in a copyright suit. 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.