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    <title>cmdln.net_2008-03-02</title>
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    <outline text="Intro" Offset="00:17">
      <outline text="Quick review of Mission: Red Planet">
        <outline text="http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/18258"/>
        <outline text="A steam punk themed game"/>
        <outline text="The game is about colonizing Mars"/>
        <outline text="A board game whose play is governed by a set of cards"/>
        <outline text="Like Sunken City"/>
        <outline text="Relatively simple game play, took only ten minutes or so to learn"/>
        <outline text="Some additional nuances, like special bonus goals and discovery"/>
        <outline text="Basically trying to get the most astronaut tokens into each area on the Mars board"/>
        <outline text="Play proceeds with loading, launching and landing of rockets"/>
        <outline text="Can sabotage other characters, increase, improve your own astronauts"/>
        <outline text="Too complicated for the five year old"/>
        <outline text="The eight year old did well enough"/>
        <outline text="Still didn't quite get the strategy, but weak on strategy in general"/>
        <outline text="Nothing risque or otherwise family unfriendly"/>
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    <outline text="Security Alerts" Offset="06:23">
      <outline text="Password disclosing security glitch in OSX" Offset="06:42">
        <outline text="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/243006348/report-security-glit.html"/>
        <outline text="Vulnerability confirmed by Apple"/>
        <outline text="Attacker with physical access can get password of active user under some circumstances"/>
        <outline text="Programming error leaves password in memory long after it is needed"/>
        <outline text="Researcher, Applebaum, also worked on cold boot attack"/>
        <outline text="Apple isn't planning a fix just for this issue"/>
        <outline text="Also exposes data in the secure key chain which can include wireless networks, web sites the user has cached"/>
        <outline text="Best defense is to completely logout and power down when system is likely to be physically not secure"/>
        <outline text="May be because login window code dates all the way back to NextStep"/>
        <outline text="The implication is this is very fixable"/>
        <outline text="Apple may yet fix in next raft of security updates"/>
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      <outline text="Spammers break Gmail captcha" Offset="08:36">
        <outline text="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/25/gmail_captcha_crack/"/>
        <outline text="Google's captchas have often been cited as among most secure"/>
        <outline text="Captcha - Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"/>
        <outline text="Seems to have been by the same group that cracked Windows Live"/>
        <outline text="Use two hosts collaborating to break captcha"/>
        <outline text="Success rate seems around 20%"/>
        <outline text="Good enough to generate a large number of accounts"/>
        <outline text="Keep in mind these attacks are totally automated"/>
        <outline text="Gmail accounts attractive because they are free"/>
        <outline text="Also unlikely to be black listed due to popularity reputation"/>
        <outline text="Article doesn't mention a response from Google"/>
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    <outline text="News" Offset="11:30">
      <outline text="Judge reverses Wikileaks decision" Offset="11:45">
        <outline text="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/01/wikileaks_judge_reverses/"/>
        <outline text="EFF, ACLU convinced judge that orders violated appropriate use of prior restraint"/>
        <outline text="Rescinded not only the permanent injunction"/>
        <outline text="Also rescinded an order to prevent site, others from further linking, exposing banking documents"/>
        <outline text="Judge is now doubtful he'll be able to issue further orders"/>
        <outline text="Is skeptical of his jurisdiction as neither party operates in the US"/>
        <outline text="Damage to Julius Baer, bank in question, already done anyway"/>
        <outline text="Case will continue, Baer contends customer data is at risk in leaked documents"/>
        <outline text="Wants to convince judge privacy risk trumps free speech"/>
        <outline text="The reversal sets a precedent that will give pause to suits trying to prematurely enjoin free speech"/>
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      <outline text="Apple secretly tipping scales in favor of their applications" Offset="15:29">
        <outline text="http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/BAaf/~3/243386540/20080229-finding-a-worm-in-the-apple-secret-apis-in-mac-os-x.html"/>
        <outline text="A Mozilla developer, Vladimir Vukicevic, was investigating performance problems"/>
        <outline text="Had to do with an OS facility's interaction with embeddable components"/>
        <outline text="There is a coarse grained way to disable coalesced updates in the OS' window rendering code"/>
        <outline text="Not ideal for components, affects an entire application"/>
        <outline text="Gecko is increasingly used as a component in other apps"/>
        <outline text="WebKit, Safari's rendering engine is, as well"/>
        <outline text="Vukicevic wondered at how they more easily seemed to solve this performance problem"/>
        <outline text="Found an undocumented system call in a Safari header file"/>
        <outline text="Calls are into a binary only library"/>
        <outline text="Hard to see this as anything but intentional"/>
        <outline text="There may be legitimate reasons to encapsulate such system functions"/>
        <outline text="Further commentary makes it unclear what the intent was"/>
        <outline text="Apple developers admit the Safari usage is a hack, non-ideal"/>
        <outline text="Question of whether their need to use it begs that the call be publicly available"/>
        <outline text="Invited 3rd party developers to submit bugs to request access to internal APIs"/>
        <outline text="Even Vukicevic is skeptical this was entirely for reasons of competition, though"/>
        <outline text="More of a clash between open source and closed source norms"/>
        <outline text="Also remember that Apple altered DTrace, though that was probably at the behest of content companies still invested in DRM"/>
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      <outline text="DRM of AppleTV HD content requires HDCP" Offset="20:28">
        <outline text="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/241353267/apple-tv-drm-makes-i.html"/>
        <outline text="Author upgrade his existing AppleTV to the new 2.0 software"/>
        <outline text="Has an LCD attached, which works well enough"/>
        <outline text="Downloaded one of the new iTunes rentals"/>
        <outline text="Upon trying to play, got an error about the content requiring HDCP"/>
        <outline text="Had the option to use component connection"/>
        <outline text="Turns out his LCD won't work with a component-DVI adapter"/>
        <outline text="Couldn't transfer rental off the AppleTV, either"/>
        <outline text="Did manage to get a refund after writing support"/>
        <outline text="Should have been clearer labeling, info"/>
        <outline text="Confirms what I have long feared about HDMI"/>
        <outline text="Hopefully more users will hit this, raise consciousness on HD trojan horse"/>
        <outline text="A speculative idea occurred to me watching video podcast"/>
        <outline text="Why do we need add ons, set tops to stream media?"/>
        <outline text="Wouldn't it be best if any video source could be connected to any video monitor?"/>
        <outline text="That would be true innovation"/>
        <outline text="Wireless HD is still born, HD in general is overloaded with crap"/>
        <outline text="The closes we come is have true general purpose computers everywhere"/>
        <outline text="Can use XDMCP, VNC, streaming"/>
        <outline text="Why can't my TV just do this?  Should it?"/>
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      <outline text="New language marries dynamic, static" Offset="26:30">
        <outline text="http://cobra-language.com/docs/papers-etc/Cobra-Socal-Piggies-2008-02-Slides.pdf"/>
        <outline text="Just saw a quick pointer on ONLamp"/>
        <outline text="Link to a presentation on Cobra"/>
        <outline text="Described as cross between Pyhton, Obj-C"/>
        <outline text="Clearly has a bias towards static"/>
        <outline text="Clean syntax for scripting"/>
        <outline text="Has contract enforcement, like Eiffel, Design by Contract"/>
        <outline text="Combines best features of many languages"/>
        <outline text="Runtime efficiency, like C, as well as dynamism, other script-like features"/>
        <outline text="Current implementation is beta"/>
        <outline text="Built on top of C# though compiler self bootstraps"/>
        <outline text="Claims multiple OS support"/>
        <outline text="How will maintain if using MS technologies?"/>
        <outline text="This sound so promising but is it going to marginalize itself like Mono?"/>
        <outline text="Some glimmer of porting to JVM, D, Obj-C, Parrot as back ends"/>
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    <outline text="tail -f" Offset="31:21">
      <outline text="Re-visiting Amie Street" Offset="31:41">
        <outline text="http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/BAaf/~3/241289780/20080225-amie-streets-pricing-social-features-attract-artists.html"/>
        <outline text="Even while big labels are coming around, Amie Street has continued growing"/>
        <outline text="More indie labels, artists have come on board"/>
        <outline text="Retain their popularity driven pricing, rewards early discoverers"/>
        <outline text="There is apparently a cap, 0.98USD, didn't realize this sooner or it is new"/>
        <outline text="Amazon has funded in the past"/>
        <outline text="May view it as an incubator for features we may see in their store"/>
        <outline text="Social tools, even novel pricing"/>
        <outline text="Glad to see entrance by big players hasn't killed off the smaller, bolder players"/>
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      <outline text="Judge rejects making available theory" Offset="33:28">
        <outline text="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080226005921833"/>
        <outline text="Judge has read Patry's treatise"/>
        <outline text="Rejected the case partly based on Patry's work"/>
        <outline text="Also, felt the industry's case was based on belief rather than evidence"/>
        <outline text="Means the RIAA will have less success with boiler plate cases"/>
        <outline text="Will have to work harder to prove merit"/>
        <outline text="Will have to argue cases on specifics"/>
        <outline text="May also increasingly be asked to prove distribution"/>
        <outline text="Also gives consideration to some possible defenses with merit"/>
        <outline text="Reinforces that case law is far from established"/>
        <outline text="In essence we are watching it being made"/>
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    <outline text="Outro" Offset="35:48">
      <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"/>
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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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