The Command Line
A regularly published podcast by a self-described hacker, curmudgeon and hacktivist about the practice and profession of programming drawing on over a decade of professional experience and a lifetime spent hacking, the intersection of politics and society with technology and anything else clever, elegant or ...
A regularly published podcast by a self-described hacker, curmudgeon and hacktivist about the practice and profession of programming drawing on over a decade of professional experience and a lifetime spent hacking, the intersection of politics and society with technology and anything else clever, elegant or funny that catches my mind as a die hard technology geek.
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TCLP 2010-12-05 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)
This is news cast 231, an episode of The Command ...
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.
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TCLP 2010-12-01 The Zombie Apocalypse (Comment Line 240-949-2638)
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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.
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TCLP 2010-11-17 Revisiting Geek Fatigue (Comment Line 240-949-2638)
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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.
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TCLP 2010-11-14 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)
This is news cast 230, an episode of The Command ...
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.
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TCLP 2010-11-10 Rant: Network Neutrality (Comment Line 240-949-2638)
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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.
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TCLP 2010-11-07 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)
This is news cast 229, an episode of The Command ...
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.
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TCLP 2010-11-03 Hacking 101: Designing APIs (Comment Line 240-949-2638)
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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.
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TCLP 2010-10-27 Interview: Rudy Rucker (Comment Line 240-949-2638)
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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.
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TCLP 2010-10-24 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)
This is news cast 228, an episode of The Command ...
This is news cast 228, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro a quick review of the board game, Ra. This week’s security alerts are new tactics attackers are using to evade network security and compromise turns security vendor’s site into a malware hub. In this week’s news Mozilla announces open web apps (which might take advantage of Prism) and experimental app store, breakthrough could eliminate need for computers to boot, how Allies used math against German tanks, and turning brain waves into music. Following up this week barriers to real competition in the wake of the Google Books settlement and Oracle wants LibreOffice members to leave the OOo council. 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.
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TCLP 2010-10-20 Review: Out of Control (Comment Line 240-949-2638)
This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command ...
This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, apologies for the missed news cast, though I had a very productive weekend on other show related tasks as well as on the volunteering Saturday. My thanks to Wild Biker and James M. for their donations this past week. And a reminder that DC’s CopyNight is this coming Tuesday, the 26th. Listener feedback this week was from Jed who wrote in about the Singularity feature as well as hacker health habits and post-peak resource technology. The hacker word of the week this week is firehose syndrome. The feature this week is a book review of “Out of Control” by Kevin Kelly. I also reference the books “Complexity” by Mitch Waldrop and “Godel, Escher, Bach” by Douglas Hofstadter. 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.
