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Two Years of Slashdot Review Podcast
by Andrew McCaskey
Slashdot Review Podcast
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Our first show was podcast two years ago, on October 12, 2004. Since that night we have provided service six days per week until our recent schedule change to five days per week.
Thanks to our loyal listeners for their help, support and encouragement. We are looking forward to year number three !
School Official Sues Over MySpace Page
In San Antonio, an assistant principal is suing two students she had disciplined set up a fake MySpace page MySpace page depicted the administrator as a lesbian and contained “obscene comments, pictures and graphics,”
it doesn’t target only the teenagers. It also argues that the parents were guilty of negligence by failing to supervise their children
Anti-Piracy System Could Hurt YouTube
Google Inc. has about spending $1.65
The place to find almost any kind of video clip
high-profile content creators require YouTube to deploy an audio-signature technology that can spot a low-quality copy of a licensed music video or other content.
licensing deals with CBS Corp. and three major recording companies — Warner Music Group, Vivendi’s Universal Music Group and Sony BMG Music Entertainment. The entertainment companies will get a cut of YouTube ad revenue each time someone views a video licensed by them.
Filtering Space
System developed by Audible Magic Inc., which has compiled electronic fingerprints for more than 4 million recordings to compare to content posted on iMesh, an online file-sharing application.
Guba has an application tracks the transition of images in a video, like a series of snapshots, to build a signature used as a basis for comparison.
90 percent accurate with video clips that exceed three minutes. But the shorter the clip, the harder it is to spot a match.
Cache Servers Keeping Exploit Code Alive
Techworld UK
search engines, ISPs and large companies been discovered to harbour certain kinds of malicious code even after the website that hosted it has been taken down.
caching servers could unintentionally become the largest ‘legitimate’ storage venue for malicious code
Sun Holds News Conference In Second Life
Four million Java developers worldwide can’t attend JavaOne trade show
“in-world” press conference to show off its new pavilion in Second Life,
Sun Pavilion as a place for developers to try out code, share ideas, and receive training.
22,000 at JavaOne trade show
Two years and Growing
Started three reasons
Tech curiosity
Doc Searls’ of Linux Journal challenge – essay moments after the big bang
Concern when 90% of radio outlets owned by 2 or 3 companies
Concentrated – it’s just wrong
Why is SDR still on the air ?
The support and goodwill from TPN members and FIT
Critical point after about six months
About 30 people clicked donations, and over time
Hundreds of listeners, over time sent emails or phone calls
If you are one of those, I thank you. As I have said, the encouragement has been the gift
If you have supported our sponsors along the way or filled out a survey, you have had a big part of the show.
Why Part 2
BT subscribers among most faithful ups and downs
2 years demo’d substantial responsible use of BT
If Net is overtaken in Net Neutrality loss BT is only hope of small and independent podcaster
Moving to a big business game – look at Top 100 iTunes and see how many are corporate and how many are independent producers.
Radio and (later) Computers
Security and the $100 Laptop
Poor example human nature
OLPC deploy 100 million laptops in the first year.
In one fell swoop, the nonprofit organization will create the largest computing monoculture in history.
We want hackers to get in touch, look at the documentation, play with the machine, and try to break into it.
Details on OLPC
automatic updates “tricky” because of the difficulty in making strong assumptions about connectivity.
modern implementation of Linux hardened with ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) to handle code-scrambling diversity
Advanced Micro Devices, eBay, Google, News Corp., Nortel Networks and Red Hat.
Libya Purchases 1.2 mil Wind-up Laptops
Can be used as a conventional computer, or an electronic book. The computers will be covered in rubber to make them extra-tough, and have a power cable that also acts as a carrying strap.
{Khadaffi’s turn about may yet prove a good thing for people of Libya, wrt neighbors}
Do Big Screens Make Employees More Productive?
17 or 19†screens ? 30†more productive – Apple study
large screens can offer gains of up to 50 percent to 65 percent in productivity on a variety of specific office tasks- Word or Excel.
Apple’s 30-in. display hasn’t had much competition in that size range since its introduction, but Samsung Electronics America will debut its own 30-in. LCD monitor later this month at an estimated $1,999,
Radioactive Snails Crawl Up From Beneath
Reuters
Discovery of radioactive snails Palomares Spain
In 1966 three U.S. hydrogen bombs fell by accident 40 years ago may trigger a new joint U.S.-Spanish clean-up operation,
mid-air collision between a bomber and a refuelling craft,
Hundreds of tons of soil were removed from the Palomares area and shipped to the United States after high explosive igniters on two bombs detonated on impact, spreading plutonium dust-bearing clouds across nearby fields.
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