SDR2006-10-01 Podcast – SDRNews
Announcer: This is the Tech Podcast Network. If it’s tech, it’s here.
Andy McCaskey: Well, it’s Sunday, October 1, 2006. My name is Andy McCaskey, and this is a summary weekend edition of the Slashdot Review.
Just gotten off the plane, back in the Midwest. Some changes in the leaves and a change in the air.
I’ve been at the Podcast and Portable Media Expo in Ontario, California, and it’s been one of the most exciting and thought-provoking 72 hours that I’ve experienced.
The past 24 hours, I’ve really been trying to integrate some of those ideas, with listener survey data, and some listeners that I met there and had a chance to talk with, and some other podcasters as well. So tonight’s show is going to cover some of those thoughts, intermixed with some news, as you would expect.
Today’s podcast is brought to you by GoDaddy.com and GoToMeeting. You’ll hear some familiar ads a bit later, but most everything else is going to be a little bit different.
So let’s move on to SDR news. Here’s an opening news item from Annette.
Annette: “Computer Analysis Sets NASA history straight.”
A computer analysis has upheld Neil Armstrong’s version of the first words spoken on the lunar surface. The word “A” was dropped due to a communications glitch, and Armstrong has been accused of flubbing his words since the historic 1969 landing. The correct statement was: “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
Andy: I think the Number One recurring story in the tech world that I picked out at Slashdot today, regards these electronic voting machines. It’s an underreported story in the press, other than being reported kind of as a novelty.
But apparently some serious charges have been repeated now in Rolling Stone, related to Diebold. There is a CERT advisory on an undocumented back door account in a Diebold vote-tabulating database.
A Diebold insider, a fellow named Chris Hood, said that Diebold employees altered software in 5000 machines, in Georgia in 2003, and that this was a secret patch that was concealed from election officials, and even though these two counties–Cobb and Fulton Counties–were the largest Democratic strongholds, Republicans ended up winning in those two elections.
And as I’ve said before, I don’t understand why both parties aren’t just adamant that voting software, or these voting machines, should be totally open-source. If someone could explain that, I’d certainly like to hear about that.
Other items on Slashdot, the hardware section, a virtual laser keyboard. I don’t think this is new, but it’s kind of an interesting novelty thing–it actually made the New York Times. It’s a vertical assembly that projects infrared light down onto any horizontal flat surface, and you can then plug this thing into a PC or SmartPhone or a PDA and type away.
I thought it was kind of interesting, and I was able to find some video for the Slashdot Review YouTube site, a little seven-second clip there showing the guy, how the thing works, and so forth. But he did comment–or I think he did, this was in German–he did comment that he could outrun it by typing quickly, as a speedy typist.
So when you have a chance, go over and take a look at that particular video, as well as some of the other videos. If you haven’t had a chance to look at that before, I think you’ll find some very interesting material there.
The reason that we’ve run that experiment is that in our regular podcasts, we really can’t give six or eight minutes to a particular topic, but sometimes that sort of material has been put up by someone on YouTube, and I think it could be quite interesting.
Let’s pause for a moment and listen to this message from GoDaddy.
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Annette: “Online Gambling Bill Passed in the House.” The Washington Post is reporting that the House passed a measure that makes it illegal for banks in the U.S. to handle online gambling transactions. There is still no such move in the Senate, but it’s a step towards banning online gambling, nonetheless.
Since this bill isn’t expected to affect the usual, legal ways of gambling domestically, one wonders if such legislation would be sought after, were online gambling to be headquartered here in the States, rather than overseas.
Andy: Well, as you can tell, I’ve got some changes going here, with the podcast. You know, October 12th, it will be two years that we have had the podcast service at Slashdot Review, and the format has been virtually unchanged since the day that we signed on, the very first show.
And this weekend, we came to the conclusion that there are some changes that needed to be made, and I wanted to go through them with you:
First of all, the music track is gone. There is lots of great indie music. I was really, really impressed, two years ago, to learn about that. But there’s a lot of really good ways that people, in other podcasts, can discover that, and I think that most of our listeners, really, the feedback I get is that they want news, they want commentary, editorial opinion.
From a music standpoint, it kind of was my taste, not yours; and I did put it at the end so people could skip over it, but then some listeners would write and say, “Hey, look. Every day I’m having to skip over, and I’m really getting tired of this.”
So it seemed like that was the thing to do.
It’s also going to permit me to encode at a lower bit rate. It will be much smaller files for the download, less space, a faster upload for me, faster downloads for you, and everybody should win in that regard.
The second decision is to move to five days a week, rather than six; because I think people listen, most of the time, either at work or in their drive time commute, moving into work, and it just will work out better.
I understand pod fading, I don’t want to get into that situation, and it will, from a personal standpoint, really help to have a little more time for family activities, and get a little more balance back into things.
Third thing, I have really tried to be consistent, from a timing standpoint, and I really want to continue to emphasize that, and give listeners the highlights in ten minutes or less. I really want to try and continue in that vein, although I’m not sure the timing on this one, today, whether I’m going to be able to do that or not.
Number four, more concise. The objective is awareness, not an in-depth understanding, obviously, so literally, reading paragraphs and so forth, I’m really going to try to catch just some of the highlights and speak informally. We’ll have to see how this works, because I’ve got to learn how to do it, and I appreciate your patience as I do learn to be able to summarize and be more concise.
And then finally, more informal content. Less editing. It’s not going to be good radio, but I think it can be good podcasting. Less editing gives me more time to develop the show notes, to have better links, and more commentary, and better notes to become more of a resource.
Anyway, this is going to be a transition, and news items from Annette are going to be in their traditional format for a few more weeks. She is starting graduate school, so we may have to work in a special, maybe once a month, to bring in some more dedicated commentary from her.
But she had prepared this earlier today, so let’s get one more news item from her right now.
Annette: “Firefox to be Renamed in Debian.” Debian is ready to change the name of Firefox in its distributions, beginning with Edge. They say it can be done within a week.
The reasons stem from Mozilla’s recent insistence on trademark fidelity, and its preferences regarding Firefox patches. Debian doesn’t want to accept the original trademarked fox-and-globe logo; they see it as really, free to use. On the other hand, Mozilla doesn’t want Firefox distributed under that name if it lacks the logo.
Mozilla also wants Debian patches to be submitted to them before distribution, and claims that’s what others–Red Hat and Novell–are already doing.
Some believe that development and releases will slow down if distribution-specific patches have to be checked and accepted first.
We will surely see more clashes between copyright claims and “really free distributions” such as Debian. Ubuntu is also asking similar questions.
Andy: A couple of other items also jumped out from Slashdot.
Number One, I don’t understand fossilization at all. Apparently they discovered some soft tissue in a T-Rex bone. Even when I look at the photos, I don’t understand this, because they found soft tissue, blood vessels, bone cells, and maybe even some blood cells were discovered, in the thigh bone of a T-Rex that was found in a remote region of Montana.
Kind of an interesting story: they ended up having to break the bone in two, in order to fit it into a helicopter, to get it out of the particular area, and that’s when they found that this material inside was stretchy and flexible, and similar to–under a microscope–similar to ostrich blood vessels.
This is from the California Academy of Sciences, and maybe some listener can explain, because I thought that the whole fossilization process, that all of that tissue, many millions of years ago, was replaced with limestone and so forth.
But anyway, interesting article that you might want to take a look at.
A couple of security related things:
Hackers have claimed a zero-day flaw in Firefox. Apparently you can put up a particular web page that can have malicious Javascript as the culprit, once again. And as we see it, as Firefox becomes more popular, it becomes a more popular target.
In other security news, I think there’s a little professional jealousy going on. You may remember the Zero-day Emergency Response Team, or ZERT, which kind of appeared a few weeks ago and offered a quick patch for a VML vulnerability for Microsoft.
One of the Microsoft consultants said that they wouldn’t use this unofficial patch, and he can’t think of anyone he would recommend it to, which to me sounded a little bit like some sour grapes, there. But eWeek reports that the reactions have been mixed, and the thing that’s interesting is that ZERT releases updates for operating systems that Microsoft doesn’t support anymore, like Windows 98, 98SE, ME, Windows 2000, and so forth.
So, interesting stuff going on, on the security front, there.
Let’s pause for a moment. This is the famous commuter ad from GoToMeeting.
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Andy: Well, to return to the topic of change, all this is probably going to take the month of October, because I have to work at some web site changes, I have to really work to understand how to present in this new way, and bring in other primary sources, such as Readit and Delicious and so forth and so on. And then I’ve got some major web site changes to make and put in place.
But what I’m going to try to do is provide a way to make it easier for listeners to contribute content, so that we can begin to put listener-generated comments into the podcast as well; for example, that story on the T-Rex. I really hope that somebody will write to me and help just explain that, just in a few sentences, and I can read that and share it with everybody here.
And I think it’s going to be fun. I think, in the long run, we’re going to be able to offer a better podcast, and make it just a lot more enjoyable.
One final item here that I did find: a British man has traded his frequent flyer miles for a space shot. Alan Watts, two million miles on Virgin Atlantic, and in 2009 he’s booked for a space shot. He is an electrician who has taken 40 trips on Virgin Atlantic over the last six to eight years.
Now, when I read this, I was thinking, “OK, now I’ve got almost a million miles on United,” but I see three problems here:
Number One, United doesn’t have any spaceship, or plans, that I know of.
Number Two, I could only get halfway there, because I only have one million instead of two.
But Number Three, I could be assured that whatever time I would have off, that it would be a blackout.
Anyway, that’s it. Thanks for listening to SlashDot Review for October 1, 2006. I’ll continue to say we have no affiliation with Slashdot other than as regular readers, but add we’re also regular readers of Dig and Popgurls and Delicious and Readit and the Wall Street Journal.
I think it’s going to be fun–a new podcast for business, politics, and technology–and I’m looking forward to having listeners participate in that as well.
If you’ve got comments, please send them to Slashdot Review@gmail.com. I’m really, really anxious to hear what you think of all this new stuff. And thanks for listening to Slashdot Review.
Andy McCaskey: It’s Monday, October 2, 2006, my name is Andy McCaskey. This is SlashDot Review.
Tonight we mostly have news as I am trying to get this new presentation format down. Thanks to listeners who wrote in to encourage and their comments. We will hear from them as we move along. Today’s show is sponsored by Godaddy.com. I have talked about hosting and the domain is a good deal but if you don’t need them Godaddy still has a good value. Also again I want to thank you for using code slash.
Let’s hit the news wire. The first thing up is caller ID watches. Basically, it’s a watch that vibrates when a call comes in on your cell phone and then you have got caller ID and an option to send it to voicemail.
Life under globalization is no fun. Two items. One from Zion news talking about the challenges of building security cameras in China with the language barrier and misplaced eproms, tempers that flare in the initial defect rate of nearly 80% until they got things settled down. Counterpunch magazine talks about globalization from a different perspective. USIT sector has lost over 644,000 jobs about.17.4 percent of the workforce since 2000 and Computer Systems Designs lost around 105,000 jobs a little over eight and one half of its work force.
Personal comment, close to home. Seven engineers for the price of one. I have seen it happen and I expect you have as well.
Foley@Home has released a graphics processor unit, a GPU client. This comes from Amandtech based on some work at Stamford. I didn’t realize that it has been since October 2000 that this project has been going. There are hundreds of thousands of PCs around the world that crunch things in their spare time. What would have been impossible is now basically routine. They have targeted the study of protein folding and protein folding disease and they have had numerous scientific advances to come out of this thing. It’s going to be for the ETI X19 series and of course the big payoff is going to be once the cell processor in the Sony Playstation III comes online. 100 gigaflops is what they are expecting in that configuration.
A few listener comments: First of all thanks to listeners who took time to write in. I really hope to get a short reply out to each of you but I have just not been able to get to that as quickly as I would like. In summary the period of mourning for the music segments pretty short. A lot of people almost always skip the music track. I will have some more details on that a little bit later on in the program.
But first, we need to talk about dinosaurs. Ron Bayron wrote in and he said he was intrigued about this story about soft tissue that they found in the T Rex fossil. Like you were a little bit confused about how all that could be. He did some research and found that the confusion is shared. Mary Schweitzer is a paleontologist at North Carolina State University in Raleigh and she said that finding tissues in dinosaurs changes the way that we think about fossilization because our theories of how fossils are preserved basically don’t allow for this. Some of the interesting things what they are doing that they talked about in this National Geo article was trying to gene sequence some of this material and then compare it with present species and determine whether this T Rex was warm blooded, cold blooded or somewhere in between. Of course, another listener wrote in and asked if he had missed something. He thought we had advanced a couple of months and had an April fools item so there you go.
Please check U2. A listener submitted this. The uploader’s name is Evecis but I’m not sure who the listener was so if you could write and tell me I will give you some credit. It’s called teddy. It comes out of Japanese research effort and it’s an example or a demo of a person sketching something in 2D and then this application blows it up so to speak into a 3d rendering. It’s done in java and it’s really kind of an interesting little application shown there at u2.com/group/slash.review. Hope you keep your eyes out for content that you see and also hope that someone will encode this next news item which we will hear about after we hear this from Godaddy.
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Here’s what I would like to have somebody to encode and upload to U2 so that we can share. It is something from a company called Veritech. It is a cross between a model airplane and a three plated boomerang and it’s for military applications for reconnaissance very short range tactical reconnaissance something that is literally sent to the other side of the hill and it relies upon the principle that fast moving objects will appear only as a blur. So it looks like this thing is kind of swung like a boomerang and then flies along, has a video camera on board and you can imagine the shaking and so forth and the rotation but all that gets taken out in the video processing that removes that instability and sends video back to the operator so that they can literally see what’s on the other side of the hill or on the other side of the wall that they have tossed this thing over. There’s a video there it’s in a format that I can’t read but somebody that knows a lot more about video than I hopefully can get that into a format and get that put up on u2.
Microturbine news. MIT has a device 10 times the power of a battery of the same weight and at the same price point. Been working on it for ten years. 3-5 years to market. So that’s going to be a very interesting device. The Swiss have an electrical generator that spins at 500,000 rpm and they think they can hit a million rpm here in the next couple of years.
Another note probably made the mainstream press talking about gambling. The US has outlawed online gambling surprised everyone passed the House and the Senate and so President Bush is about to sign. The Libertarian cynic in me says the only reason this was driven off shore is they can’t figure out how to tax it and make the tax stick, kind of like some other things. But that’s a subject for another day.
Listener comments again this pesky day job being gone for four days trying to get caught up in that but sincere thanks from this household. Terry McCaskey, my wife thanks you because number 1, a number of people mentioned family and having young or some older children but she looks at all those extra hours as a reclaimed resource and so I thought I would pass that onto you.
More news. Symantic and McAfee are unhappy. They think Microsoft is locking them out of Vista. In fact they are so unhappy on behalf of anti virus companies they placed a full-page ad in the Financial Times.
Here is a mystery that got explained for me. You may have seen it as well. You know you have a choice to use either Skype or a Sip phone, a Sip device, either a Sip phone itself or gismo. Mat Hartley from madpenguin.org explained that the Skype client drains system resources because it runs as a supernode from time to time and I have observed this and didn’t know what it was but sometimes Skype can be running long and taking maybe six or eight megs of memory and behaving nicely then you happen to look over and all of a sudden it’s consuming 30 or 35. I didn’t realize what was going on but now I do. So the mystery is explained. What Mat was recommending is get on gismo and give that a try being standards based as opposed to proprietary.
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Reuters is reporting that videogames are being used to train terrorists. Using the game Counterstrike, blowing up an oil tanker and practicing blocking the Straits of Hormuz 2/5ths of the oil traded globally passes through that channel.
Back to the music Michael Bryant has some just in time comments and said he was very disappointed that you decided to lose the music track. It was one of my favorite parts of the show being a musician and a techie as a lot of us techies allowing us to being able to hear different bands and styles that I would otherwise never had taken the time to seek out. It’s been one of the features that I have really bragged about on the show while recommending it to other user. Well Michael that’s why I kept it in for so long. That’s why I kept it in for so long Jay. That was another listener who liked the music.
On other topics, I am not sure informal thing. That was also from Michael. Michael if you are uncomfortable you can join the club because on this side of the mike you have got an old dog trying to learn some new tricks. That’s it. Comments and suggestions to SlashDotreview@gmail.com. I’m going to try to get some inbound audio to let you voice your comments. My name is Andy McCaskey, no affiliation with slashdot.com other than as a regular reader. Thanks to melodia.com for continuing to provide mobile distribution to selective Motorola, Nokia and Sony Erickson phones. You know they just signed a big deal with Cingular. We will talk about that tomorrow. Thanks for listening. We will see you tomorrow.
SDR2006-10-05 Podcast – SDRNews
Andy McCaskey: This is the Tech Podcast Network. If it’s tech, it’s here.
This is Slashdot Review for Thursday, October 5, 2006. My name is Andy McCaskey. This is Slashdot Review. A fast moving show today. We’ve got video player news, a new pick site of the day, still working with Castblaster, and recording but not able to hear at the same time so cut me some slack. We need an e-mic interface. That should happen this weekend as I have a chance to go shopping. Today’s Slashdot Review news is brought to you by GoToMeeting, business meetings that work.
The first news item starts out in the PhishTank. It’s something that comes to you from OpenDNS, a service that I’ve used here for several months and been very happy with. In Open PhishTank, the people will submit to PhishTank.com messages that they believe to be scams. When an item gets enough votes and the margin’s wide enough, it’s either dropped or classified as a phishing message. Now there’s some tools to prevent scammers from gaming the system. They’re providing full API open access to the data for any developer and it is a free community-based system.
No video games on school nights. 4, 500 middle school students in New Hampshire and Vermont were the subjects of a study that was published in the 2006 October issue of Pediatrics. They suggest that any amount of video gaming and TV is too much if it happens on a school night. Weekends have little or no effect of academic performance as long as the kids spend no more than four hours per day. I don’t have any direct personal impact but I’m considering bribery to keep screen exposure to a minimum for my future grandkids.
HP executives have been indicted but there’s some technology behind those charges in there and in Congress as well. The tech behind it comes from the New York Times. The problem at HP was a tracking cookie left on the computer by a private investigator as he was sloshing through the online phone records at AT&T. Congressman Foley may have thought his instant messages were disappearing into the ether but they didn’t do that after they cleared his computer screen. Patricia Dunn at HP is facing four felony counts, 12 years, and 30,000 dollars. E-Week had an interesting comment. Quote, “HP’s board seems to have completely ignored the culture of transparency in favor of the culture of the leak-obsessed Nixon Whitehouse.”
On the subject of serendipity, a comment from Eric Schmidt, Chief Executive Officer at Google, talks about some of the impacts of the net, access to knowledge not for the rich and powerful but for anyone with a net connection. In the balance, it’s allowed people to buy better-valued goods and services and hold others to account and express themselves.
They’ve rewritten all the rules of production and distribution, for example, this podcast. In the future he sees mobile, personalized, geo-linked sorts of applications, language translations, and some real-time collaboration or artificial intelligence that says, “Others liked this story. Maybe you’d like it as well.” In other words, reading over your shoulder. So is that computer-aided serendipity or just creepy? You get to decide.
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A couple of new things on the site today, one of them is the pick site of the day. It’s called Seriously Cool Workspaces and it looks at what a cubicle looks like at Pixar, an interesting site called Kathy’s Trailer, and there’s one at the offices of Red Bull in London. So you might want to check that out and compare that to your cubicle.
I was thinking about calling this segment “Hit my Delicious” because you probably have some interesting sites book marked. If you want to recommend a site, please leave your name and location and 20 seconds about why you think it’s cool. Use 732-357-3682 or the free voice mail on the site or slashdotreview@gmail.com.
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Back to the news. An article on virus computing. New Scientist is reporting that by coating a 30-nanometer long chunk of tobacco mosaic virus with platinum nanoparticles, they’re able to make a switchable transistor. It’s mounted in a polymer matrix between two electrodes very much like a standard transistor. It takes about 100 microseconds to switch because the charge only has to travel about 10 nanometers between each nanoparticle and the surface of the virus. Finally, other than a poor grade insecticide, there’s a use for tobacco.
I thought I’d quickly mention the Tech Podcast Roundtable, which will be a discussion of the Podcast and Portable Media Expo that was held last week. Please mark your calendars for October 7th, that’s this Saturday, 1:30 Pacific and you can find the details as far as the phone bridge and so forth at techpodcast.com. As I mentioned yesterday, we’ll be discussing the conference and the un-conference. I think you’ll find it a lot of fun and quite interesting.
There’s a second video on the site today. You can find it at slashdotreview.com or at youtube.com/group/slashdotreview. It is an MIT sketch simulation where the person’s able to sketch a car on a hill and a take-off ramp and a number of things on the whiteboard, put in his environmental variables and make sure that gravity is pulling things to the bottom of the sketch, and then he goes and hits simulate. The car runs down the hill and hits the ramp and makes the leap. It’s really quite interesting. You’ll find that on the YouTube site or SlashdotReview.
Phonality has purchased Trixbox. You probably don’t know either of those companies but you may remember our series last summer on Voice 2.0. Trixbox is the distribution for telephony on Linux. It combines Asterisk and MySQL integrated into the SugarCRM solution. Now you know about LAMP and the enterprise Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP and Perl. Trixbox is basically the LAMP stack for the telephony world: Linux, Asterisk, MySQL, and Perl-PHP. The thing that’s interesting is that this is a trillion dollar market, one which Microsoft doesn’t seem to have the technology with which to respond.
First thing this morning I got an email from Doug Snell and he wrote in and then later called in with some of his comments.
Doug Snell: Hi, Andy. I just wanted to give you some of my comments on the new format. So far, I like most of the changes. I never honestly ever listen to music but never really worry because I can just skip it. The old format, a story at a time, I’m not sure if you done anything intentionally or not, but it seems like it’s a little bit harder to identify where the story ends and stops. The new format seems to kind of run together a little bit. Overall, the podcast sounds a little less formal and a little bit more personal. Before it was extremely professional and I always compared it to NPR. I don’t consider the change to the more informal show a bad thing. I kind of like it.
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Andy: I certainly appreciate Doug’s comments. I have been mindful about this separation between the commercials and comments and the news items as well. You may have noticed that I’m trying to put musical beds under the commercial content so that may be one way to identify that. I’ll try and make sure that we have some personal comments, which will be readily identifiable before we go to the commercial announcement. I’ll do that when can. Sometimes these sorts of things I don’t have as much flexibility in as I would like by contract but we’ll just have to work through that.
This is a news item: the Daily Show is just as good as Network News; that’s the study from Indiana University. They were looking at coverage of the 2004 Democratic and Republican conventions and the first presidential debate in that year. The average amounts of video and audio substance were in the broadcast news services and the same on the Daily Show, the same content, but the Daily Show delivered longer stories on each topic. Apparently the difference was that the Daily Show had less of the hype and references to photo opportunities and political endorsements and polling information.
That’s voting machines. You know my feelings on voting machines. The Dutch have had an interesting experience. It’s called the Nedap voting machine. Ninety percent of the votes cast in the Netherlands and a large proportion in France and Germany and Ireland, it apparently is trivially easy to steal a certain percentage of the votes and reassign them to another party by anyone given brief access to the devices. Any time before the election, you can gain complete and virtually undetectable control over the election results. A note to voting machine manufacturers: don’t taunt hackers. Researchers reflashed a voting machine to play chess on national television.
Even more television news, this time Skype TV. It’s called the Venice project by the founders of Skype. It’s Web 2.0 with only 100 beta testers. But apparently it’s quite capable to stop and pause and fast forward in the search window and so forth. The encoded bits of data that make up the shows stream past the eyes and disappear and they’re not logged on the machine. A lot of people are in this space in addition to YouTube, Grooper, VideoEgg, and VEO. Skype, of course, was acquired by Ebay last year for 2.6 billion dollars.
Finally, your tax dollars at work, the Department of the Interior Inspector General found that sex, computer games, gambling, and auctions were costing about two billion dollars a year in productivity being lost due to quote, “Excessive indulgences.” Extrapolated over the year, that could account for 100,000 lost work hours.
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Thanks for listening to Slashdot Review. You can look at slashdotreview.com for details and the feed blitz email version of the show. Please send your comments and suggestions to slashdotreview@gmail.com, voicemail 732-357-3682 for the onsite recorder. My name’s Andy McCaskey, no affiliation with Slashdot other than as a regular reader. Thanks for listening. New schedule, this will be it until Sunday night and we’ll see you then. Have a good weekend.
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