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    <title>cmdln.net_2008-07-16</title>
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    <outline text="Intro" Offset="00:17">
      <outline text="Return from hiatus">
        <outline text="Some needed relaxation"/>
        <outline text="Some planning done"/>
        <outline text="Not as much as I would like"/>
        <outline text="Any longer away and it would be a problem to return"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Despite grass roots activism, FISA Amendments Act passed">
        <outline text="EFF will continue to fight in court cases"/>
        <outline text="On appeal as needed"/>
        <outline text="Has file a new case against the federal government"/>
        <outline text="Will be working with next Congress to try to repeal worst parts"/>
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    <outline text="Listener Feedback" Offset="04:17">
      <outline text="Michel asking about Ogg feed">
        <outline text="MP3 most compatible"/>
        <outline text="A good number of listeners asked for enhanced, AAC feed"/>
        <outline text="Stats show listenership is split 50/50"/>
        <outline text="I think I'd have more than the usual number of Ogg subscribers"/>
        <outline text="Still not sure it is enough to warrant the extra time, storage"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Ryan Peterson">
        <outline text="Asking about how to contribute to open source"/>
        <outline text="Spoke about this in piece on volunteerism"/>
        <outline text="Also a bit on hacker work ethic"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Thomas Bjorkman">
        <outline text="Books on hacker culture, history"/>
        <outline text="Definitely Cryptonomicon, modern Waterhouse character is actually a good characterization of a hacker"/>
        <outline text="Stross' laundry series similar in that regard"/>
        <outline text="Levy's Hackers and Crypto"/>
        <outline text="Mind Matters, James P. Hogan"/>
        <outline text="http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Matters-James-P-Hogan/dp/0345412400/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1216172429&amp;sr=1-1"/>
        <outline text="History of AI, the labs of MIT and Stanford where much hacker culture derived"/>
        <outline text="Complexity, Mitch Waldrop"/>
        <outline text="http://www.amazon.com/Complexity-Emerging-Science-Order-Chaos/dp/0671872346/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1216172554&amp;sr=1-1"/>
        <outline text="More early CS, Holland and Conway"/>
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    <outline text="Word of the Week: defenestration" Offset="13:13">
      <outline text="http://catb.org/jargon/html/D/defenestration.html"/>
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    <outline text="Call with EFF on FISA Amendments Act" Offset="14:33">
      <outline text="Introduce yourself"/>
      <outline text="EFF is involved with cases about the government wire tapping.  What specifically are those cases about?"/>
      <outline text="What does the bill's passage mean for those cases?"/>
      <outline text="Does the bill accomplish anything other than immunity for the telcos involved?"/>
      <outline text="Does the bill expand executive powers, making more wire taps likely?"/>
      <outline text="With so many opposed to immunity, why do you think it still passed?  Is that strong a political or voting issue?"/>
      <outline text="What options to interested citizens have going forward?"/>
    </outline>
    <outline text="Outro" Offset="25:24">
      <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"/>
        <outline text="Listener comment line is 240-949-2638"/>
        <outline text="del.icio.us tag is &quot;for:cmdln&quot;"/>
        <outline text="http://twitter.com/cmdln"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="I'd like to thank libsyn.com for AAC hosting and Wouter de Bie for MP3 hosting"/>
      <outline text="These notes and the show audio and music are covered by a Creative Commons license">
        <outline text="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/"/>
        <outline text="Attribution, non-commercial, share alike"/>
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