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There are a few development Podcasts emerging. One includes my favorite on Java called zdot

Someone else already mentioned , but it's worth recommending again.

• IT Conversations has IT-related conferences, interviews, round-tables, and more.
• Science Friday is the weekly NPR segment, with science interviews, news, and discussion.
• This Week in Science is college radio at it's finest. Informative and funny.

http://www.itconversations.com/ is about the best I've found along these lines.

Keep an eye on Podcasts. Most of the technical shows I've found on there are just a gloss-over, but something good has to come around sooner or later.

I kid, I kid, but I agree with you, in spirit, at least. However, I know a lot of people who can't get cable or DSL in their rural MA area that would probably argue that it might be worth the trade.

We're veering off topic here, but speaking of ham radio, This speech by Steve Wozniak at Gnomedex 4.0 talks a bit about his love of ham radio. It's a pleasantly unfocused and fuzzy speech.

~jeff

If anyone knows ugly, boring, and uninspired, its Chris Parillo

If you haven't already read his book Beyond Fear I would highly recommend it. For those of us who don't read books, he covers a good chunk of the material in 34 minutes in this interview. Also very fascinating, I even played it for my grandparents and they both enjoyed it, and have since told me that they have seen him talking on CSPAN or something like that.

If you're interested in Spore, I highly recommend listening to Sculpting Possibility Space, in which Will Wright goes into detail about a lot of the ideas he works with.

The Stanford research is interesting, but I'm still trying to make up my mind about the Semantic Web, learning about RDF, and whether I need to bake in ways of handling these kinds of assertions in my web app. The Stanford group writes, "Our hope is that our search application spurs development of the Semantic Web, and leads to sites publishing their data in this format so that we don't have to." It obviously takes more work to encode such information and getting user contributions auto-marked for the semantic web. For a counter viewpoint, take a look at some of Clay Shirky's work -- in particular:

• The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview written in Nov 2003.
• His excellent talk "Ontology is Overrated" in downloadable spoken audio

Will the semantic web be supported by future versions of Drupal, phpBB, and other grass-roots content management web apps? Not sure. Since a lot of the content is visitor generated, you would have to build in ways of providing easy markup. Would be interested to hear /. thoughts on the matter.

The Government seems to be spending a massive amount of money on fancy technologies at airports that really in the end dont increase security THAT much if there is a determined individual, someone willing to blow themselves up I would classify as determined. Spending all this money does not solve the problem of terrorism, even if we were able to make airlines secure it does nothing to stop the threat to other targets. I suggest everyone who is interested check out Bruce Schneier's peice on it conversations, http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail119.htm l .
He is one of the only people I have heard who uses LOGIC and RATIONALITY when talking about security. Basing security off of irrational emotions might make us FEEL better, but it does not in fact make us safer.

Why would Steve Jobs want to drive free content via iTunes? I consumed tons 'o tunes when I first got my iPod and starting last October have downloaded free content like mad -- so much so that I don't have enough listen-able hours in a day for all the stuff on my little white hard drive device.

Here's the kicker and what Apple will have to wrestle with: my own 45 minute commute to work each way is often filled with IT Conversationsand other 'podcasts' every day and I hardly listen to my own music library anymore.

SUGGESTION TO APPLE: if Apple were to play it smart, they'd provider "podcaster guidelines" and how-to's that would do what they'd done with the UI (set the bar for quality and usability) as well as providing a way for podcasters to monetize their offerings. It could and would explode the users of Garageband and the Mac platform -- since most of the really great audio tools are there.

WILD CONJECTURE: Oh yeah...if all the rumors are true about the next step for Apple is with a video-centric platform, it would position them nicely for all the vloggers to use iMovie, Final Cut, etc., for creating great video content.

Just like blogs, there are gems. Plus existing programs work better as podcasts than broadcasts.

IT Conversations (Doug Kaye project), is a top notch Podcasting source. (ok, it was around before the rage about podcasting, but podcasting made it integrate with my life).

Public Radio Fan also has a list of many podcasts that were radio programs - enabling you to listen to your favorite programs on your own time.

I hope all of NPR's programs become available as podcasts as I enjoy listening but don't live on their schedule.

The costly security report is just a money-making troll but there is one issue raised by greasemonkey that may worry a lot of content providers.

Blocking adverts is old hat but greasemonkey lets you do so much more. It offers you the potential to inject links to products from a rival vendor when browsing an online store or rewrite affiliate link ids on a page, to give two examples.

This is going to break a few business models.

Personally I'm not going to shed any tears. Many businesses have completely misunderstood the nature of the web and just seen hyperspace as somewhere else to stick up billboards. Those that can't evolve will die. But when you consider how upset certain people get if you want to just view their site in a manner they hadn't planned on, then we can definitely expect fireworks in the near future.

There's a very heated discussion between Cory Doctorow and Robert Scoble that touches on these issues at http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail438.htm l about these issues, albeit in the context of Google's Autolink rather than greasemonkey.

Wozniak spoke extensively about this period at Apple in a great interview at Gnomedex. It's available in high quality streaming audio on ITConversations: http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail214.htm l

This IT Conversation touches on that thought. The want an API on top of the chipset so people can develop cool tools.

http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail328.htm l

Also checkout this audio from Spencer Wells on ITConversations

Audio of Presentation by Spencer Wells at Pop!Tech 2004

This site is great - free podcasts on interesting topics.

First, I'm not interested in "open sourc[ing]" anything. I'm interested in software freedom, the message which the open source movement works hard to ignore or marginalize (for examples see Chris DiBona's interview where he gets the difference between open source and free software very wrong, or Mark Webbink's essay on licensing where he goes around the barn to not use the word "copyleft" even though that's the concept he finds so useful, or the OSI's FAQ where they describe free software as "ideological tub-thumping". Then contrast that to the more clear and respectful description of the difference between the two movements published by the FSF).

Second, I don't think there's anything wrong with asking nVidia to make the software for their 3D drivers free software, nor do I think there's anything wrong with asking Adobe to make Photoshop free software. I don't think there's anything wrong with purposefully not getting involved with these programs (or buying from these companies) until they distribute freedom to their customers.

As history shows, there is competition in many markets where people put the effort into making competition happen. The GIMP and Photoshop are competitors, there is interest in making a 3D video card that uses free software to drive it. There was a time when the Linux kernel was not advanced enough to do real work with, but now it is useful for everyday work by millions around the world.

We should not be so quick to accept whatever some proprietor is handing us just because it is available here and now.

I'd recommend IT Conversations. Interviews and shows with a host of people in the IT industry.

Not just IT-related, IT Conversations can be relied upon for intelligent, interesting discussions. (Particularly if you want to know how to deal with polar bears.)

Including full podcasting/RSS facilities on a personalised basis.

Not affliated, just a happy (non-fee-paying) customer.

Not just IT-related, IT Conversations can be relied upon for intelligent, interesting discussions. (Particularly if you want to know how to deal with polar bears.)

Including full podcasting/RSS facilities on a personalised basis.

Not affliated, just a happy (non-fee-paying) customer.

Exactly...So here a couple that I like:

• Lug radio. This is good linux news mixed with humor. Some good interviews and views.
• It Conversations. Just started listening to these a couple of days ago. Seems like good interviews with high profile people.
• On The MediaWell I can't get NPR in New Zealand so I download OTM which is pretty good commment on the media industry.

IT Conversations
Talking History
These two have kept my train ride going for a while ;)

http://www.itconversations.com/

Tons of public speeches from variety of interesting tech/sci related topics.

IT Conversations, produced by Doug Kaye, has tons of worthwhile interviews on IT, blogging and geek-centric issues. Lots of the audio is from industry conferences.

http://itconversations.com/ is a good place to start. Another one I listen to is http://www.binrev.com/radio/.

Check out the content available from IT Conversations. Lots of geeky stuff from lots of geeky people (People like Cory Doctorow, Steve Wozniak, Bruce Schneier, etc.).

You may also want to try listening to podcasts. Check out ipodder.org to see a directory of them. There is more than enough content there to keep you occupied on a daily basis. Oh, I guess I'm also assuming you can listen to MP3 in your car...

http://www.itconversations.com/

Maximum burn is worth a listen. A good pdf is there too. CD-Rs don't last. But a few tips can make them last a bit longer.

I think Tiger might tip me to the Apple side again, after being a Win 95/98/NT/XP user for a while. ITConversations.com ran an interview with the senior product line manager. There's no video, but it was interesting to hear him walk through the new features.

Admittedly a lot of this is like a lot of blogs and not of very great moment. But there is a lot of other stuff that you cannot get any other way. Try http://www.itconversations.com/ for some really good stuff. Conferences you couldn't go to, in depth interviews with authors (40 minutes rather than 5) and The Gilmore Gang which I wait for each week.

Also there is stuff from the BBC which I am unlikely to ever hear on this side of the Atlantic plus NPR stuff that isn't carried on my station.

Two of the more important points of the podcast are that is like Tivo, you listen when you want to and you can listen when you are unhooked from the network (i.e. in a car).

There's also an audio presentation from Pop!Tech 2004 on IT Conversations

There's also an audio presentation from Pop!Tech 2004 on IT Conversations

There's also an audio presentation from Pop!Tech 2004 on IT Conversations

Lawrence Lessig spoke about this issue at Bloggercon III. You can download a recording of his presentation at ITConversations:

http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail285.htm l

If you're interested in Jeff Bezos and the interview has left you wondering more still, check out the conversation with him posted at ITConversations from the Web 2.0 Conference. Jeff talks about Amazon and entertains questions from the audience.

IT Conversations - Jeff Bezos

1. How come when Microsoft tried to do this with passport everyone thought it was evil. But now, because it's not Microsoft, there will be a lot of people saying this is good. The reason why this stuff bothers me is because I don't want to trust anyone to control all my signing on to every site. Because no matter how secure it is, if someone breaks the security, they now have access to everything. At least I know now, that if someone breaks (guesses) one of my passwords, then they've only broken one of them, and not all of them.

The motivations for each group are entirely different. Go and listen to Owen Davis' speach here.

How do I deal with it? Oh, let me count the ways...

Pre-emptive: After knocking out the obvious and preventable problems, I keep a list of issues as they come up. I then knock them out as well or...decide not to do them at all. In some cases, you can bargain with people on the solution. In any case, you shouldn't have to manually do the same thing twice unless it is a physical task (moving a system, changing toner). Backups should happen automatically, restoring systems should almost be done by command, new software should be pushed out, ... with your job being to monitor that everything is A-OK not that you had to hover over every minor stage.

Recruit the users: Keep in mind that many minor tasks can be demonstrated to your users and they can take care of them for you. After all, many don't want to call you for small issues and will feel better 'learning about computers'.

Trust: Specifically, make them feel like they can be in control at any time. Annoy them with your concern. Walk around, ask people what they think, listen, give them tons of feedback, let them know you have handled specific issues they raised, give them so much feedback that they will be disinterested in asking you a single question -- unless it is really important. Make it so that they do not have to struggle over having you do anything...and they will not ask as many questions. This works very well... if and only if you are pushy about it for a few weeks. Get them to say 'enough'.

On a similar tangent, here's something to think about. (People aren't simple chimps; we're very complex apes.)

Roomway Segba aside, this looks like it was a pretty cool conference. I found some good write-ups on FutureSalon.org. They claim the audio will be up on ITConverasations. Which is good, because who has time to read?

Having the OpenOffice XML file become a standard would be bad because it then prevents you from improving the product.

This is the same problem that Microsoft is facing with MS-Office -- they can't make any changes that would break the file format (since customers bitched about the file format changing all the time), thus, you aren't seeing any super-duper new features come out.

Source: Joel Spolsky's interview with ITConversations.com

Chip H.

It really is sad for IP and science in general when we have to go to court for a while to find out if we can make a garage door opener remote. The DMCA is possibly the worst thing that has ever happened to science in general. It lets companies be anti-competitive legally under a shroud of "protecting their intellectual property".

We all(I already have) should be going to the EFF's DMCA Action Page.

Contact your senators and representatives.(USA).

Chris

Recent research supports the belief that one well chosen password will defeat most intruders and that enforced rotation leads to weak passwords.

Here in work i've implemented a reasonable level (read: what you get for free from MS) password policy on the GC/DC (its a MS shop).
Passwords:

* Vary between Upper and Lower case
* Contain at least 1 number
* Have a minimum of 8 characters (MacOS9 users are only allowed to use 8 unless they have the MSUAM)
* Forced change every 90 days
* Differ from the 3 passwords used previously

In addition we encourage users to pick strong passwords:

Good Passwords contain:

* Multiple small words (let me in now: LetM3In0w)
* Unusual keys (open at eight : 0pEn@Ate)
* Personal Acronyms (open now please : 0pN0Plez)
* Replace letters with numbers (close please : C7o53p7z)
* Misspelled or nonsense words (close please : klOz3PeaZ)
* Offset the Number/Word (to home sweet : H0m325we3t)
* Non-sequential words from songs/poems (home of the brave: 7hebRaFovH0m3)
* A combination of the above!

Bad Passwords contain:

* Countries or Place names
* Names (First or Last)
* Anything Workplace related
* Historical events and Dates
* Personal information: Phone numbers, Birthdays or Social Security numbers
* Dictionary (English and Foreign language) words
* Consecutive numbers
* Popular phrases separated by spaces, underscores or a hyphen

I recently conducted an audit using the excellent @stake LC5. I used the SAM agent import feature and not the sniff the wire capability. It cracked 26/196 passwords in less than 50 seconds with straight dictionary attacks tho' to be fair it was running checks against the weaker LM password. It finished the run with 96/196 successful cracks in around 11 hours using the dictionary, hybrid dictionary/brute force and straight brute force cracking.

It got many "strong passwords" chosen using the above methodology which is similar to the previous post. I am not too worried as ANY password is vulnerable to determined brute forcing. Thats the reason you combine strong passwords and an x-attempt lockout policy.

The bonehead central office still enforces the password rotation despite the evidence that users are sabotaging the process. I sincerely believe this collision of function and security is a zero sum game: the users need to work meeting a complex security process irrespective of the necessity.

I am actively looking into 3rd party DC/GC extensions which perform the routine checks LC5 used so successfully and that have been in use on *nix systems for years. I'd love to hear from any1 in a similar situation. Please note i had reservations purchasing from @stake based on their abhorrent treatment of Dan Geer and evidently vindictive successive OSX disclosure campaign.

Listen to Helen Greiner talk about iRobots at ITConversations.com

http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail164.htm l

Interviews, talk radio, and live streams and archive of major and regional events.

Interviews, talk radio, and live streams and archive of major and regional events.

http://itconversations.com/.

--Tim

Also, The Linux Show: The original weekly Open Source/GNU/Linux webcast talk show.

Disclamer: David Mohring/NZheretic is soon going to be more closely connected to the Linux Show.

Also, The Linux Show: The original weekly Open Source/GNU/Linux webcast talk show.

Disclamer: David Mohring/NZheretic is soon going to be more closely connected to the Linux Show.

IT Conversations has a bunch of interesting IT audio content. Well, interesting if you want to listen to people like Bruce Schneier, Tim O'Reilly, Joe Trippi, Philip Greenspun and Steve McConnell.

Check out itconversations.

http://itconversations.com/ is exactly what you're looking for.

Enjoy,
F.O. Dobbs