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    <outline text="Intro" Offset="00:17">
      <outline text="Happy Mother's Day"/>
    </outline>
    <outline text="Security Alerts" Offset="03:09">
      <outline text="Security flaw turns Gmail into open relay" Offset="03:28">
        <outline text="http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/BAaf/~3/287623857/20080510-security-flaw-turns-gmail-into-open-relay-server.html"/>
        <outline text="Advisory from Information Security Research Team"/>
        <outline text="Man in the middle attack"/>
        <outline text="Bypasses identity fraud detection and bulk mail limits"/>
        <outline text="Made worse by high level of trust for Gmail servers"/>
        <outline text="Talked previously about how this is starting to change"/>
        <outline text="For anti-spam service providers, breaking of Gmail CAPTCHA is starting to affect trust"/>
        <outline text="May go the same way with relaying, like peers Yahoo and Hotmail"/>
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      <outline text="Google launches security group for open source" Offset="05:17">
        <outline text="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/06/google_launches_ocert/"/>
        <outline text="This is an all volunteer force"/>
        <outline text="Not an official group of employees"/>
        <outline text="Google is leading it, though, to try to better address security concerns in open source"/>
        <outline text="oCERT, an emergency response team"/>
        <outline text="Will actually try to coordinate efforts between authors, maintainers of projects"/>
        <outline text="More of a communications than a coding team"/>
        <outline text="Will try to provide support for debugging, patching to supplement coding efforts"/>
        <outline text="Some overlap with other response teams but open sources is huge"/>
        <outline text="If Google is able to build a better network, this could make a positive difference"/>
        <outline text="Agree we don't need just another notice board"/>
        <outline text="Group is already live and has issued for advisories"/>
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    <outline text="News" Offset="06:41">
      <outline text="Could Mac-clone Psystar impact the EULA question?" Offset="06:54">
        <outline text="http://techdirt.com/articles/20080502/1834591016.shtml"/>
        <outline text="Psystar started offering PCs with OSX a few weeks back"/>
        <outline text="At one point, Apple did license its OS"/>
        <outline text="When Jobs returned to the company, he ended that program"/>
        <outline text="Apple includes some barriers to running"/>
        <outline text="When OS X on Intel was announced, enthusiast started cracking"/>
        <outline text="Psystar's offering came well after interest seems to have cooled"/>
        <outline text="Biggest question is whether these so-called Open Computers are legal"/>
        <outline text="Psystar says yes, based on legal purchase"/>
        <outline text="Apple EULA says otherwise"/>
        <outline text="Explicitly says limited to running on Apple labeled computer"/>
        <outline text="Psystar has a few tactics they can try"/>
        <outline text="Claim the EULA violates first sale though this has not been tested for software"/>
        <outline text="That EULA is illegal tying"/>
        <outline text="Article is not optimistic about them even trying to make a case"/>
        <outline text="Apple hasn't taken action, yet"/>
        <outline text="The promise is a business challenging EULA"/>
        <outline text="Previously, businesses have successfully defended EULA's as binding"/>
        <outline text="Makes act of opening, using software agreement to a contract"/>
        <outline text="This would be first time a business enters the fray"/>
        <outline text="If tested, perhaps even if lost, might help redefine EULAs"/>
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      <outline text="Glider software case may have copyright implications" Offset="12:04">
        <outline text="http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/05/do-you-own-your-software-wow-glider-case-not-just-"/>
        <outline text="Case actually testing bounds of licensing agreement"/>
        <outline text="Blizzard, makers of WoW, suing Michael Donnelly author of Glider"/>
        <outline text="Glider automates play of WoW"/>
        <outline text="Suit is claiming Donnelly encouraged WoW owners to violate license"/>
        <outline text="To be clear, Glider doesn't violate directly, this is an inducement claim"/>
        <outline text="Blizzard is also claiming copyright infringement"/>
        <outline text="Again, not direct claim against Donnelly, by claim he induced"/>
        <outline text="Idea is that Glider loads a *copy* to play, infringes some distribution right"/>
        <outline text="If Blizzard wins, could give publishers right to bar interoperability"/>
        <outline text="EFF explains this is at its heart the debate between license or ownership"/>
        <outline text="Argues in the worst case, license violation is breach of contract"/>
        <outline text="Copyright infringement carries heft statutory penalties"/>
        <outline text="Interoperability angle could stifle innovation"/>
        <outline text="Sad thing is, most such innovation helps the original rights holder"/>
        <outline text="Usually an example of the rights holder not filling a need"/>
        <outline text="In the case of software, isn't a question of substitution, like piracy"/>
        <outline text="Glider users still need software, service subscription"/>
        <outline text="More users may be inclined to buy, play with Glider"/>
        <outline text="Blizzard has filed for summary judgement"/>
        <outline text="The fact that Glider is a cheat may cloud the larger issues"/>
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      <outline text="Procedural gaffe could undo several years of patent rulings" Offset="16:40">
        <outline text="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/284426937/us-patent-judges-are.html"/>
        <outline text="Law professor at GWU, John F. Duffy, identified the problem"/>
        <outline text="Wrote a short paper detailing the issue"/>
        <outline text="The main point is that since 2000, patent judges appointed by official with no power to do so"/>
        <outline text="Vetted it with peers"/>
        <outline text="DoJ had no comment, even declined to dispute at an appeals filing"/>
        <outline text="Claim to be working on a legislative solution"/>
        <outline text="That is a law to retroactively legalize, I suppose"/>
        <outline text="Potential impact is staggering, calling into question thousands of rulings"/>
        <outline text="Appointments supposed to come from the executive, the courts or heads of departments"/>
        <outline text="A 1999 law gave power to director in the PTO"/>
        <outline text="This is arguably unconstitutional but only challenged, now"/>
        <outline text="Two possible defense already have case precedents that shoot them down"/>
        <outline text="Single key case is Freytag v. Commissioner in 1991"/>
        <outline text="Consider appointees with less power than patent judges"/>
        <outline text="Also restricted appointment power to cabinet level departments"/>
        <outline text="Affected rulings by panels including post-2000 appointees would have to be re-heard"/>
        <outline text="Depending on affected cases, may add some pressure to patent reform"/>
        <outline text="Assumes that re-hearings would use current law as opposed to law at the time"/>
        <outline text="No idea how this works"/>
        <outline text="Appellees may feel they'd be better served under new law"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Correcting chip defects post fabrication" Offset="21:18">
        <outline text="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/slashdot/eqWf/~3/284600846/article.pl"/>
        <outline text="One of the barriers to scaling chips down is the limited precision"/>
        <outline text="Mistakes creep in, more so as die sizes shrink"/>
        <outline text="These defects allow voltage to leak or fluctuate"/>
        <outline text="Components end up performing poorly or not at all"/>
        <outline text="New research shows a technique for fixing errors at such small scales after the fact"/>
        <outline text="Technique developed by Professor Stephen Chou and grad student, Qiangfei Xia at Princeton"/>
        <outline text="Real problem is randomness inherent in manufacture processes"/>
        <outline text="Especially as single particles are used for etching"/>
        <outline text="Method is called Self Perfection by Liquefaction"/>
        <outline text="Melts components after fab and uses different forces, like surface tension"/>
        <outline text="Liquids tend to better organize into geometric shapes"/>
        <outline text="Helps straighten lines, square edges"/>
        <outline text="Heating has been used for plastics"/>
        <outline text="Not ideal for chips, higher melting point of semi-conductors, other materials would affect everything on the die"/>
        <outline text="Also, uniform heating would warp shape of elements"/>
        <outline text="Solve uniform heating with an excimer laser, very precise"/>
        <outline text="High surface tension means metals, semiconductors only need to be liquid for the briefest time"/>
        <outline text="Use a quartz plate as a template to help components keep shape"/>
        <outline text="Also doesn't require detailed, costly measurement of other correction techniques"/>
        <outline text="Forces involved ensure all components correct equally without tailored work"/>
        <outline text="Even allows some things other methods cannot"/>
        <outline text="Moving the quartz plate further way, the liquid metals move up towards it"/>
        <outline text="Results in higher, thinner elements, highly desirable"/>
        <outline text="Seems like it could be introduced to industry soon"/>
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    <outline text="tail -f" Offset="25:36">
      <outline text="House passes PRO-IP bill" Offset="25:55">
        <outline text="http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/BAaf/~3/286360444/20080508-house-overwhelmingly-passes-controversial-pro-ip-act.html"/>
        <outline text="This bill increases statutory damages"/>
        <outline text="Would establish an infringement enforcement division in the DoJ with a new federal copyright czar"/>
        <outline text="Also adds seizure powers similar to drug laws"/>
        <outline text="Already amended to reduce damage changes"/>
        <outline text="Still has to pass the Senate"/>
        <outline text="Senate still hasn't taken up the bill in earnest"/>
        <outline text="Also, president has expressed reservations about the bill"/>
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      <outline text="RIAA says DRM is coming back" Offset="27:27">
        <outline text="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080508-if-music-drm-is-dead-the-riaa-expects-its-resurrection.html"/>
        <outline text="David Hughes, head of RIAA technology"/>
        <outline text="Claims opening up of music is temporary"/>
        <outline text="Thinks subscription service is the model that will win"/>
        <outline text="Only considers subscriptions with DRM as workable"/>
        <outline text="Despite the launching of Magnatune's well subscription service"/>
        <outline text="Also continued success of eMusic which doesn't use DRM"/>
        <outline text="Overlooks that customers are irked by irrational limits"/>
        <outline text="See the kerfuffle over shuttering of MSN Music"/>
        <outline text="Means that move away from DRM may have more to do with competition with iPod than any industry intelligence"/>
        <outline text="Felten on return of DRM comments">
          <outline text="http://feeds.freedom-to-tinker.com/~r/freedom-to-tinker/~3/286836316/"/>
          <outline text="Points out past predictions of success of subscriptions with DRM"/>
          <outline text="Has yet to come to pass"/>
          <outline text="Why should now be any different?"/>
          <outline text="Sees the drive to subscriptions as a question of scale"/>
          <outline text="Subscription is one way to bundle songs, rather than fill ever large devices one song at a time"/>
          <outline text="Also thinks success of traditional models without DRM suggest bundling, subscription can be done without DRM"/>
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    <outline text="Outro" Offset="29:53">
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