Burning Circle

Anti-SOPA Monologue

This monologue is excerpted from a special one-off broadcast the production team managed on New Year's Eve 2011 on shortwave powerhouse WBCQ and is taken from the original recording and not the aircheck.

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Burning Circle Episode 54

This is the Christmas special and the final regular episode for 2011.

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Burning Circle 53

This week's quickie makes a plea for info from ReLoCo teams so that we might learn what is going on across our state.

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Links Found During The Last Week

Fiberevolution: Do data caps punish the wrong users?
ARM releases free Android development toolkit - News - Linux for Devices
Ubuntu penguins build Linux TV challenge • The Register
Canonical questions Distrowatch share slide figures • The Register
Verizon's $3.6 billion spectrum deal: Who wins and who loses? | Signal Strength - CNET News
Verizon Wireless' plan to buy 20MHz of wireless spectrum for $3.6 billion from cable operators will shake up the industry. CNET takes a look at how the various players will be affected. Read this blog post by Marguerite Reardon on Signal Strength.
GNUnet 0.9.0 released | GNUnet
ARM Launches Free Toolkit for Android App Developers - Application Development - News & Reviews - eWeek.com
Data caps a "crude and unfair tool" for easing online congestion
FCC to probe San Francisco subway cell phone "interruption" policy
Verizon snags $3.6B worth of spectrum licenses as AT&T hits FCC roadbloack
Verizon Wireless has struck a $3.6 billion deal to buy wireless spectrum covering 259 million Americans from Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks.
Study: Bandwidth hogs aren't responsible for peak network congestion « Boing Boing
What's a Free Software Non-Profit For? - Bradley M. Kuhn ( Brad ) ( bkuhn )
fak3r » HOWTO build your own open source Dropbox clone
LOVEFiLM dumps Flash, BLINDS Linux fans with Silverlight • The Register

Burning Circle Episode 52

This week's episode is light fare considering the events of "Black Friday Weekend" where we replay a radio classic from the series Dimension X. The raw take of the slush pile is available in lieu of a normal miscellany. A shopping list of items we're seeking for operations during this season of giving can be found here. Due to the length of the program, there is no Ogg Vorbis version this week while there is an MP3 version here.

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Burning Circle Episode 51

This week's episode isn't quite a quickie as it is over 90 seconds.

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The Miscellany

Outer Fringes

Niall Ferguson on 2021: The New Europe - WSJ.com
EU agency warns of voluntary surveillance society goo.gl/ArDEk
Lauren Weinstein's Blog: The Coming Fascist Internet

Burning Circle

Report: Steve Jobs Considered Building Apple Mobile Network | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
It should be no surprise that Steve Jobs liked to do things himself, hence Apple's "walled garden" approach, but did the company almost become a wireless carrier?
New Desktop Interface Flops | ZDNet
It’s not just Windows 8 Metro, other new interfaces, like Linux’s GNOME 3.2, stink just as much.
Learning from GNOME | Xfce Blog
Learning from GNOME
Where desktop sanity prevails « Larry the Free Software Guy
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Will Not Support Old CPUs - Softpedia
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Will Not Support Old CPUs
Steve Jobs wanted iPhone on its own network, carrier-free
Sprint Unveils Capped Data Plans for Devices | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
South Korea proposes restricting all e-mail sending to official e-mail servers | ZDNet
Technolog - Sprint first carrier to offer wireless emergency alerts

Sprint will start allowing free, wireless emergency alerts — text messages from the National Weather Service, state and local emergency operations center, even the President — becoming the first U.S.
Pocket Spies
PandaBoard demo'd running Android 4.0 - News - Linux for Devices
PandaBoard demo'd running Android 4.0 News Linux for Devices: PandaBoard.org's community-driven PandaBoard is the first device to run Android 4.0, according to Texas Instruments (TI) and the Android Open-Source Project (AOSP). Based on TI's dual-core, 1GHz OMAP4430 processor -- similar to the OMAP4460 available in the soon-to-ship Samsung Galaxy Nexus...
12.04 Ubuntu Developer Summit Proceedings
anonscm.debian.org Git - freedombox/freedom-maker.git/summary

Google Watch

Here's how to opt out of Google's Wi-Fi snooping - Computerworld Blogs
Google has long collected information about people's home and business Wi-Fi networks, and included it in a database that it uses for location services. The company now lets you opt out so that you network isn't included, but it could be harder to do than you think. Here's how to do it, in a few easy steps.
Google will ignore your Wi-Fi router ... if you rename it • The Register
Google WiFi Opt-Out Method Met with Skepticism - Security - News & Reviews - eWeek.com
Google offers a way for users to opt out of having their WiFi routers included in its Location Server, but some believe the method is too complicated for most consumers.
Google serves up Ice Cream Sandwich code • reghardware
Google Releases 'Ice Cream Sandwich' Source Code | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
Google releases Android 4 source code, but true openness still elusive
Google has announced that it is publishing the source code of Android 4.0, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich. The code drop will also include the Honeycomb source history.
Google Now Letting Users Opt Out of Wi-Fi Location Tracking | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
Google is now officially offering the means to opt out of having your Wi-Fi location data tracked.
Google Analytics A Potential Threat to Anonymous Bloggers - Waxy.org