This is a news cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

The details about the call for papers for the tenth Ohio Linux Fest are here.

This week’s security alerts are passwords are not going away any time soon and wasting hacker’s time to keep web sites safe.

In this week’s news, The Pirate Bay launches a promo platform for artists, how quantum computing could move to the cloud, smallest transistors from nano-tubes outperform silicon, and Google’s new privacy policy including first reactions and Google’s response to them.

Following up this Mozilla adds BrowserID support to all its sites and Kirby Ferguson and EFF seek a remix exemption to the DMCA.

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