Buzz Out Loud Blog

First, apologies for the song that will be stuck in your head for at least a week. Blame the chat room. In the news today, the T-Mobile Sidekick outage, the ongoing Facebook outage, the IBM outage that briefly crippled Air New Zealand, and the unbelievable failure that is the PSP Go launch. It's a fun show.

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T-Mobile: We probably lost all your Sidekick data
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/t-mobile-we-probably-lost-all-your-sidekick-data/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10372521-1.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10372525-56.htm
http://www.hiptop3.com/archives/what-caused-the-sidekick-fail/
http://samj.net/2009/10/if-its-dangerous-its-not-cloud.html

Downed Facebook accounts still haven’t returned
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10372417-36.html

Amateur’ IBM brings down Air New Zealand
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/12/ibm_new_zealand/

PSP Go launch has become a nightmare for gamers, Sony
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/10/psp-go-launch-has-become-a-nightmare-for-gamers-sony.ars

FCC to investigate Google Voice call blocking
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/09/AR2009100904385.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10372521-1.html

Study: 54 percent of companies ban Facebook, Twitter at work
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/10/study-54-of-companies-ban-facebook-twitter-at-work/

BSA: 41 percent of software on personal computers is pirated
http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8325

LG’s new twist on e-readers: Solar power!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10372744-1.html

Hadron Collider physicist arrested on terrorism charges
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10372398-71.html

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Anonymous Linux dude: how about a streamlined OS? #nerdsnort

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Hi Guys and Girls

This new Lightpeek standard sounds awesome but when you’re heads down, bum up in a dark corner because one cable is too short and the network, monitor, mouse and keyboard cables all look the same I think I’ll want to strangle someone. There’s a certain elegance in having a network cable that looks completely different to a DVI cable because my monitor doesn’t understand TCP/IP and my switch won’t go 1080p.

Cheers
Craig

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Hello Buzzies!

First: Happy Canadian Thanksgiving, and Happy American Columbus Day!

On another note however I would like to say why the Amazon Kindle
sucks overseas. Don’t get me wrong I love the idea of the Kindle,
built in 3G, buy books as you go and it works everywhere! However if I
would like one in the Netherlands (and Europe for that matter) I have
to buy it from Amazon.com and I have to pay in American Dollars. Which
isn’t to bad, heck the Euro/Dollar exchange rate is awesome at the
moment. But here come the terrible parts:

Although Amazon says it works overseas you have to keep this in mind:

- Ships with American Plug/adapter
- 20$ Shipping
- 60$ import costs
- Works through ATT Roaming partners, but you don’t have any roaming
costs (that is what Amazon says, they say US customers overseas pay
1.99$, but say other countries are free). In reality though, the books
(which you also have to pay in American $) are more expensive in the
European Kindle store than in the US kindle store.
- Newspapers are full price, but don’t get delivered with Images and
charts (saving bandwidth)
- The blogs feature is disabled (couldn’t care less)
- The experimental browser is disabled (yes this does suck)

The part that hurts most is the ‘premium’ on books even though Amazon
says no roaming fees (and don’t give the ‘tax’ excuse, because if that
is the case, there would be a Kindle store for every country, instead
of just for Europe. And the part that if I want a newspaper I don’t
get the pretty images and graphs. What’s the point of a newspaper if
they can’t show me any Pie charts?

Amazon did a lousy job, and wants to be easy by making a deal with ATT
Worldwide instead of making deals with carriers in every country. What
they probably should have done was introduce a Wi-Fi Kindle. And
release Kindles with 3G when they had deals in those countries.

I also came across another artist that is spreading his music through the Radiohead model, 'pay what you want $0 is good too'. The artist name is 'Yellowgold' never heard anything about him, but his new album 'The Mellower' is awesome! You can find it here: http://www.yellowgoldmusic.com/ . Good stuff!

Just my 2 cents!

Alex

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Barnes and Noble creating an android based e-book reader? More like Barnes and Noble creating the first Android based tablet. Google not only gets it’s hand into the e-book market after they have digitized books, but they also get the ability to test and review their android software on non-phone hardware. You can almost guarantee this device will not only read books but allow users to listen to mp3s, browse the Internet via wifi/chrome, and download all apps from the android marketplace. Knowing Google, they will also include you-tube functions as well as the ability to post on blogs and subscribe to rss feeds.

Ccarline

Rafe wonders what could possibly go wrong with Comcast monitoring its users to protect them from malware. In the process, Rafe makes a few comments that have us wondering whether he'll return home to any Internet service at all. Barnes and Noble is rumored to be rolling out an Android e-book reader, while Steve Ballmer claims that the PC is the best e-book reader.

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B&N e-book reader reportedly in the works
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10371468-93.html

PCs are best for e-reading, Microsoft’s Ballmer says
http://www.reuters.com/article/ousivMolt/idUSTRE5974OZ20091008

Snow Leopard bug threatens user data, according to reports
http://www.9to5mac.com/snow_leopards_eat_users
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10356505-263.html

Report: AT&T waits 17 months to break even with iPhones
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10371785-37.html

DRAM study turns assumptions about errors upside down
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2009/10/dram-study-turns-assumptions-about-errors-upside-down.ars
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10370026-264.html

New ways to try and buy Microsoft Office 2010
http://blogs.technet.com/office2010/archive/2009/10/07/new-ways-to-try-and-buy-microsoft-office-2010.aspx
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10371817-56.html

Comcast’s war on infected PCs (or all customers)
http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/10/08/2022211/Comcasts-War-On-Infected-PCs-Or-All-Customers
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10370996-245.html

Comcast set to launch ‘HomePoint’
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Set-To-Launch-HomePoint-104907

Pressure-sensitive keyboard? Let the fun begin
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10371215-1.html
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/10/08/2152239/Contest-Winners-Show-Potential-For-Pressure-Sensitive-Keyboard

Penny-size nuclear batteries developed
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/10/09/1243245/Penny-Sized-Nuclear-Batteries-Developed

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Tommy in Kingston: The password book

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Moon 1, NASA 0:
So, I get up at O-Dark-Hundred to watch the greatest space collision since Shoemaker-Levy 9.

5-4-3-2-1 Impact! … Impact?

Watching the stunned NASA commentators, one of whom says “I Don’t know what we just saw.”…

PRICELESS!

Rob from Sedona

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Hi Buzzfolk,

I beg to differ with the slow Windows 7 boot times story you reported on in Episode 1080. I have run a script (on the RTM 32-bit version) that measures the time, from shutdown to usable desktop, multiple times and consistently get a time of 54 seconds, which does jive with the times your lab got in their testing, but not what Lolo Technologies achieved in theirs.

I think the bigger story here is why is Lolo getting slower times?

I’m not saying it’s because they sell PC tune-up software and may have a conflict of interest, I’m just sayin`…..

Thanks! Love the show.
Satchmo
Seriously, I love you. <3

NASA is sending a rocket into the moon Friday morning to study the composition of lunar material. But really, you stopped listening when you heard "blow up the Moon." And so did Cooley. For one small second, that made him love space. We also talk about the world's largest phishing sting and Windows 8. Yep, 8.

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Operation “Phish Phry” nabs largest number of phishers ever.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8295945.stm

Wife bans FBI head from online banking
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10370164-245.html

Study: Windows 7 doesn’t boot faster
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10370369-56.html

Walt falls in love with Windows 7
http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20091007/a-windows-to-help-you-forget/

Microsoft mulling 128-bit versions of Windows 8, Windows 9
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/10/microsoft-mulling-128-bit-versions-of-windows-8-windows-9.ars

Intel’s Light Peak optical links could arrive in 2010
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10370349-264.html?

Why ad-blockers, ad-skippers, and other user-control technologies are legal
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/07/why-ad-blockers-ad-s.html
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/10/its-my-browser-and-ill-auto-click-if-i-want

Handheld FLO TV due for this holiday season
http://www.twice.com/article/356972-Handheld_FLO_TV_Due_For_Holidays.php?nid=2402&source=title&rid=5090547

Nissan’s Land Glider concept car leans like a motorcycle, looks like a squashed GT-R
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/nissans-land-glider-concept-car-leans-like-a-motorcycle-looks/

IBM’s ultra-cheap DNA Transistor dream could lead to personalized medicines, confusion
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/ibms-ultra-cheap-dna-transistor-dream-could-lead-to-personalize/

New report warns of dangers of trashy avatars
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10370382-36.html

How to watch the moon bombing in real time
http://gizmodo.com/5376774/how-to-watch-the-moon-bombing-in-real-time

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Jose from Jackson on passwords

Anonymous has more to say on passwords

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BOL Team,

SOX compliance is much more reliant on the processes and requirements you place on yourself and then audit against. Ultimately a Google Docs implementation might be non-compliant in one organization and compliant in another. You can be compliant with SOX regulations while using cloud environments.

Russell Johnson
Austin, TX

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Hey Buzz-Crew,

Did a personal un-boxing of my Windows 7 party pack. If you wanted to check out some pictures of the items included here is a link:

Please don’t post the site in the show notes, not sure I have the bandwidth to support the hits.

A bit lower quality than I had hoped, but can’t argue with free. Napkins are bland, balloons are plain, not even Windows 7 branded, somewhat surprising.

-ShaneB in the chatroom

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I listen to BOL every day on my BlackBerry Bold….

Show some respect to the still #1 smartphone on the market.

Ryan from Vancouver

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Hey Buzz Crew,

I just wanted to point out that the new international Kindle 2 would be launched in over 100 countries. So pretty much everywhere except Canada. Honestly, are we really that hard to deal with? Or is it just that Amazon Canada seems to be permanently caged into it’s infant stage? Either way, if you live in Burundi in Africa, you can have a kindle. If you live in Cambodia, have a Kindle. Canada? No Kindle for you. If Sony wasn’t the evil empire, I would have a Sony Reader by now.

Cheers,
Dion from Vancouver BC

There's a little panic over the fact that Bing's market share dropped last month, but you have to remember, folks, Bing is young. Rafe puts it in perspective for us. Also, Kindle gets a price cut and goes worldwide, yo. That's big. What is also big is the keylogger network that's hijacking everyone's Web mail accounts. We can help you out with that, a bit.

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Another Kindle price cut…and it goes wireless internationally
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/10/06/financial/f210208D88.DTL&tsp=1
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10369321-93.html

AT&T to allow VoIP iPhone apps on 3G network
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10368955-37.html

Huge Web mail phishing scam spreading fast
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8294714.stm

Australian ISP in court for not disconnecting users
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/australian-isp-in-court-for-not-disconnecting-users.ars

Court rules for software ownership over licensing
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/10/06/2245214/Court-Rules-For-Software-Ownership-Over-Licensing

HitWise says Microsoft Bing fell 0.5 percent to Google’s gain
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/HitWise-Says-Microsoft-Bing-Fell-5-to-Googles-Gain-529954/

DoubleTwist unveils an alternative to the iTunes music store, powered by Amazon MP3
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/06/doubletwist-unveils-an-alternative-to-the-itunes-music-store-powered-by-amazon-mp3/

E.U. approves test of Windows 7 ‘Browser Ballot’
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2353906,00.asp

Fans come together to complete "Star Wars Uncut"
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/09/10/06/1647234/Fans-Come-Together-To-Complete-Star-Wars-Uncut

“Apps for Innovation” Developer Contest
http://www.ce.org/GovernmentAffairs/Innovation_Movement/apps-contest.asp

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Rick on Vonage

Stewart on gas masks

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Hey Buzz-Crew,

In ep 1077 you asked for a CIO/CTO to weigh in on the IBM Inotes vs Goolge Docs hypothetical prize fight for our hypothetical business. While I am not of that stature at my company I do sit right outside the out CIO’s office so I wrestled him down, duct taped him to his chair and made him answer this very question!

Okay, well not really that first part but he did answer and here is what he said:

“We actually looked at Google Docs for cost reduction and there is no way we could use it. With all the customer data that we have and the nature of our business (not to mention internal systems) having something in the cloud would be much to risky. Cloud stuff just isn’t reliable enough for us to even consider using it. Not only that but there was no way that Legal would let us (not to mention that it didn’t clear SOX compliance). And let us not forget about our ‘wonderful’ users. The learning curve that they would have to deal with might just break them.”

So there you have it. The argument against clouds at my company are (1) Reliability, (2) Legal / SOX issues and (3) Inept users.

Love the show,

M
The overweight I.T. Ninja

P.S.- Sorry for the anonymity but I’m just covering my bacon (if you know what I mean).

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Hey, Buzz crew,

With all the discussion about mobile OS platforms and developers in
yesterday’s show (episode 1078), I’m surprised you didn’t mention the
announcement Adobe made on Monday about how they’re going to enable
Flash developers to code apps in Flash that can then be converted into
native iPhone apps. Technical merits aside, it’s an interesting move by
Adobe to keep Flash application and game developers from abandoning
Flash to take a swing at developing apps solely for the iPhone, and you
have to wonder if Apple is somewhat annoyed that five iPhone apps
created with this technique made it into the app store.

–Brian from Bowie, MD

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Hey Buzz Crew,
I am listening to Episode 1076, (I’m a bit behind) and upon hearing Tom’s dreams of “Tenspeed and Brownshoe” being streamed online, I ran over to Google to find out what in the world he was talking about. So of course, I wound up at IMDB reading up on the subject, how mundane right? Why would I be emailing to tell you this? Well, I noticed at the top of their page, a popularity ranking, and had to laugh when I saw that the popularity of the series went up 34% this week. Glad I wasn’t the only one left wondering “wtf?” after that comment!

Love the show!

Patrick Sullivan
Augusta, GA

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Hey guys,
I’m a couple episodes behind, so you may have already talked about this but: things just got real with Palm http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/palm-throws-the-doors-open-review-free-app-distribution-over-th/

What better way to compete with the iTunes app store than to lower the barrier of entry for open source apps and decentralize the distribution of free apps.

Jake (the computer science student in Grand Rapids)

Viacom may have found a smoking gun in its billion-dollar case against YouTube, but on the other hand, we speculate YouTube may have a smokinger gun. Also the FTC wants you to disclose all that money you've been paid to blog about cleaning products. Or whatever. Even if you just posted on Facebook. You need to make yourself aware of these rules.

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Android handsets to Verizon
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10368202-265.html

Microsoft’s Windows phones hit the market
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10367699-56.html

Smoking gun found in Viacom v. YouTube?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-10365329-261.html

New FTC plugola rules could extend to some users' social network pages
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10368064-36.html
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/more-transparency-coming-to-blog-reviews-under-new-ftc-rules.ars

Over-the-air downloads come to BlackBerry
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13526_3-10367606-27.html

AT&T pushes Opera for full HTML on more phones
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-10368043-266.html

Eolas sues, well, everybody.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Eolas-Technologies-Files-prnews-153761650.html?x=0&.v=1
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/company-that-won-585m-from-microsoft-sues-apple-google.ars

Federal ban on DWT will start with truckers, end with you
http://www.todaystrucking.com/news.cfm?intDocID=22565

Startup offers prebuilt biological parts
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/10/05/2312233/Startup-Offers-Pre-Built-Biological-Parts

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Anonymous loves John Rubenstein

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Hey BOL,
Not sure if you saw this earlier but it looks like Roger's is losing it's exclusive on the iPhone 3Gs in Canada. Another Cell Phone company, Telus, is starting to sell the device in November.

What is interesting here is with the 3 major Cell phone providers in Canada, Rogers, Telus and Bell, only Rogers has been 3G and GSM based. The other two were previously CDMA and EVDO based. Looks like they are rolling over to 3G technology sooner than anticipated.

Here is a link

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/bell-telus-to-launch-iphone-next-month/article1312692/

Love the show

Stephen Kennedy
Calgary Alberta, Canada

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Hey all,

OK, what bothers me always about saying 4k is this. We have 1080p, which refers to horizontal lines. 4k refers to the vertical lines. Apples versus oranges.

1920×1080 (2,073,600) versus 4096◊2304 ((9,437,184) Shooting quality of the Red One camera)

It’s just said, maybe, to make it sound 4 times better than 1080p. Which, at least, is true, since it’s 4.55x the number of pixels. But, 720p set makers should start calling them 1280 sets, and they can start selling them for more than a 1080p set. Imagine the profit margins! Maybe 1080p set makers will update to start saying they are 2k sets and charge more, for no change.

OK, sorry for the sarcasm, but 4k always annoys me.

Erick

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Hey Buzz Crew!

In episode 1075, you talked more about OnLive's upcoming gaming service, which will let you play games "in the cloud" using your web browser as a thin client. According to their FAQ (http://www.onlive.com/service/faq.html), you'll need a 1.5Mbps connection for standard def (5Mbps for high def) and a "small browser plug-in." Not quite the magic technology that Tom had in mind, but still really cool.

We've got something similar--online right now, and needing a lot less bandwidth--for scientific computing. We've used the open source VNC (virtual network computing) software to create a web site where nanotechnology researchers can access more than 150 live simulation tools via their web browser. Instead of playing games, they're computing electronic properties of quantum dots and designing transistors made of carbon nanotubes. You can too! Just log on to http://nanoHUB.org . We're using the same software platform to create similar sites for many other areas of science and engineering, including cancer care, pharmaceutical engineering, and microelectromechanical systems. More details at http://hubzero.org .

Here's to a wired future spent worshiping our nano-botic overlords!

Michael, the research "hub" guy
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN

P.S. If you want to see nanoHUB in action without getting an account, watch this video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr0GA_TluGY You'll see the simulation tools about 1 min in.

An analyst from Morgan Stanley asserts that Apple would sell more iPhones if it offered the phone on more carriers. Really? Wow. We also have an example of a church leader misusing the prefix "cyber." But that's not as crazy as IBM taking on Google. Or is it?

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Adobe pushes Flash video on mobile devices
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10367061-64.html
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/flash-10-1-announced-for-just-about-anything-with-a-screen-webo/

Vonage app available for iPhone, BlackBerry
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-10367280-17.html

Marketplace is live on Windows Mobile 6.5 phones
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/windows-marketplace-goes-live-for-6-5-phones/
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/10/05/htc-pure-and-tilt-2-bring-windows-mobile-6-5-to-atandt/
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12261_7-10367154-10356022.html

Windows 7 to usher in crush of cheap laptops
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10366950-64.html

Hidden fees discovered for “free” Windows 7 upgrade
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/10/05/1242259/Hidden-Fees-Discovered-For-Free-Windows-7-Upgrad

IBM takes on Google with new Webmail, calendaring solution
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2009/10/ibm-takes-on-google-with-new-webmail-calendaring-solution.ars

Palm ignores USB group's warning, restores iTunes sync
http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20091003/palms-webos-1-2-1-restores-itunes-sync/

Will books be Napsterized?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/business/04digi.html

Apple could sell more iPhones by ending exclusive AT&T deal, analyst says
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138941/Apple_could_sell_more_iPhones_by_ending_exclusive_AT_T_deal_analyst_says?taxonomyId=1

A CNET Conversation with Steve Ballmer
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30966_3-10366517-262.html

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Dwight the key grip on mesh nets and 4K shooting

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Hi Folks

I thought I’d share this example of Apple’s ever-reaching IP protection policies. Just as background, Woolworths is Australia’s largest retailer (80% of supermarket business goes through two companies here) and they have interests in electronics, hardware and liquor. This news made front page! I recall Fake Steve Jobs writing that Microsoft is like the Borg. I guess this suggests that perhaps Apple isn’t too far different.

http://www.theage.com.au/business/apple-bites-over-woolworths-logo-20091005-ghzr.html

Love the show!

-Alberto

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Hey guys, in regards to episode #1076 and the rant about the ‘cyber-’ prefix, I just wanted to throw this in. I’m LDS , and as I was listening to General Conference today (when the church leaders speak and church members worldwide tune in via TV, internet, radio, and satellite broadcasts), one of the speakers (they are almost all older men) mentioned ‘cybertechnology’. I thought ‘what??’

Anyway, I love ya, keep it going.

Hilton, from Layton Utah.

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Buzz Crew,

Great show!

You read an email on your October 1 show from James the Field Engineer about Star Trek Props. I worked in pumps/irrigation sales for a couple of years, and found that Infiltrator (http://www.infiltratorsystems.com/productline/h20_chambers.asp) -brand effluent-irrigation chambers are used very, very heavily in TNG, DS9 and Voyager series. They are used as wall support structures and decorations on walls in many diverse sets. As a guy who worked with the stuff every day, it became very distracting to see it in reruns. But it was clever, I’ll give ‘em that.

Also, in about every third episode, an away team would land on a planet, and in the settlement on that planet would be the same, identical trussed lighting-support structure (like for stadium lights, just lighter duty) right in the middle of the village. It would always go up past the camera frame and, presumably, be holding the set lights. But they made it look like it was the aliens’ normal technology. For every alien culture ever.

You won’t possibly care about this enough to read it on air, but Tom might get a kick out of it if he recognizes the Infiltrator linked stuff in various sizes on old STTNG reruns.

Scotty, Mechanical Engineer, Cupertino

In the U.K., you don't have to be in the presence of someone to serve them with legal papers. So now Twitter has become a way to get served. We also are happy that the U.S. government is taking cybersecurity seriously, but maybe they could lay off with the cyber prefix a little. And we try to care more about the Palm Pixi. We really do.

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Vista/IE market share slide, Win 7/Firefox/Chrome surge
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=5700

Palm Pixi launching on October 20th?
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/10/01/palm-pixi-launching-on-october-20th/

GE is in talks to spin off NBC, give Comcast 51% of new unit
http://www.cnbc.com/id/33123120
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-ges-immelt-nbcu-comcast-discussions-are-about-partnerships-or-ipo/

Court order served over Twitter
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8285954.stm

Researchers hijack a drive-bBy botnet
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/23566/?a=f

DHS to hire up to 1,000 cybersecurity experts
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/02/dhs.cybersecurity.jobs/index.html

Sony prototype sends electricity through the air
http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=14BC23AA-1A64-67EA-E4954B0CBCFF69D3

A mobile phone mesh that can survive carrier network failure
http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/10/01/202210

Radio-controlled cyborg beetles become reality
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/10/02/0037201/Radio-Controlled-Cyborg-Beetles-Become-Reality

Gas mask bra traps Ig Nobel prize
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8285380.stm
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/10/ig-nobel-prizes-honor-tequila-knuckle-cracking-panda-poop.ars

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Justin Orlando on Cowboys

E-MAIL
Snakes on a Plane is out on Blu-Ray Whoopie, it’s out!!

http://www.amazon.com/Snakes-Plane-Blu-ray-Samuel-Jackson/dp/B0029O0BL8/ref=sr_1_38?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1254448605&sr=1-38

Time for a reunion episode with V and M extolling the values infused in
the minds of those watching this movie in glorious HD.

Rick (Balloon Scientist, Colorado)

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Tom,

In BOL 1075, you and Rafe were discussing props in sci-fi movies. This reminded me of my favorite recent example.

During a forced rewatching of Phantom Menace, I noticed something oddly familiar about Liam Neeson’s little communicator thingie. On closer look, it was clearly my wife’s Gillette Ladies Sensor Excell Razor Handle (which I see on the shower shelf every day) painted silver with a couple nub antennae stuck on the top.

http://www.partsofsw.com/Ep_1/quicom.htm

I suspect Buzztown can come up with dozens of even better examples.

Cheers,

“Craemmir” (pron: cray-mer), in DC

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Hey Buzz crew
Namaste!

Hi! I’m Tushar, from Ludhiana, India and probably the only listener in the town!!!
A couple of days ago When I checked in my facebook page, I was redirected to their lite.facebook.com page
and the cool thing was that I couldn’t revert back to the normal page!!!
On doing some research I came to know that it was a problem with a couple other users back here in India where facebook randomly picked them as their beta testers for lite.facebook.com but we all CANNOT go back to the normal facebook!!!!
Please read this e-mail on the show so the facebook guys at least know that we wanna go back, cause we people tried ( http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=129521886143&topic=13597 ) but its been a week but no-one from facebook replied or gave us the option to revert back
P.S. – facebook lite is cool for some users who do not want any clutter but it should not be mandatory for all!!!
LOVE THE SHOW

Tushar Jain
Ludhiana
India

Or perhaps we should call it OLPC. One laptop per criminal. The idea of letting prisoners use computers is good, but fraught with peril. Also, we start a new PSA campaign where Billy learns that e-mail can be dangerous. And that's one to grow on.

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PSP Go arrives, Sony launches 100 games
http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=105D7C9D-1A64-67EA-E402F9BD3FAEBCDC

Google Wave First Look
http://lifehacker.com/5370738/google-wave-first-look

Google Wave invites for sale on eBay
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/10/01/google-wave-invites-for-sale-on-ebay/

Nvidia’s Fermi takes direct aim at supercomputing, Intel
http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2009/10/nvidia-takes-direct-aim-at-intel-supercomputing-with-fermi.ars

OTOY’s Jules Urbach: Cloud computing ‘threatens’ game consoles, Blu-ray, PCs
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/geekend/?p=3368

Google releases Android 1.6; Palm unleashes WebOS 1.2
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/10/google-releases-android-16-palm-releases-webos-12.ars

Apple and Google breaking up over iPhone maps?
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/172951/apple_and_google_breaking_up_over_iphone_maps.html
http://blogs.computerworld.com/14835/apple_purchased_mapping_company_in_july_to_replace_google

Twitter to launch user-created Follow Lists
http://mashable.com/2009/09/30/twitter-lists/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10364831-26.html

U.S. urges ‘cyber hygiene’ effort
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8279867.stm

Wireless network modded to see through walls
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/10/01/1321212/Wireless-Network-Modded-To-See-Through-Walls

Convicted hacker left in charge of prison computer system
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/09/27/conputer-meltdown-115875-21703149/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/29/inmate_hacker/

VOICE MAIL
Ian about Onlive on Uverse

Keith in Georgia wonders how ATT has enough bandwidth to make us of OnLive

E-MAIL
Hey BOL,

In episode 1072 you played RougeTess’s voicemail regarding PayPal security
using the keychain security key. I jumped on the bandwagon early, and have
had one since they were introduced.

I hate to say it, but this cool little gizmo does not provide as much
security as it seems at first glance. Sometime between when I got mine
almost two years ago and now, PayPal totally neutered the functionality by
providing a “I don’t have it with me” bypass link, where you can supply
your credit card number, checking account number, or *gasp*, answer a
traditional pre-defined security question.

Yes, it’s better than username/password alone, but it’s not as good as it
used to be or could be. And it’s definitely not true second-factor
authentication.

–Brad in Victorville

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Hey BOLers, James the field engineer from Michigan. In episode 1074
you mentioned seeing modern day tech in the new Star Trek movie. Well
I embarrassed my wife and impressed my twelve year old when I saw two
of the above Symbol M2004 hand scanners on the bridge of the
Enterprise! My son was even more impressed when I showed him one I
keep as a spare in my service truck. Now we just use them to ring up
customers at our chain of gas stations but I guess in the “future”
you’ll be able to fly a starship with them, my son can’t wait. Love
the show. James

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Hey Buzz Out Loud Crew,

I just wanted to send you a short message. I am a Palm Pre user, and I first started listening to your show when I downloaded a Homebrew app called drPodder. It monitors the RSS feeds for lots of podcasts and can be set to auto-download and queue up podcasts for later listening. One of the default podcasts for this application happens to be your show. This is what got me hooked on your show, and probably did the same to a number of other Palm Pre users.

Thanks for carrying news regarding the Palm Pre, I love hearing the occasional blurb about technology I use. Love the show, please keep up the good work!

Sincerely,
Darin Boots

While the Apple Tablet is much more fashionable to hype, the Microsoft Courier turns out to be very hype-worthy. We also find out, once again, that Rafe knows where he works. And the U.S. has relaxed its grip on the Internet. Good thing? Bad thing? Irrelevant thing? Or over-hyped thing like an Apple tablet?

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Everything we know about Apple’s touch-screen tablet
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/09/apple-tablet-everything/
http://gizmodo.com/5370252/apple-tablet-aiming-to-redefine-newspapers-textbooks-and-magazines

Microsoft’s Courier tablet details emerge
http://www.pcworld.com/article/172872/microsofts_courier_tablet_details_emerge.html

U.S. relaxes grip on the Internet
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8283310.stm

Internet overtakes television to become biggest advertising sector in the U.K.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/sep/30/internet-biggest-uk-advertising-sector

Misfired e-mail was never viewed by Gmail user
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10363663-245.html

Sources: ‘Light Peak’ technology not Apple idea
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10363956-64.html

OnLive raises big round from AT&T and others for on-demand gaming
http://games.venturebeat.com/2009/09/29/onlive-raises-big-round-of-money-from-att-and-others-for-on-demand-gaming/
http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/09/30/0426236/OnLive-CEO-Provides-Details-On-Cloud-Gaming

Verizon CTO argues for metered pricing
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/30/0131236/Verizon-CTO-Argues-For-Metered-Pricing
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-10363801-266.html

Microsoft’s top executives get a paycut
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-microsofts-top-executives-get-a-paycut/

Microsoft says automated ‘Fix it’ is working
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10364104-56.html

Video screen enters record books
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8282701.stm

VOICE MAIL
Jeff from Arkansas solves the manual in cars problem

E-MAIL
The bigger unreported piece of Google creating a Google Docs for students is the development of college students using their technolgy. If google is going to get a larger share of the marketplace over Microsoft Office, they will need to develop future workers who demand to use their software.

This is a major of the reason behind software companies offering steep discounts for college students to purchase their software. If you only know how to do something with their software, you will be more likely to purchase or request your business to purchase the software program in your future place of employment. -ccarline

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Hey bol,

On Friday you open your show and spend the first five minute on how Palm is in trouble because Verizon wasn’t going to carry the Pre.

Well, according to a Verizon VP they still are, and according to the Register, maybe even an updated Pre.

So how about an update on BOL? I guess 3 days later is all we can hope for, after all its not like an apple tablet rumors hasn’t been talked to death.

Felipe

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This is Chip The Mech. Engineer. On Episode 1073 you were talking about the new Garmin phone and you kept comparing it to the iPhone with the $100 Tom Tom app. I just want to tell you that my Palm PRE has turn by turn directions that you get with the data package and I just drove from Virginia to Louisville, KY and it worked great and even warned me about road construction and detoured me around it.

You guys are great.
Love the show.

ChipForget the tablet, let’s hype the Courier