Buzz Out Loud 724: YOU are!

EPISODE 724

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MySpace wins $234 million antispam judgment
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9943756-7.html

GM keeps building cars on XP
http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9943500-56.html

Google begins blurring faces in Street View
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9943140-7.html

Youngsters skip DVR ads less than seniors
http://slashdot.org/articles/08/05/13/2353251.shtml

Funny how Universal Music thinks infringement fines are unconstitutional when it's on the receiving end
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080513/1807491105.shtml

Qtrax signs with last of Big Four music publishers
http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/05/qtrax-signs-wit.html

iPass to add in-flight Wi-Fi roaming
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9943832-7.html

Verizon, Mozilla to join LiMo Foundation
http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9943458-37.html

Semantic travel search engine UpTake launches
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ semantic_travel_search_uptake.php

Philadelphia’s municipal Wi-Fi network to go dark
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/ 20080513-philadelphias-municipal-wifi-network-to-go-dark.html

VOICE MAIL

Bill Jersey
Thoughts on human powered search

Lauren Houston
Her experience buying a digital album

Grahame Montreal
I tricked Rogers about the iPhone!

E-MAIL

Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider goes online in less than a day. http://www.lhcountdown.com/

--David A Zirpolo

Hi I’m Jason Howell (editors note: ACK!!!!)

Hello everyone, my name is Jason Howell. I'm a somewhat new listener, I just started listening with show episode 700. I found your podcast after being asked repeatedly, “No way! Are you the Jason Howell!?! From Buzz Out Loud!?!” At first I said “yes I am” but now I know better…

Anyways, I was going to wait until I had something useful to say to send you guys an e-mail, but I got impatient, and I have nothing useful to say at the moment.

Strongly like the show,
--Jason Howell

Antitrust law applicability to Net Neutrality

Antitrust law applicability to net neutrality--Price Discrimination laws (Robinson-Patman Act--which added provisions to Clayton Act) prohibits charging competing customers different prices for like products does not apply in the consumer context. If it did think of the chaos it would cause say for example automobile dealers...nor does it apply to services; and it is not immediately clear whether net bandwidth would be a commodity or a service--electricity has gone gone both ways (AC/DC sort of thing).

--Michael Scott

USAF Botnet

Guys and Gal,

Decades ago I worked in a state security hospital. We never carried weapons for the simple fact that any weapon could be taken away and used against us. This memory leaped to mind when you relayed the news of the Air Force plan to build their own botnet out of unused and obsolete computers.

Think about it. Those who are finally tasked with setting these computers will be told: "Set these up with this software, but somewhere out of our way." So these boxes will be running in an unused cubicle in an open office or in that overflow junk room in the long hallway not many people frequent. It will only take one or two of these boxes to be hacked by someone passing through a no doubt less than high security area and bingo: this supposed US defensive weapon is set to be an offensive weapon--against it’s own supposed masters. Brilliant.

--Tim in Kansas

Searching for “Molly Wood”

Hey BOL Peoples,

I searched “Who is Molly Wood?” on Powerset, and it gave me this interesting result:

“Factz from Wikipedia: we found the following about Molly Wood.

Molly Wood:

• "hosted show and podcast
• discussed subjects
• gave birth"