Buzz Out Loud 994: Simlish out loud
It's all girls and me today, which leads to hilarious consequences including an outbreak of Simlish. We also figure out the solution to the world's water problems. Molly hates on AT&T some more. And Veronica promises to drink her own pee.
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EPISODE 994 |
Facebook to open up personalized URLs
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/0,39029471,49302580,00.htm?s_cid=33
Hackers make progress towards pwning
Palm Pre
http://www.precentral.net/pre-developer-rom-uncovered-could-lead-hackingcustomization
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/06/10/124241/Palms-webOS-Root-Image-Leaks-Out
And first homebrew Pre app says Hello World!
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/webos-homebrew-community-says-hello-world-to-palm-pre/
Clues in the source code to Pre’s successor?
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/palm-pixie-eos-confirmed-via-webos-rom-leak/
Craigslist revenue flirting with $100 million, report says
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10261593-71.html
That’s a small percentage of newspaper ads – so Craigslist not entirely to blame
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-report-craigslist-09-revenue-to-hit-100-mill-but-is-it-really-a-newspap/
Lawyers plan class-action to reclaim “$100M+” RIAA “stole”
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/lawyers-plan-class-action-to-reclaim-100m-riaa-stole.ars
Sims 3 sets franchise sales record
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-10261044-235.html
BART punks out, pulls cheeky doubleTwist ad near Apple store
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/09/bart-punks-out-pulls.html
Penguin USB drive is infinitely cute, hilarious
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/penguin-usb-drive-is-infinitely-cute-hilarious/
Frank Herbert’s moisture traps may be a reality
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/09/2058241/Frank-Herberts-Moisture-Traps-May-Be-a-Reality?from=rss
Comedy Central confirms 26 new "Futurama" episodes
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/09/06/10/1331258/Comedy-Central-Confirms-26-New-Futurama-Episodes?from=rss
http://bbs.thesims2.ea.com/community/bbs/messages.php?&openItemID=item.2,item.43,item.61,item.41,item.23&threadID=8d04f2582c30dca38b0a2d07d28fb420&directoryID=2&startRow=1#5b3c9c18c3808d99f1e04c01fdb828ea
VOICEMAIL
Jason from California about maps
Hey Buzz People,
Hurray, the French Three Strikes Law is no more!… Almost.
Here’s the skinny: the constitutional council is an assembly of 11 old people charged with putting the “constitutional” stamp on our new laws. They basically shot down the three strikes law on the grounds that a governmental body cannot make the decision to cut off someone’s internet access. Such a decision would have to be made by a judge or a court. At last some common sense in this whole mess!
So the governmental body could still “inform” people that a judge has been notified, but that’s it (you might get a “you’re a bad person, ruling pending” sort of notice). I guess it it makes the whole concept’s effectiveness questionable, since the whole point was to expedite the punishment, which has now it been slowed down to the speed of the judicial process. And French judicial process at that. I mean, it takes 35 minutes to get served a coffee here, imagine how long it takes to get a judgement on that guy who downloaded the latest Transformers movie because, allegedly: “Dude, Megan Fox looks hawt!”
But I digress. I’m sorry that I don’t have an english link for this story because it just broke in France, so here is a Google translation of an article from “Le Monde” (a notable French newspaper). It’s really just for kicks, because automated translation apparently still sucks. Which is infuriating too: I mean, it’s the 21st century already, give me my android translators, damnit!
–
Patrick Beja
http://frenchspin.com
http://twitter.com/notpatrick
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Hey Buzz Crew,
I used 2 gigabites last month on my AT&T
iPhone plan and 1.8GB two
months ago. Is this excessive? I do a lot of Pandora / last.fm /
Flycast Internet streaming and wonder what the hidden unlimited cap is
before they cut me off…
- Bob, the Nuclear Engineer
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Hello BOL crew,
While visiting San Francisco for WWDC, I begin to understand Molly’s
frustration with AT&T via the iPhone. The network in SF stinks. Data
connections drop or are very slow and text messages could be hours
delayed, even though I have 5 bars of 3G.
I normally use my iPhone south of LA in Orange County, where the
network is pretty good, so I was wondering what Molly was ranting
about. On the one hand the network isn’t bad in the whole country,
but on the other hand Molly is right that AT&T must fix their SF
coverage.
Love the show,
Dean
Physicist
Huntington Beach, CA
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Hi Buzz Crew,
Since WWDC is still going on I wondered if you could help me find an
answer to this question. As a Unix sysadmin I was really excited to
hear that among the promised features for
Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
Server was the addition of ZFS, a very powerful open source file
system. I’ve used this system with Solaris and I really like it, but I
was hoping to have the option of using it with Mac OS Server. If you
Google zfs “snow leopard” and you look before you click you will see
mention of ZFS in the description, and if you click on the cached
version and scroll down you can see the ZFS being touted as a feature.
However when you click the link to the live page, all mention of ZFS
is gone. When you go even deeper (Click Technology and then File
System) it mentions the venerable UFS (which Solaris admins are
running from to get to ZFS) and HFS+. What gives, Buzz Crew?
Love the show and early congrats on 1K shows!
Kendall the Sysadmin from Alabama
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by denisevans
June 11, 2009 2:31 AM PDT
- Hi Buzz Crew, In episode 994 Molly gave yet another outrageous, irrational rant against Apple. She was complaining about the ATT iPhone service in SFO. Fair enough. Since you poor USers only have 1 carrier for iPhone there is no way you can work out who is at fault: iPhone or ATT. You should look overseas where there are multiple carriers to figure this out - before ranting irrationally Molly. So, in Australia the Optus iPhone users react like Molly! It is crap. Vodaphone seems much better. I am with Telstra and I am in (expensive) Heaven! I only have phone or data drop-outs in the bush! Truly!! In buildings, in the street it simply never drops out for data or calls. And Telstra is 7.2Mb/s in the country and 21Mb/s in cities, NOW! By year's end they will be 21Mb/s everywhere! Molly: a little research of the facts might not go a stray!! Apart from Molly's more irrational and indefensible rants, I do love the show!
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(4 Comments)Check the facts Molly! Just like, Check the Tech, Brian Cooley!