Buzz Out Loud Podcast

China has delayed required installation of Green Dam Youth Escort, but we find out it does a better job blocking pork than porn. Whew. Protect those kids from the piggies! Also a big win for remote cable DVRs! And the Pirate Bay got sold. You can sell it?

EPISODE 1008

Swedish company to buy Pirate Bay
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10275759-83.html
http://thepiratebay.org/blog/164

China Delays Mandating Filtering Software
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124636491863372821.html

China also filters Jonny Depp, Garflield, and Paris Hilton
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE55T26Y20090630

Remote Cable DVRs are legal: Supreme Court denies appeal of Cablevision decision
http://www.betanews.com/article/Cable-DVRs-are-legal-Supreme-Court-denies-appeal-of-Cablevision-decision/1246290931
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/cablevision-remote-dvr-stays-legal-supremes-wont-hear-case.ars

Senators want to bar contracts to foreign companies selling IT to Iran
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090629_3881.php

With 3.5 launch, Firefox faces new challengers
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10275396-2.html

Amazon drops Rhode Island just like they dropped North Carolina
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124630810805070105.html

Toyota thinks up mind-reading wheelchair
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10275267-1.html

New HTC Hero ROM leaked, Flash 10 already chugging along on a few lucky G1s
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/30/new-htc-hero-rom-leaked-flash-10-already-chugging-along-on-a-fe/

First manned solar plane unveiled in Switzerland
http://green.venturebeat.com/2009/06/30/first-manned-solar-plane-unveiled-in-switzerland/

VOICEMAIL
Dan likes the new lineup

Bruce about CapsLock

EMAIL
Just passing along this story where they said apple’s solution to the universal charger is to include an adapter from dock conector to micro usb, so no new hardware on the horizon…

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/news.phtml/25149/next-iphone-charges-via-micro-usb.phtml

Love the show!
Javier Ardila

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The discussion of metric is interesting to me as we changed over here in Canada when I was in grade 4 or so. Now, what happened to those of us in this generation is that we know an odd mish mash of units. Temperatures outside, well that is in Celsius, but when I cook I use Imperial measures, including temperature. The temperature of my parents' pool, I still do that in F. Distances and speeds while driving, km and km/h are fine, distances to object, metres are great, but when I measure to say repair something in the house, I use inches. Oh and I am 6 foot 1 inch tall, and weigh about 175 lb, I have no idea what my height or weight is in metric. (I could convert of course, but I don't).

I am just confused.... My 15 year old daughter on the other hand, does everything in metric, no problem.

Dave (the psychologist)

Episode 890

Yahoo names new chief executive
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7827518.stm
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10142085-92.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10142275-93.html
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-yahoo-react-bartzs-selection-considered-safe-uninspiring/

AT&T spams 75 million users with ‘Idol’ ad
http://news.cnet.com/A-text-arrives.-Oh,-its-just-an-Idol-ad/2100-1039_3-6248715.html

YouTube now mutes videos with unauthorized copyrighted music
http://mashable.com/2009/01/14/youtube-mutes-videos/

Storm Worm botnet “cracked wide open”
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F11%2F1923250

CEA confirms Apple-related exhibits at CES 2010
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10139861-37.html

Psystar: We bought Mac OS fair and square
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10142226-37.html

Internet not really dangerous for kids after all
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F14%2F0012255

Supreme Court refuses to hear cable DVR case
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10141706-93.html

History in the making in LA as online ads hit target
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/12/la-times-online-advertising

Chinese carmaker proves they can drink brown liquor just like Americans: Announce EV they claim gets 250 miles on a charge
http://jalopnik.com/5129433/byd-e6-250-miles-per-charge-electric-car

GM to launch first U.S. car battery plant for EV’s
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123177620626273679.html

3 cups of coffee increases hallucinations
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F14%2F169223

Voice Mail
Jose from Jacksonville: HATE Windows 7!

Ian: CrystalTalk is not new

E-mail
Welcome back from CES and a belated Happy New Year.

With the new year’s vacation and CES, you have missed some news items worthy of mentioning… I made a small list … very small …
list would be bigger if the Internet wasn’t down most of the last few weeks

Psion sues everyone using the term “netbook”
http://www.slashgear.com/psion-netbook-trademark-holder-target-fan-sites-with-cd-notices-2427683/

UGO Acquires 1UP… Mass Layoffs… EGM Dead … many good gaming podcasts are gone now
http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/01/07/ugo-acquires-1up-mass-layoffs-egm-dead

3 sea cables cut, I had to live without BOL for the last few weeks of December
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_submarine_cable_disruption#19_December
press release: http://www.orange.com/en_EN/press/press_releases/cp081219en.html

Have a nice, 3 day week

Best regards…

Khaled A.

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Molly,

In previous shows you talked about how all of the wires from wall mounted TVs and home theater components would negate the benefit of wall-mounting them. Check out this Switched.com article about flat HDMI cables that you can put on the wall and paint over. I think flat paintable speaker cables have been around for a decade or so. Now all we need are flat power cables that can carry more than 1kW of power and we’ll be set.

http://www.switched.com/2009/01/13/flatwire-hdmi-cable-is-literally-flat-enough-to-stick-and-hide-o/

Like the show,
Automotive Entertainment and Information Application and Integration Engineer Joe.

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Hey Guys-
My friend, who livecasts his life, but does NOT torrent/etc is
getting shut off by Comcast, and has no other way to get Internet
other than 1.5/256 att DSL. Comcast is effectively disconnecting him
from the net…
So it WILL hurt people who don’t just torrent…

Reid

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Happy Birthday Alex from Romania who just turned 15.

What!!? Alex from Romania was only 14???!!! Now I feel like an underachiever. –Tom

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to my dearest buzz crew,

HOLLARRRRRRR!

As i was strolling the interwebz i came across this little article via ap. It basically states you live on an island and blog each week about your experiences. i thought to myself as i sip my coffee & baileys out of my cnet mug “hot damn this is the job for me”, but i quickly realized who really wants to sit back on the white sands in the warm sun sipping your fruity cocktail right outside of your own private villia blogging away? yep i do too!

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5isjR8iopWyjk0utgVIClRKYqfnHgD95M6VKO2

Cordially,
phatemokid

p.s. get those applications in before the deadline feb 22

Episode 867

UK ISPs switch on mass Wikipedia censorship
http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009938o-2000331777b,00.htm
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10116543-93.html
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/07/how-the-great-firewa.html

Technology start-ups to be given £1B fund
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/dec/07/nesta-plan-technology-startups

BlackBerry Storm firmware update
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10114383-1.html

WalMart: Wiis and iPhones
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE4B608520081207
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a4YIU21gLaSY

Google to sell truly open Android dev phone
http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/08/12/08/1324256.shtml

ViaSat satellite approved for broadband in 2011
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20081206/tc_pcworld/usbroadbandinternetsatellitescheduledforlaunchin2011

Spore most pirated game of 2008
http://www.gamepolitics.com/2008/12/06/spore-tops-list-2008039s-most-pirated-pc-games

EMI joins Tap Tap Revenge
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2336325,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03069TX1K0001121

Computer scientists find audio CAPTCHAs easy to crack
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081208-computer-scientists-find-audio-captchas-easy-to-crack.html

TiVo launches Netflix streaming for its Series3 DVRs
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10114609-1.html

Voice mail

Anon from NH - Facebook and eyeballs

Lee in Boston - Podcast guilt

E-mail

Tom, Molly, Jason and whatever other wayward employee you happen to snag
out of the office today,

I guess you have dramatically underestimated your audience with respect
to the difficulty level in the bingo card. Perhaps you should look at a
task you might have previously considered impossible. I think you
should require a picture of Steve Jobs in the wild using a Gphone.
Just a thought.

Love the show,
Vic the Texas Rancher Pilot

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Hi Guys,

This is Chris the Frapper Map guy.

Is it just me of you've missed to talk about the opening of Amazon MP3 Store in the UK ?
If I missed it please let me know which episode so I can go back and re-listen. If not, please do mention on your next talk, it's quite important for us here to know this. It's even got cheaper price compare to iTunes !
Here is my blog post talking about it : http://www.toogeektobetrue.com/2008/12/04/amazon-mp3-store-uk-launches-with-songs-cheaper-than-itunes-take-that-apple/

Cheers ! Love the Show !
Chris Prakoso

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I figured by Monday you'll be talking about the Consumer survey that claims that Google uses 21 times more bandwidth then it pays for, and I wanted to chime in.

First of all, the numbers are right. The costs are drastically different between what I pay and what Google pays for bandwidth, but Its comparing apples to oranges, consumers to business... of course the numbers are going to be dramatically different.

The company doesn't even get "Costco level" economics. You buy a jar of peanut butter at the grocery store you pay one price, but if you buy a two gallon jar at Costco, you get a much better cost per weight and comparatively Google buys jars as big as your house.

Their conclusion shows just how little this company understands their own numbers. Using the peanut butter example, they look at Google's massive jar and then their own and are shocked by the fact Google's rates are a lot better then theirs. Rather then put their blame on the ISP's for their apparent shafting, they point the finger at Google cause they buy in bulk and say they're not paying their fair share.

The fact is everyone is paying their fair share, its just that anyone who wants Google's rates will have to pay mortgage on their peanut jar. Ok... so the analogy is getting a little wonky here, but you get the point.

These 'facts' are being used in a net neutrality argument regarding infrastructure costs... but the problem is what it always has been... ISP's are bottle necked at the 'last mile' and Google's express lane to the still free flowing internet backbone has absolutely no effect on the problem the ISP's got themselves into by overselling and saturating their connections at the local level and now want someone else to foot the bill.

Ben @ Nova Scotia

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Hello Tom, Molly, Jason, & other,
This is Jerry, the US Navy Seabee serving in Italy. Please inform
CMDR Mark that if e-mailing him the show doesn't work out, I would be
willing to burn him a CD each week of that week's shows and mail it to
him. If he is being deployed to Europe or the Middle East I could
mail it for free and it should get to him fairly quickly. Just give
him my email allias, and we will give it a try.

As a "Dirt Sailor," I would be more than happy to help a shipmate
out. I know this method doesn't sound like the best but when I was
deployed to Iraq my wife would shoot video of her and our baby boy
each month and mail a DVD to me. The significance of those DVDs &
what the did to keep me going can not be overstated. Perhaps Buzz Out
Loud will not hold such a high significance for CMDR Mark but it would
be one more thing to look forward to and help to time fly by.

Keep up the great work,
Jerry

News of the Yahoo demographic's searching habits arouses a sudden love for space in Brian Cooley today. Also, the Nokia N97 gets a chilly reception, especially in light of all those delectably cheap Netbooks flooding the market. Pownce disappears, Apple suddenly starts recommending antivirus for Mac users, and Microsoft claims the Xbox 360 pwned Black Friday.

EPISODE 863

iPhone beware, the Nokia N97 is coming (PC World)
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20081202/tc_pcworld/iphonebewarethenokian97iscoming
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10110873-1.html
http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1274500

Netbooks dominate cyber-Monday, at least on Amazon
http://www.pcworld.com/article/154754/

Asus: $200 Netbooks next year
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/12/02/asus_200_dollar_netbook/

Pownce to shut down after Six Apart sale
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10110443-2.html

Microsoft: Xbox 360 Routs PS3 in Record Black Friday Sales
http://www.pcworld.com/article/154778/microsoft_xbox_360_routs_ps3_in_record_black_friday_sales.html

Forbes: Nintendo making $6 profit on every Wii sold
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/forbes-nintendo-making-6-profit-on-every-wii-sold/

Data shows Wii games discounted fastest
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/25/data-shows-wii-games-discounted-fastest/

Apple suggests Mac users install antivirus software
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10110852-83.html

DVR commercial skipping: 50 or 97 percent? Depends on who you ask
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081202-dvr-commercial-skipping-50-or-97-depends-on-whom-you-ask.html

Cell phones are even worse than chatty passengers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/02/AR2008120201066.html

No escaping Britney Spears: 2008’s top searches
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10110841-2.html

VOICE MAIL
Dwight the key grip: so close to bingo!

E-MAIL
Molly,
You know how you we a little peeved about Apple's new proprietary but not proprietary “mini display port”. Well here is a Gizmodo story that gives you a glimmer of hope!

http://gizmodo.com/5100514/apples-mini-displayport-might-not-be-bs-proprietary-port-after-all
- Elam

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Great idea for a CNet Channel broadcast through CBS affiliates. I would have to say from a technology standpoint that couldn't be difficult and really shouldn't require the person to manage it. I personally have an auto updating video playlist in iTunes that nearly does this already. Just subscribe to all of your RSS feeds and then play through the list starting at a certain time every day. Once that's done playing go to an "off air" static screen until the next day, that's if you run out of video in the 24 hour period. It could probably be done with Automator and some apple scripts come to think of it. Interesting…might have to play with this for fun. jason

Regards,

Daniel

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Hi buzz crew,
Sorry for any typing mistakes but I am writing this on a blackjack 2. I just wanted to let you know that I saw my first Netbook today at a coffee shop. I really wanted to get a dell mini9 but chickened out because I didn’t know how I would deal with a ridiculously small keyboard.
(Ironic I know.)
So apparently this guy with the Netbook had the same problem as me because he had a full size usb keyboard connected to it! What is the point of a tiny little glove compartment computer if you need to lug that beast around with it?

Buzz You Long Time.
Dave in Saratoga, NY.

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Dear BOL Crew,

First of all, thanks for a great daily podcast to keep me up to date on tech.

I will be going on a 7 month navy cruise soon and I don't want to miss my daily BOL fix. Available bandwidth during the cruise does not allow me to download podcasts or anything else. There just is not enough bandwidth. I have also tried getting BOL via your RSS feed, but it does not work again due to bandwidth limitations.

I can received email attachments, but I don't know if there is a way for me to setup before my cruise an automatic daily email attachment with the BOL audio file.

Can you recommend a solution?

Thank you! I love listening to BOL daily when I am on tierra firma.
Mark

Commander Mark
Supply Officer
P.S. You need to do a show from a navy ship while on cruise. We could fly you on and catapult you off! (0 to 150 mph in 3 seconds!)

(How would http://www.podlinez.com/ work for you? -JH)

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Hey guys,

There is going to be a protest about the Australian Internet Censorship on the 13th and I was wondering if you could give it a little publicity.

http://www.stopthecleanfeed.com/

Cheers,
Brad
The Australian

EPISODE 801

Speed test: Google Chrome beats Firefox, IE, Safari
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10030888-92.html

Firefox counters Google’s browser-speed test
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10031278-92.html

Chrome suffers first security flaw
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10031250-83.html
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1843

P2P traffic drops as streaming video grows in popularity
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080902-p2p-traffic-drops-as-streaming-video-grows-in-popularity.html

DirecTV, TiVo Plan HD DVR
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2329340,00.asp

“Google satellite” to be launched this week
http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/09/02/210233.shtml

Insert ‘Ghostbusters’ song reference here: PNY offers movie on USB
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10031329-1.html

Report: 58 percent of adults clueless about ‘social networking’
http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/09/report-58-of-ad.html

Survey says: DVR could improve your relationships
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10030452-1.html

Service call gone awry leads to playwright’s arrest
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080901.whostage01/BNStory/Technology/
http://idle.slashdot.org/idle/08/09/02/1636205.shtml

VOICEMAIL

Mike Hoboken
What is JaMoTo?

Anonymous
Digital TV transition in Wilmington.

E-MAIL

I had to laugh about Chrome’s new “Omni Bar” supposedly being a rip-
off of the Awesome Bar. Maybe Google is just giving props to OmniWeb , which has had this feature for years.

Jen

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Hey Buzzards,
Not sure if you guys have heard about this yet, but Google's nifty new browser has the EULA from hell. Basically, by installing Chrome, you give all-inclusive rights for Google to do whatever they wish, and with whomever they choose, with the data that was transmitted using Chrome. So, uploading a pic to Facebook or even browsing your company's internal content-management system gives Google a license to that content. Either Google is being run by Dr. Evil, or somebody just copied and pasted the EULA from Google Docs without paying attention to the details.

=== From the EULA ===
11. Content license from you

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.

11.2 You agree that this license includes a right for Google to make such Content available to other companies, organizations or individuals with whom Google has relationships for the provision of syndicated services, and to use such Content in connection with the provision of those services.

11.3 You understand that Google, in performing the required technical steps to provide the Services to our users, may (a) transmit or distribute your Content over various public networks and in various media; and (b) make such changes to your Content as are necessary to conform and adapt that Content to the technical requirements of connecting networks, devices, services or media. You agree that this license shall permit Google to take these actions.

11.4 You confirm and warrant to Google that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the above license.

James

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Hey Tom, Molly, and Jason,
So, I was trying out the new Google Chrome (what a lame name BTW) when I ended up at lifehacker and tried to watch a YouTube video that only played for two seconds. At first I thought maybe they didn't embed it correctly, so I went to YouTube and CNET TV to find that this so called "sophisticated technology" has the same stupid Flash bug that Firefox has. Come on, Google. You built your browser on AppleWebKit, not Gecko; how can you import a Firefox problem to your browser?! And, Tom, please don't give me that beta crap. I mean, it's just Flash--it isn't that hard; even Microsoft gets it right. Also, it really irked me that there's almost as much press coverage both on the Web and TV as the iPhone for this piece of junk. I don't understand how they just talk about Microsoft and Google . Did those stupid TV News reporters forget about Firefox, Opera, Seamonkey and the rest of, like, 60 Web browsers out there? Oh wait, they don't know bull about the Internet. And, how on earth can they recommend their viewers to download a browser that is in beta to the public to newbie internet users? Stupid Chrome, stupid reporters...glad I uninstalled it.

Love the show,

Leo S.

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I could just put my eyes out.

I worked at a structural engineering firm (which shall remain nameless) for 3 years and the bulk of my work was in retail projects. I’ve worked on about 25 Apple stores.

My favorite part of BOL #800 was when everyone was saying “Why don’t they just build a store?”, and “Why can’t they just put a wall up?” You guys sounded like every design team meeting I had been to for Apple stores. The meetings that Apple wasn’t at, I mean. I can understand wanting to build a quality product--I try to do that in my work-- but it seemed to me that there would always have been a faster, cheaper, more efficient way of building those stores if Apple had only listened to and worked with their consultants.

And the second best part of the episode was learning about ifoapplestore.com. And, by second best part I mean the worst part. OMG. I could just put my own eyes out! I counted five of my former projects on the front page. Somebody does this in his/her free time? Really? Is it for funsies? Am I the only who thinks this is totally weird?

I’ve seen two Kindles and a Sony eReader in the wild, all on MUNI (maybe not important), and I love the show.

engnr_chik

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I have been watching the show for a few months now and I really enjoy
it on my drive to school. So, I just wanted to say thanks. Also you
could have a fourth person on BOL more often, like maybe once a week,
and it could be a different person each time. It would throw in
other perspectives and give us more rants.

-Mohammed Ilias

LOVE THE SHOW!!!

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One of Tom’s annual predictions is a major network Internet simulcast of
a regular show. (I recall sports didn’t count when NBC did the NHL All
Star game.) So, does precasting of regular, top-rated, serial-
television count?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10030797-93.html

PittCaleb

EPISODE 741

Live blog: Steve Jobs at WWDC 2008
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-9960064-37.html

What’s good for Apple is better for everyone else
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/news/2008/06/iphone_smartphones

Supercomputer sets petaflop pace
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7443557.stm

MPAA wants to stop DVRs from recording some movies
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080608-mpaa-wants-to-stop-dvrs-from-recording-some-movies.html

Amazon working again, but what went wrong?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9962403-7.html

SanDisk confirms death of TakeTV and Fanfare
http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9963059-1.html

Adapting Web sites to users
http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/20872/

Meet Sense Networks, the latest player in the hot ‘geo’ market
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9962810-36.html

Voice mail

Ethan
About that whole voice mail thing.

Leif East Bay
Diamond notes.

E-mail

Rating ads on CNET

Hello —
In episode 740 you discussed the “new” idea of giving feedback on ads.
HELLO? Do you not know that the CNET BOL page has already had this
feature for some time? In spite of what Tom says “you will do”, I have
given positive feedback on the ads I find unobtrusive and/or clever, as
well as ranting about annoying ads. (especially the ones where I’ve
accidentally activated a pop-up by mousing over the ad. GRRRR– I
refuse to read ads that do this!!!)

Of course I’ve done the verboten “pause podcast” to write this, so I
hope you didn’t mention this later in the show.

Icelandscg in the Azores (for one more week– then moving to Germany)

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Just wanted to say congrats to some BOL listeners

Last week a couple of friends of mine who are Buzz Out Loud listeners
got married.

I know they’re listening so I just wanted to say congratulations to Jeff
& Cela Schiffman.
Also, for the benefit of any nerds who are reading this (Tom, Molly, and
Jason) check out the wedding ring…
http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/4976/2551835869343acf30d8bwj8.jpg
Designed by the groom it has Sapphires for the engine and a diamond in
the gun turret. It also split in two. When he proposed he gave her the
back half and said “You can have half now and the other half when we
reach Alderaan.”
Also, their wedding cake…
http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/5504/255266225048c007e233bjj5.jpg
Also designed by the groom.

This is what happens when two people meet in a 6 week long line for a
Star Wars film in Hollywood

Love the show!

JimJimBinks

EPISODE 724

Note: We are making a change to our podcast feed system on Monday, May 19. However, you do not need to subscribe to a new feed. One important thing to know: If you have your podcast catcher set to download "all unheard episodes" in a feed, you will probably find a bunch of already heard episodes in your feed on Friday as a result of the changes. To lighten the hit, set your podcast catcher to only download "the latest episode" for the week of May 19-to-23.

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"

EPISODE 714

AT&T to sell iPhone at a discount?
http://techland.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/04/29/ att-to-cut-the-price-of-apples-new-iphone/
http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9931806-37.html
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/29/ the-199-iphone-somethings-missing-from-the-picture/
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/30/att_iphone_axe/

New Microsoft law enforcement tool bypasses PC security
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/ 20080429-new-microsoft-law-enforcement-tool-bypasses-pc-security.html

Court rejects RIAA’s ‘making available’ piracy argument
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9932004-7.html

PlayStation 3 version only: Resolution, online issues hamper GTA IV experience
http://www.gamepro.com/news.cfm?article_id=181308

Wikipedia overrules DOJ
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/04/30/1348203.shtml

MySpace user ad targeting will be optional
http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/04/29/ myspace-user-ad-targeting-will-be-optional

Whitehouse e-mails were lost due to 'upgrade'
http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/04/30/1359209.shtml

The penultimate DVR zapper: Movies
http://www.medialifemagazine.com/artman2/publish/ Cable_20/The_penultimate_DVR_zapper_Movies.asp

Reiser FS: The open-source file system fallout
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8647

Google diving into 3D mapping of oceans
http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9931412-2.html

VOICE MAIL

Chris Palo Alto
This caller thinks Microsoft could take a page from Apple’s playbook.

Dr. Matt
This caller’s positive experience with Vista

Dr. M for Mayor
MWAHAHAHAHAHA

E-MAIL

Buzz Town parliament

Hey Buzz Crew

I am writing in to let you know that have started this article in the BOL Wiki: http://buzzoutloud.wikia.com/wiki/Buzz_Town_Parliament. It is a list of the candidates and who everyone else who is each party.

Love the podcast

Jacob the student from Australia

Just so everyone knows

BOL Nation,

I’m a long time listener and am pretty sure that I am an integral part of the show (even though I have never gotten around to e-mailing, leaving a voice mail, or traveling across the country to score a beer soaked CNET sticker).

I want to make it clear that If drafted, I will not run; if nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve...as Buzztown mayor. I am too busy trying to figure out how to perfect the pen flip to be bothered with such trifles.

Preserving my internet anonymity,
Snit

P.S. Molly, you are like the sister I never had

FedEx tracking

BOL,
A relative of mine, who happens to be in law enforcement, told me a story once about using FedEx for smuggling. It seems to fit well with your conversation about getting twitter messages about the progress of your shipments in episode 711.

He told me that smugglers (aka drug dealers) will drop off a package at a FedEx office at a particular time every day for several days. Then on the FedEx Web site they watch the progress of each package and get an idea of when a package hits certain points (i.e. Bogota to Miami, Miami to Memphis, Memphis to Detroit, out for delivery) in the delivery chain. Then they send the contraband from the office at the appointed time. If they see a variation in the delivery times the recipient at the other end knows not to accept delivery. A variation means the package was stopped and time was taken to get a warrant to open it or for the recipient's arrest. It usually takes a day to get a warrant.

So thanks to twitter, we have been able to improve the supply chain automation process for all forms of sales and distribution.

See ya,
Mark from Virginia

Airline Mesh Network

Dear Buzzards,
I was in the cockpit over the eastern U.S. the other day and decided to take out my laptop and look up some technical data on the 737 I was flying. At the unnamed American Airline I fly for we have recently begun carrying our manuals in digital format. When I booted up I noticed that wireless networks were available. This is quite common and is usually someone’s laptop in the cabin. Just out of curiosity, however, I opened up the Wi-Fi window and saw that the signal was from an aircraft with Wi-Fi service that was flying just above and ahead of us. I knew it was from that airplane because the signal identified itself as being from a particular U.S. airline, (which will also remain unnamed), that has Wi-Fi service and we heard their call sign on our frequency. That got me thinking about the proposed balloon network you talked about a while back and I was wondering if you couldn’t come up with an airline mesh network. Our airline alone has more than 2,500 flights a day and the sky is always packed with airliners. Have you ever had to sit in the air an extra hour in a holding pattern because there were too many airplanes in a given block of airspace ahead of you? ATC is always having to speed up, slow down and vector traffic to maintain legal separation. If all those airliners were equipped to create a mesh network you could easily defer the cost of the equipment as well as compensate the airlines for the service. It might even help keep travel costs down. Maybe it’s silly but it seems as valid an idea as balloons

Keep up the good work,
Vic the Texas Pilot Rancher

Happy Vista SP1 user

Hey BOL’ers,
Count me as part of (what I believe to be) the silent majority of content Vista users. It just works. Always. Never had a problem with it.
Just yesterday I noticed the SP1 upgrade as an optional update to my Vista PC. I went through the upgrade and had no issues. Today I’m using it--you guessed it--without any issues.

While there may be a few vocal Vista haters, I’m sure there are plenty more of us shiny, happy Vista people roaming the streets using the latest Microsoft OS--wait for it--with no (or few) issues.

Love the show!

Patrick Schommer
Sun Prairie, Wis.