Buzz Out Loud Podcast

Black Hat this week means lots of security vulnerabilities in the news, including the fact that Secure Sockets Layer is now just Sockets Layer thanks to an exploit discovered by Kaminsky and friends. We also decide that you can't fix stupid. Too bad. I wish we could.

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EPISODE 1030

Apple at CES 2010 says WSJ – Engadget says otherwise.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10299417-37.html
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/wsj-apple-going-to-ces-2010-reality-nope/

Apple says jailbreaking is a national security issue
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10298646-1.html

Details on presidential motorcades, safe house for First Family, leak via P2P
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136053/Details_on_presidential_motorcades_safe_house_for_First_Family_leak_via_P2P

Researchers exploit flaws in SSL, domain authentication system
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10299459-245.html

Intel motherboards suffer Bios flaws
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39698949,00.htm

Re-engineering GPS for navigation on phones
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10298696-94.html

Windows Mobile becomes Windows Phone
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1495570/windows-mobile-windows-phone

Nissan introduces new smart in-car nav system
http://social.telematicsupdate.com/content/nissans-new-nav-system-focuses-safer-greener-driving

EMI selling CDs to megachains only from now on
http://slashdot.org/story/09/07/30/0117222/EMI-Only-Selling-CDs-To-Mega-Chains-From-Now-On

Apparently cash is still king in Spain, according to one listener. And here I thought it was Juan Carlos. We also notice how Craigslist is getting CraigsPissed over the adult services issue. And Dell says Windows 7 may be great and all but it's also going to be expensive. And that's just not so much of a good idea in this economy.

EPISODE 976

South Carolina eyes ‘criminal investigation’ of Craigslist
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10242507-93.html

Napster relaunches with $5 a month subscription and free downloads
http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/napster-relaunching-again-5-per-month-plus-five-to-download/
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12519_7-10243101-49.html

Dell says Windows 7 price is possible barrier
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10242555-64.html

Mozilla preparing to scrap tabbed browsing?
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/18/1227247

Document-sharing site Scribd goes into eBook selling business
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/technology/start-ups/18download.html

Nokia N97 For North America arriving June 2
http://thenokiablog.com/2009/05/17/nokia-n97-for-north-america-arriving-june-2nd/

Danger Mouse releases blank CD-R to spite EMI
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8053471.stm

Fennec for WinMo
http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-10242094-12.html

AMD taunts Intel, hoists EU flag
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10242372-64.html

J Allard’s ‘Magic Wand’ patent application for Microsoft puts Nintendo, sorcerers on notice
http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/j-allards-magic-wand-patent-application-for-microsoft-puts-ni/

Letting time solve the online news dilemma
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/17/143206

Wolfram Alpha knows the secret of time travel
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/05/wolfram-alpha-knows-the-secret-of-time-travel/

1,000th episode June 18!
Send email to buzz@cnet.com with the subject line 1000th Episode Invite, if you are serious about wanting to attend the recording at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, June 18. We have a limited amount of seats.

Voice mail
RogueTess
In defense of knitting

Scott from Saskatoon
The importance of graphic calculators

E-mail
Chaps!

You might miss this deliciously eccentric nugget of Google news, as it’s all about UK footpaths. Rest assured, I wasn’t going to let it go unnoticed in the US.

Nate
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/0,39029552,49302292,00.htm

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Heya Buzz folks,

I just wanted to add a small clarification on the use of credit cards here in Europe. As you surely know, Europe is big – and credit card usage varies by country. While I’ve seen the Chip and PIN system used extensively in the UK and in Ireland, the RFID/PIN cloud of of complexity hasn’t yet spread over all of the continent. For example, here in Spain, cash is still king. People rarely use credit cards for their daily transactions and many small stores (of which there are many) do not even accept credit cards. Even in the local supermarket, I’ll commonly see venerable old women pull 20 and 50 euro bank notes out of their purses to pay for their groceries. If people do pay with a card, it’s the swipe card style and must (by law) be accompanied with some form of ID.

Saludos from Southern Spain,

Jonathan

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Hey BOL,

In episode 975, Beauty is in the eye of the Boholder 1000, Tom brought it up that Liz in the chat room said that all of the outlets in Europe have off switches on them. This is absolutely true, but it is not because of energy saving. This is much more of a safety feature. Countries in Europe, as well as others around the world such as Australia where I have traveled to have the switches on outlets because these countries use 230-240V electricity sources, unlike the 120V used here in the United States. You are suposed to turn off each outlet when not in use because the higher voltage makes the outlets much more dangerous if you are not careful. Obvioulsy this can be used in a “green” way, but it was not created soley as an energy saving technique.

For a full list of different Voltages around the world, and if they use the switches built into the outlets, check here:
http://www.kropla.com/electric2.htm

Love the show,

Greg from CT

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Previously on Buzz Out Loud – We learned iPhone is the chump in Italy (Blackberry for the win).
Assassins like pre-paid cell phones.
Molly ranted. Tom and Natali were brought back from stasis.
Wolfram Alpha is evil with a german accent.
Stupid is contagious, ask the French, Missouri and credit card makers.
The Pirate Bay has found a way to revenge themselves in thousands of
tiny little ways. Bring on the micro-payments!
The Twitteratti has an unmatched fury when you mess with the @ sign.
Sony has a bit of a bug, put it to bed, so it can feel better next year.
Soylent People is black holes!!!!
And L’Oreal was, for a shining moment, a tech topic.

Sheala, GA

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

Episode 827

WiMAX launch
http://cnettv.cnet.com/9742-1_53-50004011.html

Apple notebook launch!
https://twitter.com/natalidelconte/statuses/952901666

It’s official: Apple to talk laptops on October 14
http://www.cnet.com/8301-18603_1-10062305-73.html

$800 Apple notebooks?
http://www.inquisitr.com/4834/exclusive-apple-to-launch-800-laptop/

Touchpanel EEE PCs to debut at CES 2009
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20081008PD229.html

Asus ships Eee Box PCs with malware--Tanks Steve!
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2016&tag=nl.e589

Microsoft preps external Blu-ray disc optical drive for Xbox 360.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multimedia/display/20081008073445_Microsoft_Preps_External_Blu_Ray_Disc_Optical_Drive_for_Xbox_360.html

Unbreakable’ encryption unveiled
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7661311.stm

SlingCatcher finally sees light of day–and may get a boost from Sling.com
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10060898-1.html

EMI to launch its own music portal
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b76fa624-94d1-11dd-953e-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1

Google’s Super Satellite Captures First Image
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/10/geoeye-1-super.html

Clickjacking threat!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10061358-83.html

Google engineer wants the world to name his baby
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10061920-71.html

Study: Reading online privacy policies could cost $365 billion a year
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081008-study-reading-online-privacy-policies-could-cost-365-billion-a-year.html

Voice Mail
Adam: Why all the Zune hate?

E-mail

Hey JaMoTo & (fill in guest host here),

I’m a little behind on the episodes thanks to silly law school homework, but in your discussions on entertainment offerings that have been victims of copyright licensing, I think there’s one glaring omission- The Wonder Years. For years, I’ve been reading that the reason that the show is not available on DVD is because the show’s producers never anticipated needing licenses for the music used on the show when the show was created in the late 80s. And since the music was such an essential element of the show, DVD of the show’s seasons have never been released because licenses would be too costly and the show wouldn’t be the same without the music.

Love the show,

-Will

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I pity da foo!!!! The voice mailer from BOL 826 is infringing on our business model for an airliner. As the spokesman of BA Airlines I can tell you our founder is more than a little upset. It was us that developed the drugging and flying the passengers to their destinations. We were first and I’m not going to let some ninja wannabe steal our idea. If he does not cease and desist in his operation, our founder BA Baracus will certainly want a word with the foo. Of course we’ll have to drug him and have Murdoch break out of the mental hospital to fly him. Just thought the Ninja should know who he was messing with.

Considered Ninja Airlines Warned,

The Dingo

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Hey Guys,

Just heard my e-mail on today's BOL, and was mortified to realise that I had in fact used the word 'bust' when in fact I meant to say busy. Its not some cool Irish jargon, just a regular old typo. Thats what I get for sending e-mail on my crippling iPhone keyboard.

Dave the publicly shamed software developer
Ireland

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Hi I am a patent examiner. It didn't take the office nine years to get to the application, it took nine years to issue. Which means the examiner probably thought it was not patentable as presented and was trying to protect the market from another overly restrictive patent, which kills competition. In the nine years, the claims were probably rewritten multiple times and the examiner's decision was probably appealed. If you want it to be streamlined, complain to the applicants who file overly broad applications who want to stifle competition. Regardless all the blame doesn't fall on the patent office. Love the show (even with all uspto hate).

-Tim from VA

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Greetings! In show you were quizzing over Cox phone technology and its
connection to the internet. Short story: Even though Cox phone service
does use VoIP technology, the actual phone packets are encrypted
between the residence and the headend, where it either interfaces with
incumbent phone service for non-Cox users, or goes on to other
locations through Cox’s backbone. Even on the last mile, the data
doesn’t really travel through the Internet, but actually alongside it.
Therefore, unlike other VoiP services like Vonage, Cox customers are
not subject to the various issues surrounding Internet carriage.

Mark — Florida

EPISODE 694

Voicemail - Dark
Zombie Preparedness Day!

Judge to RIAA: You can’t sue over songs ‘made available’ via P2P
http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9908353-38.html

eBay’s power sell: Skype to Google?
http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9908959-36.html

Amazon launches text-message shopping
http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9909076-2.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ ALeqM5iITmgbH6EWbqdm47W5ohOZc-tTdAD8VPGRHG1

Xbox 360 with Blu-ray to spark price war with Sony PS3?
http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/ xbox-360-with-blu-ray-to-spark-price-war-with-sony-ps3/

Microsoft to give XP stay of execution--for budget laptops
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/ 20080401-microsoft-to-give-xp-stay-of-executionfor-budget-laptops.html

Google’s CIO leaves search giant for job at EMI
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9908312-7.html

New 20-inch iMac screens show 98 percent fewer colors
http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/08/04/01/1710221.shtml

Intel trots out wireless chips, discusses 8 cores at IDF
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9908654-7.html

eBay yanks sale of hacked Vista laptop
http://www.pcworld.com/article/ id,144021-c,auctionsites/article.html#

Germany says “Willkommen!” to TV on iTunes
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/04/02/ germany-says-willkommen-to-tv-on-itunes

Deutsche Telekom/T-Mobile demands Engadget Mobile discontinue using the color magenta
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/ deutsche-telekom-t-mobile-demands-engadget-mobile-discontinue/

Nokia unveils its first WiMax device in N810 tablet
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/ djf500/200804020726DOWJONESDJONLINE000508_FORTUNE5.htm

Voicemail

Robert D
An important message

Patrick New Hampshire
A key point you missed about RIAA.

Anonymous
April Fool’s joke

E-mail

Nova inferior

Tom:

I must say that I feel you spoke out of turn when saying that any new-fangled Volvo would make an American classic like the Chevy Nova inferior. I'd gladly pit my '71 Chevy Nova versus anything on the road today. The car survived three collisions (people hitting me) from "superior" modern cars that crumpled into an accordion, while my Nova's total damage out of all three collisions was one taillight and two marker lights. The crumpled plastic of those modern cars didn't even make a dent in the steel body of the Chevy Nova. American muscle all the way!

Love the show

-David the Graphic Designer

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So say we all!

I am half a week behind in BOLs, so if this was brought up I apologize

Jason horrified me with his lack of Battlestar knowledge! Dude, where is your nerd cred!?!??!

In honor of the new season starting Friday, I thought it would either be really cool or a colossal waste of time to have citizens of Buzztown send in a MP3 (or whatever format) of them saying “So Say We All”. That way JoMoTo could say it, and all of use could say it back. I will even volunteer to splice them all together and send back a MP3 to play (I’ll set up a Gmail account to set it up). Let me know what you guys think!

Kevin from Michigan.

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Notepad for iPhone

Dear CNET,

I have just released a beta of an application I like to call “GoOffice”. The features of this beta include the following extras:
Being able to save your notes as text, PDFs, XML code, HTML, and JavaScript.
Full intergration for images in all formats Online and Offline.

To use this application on your iPod Touch, iPhone, PC, or Mac just go to this URL in your Web browser:
http://69.36.229.120/website/

Final release coming soon.

Yours sincerely
Windowsmad / Jack O’Brien

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Betamax to HD-DVD converter

Hey Buzz crew,

I haven’t listened to today’s (or yesterday’s, for that matter) podcast, so forgive me if this is a dupe, but I thought you’d enjoy this:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/betamaxhd.html

Undoubtedly April Fool’s, but fun anyway.

Eric in Shrewsbury, MA