Buzz Out Loud Podcast

Today, the last Friday of July is SysAdmin day and we appreciate them even more because they came through during the live show and got us back online. We also talk about David Pogue's new movement to "take back the beep." And we need to watch out for pandas. Listen and you'll find out why. Special guests: The hosts of Hak5.

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EPISODE 1031

Apple to fix iPhone security flaw
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8177755.stm

The truth about the iPhone virus / vulnerability thing
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/ByteOfTheApple/blog/archives/2009/07/the_truth_about.html

Elinor: Researchers attack my iPhone via SMS
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10299378-245.html

David Pogue wants to take back the beep
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/30/1955255/David-Pogue-Wants-to-Take-Back-the-Beep

Bootkit bypasses Truecrypt full-disk encryption
http://www.h-online.com/security/Bootkit-bypasses-hard-disk-encryption–/news/113884

Hackers: We can bypass San Francisco e-parking meters
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10300233-83.html

HP researchers reveal details of browser-based darknet
http://www.h-online.com/security/HP-researchers-reveal-details-of-browser-based-darknet–/news/113873

Shock threat to shut Skype
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/biz-tech/shock-threat-to-shut-skype-20090731-e3qe.html

CU prof’s iPhone app lets users snoop out surroundings
http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2009/jul/29/iphone-app-hoozat-cu-boulder-professor-richard-han

Cash for Clunkers cars get lethal injections
http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/cash-for-clunkers-trade-ins-must-be-crushed-shredded/
http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/31/autos/cash_for_clunkers_update/index.htm

Fewer than 10 ET civilizations in our galaxy?
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/31/1244235/Fewer-Than-10-ET-Civilizations-In-Our-Galaxy

Police: Texting, talking NY trucker hits car, pool
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090731/ap_on_hi_te/us_tow_truck_in_pool

We're very happy to welcome you to our 1,024th episode, which as we know means we will no longer to count the shows in binary on two hands. But that's OK. We will still be doing shows. Because we have more hands. And our 11 finger listeners can still count on two hands. We also have a date for Windows 7. He's nice. They'll like him.

EPISODE 1024

When will you get Windows 7 RTM?

Microsoft confirms Family Pack for Windows 7

iPhone, Mac sales continue to propel Apple forward

Apple can't seriously be "very happy" with ATandT relationship

ATandT to Power Upcoming PlasticLogic E-Reader

Google Wave public beta rolling out in September

"Vanish" makes sensitive data self-destruct

Artists find backers as labels wane

Disney to offer films on microSD cards, consumers to pass on by

Synaptics' ClearPad 3000 touch screen does 10-finger capacitive multitouch, other forms of dark magicks

Robo-Ethicists Want to Revamp Asimov's 3 Laws

Sam Raimi to direct Warcraft: The Movie

Today's show is full of zombies, Hollywood agents, hungry, overeating robots, and cloned dogs. What's not to love? We also find out a hidden truth about Natali that none of us suspected. It involves her ideal pet. In and among all that good stuff we'll even find time to talk about Net neutrality and ISP filtering. Word. (Thanks to Sam from Melbourne for today's podcast artwork!)

EPISODE 900

Putin-Dell slap down at Davos
http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/28/news/companies/dell.davos.fortune/index.htm

Google fans Net neutrality flames with Web measurement lab
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Google-Fans-Net-Neutrality-Flames-With-Web-Measurement-Lab/
http://measurementlab.org/
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/01/google-others-launch-m-lab-to-track-network-openness.ars

COX to try coaxing the Internet into submission
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-10151769-7.html

For Obama, closed doors no match for Twitter
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jpkWsBbmH4yX9nLFSY8n7K4gKNpg

Gaming shows record sales, but the numbers hide a dark side
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/01/gaming-shows-record-sales-but-the-numbers-hide-a-dark-side.ars

Yahoo Mail Classic gets SMS and IM
http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2009/01/28/im-sms-in-yahoo-mail-classic/

YouTube said to be near Hollywood deal
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/business/media/29youtube.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10152526-93.html

Major storage vendors agree to disk encryption standards
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/29/major-storage-vendors-agree-to-disk-encryption-standards/

Wasabi DX modchip lets you hack the ‘unhackable’ Wii, dream the impossible dream
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/29/wasabi-dx-modchip-lets-you-hack-the-unhackable-wii-dream-the/

Smart robot capable of hunting for its own “food”
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F29%2F142258

Family dog cloned, thanks to Dolly patents
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F28%2F2026202

VOICEMAIL

Anonymous
Windows Mobile has handwriiting recognition

E-MAIL
Hi Buzz Crew,

Engadget has a good article today detailing some of the patents that both Palm and Apple have, and illustrates that Palm may not have been the first to “steal” an idea after all. It lists several patents that Palm has that Apple seems to have blatantly violated.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/28/apple-vs-palm-the-in-depth-analysis/
Thanks, Love the show!

-Jim from Long Island

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Hey Janatox,

I was going to let it slide when you guys starting spreading rumours and lies about the CERN Black holes in the latest few episodes, but what the listeners have been calling in with has been completely bogus. Faster than light? Travel through time? What are they talking about? First off, any black hole created in the LHC will disappear instantly, but if it doesn’t and decides to grow expontentially, it wouldn’t fall to the center of the earth - that would be assuming earth’s gravity would be stronger than the black hole’s, and that black holes fall like regular objects. What would happen would be that the earth would be ripped right out of it’s orbit, as the (more massive) black hole would become the center of mass, and earth would begin to rotate around it while still orbitting the sun. (Think of how the moon rotates around the earth). As a result, people on certain parts of the earth will feel a stronger gravitional pull before being ripped apart by tidal forces (i.e. being stretched apart) and the remaining people would feel lighter until they’re simply be flung into space, hurtling towards the great unknown to die by suffocation and overexposure to the cold of space.

Love the show, guys,
Orad the graduating physics student from Montreal.

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Hey Buzzers,

I don’t know if I’m the first to do this but I have to “well, actually” myself. This class is for real, apparently. After sending my last email I got into a little back-and-forth with someone on Plurk who said he thought it was a real class, but taught by a student which is why I couldn’t find info on the professor.

I still didn’t believe it, so I figured I’d just send an email to the address listed on the syllabus found online.

Well color me wrong, because I got a message back, and it is a real class. First lecture is Thursday night, and the instructor is planning on posting it on youtube Saturday.

Regards,
engnr_chik

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Greetings JANATO!

In episode 896 you discussed Russia and China’s development of Linux distro’s. Rafe brought up that one incentive for the development of a ‘National Operating System’ would be mistrust of a huge operating system (Windows), much less one out of a foreign company.

I just wanted to let you know that the U.S. Government is definitely not immune to this either. In fact, the NSA has their own Security Enhanced flavor of Linux. The best part? They are actually running it as an open source initiative. Information, source code, and free downloads of SELinux can be found at: http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/index.shtml

-Jake (the computer science student)

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Hello Tom, Jason, and Part time others (and Molly)

Hey good luck with the 0.9k episode or is that 0.87 something if you’re not a Hard drive manufacturer….

Anyway, just a short email re: FANTASTIC wireless speeds in Australia.

Yes Tom I Agree “I Want” but “Can I Pay” - I’ll do you a deal, I’ll give you the fast wireless if you give me the SOOOOOOOO Cheap plans you have in the U.S.

Tom, you said maybe the “government” could put the infrastructure in place, well you are right, the reason we have this service is that the Government used to own the carrier, legislated that 90% of the population should have access to the network, which is great, but the cost means most of the public can’t afford to use much of it. the plans start at 400Mb that is MEGA bytes NOT GIGAbytes, so REALLY fast internet means REALLY fast excess charges……

Love the show, just a pain that BOL takes 25% of my monthly download at a roaring 64k download.

Bryan the connectivity Challenged

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Hey guys + natali,

Would love if you could talk about this:

http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/eircom-to-stop-illegal-music-downloaders-1619376.html

FYI eircom is the biggest irish isp.

Thanks,
Ben,
Ireland

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Hell has frozen over! Well if not hell, then at least Western Kentucky. The “Winter Storm 2009″ has devastated much of Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee. In the smallish town of Murray, KY, we’ve been without power and water going on 36 hours and are in for several days more of the same. Cell towers are down. Phone lines are out. This part of the world has come to a screeching halt. All, that is, except for Murray State University. Thanks to a disaster-ready infrastructure, our emergency power, telephones, and internet access are still up and running. State, city, and county police, along with emergency services have set up in the University’s Public Safety building for communication. The campus’ wireless network has made internet access available to the community. And thanks to Hulu and Netflix streaming, we’re not bored! My pregnant wife, 3-year-old son, and I have hunkered down in the IT center with the rest of the IS team to keep the systems up and communication going. The weather may be grim, and I may not have showered in 3 days, but at least my Facebook status is updated to reflect that information.

Drew Perry
Wireless Network Engineer
Murray State University

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Hello Buzz crew!

I don’t know if you guys saw this but I thought it was pretty funny. (Still against the law… but funny.) A friend of mine posted this on Twitter and said I could share it with you guys.

Construction signs warn of zombies
Hackers change public safety message
http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/Road_signs_warn_of_zombies

Holly
(hollyhock in BOL chat)

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/01/23/default-password-for.html

Episode 841

Microsoft to offer Office online
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10077535-2.html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081028-microsoft-office-will-float-to-the-cloud-with-office-web.html

MS offers peek through Windows 7
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7695933.stm
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10077484-75.html

Microsoft doubles reward for teen who ran away after his parents pilfered his 360
http://gizmodo.com/5069904/microsoft-doubles-reward-for-teen-that-ran-away-after-his-parents-pilfered-his-360

Dolly Parton enters ‘white space’ debate
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10077742-94.html

Researchers decentralize BitTorrent
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/28/1722214

Quantum key distribution meets the real world, fails
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081029-quantum-key-distribution-meets-the-real-world-fail.html

HD Netflix streaming comes to Xbox 360 first
http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/10/29/hd-netflix-streaming-comes-to-xbox-360-first/

AC/DC confuse Donald with Excel spreadsheet video and CD-only distro
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/ACDCs-Black-Ice-CD-Album/story.aspx?guid={0A29BF85-6030-4239-A18D-86082628C6A4}
http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/06/poll-should-acd.html
http://gizmodo.com/5068899/acdc-excel-spreadsheet-music-video-has-us-thunderstruck

Walmart relaunches MP3 store with $0.74 MP3s
http://gizmodo.com/5070019/walmart-selling-drm+free-mp3s-for-74-cents-finally-mac-and-linux-friendly-too

The VCR is dead
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/10/28/the-vcr-is-dead.html

DTV transition will ‘puke’ on environment, says recycling group
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/10/dtv-transition.html

Voice mail

JL in Minnepaolis
War of the Worlds - twitter.com/wotw2

Mark from Florida
What use is Google Earth

E-mail
…to the internet today, October 29, 2008!

39 years old. Up next: mid-life crisis.

(The first message ever to be sent over the then ARPANET (sent over
the first host-to-host connection) occurred at 10:30 PM on October 29,
1969. It was sent by UCLA student programmer Charley Kline and
supervised by UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock. The message was sent
from the UCLA computer to a computer at the Stanford Research
Institute. The message itself was simply the word “login.” The “l”
and the “o” transmitted without problem but then the system crashed.
Hence, the first message on the ARPANET was “lo”. They were able to do
the full login about an hour later.)

But you knew that…

Digital Dave in San Diego
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~lk/LK/Inet/1stmesg.html

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Relatively new listener here. It’s been about 2 weeks. I heard about you guys when someone(I forget who) was on Twit. The reason I like the show is because it gives me something to listen to on a daily basis instead of once a week like Revision 3.

After listening to Friday’s show I wanted to comment on how this listener can return a Console game after opening it. You take it to the customer service desk and say I forgot my receipt and this game doesn’t work for my console. They will replace it with another. They will go and get a new one. MOST of the time they will forget to unwrap the plastic. They will give you a new game with the plastic back on and then you can go to another Wal-Mart a few miles down the road or that same Wal-Mart the next day with your receipt and get your money back.

Thanks,
Steve Rehnborg
Raleigh, NC by way of Ohio

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What’s Microsoft calling their cloud computing solution? Azure. Check out the Mac Dictionary’s definition of Azure:

bright blue in color, like a cloudless sky

Cloudless! I love it.

Richard Gunther
Washington, D.C.

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

That's the dog-sized Bluetooth headset you can buy to go with today's real news item, the new BlackBerry Storm: announced but not released. Until it comes out, though, it's basking in the warm glow of the "meeting and maybe exceeding expectations" judgments coming from the media. In sum, it sounds cool. And Google decides it's high time they made some money on that whole YouTube thing.

EPISODE 826

BlackBerry Storm 9500 hands-on
http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/08/blackberry-storm-9500-hands-on/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10059498-1.html

YouTube adds affiliate links to its videos; Amazon and iTunes downloads
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-youtube-adds-affiliate-links-to-its-videos-amazon-and-itunes-downloads/
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2332080,00.asp

Google launches AdSense for games
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10060732-52.html

CEA: Economy down, TV sales up
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10060659-1.html

Yahoo-AOL: An integration nightmare on deck
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=10347

Data mining doesn’t work
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10059987-38.html

Dutch to MBTA: Sorry CharlieCard. Your crypto is crap-o
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081008-charlie-and-the-broken-rfid-mass-transit-authentication-system.html

Mobile tracking reveals spending
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7651304.stm

Steve Jobs patents “The Dock”
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/08/1224224

DMCA exemption time
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/07/2114243

VOICE MAIL
Keith: Ninja Air

E-MAIL

Tom broke my spirit
I was listening to episode 825 driving into work at IBM’s advanced semiconductor design and manufacturing facility in East Fishkill, N.Y., [http://www-03.ibm.com/technology/] and reflecting on the cool stuff we’ve been working on in the last year or two. The PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii chips, High K metal gate [http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/15/2027239], airgap [http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199203911], high end chips for IBM servers, etc.

Then at 1:30 into the episode I hear Tom tell me that Intel is the only chip design/manufacturer of note left now that AMD is out of the fab business. Ouch!

Brian the sad engi-nerd, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

Thin-film solar cells + Origami = compact energy solution?

I’ve been hearing/reading more about thin-film solar cells and I think it’s great stuff--check out a couple articles:
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/10/thin-film-solar.html
http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2008/10/07/07gigaom-konarka-turns-on-1gw-thin-film-solar-printing-pre-11260.html

But then, I thought about this really interesting video about using origami for engineering/packaging efforts:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/robert_lang_folds_way_new_origami.html

So…put them together and you’ve probably got a way to have a back packable solar cell that might cover a 10 person tent! Or a sail, umbrella, etc.

—–
Other misc questions I have on solar energy:
My big question about solar is the amount of energy used to create the cells, materials needed (and their cost to obtain), and how long these solar cells will last. Can solar cells be reused/recycled? Can they be biodegradable? Is Solar thermal (think Sterling engine) the better way to harness the solar energy? What about UV light energy--any way to convert that?
—–

thoughts?

Best,
Shalin

JaMoTo,

For the sake of some privacy, please don’t use my name or e-mail address…just call me a “Comm-dude at Air Force Space Command.”

Want some cool news about Cyber…see 2/3 way down in msg below. While the AF is not standing up a separate Major Command, we are standing up an organization known as a Numbered Air Force for Cyber — wooohooo.

AF leaders met last week (for CORONA) and decided to establish a Numbered Air Force for cyber operations within Air Force Space Command and discussed how the Air Force will continue to develop capabilities in this new domain and train personnel to execute this new mission. This will be 24th AF.

“The conduct of cyber operations is a complex issue, as DoD and other interagency partners have substantial equity in the cyber arena,” said Mr. Donley. “We will continue to do our part to increase Air Force cyber capabilities and institutionalize our cyber mission.”

Locations for the new nuclear command and cyber NAF were not addressed and require further deliberation.

Other key AF issues discussed include an update on the status of joint basing initiatives, the development of a common Logistics Standardization Evaluation Program, and review of the concept of integrating the networks used to repair the Air Force’s weapon systems.

AFSPC Communications and Information

Howdy Y'all,

Just while you're all bust ranting about how great it is that all products going forward will need to have removable batteries, (while is great I know) but what about things like Bluetooth headsets, those disposable electric toothbrushes (http://www.oralb.com/us/products/manual/pulsar/)

I know this might seems like silliness, but I'm still holding out for the Bluetooth earbuds aren't the same size as a small dog.

Dave The Software Developer
Ireland
Sean

By average people we mean, mean people. As we have learned that mean and average are indubitably the same thing. However, we also learned on today's show that men are from Redmond and women are from Cupertino. That and a lot of news that actually isn't about the iPhone. Though we covered that to.
Listen now: Download today's podcast

EPISODE 763

iPhone 2.0 software available for download
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-9987221-93.html
http://www.macrumors.com/2008/07/10/iphone-2-0-firmware-5a347-available-early/

Apple launches new iTunes with App Store
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-9987100-93.html

It’s iPhone 3G tear-down time
http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/10/its-iphone-3g-tear-down-time/

The 'fake' Steve Jobs is giving up parody blog
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/technology/10blog.html?adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1215702150-UNTJCPwFu1gjpl/S10F3UA

Pirate Bay wants total network encryption, but does anyone else?
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080709-pirate-bay-wants-total-network-encryption-but-does-anyone-else.html
http://newteevee.com/2008/07/09/the-pirate-bay-wants-to-encrypt-the-entire-internet/

Comcast, Vonage collaborate on network management
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9986719-7.html

Windows XP a hot item on Amazon
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-9986916-56.html

Yahoo Games shifts to free games in alliance with two game ad start-ups
http://venturebeat.com/2008/07/10/yahoo-games-shifts-to-free-games-in-alliance-with-two-game-ad-start-ups/

Women more frustrated by the Web?
http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=318

Workplace BlackBerry use may spur lawsuits
http://www.cnbc.com/id/25586129

Google open sources browser sync
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/10/0337211

VOICE MAIL

Richard
How to pronounce Koppelverkoop

Wouter
Or do you pronounce it this way?

David
Want a cheap iPhone?

Anonymous
Make joke.

E-MAIL

This is a little bizarre. Donald Knuth, one of the greatest programmers of all time, doesn’t use email. Weirder yet, Richard Stallman, found of GNU, doesn’t use the web, except through Lynx (a text based browser).

http://io9.com/5022824/the-ones-who-disappear

Love the show.

Joe
aka dOgBOi

Hello Tom, Jason, and (hopefuly Caroline McCarthy),

What do you think? Is the iPhone the new RAZR? Is it the super cool phone that will turn into the phone even your grandma has?

I would like to wait for the Xperia X1. However, since I’m not Tom and I don’t have a monthly budget for cool new gadgets, I will have to see if I can afford it. In that case, I would go for the Apple iRAZR.

Love the show,
Bernardo

Awwwwwww = how sweet

…but ya do it with a great accent.

This is Tracy and I am still a guy dernit… the guy that always calls in and owns the Comcast-proof dogs.

I’m getting married (to a girl - even though it will be in CA) in Saint Helena next week and will be in S.F. the end of next week so don’t make me come down there.

Tracy
Guy
Atlanta

Hi BOLers,

I had the same problem as Evan with ZoneAlarm after updating Windows yesterday. While the glitch is annoying, it’s relatively easy to fix… I just had to reinstall ZoneAlarm so that it could redetect Windows’ Internet settings. Pain in the butt, yes… but I’m not ready to jump on the antitrust train with this one…

Love the show.

Mike from Columbus, Ohio

As the two linked articles stated, the Microsoft update apparently broke ZoneAlarm. It did not break all third-party firewalls. I use Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall, and the Microsoft update did not break it. I was running just fine after the installation.

Larry in New Mexico

Hey BuzzCrew-
In reference to the Dvd copying you were talking about in episode 762, here’s what I do. I am subscribed to Netflix and when I get the DVDs in the mail I rip them to my hard drive. Not because I want to keep them, but because then I can watch them when I have time and still send back the movies to Netflix. This makes the turn around rate for the Netflix movies worth the monthly fee. I get the movies in the mail at 11 a.m., rip them, then bring the movies to the city mail boxes by 5 p.m. Netflix gets them the next day.

Love the show

Trey
Walton, NY

BOL,

Thanks for reporting on the 3G iPhone release, you caused me to forget my wife’s birthday. All this talk about the BIG DAY being 7/11 has completely overshadowed an even bigger day in my puny little mind.

My wife was born on 7/8. Though, this year, I was convinced that her birthday was 7/11, until i walked into the house yesterday and she was dressed up to go out. “Where are you going?” I asked. She responded, “I’m taking myself out for my BIRTHDAY.”

By the time I came too, all was lost. I just curled my tail up and walked directly to the doghouse.

Thanks BOL,
Mark from Virginia