Buzz Out Loud Podcast

Mozilla is upset about the browser ballot screen because it's alphabetical, left to right, by manufacturer. That means Apple gets the prime spot. We think that's parsing the screen too closely. So we decide to parse it even more! And we also reinvent battery technology and solve America's Internet problems. And can you believe it? We even do more. It's true.

Listen now: Download today's podcast

False Alarm: New iPhone 3GS Not Jailbreak-Proof
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/10/jailbreak-iphone

Wal-Mart Strafes Amazon in Book War
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125565024634288895.html
http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2009/10/wal-mart-wades-into-amazon-with-machete.html

Apple gets best spot in EU browser ‘ballot screen,’ Mozilla says
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9139428/Apple_gets_best_spot_in_EU_browser_ballot_screen_Mozilla_says

Windows 7? Don’t Upgrade, Buy A New PC
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/173792/windows_7_dont_upgrade_buy_a_new_pc.html

Schmidt: "Android Adoption Is About To Explode"
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/15/schmidt-android-adoption-is-about-to-explode/

Line sharing best solution for slow, expensive US broadband
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/us-internet-is-slow-expensiveand-the-fcc-has-proof.ars

Internet Traffic Shifting Away From Tier-1 Carriers
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/10/16/1555228/Internet-Traffic-Shifting-Away-From-Tier-1-Carriers

Judge: ringtones aren’t performances, so no royalties
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/judge-ringtones-arent-performances-so-no-royalties.ars

Intelligent speed bumps collapse to reward slow-pokes, cut down on emissions
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/intelligent-speed-bumps-collapse-to-reward-slow-pokes-cut-down/

Boffins ‘write directly to memory’ of living brains
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/16/boffins_program_fly_brains/

VOICEMAIL
Matt in Orlando on Light Peak

Patrick in NH explains problem with Viper car start

E-MAIL
Hey guys (and girls)!

I have an iPhone 3gs an an apple headset but when I’m on a call and
start my car it will ALWAYS disconnect any Bluetooth devices from my
phone and hijack the connection…

It’s kinda nice though Bering into the car and having everything
change over, the problem is when you get out you have to manually try
to reconnect a Bluetooth device before it will work – thus is not
always easy…

Oh and a bog shout out to all the Irish geeks listening in! LOVE THE
SHOW

Sent from my iPhone

Brian Murphy

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I was catching up on my podcasts and heard you discussing a penny-sized nuclear battery that had 6 times more charge than a conventional battery.
Turns out that story originates from the University of Missouri, my place of employment!

Un-cited quote:
"To provide enough power, we need certain methods with high energy density," said Jae Kwon, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at MU. "The radioisotope battery can provide power density that is six orders of magnitude higher than chemical batteries." And it’s perfectly safe.

Notice that’s not 6 times more charge, its 6 ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE more charge (sorry for yelling, I’m excited). Now my Furby can chatter on forever!

Buzz on RafMoNatToJaCooTong.
Tony in Missouri

Well, according to one listener, you can't get away from underwear in Japan so the Google StreetView cameras shouldn't try. Also if you deleted those pictures of you in your underwear from Facebook, I can still see them. In fact, deleting photos from social media doesn't make it as deleted as you might like. We also talk Pirate Bay, RealDVD, and other court cases.

Episode 979

Web sites ‘keeping deleted photos’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8060407.stm

Apple Tablet in 2010
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-tablet-in-2010-2009-5

Big Content appeals Pirate Bay case--damages were too low
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/big-content-appeals-pirate-bay-casedamages-were-too-low.ars

RealDVD case: Real introduces surprise witness
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10246213-93.html

New bill wants fiber conduit built into every road project
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/new-bill-wants-fiber-conduit-built-into-every-road-project.ars

Mozilla’s Jetpack to bring next-generation add-ons
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10245934-2.html

Now Google tracking follows you out of cyberspace
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/21/google_motion_tracking/

World’s first battery fueled by air
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/21/1237231

Space station crew drinks up to recycled urine
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/21/1321248

Joke review boosts T-shirt sales
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8061031.stm

1,000th episode coming Thursday, June 18. Want to be on the episode? Post a video of yourself. MUST be less than 30 seconds long. And send a link. No attachments. Could be well-wishing, could be memories, epithets we don’t care. We’ll choose from all the messages we get and play a selection on the 1000th episode as well as post them in the Wiki.

Want to get involved in the production of the show? Find your favorite BOL moment, clip it out of the MP3, or video, and send us the moment. For video, please upload to a video hosting service and send us a link. You can also make album art for the 1,000th episode. Needs to be a 300 by 300 JPEG. E-mail either to buzz@cnet.com

Voice mail
Anonymous with a use for the compass

E-mail
Hey there buzz hosts
Yesterday tom was trying to remember the movie industries business model with relation to streaming movies, here is a link to an article that is kinda old but in the article there is a diagram that shows the convaluted nature of the model.. http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2008/06/now_showing_on_the_netflix_pla.html … Love the show..
Stephen
Charlotte, nc
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2008/06/now_showing_on_the_netflix_pla.html

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You know, when Tom said “you can send memories now and put them on Youtube”
that is not that far away, see the following link:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16267-mindreading-software-could-recor
d-your-dreams.html

(I talked about this on Futures in Biotech last week).

Dave (the psychologist)
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16267-mindreading-software-could-recor
d-your-dreams.html

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Hello Gang
If you ever get to Japan there is absolutely no way to avoid seeing clothes drying outside.
I travel by train, car, bike and on foot.
If Google lowers the camera, I believe I saw a Google van near my work place, it really won’t matter.
If you walk down the street near any apartment complex, they call them mansions here, or house YOU WILL SEE UNDIES!!!!. 20+ storied dwellings and they have clothes flying to the four corners.
You may also see the great sport of government officials stealing them for their fetishes.
Yes my UA Boxers are flapping out there among the throng.

LTS
P.S. BOL doesn’t show up in Wolfram Alpha

ej in Yokohama

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Regarding your story on how you can develop an inner compass – I went to college in Idaho and it was pretty much common knowledge that anyone who had grown up in Idaho had an internal compass. They always know where north is, even in a closed room. The reason for this is most of the towns in Idaho are set up in grid system so that to get around you constantly have to think about where north is. Having grown up in California, I still struggle with directions that reference north & etc. and find it frustrating how much people in Idaho (& other grid-based cities) assume that it is obvious.

Maybe since Jason is from Boise he also has experienced this?

Love the show!
–
Katie the Housewife/Technical Writer from Utah

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Short and sweet, our latest OC ReMix is really, really cool if you like games OR beer!

Swedish ReMixer & game composer Mattias Holmgren remixed the classic Legend of Zelda Nintendo theme using nothing but a Heineken beer bottle! Definitely check out “Zelda Heineken” from OC ReMix (including info on the creative process), and let some people know about this unique piece of work if you enjoy.

The ReMix: http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR01845/
Mattias Holmgren: http://www.morningdewmedia.com
OverClocked ReMix: http://www.ocremix.org

Thanks!

About OverClocked ReMix

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

The 3.0 version of the iPhone firmware is coming in the summer and will feature copy and paste, MMS, search, and more. All things a cheap Nokia phone can do now, but hey, the iPhone couldn't and now it can. So there. We also review the sleek new Dell Adamo and take Australia to task for a fine for hyperlinks.

EPISODE 932

Live blog: iPhone OS 3.0 preview
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10197216-37.html
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/03/16/the-iphone-os-30-announcement-scorecard/

Hands-on with the Dell Adamo
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10197525-1.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10197525-1.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4871279n

Banned hyperlinks could cost you $11,000 a day
http://www.smh.com.au/news/home/technology/banned-hyperlinks-could-cost-you-11000-a-day/2009/03/17/1237054787635.html

Comcast, Sony open retail store
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-10197316-7.html

Roku to add 10 more channels by year’s end
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10197802-1.html

Why total music purchases by Web users are still falling
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-online-music-buying-streaming-rise-but-total-music-purchases-by-web-use/

Layoffs at Nokia
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/03/17/nokia-cutting-1700-poor-souls/
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=65337&full_skip=1

Mozilla says next Firefox likely months away
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10197411-2.html

Opera Turbo
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10196982-2.html

Mental faculties decline at age 27???
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7945569.stm

Charity Smackdown
http://charitysmackdown.com/team_SU2C.html

VOICEMAIL
Dance? in Colorado
A little bit about cell towers

Josh in Denver
You don’t talk abotu Twitter too much.

E-MAIL
You talked about RIM coming out with a prepay phone and were wondering
why that might sell.

Foreign workers. One of the huge troubles in bringing in you Offshore
software guys for stints in the US is they can’t sign up for cell
phones. And a business doesn’t want unused loaner phones sitting
around. This would solve that.

Love. The. Show.
Isaac in minneapolis

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Ok, this makes the second time Natali has mentioned dropping Fios. However, what she has not mentioned is why she dropped it. As someone who is waiting for Fios to make it to my area (Internet only), I’m curious if Natali could provide me with a reason I should stick with Comcast.

Currently, I’m using Comcast for internet and uber basic cable. I would have gotten just internet, but the package with basic cable was cheaper. Go figure. Also, I’m using vonage for my phone service. And while I’m at it, after looking at Google Voice, I must say most, if not all those features are available through Vonage, and with that I get a quasi landline.

Troy
NH

While I got a little steamed at the Author's Guild, and Natali essentially admitted she's a runaway bride, the big event in this show is the possessed computer. It appears some 404 friends of guest Jeff Bakalar monkeyed with Nat's computer during the show. Unprofessional, I say! We will get to the bottom of this.

EPISODE 909

New CNET widgets
http://www.cnet.com/widgets/

Report: Sirius XM preparing to file for bankruptcy
http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/report-sirius-xm-preparing-to-file-for-bankruptcy/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10161185-93.html

Authors Guild upset with Kindle 2 speech-to-text
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10161104-93.html

Gmail knows where you are
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/new-in-labs-add-your-location-to-your.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10161264-2.html

Windows Mobile users can stream Netflix movies
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2340798,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03069TX1K0001121

Mozilla launches Fennec milestone release for Windows Mobile
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/02/mozilla-launches-fennec-milestone-release-for-windows-mobile.ars
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10161316-16.html

Mozilla joins EU case against Microsoft
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/10/1719225
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9127658

Apple to gear up for $99 iPhone
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10161368-37.htm

Get a free domain name and hosting from Microsoft
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10160295-2.html

Create your own music shop with the People’s Music Store
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/02/create-your-own-music-shop-with-the-peoples-music-store.ars

Man claims treasure found on Google Earth
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10161265-71.html

VOICE MAIL

KevMo
What to call you

Cylon Jason
404-BOL rivalry

Dan
I can solve the Netbook issue

E-MAIL
Hey JaNaTo

I have to “well actually” myself from an e-mail I sent you last Thursday. After some Portland TV stations announced on their newscasts or websites that they would still turn off analog on the 17th, now at least some (I haven’t checked on all of them) have changed their minds and will wait until June. Guess you can’t believe everything you hear on the news.

Will, the former television journalism student

Having the SD card slot on the Kindle 1 is nice for expanding storage(in
theory any way…I have never come close to needing it). But if you are just
looking for a way to transfer your content off your Kindle no SD card is
needed. Just use the included USB cable and your Kindle will show up as a
drive on your PC or Mac just like a thumb drive. All the books you
purchased are easily accessible for archiving, deleting or whatever.

I have never used the SD card slot on my Kindle 1 so I doubt I will miss it
when I upgrade to the Kindle 2.

– Anonymous (who we know to be Jim)

Hi buzz crew, regarding your story on power monitoring in iGoogle:

Monitoring power usage and turning lights off is all good, but the real energy-spender is your heating and ventilation. Even if you could, you won’t run around turning your radiators a degree or two down when you leave the room, and that’s where computerized homes become really interesting. There’s one Estonian company (that tiny country which brought Skype and cyber war to the world) called Yoga which have taken home automation “smart buildings” one step further with self-learning adapting “intelligent buildings”. Eventually your home will both read your mind’s preference about lights, temperature and mood music, and it will save you energy in the process!

Love the show, it’s a better balance than most between news and ranting analysis and comments

Best regards
CJ - the Swedish nerd in Estonia

Hey GNOTO,

Felt the need to let you know that tonight I was watching the Colbert Report and he made reference to cooking a wooly mammoth.
Natalie I thought that you might get a kick out of this.
Love the show

Tony from Kentucky

Google sync uses Microsoft ActiveSync. I think that’s the big story. With ActiveSync becoming the defacto
standard of information exchange between phones and back end systems I
think this makes Google Sync much more powerful. Google doesnt have to
work with various phones, as long as those phones support ActiveSync.
This also makes smartphones attractive to the enterprise, who mostly
run Microsoft Exchange, as well as consumers who can sync to services
like Google.

Love the show,

William in The Meadow.

G'day Buzz Crew, Josh from Australia here.

Just wanted to write and first of all provide the internet link for anyone wishing to donate to the families and towns who have lost everything in the recent Victorian fires, now dubbed Black Saturday. We lost at least three towns totally to fire, the deathtoll is climbing towards 200 and expected to jump up over 300, and over a thousand homes have been lost.

http://www.redcross.org.au/vic/services_emergencyservices_victorian-bushfires-appeal-2009.htm

However I also wanted to personally make a shout out to phatemokid, who Twittered me and asked how I personally was going, and who donated to the Red Cross Bushfire appeal. Thankfully I can only see the smoke, not actual fire, living in suburbia as I do. But watching the news and knowing people in the region who may or may not be alive has been tough on many of us, and has often brought tears to our eyes.

So thank you to all those who have prayed for us, thought of us, and wished us well as you did at the end of yesterday's episode. It means the world to know that people across the planet are thinking of us.

Side note, I was bored and thought I'd trundle through the Buzz Wiki, and found that - if I remember my first (BOL) time correctly - I've been listening since episode 239, May 31, 2006. Needless to say, I love the show.

Cheers,
Joshua S. Hill

In today's show, we find out that the demise of humanity is imminent (or that all of our robot mythology is fundamentally rooted in self-hatred), the RIM BlackBerry Storm takes the world by drizzle, and Microsoft hopes that actually giving you songs will convince you to buy a Zune. Oh, and we don't care about Yahoo Glue. In case you were wondering.

EPISODE 857

RIM BlackBerry Storm arrives
http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/rim-blackberry-storm-verizon/4505-6452_7-33311850.html

Meet the first multitouch consumer laptop: HP’s TouchSmart tx2
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10102285-1.html

Mozilla revenue $75 million in 2007, up 12 percent
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081119-mozilla-revenue-75-million-in-2007-up-12-percent.html
http://www.download.com/8301-2007_4-10102627-12.html

Microsoft, labels try to revive subscriptions
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10102846-56.html
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12519_7-10103777-49.html

Sources: Apple, music labels talk DRM-free songs
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10102414-93.html

Web debut for Guns N’ Roses album
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7739133.stm

Yahoo brings its Glue to the U.S.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10103776-93.html

Hey, remember Lively, Google’s Second Life, yeah, me neither. It’s gone.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/lively-no-more.html

Samsung launches 256GB solid-state drive
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10103645-64.html

IBM gets DARPA cognitive computing contract
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10103355-52.html

VOICEMAIL
Lee the exhaust guy: swarming with e-books

Daniel: MMS on the iPhone
http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/20/mobispines-iphone-mms-application-for-the-entire-universe/
Mobispine press release: http://www2.mobispine.com/press/readpress.dot?inode=4568

E-MAIL

Hello Buzz crew. Like many others, I downloaded the Xbox New
Experience update last night, wasted about 20 minutes tweaking my
avatar so I don’t look like a punk kid, upgraded to LIVE Gold, and
made a beeline for the Netflix player. Microsoft and Neflix have
provided an amazing service to Netflix subscribers. It’s a little
disappointing that you can only browse titles in your Instant Queue,
but the interface is slick and easy to use. I selected an episode from
the (otherwise disappointing) current season of Heroes. Within
seconds, I was watching the smooth playback in high definition. You
can scan forward and backward through the video using a coverflow-like
view that shows thumbnails from the show.

The only downside was that I had to switch to my TiVo to order pizza.
If the Xbox Netflix viewer is anything like what we can expect to see
from TiVo, then bring it on. Can you imagine Pizza AND Netflix in one
UI? Now THAT’s a great user experience.

- Richard
Washington, D.C.

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Hey JaMoTo and the extra crew member!

Looks like we’re not immune from the big media companies as much as you are in the States. According to The Age…

The Australian film and television industry has launched a major legal action against one of Australia’s largest Internet service providers for allegedly allowing its users to download pirated movies and TV shows.

The action against iiNet was filed in the Federal Court today by Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, Disney and the Seven Network.

(Source: http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/biztech/film-pirates-put-iinet-in-the-dock/2008/11/20/1226770617457.html)

The interesting thing is, the Seven Network is in this suite. For those who don’t know, we have 3 major commercial television networks, namely the Seven Network, Nine Network and Network Ten. The last 2, offer Australians on-demand downloading of their shows on their website, and the Nine Network themselves have locally produced shows on the iTunes store. So why is the Seven Network resorting to suing when they could just easily join the other two networks by providing Australians more legal alternatives to the torrents? This goes for the other companies in the suit. If they really want to kerb illegal downloading, why don’t they open some US-exclusive options like Hulu to the Australian audience? You guys (maybe it was The 404, I can’t remember, haha!) said yourself that Hulu’s catching up to YouTube in terms of revenue.

It’s great to be an iiNet customer at this stage too. First the trial of the internet filter, now this from the entertainment industry. I’m with iiNet myself, so it’ll be interesting what’s to come.

Love the show guys!

Cheers!

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Mark

For the teacher and others who are having problems with HDCP issues there
are HD Strippers that are adapters or boxes that they themselves are HDCP
compliant and then pass through the signal without the HDCP DRM. a famous
example is the HDFury:

http://www.hdfury.com/

Robert Clark
Prince Albert,SK

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A hobo is a traveling homeless person who takes work when they can get
it. A tramp is a traveling homeless person who does not work.

Hobos are also governed by a code of ethics, have a duly appointed hobo
king, and a rich hobo-only written language based on a series of
pictographic symbols and codes which they used to communicate things
such as marking a good place to sleep, where you can find someone
willing to give you food, and what towns have cops that will beat the
crap out of you.

So I think Tom will be doing a decent service by launching a hobo social
site. I would give it a square missing it’s top line.

–Keith from New York, not a hobo

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JaMoTo,

I just wanted to take a quick moment to ask that you recognize the BOL chat room moderators on the show as they do an absolutely fantastic job of making the chat extremely user friendly and pleasant.

I’m sure you guys are generally too busy either getting ready for, or actually executing, the show to really notice how hard they work at helping new users along and just generally making everyone feel comfortable within the community.

I’d list them all by name but I fear that I would forget someone and feel terrible about that - suffice it to say that if someone has a gold star next to their name they are nothing short of awesome personified.

Not as anonymous as I used to be,
Snit

There's a new smartphone from LG called the Cookie. It has a little more juice than the Palm Centro. But Natali doesn't like juice in her cookies. But that doesn't mean she doesn't like this smart phone. We also cover the new mobile browsers and Apple's attack ads against Microsoft.

Listen now: Download today's podcast

EPISODE 834

Mozilla launches mobile browser
http://virgintech.blogspot.com/2008/10/mozilla-for-mobile-fennec.html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081020-hands-on-fennec-alpha-1-puts-firefox-on-your-handheld.html

Opera launches mobile version 9.5 for Symbian
http://www.intomobile.com/2008/10/20/opera-mobile-95-beta-now-available-for-symbian-uiq3-too.html

Delay of 'Little Big Planet' due to Quran
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10069678-1.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7679151.stm

Microsoft gets patent for real-time f-bomb bleeping
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081020-microsoft-gets-patent-for-real-time-f-bomb-bleeping.html

Record label infringes own copyright, site pulled
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/19/2136213

Microsoft aiming to expand touch screen beyond the Surface
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10069105-56.html

Apple campaign attacking Microsoft’s ad spending
http://gizmodo.com/5065783/new-im-a-mac-ads-stop-attacking-vista-start-attacking-microsofts-marketing

Lawsuit between Apple and Psystar moves toward settlement
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/19/1511231

Panasonic has the smallest notebook fuel cell
http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/10/20/panasonic-develops-worlds-smallest-notebook-fuel-cell/

LG’s new touch-screen phone called the Cookie
http://gizmodo.com/5065769/lgs-kp500-touchscreen-smartphone-gets-cookie-codename-low-pricing

Number of ET Civilizations in our galaxy is 37,964
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/20/1230207

VOICE MAIL

Anonymous
The most popular video service.

E-MAIL
Morning BOL.

Just a quick note that I thought your listeners would enjoy.

Sony updated the PS3’s firmware last night. It now supports Flash 9.

Which means, I now have Hulu on my TV.

Sweet.

love the show,
Brian in LA

First of all for all those buzzards out there who hate the iGoogle sidebar, I wrote a small script that removes it: http://www.tekpizza.com/2008/10/remove-igoogle-side-bar.html

Paul

Dear JaMoTo,

Congratulations on your nomination in the Technology/Science category of the Podcast Awards. Be sure to get the citizens of BuzzTown to vote for you daily — beginning Oct. 23 — at PodcastAwards.com.

Since you aren’t nominated in my category (comedy), I feel I can wish you the best of luck!

Love the show.

Clinton

After the release of the new Apple notebooks this week and no announcement to support Blu-Ray. It got me thinking….

What would really prevent them from wanting to add support? I reference the “Security Now” podcasts with our friends Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson, specifically episodes 73, 74. They discuss the addition of AACS DRM in in Vista.

In those episodes they go into the hoops and difficulty engineering the high system overhead DRM that Microsoft had to write into Vista to placate the MPAA. Basically, a LOT of code had to be written so that users could not easily copy HDVD (dead), or Blu-Ray content. Not much is said about the amount of processor and system overhead AACS creates but I bet it is a good reason why Vista was slow to market.

My guess is that Steve and the gang at Cupertino really don’t want to completely engineer and insert more buggy, imposed DRM functionality into OS X. It would mean more than just a 10.5.6 update. And a lot of their existing hardware out there would be incompatible.

Love the show!

Randy from Albuquerque, formerly Boise (Go Broncos!), formerly of Missoula (Go Griz!)

Hello JaMoTo+1!

Mike “TheBusyBrain” from St. Petersburg, Fl. here with a realization which I think may cure your cravings for an “In Transit” Voicemail mode that you guys have spoke a good bit about within the last few BOL shows. This only works for the iPhone… (No hacks needed!)

http://blog.thebusybrain.com/making-good-use-of-the-iphones-custom-greeting-feature/133

Molly, hopefully this will help keep your calling-while-driving temptations at bay!

“LTS!”

Mike J
“TheBusyBrain”

Tom couldn't decide whether to go with the "marginalized whackjob" wall paint, or just get a marginalized whackjob fringe. Vote? In other news of the day, the McCain campaign discovers that the DMCA can be ANNOYING! Maybe they'll do something about it once they're back in politics-land! Also, EA says no one cares about DRM except an organized online cabal. We know how well that attitude worked out for the music industry.

Listen now: Download today's podcast

EPISODE 831

McCain campaign complains about takedown notice procedure
http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/1795
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081014-mccainpalin-campaign-angry-over-bogus-dmca-takedowns.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10066510-38.html

YouTube says: no special treatment
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10066738-38.html

99.8% of gamers don’t care about DRM, says EA
http://games.slashdot.org/games/08/10/15/1525259.shtml

Worldwide PC market grew 15 percent in third quarter of 2008
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=777613

YouTube passes yahoo as #2 search engine
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/14/1645227

First look: Firefox 3.1 beta 1 officially released
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081014-first-look-firefox-3-1-beta-1-officially-released.html

Software blocks car phone users
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7669533.stm

SanDisk releases $20 slotMusic Player, dozens of SD card albums
http://gizmodo.com/5063564/sandisk-releases-20-slotmusic-player-dozens-of-sd-card-albums

Amazon, EA, Microsoft, others win ‘Popular Mechanics’ Breakthrough Awards
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10066453-52.html

Banjo used in rain surgery
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/14/1945249

VOICEMAIL
Anonymous: Why with the MacBook Pro!? Why!?

E-MAIL

I’m still a day behind, so I just finished episode 830. Molly, you keep griping about this flash bug; I used to get it too, but no more. The solution is simple: Flashblock (http://flashblock.mozdev.org/). Flash items are not loaded, and are replaced with a little play button, allowing you to load selectively, so you never have enough flash things open to cause them all to break. It also ends up speeding up page load time, and you never have to see that annoying dancing person on the “mortgage rates” ad ever again.

Love the show!

-Anthony
Dallas, TX

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Totally disagree w/ your assessment. We have one Blu-ray player and several DVD players. Providing a DVD copy for the minivan, either of the kids’ rooms, and any of our computers is brilliant. I don’t want the kids handling the BD Disk b/c I’ve seen what they do to the DVD’s. Also, it allows my sister-in-law to borrow a movie, which she can’t whenever we only have it in Blu-ray.

Joe in WI

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Hi all of you,

I was checking out the new MacBook Pro on the American page of Apple
to see the specs and everything. http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html
Then I went the the Swiss page to check the price and… boom 30 minutes of
the battery life of the Mac Book vanished, only 4.5 hours. Then I went
back to the American site: 5 hours.
All the other specs are the same and everything except for the battery
life… strange

Pierre from Switzerland (Yes, I live nearby the CERN.)

P.S. could you send me a MacBook Pro from the USA with the 5 hours battery
life?

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Hola Buzz Brigade,

You guys have probably read that Sony has pushed out it’s latest firmware for the PS3. Some of the features include additional support for trophies and the ability to set a sleeper shutdown for the controllers (which is so freakin’ BOSS!). But the other “coolerer” feature that they didn’t mention during their original announcement is that Flash 9 was also included. Which mean now I can watch Hulu directly from the PS3 browser without having to use a third party app to stream it to my PS3 via XNLA. This is a great bonus.

Amazon on Demand doesn’t appear to work but I’ll take one win where I can. Besides, the PSN video store is pretty freakin’ huge and keeps growing by hundreds of titles each week.

Just thought I’d let you know.

Love the show (except when Molly rants on the PS3–such a lame 360 fanboi )

Tim

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Hey guys,
Just a “well actually.” The DisplayPort is actually a new industry standard. It’s not created by Apple. Dell started using it before Apple did, in fact. It’s supposed to be better in performance than DVI, not to mention plug in better than DVI ports.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Displayport

OK, fine, so maybe the “Mini DisplayPort” is a proprietary version of the normal DisplayPort.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_DisplayPort

They like to “improve” existing technology.

Oh, and you’ll probably know this by now, but the 9400M and the 9600M are not options. They’re BOTH found in the MacBook Pro. You get to switch between them to decide between battery life and performance.

Daniel from Singapore.

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FROM THE FORUMS — TOLLIE:
Here’s what I was hoping you’d amend/correct from your reporting yesterday: DisplayPort--not proprietary, VESA standard, will be Apple-wide, also backed by Dell, HP, Intel, et al… and Aluminum MacBooks have no firewire--Apple is bumping Firewire off the consumer line… Trackpad takes away a button, but you can now define TWO button regions (i.e. a right-click area). Hopefully not as dumb as the Mighty Mouse.

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Hey BOL crew, you said you wanted to try talking to the robots pretending to be humans online. Well actually, you can. http://elbot.com (press the red button)

I’m not sure if it’s exactly the same Elbot as in the test, because this has been on the Internet for quite a while.

Thanks for the great podcast ,
Keelin

Stuck with a stinky new Mac Pro? Good news: it might be toxic! (No proof of toxicity has been determined.) Also, Tom Merritt reveals himself to be a ruthless murderer of Firefox downloads. And the state of Pennsylvania takes it upon itself to make the streets safer by making old people smarter. Love it!
Listen now: Download today's podcast

EPISODE 822

Nintendo officially unveils Nintendo DSi and online store, coming Nov 1 in Japan for $180
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081002-nintendo-shows-off-new-dsi-with-camera-app-store.html
http://kotaku.com/5057870/nintendo-announce-new-ds-the-nintendo-dsi

Toxic fumes from Mac Pros?
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/02/1223203
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=962025&tstart=0
http://www.macworld.com/article/135835/2008/10/macpro_benzene.html

Microsoft will soon release ‘Windows Cloud’ OS, Ballmer says
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9115978

75 percent of all Firefox downloads go dead, reveals Mozilla
http://news.softpedia.com/news/75-of-All-Firefox-Downloads-Go-Dead-94681.shtml

… launches contest to get users to use it
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10056668-16.html

SlingMedia prepares to launch video portal at Sling.com
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/01/slingmedia-prepares-to-launch-their-video-portal-at-slingcom/

Hackers clone Elvis’ passport
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/02/0242214

Sysadmin steals almost 20,000 pieces of computer equipment
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/02/0246203

Drivers may get insurance breaks for playing computer games
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/10/01/older.drivers.videogames.ap/index.html

Daylight saving time shift to cause phone havoc Down Under
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/10/02/telstra_daylight_savings/

VOICE MAIL
Matt: Netflix took away my Heroes!

FORUMS

U.S. government can’t get e-mail
by buildakicker - 10/1/08 8:37 AM

I am a Web manager for the Forest Service. You are TOO right when you say they cannot handle the traffic. Just so you understand, I still do not have a database driven Web site. Everything I do is static or XML based. It’s crazy. They are in the 1990’s with this whole deal. They just don’t get it. Many people that aren’t into it, don’t get it.
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6035_102-0.html?forumID=97&threadID=310622

E-MAIL

OK guys, I am sick and tired of the ladies having to call in and defend me. I own a white Eee 701, with no hacks or modifications besides adding the full desktop version of the preinstalled OS. And guess what? I am manly enough to realize that it’s form factor is perfect for most casual Web surfing and e-mail. I have a quad-core desktop that rarely gets used, because sitting on the couch with a beer watching football is easier and more comfortable with a Netbook than any of my other computers.

I don’t often disagree with you guys, but seriously,
Netbooks are not the one-size-fits-all that you want it to be. It is a computer that specializes in Web based activities and is very portable--nothing more and nothing less.

Chris the attorney in DC

PS - the pearl white IS kinda girly…

With all the chatter around Real DVD… I thought I should point out another similar product, who has taken the Kaleidescape approach. Dull out of my skull I found Drive-in for Mac OS X 10.4+ for PPC and Intel and essentially does the full copy leaving the CSS in-place while adding a second encryption.

The FAQ states:
Is Drive-In legal?
Under license by the DVD CCA and DVD FLLC, Drive-in creates an image that is an exact duplicate of the information that is on the owner’s original DVD disc, thus preserving original content protection. In addition, Drive-in locks the software to the owner’s computer and locks the images to the software. Drive-in allows users to play movie images on computers that they own, but it does not allow users to share their images with others.

I do wonder why a small company was able acquire the relevant licenses while real was shut out. Oh one last thing… if you want to find the product on the interconnected tubs we call a web, just feel luck with google using the term “Drive-in”
Jason M.

Calling Real DVD “Steal DVD” is pretty humorous. In fact, it’s kind of like calling someone a name on the playground a name that rhymes with their name. You know like Jason the Mason or Molly the Trolley or Tom the Mom. I think the MPAA should change its name to the Mad Pirates Association of America.

Matt

Hey Buzz crew,

I just wanted to give you an update. Podcaster is now available via Cydia on jailbroken iPhones. Just as a side note, I jailbroke my iPhone for the first time and it took about 4 minutes. Left all my icons and preferences untouched and gave me 2 additional App Store alternatives. Why would you NOT want to do this. Now I have all the apps I ever wanted. Good job jailbreak community.

Alex S.
Podcaster Developer

Hey Buzz Crew, this is Gregg from Seattle

I’m responding to your comments about Live Search on episode 821.

The statements were made about whether Microsoft should even be in the search business, whether this is a battle they should actually pick …
because Google is the clear winner and a better search engine.

My question is this: What is the alternative? That Google become the only search engine? With all the flack I hear you give Google about privacy concerns, and jokes about Google’s “New World Order”, is that the world we want to live in?

And who is going to keep Google from being the big-brother, world-dominating, privacy-invading monster? Is it Yahoo? I certainly don’t hear you say good things about their business model and management acumen.

The way I see it is here you have a solid, player (Microsoft) with the resources and the ability to keep Google from becoming the only choice, with a solid product (Live Search). I've used Live Search for 2 years and I find it works great. It's a good product. Maybe it doesn't work as well in all places, but it has a lot of great features. And Microsoft is investing (a lot) into making it better.

So why are we razzing Microsoft about being a decent contender as an internet search provider. Isn't that what free market is all about.
Doesn't this competition mean better products for our customers? Isn't this all a good thing?

My take: "Go Microsoft! It just means better products for everyone!"

Love the show,

Gregg

on the Buzz Town Wiki, I have created, The Buzz Out Loud Dictionary, witch can be used to put in the words that are frequently used on Buzz Out Loud but are not dictionary words. The dictionary can be found here
http://buzzoutloud.wikia.com/wiki/The_Buzz_Out_Loud_Dictionary

Love the show

lightningboy7