We get tricked into supporting Robot teams we don't know anything about, plus we talk about Pluto's pimps, also known as the Illinois Assembly. And speaking of pimps, Cook County Sheriff's are trying to get Craigslist to stop helping prostitutes. Thank goodness Veronica was here to set them straight.
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EPISODE 925 |
Sheriff files lawsuit over Craigslist’s red-light district (Updated)
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/sheriff-sues-craigslist-over-mass-levels-of-prostitution.ars
Seattle paper may shift to online-only: reports
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2009/03/reuters_us_hearst_pi
Palm investor: Pre will trump iPhone
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=13994
Alternate iPhone app stores being launched
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123629876097346481.html
Portland nonresidents rejoice: Clearwire’s WiMAX service to expand to major markets this year
http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/06/portland-non-residents-rejoice-clearwires-wimax-service-to-exp/
Fox to strip extras from rental DVDs
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10189988-1.html
Hulu content returns to Boxee in a different form
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10190493-2.html
Google, Universal in talks to create MTV Music competitor
http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/03/google-in-talks-with-universal-for-music-video-spinoff-site.ars
Blackout Ireland rallies support against P2P disconnections
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/03/blackout-ireland-rallies-support-against-p2p-disconnections.ars
Al Gore backs environmental top-level domain
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10190119-38.html?
Illinois declares Pluto a planet
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/06/0436206
VOICEMAIL
Anonymous
Questions about Zillion TV
Ernie from East Bay
One more detail about Intel and TSMC
E-MAIL
Hey guys - Obama said he still plans to hire a CTO and that the forthcoming CTO will work with Kundra, the federal CIO. The CIO will work more on operations (infrastructure and personnel) and the CTO will focus on strategy and policy. For more on the difference between the roles of CIO and CTO, take a look here:
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=853
So Padmasree Warrior is still alive for CTO! (I’m rooting for her, too) - Jason Hiner
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Hey,
You’ve probably heard about a town in France called “Eu” that wants to change it’s name because it doesn’t show up in search results.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article5799368.ece
What I really find interesting is what happened after this story hit the web: http://www.google.com/search?q=eu+town
Cheers,
Adrian, the student from Romania
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Hey Buzz Crew,
I’m a relatively new listener (only a hundred episodes or so) and I’m not sure if you’ve covered this already, but there is a great program that I am part of called FIRST Robotics. Basically its a program for high school students where we build robots and collaborate with engineer mentors. (FIRST=For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology)
Here’s the site http://usfirst.org/
Also, if you read this email, I just want to say…GO TEAM RUSH 27! Good luck at Kettering!
Insert ‘Love the show’ here,
Patrick the robotics dude
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T.V. Raman and Charles Chen are two Google employees who are working on solutions which allow blind persons to use Android devices including new touch screen input and speech/tactile output methods. This makes eyes-free phone usage possible. This link will take you to a page where you can find some links, including one to a New York Times article that discusses this topic.
http://blind.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Letter_Initiative#Android_Accessibility
Keep up the great work.
Dan
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Hey Buzz Crew,
I’ve got a little bit of a rant to get off my chest. In episode #923 one of you implied that dsl is slower than cable, thus streaming would be worse. This drives me nuts!! It may be true that in larger cities, cable options are much faster than dsl options, but I live in a small city in a more rual area, and the dsl speeds avalible are faster than cable speeds! Not only that, but they are quite a bit cheaper too! I have a 7.1 mb dsl connection, and the default cable connection is 6 mb. Just something to think on.
Derek the small town IT Pro
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Episode 844 |
Intel Core i7 chip reviews arrive–yes, it’s fast
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10080831-64.html
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/03/1324208
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081103-intel-lifts-curtain-on-nehalem-performance-hint-its-fast.html
Windows 7 ‘pre-beta’ washes up on Pirate Bay and co
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/03/windows_7_pre_beta_bittorrent/
Windows 7 to be 256-core aware
http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/11/02/0130253.shtml
Inside Windows 7’s new desktop
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10080417-56.html
Circuit City to close 155 stores
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10080934-92.html
Behind the Cogent-Sprint depeering
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/03/0143239
U.S. court throws out most software patents
http://www.itexaminer.com/us-court-throws-out-most-software-patents.aspx
MySpace and MTV monetize pirated content With Auditude
http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/11/myspace-and-mtv.html
Amazon takes a stand to eliminate wasteful, hard-to-open gadget packaging
http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/03/amazon-takes-a-stand-to-eliminate-wasteful-hard-to-open-gadget/
Technology voter guide
http://news.cnet.com/2009-1040-6247428.html
Space litter to hit Earth tomorrow
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/01/2010247
Voice mail
Tommy in Kingston - CueCat User
Mike in Mansfield - Problem with DTV converter box
Shane in Vegas - Chrome advertising returns
E-mail
After you install the leaked beta version of Windows 7 takes exactly 7.01 GB of space and BTW uses less memory 350MB RAM iddle after installation and 500 with 10 tabs of firefox open and a virus scan with Avst at the same time.
Allex from Romania
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On show 842, last caller mention decentralizing torrent server doesn’t
help anyone other than pirates. Well, as a Chinese I can tell you the
closest thing to “freedom of speech in china” is torrent. It bypass
the great firewall of china. And once torrent servers are
decentralized the cost of censorship will start to out-weight it’s
merits.
This is one of the reason why tech-savvy Chinese cringe when a
journalist claim “there is no free speech in china”. I mean, if they
don’t go to illegal downloading sites. How are they going to see
illegal free-speeches?
really, really love the show
J.Chen, the immigrant
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Yo buzz crew,
I was disappointed to see that you did not cover the rather large news of Ubuntu 8.10 coming out this past week, the newest version of the worlds most popular Linux distribution. I was sure you would mention it, if only so you could play the Linux chaser theme tune.
I have come to terms with the fact that you are obviously freedom haters who don’t want to give open source software like Ubuntu it’s due, but come on, at least play the linux theme tune. You know you want to.
James
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I am tired of hearing physical media is dead and Blu-ray is going nowhere. And I mean that in a polite way, I don’t like how tone can come across in an email.
Amazon isn’t the end-all be-all, but it is a good trend tracker….
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/electronics/172514/ref=pd_ts_e_nav
This top 25 list of DVD players show the top 5 sellers are Blu-ray players.
3rd Best selling electronic item overall is a Blu-ray player.
Prices will come down to meet a decent up-converting player, so people that want a bit better DVD player obviously is just getting a Blu-ray.
So many people don’t have broadband, don’t even know they can get shows on TV, they only know about youtube.
Blu-ray definitely has some life in it. I love digital distribution, but it has a LONG way to go to even hit the mainstream, and longer to supplany physical media.
Just my two cents.
Erick soon to be from Manhattan Beach
Google has joined the OpenID crowd, but just like Microsoft and Yahoo, you can't use the OpenID on Google, but you can use Google credentials other places. Unlike Microsoft and Yahoo though, Google has decided to tweak the OpenID implementation a little to make it better. That means that it's nonstandard and won't work for all standards-compliant OpenID servers. Bullies. We also admire the new DRM-free music store from clothing retailer, Hot Topic. Really.
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Episode 842 |
TiVo to stream Netflix
http://newteevee.com/2008/10/29/october-surprise-tivo-to-stream-netflix/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10078711-1.html
MTV and Apple announce Beatles music project
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/30/rock-band-the-beatles-now-official/
Motorola: No Google Android ‘GPhones’ til next christmas
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/motorola-no-google-android-gphones-til-next-christmas
OpenMoko working up Android-based handset?
http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/openmoko-working-up-android-based-handset/
Hands on: Windows Media Player 12’s surprising new features
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081030-hands-on-windows-media-player-12s-surprising-new-features.html
Court rules hash analysis is a Fourth Amendment “search”
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081029-court-rules-hash-analysis-is-a-fourth-amendment-search.html
Google abandons standards, forks OpenID
http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/google-doesnt-use-openid/
http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/10/29/2043218.shtml
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081029-openid-being-balkanized-even-as-google-microsoft-sign-on.html
Study shows social networking at work is good
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/29/2212254
Hot Topic launches DRM-free music service
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10078414-2.html
USB Port is neither USB nor Port, just amazing
http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/30/usb-port-is-neither-usb-nor-port-just-amazing/
Voice mail
Shane in Vegas - iPhone firmware 2.2’s nifty new feature
http://www.iphonehacks.com/2008/10/downloadpodcast.html#more
Erin in New York - You know who else uses wireless mics
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081029-rockers-refuse-to-throw-the-horns-for-white-space-broadband.html
James Irvine - Decentralized search
E-mail
Hey Buzz Crew
Just thought I’d let you know there is a hybrid F-150 in the works saw it on auto blog and I’ve tried the RFID package at the Chicago auto show and it is SWEET asked them how much the RFID’s cost $. 25 but you have to buy them in packs
Love the show
Tristan
P.S.thought you might find it cool that As an aerospace welder our shop has been working on an X prize rocket I’d give you more details but I can’t
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Hi Buzz Crew,
I know you guys don’t like it and maybe you think its stupid but I will admit it: Google Goggles is a good thing. When I heard about it on your podcast I immediate activated it for my main Gmail account. I keep it on level one but I know sometimes when I am really drunk I can’t even do those simple calculations on my calculator that is right next to my computer.
So maybe people won’t admit it but I will. Sometimes I send out stupid (drunk) emails. (To bad this isn’t used on my phone too 
You guys have always said that Google doesn’t do anything stupid (non-productive). Believe me people will use it, even if they don’t admit it.
For those of us who like the service,
Thurman
Brooklyn, NY
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In response to the caller's question on Episode 841 "What use is Google Earth"? - I work at an architecture firm in Dallas, TX, and we use Google Earth to place 3D models of client projects (created in Google SketchUp) into their actual location during the design process. This allows us to present our designs to our clients in a 3D format that they can manipulate from their own computers. This also has the added benefit of populating Google Earth with a few more 3D buildings for the people who just use it to look at stuff. There's my two cents - Love the show!
Chase
--Tom
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EPISODE 673 |
Sanity prevails: IE8 will default to standard-compliant mode
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/
20080303-sanity-prevails-ie8-will-default-to-standard-compliant-mode.html
http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9884688-56.html
Survey: Warnings from ISPs could slash file-swapping by 70 percent
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/
20080303-survey-warnings-from-isps-could-slash-file-swapping-by-70.html
Nokia to bring Microsoft Silverlight-powered experiences to millions of mobile users
http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1197788
Official Google Mobile Blog: Shifting Google Gears to mobile
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2008/03/shifting-google-gears-to-mobile.html
What price, Scrabulous? Mergers, acquisitions, venture capital, hedge funds http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/ scrabulous-founders-look-to-score-big-report-says/?hp
Microsoft offers $100K to testers of Office Live workspace
http://www.nytimes.com/idg/IDG_002570DE00740E1800257402000312F0.html
Ranking corporate America on identity theft
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/ranking-corporate-america-on-identity-theft/
Movie studios could be behind missing iTunes rentals
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/03/04/
movie-studios-could-be-behind-missing-itunes-rentals
Daylight Saving wastes energy, study says
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/
SB120406767043794825-UOLcfJA8×9Gw9ozbCz77MiLmtaE_20080327.html
Do coat hangers sound as good as Monster cables?
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/03/do-coat-hangers-soun.html
MySpace gets its own MTV show, but only in the U.K.
http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9884700-36.html
Cyber-goggles: Record and identify every object you see
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/03/2117250
VOICE MAIL
Alex Columbus
Why nobody’s got paid from Napster settlement.
Jared Omaha
How come I can’t record?
Alex? iPhone
Price cut.
Where’s Stage 6?
Hey Buzz team,
I had to catch up on the episodes from Tuesday of last week up until Monday...of today. And was extremely sad that there was absolutely no mention on the shut down of the highly beloved Stage 6. It was really a boundary pushing Web site, which actually offered hi-def uploading, free of cost when no one else did. It was awesome, and the DivX player is the best video watchy thing, hands down.
I understand, that if with the death of Netscape and HD-DVD, maybe it was just too morbid to talk about it.
Ajay from Ontario.
Mind you, I might have just missed it, and sorry if I did.
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Vista cracked by Iraqis
Hey Buzz crew
On Episode 672 of Buzz Out Loud you were talking about the “new way” of activating Windows Vista. Just to make things clear, I did pay for my copy of Windows.
I’m around a lot of Iraqi Interpreters that the Marine Corps hires to work for us, and sometimes they ask me to fix their computers. One Iraqi I met showed me how he had activated and fully updated the copy of Vista on his computer, using the same method described by the Pantheon group.
I don’t know if they managed to get an early crack from them, or somehow they have set up their own “Crack Group” out here in the Middle East. But the computer I saw was cracked about a month before the Pantheon release.
I just wanted to ask what your thoughts are on this.
Thanks for the podcast
Dusty (Cpl Parra, Manuel) in Ramadi, Iraq
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Bootable flash key makes disk encryption attacks super-simple
Hey guys, this is Adam the Grad Student from Miami. Thought this was in interesting article about encryption, easier than air canisters. (Yay, first mail sent!)
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/04/ bootable-flash-key-makes-disk-encryption-attacks-super-simple/
Adam the Grad Student
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Another U.S. government effort to unregister a domain name
Thought you might be interested in this.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/us/04bar.html?hp
“Steve Marshall is an English travel agent. He lives in Spain, and he sells trips to Europeans who want to go to sunny places, including Cuba. In October, about 80 of his Web sites stopped working, thanks to the United States government.”
Now the U.S. federal government is unregistering domain names — without a judicial say so. I’m outraged. But someone else’s feeling might depend on how they feel about the embargo.
thanks,
New England Kent
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OMG I’m using WiMAX!!
Hey JAMOTO
Longtime listener first time writer
I just moved to Denmark for work and my company was very nice to rent me an apartment. I get settled in and find a regular box with an Ethernet cable coming out of it. So i plug my PC and voila, I'm on the Web. However I realize there is no other cables plugged to the box! (Except for power.) I went online and looked for the ISP that provides the box.
So the box transforms the WiMAX signal to regular old Ethernet.
I feel sooo avant-garde
Buzz out loud j’ adore 
Love
Jean-Philippe
PS
The name of the company?
clearwire
http://www.clearwire.com or .dk for denmark
--Molly
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EPISODE 651 |
How we all die and become zombies.
Here's something about eBay.
FCC auction.
Hey Buzz crew,
Long time listener, but inactive responder as I am always listening to the previous day's podcast on my morning commute. I can't even pause and call on the cell phone while driving, (not that I would, of course) because I am already the proverbial day late and dollar short.
So, this isn't in response to anything particular from a show, just a story from TechDirt on yet another salvo in the Culture of Ownership wars (see link and excerpt below).
Heh (not LOL)--maybe you already talked about it today.
BTW: After fixing Netizen usage of "its" and "it's", could you please do something about "loose" and "lose." Arghhh!
Love the show, love the rants!
Best,
Bob in New Jersey
In regards to the story in episode 650 about U2. My question is, if U2 should be held to the same standards for any criminal activity that occurs at their concerts? Should they have to collect and provide lists of concert-goers, track activity, and be held responsible for any illegal activity that might occur at their concerts?
'Nuff said.
Darrin in New York
Hi Jason, Molly, Tom (thought I would shake up the order),
I am writing concerning my fellow countryman, Paul McGuinness and his comments on ISPs, episode 650. I think he is totally disingenuous, he rants about ISPs destroying music. I totally agree that to compel ISPs to introduce mandatory service disconnections to end unauthorized downloading, is total madness.
He specifically accused companies such as Apple, Google, and Facebook of building "multibillion dollar industries on the back of our content without paying for it". Could that be because he could then sue the world's richest men for a lot more money to stick in his Dutch U2 bank account now, would it Paul? These comments are rich, forgive the pun, considering this same individual and his band U2, moved their finances-- Euro 690 million, to evade Euro 15 million in taxes. Why then should the average individual concern themselves over huge businesses that abuse our tax systems, to ensure their ability to buy bigger silver spoons? Boo hoo hoo Paul, Bono etc.
Paul wants to "shift the focus of moral pressure away from the individual P2P thief and on to the multibillion dollar industries that benefit from these tiny crimes." Also, could this be the same individual who signed a multimillion dollar deal with Apple back in 2004 on behalf of U2 so that they would help promote the iPod with the sale of their own limited edition versions.
I totally agree with you, Tom and Molly, that no business should have to support another business.
Anyway great show, listen all the time for about a year, great to distract me at work.
Cheers,
Mike
Hey Buzzards, Ankh in Dublin here.
In episode 650 you played a call from someone who had listened to two Zune users hooking up on the back of a bus. Well, I have trumps on that one: Last night an attractive girl sat beside me on the DART; she seemed to be crying, so I set about trying to cheer her up. I whipped out my HP tx1000, snapped it into tablet mode and we drew some silly pictures together.
She cheered up. Mission complete!
-Keep up the good work. and tell that Merritt to expect an angry e-mail from me soon.
Ankwatcher
Hey BOL crew,
I'm in the army, so I only download episodes over the weekend and listen to them over a week, so forgive me for being slow on this one.
Anyway, on episode 648, Tom was responding to the e-mail from the guy from Thailand who sees iPhones everywhere, mentioning that "if Thailand has that many, you gotta figure Singapore..." would have them selling everywhere too.
Well actually, a few weeks ago, Apple sent letters to every Singapore retailer selling unlocked iPhones telling them that it is illegal to do so and that they will fine them $1,000 (not sure U.S. or Singapore dollars) per iPhone they sell! (I may be wrong about the price, it's on iLounge.com. Their mobile version only goes so far back.)
I think they said something about copyright infringement, because you pay for the license to use but not modify the phone. Can't really remember. I asked people in the industry about this and they said some guy here signed Singapore up for a stricter DMCA that doesn't allow unlocking. We've never heard of subsidy locks before the iPhone, you see. It's illegal for carriers to lock phones here. So the only iPhones around here are either purchased before Apple stepped in or are doing it in the dark. Yeah. As if not bringing the iTunes store here wasn't bad enough.
Just thought I'd throw in that "well actually."
Oh, and really love the show, been listening before Veronica was on board. :)
Dan the Singapore podcaster
P.S. I love the newsletter 'cos I can't get to the BOL blog while at work (well, I could, but my phone's browser won't load it properly), so I rely on reading them in my Gmail mobile from my Nokia E61 when I'm in my army camp. In fact, sometimes I read them instead of listening to the show 'cos I've collected too much backlot over the weekend, and there's no time to listen during the weekdays.
Hey Jason, or China,
I was outside shoveling the 35cm of snow we got today (with 120km/h winds and -30C windchill that shut down our whole city and closed about 700km of highway in northern Ontario) while listening to today's BOL. So, umm, could Jason or China do something about this?
On the plus side, my neuropharm students missed a midterm, so there is that.
Dave (the snow-shoveling psychologist)
Ben from Highland, Illinois
Go Bulldogs!
BTW, Tom, thank god for the DMV in Greenville--it is way better than Edwardsville's two-hour wait!
--Molly
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EPISODE 643 |
Metered bandwidth is not so great here.
iPod Touch keeps bugging me to pay money.
Whoops. My mistake. I was on drugs (Sudafed).
What's up with Christina Del Ponte?
My elderly aunt, who understands little else from the podcast (or the rest of life these days), loves it too. She perks up every time she hears the jingle. Though I'm pretty sure it's because she thinks it's a liquor ad since she starts yammering on about booze-filled reminiscences.
But it makes her happy ! And I think a Linux story--it's the perfect antidote to all that crApple.
Great show, love Molly's rants, Tom's libertarian angle, and Jason's (niiice) voice. :-)
Thx,
Solunas
Buzz crew,
I have been listening to your podcast for awhile now and wanted to comment on the metered bandwidth issue. I live in Lawrence, Kansas, (home of the KU Jayhawks), and our Internet provider has had limits on bandwidth for as long as I have their service. I paid $28 additional dollars last month in overages for using 14 addition GB of bandwidth on top of the allowed 10. Usually I do not exceed this amount, but with my increasing list of podcast subscriptions and now iTunes movie rentals, I might have to upgrade to the Gold package which allows 40GB and has faster service.
I believe the package pricing is not too unreasonable, especially since the lowest package is only $15/month with 1GB of bandwidth. Someone who is a light Internet user would benefit from broadband at a low price.
I have included a link to my provider.
Thanks and great show.
Phil
P.S. Natali, I miss watching Textra, but I wish you the best in New York.
Hi Tom, Molly, and Jason!
I'm a long-time listener and love the show but I completely disagree on your views of Usage-Based Broadband from Time Warner. How could anyone possible want this? In the age of HD video streaming/downloading and interactive content I certainly don't want to worry about "going over my gigabytes." For goodness sake, people already have to deal with that with their cell phone minutes. What's stopping the companies from charging usage-based cable TV? It makes just as much sense! Now people will have to be more aware to turn off their Internet when they're not using it. This is not the same thing as "turn off the faucet" or "turn off the lights." I shouldn't have to turn off my Internet so I don't use excess bandwidth. Are we back in the dial-up era again? I keep track of my bandwidth usage and each month I use about 100-200GB of bandwidth each month. This includes gaming, video streaming, downloading, etc. I don't want ISPs to throttle traffic but I would rather them do that the switch to usage-based plans!
Thanks guys! Love the show!
-Martin
Tom, Molly, and Jason,
You recently talked about watermarking video/audio files and ISP scanning for the watermarks. You said you didn't see a problem with ISPs doing this. I would have a problem with ISP's scanning for watermarks since I backup my files to Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Solution) my ISP would try to block me backing up these files to the cloud. Fortunately my backups are sent encrypted so they wouldn't be able to read the watermarks. Any file-sharing software would only need to transfer files using SSL to prevent ISP's from reading the watermarks.
Love the show,
RJ
Hello, this is Sean from Pittsburgh and I just wanted to say three things...
- I was thrilled when you mentioned Sidney Crosby on the show a few weeks ago, he is great.
- Regarding the reinstall of OS X on your MacBook Air, that will never crash...during the keynote, Steve specifically mentioned that the remote disc feature will indeed work if you need to reinstall the OS or upgrade to 10.6.
- The Apple TV was also using a subscription revenue model that iPhone is using, hence the free update...I remember reading that somewhere last year at least.
Hope that clears those issues up, love the show!
Thanks,
Sean
Hey, guys.
During Steve Jobs' keynote, a rep from 20th Century Fox said that a digital file copy would be included on the Family Guy Blue Harvest DVD. I assume one could download this copy to his or her hard drive and watch it as many times as they wanted. This is a great idea, but considering services such as Netflix, wouldn't movie studios be inadvertantly distributing these digital copies to many people who didn't buy the DVD? And what would stop people from sharing these digital copies via bittorrent? I can't imagine there'd be DRM on it, or there would be no point in offering it on their DVDs to begin with.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Michael Tolosa
--Molly
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