Buzz Out Loud Podcast

Yes. Snow Leopard reviews are out, and I have my favorite. But the more interesting story is Mozilla finding out that people didn't want to upgrade because they're afraid of the awesome bar exposing their porn. So they introduced private browsing mode fast. We also welcome Jon Strickland from HowStuffWorks to the show and he helps us understand how we can turn any story into an Apple story.

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Best OS X Snow Leopard review I saw
http://twitter.com/rstevens/status/3582198132

Apple Mac OS X Snow Leopard
http://reviews.cnet.com/macintosh-os/apple-mac-os-x/4505-3673_7-33676737.html
http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/08/27/snow-leopard-the-reviews-are-in/

Snow Leopard could level security playing field
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10318943-245.html

Google now offers over a million free e-books in EPUB format
http://mashable.com/2009/08/27/google-million-free-ebooks/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10318843-265.html

…and is on fire
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/6100080/Google-fire-in-London-Jokes-erupt-as-the-flames-die-down.html

New attack cracks common Wi-Fi encryption in a minute
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20090827/tc_pcworld/newattackcrackscommonwifiencryptioninaminute

Porn collection put people off upgrading to Firefox 3
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/08/26/porn-collection-put-people-off-upgrading-to-firefox-3/

Microsoft finally catches up with rumor, drops Xbox price (yawn)
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-console-price-wars-microsoft-drops-xbox-elite-down-to-299/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-10318991-17.html

Linux-based OS drives new Nokia N900
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10319133-94.html

Global gaming's Pirate Bay deal approved by shareholders
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-global-gamings-pirate-bay-deal-approved-by-shareholders/

…don’t believe it
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10319152-93.html

Unchain the office computers!
http://slate.com/id/2226279

Astrophysicists find “impossible” planet
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/08/27/1237251/Astrophysicists-Find-Impossible-Planet

TechStuff
http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/category/techstuff/

Voice mail
Ashwin from Redondo Beach has theory on Google Voice app

E-mail
2^32 = 4,294,967,296 (4 GB)

That means, a 32 bit system (application or OS) can address a maximum of 4 GB. To alleviate this limitation, Intel designed PAE (Physical Address Extension). Thus, this change alters the hardware addressing from 32 bit to 36 bit.

2^36 = 68,719,476,736 (64 GB)

Linux was the first to adopt PAE, as far as I knew. Then Windows added support for PAE, but only in Server versions of Windows. Home system versions are not supposed to support it even within the Vista line. As of SP1, though, Microsoft may have inadvertantly rolled out PAE into Vista allowing for addressing of up to 64GB of RAM.

Note, however, that even though Windows may support 64GB of RAM, the 32 bit applications themselves are limited to 4GB of operating space. So, for bigger games and memory intensive applications, PAE doesn’t address this 4GB application limit. So, even though the hardware can use 64GB of RAM and the operating system sees it, applications (including operating system apps) are limited to a maximum of 4GB per application in 32 bit version of an operating system.

I do not know of MacOS X 32 bit supports PAE.

Thanks.

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Brian Wright

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Hi Buzz Crew,

Just thought I would share… Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is using Facebook, Twitter and is planning to use YouTube to communicate with the troops and the public, with a virtual town hall. As a military member I think it is good that he is trying to communicate with the junior officers and enlisted. I just wonder if he knows that YouTube is blocked on all Department of Defense computer networks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vN-S89bAlo
http://www.facebook.com/admiralmikemullen
http://twitter.com/thejointstaff

Trevor

PS His staff does know that YouTube is blocked and Military members can e-mail their video to have it added to the town hall.

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Hey Tom,

In episode 1049 you talked about Microsoft Oneapp for dumb phones which will be available worldwide in 2010 (when these phones may not exist any more).

There is an application named SNAPTU that provide access to Facebook, twitter, flickr, picasa albums, RSS feeds, Weather, live scores, Google calender and some other stuff too and its cool.

its only like 500KB and it runs on mobile phones supporting Java (J2ME).

and yeah it have a Sudoku too.

Thank you and a nice show.

Mohammed Ibrahim
Pakistan

Monarchy, mercantilism, and Talmudic tech are on the table today. We get a little obscure in our references...at least I do...but Leo and Brian keep us on track talking about the new Sony Reader, and how the Pirate Bay is unkillable. In bad news, SCO is back, and this time it's personal.

Listen now: Download today's podcast

Sony unveils three would-be Kindle killers--Pocket, Touch and now, 3G Wireless with AT&T
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-sony-unveils-new-reader-digital-books-pocket-touch-and-now-3g-wireless/
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=23187
http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/sony-announces-daily-edition-reader/

Microsoft OneApp makes dumb phones smart by offloading apps to network
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/25/microsoft_oneapp_annoucement/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8219741.stm

Jobs is all about the tablet
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10316970-37.html

UK considers law to cancel ISP accounts of any illegal file sharer
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10317001-93.html

Swedish court rules TPB admins too broke to pay damages
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/08/swedish-court-rules-tpb-admins-too-broke-to-pay-damages.ars
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10316895-93.html
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/25/1224214/Pirate-Bay-Archive-Goes-Online?from=rss

Appeals court overturns 2007 Unix copyright decision
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/08/25/0021246/Appeals-Court-Overturns-2007-Unix-Copyright-Decision

Wikipedia to add editing safeguard for the living
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10316714-93.html

Why the Google Android Phone Isn’t Taking Off
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/08/24/2041248/Why-the-Google-Android-Phone-Isnt-Taking-Off

Is China squashing much of the “solar jobs” dream in the U.S.?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/business/energy-environment/25solar.html?_r=1

Another Little Ice Age? Solar activity and climate change
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/08/another-little-ice-age-solar-activity-and-climate-change.ars

Vote for Buzz Out Loud at SXSW 2010
http://www.cnet.com/8301-19709_1-10311505-10.html

SXSW: Teens and New Media: A Change is Coming
http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/3254

Umberto Eco’s piece on Mac and DOS, Catholic and Protestant
http://www.simongrant.org/web/eco.html

VOICE MAIL
Anonymous about AT&T spying on your phone.

E-MAIL
Buzz Crew,

I’m one of those very few users that have a smart phone (AT&T Tilt) without a data plan. I want the phone for other purposes that do not require the plan. I bought it used and I am not under contract. Is it your understanding that they will force ME to add a data plan, even though I’m not under contract?

By the way, within a few minutes of moving your SIM card to another phone, the AT&T website will change to show that your phone is the one into which you have installed the SIM card. My family has been “swapping” phones around a little bit lately and I was amazed at how fast they detected the change.

Love the show.

Bryan Taylor
Jonesboro, Arkansas

The Microsoft Yahoo hookup finally happened and now all their friends are glad the drama's over. But they're not getting hitched. Microsoft's shelling out some dough for Yahoo to use Bing and Yahoo's going to sell the crap out of it. In other news, we will all die from automatic drones programmed to make their own decisions about who to kill.

EPISODE 1029

Yahoo, Microsoft reach search, ad deal
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10298303-56.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10298334-2.html
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-yahoo-to-keep-almost-all-revenues-for-first-three-years-with-msft-deal/
http://www.choicevalueinnovation.com/thedeal/Default.aspx
http://calacanis.com/2009/07/29/yahoo-committed-seppuku-today/

How to hijack ‘every iPhone in the world’
http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/28/hackers-iphone-apple-technology-security-hackers.html

Samsung’s debut e-book reader arrives
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10296228-1.html

AT&T suffers massive mobile data outage in Northeast, Midwest
http://www.businessinsider.com/att-suffers-massive-mobile-data-outage-in-northeast-2009-7

AT&T social network
http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=4800&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=26976

U.S. movie studios ask judge to board, scuttle Pirate Bay
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/us-movie-studios-ask-judge-to-board-scuttle-pirate-bay.ars

Pirate Bay co-founder denies MPAA allegations
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10298254-93.html

Pirate Bay sale dead in the water
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-sale-dead-in-the-water-090728/

VoloMedia awarded the "Patent for Podcasting"
http://newteevee.com/2009/07/29/volomedia-awarded-the-patent-for-podcasting/

Barnes & Noble switches to free Wi-Fi, just the thing for your e-book reader
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/barnes-and-noble-switches-to-free-wifi-just-the-thing-for-your-e/

U.S. Air Force says decision-making attack drones will be here by 2047
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/us-air-force-says-decision-making-attack-drones-will-be-here-by/

Twilight MMO
http://www.inquisitr.com/31013/this-is-happening-twilight-mmo-announced/
http://www.twilightthevideogame.com/

As the new owners of the Pirate Bay take over they will have to eventually change things and sell out. So Rafe has dubbed them as Cruiseship Bay. We also discuss the pyrrhic victory of RIAA over Usenet.com and Rafe and Natali hate some more on Verizon.

EPISODE 1009

RIAA triumphs in Usenet copyright case
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10276607-93.html

Cash for Pirate Bay file-sharers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8128551.stm

Twitter reworks following lists, adds functionality
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10276568-26.html

Obama adminisration lauches IT spending tracking site
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/technology/01dashboard.html?_r=1

Verizon says house shoppers crave high-fiber Internet diet
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/verizon-says-house-shoppers-crave-high-fiber-internet-diet.ars

New Click-Fraud Attack Is Stealthiest Yet
http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/06/30/2237256/New-Click-Fraud-Attack-Is-Stealthiest-Yet

Frustratingly long secret code enables totally useful landscape email on Pre
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/frustratingly-long-secret-code-enables-totally-useful-landscape/

GDGT launch
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10276755-2.html

Chicago ‘burb ditches red light cameras, no safety advantage
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/chicago-burb-ditches-red-light-cameras-no-safety-advantage.ars

Most Complete Topographical Map of Earth Complete
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/30/1650208/Most-Complete-Topographical-Map-of-Earth-Complete

VOICEMAIL
Nick wants to take over the world… or at least the Internet

EMAIL
in an effort to confirm Molly’s suspicion of AT&T as the worst 3G network, i present this link to PC World’s 3G test they ran in 13 U.S. cities

summary:
Verizon=fastest
Sprint=most reliable (by a small margin over verizon)
AT&T=blows (~20% less reliable than the other 2)

and a good note at the end that seems to be a recurring statement:
“Somewhat surprisingly, our testers also found that the “bars of service” readings on their phones were rarely an accurate predictor of the quality of the ensuing connection. In most places and with most wireless providers, the “bars” did little more than indicate whether the phone had access to some service or to no service.”

thanks for an entertaining show
corey
http://www.pcworld.com/article/167391/a_day_in_the_life_of_3g.html

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Hi Buzz crew,

Just a quick e-mail on the subject of the Amazon referral scheme and the
impact of local tax legislation here in Hawaii.
When the legislation went through state and house, very few locals
seemed aware of it, then all of a sudden one of the members of a major
local tech community site here, TechHui, caught wind of it and alerted
everyone:
http://www.techhui.com/profiles/blogs/urgent-help-stop-hb1405-the?id=1702911%3ABlogPost%3A44364
From there numerous letters and petitions to house representatives and
Governor Lingle went out explaining the significant financial impact it
was liable to have on local business and citizens, along with TV and
radio interviews; no doubt, though, a number of residents here not
members of techhui were surprised to receive e-mails telling them their
referal income was suddenly being stopped by numerous websites, not just
Amazon.

Today it was announced that Governor Lingle has decided to Veto the bill
(HB1405), amongst others:
http://www.hawaiisenatemajority.com/wp-content/upLoads/2009/06/govs-veto-list.pdf

That was one significant hurdle, now all that’s left is to persuade the
House not to override her veto. It’s an amazing tribute to what local
communities can do if they collaborate and put the pressure on.

Paul, the Brit in Hawaii.

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Two things..
I don't see any risk of microbes from earth infecting another local planet, since any microbes already on the planet are well adapted to local conditions and our microbes would be wimps in comparison.
Likewise microbes from space is not a real concern...do you have ANY idea about how many different microbes/viruses are already on this planet (check out Bergey's manual for a list of sorts..it is the bible of microbiology). The competition on this planet is extreme..
Have you not heard of Darwin?
From: Bob..Your tame microbiologist.

Your discussion about NASA was very interesting....it seems to support the concepts I've outlined at http://www.h2liftship.com , which has had no response to speak of since I put it up...such is the risk of being way forward thinking..

Thanks,
Bob Freeman

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Hey there buzz crew
This is Rohan from India.

It is my first time writing to you guys.

Regarding the whole debate over the caps lock key, how about adapting
the “double tap” of the shift key like the iphone/ipod touch to
regular keyboards. I too accidentally hit the damned caps lock key on
my macbook and just wish that they would get rid of it.

On other topics (just to fuel your anger towards your telecom
companies), we Indians only have to pay 1 paisa (the “cent” of Rupees)
for sending an SMS, and nothing for receiving. If you take the current
exchange rates, that would be just 0.00021 U.S. cents. Enjoy!

Oh by the way, we converted to the Metric system in 1954 and just last
year have also planted our Flag on the moon. You can ask ISRO (Indian
Space Research Organization) to help you convert NASA’s Imperial
measurements.

love the show!

Rohan

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

EPISODE 1008

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

VOICEMAIL
Dan likes the new lineup

Bruce about CapsLock

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

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

Love the show!
Javier Ardila

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

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

Dave (the psychologist)

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

According to the Office 10 Twitter account, Zune lovers will be happy in June. If that wasn't weird enough, they also warn you not to buy an iPhone or Palm Pre, which is probably standing orders at Microsoft. Also Natali carries knives in her sports bra quite often. Or so we have come to understand.

EPISODE 972

Report: Intel to join Microsoft in EU antitrust purgatory
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/report-eu-readying-to-fine-intel-for-antitrust-violations.ars

Apple freezes Snow Leopard APIs
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/12/0213242

Greece puts brakes on Street View
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8045517.stm

Vodafone app store
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE54B28X20090512

Users asked to design their own MMO levels make up really easy games
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/12/users-asked-to-desig.html

Pirate Bay founder proposes to pay his fine with tiny, expensive-to-receive payments
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/11/pirate-bay-founder-p.html

French adopt 3 strikes bill
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/12/1555231
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8046564.stm

Net firms reject ‘policing role’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8046028.stm

Gecko Netbook runs on AA batteries
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10238203-1.html

Microsoft: ‘June 2009 will be an important month for Zune lovers… hold off from buying an iPhone/Pre’
http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/12/microsoft-june-2009-will-be-an-important-month-for-zune-lovers/

Brain scanning may be used In EU security checks
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/12/1234222&from=rss

Jonathan Coulton DVD features excerpt from CNET Live interview
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2009/05/11/dvd-for-sale/

Voice mail
Paul in Hawaii
Hard to understand

Zack
Blackboard review

Jim the SysAdmin
Here’s what we did for University content

E-mail
I commute to and from work daily, but, thanks to a World of Warcraft
addiction, a Netflix account, Hulu and my PS3, I never ever leave the
house. I have a phone at home, and a phone at work.

BUT, I live out in the country, and I occasionally worry about getting
stranded in the desert. So I have, for the last few years, used
Alltel’s per-day pay as you go cell plan.

Just thought you’d like to know; it’s not only Jason Bourne that doesn’t
feel like paying $80 a month for two years for a phone he will only use
in emergencies.

Love,
Paul Tietjens
Linux Systems Administrator

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Hey guys,

about the assasin phone plan.. this plan would work great with Google
Voice. So, using Molly’s example, you would pick up the calls using
your work phone during the week, but you would use your personal
phones during the weekends and all people have to is to call you on
your google voice number. This way you don’t have to worry about
people not being able to reach you because you didn’t pay for that
particular day.

Sang Park

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Hey Sheba
I’m just naming your group something random since I don’t want to think too hard about the the current group nickname. (Lay off, I’m working.) Just wanted to bring up a little point regarding the retention rates of Twitter. According to other reports on this study, the study only covered the use of Twitter on the main twitter web page. Do not forget that Twitter is used via MANY third party applications such TweetDeck, Twhirl, Tweetie, TwitterFon, Twitterrific, Twinkle, and Twapple.

Okay, I made that last one up, but still, I would argue that the large majority of people using Twitter do not access it through the main webpage. Discuss.
Love the show.

Bobby S.

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Well actually…

the only reasoning behind making it “required” it is then allowed to be purchased using financial aid and scholarships legally…. it is not actually needed… disappointed that y’all are so quick to jump and trash the iphone at any given chance….

http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/09/missouri-school-of-journalisms-iphone-requirement-a-clever-in

-mike from texas-

One of our listeners is stunned that you can buy a song from John Cage in the iTunes store that is 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence. In other Apple news, Tim Cook thinks Netbooks suck. And Time Warner says, "Fine, if you don't want to pay our outrageous data fees we won't give you faster Internet. So there."

EPISODE 959

MySpace CEO to step down
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10225519-93.html

Microsoft in “much better place,” oversight extended to 2011
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/04/antitrust-oversight-of-microsoft-extended-to-may-2011.ars

No data caps, no DOCSIS 3.0? TWC’s math doesn’t add up
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/twc-without-data-caps-internet-upgrades-now-in-doubt.ars

Time Warner Cable won’t compete, seeks legislation
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/23/1521218&from=rss

AT&T cuts cord on VoIP service
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10225426-94.html

Pirate Bay lawyers demand retrial
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8014626.stm

YouTube video sharing
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10225416-2.html

New Mega-Botnet discovered
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/22/2223214

Apple's Tim Cook: Why don't we make Netbooks? Because they suck
http://venturebeat.com/2009/04/22/apples-tim-cook-why-dont-we-make-netbooks-because-they-suck/

MIPS architecture gets Android Port thanks to Embedded Alley
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/04/embedded-alley-announces-android-port-for-mips.ars

Facebook policy change
http://apps.facebook.com/fbsitevote/contests/208?_fb_fromhash=914932b0c630e9d25ea42dd469941cae

Slick new Ubuntu "Jaunty Jackalope" springs onto Netbooks
http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Slick_New_Ubuntu__Jaunty_Jackalope__Springs_Onto_Netbooks

Robotic penguins
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/22/2235215

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VOICEMAIL

Brian from Chicagoland
iPhone vs. BlackBerry

B from Turkey
John Cage on iTunes

E-MAIL
Dear Buzz people,

I’m sure you’ve heard about the Pirate Bay trial’s judge and his alleged ties to the recording industry, but I wonder if you’ve heard about this and what you think of it: http://www.thepirategoogle.com/
Not only is the idea very amusing, but its simplicity illustrates something that we tech fiends have known for a while: Google is sort of a Pirate Bay too.

Which makes it easier to ask the question: “Would the RIAA ever take on Google and ask them to filter the Internet?”
(It does seem like too big an idiocy to even formulate, but maybe we shouldn’t underestimate the ability of the copyright lobby to shoot themselves in the foot. Indeed, if too many torrent sites started closing, new tools far more sophisticated than this one would surface in a matter of weeks. What would the copyrights holders say then? It’s probably too big a deal for anyone to have a chance of wining, even the copyright lobbies. The Pirate Bay is a bunch of kids in Sweden, but Google is a whole different animal. Still, I’m not certain they would understand that.)

So let’s review: FTP turned into centralized p2p, which turned into decentralized p2p, which became individual file p2p. Each time, pressure from the RIAA pushed the system to bury itself deeper into the fabric of the Internet. Could it be that they have finally pushed it so far that they cannot do anything about it anymore?

Patrick Beja
http://frenchspin.com
http://twitter.com/notpatrick

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Hi,

Sorry if this is old news to you but I just noticed it. If I go to google’s home page using IE7, there’s a little ad at the top telling me I should install chrome for faster browsing. When I use firefox to view the same page, it’s not there. Is google trying to say something about IE?

Regards,
duckling

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Tom,

There’s a simple yet awesome extension to your ridiculous-turned-
amazing idea about flash disc mice from yesterday: operating systems
in a mouse!

Get a lightweight Linux distro capable of installation on a USB stick
and presto! Your favourite mouse AND linux distro wherever you go.

Vikingbushi, infrequent chat room attendee

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Hi buzzers,
This old BluRay is useless and dead as a video distribution argument because of streaming is so tired and so wrong. This sounds like the argument that on deamand from the cable company is supposed to kill of DVDs. Yea, that happend. So the idea of ownership of phisical media is going to die, right? Yea and we’re going to be flying in hibrid air cars and wearing auto sizing sneakers and jackets. I have a really nice plasma tv, and BD is so much better, and no dvd is not good enough. The entire sentiment of good enough is anti progress and your podcast should be above that. And Tom’s argument that he doesnt have a PS3 because it is too expensive, is so lame. He has every single player box, worth a lot more than a PS3. He buys more tech than me, and thats saying something, so dont give me the too expensive crap.

Love the show

Y

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Hey Tom, Natali, Jason, random(GuestHost),

I am one of those individuals that does not yet have access to
Google ‘Me’. Based on your discussion of the offering yesterday, I have
a question: what is to stop a malicious person from potentially creating
false profiles for individuals, filled with less-than-genuine
information. It seems like I could create a false Google account under
the name ‘Tom Merritt’, then write all sorts of bad stuff about Tom,
which result in people thinking he’s a jerk or something (not that I’m
going to do that), and how then, would the real Tom Merritt combat this
doppelganger?

Sincerely,
Chris the Bioinformatician from Calgary

P.S. I realize that the above scenario can be played out on other social
networks as well, but somehow having this information popping up in
Google seems like the kind of place where authenticity would be more
important than say, Facebook.

One of our listeners is upset that Pizza Hut is hiring interns to Twitter for them. We try to show the difference between astroturfing on blogs and hiring someone to Twitter legitimately. We also decide that when GREP is outlawed, only criminals will GREP. And Blu-ray's getting cheap. But do we care?

EPISODE 957

Blu-ray in every home? Backers aim for $99 players
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/04/blu-ray-in-every-home-backers-aim-for-99-players.ars

Google: Search changes in images
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8009400.stm

Google news timeline
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10223607-2.html

Googlelabs.com
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/hard-at-play-in-google-labs-with.html

Computer spies breach $300B Fighter-Jet Project
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/21/1257202

Windows 8? Yes. Windows 8
http://i.gizmodo.com/5221409/a-peek-inside-windows-8-coming-in-2011

Social startup Amazee fighting Amazon's amazing name-change demand
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-social-startup-amazee-fighting-amazons-amazing-name-change-demand/

BT blocks access to Pirate Bay
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/21/1239242

Paul McCartney is A-OK with it
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10223914-93.html

Fox uReport integrates with MySpace
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/20/fox-news-and-myspace-launch-ureport-not-to-be-confused-with-cnn%E2%80%99s-ireport/

Susan Boyle YouTube video: 100 Million Hits, so where’s the money?
http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/04/susan-boyle-nev.html

Vatican solar-powered country
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/20/2113232&from=rss

Nabaztag’s Violet RFID-readin’ USB Mirror now available
http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/nabaztags-violet-rfid-readin-usb-mirror-now-available/

The dinosaur is extinct…well, Pleo that is
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2345667,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03069TX1K0001121

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VOICE MAIL
Jason from Marietta
Spring commerical spotting

Matt from New Hampshire
Oracle will shut down MySQL

E-MAIL
I saw MED-V demoed at VMWorld last year. If it was the only software visualization I had seen there, I would definitely have been impressed. The problem is that MED-V relyes on an entire virtualized windows OS, so it adds overhead to the system. It also adds complexity, if something goes wrong you now have to troubleshoot both layers.

Another piece of software being shown off was from VMWare. VMWare purchased a little company that made the software Thinstall, and renamed their product ThinApp. The software (and whole concept) is mind blowing! Thinstall allows you to encapsulate an entire software pacakge into a single .exe file that can be run from any computer without any install. It also encapsulates all windows components that are needed. This means that you can run Windows 95 software on XP, Vista, or any other windows operating system. The application becomes portable and flexible. It is licenced toward corporations and isn’t cheap. Hopfully one day there will be an open source project for the same thing. When this tech becomes wide spread, it really will change EVERYTHING.

http://www.thinstall.com/

Also check out InstallFree. It uses the same tech as ThinApp, but adds a layer of IT managment and is even more game changing for IT administration.

http://www.installfree.com/

Watch the Demo:
http://www.installfree.com/products/installfree-product-demos/

Travis Epperson

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Hey BOLers,
Apparently it is considered suspicious behavior to use a command prompt or multiple OSes.

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/boston-college-prompt-commands-are-suspicious

- Dan the CompSciStud

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/business/media/20twitter.html

I mean, I'm sure ghost twitterers are essentially equivalent, but this is a job where you literally tweet about pizza hut and they pay you. What I don't get is the salary: competitive to other tweeters (so, you mean works for free?)
But, grr, this is one of those things- you can't MAKE viral happen, it just does. (my zen statement for the day).

-dr.k

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Study Finds Pirates Buy 10x More Music Online than Non-Pirates

http://i.gizmodo.com/5219587/study-finds-pirates-buy-10x-more-music-online-than-non+pirates

If you can preview/borrow/steal, I bet you’ll be more likely to buy in
both the short run (aka the song or that album) and the long run
(aka look out for the band’s next album or spend crazy loot to go to a
show and buy their crappy merch)…

I think this totally makes sense, and I think this study hints that the
new business model has already been developed (without the stinky music
industry and its army of litigious minions) and is working: “sometimes
when you give a little, you get a lot” (and when I say “a little”, I
don’t mean a 14kbps, 15-second clip); aka the spoiled brat that doesn’t
share his toys has no friends growing up- Waaa!

Also, pretty please don’t debate validity of study! –> W-A side note:
Last week, there was an arguement about study size. There isn’t a finite
number. Dont forget, there’s POWER in numbers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_power

lts/kutgw
-Dr. Karl