Buzz Out Loud Podcast

Apparently the Large Hadron Collider is doomed. It can't even survive a bread bombing by birds. The Droid arrived on the scene though, and people actually lined up. However tethering is gonna cost you on the thing. Are you still in love? And Gwen Stefani doesn't like you making her sing Honky Tonk Women.

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Episode

Midnight Droid madness in Manhattan
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-10392128-266.html

Verizon Droid Tethering Will Cost You
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/181590/verizon_droid_tethering_will_cost_you.html
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/psa-sears-charging-50-less-for-new-droid-activations-than-veri/

Windows 7 sales exceed Vista sales by 234%, new PC sales not as strong
http://www.npd.com/press/releases/press_091105a.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10391484-75.html

Confirmed: Skype Founders Settle With eBay And Others, Get 14% Stake In Skype, Not 10%
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/06/confirmed-skype-founders-settle-with-ebay-and-others-get-14-stake-in-skype-not-10/

Twitter Cleaning Up Trending Topics Spam
http://mashable.com/2009/11/05/twitter-trending-topics-spam/

No Doubt sues Activision over Band Hero [Updated]
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/11/no-doubt-sues-activision-over-band-hero.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-10391715-17.html

Judge Halts Online Sale of Beatles Songs
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/11/bluebeat-claims-to-own-new-copyrights-to-old-beatles-songs/
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/11/about-those-beatles-songs-its-weirder-than-you-thought.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

Betting on a Metal-Air Battery Breakthrough
http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/23877/?a=f

LHC Shut Down Again -- By Baguette-Dropping Bird
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/0824213/LHC-Shut-Down-Again-mdash-By-Baguette-Dropping-Bird?from=rss

Sony to bring Risk to the big screen
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/06/risk_movie/

VOICEMAIL

Brian in Virginia on the PS3 Netflix

Anonymous Tony about 3G maps

EMAIL

Hey Buzz crew,

I am sure you will have this in today’s lineup..but just in case:

Comcast’s new throttling policies.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/04/2026206/Comcasts-New-Throttling-Plan-Uses-Trigger-Conditions-Not-Silent-Blocking

“Its network throttling implements a two-tier packet queueing system at the routers, driven by two trigger conditions. Comcast’s first traffic throttling trigger is tripped by using more than 70 per cent of your maximum downstream or upstream bandwidth for more than 15 minutes. Its second traffic throttling trigger is tripped when the Cable Modem Termination System you’re hooked-up to - along with up to 15,000 other Comcast subscribers - gets congested, and your traffic is somehow identified as being responsible. Tripping either of Comcast’s high bandwidth usage rate triggers results in throttling for at least 15 minutes, or until your average bandwidth utilisation rate drops below 50 per cent for 15 minutes.”

So…by analogy, will cops start giving out speeding tickets if you travel >=70% of the posted speed limit for more than 15 minutes as well?

Wasn’t there a recent story about the FTC/FCC rules about “Truth in advertising” about ISP speeds? Now Comcast pretty much says, that whatever the ADVERTISED bandwidth, you will be punished for using more than 70% of your ACTUAL bandwidth.

Lima Tango Sierra!

Bob in NJ…

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Hey,

First off, Love the Show

My brother just alerted me to the Darpa Network Challenge, http://networkchallenge.darpa.mil/, which is to mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet.

The goal of the Challenge is to be the first to submit the locations of 10 large red weather balloons scattered throughout the continental united states. One person can’t do it alone, so the winner will be the best one to use Social Networking to solve the challenge, and what better then getting the word out on BOL?

I’ve seen others on Facebook with the same idea, but I’m also shamelessly running a contest website at http://www.mgatelabs.com/wiki/Darpa_Network_Challenge

Thanks,
Michael Fuller
Graduate Student of Software Engineering @ Auburn University
Developer of Port Defender on the AppStore

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Greetings buzztown,

Tom, you were concerned about the lack of competition in the chip market.
Well actually there was more in the early days of Windows NT.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windo
NT was initially available on these platforms: Intel X86, MIPS R3000/R4000 DEC Alpha, IBM PowerPC, Itanium and AMD64.

I was in software development back then. With four Unix platforms, we had 10 platforms to develop and support. Expensive!
With the market consolidation, It is so much easier now. We support Windows X86, OS X, Solaris and HP-UX.
Any new chip maker is going to have to emulate the X86 instruction set.

AMD, in 1982 licensed the X86 architecture. That, I believe, is why they still exist today.
I can’t imagine Intel would do that again, Unless the Government ordered it.
It is nice to have a standard PC that can boot Windows, OS X and Linux as needed.

There is more competition in electrical outlets around the world.
There are 12 different connectors and about 6 different voltages.
It’s tough charging you laptop around the world.

Love the Show,

Henry C.
Livonia MI

The new DreamScreen tablet from HP looks like what everyone wants from Apple at first glance. Until we dig deeper and find out it may be what nobody wants. The music publishers also seem like they're full of stupid too wanting to get a performance right for you watching a TV show alone in your room. And Cooley and I get in a knock-down over Kurt Cobain's proper presentation in Guitar Hero.

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Music publishers want more $$ for downloads, movies, and song previews
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10355448-93.html

Skype founders file copyright suit against Skype
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10355258-2.html

Zune HD apps are here… complete with preroll ads
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/09/zune-hd-apps-are-here-complete-with-pre-roll-ads.ars

The long-awaited DreamScreen tablet computer comes from HP, not Apple
http://venturebeat.com/2009/09/16/the-long-awaited-dreamscreen-tablet-computer-comes-from-hp-not-apple/

Clearwire says it’s not married to WiMAX for 4G, would be easy to switch
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/16/clearwire-says-its-not-married-to-wimax-for-4g-would-be-easy-t/

Google lets you custom-print millions of public-domain books
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/09/google-books-publish-on-demand/

1 in 5 offices use Google Docs
http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/google-docs-widely-used-1-in-5-workplaces-132

Audiovox and FLO-TV formally launch in-car TV platform
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS97347+17-Sep-2009+PRN20090917

Hands-on: Haiku, the future of BeOS, is pure poetry
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/09/hands-on-with-haiku-back-to-the-future-of-beos.ars

Bon Jovi supports Cobain protest
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8259846.stm

VOICE MAIL
Anonymous about the Android vs. iPhone

Anonymous about Apple taking store down

E-MAIL

Hey Buzzcrew,

Just listening to episode 1064 and had to comment on a quick way to handle turning off your check engine light, without having to even spend $20 on the device Rafe mentioned. Provided you've fixed the problem that caused the light to turn on, you can shut it off (in most cars I've worked on, can't speak for every model out there...) by simply unhooking the negative terminal of the car battery, letting it sit for about 20 minutes, then rehooking up the battery and starting the car. This basically resets the engine computer, and since the car will detect nothing wrong, as you've fixed the problem, the check engine light will stay off. The only downside is, you'll lose all your radio presets. Hope this helps someone out there.

Love the show!
Jeremy Hess

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Regarding the XP issue from episode 1064, here are some additional details from Microsoft available in entirety at http://www.microsoft.com/oem/english/content/software/XPEOL.mspx. I'm looking forward to Windows 7 also.

On June 30, 2008, Microsoft will stop distributing Windows XP as a standalone product that can be bought shrink-wrapped in retail stores. We'll also stop sending it to Dell, HP, Lenovo, and all the other major PC manufacturers to sell on their PCs. This is called ―End of Sale‖.

That said, Windows XP isn't going to disappear overnight.

You may still see copies of the software--or computers preloaded with it--for months as stores and PC makers work through their inventory. Also, system builders can continue to sell PCs with Windows XP until January 2009.

Finally, Microsoft recently announced that computers with limited hardware capabilities--devices sometimes called Netbooks or ultralow-cost PC s (ULCPC)--can carry Windows XP Home until June 2010. (Read about the ULCPC program on Microsoft PressPass.)

Have fun,
Darwin

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This is Dr George, the kidney doc and I was listening to podcast 1064
and thinking “finally, the topic of urine is a subject that I can sink
my teeth into”. Urine that is dumped in the sky can shine because of
crystals in the urine, such as calcium or urate crystals.
Maybe the astronauts had some kidney stones? Ouch!
Luckily urine is usually sterile, so no worries about it showering on
you, unless the urine housed a urinary tract infection. In any case
urine sometimes smells foul, especially if, as Molly suggested, it was
old stagnant urine left standing for months.

Enough about my life, and yes, this falls under the category of “Too
much info”!

Love the show!

Dr George

A judge has determined that violating terms of service is bad, but it's not tantamount to unauthorized access of a computer system. Good news for jailbreakers and hackintosh perpetrators. Also Opera 10 is out. I know. I know. But some of you really do care.

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Confirmed: eBay has a deal to sell Skype
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10322833-94.html
http://share.skype.com/sites/en/2009/09/a_new_chapter.html
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090901005931&newsLang=en

TOS violations not a crime in teen suicide case
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/08/judge-says-tos-violations-arent-a-crime-acquits-lori-drew.ars

Opera 10 faster with new features
http://arstechnica.com/software/reviews/2009/09/first-look-opera-10-faster-with-new-features.ars
http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-10320478-12.html

Sony to ship Vaios with Chrome installed
http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10013661o-2000331777b,00.htm

IE tumbles, Firefox regains market share mojo
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137358/IE_tumbles_Firefox_regains_market_share_mojo

Windows phones are coming on October 6
http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsphone/archive/2009/09/01/windows-phones-are-coming-on-october-6th.aspx
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10322007-56.html

Qualcomm forbidden to use “smartbook” by order of German court
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/qualcomm-forbidden-to-use-smartbook-by-order-of-german-court/

TomTom’s new direction takes shape: Deal with Fiat
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS90227+31-Aug-2009+BW20090831

Internet’s first domain name registered sold
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/31/2233246/Internets-First-Registered-Domain-Name-Sold

Woman fired for using uppercase in e-mail
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/08/31/1515239/Woman-Fired-For-Using-Uppercase-In-Email

VOICE MAIL
James the field engineer on how cops can check texting

Jesse from San Francisco on a better way to protect iPhone

E-MAIL
A friend whose spouse works warranty repairs for a large electronics retail outlet, some say the BEST retail electronics outlet, that does warranty repairs for Apple products reports the receipt of a repair manual for an Apple tablet! The look is similar to the one on Gizmodo
http://gizmodo.com/326468/apple-touchscreen-tablet-contest-winner-and-gallery
The spouse reports it is 10 inches and runs OS X with a Cocoa layer on top like the iPod. Check your own sources at your local BIG retail store to confirm this.

Stephen B. Swan
Retired Guy

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Cameron from Buena Vista, Virginia

I was watching episode 1053 and when I saw the dancing iPod girl I
noticed that she was dangerously off balance. She wasn’t dancing, she
was falling! Then new ipod whatever must have some sort of life alert
built in to it. Apple is obviously trying to make in-roads into the
highly desirable geriatric market segment.

Anyways, just a thought

The show is alright… Just kidding- LOVE… the… show…

Cameron Berry

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Yo Bolers,

I’m the kind of guy who gives credit where it’s due, and this time, I gotta give credit to Jason for his post-podcast reminder to visit CNET Live and see the web exclusive video. A) I really like the reminder part and B) that was buy far the funniest 6 minutes of my long BOL career. So thanks Jason, for making my day. Nay, my whole week.

Ben the Industrial Engineer Grad Student from Arkansas

p.s. Love the show

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Here is the Tweet from All Songs Considered re: Beatles: Starting my download of the Beatles Catalog. (protected site ) public release 9/9/09 – Vance

I'm not sure why I mentioned an actual piece of horse, but it had to do with trojan horses and mysterious laptops showing up at Governor's offices around the US. We also help you get hooked up with Snow Leopard compatibility and warn you against a couple of scary government initiatives.

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Snow Leopard Application Incompatibilities Compiled
http://www.macrumors.com/2009/08/27/snow-leopard-application-incompatibilities-compiled/
http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3258

Snow Leopard’s malware protection only scans for two Trojans
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=4139

Bill would give president emergency control of Internet
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10320096-38.html

Quantum Cryptography for the Masses
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/23317/?a=f

FBI Investigating Mystery Laptops Sent To US Governors
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/08/28/0210225/FBI-Investigating-Mystery-Laptops-Sent-To-US-Governors

Investor Group Makes Play For Skype
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/28/investor-group-makes-play-for-skype/

Storm 2, Touch Pro2, Omnia II and possibly the Pre – all in Verizon’s inventory database
http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/Storm-2-Touch-Pro2-Omnia-II-and-possibly-the-Pre—all-in-Verizons-inventory-database-article-a_6641.html

Yelp Brings First US Augmented Reality App to iPhone Store
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yelp_brings_first_us_augmented_reality_to_iphone_s.php
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_wall_has_fallen_3_augmented_reality_apps_now_l.php

IBM Images a Single Molecule
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/08/28/1119203/IBM-Images-a-Single-Molecule

Loch Ness Monster surfaces on Google Earth
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/28/google_earth_nessie/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10318790-36.html

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

VOICEMAIL
Anonymous solution to earbud problem

Anonymous2 on Firefox private browsing

EMAIL
Hey guys,

love the show, with Tom’s virtualization (show 1051) idea, there are a few fantastic products like Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop. With XenDesktop you get a whole virtual desktop deliver to your computer which can either run using the power of your computer or of the servers and means you can run pretty much any OS on your laptop but for company work use their virtual access, you can even access the desktop through the web so you could use a netbook .

At my current company we heavily use virtualization like this because everyone uses different operating systems but all the companies core apps are windows based, as I am writing this to you I am in the Outback of Australia using my companies internal applications through my web browser running on my Mac.

Cheers,

Ray the systems admin guy

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Hello Buzz Crew,

I'm not sure if this is of interest to anyone, but did you know that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is allowed to seize your laptop or other electronic device without cause when you enter the US?

This applies to everyone, US Citizens and foreign nationals. The rules were recently updated, partially under pressure from a recent ALCU lawsuit, but the ALCU wants further changes. Under the revised rules, CBP and ICE are also allowed to keep your laptop for up to 30 days to perform the search. The ACLU asserts that the rules are still too broad and have the potential for abuse.

While the occurrence of this happening appears to be quite uncommon, is does happen. The CBP reported they only did about 1,000 laptop searches during a 10 month period, and only 46 were in-depth searches. The CDP processed 221 million passengers during that same time frame. Rare as it may be, I certainly would not want to be on of the travelers who were subjected to this search and seizure of their laptop. The thing that really bothers me is they are allowed to do this without cause.

Quoting the PC world article linked below:

"CBP has asserted that it can search all files, including financial documents and Web browsing history, on travelers’ laptops and electronic devices “absent individualized suspicion.” The agency does need probable cause that a crime has been committed to seize a device."

I guess all of this is something to think about when deciding if you should take your laptop, smart phone, or any other electronic device on your next overseas trip.

Here are the relevant links:

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/170963/us_dhs_revises_border_laptop_search_rules.html
http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_1251393255852.shtm http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10320116-38.html

Thanks for such an informative and fun show.

Lenny the Globetraveler

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I thought you guys might get a kick out of this. Two Swedish geeks spent six months putting this stop-motion music video together for their electronic music. They used a Nikon DSLR, a lot of legos, and even more patience

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qsWFFuYZYI&feature=channel_page

Thomas,
Stockholm, Sweden

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

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EPISODE 1031

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In this case it refers to Jeff Bakalar's face, but it could also refer to Amazon, Steve Jobs, and Skype. Well at least in part. Find out all about all of these things in today's scary and caliente episode. --Tom

EPISODE_951

Episode 951

Amazon criticized for de-ranking ‘adult’ books
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10217715-93.html

… Amazon says it was a glitch…

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6651080.html

Amazon told gay writer it was due to “adult” material
http://markprobst.livejournal.com/15293.html

GOOD READ: Was #amazonfail just massive trolling?
http://tehdely.livejournal.com/88823.html

List of books stripped of Amazon ranking
http://jezebel.com/5209088/why-is-amazon-removing-the-sales-rankings-from-gay-lesbian-books

Sprint Memo Hints at Palm Pre Smartphone Release Date
http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Sprint-Memo-Hints-at-Palm-Pre-Smartphone-Release-Date-118695/

Report: Jobs still in control at Apple
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10217641-37.html

Report: Skype co-founders may buy it back
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10217611-94.html

Time Warner tries again, fails to justify caps and charges
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/time-warner-cable-to-press-stop-questioning-our-caps.ars

Twitter hit by series of worm attacks
http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2009/04/13/daily3.html

Facebook messes up your GPA
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10217704-71.html

Zune HD photos may reveal Microsoft’s next move
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12519_7-10217589-49.html

Amazon Plans Big-Screen Kindle
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-amazon-plans-big-screen-kindle/

Steam powered USB charger keeps your iPod alive with Victorian sensibility
http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/12/steam-powered-usb-charger-keeps-your-ipod-alive-with-victorian-s/

VOICEMAIL

Kevin in Reno
What is that face??

EMAIL

Hi guys!

Regarding your comments about the SF fiber cut on Friday’s show, I can perhaps add some information for you.

I was a cable splicer and a lineman for five years at a nameless communications company that starts with “Q.”

I can tell you that most all underground cables are indeed pressurized. In fact, when I started, there was an actual Air Pressure department (which was merged with the Cable Maintenance department after several rounds of layoffs). Their sole job was to maintain the fittings, air lines, and such. Even copper cables are pressurized. This is mainly to keep water out, but can also serve to alert technicians to accidental or deliberate damage. At each Central office, there is a room full of huge compressors and air dryers that feed into the cables down in the vault and can keep many miles of cable under pressure.

When we would go into a manhole to work on cables, we had to call our air pressure guy and let him know what cable we were working in so that he could ignore the alarms. We also had “dry air” connections in our trucks that we would hook up to fittings in the manhole we were in to lessen the load on the dryers at the CO. This was especially important when we were working a section of cable that was very far away. Believe it or not, these cables are under 10 to 12 PSI of pressure (your car tires are about 30 PSI).

Just though you’d be interested. Love the show.

Mike

P.S. None of this is confidential or “secret” information, just obscure.
Molly

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Hy Buzz Crew,

I’m actually kind of excited to do my first well actually but in episode 950, you talked about how Amazon has started to sell xbox live codes to redeem xbox games that are served over xbox Live. Tom had mentioned that this method seemed clunky since it would require you to enter the code into your xbox for every purchase, well actually you can redeem your market place code online via the xbox.com website and I think pushes the content to your xbox once it logs on to live. Granted I don’t think this is really that smooth of an implementation but at least you’ll have copy and paste at your finger tips (well maybe not on an iPhone :/ ). However, I still think this is a great way to promote xbox live game content since it basically gives this basically acts like an additional store front outside to the traditional marketplace interface. On that note I wonder if the code system will eventually break down, especially with all the news about the iTunes gift card codes being compromised. Just a thought, thanks for the great podcast. love the show.
–
Steve from FL

*****

$150 for TWC’s “unlimited” plan is NOT the answer.
You can upgrade to a business class connection (no caps) and pay a lot less. Only problem is then there is a contact (the benefit of that being that there is an SLA):

* Teleworker Plan
* 10mbps down, 1.5mbps up, $79.95/mo for 24-36mo, No installation fee, NO CAPS.

Thanks Buzz Crew,

Ben in Rochester, NY

Rafe and Molly take over the show today (because of travels by Tom and Natali) and, not surprisingly, geek out and argue a lot about things like FM radio transmitters. In the actual news, it's cell phone Monday with lots of talk about the spread of Android, the future of smartphone Internet apps, and the stupidity of illegally pirating a movie and reviewing it on Fox News. Oops.

EPISODE 946

MLB’s Web video puts everyone else to shame
http://www.businessinsider.com/baseball-crushing-everyone-at-web-video-2009-4

T-Mobile to use Google software in devices for home
http://news.cnet.com/T-Mobile-to-use-Google-software-in-devices-for-home/2100-1037_3-6249436.html

End of OpenMoko
http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/04/228240

iPhone 3.0 to include video editing?
http://www.tuaw.com/2009/04/05/rumor-iphone-os-3-0-to-include-video-editing-tools/

Plus, FM radio transmitter
http://www.businessinsider.com/new-iphone-to-have-fm-radio-transmitter-video-editing-2009-4

FCC pressed on iPhone Skype, tethering apps
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10212102-94.html

AT&T retracts new terms of service, apologizes
http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/atandt-retracts-new-terms-of-service-apologizes/

FriendFeed’s redesign makes everything real-time
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10212575-2.html

Net firms start storing user data
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7985339.stm

Fox News columnist fired for reviewing pirated version of "Wolverine"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/business/media/06fox.html
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/06/1246232&art_pos=4

Nikon DSLR gets articulated screen?
http://www.cameratown.com/news/news.cfm?id=7470

British Steam Car aims for speed record
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10212316-1.html

Voicemail
James from Irvine
innovation through bandwidth caps

Shane from Las Vegas
Chrome on the TV!

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Hey Buzz Crew,

Last week ya’ll had a short piece about Twitter Jurors and their potential effect on our legal system. Two issues that have come up include a system that doesn’t fully understand how people utilize the new technology and people that might be using the technology during inappropriate times (such as during trial deliberations.)

Thought you would enjoy seeing this story about our very own Arkansas Twitter Juror, Johnathan Powell. Lawyers in his case were seeking a mistrial over the $12.5 million judgment based on a handful of tweets made by Powell. The lawyers contended he tweeted during the trial; Powell said it was after. Turns out the time stamps on his tweets were made them look like Powell sent them two hours earlier than he actually did. The judge consequently ruled there were no grounds for a mistrial.

http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2009/04/03/news/040409fzjurortweet.txt

I have no doubt that at some point inappropriate tweeting could lead to major legal snafus in the future. Since this was clearly not the case, Johnathan merely helped to introduce a few of our local legal experts to the world of modern, Internet-based communication.

Love the show!

Brad the Writer

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I have found some information on an iPhone 32GB 3G from at&t’s website. Perhaps there is an update coming this summer.. I kind of hope so, but at the same time I do not because I still have an iPhone 16GB 3G under contract.

http://blackberrybold.tradeups.com/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dushaun/3416957428/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dushaun/3416123347/

Dushaun / Nashville,TN

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Hey Buzz Crew,
You guys talked about OnLive, the streaming game company, sometime in the last couple weeks. Randy, Scott, and Patrick (the same Patrick Beja whose emails you guys have been reading on the show lately) also discussed it on The Instance last week, and they really got me thinking. From what I’ve seen, game prices on the service haven’t been announced, but I would hope they would be cheaper than store bought games as it sounds like you will have to pay for the subscription. I wonder if this model could be applied to other processor/graphics intensive programs such as Photoshop. It seems that it would almost be more suited to this application as latency would not be such an issue.

What do you think? Would a streaming, hosted subscription model work for these high-end programs?

Chilli (formerly Erik the MBA student)

A new scanner developed by Kaminsky and friends can help find Conficker-infected machines. We're so drenched in Conficker news at this point that I think the Girl Scouts have started selling Confickerdoodles. We also analyze Netflix's Blu-ray-rate hike, and try to decide why they're fighting over toilets in space.

EPISODE 942

Netflix to hike up monthly Blu-ray fee by up to $8 a month
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10207302-2.html

New method for detecting Conficker discovered, debuted
http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2009/03/new-method-for-detecting-conficker-discovered-debuted.ars

YouTube gets Disney
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123844481702470815.html

American Airlines to expand Wi-Fi in planes
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/31/1247225

Apps to dominate CTIA Wireless 2009
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12261_7-10207651-51.html

Skype app for iPhone to launch Tuesday, but not in Canada
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/30/skype-iphone.html

Is Google pulling tethering apps from the Android Market?
http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/is-google-pulling-tethering-apps-from-the-android-market/

Contrarian Google launches investment fund
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-10207853-76.html

Two dead in NY: May be payback for an online scam. That’ll learn ya’.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/31/sports/s070646D86.DTL&tsp=1

Dead Wii guy
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2348477.ece

Man uses 35 cable modems to provide Wi-Fi, sued by Comcast
http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2009/03/comcast-goes-after-illegal-resale-of-its-internet-service.ars

Microsoft kills Encarta — what took so long?
http://www.neoseeker.com/news/10286-msn-encarta-to-be-discontinued/

Cold War standoff over ISS toilet
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/31/1332257

VOICEMAIL
Robert the Kiwi
Why so Mac-centric

Christian from Browntown
Natali, don’t fear helicopters.

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It seems to me and to many others who listen to the show that Natali Del Conte is quick to stereotype and judge all those who live between the two coasts of the United States. She has made disparaging remarks about the southern states, rural areas and, most recently, even the viewers of ‘The Family Guy’. I don’t watch the show and I have no idea what the target demographic is, but she implied that they would be the most likely to still have analog TVs, a condition that seems to be a mark of shame in her world. Not only is this assumption probably wrong, it is what Christopher Hitchens calls poor comedy: “jokes that
only stupid people laugh at”.

Furthermore, I can’t help but think that Natali’s cute face and ability to turn her head to the right angle for a photograph is the only reason she has a job in tech journalism. I’m sure her looks have granted her many a door opening that would otherwise have been closed. Who’s judging now? You know what it’s like, Natali. I don’t expect this to be read on the air, but that is your decision.
I continue to listen to the show and except for the occasional inane
comment, I enjoy it immensely. Thank you.

Matthew Dattilo
Jeffersonville, IN

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You said my last name on the podcast! Sort of! Why don’t I have any of that Dairy Queen money?

Eric Brasure

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Hey Buzz Crew,

Regarding Vicente’s email in episode 941 and previous emails about the E74 error. I can, in fact, confirm that there is not conspiracy that the E74 error and RRoD are the same error that was just changed in the NXE update. You see, I have had BOTH errors in my short 2 years of owning an XBox 360. I got the E74 error last year and then, about 2 days after updating to NXE, I got the RRoD. Thankfully, I got then in that order so that it was covered by my regular warrantee for E74 and the extended RRoD warrantee later.

Love the show,
Dan from Wisconsin

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Hey Buzz Crew,

I know you guys have a big hate on for my preferred mobile OS, but you forgot to mention that Windows Mobile has supported Skype for years now. And guess what? It runs on either WiFi or cellular data connections and can be minimized and run in the background!

…but I guess the fact that the iPhone has just come out with a limited functionality version of Skype is the big news

…love the show!

Mike

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Hey Buzz crew,

I was watching the (unintentionally) funny 60minutes “The INterwbehszor iz ze inFECTED”
episode and like many other finns (tho I live in Sweden) noticed the “hacker hunters” lack
of knowledge about his “enemy”.

At about 10:46 of this video: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4901282n
They show a picture of what they claim is a russian hacker group and even point to one
saying this guy is called Tempest etc.

Little does he know he has just been pwned by a Finnish internet joke and that the picture
is about 5 years old.

This picture was originally used as part of an internet joke called Isän Maan Puollustajat:
http://www.pelulamu.net/viznut/web/isanmaa/
Basicly the picture was taken from IRC-Galleria (http://irc-galleria.net/index.php) and then
added to a page with a lot of badly writen neo-nazi huff and buff and has been online for
at least 5 years. The guys in the picture were neo-nazis, but have apparently given that
up once they grew up.

As a funny coincidence the name Tempest is the name of a finnish demoscener whose
work was stolen by Timbaland (judge yourself based on the evidence, I believe it tho,
Timbaland is a waste of air if you ask me), the same guy who came up with the joke was
also collecting material for Tempest vs. Timbaland: http://www.pelulamu.net/timbaland/

So, maybe CBS should do a bit more fact checking on who they have on as their “experts”.
There is a lot of Finns laughing at 60minutes right now and this “news” is actually been
picked up by a lot of the mainstream media as well.

Just thought I let you know, maybe you at least get a good laugh out of it, I know finland has

Love the show as they all seem to say.

//uskomaton
A Finn living in Swede

The Streamy awards made me think of how Hollywood and the video bloggers are starting to come together. It made Natali think about urination. So, maybe they need to rethink branding. We also tell you how violent video games will make you see better. For real.

EPISODE 941

Happy fourth birthday! I can’t believe Buzz Out Loud has been around for four years. Here’s hoping for four more! –Joseph in Ohio
http://buzzoutloud.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_1

Streamy Awards dominated by Felica Day
http://newteevee.com/2009/03/29/joss-whedon-felicia-day-and-a-pile-of-streamys/

Google gives away music in China
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE52T22P20090330

Disney and YouTube close to content deal, report says
http://www.pcworld.com/article/162185/disney_and_youtube_close_to_content_deal_report_says.html

AND/OR: Disney, Hulu restart talks over ABC shows--report
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090328/media_nm/us_disney_hulu

Pirate Bay coming to Facebook
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/29/2040256

Red Hat: Recession is good for our business
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/red-hat-succeeding-despite-recession.ars

Video games ‘can improve vision’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7967381.stm

Skype for iPhone: It’s official
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12261_7-10206786-51.html

Twitter integration could come to OnStar
http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/28/twitter-integration-could-come-to-onstar/

Mouthy billionaire Mark Cuban fined for using Twitter
http://gawker.com/5189516/mouthy-billionaire-mark-cuban-fined-for-using-twitter
http://blogmaverick.com/2009/03/29/are-tweets-copyrighted/

University offers social media degree about Facebook, Twitter, and Bebo
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/5073683/University-offers-social-media-degree-about-Facebook-Twitter-and-Bebo.html

Hotelicopter: April Fool’s come early
http://www.hotelicopter.com/

VOICEMAIL
Shane in LasVegas
iPhone patent art

Anonymous
"Family Guy" is setting a bad example

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Molly mentioned the E74 error last week. It turns out that I got that error. I called M$ and after troubleshooting I was told it was a hardware failure. I was informed that the console was out of warranty. I found that strange since I had heard that they had a 3 year warranty and my box was manufactured less than two years ago. I was informed that the three years are only for the RROD problem. The console repair would cost $120 but I could save $20 if I did it online. Unfortunately every time I tried to do it online I kept getting and internal server error(500). I informed the CSR about my online problem and I got the discount after being escalated (probably to the guy in the next cubicle).

Nice way to stop bleeding money M$. Change the way the error shows up and now they can make money on the deal. If it wasn’t for my zombie shooting 10 year old this would make a nice addition to my trash day collection.

LTS

Vicente
In San Diego

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Hey Buzz crew,

Just dropping you a link to let you know that the sturdy Mars rovers are once again back in action. Five years and not a red ring of death in sight. Can NASA take over making xbox 360s?

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/26mar_marsroverupdate.htm?list227107

–aslan00cm

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In the mid 70’s the CB Radio became an everyman’s way to connect to other people. With the CB you could find and talk to people you didn’t know, get help, avoid speed traps, and find information of all sorts. You did all this while using a “handle” as a substitute for your actual name. The CB exploded in popularity. Hollywood jumped on board and the CB was featured in a long list of now forgettable movies ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens‘_band_radio#CB_in_movies ). Then as quickly as it appeared, the CB faded away.

Will Twitter see the same rapid adoption and slow fade?

Breaker One Nine

Wally from Minnesota - aka twitter.com/twdixon

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Hey guys,

I love when you talk about stuff I know about…

There are about 1 000 000 000 000 neurons in your brain, and some may have
upwards of 10 000 synapses. The human nervous system is massively parallel
and hierarchical. (This is called the Hughlings Jackson principle).

Compare this to the lovely flatworm, the nematode. It has 302 neurons, and
we know what every circuit does, and, we know the whole frakking genome. So
the nematode is used a lot as a model for learning at the synaptic level,
whereas more complex processes are usually looked at with neural network
models. These models are just computer programs. Indeed, I learned how to
write such code in grad school, where my foreign language was Turbo Pascal
(no kidding). It seems that the research project you are talking about
combines the best of both worlds.

BTW, the synaptic process involved in learning is likely a phenomenon called
long term potentiation. This was first postulated by Canadian
neuropsychologist, Donald Hebb.

I wonder if I should count these emails to BOL as publications on my CV, my
annual report to the Dean is due soon…..

Dave (the psychologist)