Buzz Out Loud Podcast

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

While we inadvertently promote a chain restaurant's free luncheon, we also talk a lot about space. Which annoys Brian Cooley to no end. We talk about Google Mars, and contacting the ISS and the NASA-sponsored Singularity university. But he gets his revenge when he announces the retirement of the inventor of the BMW-butt.

EPISODE 903

Google Earth adds Mars roving
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10154741-52.html

Google privacy counsel facing criminal charges
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F02%2F02%2F2337207
https://www.privacyassociation.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1745&Itemid=228

VMWare virtual desktop on any device including mobile
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10155486-92.html

Amazon moves into casual gaming in a very big way
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/02/amazon-moves-into-casual-gaming-in-a-very-big-way.ars

NASA-sponsored Singularity University offers grad courses in accelerating technological change
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/03/nasasponsored-singul.html

Students call space station with home-built radio
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090202.wcollegeradio0202/BNStory/Technology/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20090202.wcollegeradio0202

New paper offers additional reasoning for Fermi’s Paradox
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F02%2F02%2F1719236

Retrevo sets up DTV coupon swap site — seems like the govt coulda’/shoulda’ thought of this.
http://retrevo.com/dtv

Chris Bangle, the guy who made BMWs ugly, quits the auto business
http://www.motorauthority.com/bmw-design-chief-chris-bangle-quits-auto-industry.html

GM working to make San Francisco, D.C. the showcase launch cities for the Chevy Volt.
http://www.streetinsider.com/Press+Releases/General+Motors+Outlines+Roadmap+for+Cities+to+Plug+Into+the+Chevrolet+Volt+Electric+Vehicle/4352330.html

Mobiles connect across the waves
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7867091.stm

Nearly half of consumers think an Internet tablet could replace their cell phone
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/abi-research-survey-nearly-half/story.aspx?guid=%7BD7D6EF92-92BE-4D7B-A3CA-5195FA49A31F%7D&dist=msr_2

Garbage-powered garbage truck now making its way across merry England
http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/02/garbage-powered-garbage-truck-now-making-its-way-across-merry-en/

VOICEMAIL
Arsha from Illinois
Windows 7 UAC

Joe
Why I’m against delaying DTV transition

Jeremy Denver
What’s with the using the bandwidth limit faster?

E-MAIL
Hi Buzz Crew, this is Josh from American Fork, Utah.

I was pleased to hear that the developer of Podcaster, which failed Apple’s approval process, was able to get Rss Player into the App Store. But as he mentioned, the app dosen’t currently have a podcast directory. The only way to subscribe is to input the URL of the RSS feed, but since the iPhone dosen’t have copy/paste, this can get quite difficult, since most podcasts (including CNET’s) don’t have an easy to remember URL. I got an idea, however, from the app itself on how to simplify this process.

On Rss Player, there is a screen where you enter the address of the feed. Under the location box, the developer explains how to enter the URL of a feed. And just in case you don’t know where to start, the developer suggestts you try his favorite podcast by entering http://tinyurl.com/ourfav. This address redirects to the Buzz Out Loud .xml file, and is a lot simpler to type than the direct URL (which is http://feeds2.feedburner.com/cnet/buzzoutloud?format=xml)

So I took his idea, and simplified the URL’s of some other CNET podcasts using TinyURL.com. Here’s what I have:

http://tinyurl.com/cnetAppleByte
http://tinyurl.com/cnetBuzzReport
http://tinyurl.com/cnetCnetLive
http://tinyurl.com/cnetTop5
http://tinyurl.com/cnetInsiderSecrets
http://tinyurl.com/cnetMailbag
http://tinyurl.com/cnetQuicktips

Josh Davis

– Editors Note: All RSS feeds at podcast.cnet.com have friendly URLs. Check ‘em out! -Jason

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Not sure if have gotten to this or not.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/02/hd-nvd-is-chinas-home-grown-answer-to-blu-ray-but-does-it-have/

Not this is going to make a difference against the far too expensive blu-ray, but if the Chinese could get it together (not gonna happen though) and get some support for English language studios, this could actually be a threat to blu-ray, why? Price for the units and the disc’s.

Even if they could not get that, they ought to promote this format heavily to places like India, Middle East, Africa etc.

Jack

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Hi, Buzz Crew.

Tom — I’m ready to do my part to fund alternative energy. You
mentioned that a few distillers are going to start generating energy
from whisky by-products. Of those, only the Macallan made the cut
onto your list of “Tom-approved” whiskies. So now I’m curious: which
other distillers do you wish were moving to this green energy source?
Of course, this is simply a roundabout way of asking for a whisky
recommendation.

–Ian from Portland

EPISODE 797

Google tests custom highlights, comments in search
http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/08/27/1531241.shtml

Revealed: The Internet’s biggest security hole
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/revealed-the-in.html

Computer viruses make it to orbit
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7583805.stm

Psystar to hit Apple with countersuit
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10026033-37.html

Violent comic book doesn’t meet Apple’s standards
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10026806-37.html
http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/08/27/apple-bans-a-comic-book-firestorm-ensues/

iPhone ad banned over ‘all Internet’ claim
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10026842-37.html

Report: Studios want interoperable DRM
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10026735-93.html

Mozilla offers do-it-yourself mashups for all
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10026734-93.html

Opentape invites RIAA to play whack-a-mole post-Muxtape
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080826-opentape-invites-riaa-to-play-whack-a-mole-post-muxtape.html

English is a user-modifiable technology
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/08/27/english-is-a-usermod.html

VOICEMAIL

Anonymous Guy
We have a unique identifier.

Hello person
Hello.

E-MAIL

Hi Buzz crew,

First, I want to say Molly is right, regulations for Formula One is extremely precise for engines. It must be an atmospheric 2.4 liters V8 fuel powered engine. The fuel needs to follow the Euro95 norm for pump fuel and must contain 5 percent of bio-fuel .
But mainly I want to point out that next year, F1 will be hybrids, the regulation is changing to allow for hybrid design (similar to what exists in regular cars). And also, even though there is a lot of fuel used for all the races during the year, this is completely offset by new technology developed for those cars. I cannot remember the exact details, but I believe Renault F1 sold some aerodynamics design to plane manufacturers that help them reduce plane fuel consumption by a significant percentage.

Love the show
Jerome from Montreal

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Hello Tom, Molly, and Jason

This is Daniel from The Bronx. I wanted to ask you guys (mostly Tom) a question about your iPhone. I have a 16GB original and wanted to know if your phone gets or got hot while in use. Here’s what made me want to ask. I got my iPhone a week before the update to 1.1.4 and I noticed that it would run hot when talking on it. Also, up around the SIM card would get warm when using Wi-Fi.

It happened from the beginning and I haven’t read anything about ‘hot iPhones’ in forums or on CNET anywhere, so I thought it was normal. I stopped putting my warm phone to my head and started using the headphones to make and receive calls as a solution. Then came the miracle we all know as the 2.0 Firmware Update and my mysterious ‘hot iPhone’ had been cured! That was all fine and dandy until 2.0.2. Now my iPhone has a fever again. I just wanted to know if I was alone in the world and if so, should I look into getting my phone repaired/replaced.

Love the show and thanks.

Daniel S. (from The Bronx)

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Just listed to 796, and I agree that assigned serials as names aren’t outside the realm of possibility in the future. One thing though. I feel bad for whatever future people wind up with names like LUH 3417, SEN 5241, or THX 1138. Lucasfilm is gonna have fun when that happens!

“Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. Buy more and be happy.”
~OMM 0000

Love the show!

Jason H.
Lombard, IL

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Amid all the iPhone talk, I lost track--are The Beatles on iTunes yet?
Can we start that talk up again?

Keith

EPISODE 739

Happy Birthday! X86 Turns 30 Years Old
http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/08/06/05/1247249.shtml

Astronauts Fix Space Station Toilet
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/080604-sts124-kibo-space-toilet.html

All-encompassing iPhone patent filing hints at GPS, video chat
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/06/02/all_encompassing_iphone_patent_filing_hints_at_gps_video_chat.html

Mac OS X 10.6 code named Snow Leopard, may be pure Cocoa
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/06/04/mac-os-x-10-6-code-named-snow-leopard-may-be-pure-cocoa

Comcast to Throttle Biggest Bandwidth Hogs
http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007068.html

Cell phone users secretly tracked in study
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/04/cell.tracking.ap/index.html

Yahoo inks InstallShield deal to help propagate toolbar
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9960614-7.html

Microsoft denies it’s running call-in ’save XP’ petition
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9093478

How to Get and Keep Windows XP After June 30
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,146330-pg,1/article.html

Microsoft Study Says Repetitive Strain Injury Costs $600m
http://mobile.slashdot.org/mobile/08/06/05/1115258.shtml

IBM to cool layered chips with water
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9960566-7.html

VOICE MAIL

Frank rolling Meadows
About those 'self-destructing' DVDs

E-MAIL

WWDC announcements

Even as an Apple fanboy, I am exhausted by the constant speculation over
the upcoming WWDC. There are so many rumors flying around, that I
decided to take a quick look at the last “SDK Roadmap” video from
Cupertino. There it was, loud and clear: Stevie J. said (and listed it
on the screen) “The iPhone SDK and Enterprise software will be released
in Late June”, that was months ago and there’s no reason to think they
would deviate from that path, which is why they called it the “SDK
Roadmap”.
That leaves one to question what will be discussed at WWDC: My Guess: 1.
Demo of latest apps for the SDK and current progress with a late June
release. 2. New 3G iPhone, with beefed up storage and battery life to
take full advantage of the upcoming SDK and Enterprise software. 3.
“Mobile Me” will replace .Mac and all of the features will be listed
(with Demo) and available that day (this could be the “one more thing”
thing) 4. My wish: A new revamped laptop of some sort, maybe a new MBP,
but more likely the latest version of OS X

No, the irony is not lost on me that I just threw my hat into the ring
for continuing rumors and speculation of WWDC. Oh well…such is the
fate of an Apple Fanboy.

Long time listener,

Doug Trace

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Why should you upgrade to Windows Vista?

Below is a Microsoft TechNet Newsletter in which Microsoft claims that
Vista is environmentally friendly:

Every 10 PCs that switch to Windows Vista is the equivalent of taking an
automobile off the road, in terms of greenhouse gases.

Love the show,

RJ

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Recycling from Best Buy

Hello, my first buzz ever

Just letting you know how it should be. In Norway every electronic store
has to accept _all_ electronic equipment and recycle them for free. You
don’t need to buy something, or pay anything, you just leave your gear,
and it gets recycled.

Love the show, saves my workday =)

Helge M. Heggli
Norway

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Sensible units

Hey BOL,

I found this via the Woot! WWWoundup. It’s called Sensible Units
(http://www.sensibleunits.com/) It takes boring standard units like
meters, kilograms, feet, pounds, or acres and converts them into
measurements using real objects.

For instance, I’m 6′4″ and 180lbs, and I live on a quarter acre of land.
According to Sensible Units, I’m as tall as 16 CD’s side-by-side, as
heavy as 16 average cats, and live on a tract of land that is as big as
2.9 IMAX screens (which all of a sudden seems so sad).

The cool thing is that doesn’t always use the same standards every time
you enter the same amount. So my being 6′4″ also equates to 1.4 Alaskan
moose antler spans, 38 AA batteries, or 9.7 five month old human fetuses
end to end (gross).

Unfortunately, there are no time conversions.

Anyhow, I thought Buzztown might enjoy this.
In lieu of saying “Love the show!”, I’m going to say, “BOL rocks!”

BOL Rocks!

James
Vineland, NJ

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Say no to Indy? Not likely

As a manager at a small, independent movie theatre (with a 20 screen AMC
theatre literally across the highway), I asked our owner what it would
take for him to refuse a movie such as Indiana Jones, and his answer
was, “There is NO situation where we could say no.” Small theatres that
refused a major movie like that, even with deliberately tampered-with
audio, would simply be dropped from distribution. It would take AMC,
Regal or some other major chain to say THEY won’t accept this before
things would change.

Love the show,
Andy

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Loopity blah blah, the wrath of

Re: Tully’s Wi-Fi email

Yo Molly,
Sorry about sounding like a bad commercial in my email yesterday.
I didn’t realize it until you went loopity blah blah all over it
Next time I’ll stick to the subject.
Love the Show!

Peace,
Vic the Video Game Artist

EPISODE 733

$20 Million Dollar Experiment to See if You’ll Rent a Song for 10 Cents
http://michaelrobertson.com/archive.php?minute_id=265

Microsoft unveils multitouch technology for Windows 7
http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/ operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208400573
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9953361-7.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-9953055-80.html

Fraud ruling against Dell validates years of gripes
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13554_3-9953318-33.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/146371

Sony to build ‘Tru2way’ Interactive TVs
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2309865,00.asp
http://newteevee.com/2008/05/27/sony-tru2way- no-more-set-top-boxes/

Viacom ups ante in YouTube copyright spat: Google more than a mere enabler
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/ 2008/05/27/AR2008052702870.html

Google fights for the right to hide its privacy policy (Thanks, royterp!)
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/google-fights- for-the-right-to-hide-its-privacy-policy/

256GB Samsung SSD heading for MacBook Air?
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/05/27/256gb-samsung-ssd- heading-for-macbook-air/

New Mexico group tries to ban Wi-Fi
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2217507/ mexico-group-tries-ban-wi

Toilet aboard International Space Station is broken
http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/05/28/ toilet-aboard-international-space-station-is-broken/
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/28/1213259

VOICE MAIL

Richard
Top Gear news for Molly

E-MAIL

Netflix box

It seems like Netflix should issue a disc for the PS3 and Xbox 360 to allow those to stream. They could sell the disc for 5 bucks and then market the service. The consoles are already in place in a lot of homes and have more capability than a TV box would have.

Mark P. Snyder, PE

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Scientific imagers

Why are scientific images not color? It has nothing to do with bandwidth. Think about images from earthbound telescopes. They are also often black and white. The reason is that the imager is designed to provide informative images, not purdy pictures. For standard imaging, we sample red, green, and blue, but a scientist might not be interested in those specific colors. So a scientific imager is often a very high-quality black-and-white CCD in front of which a variety of filters can be placed, allowing for an image to be taken in a number of useful colors that might, for instance, sample emission-lines for a specific element. These images are much more informative than sampling just red, green, and blue. Plus, all of that weird pixel shifting and interpolation is avoided quite nicely. For a really good description, I recommend you check out episode 85 of Astronomycast about detectors (www.astronomycast.com). On that note, I should point out that I am not an imaging specialist, but that’s my understanding of the problem, so enjoy!

-Colin

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ChaCha hourly rate

You were trying to figure out how long it takes to answer a question and how much a guide would make an hour. My average time to answer a question is about 3 minutes. So I make about 4 dollars an hour. And most of the time I get another question as soon as I finish my last one. So I don’t plan on getting rich.

just fyi.

Thurman

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A great microbanking caper

I don’t know if you saw this, but it’s fantastic. This guy made over $50,000 by writing a script that opened tons and tons of brokerage accounts, then taking the tiny deposits they make into your bank account for verification. I love this; it’s even better than Superman III.

enjoy!

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/05/man-allegedly-b.html

casey

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The Kindle update

Hello BOL.

My calendar just alerted me that today is “How good is the Kindle” and that I need to e-mail you guys about it… I guess it was some bet a few months ago … “how good is the kindle after x months” or something.

So, how good is the Kindle now? And how will they implement it in the rest of the world (the world that does not use EVDO).

Best regards…
Khaled A.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/bezos-second-kindle-is-not- that-near-amazon-to-launch-paid-v/