Buzz Out Loud Podcast

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-

Apple is apparently suing the maker of an iPhone dock called the Podium because the product name has the word pod in it. Really? So if I refer to the cockpit of my plane as the cockpod, Apple could sue, because the cockpod has a music player in it? Are you blocking my cockpod, Apple? Also lepidopterists may be in trouble because the letters for pod are in there, as well. Of course, we also talk IE 8, and Sony and Google hooking up for free books.

EPISODE 934

Sony Reader gets all Google Books library
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10199846-93.html

Microsoft releases IE 8
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10199582-56.html

iPhone 3.0 may have tethering after all
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/03/usb-tethering-with-iphone-os-30-appears-to-work.ars

Podium is a POD violation
http://i.gizmodo.com/5173936/apple-sends-cease–desist-to-makers-of-podium-want-them-to-ditch-the-pod

Google’s information on DMCA takedown abuse
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/18/2223232&from=rss

Nvidia to license engine to Sony PS3
http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2009/03/nvidia-sony-ink-deal-to-bring-physx-to-the-ps3.ars

Cisco buys Flip Video maker for $590 million
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10199960-93.html

Google Street View arrives in U.K., Netherlands
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10200021-2.html

Twitter fastest growing community, according to Nielsen
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/nielsen_twitter_was_fasting_growing_community_last_month.php

Flying car passes first flight test
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/18/1633253

Jacket lets you feel the movies
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/19/1415243

VOICEMAIL
Paul from Canada
Two well actuallys

Nathan the college student
In-game micropayments

Chris in St. Louis
Garage businesses

E-MAIL
Dear Buzzards,
I am not an iphony user/owner but I do own an ipod touch 2nd gen. All reports I have seen say Apple is charging ipod touch users $10 for the update. Is this a true statement for both 1st & 2nd gen ipod touch devices? If so what the heck is up with this. Just bought my touch in Sept and this feels like a rip. Has there been a release date announced for the touch update?

THX, Mike Lopez

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Team Buzz -

I found this article, http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/03/obama-administr.html, in Wired interesting from the standpoint of the law addressing changes in technology. At issue is whether a search warrant is needed to access cell site records. These cell site records, maintained by the cell phone companies, would show which cell towers were used by a cell phone user and the phone number a call was placed to. A search warrant would only be required for the actual content of the cell phone conversation.

Essentially, this is the same as a pen register, or even the ability of investigators to have the address information (addressee and return addresses) on a letter recorded by the USPS. This is just another example of the same type of process, with different technology.

Mike in Dayton

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Howdy Buzz crew.

Tom, I reject your notion that the bat that clung to the side of the Space Shuttle is an alien infiltrator. I’m a positive guy, so I like to assume the best: I’m fairly certain that the bat was just a tiny, furry version of Charles Lindbergh. I can easily see him detaching himself from the shuttle before it reached maximum velocity (say, just two or three times the speed of sound) then heading east, simultaneously breaking several bat-records for speed, elevation and stick-to-it-ivness to become the first intercontinental winged mammal.

Remember, the glass is always half-full. Of bats. Love the show,
Mike from College Station

In this episode we find out that Hulu might be getting stomped, the government is spying on you through DTV boxes, and Natali prefers wrestling to cuddling. Seriously. She just doesn't like the word cuddling. But when a wrestling match offers to advertise Buzz Out Loud she's all for it.

EPISODE 914

Hulu being removed from Boxee
http://blog.hulu.com/2009/2/19/doing-hard-things
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10167152-93.html

Judge throws out lawsuit against Google Street View
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/02/judge-throws-out-lawsuit-against-google-street-view.ars

Pirate Bay floats safe harbor claim, owns Big Content on PR
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/02/pirate-bay-owns-big-content-on-pr-floats-safe-harbor-claim.ars
http://torrentfreak.com/google-filters-torrents-from-search-results/

Internet traffic report: P2P, porn down; games and Flash up
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/02/internet-traffic-report-p2p-porn-down-games-and-flash-up.ars

Band sells music as an iPhone application
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13526_3-10166936-27.html

T-Mobile unlimited voice
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090219/tc_nm/us_tmobileusa50dollarplan
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10167434-94.html

Social networks sign EU pact to police for cyber bullies
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/feb/19/socialnetworking-myspace

Garmin heart rate monitor software now Mac compatible
http://garmin.blogs.com/my_weblog/2009/02/garmin-connect-news-forerunner-405-and-50-are-now-mac-compatible.html

MacBook’s “unremovable” battery easy to remove
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/18/2227231

E-mailing while asleep
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/18/emailing-while-aslee.html

Facebook and MySpace: Raising the risk of cancer?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10167352-71.htm

VOICEMAIL
Carrie from Farmington
How I stuck it to Facebook

David from PA
What’s REALLY going on with the set-top boxes

E-MAIL
Hey JaToNa,

In episode 913, you talked about how Hulu content is no longer available on TV.com. Well, it apparently doesn’t end there because now Hulu is going to be removed from Boxee by the end of the week. Just when you thought that the media companies were FINALLY starting to embrace (using the term “embrace” loosely) the Internet as a new medium for content delivery, the content providers decide to pick up their ball and go home.

I bought an Apple TV in the first place with the specific intention of watching Hulu ON MY TV (thanks to a certain CNet video from Tom)! And while I know there are other ways I can get Hulu on my TV (a netbook comes in handy for this), there was no better or easier way to than using Boxee on an Apple TV. Heck, I even convinced a few of my friends to buy an Apple TV strictly on a demo of Hulu running on Boxee. I now feel bad for convincing them to get an Apple TV given that they won’t be able to get Hulu anymore.

As for the fate of my Apple TV, I’ll still use it to watch my handbraked movies (legally bought) and to watch my video podcasts (especially Loaded). However, it just doesn’t feel the same as before, similar to when that childhood friend moves to another state. Yeah, you say you’re going to write and keep it touch, but you never do…

http://blog.boxee.tv/2009/02/18/the-hulu-situation/

Angel (from Puerto Rico)

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Dear JaNoTo;
The problem with most of the medical wiki’s is that people don’t do the full
research to properly diagnose their conditions (IMHO over 90% of medical
problems can be diagosed by a good history & physical without all the fancy
tests) and they come to snap decisions. This is especially important when,
like everyone, someone want’s to find a simple, benign diagnosis for their
and can miss subtle finding pointing to a more serious condition and
lifesaving treatments are delayed. I LOVE it when patients come into my
office informed and are able to ask appropriate questions but have a hard
time when they come in and quote the “Insert name of popular pulp magazine
here (name withheld to prevent litigation)” saying “But they said that
pressure on the chest isn’t heart disease but acid reflux so just give me my
antiacids and I don’t need an EKG”.

Love the show.

Dr. L Harvey, MD, FACS, CNSP aka dr_mom of twitter

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Got some buzzzzz. Windows Live now has pop3 access wow that took a while didn't it…, and you can use it on your iPhone natively! 
http://mailcall.spaces.live.com/?_c11_BlogPart_BlogPart=blogview&_c=BlogPart&partqs=amonth%3d2%26ayear%3d2009

straight from windows live blogs Feb 12!

- Cnet User… Pando85

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Hello guys,

Not a question for the show, but would you mind if I advertised your podcast at a live wrestling event on a video screen in Luton, England on March 14. If its ok i’ll mock up a title card for the screen on photoshop for it. I just want more people in the UK to listen to you so I can talk to people about it! haha.

Thanks,
David Toms

If both of them get you free Wi-Fi, which one would you rather have? Also in the news today, Google's Street View team doesn't care for a little turnabout, the patent process gets smarter thanks to the Web, and IMDB is now delivering movies and TV. Yeah, really. Maybe we're the only ones who thought it was weird. With special guest, Leo Laporte!

EPISODE 810

IMDb now serves full-length videos
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10042280-26.html

Everyone but Apple joins new 'buy once, play anywhere' group
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080915-everyone-but-apple-joins-new-buy-once-play-anywhere-group.html

Google audio search graduates to lab project
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10042536-93.html

T-Mobile’s Google-based phone nears
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122150409898737579.html

Street View operatives object to being snapped
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/16/street_view_crew_privacy/

Zune 3.0 to debut with ‘extra value meal’
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10042174-75.html

Program brings Web’s collective wisdom to patent process
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/09/15/crowdsourcing.patents.ap/index.html

Porn passed over as Web users become social: author
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080916/wr_nm/internet_book_life_dc

VOICE MAIL
Lorenzo
What about Best Buy Digital Download service?

Kyle
Trapped in Facebook hell!

E-MAIL

Wally: I had a thought about why Podcaster was not allowed on the app store. I think the reason Podcaster was denied is not for the reason we think it is. When Apple said it was because “it duplicates iTunes Functionality”, I think they meant in a literal sense. If you think about this, the majority of podcasts are delivered as MP3’s. What format have the majority of online music stores been offering their music.. MP3.. All these online music stores would need to do to bypass the mobile iTunes store is give you a free RSS feed and a Web interface (either within Podcaster or their own modified variant). That’s exactly how Podcaster would duplicate mobile iTunes functionality.

Hey guys, I head you talking about Podcaster on the last episode and realized this was an application that I had to have in my collection. I knew it was asking for donation and figured I'd give it a whirl, see how well it worked, and maybe throw them $5 or $10. I went through the process of getting in the “Ad Hoc” network of the application and after receiving confirmation I was told I had to “donate” $10 before I could even try the application. I refuse to support developers who force donations down your throat to access their apps. I have donated multiple times to developers who just ask for it, as well as tried to donate to the iPhone Dev Team. In my humblest of opinions, forcing a “donation” out of your users is just as bad if not as worse as Apples literally shady confirmation process. Anyway, keep up the show, and I love the more regular occurrence of guest hosts.

~Jacob “The Under Appreciated Nerd” Tapp Phoenix, Ariz.

Hi JaMoTo (and appropriate suffix for whomever your additional co-host is),

In regards to Google’s plans to sail away from international law, I can understand how the idea that Google being above the law would be quite scary. They already have unprecedented control over our private data and although they currently do not have a remit to utilize it, this could change in the future.

However, for me there is one plus side to their potential untouchability. Being based in international waters would mean that the U.S. government would not be able to demand that Google hand over my (and your) private information under any counter-terrorist (or other) guise.

Is it wrong to trust Google more than the U.S. government? At least Google doesn’t care what I “shop privately” for.

Transatlantic love for the show,

Andrew the Medical Student from London

Hey Buzz people that are in studio today,

I’m writing in reference to episode 809 when you were talking about AT&T U-verse. U-Verse uses what is referred to as FTTN or “Fiber to the Node” in which, fiber is run to a node, and then from the node, users are connected by traditional copper cabling, thus limiting the potential throughput. Specifically, U-Verse isn’t really true fiber, its VDSL which stands for Very High Bitrate DSL.

This is completely different from Fios which offers FTTP, or “Fiber to the Premises”, which is a direct fiber line to your home. This is typically much faster and more reliable of a connection, and its what we think about when we think about fiber connections. The difference is, of course, that Fios or Fiber to the Premises, in general is extremely expensive in the “last mile”, and fiber to the node is relatively cheap in comparison, because the last mile is solved by traditional cabling that probably already exists or is much cheaper to roll out overall.

Also, the last statement Verizon made is that they do not plan on throttling or limiting Fios, so we’ll see how that works out, I hope they don’t. They really have no reason to, at least for a while. Their last mile problem is basically solved.

Hope that helps clear that up,

Love the show,

Max

EPISODE 736

Mars lander’s robotic arm makes contact
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9956964-7.html

U.S. town tells Street View to push off
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/02/north_oaks_street_view/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9956753-7.html

Motley Crue single does better on Rock Band
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/30/184204

Radiohead to Prince: Put “Creep” back on YouTube
http://www.musicradar.com/news/ guitars/radiohead-to-prince-put-creep-back-on-youtube-157573
http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/blog- radiohead-vs-prince-157937

Gartner’s Top 10 technologies list
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9956573-16.html

Self-destructing DVDs make a comeback
http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007040.html

Canadian group charges that Facebook violates privacy laws
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/ id;1185625472;fp;16;fpid;1

Best Buy offers up free electronics reycling in 117 stores
http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/best-buy-offers-up-free-electronics-reycling-in-117-stores/

Adobe Acrobat takes big online leap
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9956334-7.html
http://mashable.com/2008/06/01/adobe-acrobat/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/adobe_launches_online_office_suite.php

I like Plurk better than Twitter, but should I even bother?
http://mashable.com/2008/06/02/plurk-better-than-twitter/

VOICE MAIL

Shalin
Intriguing new idea for cable charging.

Jeff from Jacksonville
Why are they called …

Wayne from Michigan
It’s obvious why Apple stopped selling old iPhones.

E-MAIL

BOL at WWDC?

Is BOL planning a WWDC-related event next week? As a dedicated BOL listener, I’m flying into SF to attend WWDC and hoped to participate in a BOL meet-up.

Thanks and love the show,
Dean

**Yes! Thursday, June 12! Details to follow**

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Mini laptops

Hi, I thought Molly might want to know that not all mini laptops have the small keyboard that the Asus EEE-PC has. The newly announced MSI Wind mini laptop actually has a full-size keyboard while maintaining a size that is only slightly larger than the EEE-PC.

I believe the HP/Compaq 2133 mini note also has a larger keyboard than the EEE, as well as the new Dell mini laptop.

As a side note, I think you guys are very wrong on the mini laptop craze that is going on. I really see small non-optical drive flash hard drive Linux OS machines as perfect for the “school” market. Have you ever tried to take notes on a desk in a typical college lecture hall?? The size is perfect, the flash hard drive gives them durability (something that’s important for college), and Linux gives them almost a free pass in the malware department. As companies experiment with designs, it looks like they are finding a happy medium on the keyboard size.

Matt from Maine

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Firefox 3? Delicious!

Hey Tom, Jason, and Molly,
Kyle from Chicago here. On either your Thursday or Friday show, Molly was saying that she hasn’t upgraded to Firefox 3 rc1 because the Delicious add-on wasn’t made for it. Turns out, there is a beta that Yahoo has released for rc1. I’ve installed it on my machine, and it works exactly like the old one. (robot voice) Love the show.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ delicious-firefox-extension/message/2512

Kyle Crumrine

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Twitter clone

I have been working on a Twitter clone since Molly issued her challenge last week. It’s nothing special, but if you want to check it out, http://www.ONE4T.com. (pronounced one-four-tee) It runs on PHP and PostgreSQL. While I don’t personally know how to scale the site, there are solutions out there, and I’m someone in Buzz Town would be willing to help scale to site if it outgrows its current incarnation. Again, it’s a work in progress and I’d love some feedback.

Dan the computer forensic technologist

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Indiana Jones sound blockouts

Hey, it's Brad, and I just had to say two things about that Indiana Jones and The Crystal Skull movie and how Paramount is taking out random bits of sound. First, when I went to see it and noticed the random sound cuts, I asked for my money back and got it (in the theatres defense, it was the midnight premiere on Wednesday the 21, so they might have not been informed about this sound policy). What I find funny about this is that they are trying to eliminate piracy, yet me and my four friends saw it for free. Secondly, If a person recording the film (pirate) sees the movie twice, couldn’t they edit the film so the sound that is missing from one can be made up from the other. Since they said that each film will have a different segment of sound cut out, if the pirates sees it twice, they could just edit in the second of sound they're missing, and no one would know where it was pirated. Just had to ridicule this retarded policy. I —- the podcast (fill in the blank with your preference of word choice). Bye

Bradley

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Idea for anti-copy movies

Hey guys, I’m not a inventor or light specialist, but I was staring at my paycheck today and thought about the "void if copied" idea in movies. Why not infuse all screens in movie theaters with little infra-LEDs inside the screen. They are invisible to the eye but cameras pick them up, ruining the movie. I’m sure special cameras or special filters would block it out, but “hopefully” it will stop most of the copiers and they will stop messing with our movies! Love da show!

Micheal

EPISODE 724

Note: We are making a change to our podcast feed system on Monday, May 19. However, you do not need to subscribe to a new feed. One important thing to know: If you have your podcast catcher set to download "all unheard episodes" in a feed, you will probably find a bunch of already heard episodes in your feed on Friday as a result of the changes. To lighten the hit, set your podcast catcher to only download "the latest episode" for the week of May 19-to-23.

MySpace wins $234 million antispam judgment
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9943756-7.html

GM keeps building cars on XP
http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9943500-56.html

Google begins blurring faces in Street View
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9943140-7.html

Youngsters skip DVR ads less than seniors
http://slashdot.org/articles/08/05/13/2353251.shtml

Funny how Universal Music thinks infringement fines are unconstitutional when it's on the receiving end
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080513/1807491105.shtml

Qtrax signs with last of Big Four music publishers
http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/05/qtrax-signs-wit.html

iPass to add in-flight Wi-Fi roaming
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9943832-7.html

Verizon, Mozilla to join LiMo Foundation
http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9943458-37.html

Semantic travel search engine UpTake launches
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ semantic_travel_search_uptake.php

Philadelphia’s municipal Wi-Fi network to go dark
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/ 20080513-philadelphias-municipal-wifi-network-to-go-dark.html

VOICE MAIL

Bill Jersey
Thoughts on human powered search

Lauren Houston
Her experience buying a digital album

Grahame Montreal
I tricked Rogers about the iPhone!

E-MAIL

Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider goes online in less than a day. http://www.lhcountdown.com/

--David A Zirpolo

Hi I’m Jason Howell (editors note: ACK!!!!)

Hello everyone, my name is Jason Howell. I'm a somewhat new listener, I just started listening with show episode 700. I found your podcast after being asked repeatedly, “No way! Are you the Jason Howell!?! From Buzz Out Loud!?!” At first I said “yes I am” but now I know better…

Anyways, I was going to wait until I had something useful to say to send you guys an e-mail, but I got impatient, and I have nothing useful to say at the moment.

Strongly like the show,
--Jason Howell

Antitrust law applicability to Net Neutrality

Antitrust law applicability to net neutrality--Price Discrimination laws (Robinson-Patman Act--which added provisions to Clayton Act) prohibits charging competing customers different prices for like products does not apply in the consumer context. If it did think of the chaos it would cause say for example automobile dealers...nor does it apply to services; and it is not immediately clear whether net bandwidth would be a commodity or a service--electricity has gone gone both ways (AC/DC sort of thing).

--Michael Scott

USAF Botnet

Guys and Gal,

Decades ago I worked in a state security hospital. We never carried weapons for the simple fact that any weapon could be taken away and used against us. This memory leaped to mind when you relayed the news of the Air Force plan to build their own botnet out of unused and obsolete computers.

Think about it. Those who are finally tasked with setting these computers will be told: "Set these up with this software, but somewhere out of our way." So these boxes will be running in an unused cubicle in an open office or in that overflow junk room in the long hallway not many people frequent. It will only take one or two of these boxes to be hacked by someone passing through a no doubt less than high security area and bingo: this supposed US defensive weapon is set to be an offensive weapon--against it’s own supposed masters. Brilliant.

--Tim in Kansas

Searching for “Molly Wood”

Hey BOL Peoples,

I searched “Who is Molly Wood?” on Powerset, and it gave me this interesting result:

“Factz from Wikipedia: we found the following about Molly Wood.

Molly Wood:

• "hosted show and podcast
• discussed subjects
• gave birth"

EPISODE 720

Revoked NSL aimed at Internet Archive shows need for reform
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/ 20080508-revoked-nsl-aimed-at-internet-archive-shows-need-for-reform.html
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/07/211255

Zune to build copyright protection into the player (Thanks, Eric and Josh!)
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/ microsoft-may-build-a-copyright-cop-into-every-zune/
http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/05/07/ nbc.wants.zune.copy.filter/

Microsoft denies putting ‘copyright cop’ in Zune
http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9938650-56.html

TorrentSpy ordered to pay $110M
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7389485.stm

TorrentSpy to appeal whopper legal judgment
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9939000-7.html

Report: PC gamers angry at EA DRM system
http://www.news.com/8301-13772_3-9939161-52.html

Casio suckers bloggers into writing about upcoming G-Shock event
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9938492-7.html

In Australia, XP cheaper than Linux on Eee 900
\http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/08/1247238

Pranksters (?) hood a Google Street View cam with a plastic bag
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/08/pranksters-hood-a-go.html

Papa John’s surpasses $1 billion in online pizza sales
http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/O/ONLINE_PIZZA?SITE= WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME= 2008-05-08-00-17-06

NASA offers $5,000 a month for you to lie in bed
http://science.slashdot.org/science/08/05/08/0325252.shtml

VOICE MAIL

Tracy from Atlanta
A request for Comcast

Josh from Denver
Another request for Comcast (legislation-wise).

Tony from Florida
I have an MP3 question.

FORUMS

Silent Vista-loving majority?
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6035_102-0.html? forumID=97&threadID=293271&start=0

E-MAIL

Hee hee, get off my cloud

Sorely wanted to find an MP3 of that song to attach, but that might be infringing…

Just had a discussion with a coworker about music, iPods, ISP caps etc. and we thought of something that I don’t know if you have covered. He is a photo enthusiast and has over 300GB of his photos stored locally, and was thinking of some online backup solutions in addition to his redundant local storage.

With the move to Cloud computing and online backup, users like him may potentially be moving lots of data (maybe even Yottabytes in aggregate) through the tubes. Could the advent of universal ISP caps (even as generous as 250GB/month) put a crimp in the utility of the ‘Cloud’ for backup and restore of large amounts of data (including things like purchased MP3 files which could look like infringing content to deep packet inspectors).

Just a thought..

Bob in New Jersey

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Portugese Lion King

Hi!
I just wanted to let you guys know that you have at least one Portuguese listener, me.
And by the way, the Lion King was pretty big in Portugal and it was the first Disney movie dubbed in Portuguese. Before that, the Disney movies were dubbed in Brazilian Portuguese which is quite different (like American English and United Kingdom English) (Wikipedia confirms this).
You guys make a great show.

Take care,

Clara F. (Portuguese-American Biology graduate student currently in Kentucky)

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Geopbytes and other obscenities

Dear Molly, Jason, and Tom,

Yottabytes < Brontobytes < Geobytes

Here is the breakdown:

A bit is a single binary digit, zero or one.
A byte is eight bits.
A kilobyte is 1024 bytes.
A megabyte is 1024 kilobytes which is 1048576 bytes.
A gigabyte is 1024 megabytes which is about 1.07 * 10^9 bytes.
A terabyte is 1024 gigabytes which is about 1.10 * 10^12 bytes.
A petabyte is 1024 terabytes which is about 1.13 * 10^15 bytes.
An exabyte is 1024 petabytes which is about 1.15 * 10^18 bytes.
A zettabyte is 1024 exabytes which is about 1.18 * 10^21 bytes.
A yottabyte is 1024 zettabytes which is about 1.21 * 10^24 bytes.
A brontobyte is 1024 yottabytes which is about 1.24 * 10^27 bytes.
A geobyte is 1024 brontobytes which is about 1.27 * 10^30 bytes.

Is that not obscene? How much storage do you need? It would be interesting to see how much 1080p video could fit on a “geopbyte” drive. I’m just saying.

Love the show. Keep up your good work,

John McKenna

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Geek-Maps.com--even geeks have historic landmarks

Hey JaMoTo,

I was listening to episode 718 and you were talking about how there ought to be a tour guide site for geek-themed places. So I ran out and registered http://www.geek-maps.com and put up version 0.10. I'm hoping people will send in suggestions of locations and how to improve the site. My next goal is to add the ability to query by state, city, or other options that are relevant.

P.S. You ought to get a promo code for GoDaddy.com with all the domain registering you inspire.

Scott Gottreu