Buzz Out Loud Podcast

Bing has taken over MSN video and it has videos from every network. Why isn't Microsoft trumpeting this? We also get really confused by Verizon's unlimited plan that has a limit of 5GB. Does it? Doesn't it? What the hell? And we debate the way Twitter retweets.

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Microsoft disconnects Xbox gamers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8354166.stm

New Microsoft Project Natal details leak, coming next year for cheap
http://dvice.com/archives/2009/11/new-microsoft-p.php

Google tests skippable ads In YouTube videos
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=117200

T-Mobile moves aggressively into HSPA and HSPA+
http://wifinetnews.com/archives/2009/11/t-mobile_moves_aggressively_into_hspa_and_hspa.html

Supremes wrestle with business method, software patents
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/11/supremes-wrestle-with-business-method-software-patents.ars

Google hopes to remake programming with Go
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10393210-264.html

Microsoft moves MSN Video under Bing umbrella
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10394673-56.html

Twitter changes up ReTweet
http://evhead.com/2009/11/why-retweet-works-way-it-does.html

Google Latitude, now with Location History & Alerts
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/11/google-latitude-now-with-location.html

Google Latitude gets snoopier: Adds location history and alerts
http://www.pcworld.com/article/181907/google_latitude_gets_snoopier_adds_location_history_and_alerts.html

VOICE MAIL
Brannon from Lake Elsinore on Gizmo

Jeremy in Virginia about the cookie law in Europe

E-MAIL
Hey Buzz Crew,

It was funny how you guys talked about hackers blacking out Brazil in previous years and just yesterday (Tuesday) we have suffered another one. A report says that it affected 18 states (4 totally, 14 partially) and also Paraguay (about 90%). The blackout is believed to have been caused by weather conditions and it has shut down 3 power transmission lines, some hydroelectric power plants and two nuclear power plants. The power was totally restored by 3:15 AM (Brazilian DST). More information can be found in the following link (in Portuguese, sorry): http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/cotidiano/ult95u650831.shtml

Please stop talking about blackouts here… It appears to have and immediate effect! LOL

Love the show!

Gus, the IT Auditor from Curitiba, Brazil.

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Hey buzz crew love the show! Have heard you guy mention that “unlimited
data” on wireless isn’t really unlimited. I did some checking as I am a
heavy data user and can’t find anyplace on Verizon, ATT or Sprints
website that says theres actually a 5gb limit (and yes I read as much of
the fine print as I could find). I did see that there was a 5gb limit on
there data card plans and tethering but it says that right up front. So
my question is what are you talking about? Oh and when I said I was a
heavy data user I meant that I am a truck driver who uses my Sprint data
card which I luckily got when they had the unlimited plan which I get to
keep. My average usage is… 25gb a month with an all time high of 52gb.
I also have almost no trouble getting 3G service in all the places I go.
Again Love The Show!

James

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Hello Buzz Crew,

Referring to yesterdays episode, you mentioned the Milestone going to
Europe and how you would want to get a phone sent to you from Europe.
Well surprise surprise, you can go on a field trip to your friendly
neighbours up north. Telus is announcing that it will have it
exclusively (unlocking anyone? ). It’s supposed to come out “early
2010″.

Here is a link to engadget:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/motorola-milestone-headed-to-telus-in-early-2010/

Love.The.Show

Carl from BC,Canada

While Yahoo and Microsoft are flirting again and video game sales are plummeting, it doesn't matter. We are all going to be eaten soon by the blob of organic material floating by Alaska. It ate a bird, people! Get with it! Seattle is next. Oh and we can film our demise with the first 3-D webcam. So that will comfort us during our demise.

EPISODE 1021

Yahoo, Microsoft finally near deal
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10289209-56.html

Video game sales revenue plummets 31 percent
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-10289207-235.html

Games Industry Suffers From Recession, Finally
http://technologizer.com/2009/07/16/games-industry-suffers-from-recession-finally/

Blu-ray celebrates 91 percent sales increase for first half of 2009
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/16/blu-ray-celebrates-91-percent-sales-increase-for-first-half-of-2/

Possible Twitter lawsuit would dive into murky blog waters
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135606/Possible_Twitter_lawsuit_would_dive_into_murky_blog_waters

Cosmetic surgery co. gets slapped for fake online reviews
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/cosmetic-surgery-co-gets-slapped-for-fake-online-reviews.ars

World’s First 3D Webcam Tested
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/2213224/Worlds-First-3D-Webcam-Tested

New Air Force BACN system ends incompatibilities between comm systems
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/07/air-forces-universal-translator-has-everybody-talking/

New DVDs For 1,000-Year Digital Storage
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/07/17/1213203/New-DVDs-For-1000-Year-Digital-Storage

Huge Unidentified Organic Blob Floating Around Alaska
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/1421255/Huge-Unidentified-Organic-Blob-Floating-Around-Alaska

Bill Gates is part of a team that has patented a new beer keg. Sure it could be used for other things. But the point was we're pretty sure he came up with the idea when drinking warm beer in Africa. We also talk about porn on the iPhone and new Windows pricing.

EPISODE 1005

Microsoft Windows 7 pricing revealed: pre-orders kick off June 26th
http://www.slashgear.com/microsoft-windows-7-pricing-revealed-pre-orders-kick-off-june-26th-2547957/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10272703-56.html

AT&T’s 3G upgrades to improve iPhone service
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10271450-94.html

WSJ publisher calls Google 'digital vampire'
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20090624/FREE/906249985

Porn comes to the iPhone
http://macenstein.com/default/archives/4693
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/apple-pulls-adult-content-app-from-app-store-anyone-surprised/

Web filters to censor video games
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/games/web-filters-to-censor-video-games-20090625-cxrx.html

China throttles Google, U.S. ratchets up trade war over Green Dam
http://government.zdnet.com/?p=5026

MetroPCS $5 unlimited international calling
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE55N59U20090624

Bill Gates on beer keg patent application
http://gizmodo.com/5302082/bill-gates-applies-for-patent-on-high-tech-keg
http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Bill_Gates_wants_a_better_beer_keg48998721.html

15-Year-Old Invents Algae-Powered Energy System
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/06/24/2223245/15-Year-Old-Invents-Algae-Powered-Energy-System

VOICEMAIL
Helen has something…er… for Cooley

Sean from Boulder on Windows

EMAIL
This will be my first “well actually” but as a mechanical engineer I
thought it worth pointing out that converting between units on a
complicated platform like the space shuttle is probably a bit more
complex than entering a few searches in google. Unfortunately, you
can’t just replace every 1/4″-20 x 1″ socket head cap screw with a
M6.35-1.27 x 25.4 screw. For one, the hardware doesn’t exist, and two,
the nomenclatures are different. You would actually have to reengineer
quite a bit to make a functioning system using only metric units.

It may be the bane of every freshman engineering student in the US,
but mixed units are the current reality.

Chris the LabVIEW Guy

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Hey Buzzcrew,

Just wanted to pass along a thank you. In large part to your constant harping about the DMCA takedown procedure’s lack of consideration for fair use, I decided to tackle the issue as the topic of my paper topic in my Copyright seminar this past semester. I got an A in the class and sumbitted it to a copyright writing competition. I won the competition at the local level and will move on to the national competition. I got $600 from ASCAP for winning at the local level, so it turns out the ASCAP is actually good for something.

If you have any interest in reading the paper, you can find it here (warning- it’s long).

-Will the lawyer in Milwaukee

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Hey All,

So Tom, from episode 1003, you had a 1977 Maverick? Tell us about it.
I had a 1969 and a 1977 Maverick at the same time.
Bought the ‘77 new, my 1st new car ever. Loved the ‘69 and cussed the
‘77 most of the time.
The 1977 had a 302 engine and by the time all the pollution crap was
hung on it I think it had less
power than the 1969 did with it’s straight 6 (170 c.i.d. I think). ‘69
was fast and had great fuel mileage.
Did you have a CB too or was that just a Midwest thing? Would that
qualify as the original form of Twitter?
What’s your 10-20 good buddy? I bet Cooley had a CB, am I right?

Anyway, The good old days, huh.
kenwarf02

p.s. Note of pride, that login was my first for the BOL Chat room of
episode 1000,
so I figure I probably won something for getting you to 1,000 in the
chat room.
http://www.lovefords.org/galleries/images/77_maverick_orange.jpg
http://www.ehuggydesigns.com/ford-maverick.jpg

Pope Benedict XVI has embraced Facebook but it's just an app. So you can't write on the pope's wall or poke him. We also are excited for the queen to get her golden Wii. And we're still somewhat excited about the Palm Pre. We also discover the meaning of PORN: Private Online Retail Network.

Episode 980

No visual voice mail on Palm Pre
http://gizmodo.com/5264854/palm-pre-doesnt-have-visual-voicemail
Best Buy stores only getting four Palm Pres for launch day?
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/05/21/best-buy-stores-only-getting-4-palm-pres-for-launch-day/

New version of Chrome…still no love for Mac
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/21/2054230
http://chrome.blogspot.com/2009/05/speedier-google-chrome-for-all-users.html

More Americans play games than go to the movies
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/21/2221246

Her Majesty the Queen gets a gold-plated Wii
http://gizmodo.com/5264715/queen-elizabeth-is-getting-a-gold+plated-wii

Pope joins Facebook
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE54L3AS20090522

Apple rejects iPhone app over access to Kama Sutra
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10247565-37.html
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/22/apple-says-no-projec.html

California wants to reinstate ban on violent video games
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=66714

Google StreetView in Germany
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=66727

Energy Star standards are not as useful for servers
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/22/0714225
http://www.infoworld.com/d/green-it/energy-star-servers-merely-first-step-258

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. Email either to buzz@cnet.com

VOICEMAIL
Garrett from Grand Rapids goes Cooley-spotting

E-MAIL
Hey Buzz,

I can really see the possibilities for Google’s new tracking/ad delivery idea: “Hello, we see that your parachute has not deployed. Would you like to buy a reserve?” Yes, Google has gold here. LTS.

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Nathan Pilling

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Dear BOL,

In show #977 Brain Cooley mentioned the work with Dove prisms that invert and reverse the world. His statement included a bit of hyperbole.
I’m a behavioral optometrist and we use prisms in our work.
The brain researcher Karl Pribram did a good bit of this work and I had the chance to chat with him about this work.

Prism after effects of simple prisms that shift images side to side or up and down last about the same amount of time the prisms are actually worn.
Put on the prisms, reach for an object and miss to the side. In a few minutes we recalibrate the movement.
After 5 minutes of wearing the prisms, when you take them off your hand moves in the opposite direction.

A fallacy that is often promulgated about the Dove (inverting and reversing) prisms is that after a period of time the world looked normal to the wearer.
This is not true.
What happened is that the conscious perception never flipped but the motor patterns were rewired so that all movements were made accurately.
Normalization, when the prisms come off, then does happen but takes a while.

Pribram did say however that they never should have done this work with humans.
The new software remains in the brain and later in life, during emergency types of situations, such as may happen when driving, the person might use the wrong motor software.

Perhaps an overzealous researcher or grad student wore the Dove prisms too long and then made an error in judgment in just such a situation.
To my knowledge there was no suicide as Cooley mentioned.

IN DEEP BASS VOICE: LOVE THE SHOW

Paul – the behavioral optometrist

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I’ve thought Ben was the new Alex for a while, but….

Google search counts for names on the bol blog:

Ben: 249
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Freviews.cnet.com%2Fbuzz-out-loud-podcast%2F+ben

Paul: 399
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Freviews.cnet.com%2Fbuzz-out-loud-podcast%2F+paul

Alex: 378
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Freviews.cnet.com%2Fbuzz-out-loud-podcast%2F+alex

Fordo: 129 (by herself! But, tied with Remy?)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Freviews.cnet.com%2Fbuzz-out-loud-podcast%2F+fordo

Remy: 129
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Freviews.cnet.com%2Fbuzz-out-loud-podcast%2F+remi

Here’s the chart, that doesn’t always work.
http://sites.google.com/site/bolalexscale/

Scientists have simulated a part of the brain, molecule by molecule, and may possibly be able to simulate an entire brain soon. This has Natali excited, because she anticipates being able to download martial arts into her brain. Jason just doesn't want to meet another one of himself. We also discuss the real cost of bandwidth for ISPs, and Immanuel Kant.

EPISODE 958

Bluetooth 3.0 has arrived
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10224658-1.html

Amazon Video-on-demand goes HD
http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/04/amazon-video-on-demand-goes-high-definition.ars

Google profiles in people search
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/search-for-me-on-google.html

The Road To Terabit Ethernet
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/22/1211253

A Layman’s Guide To Bandwidth Pricing
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/21/1951212

Hotmail chat in mail client…yay. About 2 years too late
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10223894-2.html

iPhone may have voice command and faster speeds
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-10223915-233.html
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=66097

Facebook for BlackBerry
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10224470-94.html

Leaked AT&T doc slams the Palm Pre
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/04/22/leaked-atandt-doc-slams-the-palm-pre/

Botnet expert wants ‘Special Ops’ security teams
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/22/0153242

Simulated brain closer to thought
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8012496.stm

World’s first X-Ray laser goes live
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/21/2317203

Vote for CNET TV on the Webby People's Voice Award!
http://pv.webbyawards.com/

Green show!
http://cnettv.cnet.com/2001-1_53-50005864.html

VOICEMAIL
Mark from Florida
Leave Ashton alone!

Dr. Rob
Not novacaine

Drew from Phoenix
Take on MYSQL and Oracle

E-MAIL
What you guys were saying about giving away MP3s, and selling the music in
other forms, is actually happening a lot in the Indie/Hardcore music scene.
Record labels are selling vinyl with download codes so you can get the MP3s
off the internet. It’s getting pretty big now.

–
Regards,

Nick Mango

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Did you get that Android chaser jingle done? According to The Inquirer (which I hope is reliable as I’ve never heard of it) a Chinese company called SkyTone has released the first netbook powered by Android. It has a 7 inch swivelling touchscreen with gamepad controls on the sides, wifi, 3G(!), SD card reader, a webcam and 2 USB ports as well as 128mb of RAM and a 533MHZ ARM processor. And what’s especially good in these troubled times (drink) is it’s price: $100. To me that speaks volumes for the quality of the components but its low enough to be in the impulse-buy realm so I’d certainly fork out for one!

Love the show, hate twitter,
Alex from the UK

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Hi Buzzers or buzzcrew or the slightly forgotten Jatona

Tomorrow it is the time for a new OS to hit the “shelves” - Ubuntu 9.04. Probably you got more than me reminding you of this - but since there is certainly strength in numbers, I will not hesitate to point you towards this, rather important, news.

A story from my world. I am CEO of a global company with offices in Denmark, Vietnam and Egypt. I have quite a number of staff doing production of elearning for us - and I am now moving them all to Ubuntu. No more licences, old copies and so on. Simply Open Source through and through (with the only possible exception being video-editing, since that is truly the world of proprietary formats). In my view we are ready now. With the combination of using Google Apps for Business for our email, systems like Dropbox and Google Docs for sharing and Ubuntu as OS we can actually run global corporations on open platforms and free services. Yes - we have to be aware of the dangers. Google could go chapter 11(!?!) - Google could turn evil(?) - Dropbox could close (ok that is possible). But as long as you are prepared for this - and take precautions for the risks, I do not really see why there is a need for corporate infrastructures when talking sub-100 people companies.

So - Go Ubuntu! I have been running 9.04 since beta - and has produces several projects for clients on the platform. It crashes a lot less than my Vista, which it dual-boots with. My main reasons for still having Windows is videoediting - and iTunes, so I can sync my iPhone and listen to Buzz Out Loud on my daily 1 hour commute.

Love the show

Adam the CEO, Denmark

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Luv the show and keep up the work. I'm a Systems Engineer and I work at Lockheed Martin. I worked on the JSF program many years ago when the program was in its infancy.
As you all may know... there are different tiers of security classification with respective networks. My speculation is that data siphoned off were DRs (Design Reviews) Presentations, SRR (System Requirement Reviews) and other set of data used to present & discuss planning and design with the stakeholders (i.e. Pentagon). These presentations talk about design, but at a high level, which in my opinion, any smart person can figure out just by using the internet. For example, you can find a high level design of the aircraft on wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F35#Design )
I'm guessing that NIPRNet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIPRNet) was compromised over the durations of the attacks, while the more sensitive network, SIPRNet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIPRNET ) remained secure.
It's not impossible, but I can't even imagine detailed drawings and assembly instructions to reside on any Pentagon server or pc. That design detailed is so low level, that it would probably annoy anyone who doesn't directly work on the aircraft. Usually that stuff is stored on the contractors (The Lockheeds & Boeings) secured network on some obscure and super secured server.
I would like to also add the F35 will be sold to other nations, which tells me that there are design specs that are traded with minimal sensitivity, i.e. if the data is compromised, there would be little or no repercussions. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F35#International_participation )
In summary, I'm not too concerned with data that was compromised at the Pentagon, because a lot of design is already available on the internet

Jazzman

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!

E-MAIL
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)

Turns out surfing Facebook at work has a name and it's good for your productivity. A study shows that 20 percent of your time spent Workplace Internet Leisure Browsing (WILB) will improve your output. Texas also says hasta la vista to Vista, and AT&T tries to block movies on its wireless network.

EPISODE 945

Google reported sniffing at Twitter, but to what end?
http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/04/google-reported.html
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/02/sources-google-in-late-stage-talks-to-buy-twitter/
http://www.appscout.com/2009/04/google_incorporating_twitter_f.php
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090403/sorry-to-get-you-all-a-twitter-but-google-is-not-in-late-stage-talks-to-acquire-the-hot-microblogging-service/

Google reveals “Secret” server designs
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/02/157244
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html

AT&T changes TOS to limit mobile video
http://newteevee.com/2009/04/02/att-changes-tos-to-limit-mobile-video/

Older Slingboxes incompatible with Sling iPhone app
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10210377-1.html

Study: Surfing the Internet at work boosts productivity
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/04/study-surfing-the-internet-at-work-boosts-productivity.ars

Telcos said its testing plan to offer PCs to businesses
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10787_3-10211116-60.html

Texas Senate proposes a budget with a no-Vista-upgrades rider
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/02/2158253

OS diversity protects cell phones from virus outbreaks
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/04/cellphone-os-diversity-protecting-against-viruses.ars

Angry villagers run Google out of town
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/02/1731231

Robot achieves scientific first
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f2b97d9a-1f96-11de-a7a5-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10211175-1.html

MIT scientists build virus-powered batteries for Your next electric car
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ariel-schwartz/sustainability/mit-scientists-build-virus-powered-batteries-your-next-electric-c

Chicks can do math
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/03/1525244

VOICEMAIL
Steve from Calgary
Howell world tour!

Alex in Buffalo
Linux not good on Time Warner Cable

Tony
West Virginia insulting issue

E-MAIL
This looks cool. Add this to the list of alternate game consoles.

http://digg.com/d1nnEK Envizions announced that it is taking orders for an open-source Linux gaming system, and will start shipping beta units to game developers, resellers, and software partners on April 10. The EVO Smart Console is based on a 2.4GHz Athlon, and includes a Fedora-based Linux distro.

-MC Fisticuffs

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Hi guys!

About the Windows Live update for Windows Mobile 6.5. Tom said “I don’t know how many folks use Windows Live anymore.” Well, here in the Netherlands and some other european countries many people use Windows Live Mail and almost everyone has a Windows Live Messenger account. Actually, I don’t know anyone who doesn’t use the Windows Live Messenger. Just wanted to let you know.

Love the show!

Wessel
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Forgot to tell you about this very clever conficker test in my previous email. Not sure if you’ve heard about it but if you haven’t it’s worth checking out:

http://www.confickerworkinggroup.org/infection_test/cfeyechart.html

Patrick Beja

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http://linux-foundation.org/weblogs/press/2009/04/02/linux-foundation-to-host-moblin-project/

Interesting one there. Mobilin is a linux distro created and until now
managed by Intel that is aimed at the Atom based MIDs and Netbooks.
It’s looked pretty interesting, taking lightweight and fast Xfce desktop
environment and a standardised API to make it easier for programmers,
whilst including GTK and QT as well.
It also manages something few other OSs have achieved, a true boot up in
just 5 seconds, from scratch not Suspend To Ram, not hibernation.

With that announcement Intel has passed over management of the
application to the Linux Foundation, whilst retaining a person on the
steering committee. What hasn’t changed is the core developers. Intel
is still employing them full time to work on it, so it appears to be an
almost political rather than practical change here to try and pull other
parties in and get them invested in the development.

Paul,
Hawaii.

EPISODE 892

Meet Son of Storm, Srizbi 2.0: next-gen botnets come online
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090115-meet-son-of-storm-srizbi-2-0-next-gen-botnets-come-online.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7832652.stm
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F16%2F142211

Video game industry roars in December
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-10143990-235.html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090115-king-of-the-hill-nintendo-dominates-final-2008-sales-charts.html

Intel profit sinks 90%
http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/15/technology/Intel_earns/?postversion=2009011521

Circuit City fails to be wanted, will now be liquidated http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7834250.stm

UPDATE: Apple Mac Mini based on Nvidia Ion
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-mac-nvidia-ion,6849.html

Facebook has Whopper of a problem with Burger King campaign
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9126098

New cloaking surface throws an electromagnetic curveball
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090115-new-cloaking-surface-throws-an-electromagnetic-curveball.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10143649-1.html

Where to watch the inauguration online
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10144072-38.html

Choices narrowed for first U.S. CTO
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2009/tc20090115_815265.htm

How many AAAAAs in Khaaaaaaaan?
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/01/16/how-many-aaaaas-in-k.html

Voice mail
Ryan from Hawaii: Pull the plug!
http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa090115_mo_DTV.81dfa76.html
(from Greg in Baton Rouge)

Patrick from NH: carpentry tip for Cooley

E-mail
Hi all. I am not a famous person. I have never voted for an idol. I’ve
only been an AT&T customer for 3 weeks so I’ve only managed to send
less than 100 txt messages - not a heavy texter. Even after all that,
I still got the American idol spam txt yesterday. You guys made me
feel like I’m a “somebody”. Thanks!

Peter on the train in Chicago

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Hi BOL Crew, Long time first time, At&T said they were sending these texts to “heavy texters” and people who had voted for American Idol in the past. I fit in to both categories. I have voted twice from my phone and my sister, my mother, and myself send 8000, 5000, & 4000 texts a month respectivly. I’m a little hurt i didn’t get a message. :’( Love the show.

McAfee15

Today's title is an example from Natali's mind of some tags you might put on a video with Yahoo's new video tagging game. I would like to see that video. We also touch on the myth of Cyber Monday and keep you up to date on Linux on the iPhone.

EPISODE 862

Cyber Monday supposed to be big this year
http://www.pcworld.com/article/154458/a_cyber_monday_tech_shopping_primer.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13845_3-10110111-58.html

Joost for iPhone
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10109753-2.html

Yahoo Video Tag game
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoos_new_videotaggame_lets_you_tag_within_videos.php

Facebook Connect appears set for expansion
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10110039-93.html

Baidu vows search overhaul
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE4AR3HI20081128

Hackers boot Linux on iPhone
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10110018-37.html

uTorrent for Mac
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/27/finally-utorrent-releases-a-mac-version/

Morroco biometric ID cards
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13639_3-10110050-42.html

European Cyber Crime unit
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10110133-83.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7758127.stm

Criterion Collection dips its toes into online film rentals
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081130-criterion-collection-dips-its-toes-into-online-film-rentals.html

VOICE MAIL

Dwight in Hollywood
Request for Amazon about Kindle

E-MAIL

Whoa snap!

It looks like “Transit Mode” may be closer than we think. I don’t think that anyone has mentioned it yet (since you guys discussed it a week before the G1 was publicly available), so I give to you: Locale .

Locale is an app for Android which — well, the site is much more informative than I could be about it.

Suffice it to say that there are GPS-enabled, location-aware phone profile changes going on here. I’m thinking v2.0 could add hooks into changing voicemail settings; id est:

If curVelocity > 25mph Then
numRings = 1
vmGreeting = greet2
Else If curVelocity > 50mph Then
numRings = 0
vmGreeting = greet3
End If

Yeah, it’d *probably* wind up being slightly more complicated than the preceding block of code, but it’s a start. Heck, they can even use that as a springboard, no charge!

Link: [http://code.google.com/android/adc_gallery/app.html?id=25]

~ J-2 in MD, who Luvs.the.freakin’.show!

P.S. After sending the following email, I took another look at the screenshots on the Android page. It looks like you can already set up specific call forwarding features based on current location! (see last pic) Now all we need is that voicemail greeting change thingy, and T.M. is here. For realz!

I listen to the buzz out loud podcast a lot and I really enjoy the banter. Sometimes I learn more about the tech world from listening to you guys than I do from reading most of the articles on technology and I recommend the podcast to my friends.

Now, here’s something I’d like to hear about. Today, on the front page of c|net, I was treated to a large, annoying, autorunning video ad of the iPhone. This is the second time it’s appeared this month that I know of. There is a close button at the top of the ad, but the button does not work and the ad plays ad whether I want it to or not. This has to be my number one pet peave on the internet these days since these ads only serve to clog up my tubes locally with content I don’t want to see. Ad blocking does not appear to work, so I notified CBS through the “ad feedback” link that for this weekend I will be blacklisting c|net on this network.

What do you guys think? Am I over reacting in a world where my ISP is planning to start limiting my monthly bandwidth and where annoying ads such as these are using up my bandwidth sans my permission? Or am I justified in wishing to control what goes across my network and what uses up my bandwidth and what doesn’t? I do not have anything against ads because I know everyone needs to get paid for the work they do, but come on, do they think we’ll keep coming back to a site that continually uses up more bandwidth than it’s worth? Afterall, CnetTV stops streaming after 3 videos for precisely the reason of not wanting to use up bandwidth, why limit the bandwidth there but not in this case?

Just my pet peave and rant of the weekend.

Matt in Palm Bay

With as nice as the Holiday Help Desk is to watch on cnettv.com, why
isn’t cnet cranking out content on a DTV subcarrier for any CBS owned
and operated station? Here in Las Vegas our local CBS affiliate (not an
O&O) carries programming from LATV on its .2 signal. My local NBC
affiliate carries not only Universal Sports but also NBC WeatherPlus.
For all the great stuff CNET does in audio as well as video online,
couldn’t it reach even more people via DTV?

An OTA version of cnet couldn’t be too difficult via DTV and would
likely have less download limit worries than pulling podcasts on an
iPhone. The morning wake-up show already exists with the404. B-O-L
could be the mid-morning show. After that other things that are on
watchbol.com now could be aired.

I am merely curious. I enjoy both the404 and B-O-L as morning shows.
Both are better than some of the things local radio provides.

Stephen Michael Kellat
Henderson, NV

Hello Molly, Tom, Jason +1,

I am a long time listener from India.

Please make mention about the role of social media (Twitter, Flickr) in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks if you can.

Wired article
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/11/first-hand-acco.html

WSJ article
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122772417126260231.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us

I must confess that I have some concerns about it in this context, the biggest being the safety of the hostages, e.g. there were requests from the authorities to stop the twitter feed #mumbai, since the holed-up attackers might be following them, thus giving away details of the operations of the security forces.

However 36 hours on, #mumbai still lives.

In any case, it sign of the times and definitely of relevance beyond India.

Love the show.

Cheers,
murari

Murari Venkataraman

Wii Speak Channel

I’m surprised you guys didn’t talk about this today. Gosh, you guys are getting more and more influential. Someone should make a list of all the things you guys changed in order to make these troubled times less… troubled. In fact, I bet Molly could run for president and win at this point. Or better yet, you could make a podcast oriented government. Every week a new episode would come out with new laws for people. And it would be fair, because you would let other people come on to the show and submit their own laws.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6201714.html?tag=latestheadlines;title;3

Love the show,
Anonymouse