Today's BOL ushers in the dawn of ... a new drinking game! Whenever you hear us say "definitely" on today's show -- and it's going to be often -- take a swig. Also, we Monday-morning quarterback the Super Bowl ads and explore the many reasons people don't want to buy an iPad. Oh, and my Droid is definitely crashy (drink!). -- Molly
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EPISODE 1161
Top Stories
Barnes & Noble says Nook e-readers officially back in stock
Survey: Majority of people don’t want aniPad
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10448755-71.html
Apple Will Reject Apps Using GPS for Location-AwareAds
http://www.pcworld.com/article/188740/apple_will_reject_apps_using_gps_for_locationaware_ads.html
Google leaps language barrier with translator phone
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/article7017831.ece
China Heralds Bust of Major HackerRing
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703630404575052684021385828.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLTopStories
Other Stories
Google aims for cute with Super Bowl ad
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10448803-36.html
T-Mobile for sale: Google shouldbuy
http://www.glgroup.com/News/TMobiles-for-sale-%E2%80%93-Google-should-buy-46390.html
Windows Phone 7 to dropmultitasking?
http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/02/06/windows.phone.7.may.be.deliberate.step.backwards/
Game developers move to iPhone, ignoreWii
http://games.venturebeat.com/2010/02/06/research-tracks-shift-in-game-industry-development-toward-iphone/
Kickers and Science
95% of User-Generated Content IsBogus
http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/02/07/0126226/95-of-User-Generated-Content-Is-Bogus
Physicists Discover How To TeleportEnergy
http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/05/2239256/Physicists-Discover-How-To-Teleport-Energy
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Just to throw out one more idea for memorable passwords. This method was suggested by our corporate security team. Rather than use a dictionary word and then l33t sp33k it, use a memorable phrase and use the first characters then alter it. It is also good practice to mix cases and at least 1 number and punctuation character.
So the phrase “BOL Cnet’s Podcast of Indeterminate Length” becomes the password b0lCp!l (zero replaces o and ! replaces i). It is easy to remember and reproduce and not subject to a dictionary attack. Using this as a base it could be customized for different accounts.
-Jason in Chicago
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you know what makes a perfect password??
you’re license plates
I have two cars and combine the plates.
A single plate backwards combined with your regular password would work well too.
call me anonymous!
thanks 