Show Notes for 12/12

P2P network clogger can't make a business of clogging http://news.com.com/Clogger+of+P2P+networks+to+shut+down/2100-1025_3-5989758.html?part=rss&tag=5989758&subj=news

File swapping fine upheld in court
"As file sharing has increased over the last four years, the sales of recorded music have dropped by approximately 30 percent," the court said. "Perhaps other economic factors contributed, but the events likely are related."
http://news.com.com/File-swapping+fine+upheld/2100-1028_3-5991531.html?part=rss&tag=5991531&subj=news

Only 2% of people who paid a fee to download music from the Internet cited that the contentious legal issues surrounding online music distribution concerned them.
This statistic comes from Ipsos-Reid's latest research on the consumption of digital media titled "Cultivating Desire: Investing in Market Insights to Reap Digital Content Profits".
http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/5002/tempo2005.html

Is Nielsen obsolete?
http://news.com.com/Nielsens+mobile-TV+challenge/2100-1025_3-5989687.html

Google users are wealthier
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/10/1429203&from=rss

OpenOffice illustrates Open Source limits http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/10/0114200&from=rss

Live tracking of mobile phone prompts court fights on privcay http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/10/technology/10phone.html?ex=1291870800&en=2019ce35d6b47983&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

Fingerprint scanners fooled by play-doh
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/12/0557249&from=rss

Hackers steal personal info of the generous, and extort them for more money. Nice.
http://news.com.com/Hackers+grab+donor+info+from+U.K.+charity/2100-1029_3-5991361.html

BIT

Americans were busy shooting people, Japanese don't care about Xbox 360 http://eckhouse.com/url/f/087ea.php

iPod underwear
http://us.gizmodo.com/gadgets/clothing/ipod-underwear-has-arrived-142337.php

Guy put false info in Wikipedia as a joke http://eckhouse.com/url/f/c320b.php

Prodigy for sale. Wait, Prodigy still exists?
http://news.com.com/Prodigy+up+for+sale/2100-1036_3-5989754.html?part=rss&tag=5989754&subj=news

Throwable wifi camera
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/10/216241&from=rss

Space Sports close to reality
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/051209_spacesports.html

FORUMS
All the must-have firefox extensions. Thanks!
http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-10152-0.html?forumID=97&threadID=141974&messageID=1592180


VOICE

Me - Billing address blocks Canadian iTunes users..


EMAIL:
Todd thinks Sony DRM is a ploy to stop CD sales.

message: Dear Molly,
Sometimes you truly have a head of wood Guy was worried about tracking his podcast.

message: a.k.a Suthringurl (Southern Girl)
Renamed by Tom as: Gamergirl 12-09-05
No longer the only pin in South Carolina (not NORTH Carolina)

Daniel - "It seems to me that the issue with having a 3rd party URL pointing to a mirror of your RSS xml is that once there is a significant number of people using that mirrored URL, a malicious 3rd party could replace the RSS with their own feed, and steal your listeners."

Via Adam
http://internetweek.cmp.com/handson/174907404
"I can't open firefox without using about 100k and it is really slow. I have started using Opera until a new version comes out."


FRAPPR at 698!

Olatokunbo Antelope (CA), 12.09.2005
I have a long name,and love your show