I read them
Is anybody reading these? Just wanting to make sure they're useful.
Wireless iPod by 2006?
http://engadget.com/entry/1234000027072502/
Microsoft patches IE, fixes Sony flaw
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/13/2110229&from=rss
Rolling Stone : Copy-Protection Troubles Grow Sony artists are offering homemade CDs as a replacement - VIA Boing Boing http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/8950981?rnd=1134568264547&has-player=true
Parmount sues Ohio man for $100,000
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/13/2317215&from=rss
EU approves data retention plan
ISPs would be forced to keep two-years worth of user data http://news.com.com/Europe+passes+tough+new+data+retention+laws/2100-7350_3-5995089.html?part=rss&tag=5995089&subj=news
Industry group seeks dominance in HD arena http://news.com.com/Industry+groups+seek+dominance+in+HD+arena/2100-1013_3-5994130.html?part=rss&tag=5994130&subj=news
Google widegetizes home page
http://news.com.com/Google+home+pages+get+even+more+personal/2100-1038_3-5995182.html?part=rss&tag=5995182&subj=news
Google ads on PBS
http://news.com.com/2061-10812_3-5995208.html?part=rss&tag=5995208&subj=news
BIT
Quanta to build the $100 laptop
http://news.com.com/Quanta+to+build+the+100+laptop/2100-1042_3-5994056.html?part=rss&tag=5994056&subj=news
Slashdot | Virgin Galactic to Build Space Port in New Mexico http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/14/0452227&from=rss
Play Xbox while you drive
http://news.com.com/2300-11389_3-5994836-1.html?part=rss&tag=5994836&subj=news
Solid gold DVD boxed set - via Ari
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000253072470/
Marc Cuban invests in high-tech toilet seats http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/12-13-2005/0004232726&EDATE=
VOICE
Michael - friend uses Limewire. He says stuff he downloads is not illegal because the stuff has no license.
Jeff - Shreveport - Two cracked CDs. Is a download equivalent to a backup? Does that extend to 45s etc.
Evan - LA - Idea for child monitoring. Pair of bionic hands and eyeball camera. Send kid to play catch with bionic hands and eyeball while you sit in the house.
Adam - Atlanta - Dean Gray. How does this relate to Weird Al? He uses copyrighted material and parodies it. Is Dean Gray parody?
Bill Hickock - Southern New Hampshire - Telcos degrading sounds like Windows with features only MS knew about. MS had to deal with this right? Does it apply?
Adrian - Phoenix - Audio quality comment. Run a 64 kbps bump sample rate down to 22 Khz.
Jason - (Columbus?) Ohio - Rant about DirecTV and VoiP. Nightmare of customer support. Going to dump DirecTV. (Call quality is poor here)
EMAIL
From Colin
Dear Mr. Merritt,
We refer to your 'Podcast' of December 9 2005 were you mention that you will be furthering your attempt to patent the word 'the'. We bring to your attention the fact that this word is already under our protection. Any further use by yourself will be subject to all available remedies provided to us under the Patent Act. To prevent any further use of the word by yourself, we recommend the word 'uh', which is open source.
Thank you,
NTP, Creative etc....
From Melissa W
Wal-Mart now allows you to order your own 'mix' CDS online.
Kevin says Molly was right
Hey guys.... <head hangs in shame>
Ok, so maybe Molly was right. I'm at home using my redeclared favorite Safari browser this evening and I couldn't understand why clicking on the customer service links at LADWP's website would do nothing. They are simple, underlined text links, for crying out loud. I quit out of Safari, tried again and no dice. Launched Firefox and sure enough, it worked straight away.
Is the lesson here that we users must always keep multiple browsers handy on our machines because any given browser breaks over a dozen things? We are left to hope there isn't incompetence overlap so that if one doesn't work, the other one just might. argh...
-Kevin (in search of the perfect browser)
South Carolina getting into it
message: Hey, this is another lucky listener of yours from the Greenville, SC area. I love the show!!!!
Well the reason I e-mailed you guy/gals is because you had another listener from Greenville (I think her name was "Southern Gamer") talking about possibly buying the new Creative Vision M instead of the new iPod. Well, I would like for you to tell her that if she buys that new creative, shes possibly decreasing the chances of Greenville getting an apple store. Now we dont want that to happen right!!!!!!......So I'm demanding that everybody in South Carolina buy as many iPods and iMacs as possible so that we can get an applestore in South Cackylacky...OK!!!!!!......geeze..get with the program Steve Jobs. Cant you see that Greenville is the next ATL. GOSH!!.....Freakin Idiot.
Well...I'm done ranting on about greenville not having an apple store....But I beg of you to read this post on the next podcast. We cant have slackers like "Southern Gamergirl" or something like that slacking off. We South Carolinians have a duty to follow. I already bought my iPod nano, and mac mini..Now its time everybody in greenville to do the Same!!!!
-Peace-
-Marcus from (Hilcrest High)
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