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- Buzz Out Loud 862: George Bush, Pollution, cardboard, whatever
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Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:46:00 PSTToday'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.
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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.htmlJoost for iPhone
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10109753-2.htmlYahoo Video Tag game
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoos_new_videotaggame_lets_you_tag_within_videos.phpFacebook Connect appears set for expansion
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10110039-93.htmlBaidu vows search overhaul
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE4AR3HI20081128Hackers boot Linux on iPhone
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10110018-37.htmluTorrent 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.htmlEuropean Cyber Crime unit
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10110133-83.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7758127.stmCriterion Collection dips its toes into online film rentals
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081130-criterion-collection-dips-its-toes-into-online-film-rentals.htmlVOICE MAIL
Dwight in Hollywood
Request for Amazon about KindleE-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 IfYeah, 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.htmlWSJ article
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122772417126260231.html?mod=rss_whats_news_usI 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,
murariMurari 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 - Buzz Out Loud 861: Ice blue and the hot breaths (-0mb)
Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:49:00 PSTWe've got a host of Black Friday news today, like Apple retail stores matching online promotions; Sony still refuses to lower the price on the PS3, but they will let you get a PlayStation credit card and a $150 discount (along with whopping interest rates, of course, so pay that sucker off right away, mmkay?); and Nintendo has a couple of new DS Lite bundles on offer instead of the DSi. At least one of them comes in ICE BLUE.
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EPISODE 861
Apple retail stores will match reseller prices
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10107987-37.htmlUse the new PlayStation Visa, get $150 off purchase of PS3
http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/11/25/use-the-new-playstation-visa-get-150-off-purchase-of-ps3/Nintendo hunkers down for Black Friday
http://www.neoseeker.com/news/9294-nintendo-hunkers-down-for-black-friday/Sling opens up its Hulu competitor to the public
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/25/sling-opens-up-its-hulu-competitor-to-the-public/U.K. agency bans ‘really fast’ iPhone ad
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10108679-37.htmlDigital sales surpass CDs at Atlantic
http://news.cnet.com/Digital-sales-surpass-CDs-at-Atlantic/2100-1027_3-6248057.htmlGmail ‘vulnerability’ turns out to be phishing scam
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10108529-83.htmlGoogle admits breaking App Store rules
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10108348-37.htmlMicrosoft ranked fifth worst spam service ISP
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10108283-83.html90 percent of gaming-addiction patients not addicted
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7746471.stmVOICE MAIL
Dave from New Jersey: BlackBerry FridayAnon: PeekYou
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Leave it to the Swedes:Keith
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Hey JaMoTo+1,
This is Kumar from Hong Kong. I’m just writing in about Episode 859 where you mentioned that Felicia Day’s show The Guild was paid show. In fact, the first season of The Guild is available for free on YouTube, and the first episode of the second season was just released, and is now available at MSN Video (and Xbox Live/Zune Whatever-it’s-called, obviously). You can get all the links at watchtheguild.com.
Also, someone asked why it wasn’t available as a podcast. While it isn’t officially a podcast, there is a website (www.rsshandler.com) that converts YouTube channels to video podcast feeds. Pretty nifty, huh? It’s come in handy for me many times (I use it for Season 1 of the Guild, the official Monty Python channel, the official PotterCast channel, and more).
Cheers,
KumarP.S.: Is there a way to send you guys voicemail through Skype or something of the sort? Or how about sending an mp3 through email? The US telephone number isn’t of much use down here in Hong Kong.
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Hey Buzzers,
I vote for the immediate establishment of the Association for Creation of Reliable Obfuscated Naming for Your Meaningless Subcommittee aka ACRONYMS
I wonder if I can get hold of the acronyms.gov? I'll let you know how that goes
Dave the Software Engineer
Ireland**********
The government department charged with creating names like “SAFER”, “PATRIOT”, “CANSPAM”, etc. is the “American Central Research Office
(for) Names Yielding Mnemonics.”Simon
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Dear Buzz Crew, or JaMoTo as the case may be : )
I’m writing you concerning the verdict in the Amero Case. I’m the Technology Coordinator / IT Admin for the Clarendon Public School District in Clarendon, AR. I am absolutely disgusted and in shock that this case was even brought to court in the first place. The ones who should be paying fines, and more appropriately being tossed out on their collective asses, are the police computer “expert” and the school tech guy. They lied in court and proceeded to make several errors and mistakes when talking about internet technology. Stories like this make me want to be like the old South Western Bell Telephone: Reach out and “touch” someone. And by touch, I mean slap the holy crap out of. I feel really bad for this poor woman. I know her health is not good, but I’d find me a good lawyer who understands the tech and sue the living pants off of the idiot cop, the tech guy, and the district.
I have had a few cases where I’ve found porn on systems and porn on the browser cache, but they have all been linked to spyware that has infested the machine. The source is usually from software such as “free” screensavers that the teachers bring from home via thumb drives and install on their teacher computer. I also see a lot from botched installs of Limewire, Frostwire, Aires, Bear Share, etc. They can install all the major file sharing apps they want. My school side firewall and the DIS side filtering system won’t let them work. Simple, but effective.
I manage a Novell (Suse Enterprise Linux w/ Novell Open Enterprise Server) network and right at 300 computer systems. We have a hardware firewall at each campus, a site license with Grisoft for our AV, Firefox w/ Adblock as the default browser, and we are behind the AR Department of Information Systems 8E6 filtering system. I use several free tools to manage malware infections when they happen.
My point is this. Even with the very good protection that the state’s filter system, our firewall, and AVG provide for us, I still get porn pop-up and malware issues that happen. I do not care how much hardware and software protection you throw at it, if you have a large network, you will have issues. Period. End of Story. Add kids on computers to the mix and your risk goes way up. If you want to have and impervious system, I have a very simple solution. Unplug the network cable. Until you are ready for that day, at least hire some people with more than a brain stem to run your network.
I cannot guarantee that as of right now every machine on my network is updated with the latest patches and AV updates. But I can guarantee that none of our systems are more than two months behind. It boggles my mind to think of the problems that the Kelly Middle School faces now if the same idiots still run the network.
Sincerely,
Brent Cannon
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I’m a teacher.
Not only should Julie Amero go after the IT department in her former district. I think the whole commuity needs get up in arms about the huge waste of money persecuting this poor woman. They need to impeach/fire the DA, the head of the police department that arrested her. The cops and DA’s office should have laughed in the district officials faces - and if the district pushed it they should have been arrested for filing false charges.
I’m am disturbed by the fact she didn’t know how to turn off the monitor. I teach technology to students K - 5 all of them know how to turn off the monitor. SOP for hitting an inappropriate website is turn off monitor, tell an adult, the adult gets you out of the site and checks what you were doing just before. If the student was acting within the rules - a note goes home to the parents explaining that a site was accidentally accessed and has been turned into IT to be blocked. If the student acted outside the rules - well they don’t report the bad site unless they get caught (My classroom is set up so I can see all the screens easily). Those I find by checking histories on the computers.
In the last 4 years, I have had 2 or 3 kids a year accidentally access inappropriate sites usually while doing research on cancer, the Civil Rights Movement or the Civil War.
Love the show,
Kimberly a Texas Teacher - Buzz Out Loud 860: Close Enough for Nuclear War (-0mb)
Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:02:00 PST
On today's show, we learn that there's little difference between nuclear war and horseshoes, at least in the "close enough" department. Also, a new segment: This Week in Cooley! Plus, a flurry of online news including mobile scheduling for your TiVo, the travesty of the teacher and the porn pop-ups, and Chrome is the king of speed!
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EPISODE 860
Cooley debriefs:
- Just drove in in the new 370Z with SynchroMatch transmission.
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-10102550-48.html- From iPhone to Bold: how it's going, why I did it.
- Promo: EOH today discussing car tech seen at the L.A. Auto Show (open now)
Amazon Kindle 2 Slated For "Early Q1″
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/25/amazon-kindle-2-slated-for-early-q1/Flurry of online video stuff:
- Blockbuster launches a box
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10107437-1.html- YouTube goes wide screen
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10107536-93.html- TiVo goes mobile for everyone
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10107464-1.htmlThe Guild Coming to Xbox Live Marketplace
http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/11/the-guild-comin.htmlTeacher in porn pop-up case dodges jail but loses creds
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081124-teacher-in-porn-popup-case-dodges-jail-loses-creds.htmlSenate: When analog TV goes dark, leave a light on
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081124-senate-when-analog-tv-goes-dark-leave-a-light-on.htmlWeb and mobile increasing TV viewership
http://www.medialifemagazine.com/artman2/publish/Research_25/TV_s_new_best_friends_Web_and_mobile.aspNew study crowns Google’s Chrome king of speed
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10107591-16.htmlNanotech clothing fabric ‘never gets wet’
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16126-nanotech-clothing-fabric-never-gets-wet.htmlVoice mail
“Hey:” Star Trek reminiscencesBob the patent lawyer: “close enough for nuclear war”
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Jamoto,
On Buzz-Out-Loud #859 Daniel in Hell e-mailed about the EULA for the iPhone which restricted the use of the phone for, “the development design manufacture or production of various kinds of weapons”. I believe that this is due to the fact that it contains a GPS unit, which could at least theoretically be used for a targeting or timing system. I would guess that this would be a standard EULA feature of other GPS devices, but maybe just the iPhone since it can run apps and would be easier to configure for the task. I guess the option of using the phone to record and replay a Molly rant is still an unrestricted pleasure. Love the show, keep up the good work.
Thomas the Professional Nuclear Engineer
“It ain’t rocket science - its Nuclear Engineering”**********
Orbital Speed and Buzz Out Loud
http://blog.dotphys.net/2008/11/orbital-speed-and-buzz-out-loud/Rhett Allain
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Emmanuel
What’s Up Buzz Crew!
Who better to help with Obama with his FCC Transition than a Level 70 Shaman! Last week President Elect Obama appointed Kevin Werbach as a Co-Chair to the transition team. Level 70 ain’t nothing to sneeze at. I’m also sure this is why Obama wants a laptop in the Oval… I mean with all that down time, I’m sure Werbach will have Obama hooked on World of Warcrack in no time!
http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/11/20/obamas-fcc-transition-co-chair-is-a-wow-player/
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What’s this I hear? You need another host for Friday? I’m not doing anything over Thanksgiving - flights home from Vegas to Portland for both Thanksgiving are too expensive, (in these troubled times,
*drink*) but I can fly to SFO for cheap! $150 on Virgin America round-trip! You can pay me back later.I’ve even written the intro in advance:
(Camera 1) Merritt: “Coming up on CNET Live: it’s that time of year again, time for 10 STRAIGHT hours of CNET Live’s Holiday Help Desk, when we ease the pains of your holiday tech shopping. Lots of reviews, lots of questions, lots of answers!”
(Camera 2) Cooley: “Plus, I’ll teach you how to roast a turkey with the Nickel-Metal Hydride batteries from a new Ford Escape hybrid! And Cars! Cars! CARS!”
(Camera 3) Me: “And I made a cape from my CNET sweatshirt! CNET Live starts now! EXCELSIOR!”
(I unfurl my cape and fly stage-left Al Gore-style. Animated exclamation points dancing on screen. Play intro sequence.)
Perfect opportunity for my Al Gore impression. You can have that for free. Unfortunately I’m not very patient with verbose callers, comfortable in front of cameras, or altogether functional before noon, but that also means I’m totally nerdcore, so feel free to give me a call. Like Cooley said, nobody’s gonna be watching this anyway, right? (Just let me know before Wednesday, because the price doubles on Thursday.)
LTS,
-Andrew
- Buzz Out Loud 859: Don't get your flops in a watt (-0mb)
Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:54:00 PSTRafe and Molly square off over the reuse of air conditioning technology, the fail whale sinks a deal between Facebook and Twitter, Gmail is cracked, and an enterprising astronaut creates the ultimate in must-have space tech: a zero-G coffee cup.
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EPISODE 859
Twitter rebuffs a Facebook poke?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10106391-2.htmlGmail exploit may allow attackers to forward e-mail
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10106275-83.html
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/breaking-gmail-security-flaw-more-domains-get-stollen/EU strikes down French “3 strikes” copyright infringement law
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/23/1952248Has HavenCo’s data haven shut down?
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/24/1326252Machine condenses drinking water out of thin air
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/23/1851200Astronaut invents zero-G coffee cup
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/081124-sts126-zerog-coffee-B.htmlNFL demos live 3D broadcasts
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10106431-93.htmlVerizon workers fired over Obama records breach
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10106122-94.htmlWhy Obama should ditch YouTube
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13739_3-10106214-46.htmlHave it all: Lunascape, the browser with three engines
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10105896-2.htmlVOICE MAIL
Stephan: Does Molly owe Tom $2?Ed from Maryland: Success!
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Since y’all didn’t cover the Supercomputing conference in Austin last week (a show where “consumer” and “low-end” mean “under $50K a piece”) here’s a quick floor report:First, the race for the fastest computer in the world. In summary, we won! (We being the Los Alamos Roadrunner team). Oak Ridge’s new Jaguar was the second ever to get a Petaflop/s on the Top500 benchmark, but came up short a mere 46 Teraflops. That margin of victory is larger than the performance of any machine built before 2004. But, Roadrunner still gets more than 3x more Flops per watt than Jaguar.
To Oak Ridge’s credit, they did get the fastest scientific application ever. A 1.3PF, single-precision, run of a superconductivity simulation. More atoms and more detailed force calculations in these models than have ever been simulated. By next year’s SC conference, there should be lots more record breaking simulations coming from the Oak Ridge and Los Alamos monsters.
Also cool, the OpenCL standard is moving along nicely. It’s a library to allow easier use of GPU cores for computation. A useful release should come out sometime in 2009 which ought to make the GPU solutions every booth was hawking more appetizing.
The new Intel and AMD CPU lines were mostly ignored. No one seemed to care at all for Michael Dell’s keynote. Sun is going whole hog into high performance, despite layoffs elsewhere. And, sadly, not much new in networking and storage.
The good news is, despite These Troubled Economic Times, high performance computing seems to be doing ok. The budgets for most labs and research centers are flat or growing slowly, and the vendors are pushing lots of innovation into the space. Plus the t-shirt giveaways were more prolific than they’ve been since the dot-com days…:)
Also, Austin is a very cool town, and The Salt Lick is mighty fine BBQ…I’m still stuffed.
Love the show,
-Mark the supercomputer repairman
I’d just like to point out how amazingly intelligent Charter Communications is in regards to throttling high bandwidth users like myself. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been downloading a lot of, ahem, “Linux ISOs” over the torrents. So it seems that Charter saw fit to slow my download speeds, but rather than throttle my torrents, they throttled everything over HTTP. As a result, I’m still able to download my “Linux ISOs” at over 300KB/sec, but it seems that all HTTP traffic is capped around 30KB/sec. As a result, if I want to watch legitimate commercial or user generated content on sites like Hulu and YouTube, the video is far too jerky and requires too much buffering to be even remotely watchable. As a result, it’s now faster to download shows over torrents than it is to wait for them to load on Hulu. What a great way to discourage piracy, Charter!
-Kyle
Nashville, TN
Hi TMJ+,
I am writing to express my wonderment that I have a Google product that was updated from Beta to a full version in just a couple of months. We are all familiar with the Google habit of leaving most products in Beta for indefinite amounts of time for legal and other sundry reasons.
Well, Picasa 3 is now prime time folks (or ‘guys’ as we say here in OZ). And by the way, it is really cool. And I mean really cool. For example, the Retouch feature is exemplary (see attached collage I created in Picasa of my friend Anna). There is excellent video integration with easy Youtube uploading. There are too many features to list here in such a short space. However, I recommend it to all your listeners for the amateur to semi professional photographer. Google have excelled themselves. Congratulations!Regards
Louix
Victoria, Australia
Hi buzz crew, I just wanted to write and let you know I found something
interesting when I was at lala.com. After I up loaded my music library to
lala.com, I noticed I was able to play my DRM itunes downloads on lala. I
can’t seem to do this on anything else but an authorized computer. Now I
can do it from my lala cloud. Tell me that isn’t cool! Lala needs a
streaming application for the iphone (and I need to convince my wife to get
an iphone, once iphone gets voice dialing, stereo bluetooth, and cut and
copy)Well, love the show, and haven’t missed in over 2 years!
Justin
Hey BOL,
After listening to your HDCP rant, I have to vent. I hate HDCP. Just
in every day, in-spec use, it breaks the functionality between my
Toshiba HD-DVD player (it still upscales :*( ) and my Philips 42″ LCD
TV about 30% of the time that I start up a DVD. Essentially what
happens is the movie tries to play, HDCP says no, and/or I get an
epileptic seizure-inducing flashing green screen. I described HDCP to
my friend as a situation where you give both the TV and the player a
loaded gun, you make them both very nervous, and you put them in a
dark, locked room together, and about 30% of the time they start
shooting, killing each other (and preventing me from watching my movie
until I turn them both off and try again).Love the show! Hate HDCP!
Mike the chip designer in FL
Here’s some good content for you (and another MP3, heh), iPhone nukes. This taken directly from iPhone EULA:
You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of missiles, or nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.
I hope I’m not too late before you decide on what to use today.LTS,
DanielInHell - Buzz Out Loud 858: Opportunistic Net-connecting Deer (-0mb)
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:53:00 PSTSo we talked about a lot of serious news today including the Justin.tv suicide, the new Google wiki search, and the unauthorized access of Barack Obama's Verizon calling records. But really, Rafe's description of Net-connected Deer is what I'll remember about this episode. How about you?
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EPISODE 858
19-year-old Commits Suicide on Justin.tv
http://newteevee.com/2008/11/20/19-year-old-commits-suicide-on-justintv/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10104716-93.htmlSearchWiki: Make search your own
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/searchwiki-make-search-your-own.html
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_to_turn_search_into_wik.php
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081120-roll-your-own-search-results-with-googles-new-searchwiki.htmlReport: Obama’s cell records improperly accessed
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10104997-83.htmlApple releases the iPhone 2.2 update. It's a big one
http://venturebeat.com/2008/11/20/apple-releases-iphone-22-update-its-a-big-one/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10105145-37.htmlAstronauts ‘drop’ space tool bag
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7737250.stmWater ice glaciers spotted on Mars
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-10104926-76.htmlNew Internet goes to space, comes back to Earth
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10102081-2.htmlDVD sales down; Blu-ray's missing its mark: What's Hollywood to do?
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-dvd-sales-down-blu-rays-missing-its-mark-whats-hollywood-to-do/Economy takes bite out of CES
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10104399-1.htmlOnline quiz tests phishing knowledge
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10105144-83.htmlYouTube tests out high quality, stereo surround videos
http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/11/youtube-tests-o.html
How to do it:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10104549-2.html?tag=mncolGuitar Hero fake awesome video
http://kotaku.com/5095091/yes-bike-hero-was-viral-marketingVOICE MAIL
Chace from Maryland - On the suicide story.
Steve from Cupertino - GSM BlackBerry
E-MAIL
Loved the Star Trek TNG / Data references in yesterday’s podcast. I just had to tell you, since you seem to enjoy about your listeners jobs so much, that I am a Data Production Specialist, which means my boss calls me Dr. Soongh.
(Actually, the company I work for does some pretty cool stuff with robotics, but not quite to the android level yet–check out the website.)
Love the show,
Renee
I reply about you commenting on MMS yesterday. I am getting an iPhone around Christmas this year and I did know about the lack of MMS but you just reminded me. Many of my friends are on a no data, or pre-paid plan for their phone. Now if I have an iPhone and want to send a picture to them they are kinda stuck! How can they check e-mail from their phone to see my picture? Is there some kind of redirecting service maybe? So it is pretty bad both ways. If someone sends me an MMS I have to go to weird page thing. And if I send them a picture over e-mail they have to find an internet connection somewhere.
Also, just to let you know that I created some icons for CNET and BOL users (like me) that I have uploaded here:
http://tinyurl.com/6b4ubdLove the show.
Jono from Australia
(or skitterrusty in the forums)
I think you may have talked about this in the past. Baen books has several complete books available on-line for free at http://www.baen.com/library/. You can read them on line, or download a copy or load it on an e-book reader. The idea here is that you can read a book by an author you do not know, and will then be happy to pay for more books by This is the same benefit game companies get from used games. I think the software companies should learn from this and stop worrying about used games. Used book stores have not put book publishers out of business, and they have been around a lot longer then video games.
LTS
Darren
Columbus Oh
Hey jamoto + probably cooley,
I am in Nashville for a company annual meeting and, while chatting at
the hotel bar, I glanced over to a very professional looking gentleman
sitting and surfing on a Netbook. I’m not completely knowledgeable on
models, but it looked like dell’s new 11 inch model.I guess they are emerging after all!
Love the show,
Damon the radiotherapy service engineer
Rick the Tennessee country lawyer here. Regarding the 2rd life divorce on 854. Internet marital misbehavior has become an all too common ground for divorce these days so the story is not surprising.
I have to say the Microsoft financing story made me think that Microsoft will have an “associate” named Gudio who will spend his time repoing software over the Internet . “first we will start with Power Point.”"Ya don’t pay then we will take your Exchange mailboxes”" One by one.”
Love the show. - Buzz Out Loud 857: Dumber than a robot donkey (-0mb)
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:41:00 PSTIn today's show, we find out that the demise of humanity is imminent (or that all of our robot mythology is fundamentally rooted in self-hatred), the RIM BlackBerry Storm takes the world by drizzle, and Microsoft hopes that actually giving you songs will convince you to buy a Zune. Oh, and we don't care about Yahoo Glue. In case you were wondering.
Listen now: Download today's podcast
EPISODE 857
RIM BlackBerry Storm arrives
http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/rim-blackberry-storm-verizon/4505-6452_7-33311850.htmlMeet the first multitouch consumer laptop: HP’s TouchSmart tx2
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10102285-1.htmlMozilla revenue $75 million in 2007, up 12 percent
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081119-mozilla-revenue-75-million-in-2007-up-12-percent.html
http://www.download.com/8301-2007_4-10102627-12.htmlMicrosoft, labels try to revive subscriptions
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10102846-56.html
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12519_7-10103777-49.htmlSources: Apple, music labels talk DRM-free songs
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10102414-93.htmlWeb debut for Guns N’ Roses album
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7739133.stmYahoo brings its Glue to the U.S.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10103776-93.htmlHey, remember Lively, Google’s Second Life, yeah, me neither. It’s gone.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/lively-no-more.htmlSamsung launches 256GB solid-state drive
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10103645-64.htmlIBM gets DARPA cognitive computing contract
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10103355-52.htmlVOICEMAIL
Lee the exhaust guy: swarming with e-booksDaniel: MMS on the iPhone
http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/20/mobispines-iphone-mms-application-for-the-entire-universe/
Mobispine press release: http://www2.mobispine.com/press/readpress.dot?inode=4568E-MAIL
Hello Buzz crew. Like many others, I downloaded the Xbox New
Experience update last night, wasted about 20 minutes tweaking my
avatar so I don’t look like a punk kid, upgraded to LIVE Gold, and
made a beeline for the Netflix player. Microsoft and Neflix have
provided an amazing service to Netflix subscribers. It’s a little
disappointing that you can only browse titles in your Instant Queue,
but the interface is slick and easy to use. I selected an episode from
the (otherwise disappointing) current season of Heroes. Within
seconds, I was watching the smooth playback in high definition. You
can scan forward and backward through the video using a coverflow-like
view that shows thumbnails from the show.The only downside was that I had to switch to my TiVo to order pizza.
If the Xbox Netflix viewer is anything like what we can expect to see
from TiVo, then bring it on. Can you imagine Pizza AND Netflix in one
UI? Now THAT’s a great user experience.- Richard
Washington, D.C.**********
Hey JaMoTo and the extra crew member!
Looks like we’re not immune from the big media companies as much as you are in the States. According to The Age…
The Australian film and television industry has launched a major legal action against one of Australia’s largest Internet service providers for allegedly allowing its users to download pirated movies and TV shows.
The action against iiNet was filed in the Federal Court today by Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, Disney and the Seven Network.
The interesting thing is, the Seven Network is in this suite. For those who don’t know, we have 3 major commercial television networks, namely the Seven Network, Nine Network and Network Ten. The last 2, offer Australians on-demand downloading of their shows on their website, and the Nine Network themselves have locally produced shows on the iTunes store. So why is the Seven Network resorting to suing when they could just easily join the other two networks by providing Australians more legal alternatives to the torrents? This goes for the other companies in the suit. If they really want to kerb illegal downloading, why don’t they open some US-exclusive options like Hulu to the Australian audience? You guys (maybe it was The 404, I can’t remember, haha!) said yourself that Hulu’s catching up to YouTube in terms of revenue.
It’s great to be an iiNet customer at this stage too. First the trial of the internet filter, now this from the entertainment industry. I’m with iiNet myself, so it’ll be interesting what’s to come.
Love the show guys!
Cheers!
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Mark
For the teacher and others who are having problems with HDCP issues there
are HD Strippers that are adapters or boxes that they themselves are HDCP
compliant and then pass through the signal without the HDCP DRM. a famous
example is the HDFury:Robert Clark
Prince Albert,SK**********
A hobo is a traveling homeless person who takes work when they can get
it. A tramp is a traveling homeless person who does not work.Hobos are also governed by a code of ethics, have a duly appointed hobo
king, and a rich hobo-only written language based on a series of
pictographic symbols and codes which they used to communicate things
such as marking a good place to sleep, where you can find someone
willing to give you food, and what towns have cops that will beat the
crap out of you.So I think Tom will be doing a decent service by launching a hobo social
site. I would give it a square missing it’s top line.–Keith from New York, not a hobo
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JaMoTo,
I just wanted to take a quick moment to ask that you recognize the BOL chat room moderators on the show as they do an absolutely fantastic job of making the chat extremely user friendly and pleasant.
I’m sure you guys are generally too busy either getting ready for, or actually executing, the show to really notice how hard they work at helping new users along and just generally making everyone feel comfortable within the community.
I’d list them all by name but I fear that I would forget someone and feel terrible about that - suffice it to say that if someone has a gold star next to their name they are nothing short of awesome personified.
Not as anonymous as I used to be,
Snit - Buzz Out Loud 856: Competition FTW (-0mb)
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:52:00 PSTWe discover a fun new tautology on today's show (you know, competition...for the win?), have a fun time goofing off with Brian Tong, rail against Apple's decision to include HDCP restrictions in its new MacBooks, and rejoice at the arrival of Netflix streaming on the Xbox 360 (minus a few select Sony movies, ahem). Also: India takes on Google in the Earth-spying department. Yeah, India! Go, India!
Listen now: Download today's podcast
EPISODE 856
Apple’s new MacBooks have built-in copy protection measures (thanks Mager!)
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/11/18/apples_new_macbooks_have_built_in_copy_protection_measures.html
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/11/17/apple-brings-hdcp-to-a-new-aluminum-macbook-near-youPsystar antitrust claim against Apple dismissed
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10101581-37.htmlMicrosoft’s new Xbox experience launches, Netflix users go wild
http://www.pcworld.com/article/154163/microsofts_new_xbox_experience_launches_netflix_users_go_wild.html
http://venturebeat.com/2008/11/19/new-xbox-experience-launches-looks-great-netflix-integration-fails/Netflix streaming on Xbox doesn’t include Sony Columbia Pictures movies (thanks, Anu!)
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/18/nxe-netflix-streaming-queues-suddenly-gimped/Quality pays: Hulu trumping YouTube
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10102220-16.html
http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20081117/when-will-hulu-catch-youtube-it-already-has/Microsoft to offer free consumer security suite
http://www.download.com/8301-2007_4-10101582-12.htmlA drink backed by a sports (gaming) hero
http://news.cnet.com/A-drink-backed-by-a-sports-gaming-hero/2100-1043_3-6247818.htmlPC Magazine goes out of print
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/pc-magazine-goes-out-of-print
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-ziff-davis-to-close-print-pcmag-focus-on-online-still-looking-for-optio/Indian space agency, Isro, to roll out a rival to Google Earth (thanks, Phil!)
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article5182639.eceWoman wants a cyborg eye! - BTONG contribution
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/267901/artist_wants_cyborg_webcam_eyeVOICE MAIL
Dwight the T-Grip: true Hollywood battery storiesPaul from Verizon: why the BlackBerry rocks!
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Hey Buzz Crew,I’ve been traveling so I missed a couple podcasts, but I don’t think there has been a mention of the re-start of the One Laptop Per Child Give One Get One program this past Monday (11/17). I’ve been wanting to get one of these laptops for a while mostly because I think they’re interesting and I want to help out the program. I know the OLPC folks got a lot of grief last time they offered this program because they didn’t really have the logistical infrastructure to handle the delivery of laptops to people who bought them quickly and some people had to wait months to get theirs. This time however, they’ve teamed up with Amazon.com and things look like they should work much more smoothly. I placed my order with Amazon and I should get mine by Friday.
I’m sure there are listeners that would like to get a new NetBook/E-reader. And I think the keyboard is waterproof so in can be a great conversation opener for chatting by the pool (Chris from Austin). So deploy the Buzz Brigades to help kids in developing countries get a great tool for education.
Julian (San Diego)
Hey JaMoTo
I was listening to episode 853 and 854 Re: The Wii speak application and then again on to the subject of the software companies not liking pre-loved games.
If the companies don’t like the idea of pre-loved games why don’t they have their own way of buying back sold games. This would allow people to get the same value from their games as trading their old games to EB etc… But allow credits to the new games. This would kill 2 birds with one stone so to speak.
Plus with the idea of saving the planet. Think about the latest game being made out of our old games.
Love the show.
Jon “The Student”
Australia
Hey Buzz Gang,
Just wanted to tell how impressed I was with the new NetFlix add-on to the Xbox 360. The quality is very good, particularly on cartoons. I just hope they update it so you can add stuff to your queue without a computer. I would hate to think the Xbox is just as dumb as a TV tuner and can only passively show videos. That would be as stupid as having a super gaming computer that’s hooked to my TV and my network that can’t browse the web… oh wait… never mind.
Take Care,
Kelvington
I have to disagree that the ‘Remote Spy’ program is significantly different then EA’s DRM. Well, on a technical level at least.
Both should have EULA’s stating don’t use their program illegally.
Both are meant to be put onto a computer you have legitimate access to.
Both change how your computer works and that change can be percieved as negative.
An unauthorized user can install both of these programs without permission by owner of the computer.
Both have removal issues.
Both can have legitimate uses.In the discussion the case was made for business sales of this product, but for private sales one completely legitimate reason for a spy program that quickly comes to mind is by parents monitoring their children’s computers. I’m sure there are other things people can think up, but that’s my strongest legitimate use point.
In the class action lawsuit (http://www.courthousenews.com/2008/09/23/Spore.pdf) it states that the irremovable DRM is not disclosed (properly/at all) in the EULA and even if you made a case that it didn’t inappropriately phone home, the fact that it can prevent legitimate hardware/software from working is malware like behavior that occurs after an uninstall of the game itself.
In both cases when looking from a certain perspective they are put in a good or bad light… but if the government goes after one they should be going after the other.
Ben @ Nova Scotia
- Buzz Out Loud 855: The iPhone changes everything (-0mb)
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:40:00 PSTOn today's show, Brian Cooley announces that he's made the switch...I mean, the big switch. He bought an iPhone. The world briefly stopped rotating, and when it resumed, we laid down the smack on poor Jerry Yang, the Justice Department, the XM-Sirius merger, and subsequent channel flipping, and some poor guy who thought it was a good idea to call our show. Good times!
Listen now: Download today's podcast
EPISODE 855
Yahoo's Jerry Yang to step down, as a search for new CEO commences
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20081117/yahoos-jerry-yang-to-step-down-as-a-search-for-new-ceo-commences/
Jerry Yang's entire memo to his employees on stepping down as CEO
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20081117/jerry-yangs-entire-memo-to-his-employees-on-stepping-down-as-ceo/Yahoo’s ultimate search: A new CEO
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/cnet/20081118/tc_cnet/8301102331010077393Intel’s 3.2GHz monster Nehalem roars onto the scene
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081118-intels-3-2ghz-monster-nehalem-roars-onto-the-scene.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10098484-1.htmlFeds can locate cell phones without telcos
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/17/2218209Expanding the cloud: Amazon CloudFront
http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2008/11/amazon_cloudfront.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10100883-2.htmlSirius, XM subscribers revolt over merger-induced changes
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081118-sirius-xm-subscribers-revolt-over-merger-induced-changes.htmlMagnatune — sharing-friendly, artist-friendly label — goes all-you-can-eat, no-strings-attached
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/11/18/magnatune-sharingfri.htmlMore “Vista Capable” e-mails unsealed, revealing sassy civil war
http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/more-vista-capable-e-mails-unsealed-revealing-sassy-civil-war/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10097511-75.htmlGoogle ‘Voice Search’ hands-on verdict: Awesome
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10100719-2.htmlDistrict Court halts keylogger sales
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10099123-83.htmlFacebook app verification fee draws criticism
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/154099/facebook_app_verification_fee_draws_criticism.htmlVOICEMAIL
Ned from Missouri: I call collusion!
E-MAIL
JaMoToNaCooTonRa...oh forget it.
I think it's funny when everyone laughs at President Bush's old e-mail address. In 2000, wasn't AOL the myspace/facebook of it's time? We've come a long way, to be sure, but that was then.
Cent me, 2 times!
Jason the curator.
**********
I’m surprised that Domino’s Pizza in the U.S. is only now catching up with Domino’s Pizza in the U.K. when it comes to couch potato ordering - Domino’s Pizza has been on Sky’s digital TV platform for the last several years (IIRC, since the beginning 7 years ago). And if you’d rather order your Domino’s Pizza from your laptop instead of your TV then just go to the Dominos Pizza website (http://www.dominos.co.uk/) which has also been running for years.
cheers
Scot in London
**********
On the topic of pollies and tech, and Web 2.0.
The Australian Prime Minister had joined Twitter. http://twitter.com/KevinRuddPM
It would even appear that Kevin himself is putting up some post (I am
skeptical as ever), but some posts are signed off by what would appear
to be his media department.What is even crazier, they have been replying to questions and
comments. I would NEVER have expected to see this used as a two way
communications method.LTS.
Cheers, Tim.
**********
I talk to one of the Phoenix mission managers today. I asked, “If by some mirical Phoenix powers back up after the winter would the mission continue?”
Apparently Phoenix cannot analyze any more soil. The equipment they use to test soil samples has exhausted. The camera and weather station may still work, but they would have to request more money from NASA to continue the mission. Then he told me they really don’t think phoenix will come back.
Why name it Phoenix if you’re going to let it die. Here’s keeping hope alive.
Love the Show
Roeurn (Ru-in
not Rerun:)**********
This is Daniel, tech support from Memphis. Just writing in reference to episode 852 where another Daniel asked "WHY THE HELL WOULD SOMEONE REGISTER HOBOBOOK.COM?" ..sigh. Thank you Tom and Molly for sharing my vision for the online hobo community! You have inspiring me to do something with one of the domains I've been sitting on for a while: Hoboforums.com. Why hoboforums? I honestly can't remember, BUT now I am glad I actually have something to do with this domain! If you are wondering, yes, the site is exactly what you think it is.
Hoboforums, where transients meet technology.
We're still throwing around slogans.
LTS
Daniel Lewis
- Buzz Out Loud 854: Death to the Moon (-0mb)
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:53:00 PST
We thought about calling this podcast graves in space, or delicious Yak, or Jason makes the earth move. But soup_n_salad in the chat room nailed it. A new company wants to send 5,000 capsules full of cremated remains to the moon for burial. Natali and Jason think this is littering, essentially. I think they gotta go somewhere and the Moon has space. We also talk about the new Asus phone, Flash on Windows mobile, and more.
Listen now: Download today's podcast
EPISODE 854
Obama can’t use his BlackBerry
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/us/politics/16blackberry.htmlAsus phone
http://gizmodo.com/5090348/asus-announces-800mhz-worlds-fastest-smartphone
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/11/17/asus_p565/Google speech application supposed to really launch today
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/16/update-on-google-iphone-voice-recognition-app-look-for-it-on-monday/Flash on Windows Mobile
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2008/11/16/adobe-to-demo-flash-on-mobile-but-only-windows-still-working-on-the-iphone/AOL video uploads shutting down
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/15/aol-gets-out-of-user-generated-video-business/Most users don’t office in the cloud: 1% use Google Docs
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081117-report-users-continue-to-prefer-office-over-google-docs.htmlOld people are scared of technology
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/scared_of_technology_youre_old.php
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10097839-1.htmlUK couple in real-life divorce over virtual affair
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27718230/?gt1=43001Order pizza from your TiVo
http://www.gearlog.com/2008/11/ordering_dominos_pizza_from_yo.php
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10098333-93.htmlLost Beatles song may bring Fab Four to Net sales
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10098215-93.htmlQuantum cloaking makes molecules invisible
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/16/2137230US space-funeral company plans lunar cemetery
http://news.sg.msn.com/oddities/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1786876VOICEMAIL
Jason in Georgia - What happened to exploding batteries
Andy Novosibirsk, Siberia - Netbooks galore here!
CT baggage handler - But how did they get there?
EMAIL
Hey guys, Looks like MS has decided what to do with all the cash they were going to spend on Yahoo.
I work for one of the Microsoft managed partner ISV's. MS was just on our weekly internal sales call and our MS partner manager was on talking about how we can offer up Microsoft financing through the end of the MS fiscal year (June).
This financing is not just for MS products but anything that is involved in the entire enterprise solution including hardware and other software.
The internal MS guys are touting that 2-5 business days turn around and touting that it will be easier and cheaper than going with traditional financing . They are willing to finance anything from small 10k deals and up, and depending on customers credit rating with D&B will determine the % rate. He was saying that it was going to be in the range of 5-8%.
https://www.microsoftfinancing.com/
Rob
**********
$139 blu-ray players on Woot.com today.
Just sayin...
Ryan the Biologist
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In trying to catch up with BOL, I was listening to #845 and I want to
pose a question related to the AT&T experiment with bandwidth caps. Has
anyone thought about the licensing contracts that AT&T might be looking
to sign with media companies? Think about it, AT&T or Comcast could sign
usage contracts with sites like Netflix, YouTube or Hulu so that their
site usage does not apply to their customers’ bandwidth caps. This would
allow ISP’s to make more $$$ and control traffic.Coming soon to a legal agreement near you… AT&T merges with YouTube.
So far I have not heard anyone bring up this point via CNET or that TWiT
guy. If ISP’s can stop Bit Torrent, then they can probably allow
certain, preferred content to flow freely.No charge for this two cents opinion. LTS.
Thanks,
Rodney
**********
In show 853, you had two stories which prompted me to type in... First, you made a big deal out of Google search on the iPhone supporting speech. Windows Live Search Mobile has had this feature for quite some time - and I find it quite useful. Like the Google offering, you speak to it, it sends the speech to the servers, and the servers do the speech-to-text. The use of the accelerometer in the iPhone is new - and a cool idea - but the speech part is not new. I use Google Search on my Windows Mobile phone if I am in a place where I can type easily, but use Windows Live Search Mobile specifically for the speech-to-text if I am driving or walking.
You also made a big deal out of President-elect Obama making use of technology by planning to put his weekly address on YouTube. President Bush podcasts his weekly address - see http://www.whitehouse.gov/podcasts/, or http://www.whitehouse.gov/rss/radioaddress.xml. Not sure YouTube video is an earth-shattering improvement for a weekly address that most people won't pay any attention to after the first month. I also happened to listen to an NPR Podcast just after BOL, and they made it sound like Obama invented the Internet because he plans on putting government information on the web. While I'm all for using technology, and more is certainly better, can we have a reality check? Some of the advances in technology use are simply because time is elapsing. When the government launched THOMAS back in 1995, that was newsworthy from a tech perspective. Saying you will put more stuff on the web is, well, simply expected.
LTS,
/John in Fairfax
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You guys were teasing about using old software on Friday’s show. Well I am
one of those use it till it dies dudes.
I am still using Quicken Version 3, 1993 that dates back to the Windows 95
days. It still works on XP just fine.
There is more than one reason for sticking with it. Don’t have to learn new
version and best of all hackers are not
going to be looking for a realistic user of a 15 year old version of
financial software. Also still use Eudora for email.
Have been using it since 1995 and it also still works fine on XP. I have
years worth of elaborate filters which I have
moved every time I get or build a new machine. I figure all the hackers and
attackers out there are trying to
break into Outlook and MS stuff in general. At work I use Outlook on our
office exchange server just fine but
at home I am still with Eudora V5.1.Really like BUZZ and all the CNET podcasts. Keep up the funnin’ with us
…. half the time I almost crash on
the way to work or on my way home because I am rollin’ in laughter while
listening to BOLBYE
Darrell in Virginia
Also got email about Grandpa using Sidekick ‘98 and a user that brings back kids software**********
Wii Speak
In fact the game does not come with that hardware it just can use it
if you have it. So, the game can travel through the rental and used
markets as normal, just not the hardware. Now whether the hardware
should work the same, that you can debate. Thanks for the great
podcast.
Johnny P - Buzz Out Loud 853: The Netbook and the girl (-0mb)
Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:40:00 PST
On today's Buzz Out Loud, sage dating tips from a bunch of old married people. Meanwhile, Microsoft launches an online store where you can go buy things if you like to pay more than you have to; a girl offers to pimp your start-up for a mere $75 a day and we give her about a million dollars worth of grief; and Google loves the iPhone more than Android--at least for now!
Listen now: Download today's podcast
EPISODE 853
Microsoft launches online store: Is there deeper meaning here?
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=10849
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10097239-75.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/153874/microsoft_opens_online_store_im_not_impressed.htmlPSP outsells PS3 and Nintendo (Wii and DS) outsell anything you can think of
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081114-october-npd-sales-the-console-market-is-all-about-pricing.htmlNintendo’s Wii Speak a new front in war against used games
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081113-nintendos-wii-speak-a-new-front-in-war-against-used-games.htmlGoogle brings speech recognition to phones
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/technology/internet/14voice.html
http://www.iphoneatlas.com/2008/11/14/google-iphone-app-already-lists-voice-function-but-its-not-there/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10092525-2.html?tag=mncol;titleUniversal Music Group: We're still selling tunes, amazingly
http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20081114/universal-music-group-were-still-selling-tunes-amazingly/Obama to deliver weekly address via YouTube
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10097321-38.htmlLawmaker plans bill on Web neutrality
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE4AC7SU20081114
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081114-is-government-regulation-needed-to-ensure-net-neutrality.htmlGirlInYourShirt: $75 buys your start-up marketing for a day
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/13/girlinyourshirt-75-buys-your-startup-marketing-for-a-day/DNA strands modified into tiny fiber-optic cables
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/14/135213Purified urine to be astronauts’ drinking water
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE4AD3MB20081114#Voice mail
Eric from Michigan: Wii Fit!Chris from Austin: the girl and the netbook
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This is Kevin Yeaux from openSUSE again. We’re on our way to our first
release candidate for openSUSE 11.1 on November 27th, but there was some
other big news today: Banshee, the open-source music player sponsored by
openSUSE/Novell, just released it’s 1.4 version.The biggest news in here is for owners of the T-Mobile G1 Android phone:
full support for the phone’s music playing capabilities. Full automatic
or manual synchronization, cover art, and the ability to import music
purchased on the Amazon MP3 store into your computer.The other major news is that there is a beta release of Banshee 1.4 for
Mac OS X. Also included are many areas of UI polish and bugfixes.Banshee is a Mono-based open-source media player that supports music,
movies, podcasts, features Last.fm integration, and more. Banshee is the
default music player for openSUSE.For more info, see http://www.Banshee-Project.org and
http://abock.org/2008/11/13/banshee-14-hits-the-streets-packed-with-awesome/Thanks, and *love* the show, ya’ll.
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Kevin**********
I think I can explain why RIM went with the suretype keyboard on the new BlackBerry Storm. I have the Pearl, which has the same double lettered keyboard.
I can type so much faster on this phone than I can on any other; even my friends with full QWERTY phones can’t nearly keep up with me. And I think I know why: You can just hit the general direction of the key you want, the area you are aiming for is twice the size of a normal key. The phone software does an excellent job of guessing what you mean, and it learns new words as you type. It also has the added bonus of doing punctuation for you! On a touchscreen, that would be even more usefful.Good job!
Ryan from Fresno**********
This is in response to the netbook email you guys received in episode 851. Upon hearing the email, I recalled a recent Kotaku.com article (http://kotaku.com/5083584/the-number-one-location-for-portable-gaming-is-home). I wouldn’t be surprised if people bought these netbooks and just used them around the house. I think Kotaku puts it best saying ” ‘portable’ can be defined as ‘will work on the toilet or in bed’ “.
Love the show! Not a long-time listener, but hope to be a… future long-time listener…?
-Alex M.
Berkley, MI**********
In addition to having a trademark on a word (CBS ) or a logo (think about the CBS Eye) you can also protect what is called Trade Dress . Remember this branch of law is about protecting indicators of source-that is the mark by which consumers know your products from someone else’s. Pretty much anything that can be tied to a specific good or service, or a source of those goods and services, is protectable. That includes how that good or service looks/is packaged. Need easy examples?
Think about how all McDonalds look the same on the inside. Or how, even without the label, you’d know what a Coke bottl e looks like (or a Mrs. Butterworths for that matter.) These aren’t names or logos per se, but you’d know what the goods/services were anyway. This Trade Dress can apply to both the packaging of the goods, or the goods themselves. Usually the Office will not say something is inherently distinctive (and instantly protectable under TM law) but will require a showing of acquired distinctiveness (meaning you have to show that consumers have come to associate the trade dress with your products only).
Now I know what you’re thinking-isn’t it incredibly dangerous to grant Trademark protection to how a good is shaped etc? Isn’t there a possibility that the Office would be granting a Patent in perpetuity for a design or invention that should only be protected by Patent’s limited term? And you’re right-it is tricky business. This is why the good people at the USPTO get paid to do what they do. It is a very tricky job to separate those elements of packaging/the goods that are protectable to those that are functional or patentable etc-but this is what is done. It is incredibly complex at times and would bore the Buzz audience beyond repair to explain it in full detail-so go look it up if you want to know more.
So let’s get back to Lego-Apparently they were granted a EU Trademark for the design of their blocks (which is to say that the EU office originally thought that there was something about the Lego block in its appearance that made it distinct from other building blocks and that consumers would recognize it as a lego block based on its shape alone). Mega Block , which brought the cancellation suit, must have said something like “wait a minute! This a patent/functional thing and the EU should have never granted protection for this design. We should be able to make competing blocks and the protection is baring us from doing so.”
(For a point of reference think about how the coke bottle, while protected, doesn’t prevent Pepsi from putting soda in a bottle the way that the protection here might prevent Mega Block from making toys.)
What has happened is that that court has agreed and cancelled the protection for Lego. This will get appealed, clearly, and we’ll have to see what happens.
Also-this analysis involved a little guesswork because I”m not that familiar with how EU trademark law works-but it works roughly the same.
For the record-I didn’t find any trade-dress protection for the Lego block in the US.
-Anon.
