Show #119

News

• Facebook Reverts back to old TOS
• The future of Netflix is Streaming
• Paper-thin flexible displays gain Touch-Screen Capability
• Google Mail Unreachable, The Internet is Falling
• 2 1/2 hours downtime
• 2nd global outtage this month
• Still unknown the root cause
• Single most twittered subject during outtage

Talk Points

• RIAA Against Harvard Law
• Defense of Joel Tenenbaum: 7 songs at issue
• Multiple tries to settle with no help: last offer $10,500 from RIAA
  
• Law states up to $150,000 per infringement
• Harvard Professor outraged (Charles Nesson) and decided to take the case Pro Bono
• Students using a real court case as their Thesis through Prof. Charles Nesson
• Obscure rule that student lawyers could be at trial in Massachusetts under a real lawyer
• Judge Gertner who is digital savvy: "basically bankrupting people, and it's terribly critical that you stop it."
• Now the case will be tried live and on the Internet
• Not recompensed but gaining invaluable experience

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Gamer's Corner (Conferences, New Developments, Game Reviews)

• Discount on Left 4 Dead Nets 3000% Increase in Sales
• Possible Price Cut for PS3
• we could argue about this a bit, sales declining, reasons why, importance of price cut

Intarweb Goldmine

• Star Wars WookiePedia
  • My life as I know it is over...
    
• Trillion Dollar Bailout hits Addicting Games
• slap Sitty Group, RNC Financial, BoMerica, Light Rail Projects
• Give money to ports of entry and smaller housing refinances, etc
• Maybe our politicians should play this game before voting on an economic bill...

MMMMM. I so want ....

Pew Pew Pew...

Show #118

News

• Flash 10 in 2010 -- to MOST SmartPhones that is!
• Apple iPhone -- not one of them
• Windows Mobile, Google's Android, Nokia S60/Symbian, and the new Palm OS
• Microsoft Going Retail
• Siftables Shown at TED
• Paid Downloads in YouTube
• Already they are cracking down on download tools
• Hulu catching up to them in revenue
• Facebook owns you in Perpetuity
• http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/02/labels-want-13-million-from-pirate-bay-as-trial-starts.ars

Talk Points

• Get 1080p Movies working on the PS3
• Tools That are Killing Satellite Radio
• Pandora
• IHeartRadio.com
• Public Radio Tuner
• Safety in Social Networking
• Assume that your social account is hacked
• May not be as fun, but don't put your personal information on your site
• Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, are all vulnerable

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Gamer's Corner (Conferences, New Developments, Game Reviews)

• Free Game: The Space Game

Intarweb Goldmine

• The Church of Google
• The Lego Computer (Case Mod)
• Banker Gives $60million out to Past and Present Employees
• Super Mario Bugs (Shows how to jump the flag - Lvl 3-3)
  

Worst Ad Placement Ever....

Just because....

Show #117

News

• M$ Confirms 6 separate Windows 7 SKU's
• M$ because the separate SKU's are a pureplay for money
• Why ruin your great marketing push by muddying the water with too many SKU's
• People just want clarity and knowledge that they chose the right thing
• Sirius-XM File for Bankruptcy
• The blogs are screaming that the end is near
• Filing for bankruptcy, 3.4 billion in debt
• Satellite airtime is waaay expensive
• reliant upon new car sales, economy tanking = less sales = less subscribers
• Insider Information: Sirius XM looking to restructure and cut costs but don't plan to go out of business
• Microsoft Ends Public Windows 7 Beta
• Public release now closed
• Microsoft mentions that they are near a "Release Candidate" but give no mention
• Still available if you're an MSDN or Technet subscriber
• Kindle 2 Released
• 3G wireless, Cloud Friendly (backups to cloud and syncing), Thinner than IPhone, 16 shades of grey, 2GB Storage, mini USB Charging, Longer battery life (2 weeks), Pleasant Text to Speech, 5-way button navigation instead of the old up-and-down wheel.

• Downside: $357, Proprietary system (.AZW), Doesn't support MobiPocket or PDF's, 1 Device Forever Amen... (blech). At least Zunes and IPods can play non-proprietary .mp3's
• Interesting Comparison vs. standard EBooks
• Chart for Comparison's Found Here
• Hacking: Reading Encrypted Mobibooks on Kindle Devices
• Competitors: Cybook (supports mobipocket ebooks: specs , $325), SONY PRS-505 (all formats, new books only from sony store which is nascent, no wireless, $299)
• FREE EBOOKS FOR KINDLE (maybe move this to next week on a how-to)
  

• Install Ubuntu on your PS3
• Make sure you have a usb keyboard and mouse handy
• Backup your PS3 to a USB drive (save games, user preferences, etc)
• Sync your Trophies with the server
• Go get a version of Ubuntu 8.10 and make sure you burn the alternate install disc to DVD
• Settings -> System Settings -> Install Other OS automatically installs a dual booter
• Plop the DVD into the cd tray and just follow most of the defaults
• Pair your Bluetooth keyboard and mouse with the system (keyboard will be problematic but MX1100 should happen automatically with the bluetooth utility)
  
• Grab Sixaxis Bluetooth Package.tar.gz and unzip it on your Ubuntu desktop.
• Double click to install the packages inside, first the "bluez-sixaxis-bin_powerpc.deb" package and then the one named "bluez-sixaxis_rc1.1_all.deb.
• Applications -> Accessories -> Sixaxis-gui to enable your sixaxis.
• Now you have fully working Ubuntu on your machine
• Remember that all X86 packages won't work because it's a cell processor but the SNESX emulator can (see our show notes for instructions on this)
  

• Get 1080p Movies working on the PS3
• RIAA Against Harvard Law

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Gamer's Corner (Conferences, New Developments, Game Reviews)

• KillZone 2 Reviews Are Really MetaReviews for the Viability of PS3
• Last 4 Paragraphs, go look at all the links, This seems to be a pattern lately and we can talk about it.
• Guns'N'Roses "Chinese Democracy" coming to Rock Band in Spring
• WoW Talk: Lunar Festival
• What is it (Reciprocal of Chinese New Year)
• Raid boss to kill
• Lots of coin collecting (75 total) and marching across the map to find the NPC's that have the coins (think giant scavenger hunt)

Intarweb Goldmine

• Wobble boobs and booties on your IPhone
• How Much Does a Death Star cost?
  
• Crappy Buses Powered by Crap...

Show #116

News

• Google putting the Squeeze on Free Apps
  
• less licenses available for the "free business plan" (down to 50 from 200)
• $50/year/user
• Not just competing with Microsoft's Exchange
• Zoho
• Zimbra
  
• Google flags Entire Internet as Malware
• Oops! An accident involving Google and StopBadware.org started showing all sites with a small line that read, "This site may harm your computer" including all of Google's own sites.
• Google has more details on their blog here and their on-line help.
• However, they release Latitude [Read this for show]
• Share your location with your friends
• Lie about it to your enemies
  
• NASA offering Free Zero-G Flights - (great segue for Fusion Space Flights)
• Microsoft Surface used to coordinate Super Bowl
  

Talk Points

• Wireless Charging: Is it really close to Fruition?
• Fusion Power Space Flight (maybe, Can we pull this one off?)

Gamer's Corner (Conferences, New Developments, Game Reviews)

• NY Putting Lock and Key on Violent Games
  
• New Final Fantasy XIII Trailer
  
• 30 Lvl YouTube Game
• Actual MMORPG KOTOR Footage

Intarweb Goldmine

• Texting Death Crash Woman Jailed
• 21 yr old jailed for 21 months after striking a person and killing them while texting
• 20 text messages in 2 hours plus various phone calls. Sent a text right before the crash
• Rifle Stock for DSLR Stability Platform
• Not the smartest thing to bring a camera stability platform that is shaped like a rifle into a war zone
• this guy was a soldier and embedded with soldiers though
• Valid applications for stability platform, photography of moving objects a lot easier
• Google Streetview Turns up Interesting - Results
  
• Larping and Deer strike
• Wobble boobs and booties on your IPhone
• Cornify
• New link on our site because there's nothing that Unicorns and Rainbows can't cure...

(jacket can be found here)

(thank you ELR for digging these up and please leave Lucas frozen)