Buzz Out Loud Blog

Bill Gates is part of a team that has patented a new beer keg. Sure it could be used for other things. But the point was we're pretty sure he came up with the idea when drinking warm beer in Africa. We also talk about porn on the iPhone and new Windows pricing.

EPISODE 1005

Microsoft Windows 7 pricing revealed: pre-orders kick off June 26th
http://www.slashgear.com/microsoft-windows-7-pricing-revealed-pre-orders-kick-off-june-26th-2547957/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10272703-56.html

AT&T’s 3G upgrades to improve iPhone service
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10271450-94.html

WSJ publisher calls Google 'digital vampire'
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20090624/FREE/906249985

Porn comes to the iPhone
http://macenstein.com/default/archives/4693
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/apple-pulls-adult-content-app-from-app-store-anyone-surprised/

Web filters to censor video games
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/games/web-filters-to-censor-video-games-20090625-cxrx.html

China throttles Google, U.S. ratchets up trade war over Green Dam
http://government.zdnet.com/?p=5026

MetroPCS $5 unlimited international calling
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE55N59U20090624

Bill Gates on beer keg patent application
http://gizmodo.com/5302082/bill-gates-applies-for-patent-on-high-tech-keg
http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Bill_Gates_wants_a_better_beer_keg48998721.html

15-Year-Old Invents Algae-Powered Energy System
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/06/24/2223245/15-Year-Old-Invents-Algae-Powered-Energy-System

VOICEMAIL
Helen has something…er… for Cooley

Sean from Boulder on Windows

EMAIL
This will be my first “well actually” but as a mechanical engineer I
thought it worth pointing out that converting between units on a
complicated platform like the space shuttle is probably a bit more
complex than entering a few searches in google. Unfortunately, you
can’t just replace every 1/4″-20 x 1″ socket head cap screw with a
M6.35-1.27 x 25.4 screw. For one, the hardware doesn’t exist, and two,
the nomenclatures are different. You would actually have to reengineer
quite a bit to make a functioning system using only metric units.

It may be the bane of every freshman engineering student in the US,
but mixed units are the current reality.

Chris the LabVIEW Guy

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Hey Buzzcrew,

Just wanted to pass along a thank you. In large part to your constant harping about the DMCA takedown procedure’s lack of consideration for fair use, I decided to tackle the issue as the topic of my paper topic in my Copyright seminar this past semester. I got an A in the class and sumbitted it to a copyright writing competition. I won the competition at the local level and will move on to the national competition. I got $600 from ASCAP for winning at the local level, so it turns out the ASCAP is actually good for something.

If you have any interest in reading the paper, you can find it here (warning- it’s long).

-Will the lawyer in Milwaukee

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Hey All,

So Tom, from episode 1003, you had a 1977 Maverick? Tell us about it.
I had a 1969 and a 1977 Maverick at the same time.
Bought the ‘77 new, my 1st new car ever. Loved the ‘69 and cussed the
‘77 most of the time.
The 1977 had a 302 engine and by the time all the pollution crap was
hung on it I think it had less
power than the 1969 did with it’s straight 6 (170 c.i.d. I think). ‘69
was fast and had great fuel mileage.
Did you have a CB too or was that just a Midwest thing? Would that
qualify as the original form of Twitter?
What’s your 10-20 good buddy? I bet Cooley had a CB, am I right?

Anyway, The good old days, huh.
kenwarf02

p.s. Note of pride, that login was my first for the BOL Chat room of
episode 1000,
so I figure I probably won something for getting you to 1,000 in the
chat room.
http://www.lovefords.org/galleries/images/77_maverick_orange.jpg
http://www.ehuggydesigns.com/ford-maverick.jpg

Dr. Kiki from This Week in Science joins us to talk tech and science, and we realize that we will all soon wear solar-powered Gundam suits and travel the Earth. That is until they become self-aware and eject us and kill us all. We also take NASA to task and tell you when to get a new Windows PC.

EPISODE 1004

HTC Hero running Android and Sense UI
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/htc-hero-details-begin-leaking-from-htcs-own-website/

China not backing off despite filter code post on Wikileaks
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/06/china-not-backing-off-despite-filter-code-post-on-wikileaks.ars

Comcast, Time Warner team up to control TV on the Internet
http://gigaom.com/2009/06/23/comcast-time-warner-team-up-to-control-internet-video/
http://newteevee.com/2009/06/23/what-you-need-to-know-about-tv-everywhere/

Dutch gov. wants to tax online media to fund print
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/23/1925228/Dutch-Gov-Wants-To-Tax-Online-Media-To-Fund-Print

NIH funding level correlates with lower U.S. mortality rates
http://arstechnica.com/science/2009/06/nih-funding-level-correlates-with-lower-us-mortality-rates.ars

Free Windows 7 won’t last forever
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10271092-56.html

Windows 7 upgrade program nears launch
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10271742-56.html

OLPC Fork Sugar on a Stick goes 1.0
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/24/1243255/OLPC-Fork-Sugar-On-a-Stick-Goes-10

Switching to solar power, one year later
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/06/23/191230/Switching-To-Solar-Power-One-Year-Later

Deep in bedrock, clean energy and quake fears
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/business/energy-environment/24geotherm.html?_r=1&ref=science

NASA sticking to Imperial units for shuttle replacement
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/06/24/1430236/NASA-Sticking-To-Imperial-Units-For-Shuttle-Replacement?from=rss

Jury reports that Steon’s Orbo does not produce free energy
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/23/jury-reports-that-st.html

VOICE MAIL
Alex from Europe about the Mercedes E class

Erin from Punxsatawnee on Verizon customers
http://reviews.cnet.com/best-verizon-wireless-phones/?tag=rb_content;contentNav

E-MAIL

Dear Buzz Crew:
I'm OK guys, and today angry, no not they way you might think, I'm angry on the company I love the most and I have spent thousand of dollars buying their products, and loving them, yes, I'm talking to you Nokia.
As you can see on the article below Nokia has sold a monitoring application to Iran's Telecom, for monitoring calls, sms, mms, and internet usage.

http://www.mobile-review.com/fullnews/main/index_eng.shtml#24832

I have read in some other articles that Nokia has said we sold that application on late 2008 and the agreement says it can be used for limited number of users, mostly for security reasons like tracking and finding spy or anything like that, but the Iranian government is using it to monitor everyone's phone, and this is against Nokia's agreement and term of use and Nokia is going to sue Iran's government.
But who knows?
Have a great day

Best Regards

Siavash

OK, not really. Although she did admit to it. But it had to do with Intel getting into Nokia phones somehow. Or did it have to do with the Clear Pass getting discontinued at airports? Or was it? And there were chickens. And turtles. You have to just listen.

EPISODE 1003

Like Bigfoot, we now report on ‘Steve Jobs’ sightings
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10270847-37.html

Clear, aka the “TSA Fast Pass,” shuts down
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/22/clear-aka-the-tsa-fa.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10270837-16.html

Intel wins Nokia as customer for mobile chips
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=axL1cxJCUAwU
http://www.nokia.com/press/press-releases/showpressrelease?newsid=1324456

ASCAP wants to be paid when your phone rings
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/22/225207/ASCAP-Wants-To-Be-Paid-When-Your-Phone-Rings

Intel demos wireless “resonant” recharging
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/06/22/1714202/Intel-Demos-Wireless-Resonant-Recharging

Mercedes Attention Assist detects drowsy driving by parsing minute steering-wheel inputs
http://sev.prnewswire.com/auto/20090623/NY3650223062009-1.html

iCrack: The iPhone is an accident magnet
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/22/icrack-the-iphone-is-an-accident-magnet/

Apple approving apps with push, Beejive goes live
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/06/22/apple-approving-apps-with-push-beejive-goes-live/

Ultrasn0w iPhone 3G unlock for 3.0 is out
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/ultrasn0w-iphone-3g-running-3-0-unlock-is-0ut/

Kodak kills Kodachrome
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/06/22/1921210/Kodak-Kills-Kodachrome

Cyborg turtles
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/23/video-meet-yuu-chan-the-teenage-cyborg-ninja-turtle/

VOICEMAIL
Andy in Wisconsin about Twitter charity from Green Bay Packer

Jeff in San Francisco on BOL at doublespeed

E-MAIL
Hi buzz Crew

In Episode 1002 you talked about that a country with 95% broadband
cover is no 1?

All I can say is:

W T F(ragg) !!!

Here in Austria (home of the Governator) we have a 99% coverage with
HSDPA 7.2 MBit !!!

Plus at home I have (via Cable) unlimited 100MBit for only Euro 74!

So suck it Korea: Austria is the King of the Internet!

LTS

Alex

PS: We are the Kings of Phones to. Not only you can get here the
Iphone 3g for 1 euro or a free PS3 if you sign a 2 year datacard
contract – i am on a mobile plan were I GET 6 eurocent for every
Minute someone calls me on my cell!

TOP THIS WORLD

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Hey Tom,

I’m not sure what I think about this article (a bit too colorful for
me), but if true, it’s pretty amazing that this guy was able to locate
and recover his lost iPhone.

Cheers!
Donnell in Ann Arbor, MI

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I just saw this trailer for this movie (it`s only coming out here now)
and could not send you this. When was it that tom predicted a movie
coming this exact title? “Laughing Out Loud (LOL) the movie” is a
typical teen movie, about a disfunctional little family about a mother
and her teenage daughter discussing drugs, boys, love and sex. A
typical hollywood movie, except for the fact it’s in french.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1194616/ page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-deBkirN8s trailer

alex, from rio

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Dear Buzz Crew:

I want to thank you guys for your support and care. It really means a lot to us (Persians).
Now a days in Tehran life has two different segments. First segment is from the morning till the noon around 12:00 to 13:00 that every one goes to work and do their usual stuff and from 14:00 to night we are on the streets fighting for a free and new Iran. So through this hard time (drink) one of the thing keeping me fresh , and eager to have some hours to myself is CNET podcasts, it makes me forget about everything and enters me in the world of tech and fun. Few days ago Natalie's theory for the Panasonic remote control on Gadgettes made me laugh so hard, I could not remember the last time I laughed like that.

Anyway, keep up the good work; I appreciate your care and attention, hoping for Freedom in Iran.

Best Regards

Siavash

Without Rafe and Brian Cooley on the show, we felt it was safe to have French tech podcaster Patrick Beja on the show to talk tech. Don't worry, he speaks in English for this show. We talk about the iPhone phenomena, the poor penetration of broadband in the US, and how HD-DVD is still beating Blu-ray.

EPISODE 1,002

T-Mobile announces second Google phone
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10269459-94.html

Google to cut China porn results
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8112971.stm

Steve Jobs had liver transplant
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10269685-37.html

Apple’s Biggest iPhone launch ever: More than 1 million sold
http://www.businessinsider.com/apples-biggest-iphone-launch-ever-more-than-1-million-sold-2009-6
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10269991-37.html

Apple’s $30 apology for iPhone activation delays?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10269855-37.html

Pwnage Tool for iPhone OS 3.0 now live, ultrasn0w still on standby
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/20/pwnage-tool-for-iphone-os-3-0-now-live-ultrasn0w-still-on-stand/

US 20th in broadband penetration, trails S. Korea, Estonia
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/us-20th-in-broadband-penetration-trails-s-korea-estonia.ars

LG Electronics adopts ARM processors in TVs--to help with Web 2.0 features
http://digital.venturebeat.com/2009/06/22/lg-electronics-adopts-arm-processors-as-digital-tvs-move-toward-web-20-features/

Blu-ray Adoption Soft, More Still Own HD DVD
http://slashdot.org/story/09/06/22/1339213/Blu-ray-Adoption-Soft-More-Still-Own-HD-DVD

Report: FTC to go after blogger freebies
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10269962-38.html

Patrick Beja’s projects
http://frenchspin.com/en/

VOICEMAIL
Randy in Hawaii about Sprint

EMAIL
Heya BuzzCrew- (I have to go back to this default since I no longer know which day folks are on…)

So just reading thru twitter and found a very interesting blog post:

http://is.gd/18Y3w

The first post seemed a VERY bad thing, major unknown DRM on the Kindle. “Luckily” there is a 2nd post--that seems to try and clear up the original DRM problem, but has found that Amazon is just as confused and may not be ready for the forthcoming storm of download problems…

Cheers from Oxford (where we still aren’t allowed to buy even the first Kindle yet)!
Tom Merritt the Doppelganger

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8109267.stm

This is a very interesting news story about the British top 40
singles, which has for many years only been based on record sales but
now they're thinking about including last.fm streams in their stats.
This is very good as it all those sites are really popular here.

What is more interesting is the stats halfway through the story about
single sales, that have gone up in the UK from 30 million in 2003 to
over 115 million in 2008. That is a fivefold increase. How dare the music
labels say they are losing money when this is the case. If anything
it shows that people are more interested than ever in music.

Well done on 1,000 shows.
Love the show

Jon the computer network manangement and design student from Portsmouth

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Hey Buzz Crew,

I was driving around town today, doing errands and listening to Buzz Out Loud. When I heard about Bozeman job services requesting applicants to provide username and passwords for social networking sites, I was totally in denial. Molly, Tom and Jason talking about Bozeman, MT? How could this be? Afterall, Bozeman is no Silicon Valley.

As a current resident of Bozeman, I am glad to hear about my town on BOL, but the story does not put Bozeman in the best possible light. Good thing that they rescinded this policy. Please make sure the Buzz town is aware of this and this can somehow clear Bozeman’s name a bit. Bozeman is a great little town (hmm, the smallest city I’ve ever lived in, but the fifth largest city in MT) with great nature resources all around it and hope you all have a chance to come and visit this area. It is beautiful out here!

Any other BOL listeners in Bozeman?

Sandra

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When is episode 2000? Approximately Thursday, June 13th, 2013. [It's the second Thursday of June - gonna have to bump it back a bit]

So how’d I get that? First, I wrote a little script that would go through the months and count the number of weekdays for me. This gave me a nice estimate of how many BOLs there’d be. But it didn’t take into consideration the holidays. So I Googled a holiday list and came up with http://www.opm.gov/Operating_Status_Schedules/fedhol/2009.asp and added those to the spreadsheet, too. I had the spreadsheet do the math for me to remove them and then run a count for me.

I did the last bit by hand, knowing that the last episode of May 2013 would be #1991, I counted into 2000 by hand.

A few other notable or neat episode numbers:
1194 – Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 – BOL’s 10th Anniversary.
1234 – Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
1250 – Thursday, June 17th, 2010 [A third Thursday!]
1337 – Thursday, October 21st, 2010 [A third Thursday!]
1500 – Thursday, June 16th, ts on 1[A third Thursday!]
1750 – Thursday, June 14th, 2012 [A second Thursday - booo]

All of these dates are obviously approximate – Days off for things like CES travel and such aren’t included, nor are double-episode days.

You can see the spreadsheet at http://bit.ly/bol2000math.

Love the show, and ‘grats on 1k!

Tommy in Kingston

We asked for submissions from our fans for the podcast art that would be attached to the MP3 file for episode 1,000. We received a number of awesome submissions, but alas, there could be only one winner. Here is a slideshow with the winning submission, as well as the rest of the pack.

Congratulations to Emmanuel from France for such a creative (and nerdy) take on the BOL logo for episode 1,000. And as always, thanks to EVERYONE for taking part in this.

BOL1000 fan submitted podcast art

Bozeman, Montana, has decided they need everyone's social network log-ins and passwords to conduct background checks on prospective employees. So cute. They call it Face Page. Plus we talk about the iPhone lines, and go to town on the need for copyright laws. Turns out we may not need them.

Episode 1001

Live blog: iPhone 3G S launch day
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10268140-37.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10268774-37.html

How to tether your iPhone running OS 3.0 without jailbreaking, for free
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/18/how-to-tether-your-iphone-running-os-3-0-without-jailbreaking/

Third-party game accessories coming to iPhone and iPod Touch
http://kotaku.com/5296694/apple-says-game-accessories-coming-to-iphone-touch

Court orders Jammie Thomas to pay RIAA $1.92 million
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10268199-93.html
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/06/record-labels-awarde

Researchers conclude piracy not stifling content creation
http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/06/researchers-conclude-piracy-not-stifling-content-creation.ars

Intel rebrands again: Meet Core i3 and Core i7
http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2009/06/intel-rebrands-again-meet-core-i3-and-core-i7.ars

City in Montana requires job applicants to hand over all social network log-ins and passwords for background checks
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/17/city-in-montana-requ.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10268282-38.html

Why hard disk is a better bargain than SSD
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/06/18/1333230/Why-Hard-Disk-Is-a-Better-Bargain-Than-SSD

Voice mail

Tim Michigan has a replacement from IRL

Joe Sacramento solution for long ep 1000

Larry wishes us happy 1000

E-mail
Dear buzz crew:
This is Siavash from Iran, I'm happy to report that in past few days the internet speed on ADSL lines is better and we can access the sites better, but our fight against the government still continues.
After Twitter support for Iran, today Facebook added Persian language to their languages and now Persian can use the Facebook in Persian. I know Google is going to do some changes in their service for Iran too.
I'm just amazed for the amount of support of American sites for Iranian users and their attention to Iran. And I just wanted to thank them all.
I want to add a BiG BiG thank you to all buzz town citizens that sent me mails and Facebook messages and you guys on Cnet for reading my mail and paying attention to what is going on here.

THANK YOU

PS: Natali, I'm still the only Persian listener in Tehran, I have found other Persian listeners around the world, but not in Tehran

Best Regards

Siavash Ghahremany

Website: http://www.ghahremany.com

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Hey Buzzheads,

I took a couple screengrabs when the chatroom went over 1000 users. One shows gknee smiling as we hit 1001, and the other is Molly conveniently toasting when we hit 1013. Both pics are in my flickr account. Here’s 1013 and here’s 1001. Hope you like them, and I love the show!

Joe in Glens Falls

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3607/3639334524_8b72328c12_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3360/3638524207_dddf24ae13_o.jpg

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Has anyone figured out what day Episode 2000 will occur? (assuming that
Buzz Out Loud makes it to episode 2000) – Mark

EPISODE 1000

Scattered reports of iPhone OS 3.0 update problems
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10266635-1.html
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/06/iphone30/

Bill would ban unfair data plans, even for mobiles
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/06/bill-would-ban-unfair-data-plans-even-for-mobiles/

Fan submitted video
Mission Impossible – http://kelvington.com/BOLImpossible.avi
Remy – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlSiSRZT_Y8
Dwight – http://www.vimeo.com/5038864
Aaron – http://gallery.me.com/aarmer#100248
Frank L – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmirO1GrAQw
Dave B – http://gallery.me.com/davebrodbeck#100093
Angry French – http://www.vimeo.com/4890847
Elsie – http://www.vimeo.com/5167478
New York – Fans – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApECC8ahr5s
Macgyver – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5yfHl9M2ks&fmt=22
Nicnetter and Phatemokid – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mucS7zsVWHc
RogueTess – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=039Db2U43Ic
Star Trek – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxaN7Ff6b_g&fmt=22
Roberto – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjv_RsPSkCM
AnKH – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NXhYSTKo5o&feature=email
Mike L – http://www.vimeo.com/4970208
Doctor Who – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGaAJlfKT3o&fmt=22
Chris K – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NshEbn77NFE
Pete from Norway – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxwTeEBWGlE
Nate – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pDzL2Mouv4
Adam in Seattle – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQNU3LjleQw
Andres – http://www.vimeo.com/5160265
Paul – http://vimeo.com/5132385
Shane – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_MwTVbBs90
Elliot – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VjYLKsUgZc
Jody – http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/kVYf-mZxXCjbn_MFq2BnFQ?feat=directlink
Dr. Karl – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RiSi8WCF68

Other stories not necessarily discussed on the show
iPhone 3G S hits stores Friday: Will the crowds follow?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10267025-37.html

How to tether your iPhone running OS 3.0 without jailbreaking, for free
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/18/how-to-tether-your-iphone-running-os-3-0-without-jailbreaking/

Why hard disk is a better bargain than SSD
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/06/18/1333230/Why-Hard-Disk-Is-a-Better-Bargain-Than-SSD

Yahoo is now resorting to selling killer domain names on the cheap
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/17/yahoo-is-now-resorting-to-selling-killer-domain-names-on-the-cheap/

City in Montana requires job applicants to hand over all social network logins and passwords for background checks
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/17/city-in-montana-requ.html

Radio chip inspired by human ear
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/17/radio-chip-inspired.html

TweetPsych: This is your brain on Twitter
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10266918-2.html

Credits
Producer: Bonnie Gannon
Director: Kelly Hendricks
Technical Director: Chris Parker
FCP/Chyron: Mitch Chang
Sound mixing: Chris Pavey, Benito Suarez
Jib camera: Charlie Wagner (The Earthlink Guy)
Camera: James Phelan, Jamie Yee
Associate producer, floor manager: Lynn Fu
Prompter: Justin Lee
Audience manager: Andrew Mager
Craft services: Tony Fox
Stream producer: Justin Eckhouse
Graphics: Shaun Charity
Writer: Tom Merritt
Sound editing: Tom Merritt
Video editing: Kelly Hendricks, Mitch Chang
Audio studio producer/director: Jason Howell
Hosts: Molly Wood, Natali Del Conte, Brian Cooley, Rafe Needleman, Brian Tong, Tom Merritt
Guests: Veronica Belmont, Leo Laporte, James Hilliard, Scott Johnson

Natali got a little flustered when we learned that AT&T is changing the subsidy so that folks who thought they would have to pay more might not have to. But it's OK: if you preordered, the company will refund the difference. So she calmed down eventually. We also discuss China backpedaling on the filter software, and the need to encrypt.

EPISODE 999

iPhone OS 3.0 wide release coming Wednesday
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10265918-37.html
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/stop-hitting-f5-iphone-os-3-0-release-still-hours-away/

June 17 Announcement: iPhone 3G S upgrade eligibility update
http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=1574

Apple/iTunes doesn’t like supporting the Pre
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/

China backpedals on filtering software
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2009-06-16-china-web-filtering_N.htm?csp=34

Windows 7 downgrade to XP limited to 6 months
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10265750-56.html

Firefox 3.5 ‘Web upgrade’ planned for end of June
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10265652-2.html

AT&T and Verizon deny price fixing SMS
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2348890,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03069TX1K0001121

Gmail may HTTPS encrypt everything all the time
http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2009/06/https-security-for-web-applications.html

NSA e-mail surveillance pervasive and ongoing
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/17/1323207/NSA-Email-Surveillance-Pervasive-and-Ongoing

Disney Asus Netpal Netbook…get ‘em young!
http://blogs.usatoday.com/technologylive/2009/06/disney-asus-team-up-on-netbook.html
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/disney-and-asus-announce-netpal-netbook-for-kids/

VOICEMAIL
Remy – very excited about Apple 3GS

Anonymous – Google Voice frustration

Christy L – HD Makeup

E-MAIL
Buzz crew,

You have mentioned this story previously – thank you for that as I
have been the person publicizing it – but the telephone incumbent TDS
just lost its last opportunity to appeal at the Supreme Court. A full
2 days before the city would have lost the investor money (they had
one year from the lawsuit start), the Supreme Court declined to review
the Appeals Court judgment. The City is now moving forward with its
all fiber network.

I have put the details up at muninetworks.org

Thank you for mentioning this story, over the past year, folks in
Monticello took great heart that people were watching from across the
country, indeed planet when one counts your listeners.

Christopher Mitchell
Director, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
http://www.newrules.org/information/
http://www.muninetworks.org

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Hey guys, just thought I’d make you aware of plans in the uk to pay
for faster broadband in the long run by charging 50p per month ontop
of our landline bills. Currently in Britain the majority of people
have a landline with a line rental payable to ‘British Telecoms’ even
if you have another provider, so a £10 per month phone package starts
to cost £20. And with the prices of mobile Internet, mobile calls and
voip services (especially being free on mobile carrier ‘Three’)
becoming more popular and cheaper it is conceivable that the only
people paying for this upgrade are going to be the ones that aren’t
actually going to require it, namely the older technophobics who will
never ditch their landline and never been online. Anyway just though
I’d let you know what was going on this side of the Atlantic. Have a
great 1000th.

Si from Sheffield, England.

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here is a quick video showing the augmented reality possibilities that the compass in the new iPhone will unlock. This is already on G1. As you can see, this seemingly pointless feature can have some pretty remarkable affects on the apps created for the iPhone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b64_16K2e08

Donald S. Clark
University of Illinois: Urbana-Champaign

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Hi Buzz Crew,

Let me cut to the chase. I heard on last Friday’s episode that this 1,000th Buzz Out Loud Podcast is going to be “longer.” How much longer will it be?

As much as I enjoy listening to the daily audio podcast, a longer one is not going to work for me. If the 1,000 episode was two months ago I would have jumped for joy (I “used to” listen at work). Recently, I’ve made a deal with myself (and my wife-to-be) that leading up to our wedding, I would go to the gym in an effort to be healthier (not as fat). I begin and end my routine with Buzz Out Loud. I press “play” on my 2nd gen ipod (I know I’m behind the times) to begin my work out, and I and end it the second the closing music finishes. If I’m in the middle of a set, it doesn’t matter, I stop and I leave. You see, I HATE the BORING gym. It’s the bane of my existence.

So that said, you will KILL ME if I have to work out for an hour and a half, or god forbid, two hours. I promise I will curse your names down to the last email, caller, or heaven help us, horrible Opera reference…

Speaking of Opera, Can someone please tell me why our country is so ridiculous that a company, such as Microsoft, can’t include or make their software the “default” browser within…well…. their software? What happened to a little elbow grease? If you have a browser “Opera” and you think you should have the right to be on someone’s machine, do what every company on the planet has done to gain market-share. “Do a little advertising. Make a better product. Creatively distribute it.” Perhaps that will help you get your product to the masses & gain some name recognition. I don’t recall firefox ever having a pity-party. I don’t hear them running to big brother, crying “It’s not fair! It’s too hard for me to get into the game.” Grow up, learn to hit, and then maybe you’ll get to play. Why does everyone think they deserve a trophy?

Thanks for listening. Thanks for sometimes having unusually short podcasts. Finally, Thanks for being my daily hub into the tech world. Congratulations on 1,000!

Sincerely,
Joe Pifher (Pie-fur).

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The 1000th episode is tomorrow! There will be no pre-show, here will be a live audience it will be streamed live on cnet.com/live. There will be audio and video on demand afterwards in the normal podcast feeds.

1000th episode meetup in San Francisco: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113374732587

Send us buzz at buzz@cnet.com or call us at 1-800-616-CNET (2638)

Chinese filtering software has been criticized for having holes. The solution? Fix it. How communist. We also give you a hack for getting free tethering on the iPhone and we bemoan the fate of MySpace.

EPISODE 998

Opera Unite aims to reinvent the Web
http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2009/06/hi-my-name-is-opera-and-ill-be-your-server-today.html

http://mashable.com/2009/06/16/opera-unite/

AT&T won’t charge extra for MMS on iPhone
http://www.applethoughts.com/news/show/94126/at-t-not-planning-on-charging-for-mms.html

…And here’s how to get free tethering
http://9to5mac.com/9to5mac-tether-iPhone-hack

Hackers find remote iPhone crack
http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/06/16/0017221/Hackers-Find-Remote-iPhone-Crack

Facebook finally catches up to MySpace in the U.S.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/15/facebook-finally-catches-up-to-myspace-in-the-us/

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10265163-2.html

MySpace slashes head count by 30 percent
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10265566-36.html

Twitter downtime gets delayed for Iranian election news
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10265213-2.html

Chinese filtering software ordered to be cleaned up
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/business/global/16censor.html

Blackberry Tour for international Sprint and Verizon customers
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=67187&full_skip=1

Mercedes demos a car with airbags *everywhere*
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-10263120-48.html

Cars driving in the parking lot generate electricity to power a U.K. supermarket
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1193070/Shoppers-cars-soon-able-power-supermarkets.html

Science Academies: Renewable power tech ready for big growth
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/06/science-academies-renewable-power-tech-ready-for-big-growth.ars

VOICEMAIL
Shalin – Ranger Panda for Mascot

Aaron – Another way to call out from Google Voice

E-MAIL
Dear Buzz Crew:

One again this is Siavash, from Tehran/Iran. As you may know from the news there a revolution going on in Iran, after the changes in votes by Iran's government, people are on the street every day and night.
We have no access to technology at all, all the mobile services and SMS,MMS and EDGE services are down, Facebook, YouTube and many other sites have been filtered, most of the time there is no internet connection with ADSL lines and a very powerful noise in satellite services, because of these problems I was not able to send you the videos I made for 1000 episode of BOL, know I'm using a 2way satellite service which has a very low bandwidth because of the noise, and I'm not able to download or stream BOL anymore.

Just wanted to say congratulations to all you guys for making this 1000 episode happen, I've enjoyed every minute of the show since the episode 50 or 60 that I started listening, and I have to say you guys are the best in tech field.

I hope there will be a day that we could have proper internet access and I could join you guys again.
Here is a link to my Facebook album and some pictures of what is going on in Tehran : http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=24107&id=1081415824&l=c9e2b20028

I Love the Show, YOU ARE THE BEST

Best Regards

Siavash

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Hey BOL,

Just wanted to pass on an idea on getting subsidized iphone upgrades annually, instead of every 2 years. My friend does this and it’s so simple. I can’t believe no one else has sent this in. All he did was add a second line to his account for 9.99 per month. The second line shares minutes, has no extras, no texting, nothing. Just the cheapest 2nd line plan you can get. Now he can upgrade either line and have the AT&T store switch phone numbers on each line everytime he upgrades. If you want to get the new iphone each year, it might be work 120 bucks per year to have the luxury of upgrading yearly at the subsidized price.

Love the show,
Ragan

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Hey Guys,
By now, I’m sure someone has mentioned this already, but thought I’d pass it along.

In epised 994 you discussed maps for the iPhone and the possibility of TomTom using Open Street Maps. TomTom bought TeleAtlas a year or two ago, so it’s doughtful they can lower their cost with open source maps.

Love the show, keep rockin’ Molly,

Mike

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I think it is great that Microsoft is donating to the poor for everyone who downloads IE8. Now can we get them to donate $6 for each person who downloaded IE6 and put this in a fund for the mental health care of all the web professionals who had to support that piece of #$%&^*?

Chris the podcaster

L.T.S.

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The 1000th episode is Thursday June 18th. There will be no pre-show, here will be a live audience it will be streamed live on cnet.com/live. There will be audio and video on demand afterwards in the normal podcast feeds.

1000th episode meetup in San Francisco: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113374732587

Send us buzz at buzz@cnet.com or call us at 1-800-616-CNET (2638)

Vic the Texas Rancher pilot wrote in, but somehow in the twisted mind of Molly Wood his name became Texas Ranger Panda. And now she can't stop laughing at the cute ranger panda writing in about HD makeup. Which Natali thinks is a conspiracy. We also review the DTV transition and help you get a contract-free iPhone.

EPISODE 997

The day after the U.S. DTV transition
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10264369-94.html

When’s your country switching?
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/us-declares-victory-as-dtv-transition-goes-rather-smoothly.ars

Bug in Apple store helps you get iPhone at subsidized price
http://www.hitb.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=31783

Google Voice number portability
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/14/google-voices-secret-weapon-number-portability/

Antipiracy music deal for Virgin
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8100394.stm

Bing filters porn now
http://news.cnet.com/8301-19518_3-10264128-238.html

Microsoft donates meals for IE 8
http://gizmodo.com/5290118/microsoft-donates-eight-meals-for-each-internet-explorer-8-download

Microsoft wants to rate your outfits
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/14/0118200/Microsoft-Seeking-Hot-Or-Not-Patent
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=“20090150203″.PGNR.&OS=DN/20090150203&RS=DN/20090150203

Dell has now made $3 million on Twitter
http://www.crn.com/hardware/217800984;jsessionid=L40ST4KXQDKDOQSNDLOSKHSCJUNN2JVN

Open source car--20 year lease, free fuel for life
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/13/0315221/Open-Source-Car-mdash-20-Year-Lease-Free-Fuel-For-Life

Twitter from a Commodore 64
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/06/14/0218212/A-Twitter-Client-For-the-Commodore-64

VOICEMAIL
Randy in Colorado on Microsoft bundling

E-MAIL
hi there,

i’ve been a long time user of the cnet website and i practically live
off cnet tv. anyway so i decided to build myself a cnet toolbar
because i use cnet so much. basically its a series of shortcuts to the
different parts of the cnet website such as the different topics
(apple news, business news etc) and of course cnet tv. it also has a
google search added in. basically i used the google toolbar ever since
it was launched but this now allows me to remove that toolbar and
incorporate my searches and cnet together into a more… personal
toolbar.

anyway i thought why be greedy! haha… so if you guys are interested
you should check it out. its completely spyware free etc (there are
some other major networks that use the same company (espn toolbars etc)

this is the cnet one i made.

http://cnetcommunity.ourtoolbar.com/

it works on internet explorer (windows) and on firefox (windows & mac)

if you like it would you mind posting it to the blog or mentioning it
on cnet tv to promote it. maybe others would like it…

although if what i have made is illegal please let me know and i’ll
delete it asap or just use it for myself.

thanks for your time, hope you like it!

regards

ross canpolat
ireland

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Hi Natali,

Just thought you would get a kick out of this… Turns out they really were cooking wooly mammoths!

http://www.discoveryon.info/2009/06/worlds-oldest-barbecue.html

Love. The. Show.

- Enderpanda

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Buzzards,
Wait,wait…what? Did Tom say Blueray makeup? Is there a Blueray vs.
HD makeup war going on? Is Blueray makeup technically better but way
more expensive than HD makeup? To win this battle are these makeup
manufacturers going to have to buy out the studios? Maybe they will
have to go straight to the actors with an ad campaign. I heard that
Jason already has a Blueray makeup only clause in his contract.
Could you guys do a comparison episode where you all have Blueray
makeup on one side and HD makeup on the other? You could call it the
“Let that be your last battle” episode. (Star Trek reference. See
wikipedia. )
Love the show.

Vic the Texas Rancher Pilot

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Hey Buzz Crew again,

Can you help me here regarding the facebook username. I really wanted to get http://www.facebook.com/kaiser but someone also named Kaiser got it before I did, so I got http://www.facebook.com/kaiserf . after signing up my username I immediately went to http://www.facebook.com/kaiser to see who beat me to getting the username. Realizing that he was from the other side of the world, there’s really nothing I can do about it, besides facebook doesn’t allow username change. I just noticed something strange. After a few minutes, I went back to the guys profile and instead of getting the guys page, i got this

The page you requested was not found.
You may have clicked an expired link or mistyped the address. Some web addresses are case sensitive.
Return home
Go back to the previous page

What happened here? Did Facebook remove him the rights of getting that name? Can I still get it?

Just sharing…

Kaiser

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1000th episode is next week, thanks for all your submissions. Don’t miss the big show Thursday June 18th at the normal time and in the normal feeds live at 10:30 AM Pacific http://www.cnet.com/live

1000th episode meetup in San Francisco: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113374732587

Send us buzz at buzz@cnet.com or call us at 1-800-616-CNET (2638)