Today, the last Friday of July is SysAdmin day and we appreciate them even more because they came through during the live show and got us back on line. We also talk about David POgue’s new movement to ‘take back the beep.’ And we need to watch out for Pandas. Listen and you’ll find out …
Month: July 2009
BOL 1030: SSL is SOL
Black Hat this week means lots of security vulnerabilities in the news, including the fact that SSL is now just SL thanks to an exploit discovered by Kaminsky and friends. We also decide that you can’t fix stupid. Too bad. I wish we could. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. …
BOL 1029: MicroHoo: Friends with benefits
The Microsoft Yahoo hook-up finally happened and now all their friends are glad the drama’s over. But they’re not getting hitched. Microsoft’s shelling out some dough for Yahoo to use Bing and Yahoo’s going to sell the crap out of it. In other news we will all die from automatic drones programmed to make their …
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BOL 1028: The Del Conte Cartel
Today we hear how the Del Conte’s deal with their enemies, find out what kind of deposit Tong makes when he visits a bank, wonder why on EARTH Google ever even bought the slice of AOL it just dumped, and look forward to the Pre on Verizon — but when? Buzz Out Loud episodes are …
Buzz Out Loud 1027: What’s your major smellfunction?
On today’s episode, we invent a new word that we hope will show up on a show like The Hills sometime soon. Plus, we get fired up, make terrible jokes about monkeys controlling computers with their brains, and actually work in a tiny bit of news. For example, Apple’s doing a tablet and music labels …
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Buzz Out Loud 1026: Donald is non-stick
Teflon Don reveals that he is well, entirely coated in Teflon. But we still don’t know if the iPhone 3GS is. So if you know, tell us. We also discuss how Twitter could improve it’s home page and why the AP just doesn’t get it. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio …
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Buzz Out Loud 1025: Amazon’s new kicks
Zappos has been acquired by Amazon, meaning Amazon will have even more shoes to sell, but also a new corporate culture to integrate with. Windows 7 gets released to manufacturing, meaning it’s on its way to you. And Microsoft and UBIsoft are getting into the movie business. Is that a good thing? Buzz Out Loud …
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Buzz Out Loud 1024: Kilo-sode
We’re very happy to welcome you to our 1024th episode, which as we know means we will no longer to count the shows in binary on two hands. But that’s OK. We will still be doing shows. Because we have more hands. And our eleven-finer listeners can still count on two hands. We also have …
Buzz Out Loud 1023: 802.11N(ever)
Supposedly we will get finalization on the 802.11N wireless standard in September. Of course we’ve been waiting for that for years now, so we’re not too confident. We also almost forget we’re talking about the new Yahoo home page and only I am impressed by Microsoft contributing to the Linux Kernel. But I still think …
Buzz Out Loud 1022: Load balancing in space
On the 40th anniversary of the moon landing we sadly report on the state of the broken toilet in the International Space Station. It means astronauts have to split up which toilets they use in order to load balance. No. Seriously. Plus we touch on the Amazon 1984 ironic mistake of the year. Buzz Out …
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