AT&T had an outage yesterday morning in the bay area due to fiber optical cables being cut. This didn’t just affect landlines but cell phones as well. Rafe describes the dangers hackers would face in trying to cut those cables. We also estimate the distance to New York as 12 worms, and give a plus-five …
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There is a lot about pants in today’s episode. I mean the French Parliament kileld the Net piracy bill, and Conficker started adding a key logger and the AP does more stupid stuff. But really, it’s all about pants. The new Star Trek movie was shown to a surprised group of Austin fans. Apparently it …
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Seeing how the cyborg is real and the mutants are not, I think the cyborg will win this. Yes the cyborg is real. He’s a filmmaker with only one eye so he figured he’d put a camera in the empty socket. For now it’s only a red LED, but soon it will be a camera. …
The DS has a new add-on that includes a pedometer to help you measure your walking. We don’t know if it will slim down the Mii that giot fat ignoring Wii fit. Australia is going on an all-fiber diet for their Internet needs, and the AP wants everyone to stop linking to them. OK! Careful …
Rafe and Molly take over the show today, due to travels by Tom and Natali, and not surprisingly, geek out and argue a lot about things like FM radio transmitters. In the actual news, it’s cell phone Monday with lots of talk about the spread of Android, the future of smart phone Internet apps, and …
Turns out surfing Facebook at work has a name and it’s good for your productivity. A study shows that 20% of your time spent Workplace Internet Leisure Browsing (WILB) will improve your output. Texas also says Hasta La Vista to Vista and AT&T tries to block movies on its wireless. Buzz Out Loud episodes are …
We’re not talking about a team of dancing zombies, we mean a team of friends to form her Zombie Preparedness task force. Because it is zombie preparedness day. We also bring it with some open source good news for DVR buidlers and the Linux folks talking tough to Microssoft. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released …
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The whole world was fooled into fearing a huge storm of wormness that never happened. Was it because we were prepared or because it really wasn’t that big of a deal at all? We also avoid most of the April Foolery and talk some Nehalem processors and BlackBerry app world. Buzz Out Loud episodes are …
A new scanner developed by Kaminsky and friends can help find Conficker infected machines. We’re so drenched in Conficker news at this point that I think the Girl Scouts have started selling Confickerdoodles. We also analyze Netflix’s Blu-ray rate hike, and try to decide why they’re fighting over toilets in space. Buzz Out Loud episodes …
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The Streamy awards made me think of how Hollywodo and the video blogegrs are starting to come together. It made Natali think about urination. So maybe they need to rethink branding. we also tell youhow violent video games will make you see better. For real. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio …
