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- All that Apple talk giving you upset? Soothe yourself with a nice, eco-friendly Linux story.
- The standard kilogram apparently has lost a few micrograms of weight. Not such a bad thing I suppose, but it makes all the other kilograms look fat. Also fair use makes us trillions of dollars a year, so why don't I ever see any of it? I hear fair use has a posse. Maybe they have all the money.
- We get to the bottom of the idea that we're all living in a simulation with the source of the theory himself.
- Luckily, the folks at Doubletree didn't mind us setting up our podcast studio in the front lobby.
- Why do you have to be so mean, Apple? The company issued a statement Monday saying its next firmware update will likely break unlocked iPhones. That's just mean. You know Apple doesn't have to do it this way, and unlocking is within your rights. Meanwhile there's a new Zune patent, and Google wants you to live in its virtual world.
- There should be a law against this. Apple, Net neutrality, and fair use, all in the same day. As you can imagine, we had some things to say on the trifecta of rant-itude, to the tune of about 46 minutes. But hey, think of it this way: it'll get you through pretty much the entire weekend. Enjoy!
- Molly's amazed by Steven Jobs Softcon keynote, while Tom is taken with a new 1200 baud modem.
- Apple unleashes a whole slew of new iPod gadgetry just in time for the holidays. Meanwhile, Tom dials in from an old phonograph machine, and Jasmine France gives her insight into the announcement.
- Get your cookies and milk ready--you'll need them for standing in line. Halo 3 comes out at midnight tonight, and thanks to Shalin, I'll be spending the next three weeks soldering and sewing a tiny, little Master Chief Halloween costume. Plus, who you tryin' to fool with that EULA, Hulu?
- If your dog loses a leg, you don't take him out and shoot him, do you? Neither does AMD. In a move that's both clever and ecofriendly, AMD has decided that quad-cores with a single blown core can be packaged and resold as triple-core chips. Genius! Also today, Facebook gets all Google, the New York Times sees the power of search, and software goes toe-to-toe with Web apps. Again.
- We've already seen lawsuits over skipping commercials on television via VCRs and DVRs. Is the humble pop-up blocker next? Legal experts say, "almost certainly." Sigh. Meanwhile, in other news about overreaching, California says teens can't have cell phones, pagers, or laptops in cars, but everyone else can. Oh, and Google is signing on to fund a $30 million prize to the moon! We won't call it Moon 2.0, but they will.
- NBC has introduced a free, ad-supported Web site where you can download some of its shows after they air on television. See, we thought we wanted that. But the shows expire a week after they air, they come wrapped in an NBC-specific player, they don't work on portable devices, and the service is, for now, Windows-only. Umm...fail. In other news, Southwest Airlines dumps the cattle call, Web rises to the challenge.
- Steve Jobs says he had to take your $200 in suckers' rent, because the holidays are coming and he can't move the holidays. Wall Street says it's really not too comfortable with a sudden, 30 percent iPhone price drop that reeks of desperation for sales. Molly says it's just plain mean, and Tom says it's your own darned fault. In other news, there actually is other news today. Check it out.
- Apparently, turning off an iPhone isn't as easy as, um, pressing the power button. But could it be as easy as HTC teaming up with Google for the long-awaited, hotly rumored gPhone? That's the word from one HTC "insider" via...well, via some blog. We'll see. Also: Porn takes on piracy, and a third HD DVD format proves potentially attractive.
- In New Zealand, you write the laws--but in Russia, the law write you! Meanwhile, New Zealand is putting one of its laws up on a wiki for the public to edit. Harmless and organized method for gathering public comment, or harbinger of a complete breakdown of worldwide democracy? You decide. Also, today Verizon flip-flops on censoring texting short-codes, and Verizon may be forcing the FCC to flip-flop on its 700Mhz open-spectrum requirement.
- Yahoo, ever on the cutting edge with hip new ideas and clever, totally not overused naming concepts, has just introduced a new social networking service, called Mash! Finally! And wow, will it do cool things, like let you create a profile and add applications to that profile and get a little feed of current happenings on the...oh, for crying out loud. You know what's cool? Nokia at work on a standardized removable flash memory format. That, we actually NEED.
- Don't worry, Tom and I are actually feeling quite chipper today. We're referring to the darkness of Vista's new antipiracy technique, the "Black Screen of Death." Or ARE we? Hold those e-mails; listen first. We're also hoping the darkness of restrictive cell phone carrier networks will soon be listed by new mobile P2P technology in testing. And an appeals court issues a satellite TV piracy decision that's downright luminary.
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