Four Dudes on Tech

Show #46; May 19th, 2010 Four Dudes On Tech Podcast Show # 46 - Zuck This Zuckerberg We can be reached: Http://www.fourdudesontech.com Fourdudesontech@gmail.com Follow Walt On Twitter: jesus_13thDisc Complete show notes and links available at http://wwww.fourdudesontech.com GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. Get Great Web Hosting at GoDaddy.com and save 10% Use Promo Code: pod168 By the power vested in me by operating system, I now pronounce you husband and wife. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100516/ap_on_re_as/as_japan_robot_wedding Robot wedding in Japan, no its not what you think. The "I-Fairy" robot performed the ceremony for a human couple. Let's talk Facebook summary of recent news: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704912004575252723109845974.html?mod=WSJ_Tech_LEADTop More and more of your profile is being made public information, not only by default but mandatory in some cases Much of the controversy surrounds how much of the information provided in your profile is shared with 3rd parties affiliated with Facebook Many users complain that privacy controls are too complicated There is a movement for people to quit Facebook, so far roughly 0.001% of users have committed to do so The FTC is taking a close look at how social networks use data provided by users New development creating lots of buzz: http://www.helium.com/items/1835414-what-is-the-diaspora-social-network NYU students plan to develop an open source social network alternative to Facebook Wanted to raise $10,000 by June 1st to fund the project, they are already closing in on 200 stacks Maybe that billboard truck from the commercial should read "LifeLock CEO a Complete Idiot" http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/05/lifelock-identity-theft LifeLock is a company that allegedly protects its customers from identity theft The CEO infamously advertised his social security number as publicity He has been a "victim" of identity theft 13 times Doesn't sound like LifeLock's services are worth anything Anti-piracy law benefits serious criminals in Sweden http://torrentfreak.com/police-say-anti-piracy-law-makes-catching-criminals-harder-100517/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29 The Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) law has had the unintended consequence of making it harder for law enforcement to track down serious criminals ISPs pushed back against the law by purging user log data to protect privacy of customers against "copyright cowboys" Chris Hansen is rolling over in his grave More Stupid Inventions! http://www.nydailynews.com/money/galleries/most_inane_inventions__ever/most_inane_inventions__ever.html Many duplicates from our discussion of dumb inventions in February Some new gems, including: anti-fart blanket for couples, handerpants fingerless gloves (great bropester gear), a self-spinning spaghetti fork, and New Coke Good inventions wrongly accused of being stupid inventions: White Castle hamburger scented candle and a wine glass that fits a whole bottle of wine

Show #48; June 1st, 2010 Four Dudes On Tech Podcast More Japanese Robot News... http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20006075-1.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0 * From cnet: "Japan plans $2 billion robot moon base by 2020" Nate ♥'s Lasers http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/05/-flash-laser-leads-to-discovery-of-new-state-of-matter.html? From The Daily Galaxy: "FLASH Laser Leads to Discovery of New State of Matter" A brief dramatic reading by Four Dudes on Tech http://twitter.com/nick_nolte * "Just burped up a false eyelash. Anyone's guess how that got there." * "Happy Memorial Day. I celebrated our fallen soldiers by sneakin' up behind a foreigner and sockin 'im in the kidney." * "Look here, fella, drug-induced delusions of invincibility is my middle name." * "Aw, hell. If I had a nickel for every time I woke up with a monitoring bracelet on, I could buy another 5th." Woman follows Google Map instead of common sense. http://searchengineland.com/woman-follows-google-maps-walking-directions-gets-hit-sues-43212 * "After Googling walking directions for a trip in Park City, Utah, Lauren Rosenberg claims she was led onto a busy highway, where she was struck by a vehicle. She’s now suing Google for damages." * "In the screenshot above, you can see that Google quite clearly warns: 'Walking directions are in beta. Use caution – This route may be missing sidewalks or pedestrian paths.' That would seem to negate part of the suit’s claim — except that Rosenberg used a Blackberry. The Blackberry version of Google Maps might not have carried this warning." * So is Google and the dude that struck her with his car responsible for her not using common sense? You can clearly see from the pictures in the article that the road in question was not pedestrian friendly. Its on! Processor war! AMD just got served! http://techreport.com/articles.x/18988 * From The Tech Report: "Intel's Core i7-875K and i5-655K processors" * This new "K" series of chips is meant to directly compete with AMD's Black Edition processors that "removed clock speed caps and made overclocking dead simple—without the huge price premium traditionally commanded by Extreme Edition and FX processors." * Lots of great charts and graphs on page 2 of this article. My nips were cutting glass while I was reading them. "Training Mode" Has a Whole New Level of Meaning: Gamers have better dream recall, Canadian study finds * Although being pieced together from surveys and not clinical data--though that's next to come--Psychology Faculty Member Jayne Gackenbach (awesome, right?) claims that gamers experience more vivid and intense dreams, with higher frequencies of lucid dream occurrence. * This explains all of my "abandoned old mansion full of gun-wielding strange things" nightmares. No, I'm not kidding, either. * Super Relevant/Hilarious: Gackenbach also asserts that "--Gamers didn't code nightmares as 'threatening.' Rather, they seemed to be having fun." I finally have something to cite when people think I'm lying or psychotic when I say I love my nightmares.

Show #47; May 24th, 2010 Four Dudes On Tech Podcast Show # 47 - Nick Nolte Steals FDOT's heartbox We can be reached: Http://www.fourdudesontech.com Fourdudesontech@gmail.com Follow Walt On Twitter: jesus_13thDisc Complete show notes and links available at http://wwww.fourdudesontech.com GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. Get Great Web Hosting at GoDaddy.com and save 10% Use Promo Code: pod168 Show #47; May 26, 2010 > Show #47; May 26, 2010 Why does the open source guy look unkempt? It ain't easy being the Zuck. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/17/the-social-network-depict_n_578354.html * A movie is being made called The Social Network paints The Zuck a "ruthless and untrustworthy sex maniac * The Times of London has details: "The film claims that after Zuckerberg quit Harvard his personal life spun out of control, with Parker" (Sean Parker, the co-founder of Napster) "helping him indulge his fantasies with a stream of "groupies". Sorkin's screenplay suggests Parker knew Zuckerberg was driven not just by money or fame but also sexual insecurity. While he is depicted as receiving sex in bars, Parker runs the business." And you thought Donald Trump had bad hair! http://www.techeye.net/internet/mayor-of-london-promises-full-wi-fi-coverage-by-2012 * The bad-haired mayor of London is promising city-wide wi-fi in time for the 2012 Olympiad * ...“every lampost and every bus stop will one day very soon, and before the 2012 Olympics, be Wi-Fi enabled.” * Seriously, its like the guy is wearing a hat of his own hair * Could this end up being a disaster when people start using this city network for file sharing? A Short History of Crappy Storage Because Who Wants to Forget Zip Disks? * With so many terrible evolutionary missteps in the history of data storage, it's nice to look back and thank the Dark Lord that we don't have to deal with Datasette tapes anymore. In the World of Amazing Future Storage, However... Researchers discover compound that could hold 200 times more data than Blu-ray discs →titanium pentoxide (Ti3O5) may actually hold nearly 50% of your "cat on dog" folder in its 25TB (no kidding) per disc capacity. In the World of Bizarre Sh**... 16 Items They Only Sell in Chinese Wal-Marts * This should do nicely for our weekly "wtf? * And one weird item they sell in American Wal-Marts: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13845_3-20005840-58.html The Best Satire Fit to Print in 140 Characters http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2010/05/the_5_best_satirical_twitter_a.php * Top 5 satirical Twitter accounts according to the Houston Press * @BPGlobalPR is a recent favorite, tweeting about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico * Why didn't Jesus and the 13th Disciple make the cut? Are you sick of Usher's illegitimate offspring? Block him! http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20005847-17.html * A Firefox add on that blacks out all mentions of Justin Bieber on any webpage you visit * It also blocks pictures tagged with Justin Bieber so you don't even have to look at it A Little Rebel Love on Our Way Out... The Periodic Table of Elements of "The Empire Strikes Back" →Someone clean Nathan up, if you don't mind.

Show #44; May 5th, 2010 Four Dudes On Tech Podcast Show # 45 - Walt Has A Heavy "Ba-Sack" We can be reached: Http://www.fourdudesontech.com Fourdudesontech@gmail.com Follow Walt On Twitter: jesus_13thDisc Complete show notes and links available at http://wwww.fourdudesontech.com GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. Get Great Web Hosting at GoDaddy.com and save 10% Use Promo Code: pod168 Sony Getting Sued http://www.thinq.co.uk/news/2010/4/29/sony-being-sued-over-other-os-removal/ Class action lawsuit started in California over Sony's removal of the "Install Other OS" option Merit Badge for Video Games http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/04/28/boy-scouts-new-video-game-award-sellout-say-critics/ http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/cubscouts/awards/boys/sanda/video_games.aspx Boy Scouts to give an academic pin for Video Games Some requirements include: teach someone to play a video game, come up with a plan to purchase a game, hook up a video game system Walt is not happy with the "journalist" who wrote the article about the video game pin and goes on a sweet rant From Way out in Left Field: HP buys Palm http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/hp-buys-palm/ HP to buy Palm for $1.2 billion Could we be seeing HP gadgets with WebOS soon? Who won the golden poo? http://consumerist.com/2010/04/congratulations-comcast-youre-the-worst-company-in-america.html http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2010/04/comcast_wins_consumerist_worst.html The Consumerist awarded the "Golden Poo" for the worst company of the year to Comcast Walt recently had an ordeal with Comcast and goes on another sweet rant

Show #45; May 12th, 2010 Four Dudes On Tech Podcast Show # 45 - Brown Note Bropesters with Kazaids We can be reached: Http://www.fourdudesontech.com Fourdudesontech@gmail.com Follow Walt On Twitter: jesus_13thDisc Complete show notes and links available at http://wwww.fourdudesontech.com GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. Get Great Web Hosting at GoDaddy.com and save 10% Use Promo Code: pod168 Introduction * You heard it here on 4DoT first: HP has abandoned their "Slate" tablet running on Windows 7. Its rumored that they will introduce a tablet computer running on the newly acquired WebOS. * The Sarah Palin email hacker has been convicted on some but not all counts. In a move that has us wonder who is smarter, her or her retarded kid, Palin compares this douche hacking into her personal email account with the Watergate scandal. Palin 2012! * Some elementary school girl in Texas was given detention for a week for having a Jolly Rancher in her possession. Another sad story of another child on candy, just like the kid in "webcamgate" that is on Mike and Ikes. If Fred builds it, they will come. * Fred is in the market to build a new computer. * What should he buy?! Its like shoe shopping for nerds! Now its a race! http://gigaom.com/2010/05/10/why-u-s-android-handset-sales-are-outpacing-the-iphone/ * Phones with Android OS outsold phones with iPhone OS in the first quarter of 2010 * Obviously there are more phone models available with Android * There are also millions of non-AT&T subscribers that cannot get an iPhone with their current network * However, could this be the beginning of a trend? Is Android hitting its stride? Are we doomed to no longer actually own what we buy? http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/07/fcc-hands-hollywood.html * Hollywood has been given permission by the FCC to operate "Selective Output Control" (SOC) in your set-top box * SOC allows your home theatre to be deactivated depending on what you're watching * The (farcical) reason given by Hollywood is SOC will allow people to watch first run movies in their homes Got crabs? http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2010/05/10/13893831.html * Website where you can purchase pubic lice * Of course they don't endorse giving someone crabs, despite their website being named "crabrevenge.com" * Three packages to choose from. You can get one colony, three colonies, or a colony of shampoo resistant crabs that take two weeks to eliminate. If you're not careful, your interwebs will disappear. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/13/dnssec/ * "Internet users face the risk of losing their internet connections on 5 May when the domain name system switches over to a new, more secure protocol." * Nate wanted to talk about this, perhaps some problems happened on May 5th at work? In other awesome website news. http://www.poobreak.com/ * Keeps track of how much it costs your company for you to give birth to a brown baby boy. * Walt earned $3.30 today while he dropped the kids off at the pool. * Should there be an automatic Twitter link option on this site? HTPC Makes NES PC! http://www.tomsguide.com/us/nes-famicom-htpc-case-mod-case,news-6746.html * HTPC made out of an Nintendo case * Pretty good specs, claims to be able to seamlessly play 1080p video RIP LimeWire, 2010 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/LimeWire-RIAA-Copyright-Infringement-Kimba,news-6775.html * LimeWire has been shutdown forever * No more housewives downloading Lady Gaga without knowing that its illegal

Show #43; April 20, 2010 Update on "webcamgate" Tens of thousands of pictures taken of students in their homes We know you'll be a future criminal! Florida State Department of Juvenile Justice will use analysis software to predict crime by young delinquents Warnings for 3-D televisions Don't watch if you're drunk or pregnant... or both Twitter to make money? Rolling out their new advertising, "promoted tweets" No window in your cubicle? Get a "virtual" window of sorts App(lication)s coming to a Ford near you Ford's Sync in-car technology to work with app(lication)s for Android and BlackBerry phones Sarah Palin email hacker going to court Could get up to 50 years in prison "Hitler Finds Out" videos disappearing from YouTube Film distributor is pulling the videos

Show #42; April 15th, 2010 Four Dudes On Tech Podcast Show # 42 - To be Shanked or Shived? Microsoft Fest! * Microsoft announces its newest "social" phone, the Kin Twitter Fest! * The Library of Congress will now archive all tweets Ransomware * Trojan downloads your web history and posts it on a public website, you can pay to take it down New Technology in Cabling * Intel's new Light Peak brings fiber optic data transfer to the masses Notes Four Dudes on Apple http://gizmodo.com/5512635/iphone-os-4-all-the-new-features * The latest and greatest iPhone OS, version 4.0 * New features include: multitasking, app(lication) folders, a new mail app(lication), iBooks, iAds, etc. * iPhone 3GSes and iPod Touch 3rd-gens devices will get all of the new features * iPhone 3G and Touch 2G will get "many things," which doesn't include multitasking http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=1904 * New Apple SDK for iPhone OS 4.0 * A new restriction is angering many developers, especially big software makers like Adobe * Developers can no longer use cross platform compilers (as in they can't make an application in Adobe Flash and then compile it for use on multiple platforms, including the iPhone) * Says Steve Jobs about the controversy: "We’ve been there before, and intermediate layers between the platform and the developer ultimately produces sub-standard apps and hinders the progress of the platform." http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-refreshes-macbook-pro-family-with-intel-core-i5-and-core-i/ * MacBook Pros get a processor upgrade * They've moved from the Intel Core 2 Duo chips to the Core i5s and i7s * The most affordable MacBook Pro is still shipping with the Core 2 Duo * Holy crap on the prices! http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2010/04/13/approved-opera-mini-app-store/ http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/opera-mini-now-the-number-one-free-download-in-all-22-app-stores/ * Opera's popular Mini Mobile browser has just been approved for the iPhone * "Opera uses compression methods that allow you to view a full website, yet download noticeably less data" * Could this cut into the use of Apple's Safari browser on the iPhone? * Its pretty freakin' popular so far! Four Dudes on Microsoft trying to be like Apple http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8614764.stm * Microsoft launches a phone called "Kin" that is aimed at social networking * "This is a phone that knits together a tight community of kindred spirits..., the phone personifies true kinship between people, technology, friends and customers," said Robbie Bach, president of the entertainment and devices division at Microsoft. (Sound of me vomiting loudly!) * Multi-touch screen and slide out keyboards * "The phone has an area dubbed the "spot" on to which owners can drag content, such as videos, and then decide how to share it and who to share it with. The phone works with popular social network sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace." Disciplesaurus has finally made it to the Library of Congress http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/04/library-of-congress-were-archiving-every-tweet-ever-made.ars * The Library of Congress will be archiving every tweet EVER since the inception of Twitter in 2006 * "So if you don't want history to remember that burrito you had for dinner last night (and its aftermath), tweet carefully—now it's for posterity." Talk about airing dirty laundry! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8622665.stm * A Japanese trojan is installing itself onto computers downloading from the file sharing site Winni. * It collects your browsing history and posts it to a website with your name * Wants a payment to take the info down USB... that's so 2009 http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2353569,00.asp

Show #41; April 6, 2010 Four Dudes On Tech Podcast Show # 41 - What are flying cars really about? We can be reached: Http://www.fourdudesontech.com Fourdudesontech@gmail.com Follow Walt On Twitter: jesus_13thDisc Complete show notes and links available at http://wwww.fourdudesontech.com GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. Get Great Web Hosting at GoDaddy.com and save 10% Use Promo Code: pod168 Show Notes Old Movies and the Tech in Them Walt recently watched "All the President's Men" http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/all_the_presidents_men/ Fascinating types of technology used Rotary phones, typewriters, notepad and pencil, rolodex, etc. Latest blow to Net Neutrality. Man that guy gets lucky all the time! http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/04/fcc-next/ U.S. Court of Appeals for DC ruled that the FCC lacks the authority to mandate net neutrality The suit was brought on by Comcast interfering in BitTorrent traffic in 2007 Ruling a serious setback for the FCC, who had been planning official net neutrality regulations Also may put the national broadband plan in jeopardy Get those Wikileaks some Depends or some Oops I Crapped My Pants http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8605055.stm http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article7088548.ece Wikileaks is a website whose goal is to be a place where whistleblowers can share confidential documents Recently in the news for posting a classified video of a U.S. Apache helicopter firing at what they thought to be enemies in Iraq Among the dead were Reuters journalists Is Wikileaks a helpful or harmful website? iPad Mania!!!!!!!!! (Do you see all the exclamation points?) Numerous good reviews for Apple's newest shiny thing Not many bad reviews, but there were a good number of reluctant and/or "meh" reviews Many articles about what was either wrong or lacking on the iPad Sales figures were strong on Saturday (release day) but no where near the numbers for the iPhone's release Early problems with the wi-fi connectivity Jailbroken in under 24 hours

Four Dudes On Tech Podcast Show # 40 - Dinghy Insurance For Psychotic Kids March 30th, 2010 We can be reached: Http://www.fourdudesontech.com Fourdudesontech@gmail.com Follow Walt On Twitter: jesus_13thDisc Complete show notes and links available at http://wwww.fourdudesontech.com GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. Get Great Web Hosting at GoDaddy.com and save 10% Use Promo Code: pod168 Show Outline: Microsoft Bob Turns 15! * The "ultimate" tech failure has a birthday! New Vest for Making Video Games Realistic * Now you can feel it when you get shot and stabbed Net Censorship Down Under * The Dudes go off on Australia censorship Anti-Piracy Internship * Warner Brothers UK is hiring students to work against pirates Horrible Website Designs * Hilarious bad website designs Why Do People Open Spam * Fifty percent of users open spam email and attachments Industrial Size Air Freshener * Beijing will use giant deodorant guns to mask landfill smells Electronic Underwear * Tells your caretaker when you wet yourself

Four Dudes On Tech Podcast FDOT Short - Sunday Morning Wakeup March 28th, 2010 We can be reached: Http://www.fourdudesontech.com Fourdudesontech@gmail.com Follow Walt On Twitter: jesus_13thDisc Complete show notes and links available at http://wwww.fourdudesontech.com GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. Get Great Web Hosting at GoDaddy.com and save 10% Use Promo Code: pod168 Show Outline: Walt and Dan wake up together (at different homes) to discuss Sunday tech news. Check out the links for some of our topics: Digital Art: http://www.albertlie.com/kagaya/ Jobs & Schmidt: http://gizmodo.com/5503004/steve-jobs-and-eric-schmidt-spotted-together-again PhotoShop Cool New Feature: http://thenextweb.com/lifehacks/2010/03/24/blow-sneak-peak-photoshop-5/ Ipad App Store Leak: http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/ipad-app-store-screenshots-leaked/

Four Dudes On Tech Podcast Show # 39 - Say your wrong again! March 23rd, 2010 We can be reached: Http://www.fourdudesontech.com Fourdudesontech@gmail.com

GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. Get Great Web Hosting at GoDaddy.com and save 10% Use Promo Code: pod168 DRM Madness * Ubisoft rolls out an "uncrackable" DRM on two new games that gets cracked in less than 24 hours * RealNetworks settles lawsuit about their DVD copying software RealDVD * President Obama sides with the RIAA/MPAA lobby and backs the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement More Google Talk * Who will win in Google v. China? * Facebook tops Google as the most visited website in the U.S. for the week ending on March 13 What Not to Swallow * Man swallows a flash drive while being raided by the Secret Service Get Your Science Fix * Entire archives of Popular Science magazine now available online for free Show Notes Digital Rights Management? Shouldn't they call it Digital Restrictions Management? http://www.infoaddict.com/ubisofts-new-drm-cracked-in-under-25-hours * Ubisoft's two newest games, Assassin’s Creed II and Silent Hunter 5, come with a VERY restrictive DRM * The DRM requires "all legitimate users to have a permanent Internet connection that continuously authenticates a copy of the game. Additionally, save game files are now stored on UbiSoft servers." * Lose your Internet connection, you can't play the game until the connection comes back. Ubisoft goes out of business, you can't play the game ever. * The cracking group Skid-Row cracked the DRM in less than 24 hours http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/09/when-realnetworks-se.html * RealNetworks just settled a lawsuit over its DVD copying software making it virtually illegal to ever copy a DVD, even onto your own computer for personal use. * RealDVD would copy the DVD onto your machine and lock it up with tighter encryption then the DVD originally had. * This, of course, was not acceptable to the movie studios. * There is essentially no "fair use" of DVDs. Is it illegal to invite friends over to watch a movie with you? http://www.osnews.com/story/23002/Obama_Sides_with_RIAA_MPAA_Backs_ACTA * Obama has sided squarely with the RIAA/MPAA lobby, and backs ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement * This is a big disappointment to us young people that thought this president would be different * Luckily, the European Union is extremely against this agreement, which means it will probably never come to be Google owns the world. If we don't mention them every show they break one of our fingers. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/16/google-likely-to-shut-down-china-engine/ * Google is back to not censoring their search results * Supposedly they are 99.9% sure they will be leaving China, according to sources * Who will come out the "winner" of this debate * According to Walt & Nate, if Google leaves then Google wins. If they drag their feet and the Chinese kick them out then China wins. * Stay tuned... http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2010/03/16/report-facebook-tops-google-mostvisited-us-site * For the week ending March 13, Facebook was the most visited website in the United States * It overtook Google, who held the top weekly spot for a good long while I Fought the Law and the Doctor Had to Remove Evidence From My Small Intestine... and the Law Won http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0302101flash1.html * Dude swallows a flash drive in front of Secret Service agents * Couldn't pass it, so it had to be removed by a doctor * Can flash drives be destroyed by stomach acid? Science and History Lovers Now Have a Place to Go http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/03/popular-science-puts-entire-scanned-archive-online-free/ * Popular Science magazine have scanned their entire archives and put them online for free * Done in conjunction with Google Books * Now you can see what people in the 1950s thought the 1980s would be like!

Four Dudes On Tech Podcast FDOT Short - Linux Netbook OS's March 11th, 2010 We can be reached: Http://www.fourdudesontech.com Fourdudesontech@gmail.com Follow Walt On Twitter: jesus_13thDisc Complete show notes and links available at http://wwww.fourdudesontech.com GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. Get Great Web Hosting at GoDaddy.com and save 10% Use Promo Code: pod168 Walt and I discuss the available netbook OS's available for linux. We elaborate on the trails and tribulations associated with two different versions. Enjoy!

Four Dudes On Tech Podcast Show # 37 - Show # 37 - Chasing the Chatroulette Wheel March 3rd, 2010 We can be reached: Http://www.fourdudesontech.com Fourdudesontech@gmail.com Follow Walt On Twitter: jesus_13thDisc Complete show notes and links available at http://wwww.fourdudesontech.com GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. Get Great Web Hosting at GoDaddy.com and save 10% Use Promo Code: pod168 Show Outline The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Chatroulette * New website that drops you into a video chat with a random person Which Way is the Internet Taking Intelligence? * One tech author says its making us dumber, a recent poll thinks otherwise New Controls on the Internet in China * Must meet with regulators in person before registering a new website The Problem with Foursquare * The idiocy of location-based social networking Show Notes Get Prepared to see an Endless Supply of Dick with Chatroulette http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/weekinreview/21bilton.html http://nymag.com/news/media/63663/ * Website that links you to a video chat with a random person * Hit "next" to move onto the next person. Get ready for rejection * Walt was on for 10 minutes, saw 4 dicks, lots of dudes and two chicks. Talked to no one * Is this a cool idea or just a fad? * Will it become the next place for pedobears to prey on bear cubs? Duh, But Pa Dats Wat da Google Sez! http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9160338/If_you_re_stupid_it_s_not_Google_s_fault * Pew's Future of the Internet poll asked a question in response to tech author Nicholas Carr's cover story in a 2009 issue of The Atlantic Monthly -- "Is Google Making us Stupid?" * Three out of four polled disagreed with Carr's conclusion and think the Internet is making us smarter. * Carr still agrees with himself despite poll results saying, "... the Net's effect on our intellectual lives will not be measured simply by average IQ scores. What the Net does is shift the emphasis of our intelligence, away from what might be called a meditative or contemplative intelligence and more toward what might be called a utilitarian intelligence. The price of zipping among lots of bits of information is a loss of depth in our thinking." * What do the dudes think? Want to Start a Website? I'm Gonna Need to See Some ID. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8530378.stm * Now anyone that wants to start a website in China needs to MIRL with Internet regulators, show ID documentation and submit a photo of themselves before the site can be registered. * Of course this is aimed at fighting online pornography. * Will this be a hindrance to people wanting to start a website? Now You Don't Even Need to Ask Your Friends "Yo, Where You At? Boost Mobile!" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foursquare_%28service%29 http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/17/please-rob-me-makes-foursquare-super-useful-for-burglars/ http://yepyep.gibbs12.com/2010/02/4square-this-places-you-dont-want-to-be-mayor-of/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/23/AR2010022300136.html * Service allows you to update your status and share on numerous social networking sites as to where you currently are. * Website pops up called "Please Rob Me" using Foursquare Twitter updates to let burglars know you are not at home. * Do you really want to tell people where you are going whenever you go there (i.e. the adult bookstore or prison)?

Four Dudes On Tech Podcast Show # 35 - Facing the Faceless February 9th, 2010 We can be reached: Http://www.fourdudesontech.com Fourdudesontech@gmail.com Follow Walt On Twitter: jesus_13thDisc Complete show notes and links available at http://wwww.fourdudesontech.com GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. Get Great Web Hosting at GoDaddy.com and save 10% Use Promo Code: pod168 Show OutlineShow Outline Steve Jobs hosts a "Whine" Hall meeting * Jobs goes on rants about Google , Adobe, and Blu-Ray at Apple employee town hall HTML5 rolls out on YouTube and Vimeo * HTML5 has support for video and audio without the need for a browser plugin Blogger Lives the Craigslist Lifestyle * Man decides to live completely off of Craigslist (housing, jobs, hobbies, friends, "casual encounters" ONLY from Craigslist) Microsoft links the physical world to the virtual world * New software called Tag allows physical content (i.e. magazines, condom wrappers) to link to the Internet Paper to paper, print to poop? * A machine that turns office paper into toilet paper. Roxxxy finally became a mommy * Researchers team up with robotics firm to create a humanoid robot modeled after a 1 year-old (human?) child. Worst IPO EVER! * Tesla Motors to kill the only model they have, an electric roadster, and ask people to invest money in them Worst science experiment EVER! * Man makes homemade "rocket" to power his sled downhill... guess what happens.