A comedy of arrows (yes, I meant to say that) has kept us from our appointed rounds. Between work and family obligations, illness, and computers losing some of their magic smoke we've had a hard time coordinating the production of the podcast. We explain a little more in depth in the opening segment.
Tonight we talk about increased capacity and stolen storage, blocking the used game market, double-double DNA, net neutrality violations and companies making an exit from the consumer segment.
So grab yourself a cup of tea, Earl Grey, hot, and let us entertain you as we stumble through a makeshift recording configuration.
Tonight's News
- When playing Monopoly you will now have wrinkled clothes with cat hair on them
- 2.2 Petabytes in DNA. Oh heck yes.
- And a quadruple helix found in humans.
- More cowbell! Apple releases 128GB iPad
- Microsoft seems to have missed math class in favor of marketing
- Small Pennsylvania cable company about to get painfully schooled in "net neutrality"
- Next-gen XBox will reportedly attempt to block the second-hand software market
- Newegg saves our butts and keeps a patent troll from eating online shopping carts alive
- Philips Bows Out of Consumer Electronics Business
- Intel Bows Out of the Motherboard Business
- A comparison between data rates of the Internet and FedEx from XKCD
- Creator of Yoda has passed away at 98
- JJ Abrams Wants to Make 'Half-Life' and 'Portal' Movies
- A fan-made J.J. Abrams-esque Star Wars with EXTRA LENS FLARE!
- I'm switching to AT&T U-Verse because I was tired of this crap
Tech Term of the Day
- Bloatware:
- Software that has lots of features and requires considerable disk space and RAM. As the cost of RAM and disk storage has decreased, there has been a growing trend among software developers to disregard the size of applications.
- Software preinstalled on a device, usually by the hardware manufacturer, that is unwanted (and often useless).
Extra Links (stuff we didn't get to and bizarre references we made)
- Weird Al What the Fudgsicle? (that didn't get recorded on the audio)
- Pancake-Making Rube Goldberg Machine
- Banned license plates: DMV is hip to your txtspeak
- Why Star Trek Phasers Don’t Exist Yet
- Is It Legal to Rip a DVD That I Own?
- An Amateur Astronomer Helped Hubble Snap This Galactic Monster
- "A protostar throws a rave". Yeah, it's just as cool as it sounds.
- Amateur effort finds new largest prime number
- 9 Tips to Stay Safe on Public Wi-Fi
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