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My Oma (Dutch for Grandmother) has one of those in her house. Heated seats no wiping! - Levi Breederland

That's old news in Japan :) - directeur

Been there, done that! - M. Serdar Kuzuloglu

The video is a must watch! - Brian Sullivan

I like it when he says: "sensitive, private body areas". Also noteworthy is: "nazzle" and "feminine cleansing". - Kittyburgers

CNN's app is really great. Push notifications are cool, and I like that you can watch live streams of major events. - Eric Geller

AP also has push notifications. - Glen Campbell

the phone is for talking. buy an ipod. - Nutella Ferrero (emirhan)

iPod, no way. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

I also find it difficult to connect to it and transfer files to it. Really annoying. Surely this should be easy! :-( - Kol Tregaskes

Have you tried Salling Media Sync? http://www.salling.com/MediaSy... - I'm hoping it will solve this problem with the N900 when it comes. - Leo Laporte

Thanks, Leo. I'll give it a look. - Kol Tregaskes

Zune HD looks pretty sweet. May be worth a gander. - Adrian

Looks like, sorry I mean an app not hardware. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Leo, sailing media sync will not replace the default s60 music player which is okay. But I want to mention an alternative music player "oggplay" that I have used in the past. it can play .ogg vorbis files if that is your thing and audio files that your phone can play natively. - j.ash from iPod

Thanks, it's not really what it plays that's the problem, it's the lack of any decent playlist features that's annoying me with the default Nokia N96 player. So an app with a good playlist facility is what I'm after. - Kol Tregaskes

I think doubletwist might be the way to go for you. Check it out: http://www.doubletwist.com/dt... - jeffscott

Leo, Salling Media Sync keeps trying to access my floppy drive for some reason. I'm going to have to turn it off. :-( - Kol Tregaskes

Jeff, I've got that installed now and I think it's cataloguing my files atm. Hopefully I can simply sync selective playlists? - Kol Tregaskes

I believe it mirrors iTunes functionality quite closely so I suspect the answer is "yes". However, I have neither a Nokia N96 nor have I tried doubletwist since I'm using the iPhone. But I do hear great things - please let me know how it works for you! - jeffscott

I've tried and tried but I can't get it to work. It lists my mobile phone but I cannot sync any music. The device page doesn't show me the list of media types (like it does for other devices) that lets me tick and select the playlists to sync). Close but no cigar. :-( - Kol Tregaskes

dammit. very sorry it didn't work out for you. if i think of anything else i'll def. let you know. good luck! - jeffscott

No worries, thanks Jeff. I've send them a tech support message. Maybe they can help. - Kol Tregaskes

You say "I also find it difficult to connect to it and transfer files to it" . This seems odd. When I plug my N95 8GB in to my USB port the phone just mounts as a regular hard drive. I just drag and drop to side-load my tunes and I'm good to go. Of course, this does not address your playlist issue and I don't use iTunes to manage my music and "syncing" is irrelevant to me. So perhaps have nothing to contribute here ;=) But the phone *does* mount easily. Looking forward to the N900 - Mark Zip

Audio sound weird for anyone else? - Victor De La Torre

Everything looks and sounds good here - Dylan Combs

Leo and the gang, please talk about this, its a very important story about new comcast bandwidth throttling http://www.theinquirer.net/inquire... - Dylan Combs

Will is in chat TWIT LIVE 2 - Michael Holzinger

41993 x 2037= 85539741 - Ministrable

I love my iPhone, worked great when I went to Europe las year. - Victor De La Torre

Saw that commercial today, thought it was a movie at first. - Victor De La Torre

The question is... Will my Mum care about openess or does she just want a iPhone. - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

http://www.wireless.att.com/coverag... the exact map tom's talking about - Chris Heath

verizon is using old coverage maps, and at&t has rolled out a lot of 3g recently (my city got it a month or two ago) - Chris Heath

When did Verizon commission the ad? It could be an issue of timing only. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

My computer's clock is perfectly in sync with the clock behind Leo. That's uncanny. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Mustangs are nice, until the engine dies on you for no reason. Happened to my dad not once, but twice. Same 'stang, too. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Hey Leo, I downloaded The Men Who Stare at Goats yesterday from audible! Its a great listen :-) - John Brazel

Destruction By Baked Goods - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

But wouldn't they sabbotage it BEFORE they built it. - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

So is the bird from the future, Terminator style? - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

Mind is being blown as we speak. - Victor De La Torre

Are they going to bring up ACTA? - Xenophrenia

I have audio in ustream http://cdn1.ustream.tv/swf... there no audio on BG? - Emery Walker

Twitlive.tv is working fine for me - Victor De La Torre

Although it sucks, isn't the RIAA just doing it's job by protecting it's members. Our beef should be with the studios that support the RIAA. RIAA exists as an easy scapegoat and take heat from the studio's door - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

Sunshine is the best disinfectant - John Brazel

http://eff.org/action and pick the ACTA petition (some congresscritters require you to contact them via their site directly, make sure the eff sends to all three of your congresscitters, mine only sent to two) i then had to go and copy/paste the message into the third's contact form - Chris Heath

http://www.macheist.com/ 6 Mac Software for free. - p0wermac

Audible Pick: The Men Who Stare At Goats by Jon Ronson, http://www.audible.com/adbl... - Leo Laporte

every things fine here cant hear the gurl of course - daveccorey

Google Groups is Dead might be interesting to cover :) http://bit.ly/Q6XmK - Digitalxero

I like to watch the pre-game show and then turn it off and listen to the podcast when it comes out. Haha! I'm probably in the minority there, huh? - Michael Kaiser

I'm pretty interested in a netbook running Android. I saw a video of an Asus Eee PC on the snapdragon chipset running Android & I was impressed. - Jason Hansen

Cell phones that are locked require 3 yr contract in Canada plus additional fees. - Greg

Well, hashtags make sense when using things like lost or #Lost... :) - Holger Eilhard

hash tags started from IRC ... all rooms in IRC start with # - z3cka

hashtag sidebar here gr8t call thanx guys ...as usual - Pam Gwenzi

Tease: Gina lust over the Droid, Jeff joins Google's Data Liberation Front, and we'll show you how to find all your Google accounts in just one place. - Leo Laporte

Droid sucks. A lot of people are drinking kool-aid over it. - Fnord

While you all are waiting to go on the air. A question for Jeff: What's really the common theme for your mediawonks-list on Twitter? - Gabriel

They also weren't doing a browser, an OS and a phone OS - Johnny Worthington

Discussing about Motorola Droid and other Andrioid related stuff today? - Gideon Guillen

google sites are acting up for me at the moment :s - Chriz

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 3407872) (tried to allocate 30720 bytes) in /home/ginatrapani/completewaveguide.com/includes/parser/Parser.php on line 1101 on completewaveguide.com - Atul Arora

"Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 1048576) (tried to allocate 491520 bytes) in /home/ginatrapani/completewaveguide.com/includes/DefaultSettings.php on line 2625" - Don Bonaddio

The pitfall of fast media propagation, is not being able to properly verify the information propagated and its consequent risk of the spread of potentially inaccurate information... - Ciro

GOOD SHOW HAAPY HOLLOW WEEN EVRY 1 TRICK OR TREAT - daveccorey

google.com/music - Don Bonaddio

Doesn't work in Canada (Google Music) - tytycoon

Tease: Coming up on This Week in Google, Eric Schmidt predicts the web's next five years, a Google maps mystery, and Gina makes a big announcement. - Leo Laporte

what was the big announcement? - Mark

the published audio is only 30 minutes :( where's the rest? - Tom

Inspiring Show! I every much enjoyed your show last week, TWIG: 14. From 54:45 to 57:45 your conversation reached into the higher levels of Maslow's Hierarchy. Public discussions like one (and much more in bits and pieces throughout) are both special and important. I believe that changes in our society have made inspired work much more accessible. When people do what they love and love... more... - timapatterson

Firefox closes 11 critical exploits: http://www.macnn.com/article... - Leo Laporte

Digital ants take on computer worms: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id... - Leo Laporte

They all laughed at Christopher Columbus When he said the world was round They all laughed when Edison recorded sound They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother When they said that man could fly - Mark

Yeah -- and we are all going to go back to using Lynx. - Brian Sullivan

adobe can make a PDF viewer 200MB and five thousand files on the hard drive somehow - Mark

When I use Spinrite I get an error "Division Overflow Error!" :( - Mark

Funny I was just thinking about Security Now! today imagining Steve Gibson would be having a field day with the Twitter viruses etc. - James Robertson

Audible Pick: More Information Than You Require UNABRIDGED By John Hodgman Narrated by John Hodgman, Dick Cavett, Jonathan Coulton, Zach Galifianakis, Ricky Gervais, Ira Glass, Robin Goldwasser, Rachel Maddow http://www.audible.com/adbl... - Leo Laporte

You look like you're Riverdancing Leo - Johnny Worthington

LEOS AUDIOS UP VEDIOS DOWN HI AMBER - daveccorey

351 NOW WNOW VEDIOS AND AUDIOS ON THAT MAKES NO CENTS - daveccorey

I've heard that Microsoft only holds activation information for somewhere around 45-90 days. Any confirmation or truth to this? - Steve Mesik

I wonder how much of Microsoft's revenue comes from the desktop OS vs Office, SQL Server, Exchange, etc. and what'd happen if they just gave away the OS... - Ken Sheppardson

I remember the biggest fear was that Microsoft could remotely "deactivate" Windows and charge for continued use or require a recurring subscription payment. - Steve Mesik

$5 Vista + 7 Upgrade < 7 Full. Sounds like a deal for PC builders - Steve Mesik

Windows 7 off to a record start - Leo Laporte

Microsoft lowers prices on hosted Exchange To better compete with Google Apps Also improves the service - Leo Laporte

Do we have any info yet on corporate adoption of Windows 7? Is the "wait for the first service pack" conventional wisdom still holding up this time around, or are institutions jumping on 7? - Ken Sheppardson

Are we talking about Microsoft-hosted Exchange or third party hosting? I used to have third party hosting before I jumped to Gmail. Their pricing was (and still is) ~$10/mo pre user for a min of 3 users e.g. http://www.intermedia.net/exchang... What pricing's been lowered? - Ken Sheppardson

Audible pick of the week: Googled: The End of the World as We Know It by Ken Auletta "In Googled, esteemed media writer and critic Ken Auletta uses the story of Google's rise to explore the inner workings of the company and the future of the media at large. Although Google has often been secretive, this book is based on the most extensive cooperation ever granted a journalist, including... more... - Leo Laporte

Tip of the week: Make the Windows 7 Upgrade media work every single time http://www.winsupersite.com/win7... Rundown of advice from Microsoft about installing with Upgrade media - Leo Laporte

Software pick of the week: SkyDrive Explorer "SkyDrive Explorer is a free, easy-to-use, but very powerful extension for Windows Explorer. With SkyDrive Explorer you can make any every-day operations with your documents from Microsoft Live SkyDrive service using Windows Explorer, as if they were on your computer." Sort of. At least 25 people recommended this tool this week http://tinyurl.com/skydriv... - Leo Laporte

Software pick of the week #2: Connectify Turn your Windows 7 laptop into a wireless hotspot Enables a feature that was supposed to be included in Windows 7 but was dropped Bad news: It doesn't work with all wireless hardware Thanks to Steve Moore for the tip http://www.connectify.me/ - Leo Laporte

Hypirony - Ken Sheppardson

Tease: Paul Thurrott and Ed Bott gnaw the Windows 7 upgrade bones and we've got a rare Windows 3.11 tip. - Leo Laporte

Apple’s iTunes Pitch: TV for $30 a Month http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/2009110... - sunkenplanet

China Unicom Reports Only 5,000 New iPhone Users Since Launch http://www.macrumors.com/2009... - sunkenplanet

27-inch iMacs having performance issues? http://www.engadget.com/2009... - sunkenplanet

Apple Introduces Apple TV 3.0 Software With Redesigned User Interface http://www.apple.com/pr... - sunkenplanet

Aperture X Before Year's End http://www.hardmac.com/news... - sunkenplanet

Analyst: Apple Executives Share Thoughts on e-Book Market, iPhone Profits http://www.macrumors.com/2009... - sunkenplanet

Apple Tablet Incoming? Engineer Ramps Up Travels to China (AAPL) http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-e... - sunkenplanet

Apple Says Booting OS X Makes an Unauthorized Copy http://apple.slashdot.org/story... - sunkenplanet

Adobe Getting Snarky Over Flash on iPhone - http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009... - James

For September, Book-Related Apps Overtook Games On iPhone http://apple.slashdot.org/story... - sunkenplanet

Chinese Supplier: We’ve Got iPhone 4G Parts, Pictures - http://gizmodo.com/5395679... & http://www.chinaontrade.com/apple-i... - James

Well, Quicktime went from 7 to X in snow leopard. haha - sunkenplanet

goodd show hi from ga do u know if theres any defrence in the aliean computers 4 better or worst cents dell took over - daveccorey

Apple rejects Macworld iPhone Superguide from App Store... for using the word 'iPhone' - http://www.engadget.com/2009... - James

Audible Pick: The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism UNABRIDGED By Ross King Narrated by Tristan Layton http://www.audible.com/adbl... - Leo Laporte

Hacker attempts to extort Dutch iPhone owners - http://www.macnn.com/article... - James

Newly discovered Safari bug could mean big fees for some iPhone users - http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009... - James

That is so crazy. lol - sunkenplanet

Alex's Pick: Squarespace for the iPhone http://itunes.apple.com/WebObje... - Leo Laporte

Andy's Pick: Salling Media Sync syncs your iTunes songs and photos to your phone http://www.salling.com/MediaSy... - Leo Laporte

Leo's pick: TWiT for iPhone/iPod Touch http://itunes.apple.com/WebObje... - sunkenplanet

Tease: Andy reviews the Droid, Apple rejects the iPhone, and Adobe gets snarky. - Leo Laporte

anyone have 1st hand accounts of new 27" iMac in use? - franzstehrn from iPhone

11/10 Tue 957: Mystery gadget - Leo Laporte

11/11 Wed 958: Twitter Peek http://twitterpeek.com - Leo Laporte

11/12 Thu 959: Honeywell Germ Free Cool Mist Humidifier http://www.honeywellcentral.com/product... - Leo Laporte

81°F (27°C), sunny and Spring here in Brisbane :) - Johnny Worthington

I was an evil Candyman http://friendfeed.com/jworthi... - Johnny Worthington

Don't worry Amber... I can't get Foursquare either... *geo-grumble* - Johnny Worthington

It's elementary dear Watson! - Johnny Worthington

It's like pouring all your ad dollars into just TV or radio. You have to be where your customers are - Johnny Worthington

Los Fail Whale - Johnny Worthington

I follow lots of non-english speakers on FriendFeed because of the rich posts (great pictures etc). - Johnny Worthington

Leo, I was thinking the other day. How long until someone makes a 'slutty girls at my school' list and the media runs with it - Johnny Worthington

Does it come with a rag to wipe the pizza oil of your iPhone screen? - Johnny Worthington

Um... you can't have your phone on during the flight! Most people need it for take off and landing - Johnny Worthington

Do you get to keep your phone on during take off if you have this app? - Johnny Worthington

$100 AUD... 4000kbps down... 500kbps up... metered, slowed after 25GB - Johnny Worthington

John Mayer tech support call: http://gizmodo.com/5029743... - Leo Laporte

OK... that done it... I'm signing up (I've held out as long as I could) - Johnny Worthington

Leo... look deeper. - Johnny Worthington

It's not just tech - Johnny Worthington

Audible Pick: More Information Than You Require UNABRIDGED By John Hodgman Narrated by John Hodgman, Dick Cavett, Jonathan Coulton, Zach Galifianakis, Ricky Gervais, Ira Glass, Robin Goldwasser, Rachel Maddow http://www.audible.com/adbl... - Leo Laporte

Web pick of the week: https://secure2.textflow.com/compare... - Leo Laporte

"Sweden: Take a drink" - Johnny Worthington

can you get the Rockband robot to level my Tauren Shamen (World of Warcraft) to level 80? - echostreamer

Welcome Natali! Hi Leo :) - Hector

First time I'm tuning in from the beginning of the show...I feel like I should skip this because I like to listen in the car. - Cassidy

Hello, Leo! - Nolan Alston

Hey everyone :) - Matthew Marley

How are we all ? - Matthew Marley

Cassidy... it's a different experience from the produced podcast - different, but good - Chris Heath

So when Leo starts publishing the edited videos on Roku and such, will we see the clock behind him skipping after each removed blooper? - Hector

Turn-by-turn is ok leo, but apple requires developers to provide their own maps :) - Lasse Reiersen-Gravdal

Apple just bought a map company though, maybe they're going to offer it. - x5315

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_... Wealth of Networks by Jochai Benkler, brilliant! - Leo Laporte

Is live.twit.tv up? It doesn't seem to load. And the bitgravity feed isn't loading in VLC either... - Rob Miller

No, there seems to be some issues. At least i'm having issues. - x5315

I just got the bitgravity feed working now in mplayer - Rob Miller

Darn, have to wait until next week now to hear about the twitmobile. - Rob Miller

buonasera @natali ;) and ciao to @jason mohamed ali calacanis :-p - alex

Had to stop watching the live feed, has he said what his car is yet? - Matthew DeVries

next week on the car - cxx dxx

This week's friend feed thread was very sparse... People are leaving in droves. - Hector

Great job! - Hector

Tease: This Week on This Week In Tech, Natali del Conte shows off her Droid, Jason Calacanis talks about SOX, and Patrick Norton fights for a free Internet. TWiT is next! - Leo Laporte

Here's my bet, though I'll lean out and say it's a droptop... http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Geoff Schaadt

Leo, i sent a delicious bookmark for:twit today (i see that you don't have many stories in there yet) - it's a great article about google's turn-by-turn navigation in android. i know you touched on it a little during TWiG yesterday, but this would be a good one for twit too. There's also some great info about teleatlas and navteq in there as well. I didn't know that tomtom and nokia bought them up or that goodle was going without their maps now. - Chris Heath

Did Leo reveal his new car yet? Sounds like he got one bad for the environment. I've very disappointed in him. - Fnord

I drive about 20 miles a week. How many do you drive? - Leo Laporte

what was the car? I was thinking it might be a Tesla - Mark

No it's a 17 mpg city car - not the best for the environment. I would never buy such a car if I commuted still, but I rarely go very far. - Leo Laporte

I heard him say what brand it was by accident last week. - Chris Heath

yeah 17mpg is shocking, but as you barely drive it doesn't really matter - Mark

leo is the twit tv channel going to work on tivo? as well as roku? - Jim Fuller

I am actually surprised they still make 17MPG cars though - Mark

Jim, he's said that it would eventually... it is something that twit wants to do (not sure if they're currently working to get that done though) - Chris Heath

I hope it's soon I would hate to have to buy a roku when I already have a tivo hd. - Jim Fuller

Item 1: Windows 7 Upgrade - The good, the bad, the ugly Some people are having problems I've been speaking with Ed Bott about this, and we're trying to work through it Microsoft is not helping, and they've actually accused people of breaking the law by clean installing Windows with Upgrade media. This is almost always completely wrong. The issue: Microsoft fooled people into buying... more... - Leo Laporte

I had W7 beta on my PC (purchased originally with Vista native), purchased the full RC and did a clean install. No problems other than having to reinstall some apps. - Christopher Gambol

OK, I hope you bring this back around to what we're actually supposed to do... I'm going to be installing one of my 3 Amazon-purchased upgrade licenses on a rebuilt desktop this weekend--from which I've already wiped XP to install the RC--on a new, clean disk... what is it Microsoft wants me to do? - Ken Sheppardson

You installed the RC, or you installed the purchased version, Christopher? - Ken Sheppardson

Enough, Microsoft. No One Is Endorsing Piracy. Obviously. http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs... - Leo Laporte

On a related note RE Win 7 install... I actually emailed Paul on this... if I have a 30GB SSD and a 1TB+ hard drive, what's the optimal way to install Windows 7? Put everything on the SSD and use the HDs just for data, i.e. the "Users" directory? Put "Program Files" on the HD? Install to the hard drive and just use the SSD for pagefile.sys or something?... - Ken Sheppardson

...is it even worth it to mess with a split config like this? Hard drives are getting bigger, small SSDs are cheap... - Ken Sheppardson

Ken - sorry I should specify. I installed the purchased final version (pre purchase through Microsoft store and downloaded) on top of the RC. Did I get that right? I had Vista, then got the W7 beta and did a clean install. - Christopher Gambol

I always have separate Windows and Data partitions or drives. I usually make a separate partition for the pagefile and temp files as well. But don't use an SSD for the pagefile - it will burn it out prematurely. I put Windows and Programs on an SSD and data/temp files/pagefile on a mechanical drive. - Leo Laporte

So is RC or beta to Window 7 production is considered an upgrade? Hmm.. - Ken Sheppardson

I've historically always had a D: partition for "Data"... not putting the pagefile on the SSD is a good tip. Thanks, Leo ... I wish there were a guide for doing this somewhere... maybe on some sort of super Windows site... ;-) I'd have to think a small SSD + big HD is going to be a more and more common machine config. - Ken Sheppardson

You are going to run into the same problem when your HD dies and you bought the Upgrade version. Now you mostly likely not going to have old media. - Philip Griego

Ken - I kept hearing and reading Paul's advice that a clean install was better than an upgrade. So for $50 I got the full W7 production software and installed it. It works very well.... absolutely no problems aside from having to reload some games and apps. - Christopher Gambol

I just came across this while reading about net neutrality, and I think it applies here as well: - Steve Mesik

http://www.ianwelsh.net/consume... - Steve Mesik

Seems to me Microsoft should be giving away the OS, so they can sell more copies of Office. Razor/razorblade thing. But that's a bigger convo. :-) - Ken Sheppardson

Thank god we have people like Paul, that are willing to sort through this situation; even though it's his given profession. - mark dekruyter

If you do a "Custom" install, but don't format your drive and setup creates a backup of your Windows folder, does it delete "Program Files" and other installation-created directories that contain non-Microsoft data? - Steve Mesik

All these requirements for a previous version somewhere are BS. Either let me enter the key for a version that's eligible for upgrade or worst case let it validate off media. - Ken Sheppardson

Item 2: Windows 7 and the wider ecosystem Windows isn't just Windows That's why I cover more in my book And now Microsoft has what it calls "Signature Software" - Leo Laporte

Item 3: LA dumps Microsoft for Google Apps - Leo Laporte

Item 4: Office 2010 public beta in November - Leo Laporte

Item 5: Twitter coming to Microsoft, Google search Facebook coming to Microsoft - Leo Laporte

OneNote synced with Live Mesh: best combination ever. - Steve Mesik

Anyone have the BlackBerry Storm with OS 5.0? It has GREATLY improved my Storm's performance. The spruced-up UI graphics are nice too. And RIM FINALLY added flick scrolling (about time!); it works well, though a bit less smooth than on the iPod Touch. - Thunderwing

Audible Pick: You Only Live Twice Unabridged By Ian Fleming Narrated by Simon Vance http://www.audible.com/adbl... Another great James Bond book. "When Ernst Stavro Blofeld blasts into eternity the girl James Bond has married only hours before, the heart and zest for life goes out of Bond. Incredibly, from being a... more... - Leo Laporte

Tip of the week: Stay secure People have misunderstood my advice about just using common sense to be secure online. Here's what you can do. Install good AV. Enable automatic updates in Windows. Keep up to date. Be smart online. It doesn't have to be difficult. http://www.microsoft.com/securit... - Leo Laporte

Software pick of the week: Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool The Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool allows you to create a copy of your Windows 7 ISO file on a USB flash drive or a DVD. To create a bootable DVD or USB flash drive, download the ISO file and then run the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool. Once this is done, you can install Windows 7 directly from the USB flash drive or DVD. http://store.microsoft.com/Help... Plus: Update on VLC vs. Media Player Classic Cinema - Leo Laporte

Item 2: Intel X25-M 'G2' TRIM Enabled Firmware and SSD Toolbox Review link for what allyn will discuss (IOPS) is here: http://www.pcper.com/article... And corresponding redaction of said firmware - Leo Laporte

Can't listen, but could Ryan/Allyn offer his opinion on the best overall SSD these days that's widely available (i.e. not the X25-M)? Is http://www.pcper.com/article... current? - Ken Sheppardson

Item 3: Intel and Numonyx announce vertical Phase Change Memory http://www.pcper.com/comment... - Leo Laporte

Item 4: SATA 6G 6.0 Gb/s Performance Preview - Seagate XT drive tested http://www.pcper.com/article... - Leo Laporte

Item 5: ASUS previews upcoming MBs with USB 3.0 and SATA 6G http://www.pcper.com/comment... - Leo Laporte

is the live stream down? - tytycoon

that show rocks - echostreamer

Tease: replace your sysadmin with a little ruby pal, the puppermaster, Luke Kanies tells you how. - Leo Laporte

Nice! - Johnny Worthington

what the hell is this? - Mark

I just tuned in and I appear to have entered the twilight zone - Mark

Time Warner's SMC 8014 router has a serious security flaw (affecting 65,000 users): http://www.privacydigest.com/2009... - Leo Laporte

The FCC's comment period on the Net Neutrality rules begins now through January. http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_p... - Leo Laporte

Holy crap, the clock went back in England last week and I keep missing TWiT live by an hour - Mark

Is Internet Access a human right? It is in Estonia, Finland, France, and Greece. http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008... - Leo Laporte

Amazon Kindle owners read 300% more books: http://www.nytimes.com/2009... - Leo Laporte

I'd read more books if I had to spend hundreds of dollars on a bookshelf before I was able to read a single page of a book. - Mark

Question [ 01 ] - Marv Schwartz at Case Western Reserve University commented about the Mozilla/Firefox PlugInCheck: Hey Steve, By now, you probably already know that in order to get www.mozilla.com/plugincheck to work with NoScript, you have to allow both www.mozilla.com and www.mozilla.org. Thanks again for your wonderful SecurityNow programs. Marv - Leo Laporte

Question [ 02 ] - Paul in "London, Ontario Canada" wonders about making online banking safer? Hello Steve and Leo. Long time listener and I love the show. You both are doing a great service and I appreciate your podcast every week. My question is that my bank is offering a program Rapport by Trusteer to help protect my online banking transactions. I was just wondering if you have any... more... - Leo Laporte

Questio [ 03 ] - Abhi Beckert in Cairns, Australia has a Mac OS "TEN" Tip... Hi Steve & Leo! Have you heard of the "ClickToFlash" plugin for Safari on the mac? It's a free/open source plugin which disables flash by default, replacing all flash objects in the page with a simple box, which you click to load the actual flash object. Apple has reported that flash causes more crashes under... more... - Leo Laporte

Flashblock does the same for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US... - Leo Laporte

Quetion [ 04 ] - Paul in Lancaster, PA wonders about Custom Apps versus Commercial? Steve & Leo, The story of the Starbucks employee whose computer got infected by visiting a knitting site raised an interesting question for me: Is it better to write a web application like a forum or online store from scratch or to use an off- the-shelf system. The way I see it, custom apps allow the... more... - Leo Laporte

Question [ 05 ] - John in Baltimore, MD wonders about SSL Certificate Strength and Key Length... Steve, Our recently discussion of SSL and man-in-the-middle attacks got me thinking when recently I needed to update my website with a new SSL Web Server certificate that uses the 1024 key length. I noticed that both the Entrust Root CA and Intermediate CAs use the 2048 key lengths. My... more... - Leo Laporte

Question [ 06 ] - Lex Thomas in Research Triangle Park, NC is reminded of a Programmer's Adage from 1984: While reading some articles talking about the 'just released' Windows 7, and the imminent Ubuntu release, I stumbled upon an old programmer's adage which was attributed to Datamation magazine: “The activity of debugging, or removing bugs from a program, ends when people get tired of... more... - Leo Laporte

Question [ 07 ] - Tim Lemmon in Atlanta, Georgia tried giving Disney the knuckle... Steve. My family went to Disney World 3 years ago. When entering any of the theme parks, we had to swipe our membership card, AND scan our index finger for entry. Then I heard one of your podcasts about this subject. I always said I'd try my knuckle if I ever went back. Last week, we did... The entrance... more... - Leo Laporte

Question [ 08 ] - Eric, reporting from an undisclosed location, asks about Port knocking, SSH security and Security Now... Hello Steve, Your show is great, I have been listening since you first started putting out this podcast series and I am so glad that you have been doing it. Thanks! I am at a University and recently had someone hack in to my SSH server (I was using freeSSHd for... more... - Leo Laporte

Question [ 09 ] - Joe Dorward in Berkshire, England realized that the free internet access at the British Library might not be safe ? Steve, PS - if Leo reads this - I'm a Scot living in England who doesn't mind him doing his Scottish accent to read this. ☺ I was at the British Library in London last week, and there were people everywhere with laptops. Very few had books open, and I... more... - Leo Laporte

Question [ 10 ] - Eric Nichols in Odessa, DE brings us the Security Disaster of the Week: Subject: FIOS WEP crack - no packet sniffing necessary I've been a long time listener and heard a rumor that the ESSID of a FIOS access point is actually a packed version of the MAC address of it's network interface. It's a neat way of generating unique ESSID's. However they should have stopped... more... - Leo Laporte

Geocities shuts down http://www.pcworld.com/article... Yahoo acquired GeoCities in 1999 for $3.57 billion in stock, but the deal didn't go well, as new terms of service placed on users sent many of them scurrying. Facebook memories of friends departed When an account is memorialized, we also set privacy so that only confirmed friends can see the profile or... more... - Leo Laporte

What about ICANN auto-forwarding? - Johnny Worthington

RE: Domains: That is very interesting. I wonder what THAT will do to SEO? - Karma Martell

I drank a small toast to Geocities on Monday night - Johnny Worthington

5 billion and a Segway - Johnny Worthington

It's a Linguistics Smackdown... Whom shall emerge the victor? - Johnny Worthington

I love Grammer Girl; now I use semi-colons with pride and accuracy. #ChrisGambol60 - Christopher Gambol

Is there a potential market for a freelance copy editors for blogs? I have read a few that could need it :) - Johnny Worthington

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There is Johnny, if you want to work for $15/hour for 3 hours day and get up at 5 AM. - Karma Martell

I do that too Leo... I make a point of it - Johnny Worthington

Ahhhh this it too funny Leo...I, as you know, work at a University and the students actually use lol in papers...It is kind of sad - Bill Heslin

Is anyone reeeeeeally watching what they type so there is no grammatical errors? :) - Johnny Worthington

'i before e, except after c.... except in these cases' gets my goat - Johnny Worthington

No Johnny..they aren't, which is sad. I have students that email me about things they want on campus and I think I'm reading an 8 year old sending me the email. - Bill Heslin

The Tech Grouch - Johnny Worthington

Our guest: Mignon Fogarty, Grammar Girl. Her new book is "The Grammar Devotional" http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/static... - Leo Laporte

Sit or Squat App http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news... SitOrSquat can determine your location via GPS (if available) and show you a map of nearby toilets, drawn from an online global database of bathrooms maintained by other users. Selecting individual bathrooms brings up hours of availability, a basic rating for the discriminating type, and even user-submitted photos. - Leo Laporte

Best Halloween Costumes Ever http://mashable.com/2009... Four geeks from Tampa -- John Savio, John Matthews, Reko Rivera, and Bobby Hartman -- recently teamed up to create human-sized and, most impressively, functional iPhone costumes. Each costume weighs around 85 pounds, and is powered by a car battery worn, we're told, between the trick-or-treater's legs. Hooking... more... - Leo Laporte

Video of the Week - Grocery Store Musical http://viralvideochart.unrulym... - Leo Laporte

Hey, nothing wrong with that :) - Johnny Worthington

Colour? - Bill Heslin

Colour - Johnny Worthington

Or Color? - Bill Heslin

We are wrong with most of our spelling in North America - Bill Heslin

He was drunk with power - Johnny Worthington

That was mostly for you Johnny ... LOL...from FFundercats that Josh gets on you about some of your spelling...and pronunciation...We are in the minority with spelling - Bill Heslin

Aussie's just plain bastardise the Queen's English... - Johnny Worthington

But it's so much fun...:) I Now order a flat white here in NJ and they just look at me like I'm a fool..and yes I might be, but, I make all those Starbucks fools understand coffee is much better in other places...And btw...Sydney coffee was the best I ever had... - Bill Heslin

Where is the headphone jack?... No, wait... don't tell me - Johnny Worthington

We're on vacation Bill... plus, there is proper ways to ask for Leo's time. Don't worry, we will but Fridays and Mondays are his time. - Johnny Worthington