Number 5 is alive. This week on the Tech Top Three we discuss the Netflix settlement, Windows Live, and rootkits. During the Gaming Table, I talk about my hands-on with the Xbox 360, Extra Points fantasy football podcast, and we review the Zombies boardgame.
Episode 5 (25.2 MB , 55:04)
Show Notes:
- Netflix settlement (TNSS, CNet)
- Windows Live (bit-tech)
- Sony’s DRM and Rootkit (Inquirer , SysInternals)
- Zombies boardgame (Twilight Creations)
- Extra Points Fantasy Football Podcast (Extra Points site, feed)
- Hands-on with the Xbox 360 (Xbox.com)
Any comments or suggestions?
Email: colin@bostongeek.com or carl@bostongeek.com
Skype: bostongeek
Voice: 1.617.209.4200
1:15: Episode 5: proof that we need a life
(corollary, 5th episode worth of running commentary: proof that I need a life, too)
1:46: Carl is a douche. Douchey mcdouche.
2:00: So you like abbreviated neologisms as long as they’re techy? (cf. blog vs., say, journal)
2:15: You’d argue, then, that we should abandon all of the latin-rooted english words in favor of the shorter german-rooted ones?
2:56: Fuck those hippy winter beers.
3:57: I hope Pepsi is reimbursing you for all this Dew pimpage.
4:20: I can’t believe you just said wooba-wooba-wooba
4:30: I’m going to find whatever machine that clap track is on and make with the explodo
4:45: Wow, that was some great internet history lesson. Did Al Gore help you with that? (da-dum-ching!)
6:00: Carl is a pedophile
6:10: Carl is a pedophile
6:30: How much have you had to drink again? Also, can you fix the BCS standings while you’re at it?
8:00: MS is thorough when playing catchup? Have you seen the first, like, 8 versions of MSN?
9:00: Fuck you and your 360-playage
9:15: Carl just called something you said disturbing.
10:30: Keep in mind, a lot of the people who will be included in this suit probably signed up back in 2002-2003 when they had a single distribution center in CA.
11:30: “Some wag”? Laaaaaaaame.
14:00: Yay! Lazy Dave doesn’t have to print out and snail mail an objection!
16:00: Carl wants to be penetrated
17:00: So their big fucking deal is an RSS aggregator? Wankers.
18:30: Yeah, they pretty much just have a copy of my yahoo. Also, worx on Firefox 1.5RC1 on winxp.
20:00: So Carl’s argument is that “once they add in all this insanely cool shit, it will be insanely cool”. That’s a bold fucking statement right there.
Interesting…added bostongeek to the live page, and it popped open the QT plugin to try and play the podcast.
22:40: Carl once again reiterates the “if we can make free energy from only pop tarts, we will be rich” theory as to why live is way fucking cooler than it actually is.
Also, just noticed you forgot the “album artwork” for the itunes feeds ever since episode 2.
24:00: So do you have a good headset to use with skype?
25:00: So where the tricity love? No linky for the homies what still work there?
25:30: Just use a linux livecd and dd the disk image to another drive.
26:00: Thank you. Stop with the lame voices.
27:00: Could really use a better explanation of rootkit. As in “it replaces basic components of the operating systems with hacked versions in such a way not only to do nefarious things to your machine, but also to make it impossible to detect its presence and its activities”.
28:54: Technically, he just did a forensic analysis. Reverse engineering implies creating something that copies what it can do.
30:00: Died playing Lineage, not WoW.
31:00: Only a limited number of Sony CDs, btw…still haven’t seen an exhaustive listing.
32:15: Walkman, discman?
34:07: Dammit, no lame voices!
34:23: Did you grab his ass?
35:13: Yes, the only two choices are button masher and “intense gaming experts”.
35:35: Never really had a problem with the multiple shoulder buttons, and I’ve got fat fingers too.
36:15: Okay, so now it’s…yeah, there we go, Colin calls Carl on the “neologisms I like are fine, others are BAD!” crap.
36:30: Ooh, and rips on him for claiming the PA guys are his friends. Maybe only at home, when he’s alone with his Vaseline and Kleenex.
38:47: Much love for the next generation of gamerz!
40:00: Also, as recent news indicates, it’ll not only be a year until the PS3 comes out, but it’s going to have the same fragmented online experience we had with the PS2. By the time the PS3 ships, games that acutally take advantage of the 360’s hardware should be out. Sony is totally fucked.
40:26: They demo’d the music playing features by plugging in an ipod, so clearly they were looking for some of that to rub off on it.
LOL
I laughed, I cried, I splooged.
What would the comment thread be without your play-by-play, Dave.
40:30: Also, further indication that Carl is a frustrated goth wannabe. “White Bad!” Hmm…or maybe a self-hating white man?
42:16: I believe the term is “cowfucker, new hampshire”
42:47: You are metrosexuals
43:30: Might want to mention that the helipad is one of those thar tiles you lay down during the game.
44:00: Oh, jesus, he made those porno-sounding moans during the game while a small child was there? I repeat. Carl is a pedophile.
44:19: Tile-laying games kick so much ass.
45:39: Remember, I always run far away from you silly motherfuckers. Granted, this strategy fails every single goddamned time, but I maintain faith.
46:10: Laziness. It’s not psychological, it’s pure fucking laziness. Who wants to keep reaching across the board to place tiles and move pieces.
47:16: Teh puppies are scary.
47:32: If you wait until the last tile is placed to start with the backstabbing, you’re doing something very, very wrong. And I’m not talking fun “oops, wrong hole” wrong, I’m talking “tell me where the bad man touched you” wrong.
48:17: Carl is a pedophile.
48:34: It’s weird…Carcassonne is a pretty easy game to pick up by itself, certainly no more complicated than Monopoly. But add in all the expansions, and it becomes really fucking tricky.
50:11: It’s all about the editing. Tape the whole thing, and excerpt only the good bits. Might be worth trying some time.
50:51: TO is a punk bitch.
51:13: That being said, I hope he drags your team down to the depths. You know, where my team currently sits?
51:57: Poker is NOT a fucking sport. It’s a game.
53:36: I liked you guys way more before you sold out.
53:56: Further proof that beneath carl’s secular humanist facade is a fascist dictator waiting to seize control of our very thoughts and twist them to his every whim and fancy.
Aaaaand…we’re clear. Not bad, guys.
Also, you should have seen Emily when I tried to explain to her, in order:
1) what a blog was
2) what a podcast was
3) that you guys were doing one
4) that people besides me and j apparently listen to it
I still think she doesn’t believe a word of it.
Also, no FWD voice account? Google talk? Umm…gimme a sec, I know I can find some more obscure voip services…
The Globe’s Hiawatha Bray is late to the party as usual, just covering the Sony rootkit story today, but he’s got a new spin on it. I hadn’t read this anywhere before, but apparently the rootkit also calls home to Sony with your IP address and the name of the CD being played.
Carl is still a pedophile.
Not a pedophile. A forward-thinking analyst of girl futures. Like orange futures on the stock market.
Hrm…wish I could start polls here.
Who is a worse pedophile?
* Carl
* Michael Jackson
* R. Kelly
* Mr. Rogers
Dude… your use of the ‘P’ word is really going to screw with my google page rank.
Then perhaps you should talk to Carlster the Molester over there.
(sadly dictionary.com failed me when looking for synonyms)
or should we just use the british spelling?
Paedophile? Might Work.
“I hight Carl, Earl of Bostongeek. Prithee, retract thine libelous offal, fo I am not a paedophile. I merely make predictions for the future, based upon the beauteous possibilities presented afore me.”
Sure, why not.
The girl is 14 years old, according to imdb and to answers.com (who also supply a picture).
I believe I guessed correctly, then, in the podcast.
In four years, I can officailly drool.
At least I’m not pointing to a jailbait countdown with her.
The podcast is made so much better thanks to Dave’s “running commentary”. :p
Particularly because of the fact that, when he posts, he usually knows what he’s talking about; and in the podcast, you are usually getting it wrong.
BTW, Mark Russinovich is not “some developer” at Sysinternals. Mark is the co-founder of Sysinternals, its Chief Software Architect, and one of only *two* developers who work for the company (the other is Bryce Cogswell). The freeware tools they have written (FileMon, RegMon, Process Explorer, Livekd) are invaluable aids to Windows software development, and the reverse engineering of Windows programs.
Both your “History of the Intarweb”, and explanation of “Root Kits”, would have benefited from some pre-show research. I suggest that you organize your agenda for the show in advance, and spend a few hours during the week preparing notes to use during the show when speaking about the topics du jour.
Other than those minor complaints, I love listening to the podcast (even when Carl descends into insane ranting). Please keep it up!
a) I didn’t call him “some developer”, I called him “a developer”.
b) DARPA did develop the first internetworked systems. I’m still trying to figure out where we got that part wrong.
c) I agree we could have explained rootkits better.
Oh, and I got some 360 playage today at CompUSA. No lines… just me and the 360.
Unimpressive.
(4:35-ish, Carl): “Although, DARPA created the original computer networks back in the 60s”.
You did go on to explain the internet/www difference pretty well, but never made it clear that the networks that DARPA funded in the 60s were nothing like even the primitive internet that was ARPANET (first 4 nodes active in 69), that TCP came around in 74, was split into TCP and IP in 78, that ARPANET cut over from the old NCP to TCP/IP in 83…I think you get my point. I sure as hell didn’t know those dates cold, or even really the specific details until looking them up, but I would have known enough to say something more like “DARPA funded the first packet-switched networks in the 60s, which by the 80s had evolved into something vaguely resembling the internet as it exists today.” And then I would have explained the difference between the internet as a whole and how the www runs on top of it.
Anyway, if you want to do some reading, the Internet Society has a handy list of articles on the internet’s history.
As always, Dave makes my point better than I can.
If you’re going to start talking about the “History of the Intarweb” on the podcast, it probably wouldn’t hurt to, say, know it, would it? Saying “DARPA created the original computer networks back in the 60s”, even if it’s not strictly wrong, has taught the listener nothing about the topic.
Let me put it this way. When talking about the birthday of the World Wide Web, you didn’t even mention Tim Berners-Lee! Which would have been much more apropos than DARPA, since HTTP/HTML have as much to do with DARPA as RDP does (i.e. nothing).
If you had looked at, for example, the World Wide Web entry in the Wikipedia, you would have been much informed on the topic, and much better prepared for the podcast, don’t you think?
Well, it WAS supposed to be a shorter podcast, but I suppose I get your point.
One correction, however: Colin DID mention Berners-Lee.
I take a little bit of exception to this. I will grant you that we do not go in great detail about any one subject, but that is not what the podcast is about. There is no way we could cover 3 tech stories and an equal amount of gaming stories and fit them in a 45min (give or take) block of time and satisfy your specific requirements as a podcast listener. We provide breadth but not depth. We cannot provide both. Inaccuracies will occur, but that is expected. Point me to one news source that does not make mistakes. I don’t think you can.
I didn’t intend to give an in-depth history of the world wide web. I just wanted to make an acknowledgemt of the fact that it had reached a milestone anniversary. Granted, Carl’s reference to DARPA was odd and out of place and took me by surprise, but I don’t think it necessitated a recital of the ‘Complete History of the Internet and WWW’.
As far as Dave’s commentary, I enjoy it and have told him so. I find it nitpicky, but fun. But there have been innacuracies in his nitpicks. No one is immune to error. For example:
Although, I am sure it is true that people had been reported to have died playing Lineage, it is not true that no one has been reported to have died playing WoW. A recent case made the news, and is being used by the Chinese gov’t to elicit support for legislation that would limit a person’s amount of online gaming. Does this detract from my enjoyment of the commentary? Not in the slightest, as I know the commentary is not about presenting factual, educational bits of information. It is about humor.
I enjoy and appreciate criticism. But, criticism should be applied in context.
Oh shit, Colin gets raw on your ass. He probably hasn’t eaten all day.
Or I’m seriously a bad influence on him. Next thing you know, he’ll say “eat penguin shit, you ass spelunker.”
raw? nah.
hungry. ya, i was… but after some chicken pad thai, I feel better.
fwiw, i only posted the internet history after carl challenged us to prove to him what he’d said wrong.
Like I said, I like the running commentary… and wish I could figure out a way to make it a more prominent feature. Maybe the best alternative will be just to get you involved in some of the podcasts (I know you are a busy guy, so a weekly thing probably would be wishful thinking). Or, you could write-up articles for the geek that provide a more in-depth look at a particular topic you feel needed to be expanded upon (or corrected) in the weekly podcast.
My main gripe was with the statement made that we are “usually getting it wrong” in the podcast. I think it was an unfair statement. As far as the other criticisms, I think they are great. And, again… the running commentary is priceless (esp with the addition of timecodes).
okay okay. now that we’ve all greased eachother’s asses with buttery puckering, can we get back to the timecoded trollifying?
61:37: Yep, Carl’s still a peaedofillle
also, remember that i just nitpick…j’s the one calling your mother a whore.
Can we get this thread to 100 posts?
Go, team, go!
100 comments and the Red Sox win the world series. w00t!
Oh, sorry, thought I was somewhere else.
Space: 2097
Season 3, Episode 7
Scene: Pleasure Planet 9-3-aleph
Dave: Yes, bitches, Carl is still a paedofile. Now get back over here, and bring some more lube.
Carl: I am not a paedophile, bitches. Please pay no mind to the eunuch. Now, if I don’t check your ID, your legal, understand?
(footnote: Have we officially descended into madness and mayhem at this point?)
Bitch1: But sir, you specifically requested the Underage Paedofile Package when you called in your order.
Bitch2: Yes. We only service government-certified Class 3 Paedofiles. Let’s see your ID, sir, otherwise we’ll be leaving.
Carl: Well, see, ah, there’s a problem with that. I’m not actually a Class 3 Paedofile. I only play one on TV. Now, thee’ll be no more talk of ID. Just remove those schoolgirl uniforms there and pour this pitcher of warm soapy water on yourselves…. Eunuch! Bring me my ski goggles!
Bitch2: Sir, you do understand that impersonating a Paedofile is a serious matter, do you not?
Bitch1: The penalty is castration.
Eunuch: They’re not lying!
Carl: Well, um… I mean, I left my ID at home. But I swear, bring anything over 18 to me, does nothing! I had the Jailbait Countdown bookmarked! I swear! I don’t even like girls without pigtails! Eunuch, aid me!
Bouncer1: Sir, is there a problem here?
Carl: Indeed! Yonder bitches have turned on me! I don’t know what kind of establishment you run here at Orwell’s Bitches, but I don’t like it one bit. I had my jar of Vick’s vapo-rub and the extra-large candy corn all ready but they turned on me for forgetting my ID! The Eunuch’s no help! There’s been some mix-up. The bitches think I ordered the Class 3 Paedophile package, when I distinctly remember ordering the College-Girl Lesbian Experimentation Theater package!
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