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This week on the show, Erik joins me from his special crazy life, we talk at length about password security and how hideous the new Windows 8 box art is. We learn about how Android is making a foray into all of your appliances, so now your fridge can tell you when it is raining. We welcome the new proposed Nikola Tesla Museum, and the new cars that talk to each other.

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Password Security Today
http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/08/passwords-under-assault/

License Plate Scanners
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/license-plates-scanned-at-border-data-shared-with-car-insurance-group/

PayPal to Join with Discover
http://allthingsd.com/20120822/paypal-trumps-squares-deal-with-starbucks-by-partnering-with-discover/

T-Mobile’s Unlimited Gambit
http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/22/3258573/t-mobile-unthrottled-unlimited-data-plans

Apple’s Response to iPhone SMS vulnerability
http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/18/apple-responds-to-iphone-text-message-spoofing/

Wedded to your iPhone?
http://allthingsd.com/20120820/you-cant-live-without-your-iphone-because-thats-how-you-tell-if-its-raining/

Nikon’s Android Powered Camera
http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/22/nikon-coolpix-s800c-android-camera-pricing-ship-date-details/

Control Your Fridge with your Phone
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57497164-93/android-app-will-let-you-control-your-panasonic-appliances/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title

Windows 8 Pro Pricing and Details
http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/21/3257406/windows-8-pro-price-upgrade-price

6-Bit byte
Apple’s Proto-logo
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57497986-37/alleged-iphone-prototype-surfaces-and-check-out-that-logo/

Ann Arbor to Host ‘Social’ Cars
http://www.freep.com/article/20120822/BUSINESS01/308220118/Ann-Arbor-to-be-site-for-testing-ability-of-vehicles-to-talk-to-each-other-prevent-accidents

CMU and the Robot Hall of Fame
http://etc.cmu.edu/site/RHOF_Induction_Ceremony/RHOF2012.html

Science and Kickers

Nikola Tesla Museum
http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/08/the-oatmeal-internet-raise-850000-in-six-days-for-tesla-museum/

Science and Press Conferences
http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/08/why-you-dont-overturn-the-big-bang-via-a-media-interview/

Hello All,

As many of you know Steve Jobs has passed away, and although many of you also probably know my feelings for the man, I feel it is only fair to him that we at The Digital Hazard talk about the man the mystic and his company (as if they don’t get enough airtime already) Anyway, the purpose of this post is simply to inform you, dear readers and loyal radio listeners that on the October 9th show of The Digital Hazard, Erik and I will devote the entire show to two stories, Steve Jobs, and the iPhone 4S.

Those of you who know me well might be in shock and awe that I would devote an entire hour to Steve Jobs and Apple Inc, but it seems only fair. I promise that the hour won’t be me ragging on the guy, but Erik and I will have an informed discussion about the facets of his life and the most recent Apple product. Rarely there exists enough body of material in the tech world during the week of an Apple announcement, so we will devote the show this week to Apple.

I will not say anymore here, but I will urge you to tune in to WRCT Pittsburgh online at wrct.org on the 9th at 1pm to hear our discussion.

Today on the show, Erik was off, and Chris joined me to talk about everything from environmentally friendly datacenters to your privacy in the face of Dropbox. I’m not trying to paint Dropbox as the bad guy here, but you should be a little concerned. The 6-Bit Byte, Facebook Frackups and Science and Kickers rejoin our show today, as new concerns about Google Streetview cars and the power of 9-Volts are explored. Enjoy!

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Greenpeace Criticizes Apple, Twitter, Facebook for ‘Dirty’ Data Centers
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2383915,00.asp

Apple location tracker file: Congressman asks Steve Jobs to explain by May 12
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/04/congressman-asks-apple-about-location-tracker-file.html

Android users “hate” Apple
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20055181-71.html

EU Decides against Net Neutrality rules

http://paidcontent.org/article/419-eu-decides-against-stricter-net-neutrality-rules/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13134494

Oracle gives up Control of OOo

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/04/oracle-gives-up-on-ooo-after-community-forks-the-project.ars

This week on the show, we have an interview with Tom Merritt of twit.tv! Erik and I really enjoyed talking to Tom, hearing about his career history, and talking about some major tech topics concerning us today. We definitely enjoyed ourselves. No show next week due to Carnival here at Carnegie Mellon.

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Career History

Tom Merritt: a guide to success

Net Neutrality

Mobile Space Competition

Cloud Storage

Social Media

Keeping Yourself Safe Online

I was less than happy with today’s show in general, and then the stream got reset so we don’t even have a full recording of the show. Everything should be okay for the Tom Merritt interview next week. I am definitely looking forward to interviewing him about his experiences in the tech industry. Today was a nice smattering of stories, and I enjoyed discussing them. Please feel free to read the articles, and listen to the first quarter and last quarter of our show. Positive outlook for next week!

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@jack is back @twitter — Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey …
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/28/jack-is-back-at-twitter/

Science News:

Hey, I was bored and in the station at 8:30 on a Wednesday, and a guy didn’t come for his show. I had been wanting to try to do a show production and hosting all on my own, and what a better way to try it out? This is only 30 minutes long, and I enjoyed doing it. I need to learn a little more about the switching because that didn’t exactly go well. Erik didn’t join me for obvious reasons.

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At&t To Aquire T-Mobile
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-20045184-94.html

The Nexus S for Sprint
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011/03/introducing-nexus-s-4g-for-sprint.html

Depressed Male Mice Will Do Anything
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/03/serotonin-lacking-male-mice-not-picky-about-sex-of-their-mates.ars

Only 9% of US Internet Users Are Criminals
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/only-9-and-falling-of-us-internet-users-are-p2p-pirates.ars

Copy right Trolls
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/copyright-troll-righthaven-achieves-spectacular-fair-use-loss.ars

Firefox 4 and IE9
http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/03/23/6327891-firefox-4-soars-thanks-to-microsofts-luddite-customers

Science and Kickers
The Mercury Messenger Probe Gets Toasty
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/messenger/media/MESSENGERPoisedInsertion.html

Today’s show was marked with a number of Absolultey Unacceptable things, first off, we started 30 seconds late, and then when you get to the stories, well, lets just say we will be looking back to the good old days of the internet. We enjoyed the show, and I hope that you do too.

Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt and Mark Zuckerberg to Meet With President Obama Thursday in San Francisco
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/02/steve-jobs-and-eric-schmidt-to-meet-with-president-obama-thursday-in-san-francisco.html