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- 02 / 14 / 07 -

It's the dumbest day of the year, problems with the headphones, more than $11,000 was raised in the last show, Bernie discusses changes in the Florida voting system, a case of hacking touchscreen machines in New Jersey, fear of wireless access during Vancouver's 2010 Winter Olympics, hackers being equated with terrorists, the potential for the United States to strike back at an online attack with real bombs, a recent attack on the root DNS, condemnation of U.S. interference with Cuban radio signals, pirated Microsoft software was beneficial to Romania according to its president, a school falsely alerts applicants of their acceptance, a case of lost personal data in Vermont, Emmanuel's views on how to deal with people who are bad at their jobs, a woman receives 75,000 bank statements, the post office loses the latest issue of 2600 heading overseas, an appeal to people with connections in the postal system, a substitute teacher in Connecticut is accused of exposing students to porn, Emmanuel gets a call from his "boss," the fun of popularitydialer.com, lack of knowledge of the universal emergency number in Europe, the strange reaction to a lawmaker's effort to outlaw cell phones on bicycles, the annoyance of iPods on subways, controversy over a road tax in England that involves a degree of surveillance, how to prevent people from driving so much, Notkevin reveals a privacy hole on Sprint's website involving Sprint PCS customers, listener questions for Jim, questions about premiums, callers relate various scams.

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- 02 / 21 / 07 -

The robot is halfway through the task of making all of the DVDs for the recent fund drive, a crack in HD DVD and Blu-ray technology, the capabilities of DVD Shrink, research on an electronic voting machine bought at an auction, a ruling against the NYPD concerning videotaping demonstrators, how people can be tracked by their footwear imprints, a development in a legal case involving Google and Belgium, a man claims he has Internet addiction after being fired for visiting an adult chat room at work, an eight-year-old gets caught pranking 911, a couple gets in trouble for catching a cop speeding, how cars can be tracked via an insurance company in England, the inventor of the TV remote dies, the premiere of "Urchin" and a negative review, Emmanuel describes his scene in the film, an attempt to make a free overseas call through allfreecalls.net, auctioning off parking spaces, the problem of filtering software in schools, upcoming problems with Critical Mass, more on DVD Shrink.

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- 02 / 28 / 07 -

A full studio tonight, the show won't be on next week, Canada decides not to extend anti-terror legislation because of civil liberties concerns, memos concerning the RNC are released and 2600 is right in the middle of it all, inaccuracies in the news stories, how undercover cops can be spotted, a story of unauthorized access to a wireless network belonging to a library, a Suffolk County cop gets lenient treatment in a hacking case, a case of accessing press releases in advance on a company's computer, the military again interferes with garage door openers, debating who should take responsibility for this, Lin describes changes to the Atlanta mass transit system, Lin's battle for privacy in a New York hotel, legislation in the E.U. to criminalize copyright violations, Mitch Altman describes the latest in TV B Gone technology, various stories involving reactions to TV sets being turned off, the upcoming SWL Fest, memories of Digicash, an anonymous road toll system, helping a listener figure out who's calling him, how the show is podcast, a call from a ham operator spurs a discussion on all sorts of ham radio issues.

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