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- 03 / 05 / 08 -

Sickness is going around, the fund drive went well, Legos will have a presence at HOPE, preregistration for HOPE has opened, Mike gives an update on a Wikileaks lawsuit where a domain was deactivated by a registrar, the importance of challenging unfair rules, a European travel agent is penalized by an American registrar for offering trips to Cuba for Europeans, Emmanuel calls for the elimination of "www" for websites, New Jersey has a revised cell phone law that excludes amateur radio handsets, cell phones "with text messaging capabilities" are being introduced to Long Island Railroad crew members, an airport blocks a wide range of websites on its wireless network, Germany's highest court rules against "cyberspying" by the authorities, an upcoming Justice Department report will show that the FBI improperly used National Security Letters, Pakistan blocks access to YouTube and makes an interesting claim regarding hackers, updates on the vouchers to convert televisions to digital, some problems with digital television reception, some surprising prison statistics, other places where the show can be heard, a listener witnesses police scanning license plates, problems receiving a local digital television station, reports of XP Black Edition, Smart cars can now be bought in the States, there are 2600 meetings this week.

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March 5
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- 03 / 12 / 08 -

A report on Chinese hackers who exist on an island, a phone company is alleged to have given the FBI virtually unlimited access to phone calls, Bernie explains how CALEA ties into this, why phone companies submit to this sort of thing, suspicious things to look for with cellular phone users in England, a device that allows your face not to be seen by video cameras, Redbird explains when this wouldn't work, power switches on buses in San Francisco are vulnerable to being turned off, testing 1-800-GOOG-411 and 1-800-CALL-411, advice for Jim, a failed GPS program in Massachusetts, more on Windows XP Black, more on digital television conversion, debate on whether amateur radio operators should receive special treatment, Redbird and Bernie explain what HD radio is, how to encode vinyl records to computer.

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March 12
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- 03 / 19 / 08 -

A problem with Bernie's connection, the wireless auction has ended with Verizon Wireless coming out the big winner, Bernie explains why this is a bad deal for consumers, a message from time station WWVB, how time stations work, a sudden tribute to Arthur C. Clarke who passed away yesterday, Clarke's conceptualization of geostationary satellites, the frustration of not going back to the moon in so long, some Arthur C. Clarke quotes, a new feature of the program to focus on particularly stupid things, a way of holding mail without any verification check whatsoever, Froggy from Ohio talks about the upcoming Notacon conference in Cleveland, what a demo party is, how Notacon is beneficial to the hacker community, Redbird is planning to fly into Cleveland piloting a private plane, new stories of surveillance from England, the concept of identifying potential criminals while they're still children, a series of keystrokes is enough to gain access to a Dell computer, another tribute to Arthur C. Clarke.

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March 19
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- 03 / 26 / 08 -

Lin is visiting from Atlanta where a tornado recently came through, remembering the old phone system where letters were a part of phone numbers, old advertisements on the side of buildings that feature such numbers, an excerpt from a magazine called Cybersocket that features 2600, more patient data stored on laptops is lost, Bernie bemoans the lack of accountability in such cases, how a Craig's List ad resulted in an entire household being looted by strangers, Steve Rambam is in the studio to discuss the upcoming HOPE conference, Steve and Rick Dakan discuss the game they've been playing since HOPE Number Six, some of the creative ways that Steve has tracked down Rick, a method of tracing people through flickr.com, an adventure in Belize, how a blind date was also used against Rick, the upcoming book that focuses on Steve and Rick's adventure, how it's virtually impossible to hide these days, an appeal for a new victim for The Last HOPE, an upcoming scandal involving a major social networking site, the story behind Steve's arrest at HOPE Number Six, facts about "the prince of Austria," the sequel to Rick's book "Geek Mafia," Notkevin reveals that he found Rick at a book fair in San Francisco, CarolinaCon and Notacon are coming up.

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March 26
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