Alt-This #0037 Show Notes 3/21/09

  • IE8, Safari, and Firefox All Fall in Hacking Test
  • Designer Leaves Google
  • Hackers nab free 30Mpbs Service
  • Are we headed for an era of "dumb tech?"
  • IE 8 - Do We Finally Get Web-Standards Love?
  • Users Increasingly Going Cell Phone Only
  • Or is it Time to cut back on cell phone use, budget conscious Americans say
  • Deep Packet Inspection Puts Open Internet at Risk
  • Flaw Makes Twitter Vulnerable to Serious Viral Attack
  • In-Car Internet Coming To Cadillac
  • Choruss' Music Tax Plan: Bait-And-Switch
  • White House Says Feds Should Have Unfettered Access To Mobile Phone Location Info
  • Darren rants about the AIG debacle.. PRICELESS!
  • Naked Teen Walking His Giant White Poodle Assults and Robs a Woman


Please use this link to subscribe to our feed: RSS
If you'd rather just download this episode you can do so by right-clicking here

Alt-This #0036 Show Notes 3/18/09

The Political Stuff

  • The Shell Game Continues - Obama Team Adopts McCain's Optimism on Economy
  • Fed to pump another $1 trillion into U.S. economy
  • AIG Bonus Debacle
  • Obama May Find Anger Over Bonuses Backfires on Agenda
  • Obama Plans To Charge Wounded Heroes For Treatment
  • Pelosi says enforcing immigration laws is “un-American”
  • First sitting President to do a show like Leno
  • Obama wants to disarm pilots
  • The Tech Stuff

  • Facebook Could Kill Google - Not Really
  • Privacy watchdog barks for federal Gmail probe - Is The Cloud Safe?
  • Discovery sues over Amazon's Kindle
  • Jurors' smartphones upset the scales of justice
  • Skiles calls technical foul on Villanueva's tweet
  • iPhone 3.0 OS Guide: Everything You Need to Know
  • John C. Dvorak's 9 Reasons E-mail is dead
  • Australia's Blacklisted Hyperlinks to Cost Webmasters $11,000 a Day
  • Is The Fix In At American Idol?
  • Diners Ignore Stabbing Horror


Please use this link to subscribe to our feed: RSS
If you'd rather just download this episode you can do so by right-clicking here

Alt-This #0035 Show Notes 3/15/09

The Political Stuff

  • Obama signs $410 billion porkulus package into law then says "oh, wait, things aren't so bad after all!"
  • No more "Enemy Combatants" at Gitmo
  • The Honeymoon is over - Obama's Poll Numbers are falling to Earth
  • Russian bombers could use Cuba and Venezuela airfields
  • Obama's new CIO's office raided, employee arrested for IT bribery
  • Obama warns of US Food "Hazard"
  • Phoenix, AZ kidnapping capital of the USA - 2nd in the world
  • Hurricane activity lowest rate in 30 years!
  • Al Gore is STILL an idiot
  • Lawmakers Want Broadband Requirements on Phone Fund
  • The Tech Stuff

  • BROWSER WARS: MS Says New IE faster than FF and Chrome
  • Satellite XM/Sirius to start streaming via iPhone
  • Google Voice and World Domination
  • WWW Founder warns against website snooping
  • Italian proposal of anti-internet laws
  • Piracy Has Become Mainstream, Studies Show
  • Radio's Right To Free Tunes Is On The Rocks
  • The Sky High Web
  • Nearly half of Boston teens surveyed say Rihanna is at fault for beating


Please use this link to subscribe to our feed: RSS
If you'd rather just download this episode you can do so by right-clicking here

Alt-This #0034 Show Notes 3/12/09

The Political Stuff

  • Wikipedia deletes any negative Obama entries
  • Obama defends pet projects and signs "imperfect" $410 billion spending bill
  • Where the money is going
  • Obama's broadband plan to spend the $7.2 billion? There is none
  • More Lobbyists - Another Broken Promise
  • Pelosi Abused Air Force as her own airline
  • Officials: Afghanistan Taliban leader was at Gitmo
  • Cops demand removal of racist art
  • Gun Laws in the wake of the German and Alabama shootings
  • John Kerry Says Any Delay In Climate Change is Suicide Pact
  • The Tech Stuff

  • Now it's online streaming that's killing music!
  • Social Networking now more popular than e-mail
  • Advertisers pulling a lot of info from Cell phones
  • Apple rejects twitter app because, you know, there's #### swearing on the Internet
  • A Google Netbook? Makes sense.. or is that dollars?
  • Or how about an APPLE netbook?
  • Comcast's Massive Public Image Makeover
  • Comcast is now the nation's 3rd largest phone company behind ATT and Verizon
  • Wireless Broadband races to 12.5 Gbps


Please use this link to subscribe to our feed: RSS
If you'd rather just download this episode you can do so by right-clicking here

Alt-This #0033 Show Notes 3/7/09

The Political Stuff

  • White House seeks economic advice from Twitter founder
  • Obama's budget adds more to the debt than all previous Presidents.. COMBINED!
  • Unemployment at a 26 year high
  • Deception at the core of Obama's plans
  • Should the US sit down with North Korea?
  • The Tech Stuff

  • Firefox has more security flaws in 2008 than Opera, IE and Safari combined
  • Adobe Reader has a major and scary bug
  • The Boxee / Hulu dance continues
  • Should cell phone companies sign exclusive deals?
  • The mobile gaming market is thriving
  • Should your ISP moonlight as a car salesman?
  • The RIAA is *gasp* still suing individual file sharers
  • Cell phones in hospitals can spread disease.. scary disease
  • NY woman asks a woman on her cell phone to keep it down then gets attacked
  • The idiot of the week - a woman who was breastfeeding while driving and talking on her cell phone


Please use this link to subscribe to our feed: RSS
If you'd rather just download this episode you can do so by right-clicking here

Alt-This #0032 Show Notes 3/5/09

  • Alt-This #32 - The Jeffless Episode
  • Is Rush Limbaugh the leader of the Republican Party?
  • Why is the White House calling out commentators by name?
  • Jim Cramer responds to the White House Read More
  • FDIC Insurance Fund could be gone within the year
  • Would $1 million dollars a day every day since AD began cover Obama's plan?
  • Twitter and blogging are changing the political landscape quickly
  • Does exposure to explicit lyrics lead teens to sexual activity?
  • The ultimate virtual reality headset
  • Microsoft's new search engine Kumo might have Google worried
  • Hacker gets four years for bot net attacks
  • Bill Gates bans his wife and kids from using Apple products
  • Woman who doesn't get her McNuggets calls 911 - 3 times!
  • Idiot pepper sprayed by customs official
  • Southwest Airlines paints Bar Refaeli on a plane and angers customers. We say thank you Southwest!

Please use this link to subscribe to our feed: RSS
If you'd rather just download this episode you can do so by right-clicking here

Alt-This #0031 Show Notes 2/28/09

  • Alt-This moves to two shows a week, adding politics to the mix
  • Bloodbath at the RIAA
  • Music industry threatening Irish ISPs
  • Comcast customers, Check your webmail settings
  • iPhone Apps Might Not Be As Popular As Believed
  • Google signs on to help the EU sue MicroSoft
  • Obama's '09 budget spends $11,833 per American / $25,573 per tax payer
  • CNBC Anchor says Obama is declaring war on investors, entrepreneurs, small businesses...
  • Obama proposes new wireless-spectrum fee
  • Greenpeace says using toilet paper worse than driving Hummers
  • So I guess Greenpeace folks are the ones using the reusable toilet wipes
  • The NASCAR Cafe in a Las Vegas casino offers a 2 foot long and 6 pound burrito

Please use this link to subscribe to our feed: RSS
If you'd rather just download this episode you can do so by right-clicking here

Alt-This #0030 Show Notes 2/26/09

  • Enjoy our new intro, maybe it'll stick maybe it won't
  • Darren has started editing episode #21
  • Springsteen 1 - Ticketmaster 0
  • Darren is drinking Power's Irish Whiskey
  • Jeff is imbibing the Bookers Bourbon
  • Last.fm is NOT giving your data to the RIAA
  • Google goes down for four hours
  • Quake Live a marvel
  • The government wants you to keep router logs
  • Jeff couldn't install Ubuntu - hear him rant!
  • Americans watching more tv than ever
  • Man shoots TV over digital switchover
  • New anti-trust guru has it out for Google
  • Apple doesn't want a universal cell phone charger

Please use this link to subscribe to our feed: RSS
If you'd rather just download this episode you can do so by right-clicking here

Alt-This #0029 Show Notes 2/20/09

  • Intro from the Pubcrawlers
  • Darren starts the show with a double shot of the Knot
  • Jeff is drinking a Tasmanian Beer at 8AM
  • Let's talk Superbowl
  • Why Ticketmaster Sucks
  • Springsteen pissed Ticketmaster is a Scalper too
  • Taylor Swift sells out in two minutes
  • Windows 7 is out in Beta
  • GData Still Sucks
  • ESPN tries to shake down your ISP
  • Broadband Stimulus
  • Jeff asks if we give everyone broadband do we have to give them computer too?
  • Obama stocking the department of justice with RIAA / MPAA lawyers
  • Darren got his Comcast speeds fixed.. Thanks ComcastSteve
  • Germany says "No" to the three strikes piracy concept
  • PHPbb hacked - oops!
  • Use strong passwords people!
  • Darren says Ubuntu 8.10 fixed the issues of the past

Please use this link to subscribe to our feed: RSS
If you'd rather just download this episode you can do so by right-clicking here

Alt-This #0028 Show Notes 2/19/09

  • Intro from the Pubcrawlers
  • Jeff's life is just a complicated drinking game
  • T-Shirt Hell really going out of business? No
  • Darren is drinking the Knot and Spite
  • Jeff is drinking a Coke Classic
  • Jeff may be allergic to Aspertame
  • Darren is loving him some green tea
  • Jeff loves the HP Blackbird and Firebird
  • Comcast lowering broadband prices
  • Comcast new speeds confusing CSRs
  • Comcast testing WiFi in New Jersey
  • What are legitimate 3G speeds?
  • Comcast and ATT to play nice with the RIAA / MPAA
  • Netflix is recession proof
  • Why do we have to pay to bring broadband to rural areas?
  • Isle of Man suggests a Pirate Tax
  • T-Shirt Hell not closing down
  • Jeff and Darren discuss their best (worst?) t-shirts

Please use this link to subscribe to our feed: RSS
If you'd rather just download this episode you can do so by right-clicking here

Syndicate content