Geek Actually Ep130 – The Sony Issue

Hosted by: David McVay & Josh Philpott

This week on Geek Actually David and Josh fight with their technology but end up getting things on track to enjoy their weekly geek out with topics including the Sony breach and the possible repercussions, the conclusion to Apple’s ‘locationgate’, South Australia’s back flip on the R18+ rating for games, The Ivy Bridge processor and Clippy the game! All this plus weird geek food and app picks of the week, kick back and have a little fun geeking out with us.

Geek Actually is the fusion of the old Tech Actually and Geek Actually After Show podcasts into an all new show. All the Tech and geek goodness that you have come to expect from the old shows wrapped up and made easier to swallow as one simple, little, tasty podcast. DeltaKnight (AKA DAvid Murray) continues to supply us with some of the geekiest stories on the web and Josh and David love to play with the tech news.

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But first… a little feedback.

Jordan sent us this great little video of Mario with a Portal gun!
http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/28/super-mario-gets-a-portal-gun-you-monster-video/
and Tristan wants us to know about the new faster fibre optics.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028095.500-ultrafast-fibre-optics-set-new-speed-record.html
and listener Guy wanted us to take a look at this interesting tidbit
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20110504/us_ac/8419965_harrison_schmitts_plan_to_solve_the_energy_problem_by_mining_the_moon

Geek Tech

The Sony Issue
The Time Line
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/05/they-knew-for-six-days-the-playstation-network-hack-timeline/
Sony Sends a Letter to Congress
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/05/sony-explains-hack-to-congress-calls-anonymous-cyberterrorists/
Sony cuts off Sony Online Entertainment
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9216343/Sony_cuts_off_Sony_Online_Entertainment_service_after_hack
New York State subpoenas Sony over the breach.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-04/sony-said-to-be-subpoenaed-by-new-york-over-data-breaches-1-.html
Anonymous denies involvement
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110505/wr_nm/us_sony_anonymous
This is a perfect time to mention RawDLC, a great source for all things gaming.

Follow up to the iPhone ‘locationgate’ issue.
Apple Officially responds http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Apple-QA-on-Location-bw-3919607983.html?x=0 and http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110427/bs_afp/usitcompanytelecomprivacyinternetapple a 4.3.3 patch is now out now.

Misc. News

The US data caps started this week.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/04/shed-a-tear-the-age-of-broadband-caps-begins-monday/

South Australia will back the R18+ for games, but…
http://www.news.com.au/technology/gaming/new-twist-in-the-ratings-saga-south-australia-will-back-r18-games-but-dump-the-ma15-category/story-e6frfrt9-1226046292215

Intel’s Ivy Bridge chips are hot and coming soon.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2384897,00.asp

Geek Stuff

In a way we’ve all become geeks, the general public just don’t know it yet.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/05/family-time-is-now-gadget-time/

Just a thought, If you’re going to do illegal things, learn to service your own machine.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/05/kiddie-porn-computer-pervert-is-also-enormous-idiot/

Can we use this technology to make Ghostbusters style positron wands!?
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/05/scientists-trap-antimatter-for-a-record-breaking-16-minutes/

Microsoft is resurrecting Clippy, but for a whole new thing.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/05/clippy-is-back-but-as-a-game-which-is-still-bad/

If I was one of these teens, I would’ve pooped my pants! Not gonna lie.
http://www.geekologie.com/2011/04/british-teens-unknowingly-try.php

I think the headline speaks for itself!
http://www.geekologie.com/2011/04/man-tries-robbing-convenience.php

You want to watch porn at the public library, it is your right!
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/04/25/135707937/pornography-is-protected-speech-at-new-york-public-libraries

Role on summer, we want to use these new water pistols.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/05/this-super-soaker-uses-magazines-to-reload/

Weird Food!

Having problems with lunch theft at work? This might help.
http://www.geekologie.com/2011/04/sandwich-bags-now-with-more-pr.php

Geek Picks of the Week

Every week Josh, DeltaKnight and/or I will give you our geek picks of the week, these could be anything from iPhone apps to a great sandwich recipe (more likely to be an app though).

If you like geek history, check out the app ‘Today in Geek History’
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/today-in-geek-history/id431562206?mt=8
So simple, it’s genius. The Chef Sleeve for iPad
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/05/chef-sleeves-disposable-ipad-prophylactics
Check out Bendi, the iPad stand. We want one!
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/05/bendi-the-tablet-stand-is-like-a-mini-flexible-arm-for-your-pad/

And our top pick “Order & Chaos Online” for iPad/iPhone. It is from Gameloft and costs $8.99 to buy. It is “World of Warcraft” for your iOS device. First three months of online service is free with the purchase and after that it will cost .99c a month to play. What a deal! Come and find us in the America-Arcadian Forest server. Josh is waicom the male human mage and David is Raylene the female human ranger.

As always this episode carries an explicit tag due to possible bad language.

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