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Nov 19

Episode 120: Jesus Turns Water into Whisky

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Razer products now comes with spyware, uses Internet all the time, stop working when the connection drops. How a Reddit Rage Comic Saved a Man’s Life. Microsoft Has Software that will translate your speech into a different language, in your own voice. The Whisky Sampler Advent Calendar. Amazon Donates 2,000 Kindles To Wounded Veterans. New Jersey will let citizens displaced by Hurricane Sandy vote by email or fax. Copyright-Infringing Tweets Will Now Be “Withdrawn” Instead of “Disappeared Forever.” CBS finally embraces Hulu, signs licensing agreement for over 2,600 episodes. Towers Of Vegetables Go Up As Singapore Builds First Vertical Farm. DHS-FBI Bulletin: Indicators of Suspicious Behaviors at Hotels. All this plus this week’s Oh Asia You So Crazy!

Show notes available at http://wiki.whatstherumpuspodcast.com/120

Tags: advent calendar, Amazon, asia, Axe, bare hands, cancer, CBS, Christmas, copyright, DHS, DMCA, donation, election, email, fax, fbi, granny, hotel, Hulu, Internet, Kindle, Microsoft, New Jersey, rage comic, Razer, reddit, Russia, Singapore, spyware, suspicious behavior, twitter, universal translator, vertical farming, veterans, voting, whisky, wolf

Apr 16

Episode 95: The Superposition of Podcasting

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A new ISP that takes your privacy seriously. Google launches “The Power of the Internet” campaign. A study suggests that violent video games build cooperation and social skills, not violent tendencies. Kidnap victim rescued with the power of Twitter. NYC begins replacing pay phones with touch screen computers. High scool juniors develop flavor strips for astronauts. Facebook acquires Instagram for $1 billion. All this and a Recent Study, Dumbass Apple News, an Epic Fail, and this week’s Oh Asia You So Crazy!

Show notes available at http://wiki.whatstherumpuspodcast.com/96

Tags: ABC, Apple, astronauts, autism, CBS, china, cooperation, counterfeit, Dumbass Apple News, Epic Fail, Facebook, fbi, flashback, flavor strip, Fox, Google, high school, Instagram, Internet, ISP, kidnap, NASA, NBC, networks, NYC, obesity, oh asia you so crazy, Patriot Act, payphone, physical, pigspotter, pilot, PIPA, police academy, Portugal, privacy, Recent Studies, reddit, Ryder Says Things, SOPA, South Africa, stolen, storage, suicide, suing, tax, terabyte tax, theft, thoracoacromial, touchscreen, Univision, video games, violence, virus, wrongful death

Mar 19

Episode 91: Back to Our Pimpin Ways

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by adrian

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The FBI can’t crack Android’s Pattern Lock. The Sanford Airport says no to the TSA. March Madness will be streamed to all of the Internet. Encyclopedia Britannica ceases production of encyclopedias. People are sending money to the RIAA and MPAA in droves, listen in to find out why. Homeless people in Austin, TX have become 4G hotspots for SXSW. Is your ISP spying on you? If they aren’t they will soon start! All this, and a Recent Study, a couple of Epic Fails, and an Oh Asia, You So Crazy! Plus, Ryder says Things!

Show notes available at http://wiki.whatstherumpuspodcast.com/91

Tags: 4G, airplane, airport, alcohol, android, Austin, china, crack, digital media, drunk, DVD, DVD ripping, Ecpi Fail, encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Britannica, fake money, fbi, fruit flies, Google, homeless, Internet Service Provider, internet traffic, Invisible Children, ISP, jail, justice, March Madness, masturbating, MPAA, oh asia you so crazy, painting nails, Pattern Lock, pay service, pimp, police, power outlet, prank, private security, public, Recent Studies, RIAA, Ryder Says Things, schoolgirls, sex, skydiver, spying, streaming, supersonic, SXSW, text message, time travel, traffic, trial, TSA, Walmart, WiFi

Mar 12

Episode 90: We Have a PhD in Plundering

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by adrian

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LulzSecs leader has been arrested, is this the end for the notorious group? More and more employers and colleges are demanding you give them your Facebook password. Reddit forms a PAC to oust Lamar Smith from office, and Mediawiki transfers all their domains away from GoDaddy. Crowdfunding insvestors is moving closer to Congressional approval. Warner has a “quick and easy” way for you to rip your DVDs into DRMed digital media that is neither quick nor easy. NBC will livestream the 2012 Olympics in its entirity for free. MIT offers a certificate in piracy. The U.S. government deems that if your domain is a .com, they have jurisdiction to seize it. The Washington Post hires CmdrTaco of Slashdot fame. Flying swarms of robots may start to provide WiFi to protestors and activists. All this, plus a Recent Study, this week’s “Oh Asia, You So Crazy!”, and another installment of Ryder Says Things.

Show notes available at http://wiki.whatstherumpuspodcast.com/90

Tags: .com, Anonymous, arrest, CmdrTaco, college, Congress, DRM, DVD, DVD rip, employers, Facebook, fbi, fencing, government, HD antenna, hyaluronic acid, Jennifer Pahlka, Lamar Smith, livestream, LulzSec, MIT, Mohu, Mohu Leaf, NBC, oh asia you so crazy, Olympics, PAC, piracy, pirates, pistols, Recent Study, reddit, rip, robots, Ryder Says Things, Sabu, sailing, school desk, Slashdot, SOPA, stem cells, streaming, TED, Ted Talk, toilets, transplant, UAV, Uncle Sam, VeriSign, Warner, Washington Post, WiFi, Youtube

Feb 14

Episode 86: BasementCast 3

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by adrian

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The 3rd Annual BasementCast! If you weren’t there, you certainly missed out! There was a Bacon Explosion, homebrewed beer, and some interesting commentary on current events.

Show notes available at http://wiki.whatstherumpuspodcast.com/86

Tags: Anonymous, coffee shop, conference call, death penalty, donor, engagement, engagement party, expensive, father, fbi, Finland, free coffee, Google, hackers, Internet, junk mail, Muhammed, OPEN, panda, PaperKarma, Pizza Hut, Poop, RIAA, Saudi, Screenwise, sperm, tea, twitter, unsubscribe, VeriSign, virgin

Jan 22

Episode 83: herpderpodcast

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by adrian

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In this week’s episode, Adrian and James discuss the takedown of Megaupload and the raid of Kim Dotcom’s “lair”. Anonymous shows what they think of the Megaupload takedown. As if you hadn’t heard enough about SOPA, over 7000 sites participated in an Internet Blackout on Wednesday Jan 18th. The repercussions of Wikipedia’s blackout were felt all across Twitter.

In the back half of the show, the Russian space program discusses a joined moon base with NASA and the ESA. In the past we’ve seen manufacturiing jobs move from the US to Asia, now we’re seeing a trend of R&D jobs moving in the same direction. Google has some detractors in India: this week they vandalize the OpenStreetMap project and have also been linked to the Mocality scandal we discussed last week. New York City takes an innovative approach to college prep: Software Engineering High School. Adrian and James both agree that they would have tried to go there if they were still in high school.

This week, Japan is so crazy! A store selling women’s clothing and accessories has decided to use an interesting ploy to draw in customers… We’ll call it “colorful language.”

Link for this weeks show are available at http://wiki.whatstherumpuspodcast.com/83

Tags: Anonymous, china, colorful language, department of justice, doj, fbi, herpderpedia, high school, high tech jobs, internet blackout, john cusack, justice, kim dotcom, megaupload, New York City, NYC, OpenStreetMap, R&D, sale, Software Engineering, Star Wars, vandalism, wikipedia

Nov 03

Episode 55: Happy Rumpaween

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by adrian

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Foursquare offers a NASA badge for astronauts who check into “Space.” The hacker behind the Xbox 360 jailbreak is being prosecuted for his hack. Sony officially retires the Walkman. A new Firefox extension has been released that allows you to sidejack website sessions to websites like Facebook and Twitter. NYPD officers are sent on a field trip. The Darth Vader costume from Empire Strikes back is on sale. Mount Everest gets a 3G network. All this and more!

Show notes available at http://wiki.whatstherumpuspodcast.com/55

Tags: 1928, 3G, 3G network, back scratcher, Balloon Boy, Bear Scratch, car, cellular, Chrome, Comment Blocker, costume, darth vader, Empire Strikes Back, extension, Facebook, fbi, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Firefox, Firefox extension, Foursquare, genome, Google, Google Chrome, Halloween, jail, jailbreak, judge, MoMA, Mount Everest, Museum of Modern Art, NASA, neanderthal, New York, New York Police Department, NYPD, Ozzy Osbourne, police, prosecute, pumpkin, songs, Sony, space, Star Wars, time traveler, twitter, Walkman, WiFi, wireless, Xbox 360

Jan 19

Episode 26: Was That It?

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by adrian

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A Russian billboard was hacked to show porn to passerbys. The FBI has a new forensic tool: Google Image Search. A kid builds a network router out of Legos. Canceling a Nexus One contract costs more than the phone itself. Listen in to find out how AT&T generates support for its anti-Net-Neutrality stance. Fake log cabins and Pants on the ground. Barnes & Noble starts a textbook rental service. Facebook adds comment reply by email feature. Plus, the Fark Headline of the Week and the Question of the Week.

Show notes available at http://wiki.whatstherumpuspodcast.com/26

Tags: AT&T, Barnes & Noble, Billboard, boyfriend, cellphones, comment, email, Facebook, Fark Headline of the Week, fbi, FCC, girlfriend, Google, Google Images, Lego, log cabin, Net Neutrality, Nexus One, Pants on the Ground, Porn, Question of the Week, reply, router, Russian, shawnp0wers, textbook