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RU Sirius Show #24: Libertarianism Chewed Over (with Gravy & Cranberry Sauce)

Administrator — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:52:07 +0000

Tim Cavanaugh from Reason magazine returns to praise inauthenticity, contemplate teen sex, and dispense seasonal libertarian cheer.

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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, & Jeff Diehl | Featured song: “Never Feel Good” mashup by Party Ben | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

Reason

NeoFiles Show #21: But You Won’t Let Those Evil Robots Defeat Me

Administrator — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 18:59:53 +0000

Daniel H. Wilson, author of the hilarious “How To Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion,” joins us on this episode of NeoFiles. Wilson is a Ph.D. graduate of the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University.

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Sponsor: Life Enhancement Products | Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Co-host: Sherry Miller | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp

How To Survive a Robot Uprising by Daniel L. Wilson

Blue Herring #10: “More Staggering Demand”

Administrator — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 00:14:16 +0000

I had to call this one in via satPhone, it’s getting cold outside. That’s great that apple got flash supply all squared away. It’s almost christmas, hope it’s not too late. Unless of course Apple is calling NAND the new USB for new product lines at Jan MacWorld. None of this is in the podcast. Well, sort of…

Songs From The Commons #6: A Better Introduction to Grokster - A Modern Day Sony Betamax Case

Administrator — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 23:14:57 +0000

In this week’s installation of The Grokster Chronicles, I will explain how the Grokster case is really just a modern day revisiting of the principles of the historical Betamax case. The “Betamax” case refers to Universal vs. Sony, in which the Supreme Court decided that a company was not liable for creating a technology that some customers may use for copyright infringing purposes, so long as the technology is capable of substantial non-infringing uses. Said another way, the court decided that, when a technology has many uses, the public cannot be denied the lawful uses just because some (or many or most) may use the product to infringe copyrights. Show notes

RU Sirius Show #23: Is The Universe Conspiring To Shower YOU With Blessings?

Administrator — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:20:18 +0000

Rob Brezny, our favorite optimist and magic man, returns to talk more about his book, Pronoia Is The Antidote to Paranoia and about his Free Will Astrology

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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Sherry Miller, and Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: “Lovemakers on Video” by Matt Hite (THE LOVEMAKERS vs. TRANS-X vs. EMINEM vs. BEASTIE BOYS) | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

San Francisco, Guns, & O’Reilly | Pronoia is the Antidote to Paranoia | Free Will Astrology | World Entertainment War

NeoFiles Show #20: Surveillance, Encryption & Privacy

Administrator — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:17:20 +0000

George Gleason, former phone phreak, ex-cypherpunk, and all-time digital good guy joins us today.

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Sponsor: Life Enhancement Products | Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Co-host: Sherry Miller | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp

Blue Herring #10: The Rosetta Stone

Administrator — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 01:10:07 +0000

Let’s dig into those “1,000,000 windows to mac switchers” headlines and examine the underlying assumptions. We’re experimenting with .wav clips… Mac OS X is to bit torrent as roman soldiers are to the trojan horse, in other words… Could Rosetta be Apple’s VPC? November expirations are next week, not looking good for the Nov50 puts.

RU Sirius Show #22: ReSearch Publisher V. Vale re: J.G. Ballard

Administrator — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 19:58:39 +0000

V. Vale is an alternative publishing hero. He’s published dozens of awesome books and periodicals through his ReSearch imprint. Here he talks to us mostly about his recent books with J.G. Ballard — J.G. Ballard Conversations (edited by V. Vale) and J.G. Ballard Quotations (Quotations Selected by V. Vale & Mike Ryan).

Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, & Jeff Diehl | Featured Songs: “Circus of Life” by Jean Jacques Perrey | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

ReSearch Publications | J.G. Ballard

NeoFiles Show #19: The King of eBay

Administrator — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 18:43:02 +0000

Joe Sinclair, one of the world’s leading experts regarding eBay, joins us today.

Sponsor: Life Enhancement Products | Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Co-host: Sherry Miller | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp

eBay Books by Joe Sinclair

Blue Herring #9: iTunes, MacIntel, etc.l

Administrator — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 20:27:29 +0000

Well, some of the things touched on in the podcast have new bits of info this week (sorry it’s so late, the plan is to have the podcast go out on Sundays). The non ABC, big three broadcasters have inked deals with comcast and directTV to supply content for $.99 to those pipe customers with digital video boxes connected to their TVs… hmm. Also, Apple seems to have submitted a patent to manage a system with a primary OS (OS X) and a secondary OS (Windows or Linux). dig it out here:
http://www.architosh.com/news/2005-11/2005a1108_tb-multi-os.html

Pastor Jack #17 - Veteran’s Day

Administrator — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 19:52:27 +0000

I love old people. But we need to examine this issue: Why discriminate? Ever?

RU Sirius Show #21: Burning Man Mainman Larry Harvey

Administrator — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 20:47:09 +0000

Larry Harvey, maximum leader and initiator of Burning Man, joins us and we talk about the winter of love, the ethos of the burn, and the Chicken John “controversy”

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Producer: Jeff Diehl |Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, & Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: “Wacko Macko is Backo” by electro organic sound system | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

Burning Man | “Republican Like Me” by Harmon Leon

Pastor Jack #16: Lookin Good!

Administrator — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 18:49:01 +0000

Dearest Brothers and Sisters, God wants you to wear nice things and use deoderant. Yes he does!

NeoFiles #18: Singularitarianism with Yudkowski

Administrator — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:52:22 +0000

Eliezer Yudkowsky, Director of the Singularity Institute joins us today to talk about what will happen if and when we make machines that are smarter than we are.

Sponsor: Life Enhancement Products | Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Co-host: Sherry Miller | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp

Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Songs from the Commons #5

Administrator — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:50:06 +0000

This week, I shut up for a minute, and let some great music do the talking. All the tracks featured this week are available on Wired’s CC Sampling CD, available at http://creativecommons.org/wired/

Starting next show, when I go back to yapping about Copyright Law, I’ll also provide a “music only” version of the show, without all the yapping. (Yes, I’m going to go back to my old shows and create “music only” versions of those, too.)

So I did a little dance mix on these tracks. Everything is available under a
Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. I’ve also listed the Record Labels for each artist, because I want to draw attention to any record labels that are progressive enough to allow their artists to release a track under this license.

The Blue Herring Show #8

Administrator — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 18:53:31 +0000

Apple seems to be suffering from a lack of content on the iTMS video section. a serious problem. are steve’s famed negotiating skills ka-putt? or is the only way to get ‘them’ on board, to prove that their ArchNemesis DVD-Jon will not bust their code? perhaps it’s necessary to release the video-hoohum first, prove the kid won’t do it, then with proof in hand, THEN go to the MPAA and all the companies in the Loop with the “real” content, later. well, later is later, and it ain’t right now. candy corn index results next week…

Junket 415 #11 for Oct. 27th, 2005

Administrator — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:09:41 +0000

Yeah, we skipped #10. You might be tempted to think it was some sort of dunderheaded oversight on our part, but here’s the truth: you know how there’s no floor 13 in high-rises? Well if we were a high-rise, there’d be no 10th floor.

Music: Hypnotize The Army (The White Stripes vs Notorious B.I.G.) by doppelbanger | Lick It Wild (Tone Loc vs. 20 Fingers) by Matt Hite

RU Sirius Show #20: Trademark G. from Evolution Control Committee

Administrator — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:59:59 +0000

Trademark G of Evolution Control Committee talks to us about copyright violation for the nation and the vocal talents of Dan Rather

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Producer: Jeff Diehl |Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, & Jeff Diehl | Featured Songs: “I Want A Cookie” and “Sex Re-education” by Evolution Control Committee | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

Evolution Control Committee | Rocked By Rape and other ECC Videos | The World Can’t Wait

NeoFiles Show #17: Fab Gadgets & Computer Security

Administrator — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 05:14:40 +0000

Old NeoFiles columnist Andy Walker joins us to talk about gadgets and his upcoming book, “Absolute Beginners Guide to Security, Spam, Spyware, and Viruses.”

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Sponsor: Life Enhancement Products | Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Co-host: Sherry Miller | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp

Cyberwalker | The Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Security, Spam Spyware and Viruses

Video Preview: RU Sirius #20

Administrator — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:07:36 +0000

We’re gearing up for video content over here, and the first bit is an outtake of The RU Sirius Show #20 with Trademark G of Evolution Control Committee. We’re also gonna provide flickr sets when it’s appropriate.

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(Shot with a Casio Exilim Z50 credit-card digicam.)