Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, Steve Gibson, Roger Chang, and John C. Dvorak Episode 19 is available now from the following locations: Main feed - courtesy AOL Radio BitTorrent - four flavors, no waiting Dijjer P2P - experimental Topics:

• Fighting blog spam with Typekey on Movable Type and captcha on Blogger
• Hunter S. Thompson's funeral - they blow up his ashes
• Dvorak reminisces
• Is Microsoft at fault for the Zotob virus?
• Monad is removed from Vista
• PCMag's video review of the Vista Beta is next week
• Would 12,000 people riot for a $50 four-year-old Dell?

• Watch the video
• John explained it all last week in Marketwatch
• Steve and I plan to try using Lulu to offer CDs of the Security Now podcast
• Mom was right: looking at porn (or violence) makes you blind
• Linus is trademarking Linux
• Dvorak reminisces about GNU founder Richard Stallman
• We owe him for free software and the GPL - thank you Richard, I promise never to make you sing again
• Google sells another $4 billion in shares
• Dvorak loves Jim Cramer's Mad Money
• Who's going to unseat Google? Teoma? Clusty? All the Web?
• What do they spend the money on? Google's free Wi-Fi network? IM?
• Why is Yahoo spending a billion on a Chinese venture?
• Steve says Google engineers say Yahoo works better
• Part of Google's success is aesthitic - we love the clean white page
• Kevin likes the new MSN Home Page - using Ajax
• Dvorak.org/home.htm is Dvorak's home page
• Now that we've reached widespread broadband access who needs text only pages
• The FCC's broadband definition is bogus
• Where is the fast DSL the telcos promised us?
• Is Cisco holding out on us with 100 mbit DSL?
• Norton's patching bad copper with a visegrip
• Verizon's FIOS is all for show
• Come to our first live show at the SF Apple Store, 9/4 at 4p - come for the TWiT pocket protector
• Kevin wants something cooler. Like a coin purse.
• We extend an invitation to Martin Sargent
• Shilo from Zanesville, OH is looking for free music for his podcast.
• Try opsound.org. Creativecommons.org.
• Jeffrey from the Netherlands asks about the future of user interfaces
• Dvorak says it's like the automobile, now that we know how to use computers they're not going to change
• Leo says Jef Raskin's Archy is very cool
• How about voice recognition? It's not going to happen says Dvorak
• Scansoft owns Dragon Dictate and ViaVoice.
• Kevin from ivroots.com asks about IPTV
• Dvorak's got a newsletter about it IPTVDaily.com
• Patrick is doing a weekly IPTV show with Ziff-Davis
• IPTV is already in place around the world in countries that don't have cable
• Sweden's got it
• MythTV and Akimbo are attempting to make IPTV more friendly
• Dvorak offers to sell TWiT to Infinity Radio for $5 million
• Andy in Phoenix asks whether John gets spam. Andy, John gets NO spam.
• Lucky Phil in Sydney needs a BitTorrent client that doesn't set off alarms with his ISP. Any suggestions?
• Kariand Les of the The Signal podcast love the Firefly theme song. We still hate it.
• Randall from Charlestown, WV says his federal job won't allow USB devices. Is there an MP3 player that doesn't use USB? Hmmm.
• Leo promises to annnounce the winners in our name contest next Sunday. Finally.
• Dvorak wants to give away his old cables at the live shows.
• All geeks have a cable drawer.
• Puffy wonders about Internet security suits. We say build your own from free software like: AVG Anti-virus or Antivir, Microsoft's anti-spyware, Spybot, and Adaware.

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