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John C. Dvorak, Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, and Robert Heron
Guests: Steve Wozniak, Kevin Mitnick, Alex Fielding, and Amber MacArthur

TWiT 40 is one for the books. Woz joins us from a Starbucks in Vegas, and a couple of surprise guests drop in.

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Topics:

• Even Mologogo can't track Mitnick down
• Woz is in Vegas to speak to Sharp - hope he doesn't say Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur
• Woz has been on a road show for the Acquicore SPAC
• The SPAC team includes Gil Amelio, Ellen Hancock, and Woz
• Google is censoring its search results in China. Some bloggers are dropping AdSense, but Jason Calacanis says Google made the right choice. Woz agrees.
• NBC News Dateline says My Space is a haven for pederasts
• Rupert Murdoch's MySpace blog
• Kevin Rose is not selling Digg to Yahoo - but if he does, he's buying dinner
• Disney buys Pixar and Steve Jobs is now the biggest Disney shareholder (and is $3.7B richer)
• E3 bans booth babes - companies will actually have to produce good games to get attention
• Cell phone spoofing is taking a turn for the worse - now you can't trust the caller id or the caller's voice
• It's not a bug - it's a feature
• Woz has his first yellow laser
• Bringing Down the House tells the true story of the MIT Blackjack Team that took Vegas for millions
• Woz's watch has nixie tubes
• You can still get the Bill of Rights on a metal card from the EFF
• And you can bring screwdrivers on board airplanes now - unless you're flying El-Al
• Engadget says the next Intel Mac will be an iBook, but Leo's waiting for a sub-notebook
• Make sure your turn off your Wi-Fi before you board an airplane
• Leo's trying the new Blue Snowball USB mic - sounds very good
• The Botnet hacker plead guilty to selling botnets this month
• Kevin uses the Nokia 9300 smartphone - except he prefers EVDO to GPRS
• Is OS X less secure than Linux or Windows because Apple hasn't fixed known UNIX flaws?
• The famous Joy of Tech cartoon featuring Kevin Mitnick's first day back on the Internet