This is dedicated to all the hackers and the crackers, to the hackers and the crackers.
I see in binary, I speak source code, step on my toes, I'll post a million jpegs of you
in a fag pose, in your digital stance, getting firewalls hoes, cause I'm riding the net in
my six foes, I was a dick with my 56, now with my cable I'm able to get that stable,
on the out, my name is Ace and I'm a Leo, on the digital highway, my name is Neo and
I'm a hero, in a flash, I'll screw you on burning dreamcast, you need some ISO, let me through
my hard drive rifle, our exchange you could never stifle, and a digital hug, you just caught
the love bug, I bootlegged your CD, I caused the fight between Un and Jay-Z, cause CG, it's
all gonna be free, whether we take it by force or we take it nicely, you feel that rattle
and earphones, when I tell you we just hacked Al Jones, and NASDAQ leaves you flat on your
back, cause I am he who loves to hack and crack, cause I am he who loves to hack and crack,
this is dedicated to the hackers and the crackers, serial phones, source codes, ISO, RAM,
SIS, this is dedicated to the hackers and the crackers.
Hello, what the, what, dude, you screwed up my intro.
I just said boogers, how does that screw up your intro?
Man, it's just amazing, cause it's all the whole swab thing, you know, and it's just
Binary Revolution Radio, episode, uh, what is it, 178 now?
That sounds right.
Yeah, 178 sounds right.
And, um, Mr. Boogers over there is Stank Dog.
Yeah, we are gonna be covering everything there is to know about boogers, hacking boogers,
freaking boogers.
I was aiming for a Wilderness Survival 3 myself, but...
Oh, jeez, um, you got the wrong guy on the show for that.
Now, wait a minute, we have two, uh, former scouts on the show, I didn't quite make Eagle
Scout like somebody on the line.
Oh, you lack, you lack discipline.
No, but we went to that whole, like, thing every year, like, I don't know if you had
them here, but we, that, we had to go and do all the competitions, and we had to make
the big walking A-frame thing, and do the obstacle course with a bucket of water, and all that
stuff.
Did you do those?
Well, we had that, but I don't think you had what we had, cause up here we have the
Klondike Derby, which is, um, a giant snow type thing, and I don't think you really have
that down in Florida.
Well, this wasn't in Florida.
Oh, where was this?
Earlier on, younger in life, yeah.
Yeah, cause when I moved to Florida, I was about 27, and I would have been pretty unusual
in the Boy Scouts, you know, the running around with a bunch of kids, that's kind of a whole
Michael Jackson thing going on.
Yeah, but you would have liked it.
Oh, it makes me feel so young!
Yeah.
Come into the back of the woods!
Yeah, we joke, but there probably is a website fetish out there for it somewhere.
Oh, I'm sure there is.
Yep.
Oh, so, yeah, 178, is that what we're up to these days?
Yes, actually.
I've lost track of so much.
I'm completely spending every waking moment working on this freaking server we've been
having problems with for the last couple weeks.
A server that is still not fixed.
Oh, by the way, today's date is December 19, 2006.
Oh, yeah, we didn't say the date.
Yeah.
Cause it's coming through off of my mojo, because someone decided to say, boogers!
Ha, ha, ha, spur of the moment.
It's my word of the day now, I guess.
Boogers!
It was funny.
It's a funny word.
It was humorous.
Yeah, it's not exactly like, it's not like a dirty word or anything, but it's a funny,
silly word.
Booger, booger, booger.
Pussy, box, those are all clean words.
You know, snatch.
Pussy box.
What a mess.
It was an old George Carlin retreat, and so he's talking about how certain words are
more dirtier than others, and like, you know, snatch, pussy, box, those are all clean words.
I mean, you can go into a Looney Tunes cartoon in here, we're going to snatch that pussy and
put him in a box!
Yeah, it's all about context, I guess.
I don't even think the Looney Tunes could get away with that these days.
Well, yeah, not today with the PC police.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, how about we go back on topic, even though it's my fault for taking us way off.
Why don't we, what's the email look like this week?
Are we ready for email?
Or do we have, gosh, how long has it been since I've done this show?
You think I'd get to remember how to do this by now?
Oh, we did it for a while.
When I took it over, I think it was the last time you took, you read the show together.
No, voting.
Voting was the one, voting.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I forgot about the e-voting one.
So this is the miscellaneous bullshit section of the show?
Yeah, well, do you want to go what's on the server here?
It's just like every other podcast on the interweb.
Yeah, miscellaneous bullshit.
Or we can have the entire show where we answer email, and we just read the email out,
and then we type the response back, and we don't tell them what we said.
Well, we can narrate this episode of The Simpsons that I'm watching.
Or we can narrate somebody's webcam.
Oh, that would be a pwned episode there.
Actually, you'll appreciate this.
My sister gave me an early Christmas present.
She found it in Target.
It was in the $1 DVD bin.
It's Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.
Oh, they did a mystery science theater.
Yes, and that's why she got it.
Ah, yeah.
Well, most of the mystery science theaters now, the cool thing about them is that you can watch the regular version of the movie on the disc,
or the mystified version on the disc.
So you actually get the original.
Oh, really?
Because I never actually bought...
Yeah, but not for a dollar.
Yeah, I never actually bought an MST 3K DVD.
Oh, I have them all.
I have all eight box sets of it.
There's four in each set.
You suck.
Yeah.
Oh, I love my mystery science theater 3K.
I remember, like, the first episode we did together, you lost one of your hard drives, and it had all your MST episodes on it.
Yeah, that sucked.
Thanks for reminding me of that and bringing me down.
Yeah, well, that's for boogers, huh?
Yeah.
All right, fine.
We're even.
Well, let's stop taking it out on the listeners.
So the server is somewhat fixed?
The server is, well, I hope we don't jinx ourselves here, but...
Hopefully.
Yes, Tabiz and I were up working on it until, like, 1.30 this morning.
See, here's the thing about it.
I've been on the road, like, two of the last three weeks, and it's kind of hard to do a lot of this stuff from a hotel room with questionable access,
and I don't have all my equipment and all my passwords and stuff handy when I'm out on the road, unfortunately,
and I don't have all the software that makes things a lot easier.
I can do it and get the job done, but it goes a lot slower.
So, luckily, Savant has been very helpful.
I've been on the phone with him just about every night between the two of us trying a lot of different things.
On the phone every night.
I love you.
I love you, too.
I miss you more.
Okay.
Nick and I kind of working on the database side of things, trying to figure out, you know, what was going on with that
and trying to optimize MySQL, which, as Not Theory and I have both stated many times in the past,
is a steaming pile of ostrich shit.
Yeah, me, me, me.
Mm, me, me, me.
Wah, wah.
So, bottom line is MySQL is to suck.
Cpanel is to suck.
That'll agree with.
No problem there.
Yeah.
Well, the thing is, Cpanel's great when it's a small site and you don't have a lot of demands.
It's not really all that efficient.
Well, you don't care about security.
Well, we haven't had too many security problems other than a couple site defacements on some Mambo stuff,
and that's people didn't update them and take care of them.
So that's going to happen.
That always does.
But for the most part, it hasn't been too awful bad.
Good.
So, yeah, hopefully we're taken care of for now, for the short term.
Now, that just means we've isolated and fixed the individual problem.
There's still other casualties of war that have been affected, like we're having some email problems.
I've been seeing a lot of emails, for some reason specifically, that Gmail have been bouncing a lot.
Maybe that's because the server was down a lot they were bouncing.
Maybe there's some kind of mail routing problem that we created with the other changes we've made.
It's just an absolute clusterfuck is what it's been.
And, again, I'm not a system admin.
I mean, everything that I know system administration-wise and Unix-wise has been from trial and error,
from running this server.
You know, it's pretty much all self-taught.
So I am certainly not a sysadmin, which is where Savant's been very helpful,
and Tabiz has been very helpful because those guys are much better at that kind of stuff than I am.
So between all of us working together, it was pretty much a team effort,
and this was not something like even a good sysadmin with a lot of experience
probably wouldn't have been able to isolate this down so easily.
So it's, you know, I don't feel like we missed anything obvious.
We just had to go through that debugging process of figuring out exactly what it was.
And, again, it's not – it was basically just MySQL optimization.
I wish it was a better story than that, but it's not.
There were no attacks.
It was not DDoS.
Well, I guess it was a DDoS from MySQL, if you want to think of it that way.
It was a DDoS from users trying to visit the site.
Yeah, exactly.
And we've grown to the point now where we're just getting so many hits
that in the past, this server, which is a pretty powerful server with plenty of memory,
it should be able to handle this load.
In the past, it was running with poor optimization and got away with it
because it was so powerful that it could handle all that wasted overhead.
But as we've grown now, we're getting so many more users.
I mean, it's been sluggish for six-plus months, in my opinion,
and been running, you know, slower and slower and slower,
and it just finally came to a head where it's, you know,
started choking on the amount of load because it wasn't unoptimized.
So now we've gotten to the point where we really have to be careful
with the server optimization without sacrificing security and usability if we can help it.
So we're just, it's just a growth, you know, it's just a growth.
DMR popularity.
Yeah, I guess.
I mean, as much as we suck and everybody hates me, they still come to the site.
Maybe because I'm not on the site so much anymore.
That's why it's becoming popular.
I've been holding it back all this time.
The moment I put SEAL in charge and got this moderating team of cool people together,
people like the forums, you know.
As long as I get the hell out of the way, everything's great.
Well, because you're a noob, as you already stated.
I'm going to try to bananate myself only over to the stankdog.com.
Maybe that'll keep me out of trouble.
Bananation.
Yeah, because people piss me off when they go on our forums and start demanding,
like we owe them an explanation for downtime and demanding an exclamation point.
Not pointing any certain person out there, are we?
No, of course not.
Nope, nope, just speaking generally.
General, general, general speaking there.
I wouldn't single anybody out.
It's not my style.
All right.
Anyway.
Well, that actually was a pretty good housekeeping segment, I've got to say.
Well, I mean, really, it's that really honestly joking aside.
I mean, I'm kind of in a weird mood tonight, so it's kind of a little bit sillier than usual.
But, yeah, every waking moment I've been spending doing it.
Well, I mean, working, obviously.
I'm on the road, traveling, working, doing stuff, and, you know, doing the Juarez thing,
which we might be having a report from the state of the Juarez Union coming up soon.
I spend every minute that I'm not working, I go back to my hotels and dial in until 2 and 3 in the morning
and get a couple hours of sleep, and then I have to go back to work at 7,
which is even triply compounded when I'm crossing two or three time zones back and forth.
That must be pretty weird to commute across time zones.
Yeah, my sleep pattern is really kind of foobar right now.
But, yeah, hopefully we're back up and running, and that's the end of that.
All right.
Well, thank you very much for the state of the server address, Mr. President.
There you go.
State of the Juarez address.
That'll be the next one.
All right.
Should we go into email?
Possibly.
Sounds like a plan.
We'll see you next time.
You had the opening theme the same.
You had the format the same.
You had the email theme the same.
Oh, no, I did not.
Dude, you totally did.
I said two things, opening theme song the same and our good old Same Hack Time, Same Hack Channel.
Everything else I gave you free range.
You didn't want to format the change, and I thought you said the email, too.
No, I don't care about the email.
I mean, I like the email theme song.
I like the email theme song, too.
Da-da-da, da-da, da-da, da-da.
Bin, Bin, Bin, Rev.com.
There we go.
There's our email theme now.
All right.
Now we're officially emailed the a cappella version.
i will not be appearing on american idol anytime no i think we should although although my good
friend decoder who unfortunately can't be recorded these days and i were uh have been talking for
years about going on there and just doing something whacked out just to be like one of the weird crazy
funny people we were going to go on there and claim that we were like twins or something like
that and go audition and sing some really weird song or just go in and like scream heavy metal or
something like that just to be silly because that's who you are silly like that i guess silly i'm silly
like that thank you frank rizzo silly like that not to be confused with silly codes oh that's what
decoder is if you want to sing something silly he's going to sing like oh lynn mass c hall ds1
we were going to go in and be uh be a jug band there we go but that didn't work out yeah we're putting
together a jug band that might actually happen we just won't do it on american idol because there
just aren't enough jug bands in the world oh yeah i mean or or or washboard bands it'd be a jug band
with all hacker themed there we go you're about nerd core this is a jug core or nerd nerd jug that's
that sounds like it could go a different direction though jug core really
anyway what's our first email tonight's from el jefe and it's hello black ratchet stank dog and all
other hosts and wow i gotta i gotta actually say this is the first time that someone's actually
addressed something to you and actually you've been here so he must have known even though i didn't
el jefe um during episode 177 the closing music was the same as the opening music you know the
journal song what happened to the music that faceman promised to apply also the gdp hack radio
server was offline is that part of the general walkiness of the bin red server you mentioned
during episode 177 el jefe yes yeah um yeah i screwed up 177 and i never actually checked it because i was
in a rush and we'll we'll fix that so faceman was very kind to what happened you just have to go
back and put the closing yeah that's all i have closing music on and upload it again or basically
essentially give it to you or nick or somebody and they can upload it for me because i don't have
the lead access there you go well and actually you tried to upload the show and it had errors because
of all the other server stuff am i am i going to upload just like getting back to the server thing am i
going to be uploading this show be able to i hope so hopefully it'll hopefully everything's back to
working but i guess we'll find out i'll have to lock right back in after we record this god forbid you
have to actually manually i know i can't manually upload the thing that's the problem oh please you
can you can ftp it up there you know i can ftp the site that's as far as i got but if you want to
like schedule it you're full yeah but all you can then you call me and tell me to move the freaking
file over i'll be sure to do that you weren't but as we previously stated you weren't
around last week well that's true so i'm sending out forum posts saying help
you know actually you know something else funny is um the last episode that not theory and i did
which i don't remember how long ago was we had snuck some funny outtakes on at the very end of that
one too some stuff we recorded before the show kind of i think there's a few of those on tonight's
show i don't know if you'll ever see the light of day hope not but um we had some some outtakes
with him and me singing and saying some funny stuff and i slipped them on after the closing
music see people people shut off during the closing music i know that they don't listen to the closing
music all the way out which is a shame because we end with some really cool closing music and
support a lot of independent artists oh i oh i can't announce that yet oh there's another project
that might be coming up um about our independent artists and music so um on ddp hack radio so i'll
announce that when we get closer but um we end up we close out and we always have for four plus years
wait how many how long i don't know you started i picked it up in 2005 so
crap i don't remember however long we've been doing it from day one we've always used independent
closing music and um you know we've stuck with that and hopefully and people will hear some stuff
that they've never heard before some stuff they'll like and enjoy and go and support so uh
we've kind of always done that and it's a shame that probably not as many people listen to it as
as they would most people just listen for the show and the content which is fine which is great and
listen but i slip a few things at the end of the closing music on occasion i've done it and i did that
that that not theory episode and i did did you ever get any email of anybody saying that they
heard it yeah i did it we did it too right about the time that people were remixing some of my other
i'm a fucking moron remixes and uh and stuff like that so it's perfect fodder for somebody to make
another song like that i think people are gonna be like downloading like the entire archive of all
the not theory episodes trying to find these shows it was the last one we did i mean but yeah it'll be
funny to see if there's a spike people are gonna remix that into a song now so that's actually
another thing that we forgot to mention since someone messed up my mojo is that this is our
christmas special oh yeah man oh i should have done the whole see if you would have told me that in
the beginning i would have done the whole thing in a santa claus voice or my pathetic attempt at a
santa claus thanks for asking people asking kids to sit up on his lap and that's just been disturbing
yeah but that i don't i don't only do that in december i mean don't make me sound like a freak or
anything i do that in july just doesn't let you turn them on the beard
has there ever been a santa claus point i'm sure there has been
i don't know i've never seen you think i would have heard of it if there was if it's porn i think
i've pretty much heard of it all actually not even a small fraction of it thank dog is the
encyclopedia of porn see now see here we go see i'm this is this is why i shouldn't be allowed to
make porn because i come up with these weird ideas see like i would make like the fucking godfather of
porn like instead of all this you know pizza delivery guy and the plumber and blah blah blah
and even these fed like i would make a porn with a little bit of a budget and i'd have like the
fucking x-men and they'd be walking around like fucking in the air while they're flying and using
their superpowers and shit like that and i'd have the fucking hulk with a giant green cock and
it would be just just the most i would win oscars that's all i'm saying i would win awards well they
have they have they have they have the porn award which is the woody yeah but i i'd win those too but
no i i want to i'm gonna take porn mainstream i'm gonna make like the matrix of porn that would be
pretty that would be pretty um you could do a lot of cool special effects with that idea couldn't you
this show is going down on a ball of flame let's move on to the next email
this is like an episode of a default instead of ben ref dang you're a fucking noob
i know there's another remix for us our next email actually is from joel and he initially emailed me
but he was very kind and i asked him that i could uh read it on the show so he gave me the thumbs up
and so here it is um oh yeah oh god i'm so embarrassed jesus um you have you have a ham radio
license and you screw up s o s s is dit dit dit o is da da da so s is short o is long so in code s o s
would be dit dit dit da da da da dit dit dit o and the guy that you were chatting up on the repeater is a
moron too i don't care where you are break is an emergency word anyone breaking in with a break
should be an emergency situation this is what i learned when i went through my studies to get my
license with that said depending on the area you do have different procedures by area ham culture
be hospitable when you go on the air and if someone screws up you just kind of let it go it's not worth
it joel yeah i gotta admit um me and koopa my fault um like i was kind of put on the spot with that
question and i always seen the mess up stuff when i'm prompted like that so and when he pointed
out i was like no no i i didn't say that and i'm like oh crap yes i did damn it yeah i can't stand
actually listening to myself doesn't it suck to hear yourself make a mistake oh it even sucks to
listen to my voice i can't stand my voice as a recording well that's good no one else can either
but if you didn't make that comment i would have too but oh okay
oh well look i don't even know those freaking symbols and your stupid tiny url alpha bravo
foxtrot buttfuck whatever the hell those names are but i know that dot dot dot dash dash dash dot dot
well you're still a noob though because you don't know the phonetics
yeah well you are a november oscar oscar bravo
if we would have both been out in a ship i would have gotten saved and you would have been
there people be going what does he want lso oso
dude if you see someone going oh s o i mean you gotta
you gotta say okay the guy's a noob but he obviously has some type of issue
well if you go if you do it constant aren't you going s o s o s o s o s o s o s anyway
true good point do you stop after the yes i don't know i don't know i'd remember that situation
you're supposed to pause after that well you're supposed to pause after any word right
so theoretically yes but of course if you're only in an emergency situation i'd just be pounding the
hell out of the damn thing um
how do you spell help motherfucker that's what i'd be spelling out fuck the s o s
i i think he's in problem sir he just sent out help motherfucker oh okay we'll send them a lifeboat
if he just said s o s we would have rushed out there but
calling us found i say sir
you see that you see the helicopter flying over and all of a sudden it hovers down and you see the guy flip you off and they fly off
well see it's probably one of it's probably like those calls to 9-1-1 where people call for the stupid things like
the woman going through the drive-thru because they didn't get her hamburger order right so she called 9-1-1
you know it's probably the same thing with s o s they probably get all these s o s calls for stupid little things and
and and but when they get the one message coming through that says help me motherfucker
they're going to take that one seriously
could be that's a very interesting perhaps we'll have to test it out someday we'll abandon you in the middle of the ocean
well let's let's hope that doesn't happen
might be a little too close to home there huh
all right so what else we got
um our next email is from my name is earl
and that's
greatest one of the greatest handles ever by the only because
great show
clever name
and his avatar in the forums makes me laugh
i don't remember the one in the forums
so
oh really
see i don't watch the show and i don't remember the forums
i don't watch tv for the most part
doctor who battle star galactica
oh here
i'm not talking to you anymore
i watch good stuff like flavor play
the girl dookie on the floor how could you not watch that
that's good tv
dude dude today
i'm walking up the street in boston
and there's a turd on the sidewalk
and actually it was
it wasn't it wasn't it wasn't as much a turd
as it was a just a pile of poo
and it was bounced off the side of a building
like and
it bounced off the side of the building
someone did it not something
what do you mean it bounced off
there was like a mark where it hit the building
yes like someone squatted down against a building
and decided to let it fly
oh well i think i have successfully
oh man
derailed this episode more
than any episode ever in the past
and i am giving myself
of course because we actually have no real kind of topic this week
so
actually we do
i have kind of a little bit of a topic
see i've been wanting to make some blog posts lately too
while i was on the
on the road traveling
but the time that i would have spent doing that
i spent working on this freaking server
so
i figured i'd gather all these up
and put them
yeah baby
anyway so
my name is earl writes
i liked your
dear black ratchet and booter
i liked your discussion of culture jamming
and min rev radio number 175
great topic
one very important culture jammer
you neglected to mention is joey skaggs
he was a pioneer in the art of culture jamming
quite possibly the first culture jammer
joey skaggs started out in the late 1960s
doing the type of public street theater performances
that were popular in big cities back in the hippie days
early on
he and his crew discovered the tactic of playing tricks on the general public around them
skaggs has a particular talent for using hot button topics to get attention of the hype hungry mass media
which bring his performances and message to nationwide audiences
his pranks usually exploit racial social or religious prejudices
or and target ctv call-in shows
he paved the way for howard stern's low-bile pranks in this area
in the new media of sessions with quaint human interest stories
consumer press releases and celebrity worship
boy there's a run-on sentence
all right strong
well i'm like trying to pause and i just couldn't do it
um he's been on the tv news over 30 times promoting bogus stories and media stunts
has worked as a definition of culture jamming
and that it holds a mirror up to society exposing the hypocrisy and foolishness
some of his best pranks were
the cat house for dogs
the sperm bank that auctions off celebrity splooge
the psychic attorney
the shoeshine boy who made millions in tips from wall street traders
and my personal favorite
the korean soup company that solicited animal shelters for dog meat
if you're interested in culture jamming
and want to read some really hilarious shit
check out his home page at www.joeyskaggs.com
joey
j-o-e-y-s-k-a-g-g-s
dot com
by the way the phone losers of america have also done some funny stunts
that might be considered culture jamming
go to phonelosers.org slash pranks
and check out the mcdonald's and taco bell signage pranks
and the fast food drive-through shenanigans
and the cat shit purse prank
again keep up the good work guys
talk to you soon in pound bin rev
my name is earl
and that's pound bin rev at irc.binrev.net
pimp pimp be there
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i'm not sure that i see how
i don't remember the cat shirt in the first to be honest with you
i don't know if that's really culture jamming
but some of the stuff they do is
is certainly like i would say
the mcdonald's drive-through stuff
the mcdonald's one where they
change the sign
oh totally
totally
yeah
well even where they're taking over the rf
and messing with people's orders
because you're using their existing medium
against them in a different way
so i would i would classify that as
but it's still more heavy on the prank side
it was that was fun that was good stuff
that was um i believe
well i don't want to incriminate anybody
but i think that was pretty much
rigel five's deal going on there
i don't think that's throwing anybody
i think that's
i think he's on the video isn't he
oh i forget
well if he's not we'll check it out
and edit that out later
if that's not the case
anyway i can't find the cat shit prank
oh well
yeah
well there was
let's see there was the
i don't know
yeah any
it's one of those
it's another one of those things
that can be very vague
and cover a lot of different things
um
i don't know if i'd go so far as to say
that it paved the way for
howard stern or something like that either
i mean
you know
other people can have ideas
independently of each other
but um
definitely sounds like it's
very similar
well it sounds like he's like
one of the first people to um
i don't know
i guess you could say prank call
live events
like the whole oj simpson thing
when uh the guy called up cnn
and said
oh hey i'm oj's neighbor
get me on the air
and he put on this like
like the old blackface accents
oh now looky
and he was being interviewed on the air
oh uh oj's uh
crouching down real low right now
i think i see the gun
yeah and see they usually
usually there's
kind of a fine line too
of whether it's a prank
versus whether it's actual
culture jamming
is kind of the intent
i mean it can be funny
and everything
but
um
it proves
it makes a point
you know
that they're
the media
doesn't check the sources
and let stuff like that go on
i mean there is kind of
a little message there
that shows
you know
the
mass media
and the hypocrisy
and the fact that they don't
check the sources
and don't care
that they're sensationalizing
the news
and you know
there's actually a message
in it
culture jamming generally
it's not necessarily driven
to be funny
or to be a prank
that's usually the side effect
the actual message
is the reason
for the culture jamming
to try to deliver a message
whether it's a message
of protest
a message of
enlightening people
about some information
about it
like the truth advertising
for the cigarettes
for example
that sort of thing
some of the shit
they pull
like this is stupid
yeah
I can't stand them
oh
well
you don't necessarily
that's the other thing
is that you don't necessarily
have to agree with
a lot of this
oh you know
smoking has all
those horrible stuff
in it
oh man
yeah I think
the funny thing is
I think we should all
know that by now
if I drink a banana
and then a glass of milk
I'll have the same
ingredients as potassium
cyanide
your point
I um
well
anyway
I don't want to get
into that topic
and delve into
but if you know
it's got stuff in it
why do people do it
but anyway
I just
they really try
I mean
the anti-smoking lobby
in my personal opinion
and I'm going to say
on a little tangent
political tangent here
I guess
is overblown
oh no
out of all
out of all the tragedies
or issues
in America
and the bodies
per day
well
I honestly
don't know enough
about it
to speak
and tell
300 people die
per day
from smoking
cigarettes
well
you know
a million people
die on the highways
per day
at your point
or whatever the number
whatever it is
it's like
someone's
obscene number
though
once you actually
put it in perspective
listen
we have the interweb
at our disposal
oh
we're out there
there's got to be
a thing that measures
how like
the biggest killers
I mean
they're like
heart disease
and
stuff like that
the highest
yeah I think it is
like
yeah
stuff like that
you know
actual
actual diseases
and stuff like that
more than any of that
kind of thing
of course
that could be brought on
by you know
smoking and destroying
your lungs
and other things
but anyway
I digress
oh
so I guess
we're done with
general hacking
and
that's not with
emails
so
yeah
we had like
three emails
this week
we had like
at least
50 spams
it was
it's just disgusting
this is starting to
become an issue here
yeah but we
we were able to
fill the time
with intelligent
talk about
poo and car deaths
and smoking
yeah
potassium cyanide
exactly
well actually
kind of following up
on that email
about you know
the episode you did
with Booter
I was listening to
that one at work
and
I thought it was
actually a pretty
cool episode
I wanted to follow up
on a couple
specific things though
and that was
the Jenny scan
that Booter mentioned
and I
because I still think
that scanning is
you know
and actually it's funny
I mentioned
Decoder again
in this episode
we were just
talking last week
and
about the fact
that nobody
freaking scans anymore
I posted that
in that thread
and I was talking
to Decoder
and I'm like
nobody scans
you're the only one
that ever
scanned anything
or at least
you scanned
and other people
I guess
got motivated
Decoder was a
fucking machine
nobody seems
to be scanning
yeah
so he enjoys
what you enjoy
if you enjoy
doing it
and
I don't know
people
I guess
there aren't
any true
phone freaks
left out there
that like scanning
everybody's
doing the
asterisk stuff
now
and nobody
likes the
old school
stuff anymore
so
I don't know
so I think
it's a cool
thing that
just Jenny
scan
yeah sure
it was done
before
you know
whatever
that's not
the point
I mean
these numbers
have changed
and what not
I think
it'd be cool
if Jenny
scan became
like an
annual event
an annual
tradition
at the end
of every year
we do another
Jenny scan
and track
the changes
and modifications
to them
which is
actually a
really good
example of
data warehousing
truthfully
I don't know
if that's
that's not
exactly our
topic or
anything tonight
but if I
may take
it
how's our
time
do we have
time for me
to go off
on a tangent
about that
because
data warehousing
is like
a lot of
people have
this misconception
that data
warehousing
just means
a really big
database
well no
it's not
that simple
it's not
not all there
is to it
it doesn't
just mean
warehousing a
whole lot
of data
it's about
having a whole
lot of data
and mining
it for
different
trends
and patterns
so I
think this
is a good
example
I didn't
mean to
go into
this topic
tonight
but I
can use
this as
a good
example
because
Jenny
scan
for example
let's say
we did
turn this
into an
annual
event
we could
scan this
every year
and let's
say we did
it for
five years
in a row
every year
and track
them
well
some of
them are
going to
be the
same
every year
some
person's
got that
number
on lockdown
like the
one you
talked about
that had
the theme
song
they used
that for
their theme
song
I wonder
if they're
paying Tommy
Two-Tone
for that
by the
way
for the
rights
or the
royalties
or whatever
every time
they pay
that
probably
at least
about
five cents
per play
something
probably
if not
hope we
didn't just
get him
in trouble
Tommy's
listening to
this
Tommy
Two-Tone
is listening
going
yeah
where's
my royalties
bitch
I'm
Tommy
Two-Tone
bitch
oh no
I'm sorry
that was
I don't
know
but the
record company
they're the
ones that
care
Tommy Two-Tone
probably
didn't give
two fucks
about what
you do
with it
but anyway
so if we
did that
five years
in a row
a lot
of those
numbers
aren't going
to change
they're going
to be the
same company
same people
have had it
for years
but some
of them
are going
to change
and really
that's what
data warehousing
and data
mining is all
about
is to find
those things
that have
changed
and look
for trends
does that
number
change hands
every single
year
every time
that could
be a trend
and you'd
have to do
some analysis
on it
but it could
mean a lot
of different
things
it could
mean that
it was a
residential number
that gets
reassigned
every year
it could be
that it was
ported from
one place
to another
it could be
a lot of
different things
depending on
who answers
and what it's
going to
if it's a
business number
you could see
maybe it got
sold after a
couple years
or something
like that
there could be
a lot of
reasons behind
it but
by gathering
that information
over a period
of time
and then
looking for
trends
that's truly
what data
warehousing
is
just to go
off on a
weird tangent
because I've
been putting
together a
little presentation
on that
topic
but yeah
I'd love to
see Jenny
scan become
an annual
tradition
just for the
fun of it
just to get
scanning
going again
and not only
a Jenny
scan but
any kind
of scan
going
what was
that 800
number scan
that never
actually got
done
the 395
scan or
something
well
a lot
of people
got into
it got
it started
but yeah
never
completed
but that's
a lot
of
that's
a lot
I mean
how many
people do we have
on the forums
if we have
enough people
on the forums
and
yeah
well
some of
them
some of
them
did it
maybe we
should
reopen that
dig up
that old
thread
that's
the other
thing
too
is once
the thread
slips off
that first
page
you know
out of sight
out of mind
thing happens
so maybe
we should
find that
and dig
it up
and move
it over
into the
project
but you
know
hey
everybody
wanted
this
project
and
everybody
thought
it was
a good
idea
to make
this
project
section
and
nobody's
really
participating
well
you have
a couple
of people
when people
start asking
about
oh
I have
this
project
idea
and I
I'm like
well use
the project
for them
see what
the hell's
going on
and no one
ever seemed
to do it
as long as
it's a community
project
there were a
couple
that I had
to unfortunately
move to
general hacking
or whatever
because they
weren't
community
projects
so it was
like help
me do
this
homework
assignment
not the
project
the community
helped me
do my
homework
it's wonderful
it's a group
thing
yeah it's not
exactly what
I'm envisioning
with that
thing
but I don't
know
we'll see
we'll see how
it comes out
I mean I've
got a bunch
of project
ideas that I've
been meaning
to post out
there too
some of them
are as simple
as article
things
just somebody
first person
that grabs
it and
volunteers to
do it
you know
do it
go get it
published
put it
to 2600
send it
around
you know
lots of stuff
like that
I want to
put in
there too
but again
the server
will quit
being a little
pussy on me
all the time
and do its
job
then maybe
I could get
to doing
other things
yeah I'm
kind of bummed
out about that
I've got to
be honest
if it hasn't
come across
pretty fucking
evidently
clear
I'm just
so frustrated
that I'm
spending all
my time
doing sysadmin
for the last
six plus
months
and not
getting enough
time
to
hack
sysadmin is
hacking
sysadmin isn't
hacking
meow
here's another
cool thing
I'd like to
see
here's a
cool
maybe a
project
is
you guys
talked about
on that
show
about
some
in regards
to culture
jam you were
talking about
and we'll
take it
outside of that
was like
phone numbers
from different
movies TV
and stuff like
that
and about
the guy
who gave
out his
phone number
in the rap
song
and the one
you were
saying
they changed
it
yeah
see I
look for
that kind
of stuff
too
and on my
telephonic
craptaculars
in the past
I've called
some of those
numbers
because some
of them are
real
some of them
have recordings
like Lost
had some real
numbers in it
which turned
out to be
all extra
story
extra plot
to the story
and stuff
which was
kind of cool
but sometimes
it's actual
real numbers
that people
have
and didn't
realize
if it's 555
you know it's
usually not a real
number
it's reserved for
that kind of
stuff
but a lot
of people
don't know
that and
don't follow
that
so I
think it'd
be cool
project to
gather up
a bunch
of those
and I
don't know
call them
every once
in a while
make a
telephonic
craptacular
make an
episode of
Freak Factor
hi is
Jenny there
hey hey
are we on
the speaker
phone
is this
Walmart
hello
thank you
that was my
impression of
every episode
of Freak Factor
ever made
oh dude
I think they
hung up
no I think
we're on it
come on
there's a
sale on
everything
free
owned
oh
alright
anyway
that's all
I had to
say about
that
but
you want
to say
there's a
real topic
you're the
real topic
master
of this
tonight
well I
don't know
about all
I don't know
how real
of a topic
this is
but because
of my
travel
it was
on my
mind
and I
thought
I'd do
some
travel
topics
I don't
know
travel
let's call
it
let's call
this episode
travel gadgets
I guess
because I
wanted to
talk about
some of
my cool
new toys
I've been
using lately
on all
my
travels
abroad
well not
so much
abroad
what's the
word
when I was
traveling
within the
United States
I didn't
actually go
abroad
I don't
even know
what abroad
means
to be honest
with you
well that's
what I
kind of
always use
it as
I'm going
out of the
country
I'm traveling
abroad
right
across the
pond
well anyway
with all my
travel within
the United States
and Mexico
I've been
doing a lot
of that
lately
so I've
got a few
gadgets
and again
I've been
meaning to
write them
up as
kind of
some blog
entries
type up
some
links
going to
Mexico
those gadgets
are actually
steroids
but
they're all
Juarez
Juarez gadgets
hey you can
probably get
steroids cheaper
when I went
down to Mexico
and like we
went to
little tourist
traps
and like you
see the
back room
and it's
lined with
like
Viagra
steroids
I'm like
oh my
well that's
just it
it's not
Viagra
it's like
Myagra
it's like
the broke
ass
Genero
copycat
Viagra
the Myagra
and the
like the
fucking
Zantax
instead of
Xan
I don't know
I mean it was
all like behind
the counter
so because
apparently they
don't want you
walking off
with it
but it
looked like
at least
it looked
like Pritzker
yeah
there's no
FDA or anything
involved
so you don't
know what
you're getting
I guess
if I needed
like some
really expensive
medicine
like it's
worth a shot
to try it
I guess
but yeah
I'm going to
wait till I
get back
across the
border
before I
buy some
Benadryl
or anything
I don't want
to come back
with Mexican
Benadryl
and have
like an
extra arm
going out
of my back
or anything
allergies are
acting up
and she's
like oh
man
I wish I
had my
prescription
I was
like well
we can
go across
the street
yeah
well
alright
so here's
one of my
I guess
it's going to
be a general
travel team
you know
if you're
a hacker
traveling
you know
there's so
many opportunities
there's so
many things
to do
and I think
Duel and I
did an episode
on this a long
time back
about a lot
of fun stuff
you can do
in hotels
and I think
we actually
focused not
so much
on the
technology
as just
the opportunities
that were
around
like the
free food
and stuff
like that
out of
Survive
and the
urban jungle
kind of
deal
so
this one
I'm going
to focus
back more
on the
technology
side of
things
if you
will
and the
kind of
cool toys
you can
take with
you to
play around
with
and some
of the
things
you can
do
along
the way
first of
all
obviously
it goes
without saying
but a
laptop
you know
you're not
going to be
walking around
with your
giant desktop
or anything
like that
but if you've
got a nice
little laptop
and all the
accessories
you would
want with
that
and of
course
the software
installed on
it
and I
think we've
covered topics
like that
ad nauseum
and I don't
think I need
to tell people
about NetStumblr
and Kismet
and all the
different
hacking tools
out there
I think that's
pretty much
a Wi-Fi
for fun
if you have
a pocket
PC
pocket
PC
well
and not
even
whether it's
a pocket
PC
or
just
my
like for
example
me
my PDA
phone
my Trio
700
you know
so anything
that can run
software on
such a small
scale like
that
like for
example
you know
mini
stumble
I guess
or
there's
other
things
out there
even
stuff
that comes
with the
vendor
of the
card
that you
use
because
like here's
one thing
I've never
figured out
is they
sell these
devices
to detect
Wi-Fi
networks
like little
key chains
and shit
with like
six lights
on it
and when
you get
near one
the lights
you can
light up
for a
microwave
what the
flying fuck
good is
that
oh look
here's another
wireless network
yay
what the
fuck
that's the
biggest waste
of money
I've ever
heard of
in my life
why would
you buy
that
it's
honestly
it picks
up wireless
networks
if you're
anything next
essentially
what it is
is it's
a very
general receiver
for 2.4
gigahertz
okay that's
great
it picks
up Wi-Fi
but it
also picks
up microwaves
portable
phones
it lights
up
and when
it does
it shows
me by
lighting
big whooping
deal
I agree
with you
they're
useless
I mean
besides
the
besides
the
coolness
factor
of it
I guess
it's not
even cool
it's not
I'd rather
have a phone
or a PDA
phone
or just
a PDA
or mobile
PC
whatever you
want to
call it
or laptop
even
that
not only
can I
detect it
but I
can connect
to it
I can
scan it
I can
actually
do stuff
with it
you know
and how
much
is your
well
mine is
a whole
different
story
but you
can buy
lower end
ones
so you
can get
them free
with your
contract
and stuff
even
those
prepaid
phones
some of
those
some of
these
new
you have
a
SDA
MDA
my
MDA
costs
$250
I'm like
well an
MDA
costs
$250
a laptop
say
you know
cheap laptop
costs about
$500
maybe less
and what
do these
cost
$25
that's what
they're designed
for
they're designed
to be really
cheap
well
but what
do you
but what
do you
do
with it
make
the
lights
play
because
pretty
lights
are
cool
that's
just
dude
don't be
a noob
and not
the
pretty
light
I don't
get it
I think
I don't
know
I'd be
interested
to see
what the
lowest end
PDA
phone
would cost
these
days
I mean
if you're
already
in the
market
for a
phone
anyway
you know
it's
like
anybody
that would
buy
that
device
to sniff
wifi
is
probably
techy
enough
that they
already
have
a
PDA
phone
of some
kind
or a
PDA
I would
think
yeah I
think so
who knows
I don't
know
I don't
know
but anyway
another
side tracking
of the
topic
there
but
yeah
having a
PDA
phone
to me
is the
best
I've
been wanting
a PDA
for a while
and I
didn't want
to carry
around a
second
device
with me
you know
I don't
want to
carry a
cell phone
which I
have to
carry all
the time
with work
or
and
then carry
a PDA
around with
me all
the time
and now
I've got
two devices
to lose
and to
charge
and to
carry
add that
extra weight
to carry
around with
me all
the freaking
time
so you know
that's why
I've been
in the
market
for a
long
time
watching
for a
good
PDA
phone
but yeah
I had
to have
some
type
of
internet
access
and
I was
watching
the
MDA
4
or
MDA
5
depending
on
what
country
and what
they
call it
which still
hasn't been
released
over here
because it
had built
in
wifi
and stuff
well
as I
was
sitting
there
waiting
for that
to come
out
in the
United
States
finally
EVDO
and
edge
networks
and those
next
generation
high speed
cell phone
networks
took off
so
finally
broke down
and got
the Trio
700W
and
you know
it has
its quirks
it has
its bugs
but
for the
most part
it's handy
The 750
I think
that's what
it's called
750
the one
that just
came out
that looks
pretty sweet
well they
just came
out with
a
700WX
which is
the 700W
with the
other carriers
like Singular
has a 700WX
and I think
I don't
remember
some of
the other
companies
have it
the 750
I think
is another
which is
the Palm
OS based
one
750W
let me
consult
the
interwebs
here
I don't
know
I haven't
seen that
one
I thought
yeah
750W
actually I
don't think
it's been
released
Singular
it looks
like
what
carrier
I don't
know if
it's
UMTS
or
well I've
still got
another year
in this
stupid
thing
UMTS
baby
blow that
EVDO
out of
the water
well it's
fast enough
though it gets
the job done
for me
pushes my
email to
me which
is really
handy
it's been
really great
communicating
with this
with the
server
situation
and again
this is
again
the kind
of thing
for the
hacker
on the
go
to be
in touch
and still
have
and you
know
this one
really
noob
guy came
up with
one good
idea
for a
change
and that
was the
pocket
IRC
client
so that's
kind of
handy
if I do
need
and I
have
actually
needed that
where I'm
out there
and I
connect to
the EVDO
network
and hop
on
binrev.net
and jump in
and say
oh my god
how do I do the
hacks
and pound
goat
see
I like
to hang
out there
and
there's a lot
of people
in IRC
these days
too
I mean
they're averaging
60 plus
people
man
averaging
it's always
50 to 60
people
if you want
to come over
and need an IRC
channel
head on over
to our server
because our
server is
elite
yeah it's
been pretty
dependable and
reliable
it's not on
the same box
as the forums
so actually
with all the
forum stuff
going on
that was
our
backup way
of getting
a message
out
we changed
topics
saying
okay service
down
sorry
mostly phone
for me
getting on
the phone
with Savant
for hours
working on
stuff
and to
biz
Nick 84
of course
is a little
bit trickier
for me
to get
him on
the phone
so yeah
getting him
through messaging
and email
and stuff
like that
and front
a lot
and all
these different
people
I've been
trying to
work with
so yeah
it's been
pretty handy
so I guess
then actually
I guess we
didn't officially
mention that
but obviously
with the
laptop I think
the cell phone
goes hand in
hand you know
super valuable
useful tool
and I don't
think we should
go in too
much on that
but I think
we can briefly
mention we've
done it on
other shows
but briefly
mention the
whole concept
of prepaid
cell phones
and paying
with cash
so that if
your communications
are something
that you want
to keep somewhat
private or secret
or whatever
you can you know
go buy those
things with cash
if you can
or get used
ones
reactivate them
under someone
else's name
kind of comes
out the same
way but
yeah that's
always a nice
nice way of
having some
semi-private
like go on
completely off
topic here
but I guess
you could say
that
if you want
to travel
you know
sometimes you
go into
cities with
subways
and one of
the subways
in Boston
the MBTA
has recently
moved to a
we used to
have a token
system where
you'd buy a
token you put
in the turn
style and
you'd be able
to get
onto the
tee
and now
they've moved
over to a
sort of a
digital card
system which
was okay
you know
it had a
little like
kind of
magnetic debit
card and
that was fine
it was sort
of like the
metro card
system
and now
they like
two weeks
ago they
introduced
this new
system that
was supposed
to augment
a little
magnetic card
system and
guess what
it is
it's RFID
enabled
and my
monthly pass
is becoming
RFID enabled
so I'm
going to have
to break
down and
get one of
those damn
tinfoil
wallets
well you
could just
fold up your
tinfoil hat
and turn it
into a wallet
when I found
I was like
oh it's cool
you know
people want
it they can
use it
and then I
got a little
memo saying
yes if you
have like this
certain type of
pass or higher
you're getting
one of these
and I'm like
what no
no
this is bullshit
they're forcing
you huh
oh no
here's what
legacy compliance
is I take
out my wallet
because I get
a monthly pass
and I take
the train
I don't take
like the subway
and I take
out my
I get on the
train I take
out my pass
I leave it on
the table and
I'm usually
bouncing around
on the laptop
and
the conductor
comes by
sees my pass
and then
continues walking
so yes
this is a
rather low
tech system
because my
pass has like
a giant 8
on it
because I'm
in zone 8
and that means
I can get
on the train
there
yeah
dock droppage
zone 8
well
people do
the math
out
they can
put the
docks
together
well and
actually
I guess
since we're
kind of
on the
subject of
PDA phone
or cell phone
in general
I can do
a kind of
a mini
trio
700 review
I think
I briefly
started one
a while back
which Teoxy
love
but actually
I've used it
a little bit
longer now
that I've
found a couple
other bugs
worth mentioning
anybody out
there that's
got a 700w
here's one
annoyance
that I have
found with it
and not theory
concurs with me
on this one
that they don't
call it a bug
but I do
what happens
is and just
like every
other cell
phone
when you
change
time zones
which again
I do a lot
with traveling
when you
change time
zones
it's going
to connect
to the
tower
and get
the local
time
and adjust
your clock
well that's
all well
and good
but it
actually goes
the extra
step of
not only
adjusting
your clock
but adjusting
all the
appointments
in your
calendar
for you
as well
by an hour
and even
that
the reason
they don't
call it
a bug
is that
could be
a feature
if you
actually
have
your stuff
in there
scheduled
for a certain
time zone
and when
you switch
time zones
you do
want to be
reminded
an hour
earlier
or later
or whatever
however
that's not
the way
I really
use it
what I
use it
for
is I
put in
the actual
time
of things
especially
one thing
that it's
got into
me
and I'll
release this
I was
going to
work on
writing a
little script
or a little
hack for
this
if you
get an
email
from
delta.com
for example
if you
fly on
delta
and I
haven't
tried
this
with all
the
carriers
I only
know
it works
for sure
with delta
is if
you send
an email
if you
get an
email
to your
email
account
that's
picked
up
by
pocket
outlook
it's
there
must
be
some
kind
of
standard
tags
that I
don't
know
there
must
be
some
XML
substandard
or
something
for
flights
because
if I
get my
delta
itinerary
mailed
to me
which
you
do
automatically
when you
sign up
for a
flight
online
it'll
automatically
email you
your
confirmation
with all
the
details
or
there
must
be
some
XML
substandard
or some
standard
to the
tags
that
when
that
email
comes
into
my
pocket
outlook
it
at the
bottom
of
the
email
says
I
have
detected
this
flight
and
added
it
to
your
calendar
now
that's
a
really
cool
feature
that
is
uber
elite
feature
that
it'll
automatically
add
to my
flight
so
now
my
calendar
whatever
my
time
and
date
that
I'm
leaving
the
flight
number
my
seat
number
and
all
that
information
just
got
added
to
my
calendar
automatically
just
from
getting
the
email
that's
really
handy
for
me
because
again
I
travel
a lot
so
I
get
a lot
of
these
emails
and
it
automatically
adds
them
I
don't
have
to
go
into
outlook
and
add
these
things
manually
and
then
sync
everything
up
and
stuff
so
it's
a
cool
feature
however
anybody
that
does
travel
knows
and
if
you
don't
here's
a
little
tip
to
be
aware
of
travel
on
airlines
is
always
done
by
local
time
whatever
on
that
schedule
so
it's
already
adjusted
is
what
I'm
getting
at
so
then
when
you
travel
through
time
zones
and
windows
decides
to
automatically
adjust
it
again
for
you
thinking
that
it
needs
to
be
adjusted
by
an
hour
no
it's
already
been
adjusted
by
the
airlines
that's
their
standard
they
always
do
that
unfortunately
that
forces
a
conflict
so
you
have
to
be
very
careful
that
you
pay
attention
to
what
your
flight
time
really
is
and
what
has
been
adjusted
and
not
been
adjusted
because
if
you've
adjusted
it
by
two
hours
you
show
up
to
the
airport
two
hours
late
you're
shit
out
of
luck
now
aren't
you
you're
a noob
and they're
going to
check in
for your
flight
and I bet
you were
in
the
700W
I don't
really
have a
choice
well
no
they're
going to
let
the
flight
sure
they're
going to
pretty much
call you
a noob
now
it's a
handy
thing
it's just
I wish
it didn't
automatically
adjust
that
or
somehow
they should
make a
flag
that says
this is
a
flight
don't
adjust
it
you can
adjust
all the
other
stuff
but
don't
adjust
this
you know
like
for
example
another
thing
and there's
my
bin
rep
meetings
in
there
so
it'll
show
up
saying
I have
a
bin
rep
meeting
Friday
at
five
o'clock
well
when I'm
over
in
their
time
that
can
be
adjusted
by
an
hour
and
that's
fine
because
technically
when I'm
over in
central time
or I'm
over in
pacific time
it's three
hours difference
you can
adjust it
by three
hours
because
technically
that is
accurate
it's
going on
at
2 a.m.
or 2 p.m.
on the
west coast
5 a.m.
on the
east coast
so I'll
know
when it's
actually going
on over
there
so that's
fairly
accurate
but that's
not as
important to
me
as
catching
my
flight
home
so the
priorities
seem a
little bit
off to
me
but again
also
what's
handy
about
having
the
windows
based
phone
is
you can
get a
lot of
windows
apps
you know
windows
has always
been good
about
providing
tools
to
compile
and build
stuff
so you
can
build
mobile
applications
pretty
easily
with
the
.NET
mobile
stuff
and
development
kit
it even
shows you
a screen
and the
layout
and exactly
what it's
going to
look like
with the
little
virtual
environment
and stuff
and you've
done some
of that
haven't you
a little bit
you've
tinkered with
it at
least
oh yeah
I've done
it it's
pretty lead
I gotta say
it's just
fun to
play with
and I
mean all
the whole
emulators
all there
I mean I
was developing
stuff for
windows mobile
even before
I started
actually developing
had a
windows mobile
device
because
like
oh cool
I can
have a
little
toy
windows
mobile
thing
on my
computer
I wrote
DDP
freak
toys
a long
time
ago
not for
windows
though
but
just
a
java
app
what is
that for
yeah it was
a java
I think
it was
for
I used
that a lot
on my
old phone
really
what did
you have
for a phone
before this
I don't even
know
that particular
one was a
Motorola
720
flip phone
back when
it was
late
well I
like the
flip phone
I like the
form factor
of it
convenient
nice
small
compact
but yeah
the trio
700 is
not so
much
not so
much
I gotta say
I like the
MDA
I dig it
yeah
dig that
bitch
and it
the form
factor
it's not
that bad
I mean
it's a
little
I don't
know
I guess
you could
say the
depth
is a bit
larger than
a regular
phone
but it
fits very
nicely in my
hand
I don't
feel like a
complete dope
putting it
up to my
head
which I
still occasionally
felt when I
was using my
sidekick
you were a
dope
shut the
fuck up
but I
like the
MDA
what I
don't like
about it
let's see
I had a
couple of
things
I liked
about it
that it
was nice
it's
Windows
Mobile
same reason
you liked
Windows
Mobile
what I
didn't like
about it
is when I
turn it on
and I
kick it out
of suspend
the title
bars don't
work
I can't
close the
application
that's
currently
open
or I
can't
use some
of the
soft
buttons
for like
5-10
seconds
after I
take it
out of
suspend
and I
don't know
why
there is
no off
you can't
really turn
your phone
off
I can
turn my
phone off
I don't
know about
you
I can
turn off
the phone
antenna
but you
can't
turn
Windows
Mobile
there's
no
shut
down
there's
no
turning
the
phone
off
you hit
the
power
button
it just
basically
hibernates
well I
pressed the
button in
for 5
seconds
and it
says I'm
shutting down
your phone
are you
sure
my actual
PDA
portion of
it or
whatever you
want to
call it
Windows
Mobile
will not
shut down
there's no
way to
shut it
down in
the
Trio
700
oh really
no
the NBA
shuts down
completely and
totally
which is
always handy
for me
because I
don't like
to put it
into mute
I like to
make sure
it's off
it's dead
I don't want
it to ring
it'll turn
off the
phone
portion
the Verizon
wireless
will
disconnect
but I
can still
play
I do it
on the
plane
all the
time
I'll sit
there and
play
solitaire
or something
like that
waiting for
the plane
taxiing
or something
like that
but I can't
actually turn
the phone
off
itself
without
taking the
battery
out
physically
see I
I can
turn on
flight mode
too and
all that
stuff but
there's a
way of
turning it
off
I mean
it's
off
yeah
because
Trio
sucks
and the
other thing
that you
like about
is that
you can't
do on
the Trio
still I
think
is unless
you break
Verizon's
rules
you can
tether it
to your
laptop
which is
the best
thing
ever
I want
it out
of this
phone
and they
have
claimed
for the
Trio
700
that they
will
support
it
eventually
but it's
been a
year now
I've had
it and
they haven't
supported it
yet
fuckers
yeah
I got it
December
last year
yeah
it's actually
for
yeah
they did
didn't
you
what was
I getting
I forget
what I was
getting
we ordered
packages
like right
at the same
time
and I was
like fuck
I wish
I got a
Trio
instead of
whatever I
got
got a
couple other
gadgets
we still
got some
time
yeah
well I
actually
have
the thing
about the
Trio 2
I should
mention
is just a
320 by
3 or
excuse me
yeah
320 by
320
screen
resolution
so a lot
of stuff
that's developed
for like
other standard
which is I
think what
three
no
240 by
240
excuse me
other cell
phones
and tell me
about this
if yours
is 320
by 240
yeah
like a
rectangular
I think
that's more
closer to
a standard
so a lot
of the
apps that
are developed
to fit on
that screen
and they
don't fit
on the
Trio
so they
have to be
recompiled
and laid
out on the
screen differently
and a lot
of people
just don't
bother doing
it
you know
so it's
almost like
I won't say
ported
but it has
to be
redesigned
well I gotta
say
with the
MDA
you can flip
it in between
portrait and
landscape
and a lot
of applications
don't dig
that
yeah
actually
because they
don't know
what to do
with the new
resolution
that's suddenly
thrown at
them
yeah they
don't like
changing
resolutions
like for
example
AOL
the other
thing I don't
like about
the MDA
is that
there's no
or for
Windows
Google 5
there's no
free
decent
instant
messaging
client
besides
pocket
MSN
which I
have my
own issues
with
yeah
that drives
me
batty
but
like
AIM
2.0
which is
the only
free
AOL
instant
messenger
version
out there
does not
like
portrait
mode
at all
if you
start up
in portrait
mode
it doesn't
know
what to
do
and if
you flip
during it
good luck
yeah
I
pretty much
IRC
is all
I really
need
that's
good
enough
for
me
I
miss it
because I'm
used to
it from
the
sidekick
I like
being
always
on
AIM
I
get
enough
emails
constantly
and
phone
calls
that
just
one
more
disturbance
of
people
IMing me
out of
the blue
which
I get
a lot
kind of
sucks
oh
here's
one fun
thing I
found out
on my
phone
I
installed
bejeweled
2
bejeweled
2006
I don't
know
whatever
the newest
bejeweled
is
well
it'll
run
in
240
by
240
but
it's
not
quite
optimized
for it
so it's
kind of
squishes
it down
well the
funny part
is that
it's
you know
it's
nagware
and you're
supposed to
register it
or whatever
well the way
it works
is like
it comes
up the
splash
screen
and it's
basically
however many
times you've
used it
it uses
half as many
seconds
delay
before the
nag screen
goes away
so if you
used it
10 times
you get a
5 second
delay
you use it
20 times
you get a
10 second
delay
so their
thought is
you know
the longer
you use
it
the more
they're going
to make
you wait
each time
you start
it up
well the
funny thing
is I guess
it's only
I guess they
only made
the integer
field two
characters in
length because
I found out
that once you
get to 99
it rolls over
back to zero
and restart
so the worst
I was getting
was like a
50 second
delay
which still
sucked but
it was funny
that it rolled
back over
so that was
kind of funny
so I guess
really I should
register it at
this point
if they made
one natively
at 240 by 240
I would
I don't mind
paying for it
so yeah
let's see
what else
another cool
thing that I
use all the
time on the
airplane is
noise cancelling
headphones which
I can't say
enough about
these things
are going to
set you back
50 or 100
bucks probably
for a decent
pair and
more if you
go with the
bows high
end type
stuff and
personally I
like the ones
that cover my
ears completely
to block out
all the whining
babies and
coughing old
ladies and
that damn
pilot always
coming on
telling us
what's going
on and
how to use
a seat belt
speech and
all that crap
excuse me
sir I
I need some
clarification
do I put the
small middle
flap around
the buckle
or the
buckle around
the small
middle flap
so noise
cancelling
headphones are
really cool
they actually
work I was
pretty skeptical
of them I
gotta say I
was pretty
skeptical I'm
like there's
no way I'm
paying 50
75 80 bucks
for a set of
noise cancelling
headphones that's
ridiculous you
know I'll wear
just the cheap
five dollar
whatever over the
ear things but
new airplanes
kind of get
pretty loud you
don't realize it
even when you're
indoors even
when you're
inside the
airplane you
hear the
noise from
around from
outside it does
not muffle it
all out it's
not loud or
overbearing but
you can't hear
your computer very
well without
some sort of
headphones and
then you even
with the
headphones it
doesn't block
out all the
noises so it
generates some
white noise to
I guess offset
the noise coming
in so it
basically generates
more noise to
cancel it out
thus the term
noise cancelling
so that you
only hear what's
actually being
sent through the
headphones and
they work
surprisingly well
what it actually
yeah it samples
about side noise
and it creates
the exact inverse
sound the inverse
of the sound wave
so it completely
cancels it out
negative and a
positive
pick that sucker
up in physics
class
cancels everything
so those are
handy and
actually I just
I forgot a pair
I forgot my
pair I have a
set of maxel
actually
you forgot your
pair
I bought a set
of maxel
and they're
actually the best
that I've gotten
I also got a
pair from
what's the other
company
panasonic
I bought a pair
of panasonic
they're both okay
the maxels are
really good
and actually
fairly cheap
I think they
were only about
50 bucks
50 or 60 bucks
but I had
forgotten them
on one trip
so I'm in the
airport and I
figured you know
what I'll get a
backup pair anyway
that I can use at
the house or in the
office because I
listen to BinRev
Radio in the
office sometimes
and I want to
not be bothered
and code and
listen to BinRev
Radio and don't
be disturbed
so I figured it
wouldn't hurt to
have a backup
pair so I was
in Houston
airport that time
and I went to
one of those
movie rental
places and they
sell them and of
course they're way
overpriced but
went in and
chatted the girl
up in there
I never pay full
price for anything
I never pay full
price for anything
and I've never
paid a late fee
in my life
either if you
can't talk your
way out of a
late fee I
mean you might
have to surf a
couple operators
before you get
one that's willing
to cancel it or
whatever raise a
little hell of
them but I've
never paid a
late fee in my
life and yeah so
I chatted the
chick up and
then I'm like
yo you know how
about you hook
me up with a
family discount
you know don't
you get a
discount for
family members
so I was like
oh okay fine
you know she
hooked me up so
I got those even
though they were
overpriced I
he's like get
away from me you
creep
let me have my
delusions thank you
very much
so I gotta
have to knock the
price off there I
think I still ended
up being
and the cookie
lady gave you a
cookie because she
was glad she didn't
have to pay a lawyer
to do her
screening order
cookies man I'm
missing my free
cookies the cookie
lady I wonder if
she's still down
there I haven't
been hey after
the show I'm
getting my own
cookies man I
got I got cookies
waiting for me in
the kitchen right
now for something
all together different
no I got cookies I
got yeah I'm pumped
man I got cookies in
the kitchen like yeah
cookies and then go to
the bedroom get some
more cookies no
comment all right so
noise cancelling
headphones are handy
I'm not sure exactly
what they have to do
with hacking but hey
this is a gadget
episode I guess so
what else oh what I
use my noise can
all right so here's
something else I
always used to carry
two laptops with me
my work laptop my
business laptop which
is a good stable
machine doesn't have
anything extra
installed on it other
than what I need to
do my job some my
programming apps my
editors etc etc general
office stuff and then
I would always carry my
personal laptop with me
as well stuff that
into the bag and that's
what I when I'm in the
hotel and I want to hit
bin rev or any of
those type things I go
to that so that it's on
a different fix the
server because you know
everything's trapped in
New York and corporate
places so just in case
you know they're not like
going out of their way
looking or anything but I
just don't want to set it
up to have that on my
system or install any
unauthorized games or
whatever if I want to
play party poker in the
hotel I can do that so
please tell me you do not
play party poker yeah I did
for a little bit I tried it
but yeah I didn't care for
it too much think spy
works well yeah that but
you know that's what that
laptop was for so that I
could install that kind of
stuff on it and then you
know wipe it out start over
again that's not a big deal
on that that's what the
goal was but yeah that's
when I bought the Nintendo
DS another oh I didn't have
that on my list Nintendo
DS or PSP or whatever no
don't buy that that's Sony
fuck them Nintendo DS
some kind of gaming thing
whatever yeah I bought the
Texas Holden for that and
then I never played any of
those online poker things
anymore after that but
yeah a little portable game
system is always handy
take a couple games put
them in my laptop bag my
Nintendo DS make sure you
take the chargers for
everything that you have
too worst thing is when
you're in the middle of an
episode or something and
your battery runs out and
you can't finish watching
your movie or whatever that
sucks but anyway I always
carry a laptop a personal
laptop around with me and
I'd watch my movies on that
take a couple DVD movies
with me or something and
watch them on the plane
well that's kind of big and
bulky and awkward and it's
heavy and if you haven't
figured it out by now when
you start adding all these
things together you've got
a lot of weight you're
carrying over your
shoulder and stowing in the
overhead and it's awkward
to pull out all this stuff
when you're on the plane and
it's just became a mess so I
decided that I've never had
an iPod or an mp3 player of
any kind I would never have an
iPod so I was waiting till
one came out with the specs
that I wanted if I'm going to
get one I was going to get
one that also played videos
so with this video players
that have been coming out
I've been meaning to buy one
meaning to buy one and then
when I finally went on this
little travel binge that I've
been on for the last two or
three months I broke down and
bought one and they finally
came out with one that had
the final app killer app if
you want to call it that
feature and that was built in
wireless so I bought the
Arco 604 Wi-Fi edition now
there's a 604 that's just the
normal and then there's the
604 Wi-Fi which is built in
Wi-Fi so I figured with that
I get something I can listen
mp3s on I can watch videos on
it's got a 30 gig hard drive
and it has Opera browser built
in which you know Opera what
are you going to do but it has
built in Wi-Fi and I figured
that'll give me what I need to
browse the global interweb so I
don't have to carry that big
heavy second laptop well yes
and no it's not exactly the
most robust and we'll do kind
of a little mini review on the
Arco 604 again like I said
it's Opera well and actually
let's back up to the Wi-Fi
itself the Wi-Fi in there only
supports certain protocols and
certain types of encryption it
has a couple WPA types that it
will not support it'll support
WEP it'll support some WPA but
not others you can go in there
and manually configure certain
things but it's not like it's
it's not very smart it's not
smart enough to be like Net
Stumbler where it's going to
automatically detect things you
have to go out of your way to
scan to find local networks and
connect to them so that's kind of
I wish it had a feature where I
could just automatically connect
to a network that it detects when
I'm in range or something that
would be kind of cool so that's
kind of a a bummer to have on
there but you can connect to a
wireless network and the
difference between doing that on
and on my cell phone is the cell
phone is running through basically a
web server or proxy really is what
it is and when you do that you
don't get to see things for
example in here we'll tie this into
a little hacking topic not that I'm
condoning this click fraud but if
you go through your PDA phone or
your PDA in general using the phone
or excuse me your phone using the
phone network it's going through the
proxy and most of the advertisers
like Google AdWords for example will
not show you your ads well this this
is Wi-Fi it's Wi-Fi just like
anything else on the laptop or
whatever so you're not going through a
proxy you're going through the actual
global interweb so the thing is it
will show ads so if you're someone on
the go if you're a hacker on the run
and you've got ads on your site or
someone else's site that you want to
support you can click on those ads and
it doesn't know any different that
you're just another web surfer
clicking on the ads so that's kind of
a neat little trick and again if it
were automatic thanks dark tips if it
were oh no you did not just say dark
tips if it were automatic where I could
hop and make it easier that would be
better but yeah it's kind of awkward
that you have to manually connect to it
it becomes so much of a hassle that it's
just not really worth the time and the
browser itself it's on you the screen
is oh my gosh it's 4.3 inches so you
don't it's not like you have a full
screen resolution so what Opera and I
think the reason I use it is Opera is
very what's the word it's very adaptable
to different screen sizes it can easily
it has some kind of mini mode or
something where it will detect and try
to adapt the screen and make it fit on
whatever size screen you've got so it
doesn't quite look right any screen
that's been optimized for certain sizes
it's going to stretch and it's not going
to come out right and a lot of maps don't
work right on it image maps it just ends
up looking clumsy and awkward so any of
those sites that are like designed to
flow and have this graphic connect to that
graphic doesn't always happen and work out
the way you expect it to so that happens
on your PDA exactly exactly so I guess
the long and short of that is it turned
long story short is the wireless access
the internet browsing other than the fact
that it's actual browsing and not a proxy
this is really no benefit over surfing on
my actual Trios PDA phone if I because I
mean it's not good enough that I could use
it regularly to browse forums or anything
like that it's no different than browsing
them on my cell phone if I wanted to look
something up in a pinch I could if I
wanted to connect and check hotmail or
or something like that I could do that
but anything more than that if you
actually think you're going to surf
through slash dot and browse and read a
lot of stuff on it I found that it was
just too awkward and too small and just
not it doesn't replace having a laptop
to do actual web browsing so keep that in
mind if you're looking forward to Wi-Fi
on this bad boy now one of the greatest
things about it however and by feel by
the way feel free to yell at me and tell
me if we're running out of time here
no no we're doing good and I'm just
listening because I'm actually kind of
curious about the so there's the one of
the bad things about it but one of the
greatest things about it is that it will
charge via USB so I don't have to carry a
charger an AC adapter around with me
which is incredible I can just carry the
USB cable which will let me to sync it to
the laptop and it'll charge through the
laptop at the same time so you can have
your laptop and what I do is when I get to
the hotels I plug in the laptop plug in
the device and let it charge overnight
and the next day I'm fully charged and
ready to go because the battery life on
this bad boy they claim is I think four
to six hours or something like that with
video I think it's not I think it's five
hours I think that they claim that's just
not accurate I don't know how they came
up with that maybe that means like if I
configure it with the lowest brightness
setting the set because that's what
saps the battery the big more than
anything is the screen so maybe that was
calculated using the lowest brightness
setting and everything well I get about
I'd say I get maybe three hours two and a
half to three hours let's say two to three
hours of video out of it so I can get on a
flight for two hours and watch a movie if I
wanted to it supports DivX encoded AVIs
WMV cool it does not support a lot of
other different codecs it doesn't support
xvid which is one of the bad things
about I was looking at another one called
the Cowan C-O-W-O-N-A2 that one was
really that was what I was going to buy
versus the Arcos 604 without Wi-Fi but
when the Wi-Fi came in I went with the
Arcos but the Cowan if you want something
that's very open source friendly supports
Aug, Vorbis, xvid all the a lot of
different open standards so if you're
more interested in leaning towards that
side of things the Cowan is a is a cool
device as well so yes now that you know
the now in retrospect now that I know
the Wi-Fi is not all I had hoped it would
be yes I probably had to go over again
would go back and buy the Cowan A2 the
other feature the Arcos 604 has is that
it has a built-in DVR well not exactly you
have to buy the docking station
separately oh you have to buy oh man buy
that separately so if you're into that
you know it's kind of a cool thing you
can dock it and have it record all your
shows and then when you travel you can
watch them but quite frankly I want to
watch my DVR stuff on my nice big screen
TV I don't want to watch it on this so to
me that's kind of I didn't bother to buy
that extra add-on thing and finally the
other thing to say about it is that it
turns out that is it is Linux based it's
some sort of little embedded Linux now
the thing that's weird is I had to
really go dig in to figure that out
that's they don't publicize it they
don't make it known they just comes up
with the you know just a I guess I can't
say proprietary screen because it's
Linux based but it comes up to a splash
or it comes up to a menu system that you
really couldn't tell that it was Linux
there's no like identifying things that
make you go oh it's obviously Linux I
mean you don't see any splash screen
you don't see any startup stuff it just
comes up to this menu and it's kind of
um kind of hard to figure out exactly
what it is I kind of had a feeling it
wasn't Windows based because if it was
they'd slap the Windows logo every
freaking where um but I thought it was
maybe some proprietary thing but as it
turns out it is some sort of Linux now
what kind I don't know yet I haven't been
able to break that down but theoretically
that means maybe I can actually get some
Linux apps recompiled and running on it at
some point so hopefully maybe some other
people have pursued down that and I'd
love to see some things it's not like
I can pop open a shell or anything on
it so what's what's what's the one
that just came out it really isn't a
more of a a video thing but it's more
of a video gaming system and I'm
completely drawing a blank on it it came
out in Hong Kong it was Linux based
um what is that thing called I know
what you're talking about I can't think
of the name of it it's again it's a
more of it's open source something 32
they call it a yeah g gxp 32 something
like it ends in 32 I can't think of the
name of it but um yeah that's more of a
gaming you know I mean it has and yeah
it's been modified that it has support for
rss feeds on their weather modules it's
kind of like everything that myth TV
could do it's been built onto there as
well as the ability to play games and I
think the main um emulator has been
ported over to that thing too so you can
play all those games as well as games
that are actually designed and written
for the hardware cool yeah kind of a
cool device I do not have that one
though so I guess I can't officially
make a review on that one but I've
read about it looks pretty cool
uh so let's see Arco 604 I think
that's about it for that Linux power
Dom is going to run you about four I
got it for 400 bucks um I'm sure the
price will drop a little bit I think
it reads supposed to retail I think at
450 or 500 I think it's 450 it's
retail so um I got it for 400 I shop
around online you might find it for by
the time you add shipping you're going
to pay 400 I mean I think I saw it
online for like 370 375 and then you pay
25 30 dollar shipping you know you're
back to over 400 bucks so if you can get
it locally buy it locally that way if
you have any problems want to return it
you can easily and that's true of
anything not just the Arcos so there's
the Arcos mini review I wouldn't oh one
other thing that it doesn't have that I
wish it did if it's got Wi-Fi and it's
got all these other features I was kind
of sad to see that it doesn't have a um
uh a mail client I would love it oh no
yeah I would love it to have some sort
of you know a little even if it's a
simple basic mail client of some kind
where I can reply to mails on it so um
that was a little bit disappointing so I
guess you're stuck with with web mail for
the most part um uh let's see and one
other device worth mentioning oh and
you know and the other thing is the
thing cool thing about this and you
might if anybody isn't interested and
you can hold off wait and see if
somebody does um kind of crack the
Arcos 604 and you know write some new
firmware um better Linux uh support for
it we can start doing things because
that will gain coolness back for me if I
can you know the coolness is all about
staying that that that's what it is
what's that it's all about coolness
for staying well it'll it'll gain some
usability and some coolness back if it
um if you if I can start running some
you know kismet and um well frankly
anything if I can start you know being
connected to a network and then run in
map and do that kind of stuff with
just a small device oh it's touch
screen too in case I didn't mention
that oh that's cool touch screen um
and again the fact that it charges from
USB is one of the coolest things to me
and I'll segue that to my next device
here that I wanted to talk about is I
bought a GPS a handheld GPS device now
that's something else I've been holding
off on for a long time because I have
one in my car you know it's
staying mobile has a nice um DVD player
and and DVD navigation all that stuff
and I've got a USB device that I plug
into my laptop with the software so that
works and gets the jobs done so like I've
been putting off buying the handheld
unit and the reason I finally did is
because well I like to go geocaching
which again if you're on the road and
traveling I get to go to some really
strange places sometimes and some really
cool places sometimes and you know if I'm
not in a hotel fixing that fucking server
I like to go out and take in the site
tell us what you really think snake
yeah I'm not real happy with the server
these days so um like to take in a little
bit of geocaching well I can't exactly
drive the stankmobile actually I'm in a
rental so I don't have the stankmobile
with me anyway so and even if I did when
you're geocaching I can't drive it out
in the woods or drive it into these
places where stuff's hidden and I'd look
pretty dumb walking off my freaking
laptop in the woods trying to isolate it
down with the blue with the bluetooth or
USB USB device so I finally broke down
and bought the Magellan Explorer 500 which
is actually a discontinued device they have
the 500 XP or XL or something it's called
now same damn thing does everything you
want to do it is geocaching friendly
meaning that it will add you can go in
there and put points of interest for
every geocache and then when you just
watch your map and a geocache comes into
view it'll show right on the screen just
like any other thing would show up like a
restaurant or any other point of interest
to park anything like that it'll show a
little geocaching logo or icon so that's
kind of cool and the reason I went with
the 500 also was because it has SD card
slot it has built-in memory but on these
handheld units they usually do not have
enough memory in there to store a very
large amount of data so what they come
with is basic highway maps of North
America or wherever you purchase that
you'll purchase the one for your area of
course
the North America one has all of the
interstate highways and then the big
state highways but it doesn't have any
individual roads they don't have enough
room to store all that data on there
but it supports an SD card so if you're
going to buy a GPS device you can buy
one as cheap as probably I mean you can
get them a hundred bucks retail but if
you shop around you probably give them
on sale for 79 bucks for the real low-end
ones
well they're not going to have all these
features are going to be limited to
major highways and you know they might
support geocaching and points of
interest but you're going to be very
limited to get one that has an SD card
slot you can put an SD card in there
which of course gives you gigabytes and
gigabytes of space are big of a card you
want to get and you can sync that up
with the mapping software which of
course cost extra they get you on that
one
of course now if anybody wants to start a
company make some GPS devices that are
and make an XML standard that will
import any XML mapping software for
example from Google Maps Map Blast Map Quest
any mapping software that you can
download can export to this XML format
and your device would import it you
would leapfrog Magellan and and and
what's the other freaking big company
here that makes them there's several
companies out there that makes them you
can leapfrog all of them I'm drawing a
blank who makes mine it's got a picture
of the freaking I got a picture in my
head too and I can't think of it Garmin
Garmin and Magellan are the two big
ones but if you need both of them to use
their own they only import maps from
their proprietary software which sucks
but anyway point being if you want to
go there out with the SD card you have
the option of syncing up with the map
software and downloading it all to the
SD card so that you actually get the
local street maps and all the hold more
points of interest and stuff like that
because you have more storage space so if
you want something that you can take
with you and again for me and my rental
car not only can I geocache when I'm in a
rental car I can't take my GPS unit for
my other car so if I have this handheld
unit and I can actually have my street
maps and stuff with me so the SD card
slot I'm able to download if I know I'm
going to be in Houston if I know I'm
going to be in New York I'm going to know
I'm going to be in Los Angeles I can
download the maps for that or if I have
the room on the card all of North
America street maps and install it on
there I mean geez what if it comes on a
DVD or how many gigs of actual data I
wonder if I could get it on a two gig SD
card and have all the maps and points of
interest wherever you go so it'll
actually would make a damn good GPS
device for driving and directions it
doesn't speak to you it's not going to
tell you take a right here take a left
there that's what I want so well you're
gonna have to spend more money see this
one cost you on your box
the Explorer 500 and like I said it's I
don't think they're still making it but
you can still find them in stores so it's
kind of a discontinued or whatever you can
go the next step up and start paying
four or five hundred dollars for the
ones that do a lot more of that type of
thing but this Explorer 500 gets job done
does everything except talk to you and
give you the driving directions and to
me that wasn't a deal breaker so for 200
bucks it was worth it to me and I don't
know if you'll be able to find it I got
it on I got it at the what is it bass
it's not bass pro shops anymore I think
they changed their name to something else
but one of the outdoors stores they
actually usually carry a very big
selection I had a hard time finding this
model that I wanted ordering it online
at full retail price but I wanted it
from somewhere locally trying to find it
so that in case I didn't like it I could
take it back and see if I could find a
better price well I found that all the
different stores carry different models
I couldn't find the model that I wanted
and the few stores that carry that model
were sold out if you go to one of those
sporting stores even if you're not into
hunting and fishing and all that stuff
they carry a wide variety of these
because they're very much used for
hiking and camping and stuff like that
that's really what they originally the
main purpose of these was it wasn't
geocaching but the geocaching phenomenon
took off and I think created a huge
market for these things cool and and to
tie this back to the Arcos one thing it
has in common is it has USB charge oh so I
can plug in my laptop plug charge up my
Arcos charge up my Magellan Explorer and
charge up everything all just from the
USB don't have to carry a AC adapter for
everything the only adapter I have to
carry is for the cell phone all right so
that's kind of cool so yeah get every
if that's a feature to keep in mind for
any type of gadget that you get if you
can charge it through USB that's a bonus
now the it's a it's bizarre USB I got to
tell you Ratchett you got to see this I
think you'd appreciate it it's uh well I
think we're kind of wrapping up here so
okay yeah the interface where it connects
to USB it's fine on the laptop and it's
normal USB but where it connects to the
GPS device it's like six pins and you
have to screw it down with your fingers
to make contacts you don't slide it in
like a typical four pin USB or six pin
USB it doesn't look like a printer cable
USB for printer for example and other
things it's just very proprietary and you
make six contacts and screw it down to
tighten and that is the connection and I
couldn't figure that out for life me and
a friend of mine pointed out the reason
for that is because it's water resistant
that tie down so water won't get inside
of it and it has to be sealed so it has
to have these external contacts to
prevent that from happening so that's it
that's a whole lot of gadget reviews
there I don't some of it actually that's
pretty quite a bit of it was hacking
related that was pretty yeah okay I guess
so that was pretty cool but we are going
to wrap it up here oh let's see email
radio at bin rev.com do you have
shouts oh my goodness let's see shouts to
yes I do shouts to sincerely Joe I know
I've been joking around sincere shouts to
savant nick 84 to biz not theory all of
whom have been working with me these past
few weeks trying to get this thing figured
out so for any of you who think that's
just me I'm a retard and I can't figure
out what the hell's going on the server
know we had a lot of sharp people and
took all of us working together to get
the server back stable again and
hopefully oh yeah that way it's been
tough if you yeah it's been it's been
not fun so those are my shouts and
let's see I guess wait a minute this
is a Christmas episode so we say happy
holidays happy Chris Mahana
Kwanzaa Chris yeah happy Chana
hookah yeah what else is there our
side of the week let's see it's a oh
dude totally it's a net net cam dot
strom carlson dot com you can you can
see strom carlson 24-7 sometimes with
or without pants and if you catch him
doing something embarrassing please
post it in the forum oh totally I'm
probably gonna get in trouble I know
you're gonna get he's gonna be mad
whatever um let's see um and our
closing music tonight it's actually
from we had a request and we had
someone send some stuff in this is a
friend savant whose name is Murphy he's
from the Netherlands and he submits the
he says my buddy Murphy from
Netherlands submits the following for
closing bin rev radio music and it's
open the komodo mix final and I
probably it's like open the komodo
mix and final is the version but um
sounded pretty cool I didn't mind it so
it was interesting well I look forward
to hearing that myself indeed I can
actually send the link if you want
because they can listen to before I
find the uh how do we make our closing
catchphrase more Christmassy I'm trying
to think of same same ho time same ho
channel jingle tower guys where's your
mind gutter mouth oh shut up see how that
was funny because it was me calling you
the gutter mouth you see the irony there
you see how the humor was in that that
me of all people was calling you the
okay never mind bitch no well I don't
know what should we do I don't know I
guess we'll tell everybody that we'll
see him next week same jingle time same
jingle channel
hello yeah so so anyway um help him
come on what okay well let me let me put
on my black hat for a second not
necessarily evil well I'll show them how
tough I am
um yeah why don't you go first and I
thought that was weird
um go away
I know a lot of you guys don't do it
just just get on it
friends or beer or something
don't be a noob
hacking disneyland
you can leave your hat on black hat
you can leave your hat on bang at bang.news.net
what are you drinking
did 64 fluid ounces of yelling take
precautions
anyway do not do it from your house
duh don't do it
duh
something funny is going on
so botnets that's like that's where the
transformers are now right
what
is grandma still running under 95
somebody gets a phone
so I'll let that be a lesson to you
so basically the message is
open the phone
exactly
listen to the man
the password is
noob tacos
yeah
ta-da
nothing over here
whoop
rabbit out of the hat
it must be true
black hat
it's not necessarily evil
black hat
har har har
king
disclaimer
benrub does not officially support the use of malicious software
there might be
it hasn't out there
um
sexual favors
exactly
that's how I uh
that's how I got verbal
about the influence
fucking dark room
and twiddling their
whiskers
yumminess
well I'll show them how tough I am
fire up their elite
oday udp.pro
program
they're logging into
googleman.noob.net
bang idiot
i'll blow anything you want
and then you went to jail
don't do any dumb shit
things that's gonna get you noticed
anyway
something funny's going on
i like google
i like men
hush
no one's gonna loop that
into a remix
well i like men
no DM's listening to the radio show
he's terribly interested
well i like men
i've never heard that
and i thought that was weird
loop that
go away
shitload traffic down the pipe
directly out of my hand
black cat
har har har
loop that
black cat
listen to the man
i like google
i like men
so it's almost like a worm right
google version capability
it must be true
duh
go away