TWiT 42: Dvorak's Lost It

Tom Merritt, John C. Dvorak, Leo Laporte, Robert Heron, and Roger Chang. It's TWiT 42, your answer to life, the universe, and everything.

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Topics:

* Thanks to Nitrozac and Snaggy for the cartoon
* Amazon is going head to head with Apple - opening its own music store
* The OS X Worm is nothing to worry about but it does herald the end of innocence for Mac users
* FON has found an interesting way to promote itself
* Is World of Warcraft the new golf?
* Funny how consumers and experts completely disagree on which LCOS display is best
* Want to know why Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas and Sen. John Ensign of Nevada are so hot to stop municipal wi-fi? Follow the money trail to ATT.
* The Firefox memory leak is a feature not a bug
* Is it illegal to play poker online? It's not clear but if two Congressmen have their way it will be, with a five year penalty to boot
* BitTorrent is proposing end-to-end encryption to foil ISPs who block the protocol
* Skype encryption prevents wiretapping. Or does it?
* And what's going on with Intel and Skype? Is it fair to artificially limit Skype's capabilities unless you use Intel?
* Careful watching "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" in Germany. Fox has planted a rootkit on the DVD.
* The ladies of the evening want families to boycott Grand Theft Auto
* Do two podcasts ending production make a trend? Some call it "podfading"
* Halo 2 will only ship on Vista, not XP
* And Vista will require a DirectX 9c capable video card
* More significantly, no video card has HDCP support yet, and Vista will require that for output to an HD display
* Careful playing solitaire around Mayor Bloomberg
* Microsoft antivirus uninstalls Norton. Oops.

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