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–Molly

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EPISODE 571
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In New Zealand, you write the laws–but in Russia, the law
write you! Meanwhile, New Zealand is putting one of its laws up on a
wiki for the public to edit. Harmless and organized method for gathering
public comment, or harbinger of a complete breakdown of worldwide
democracy? You decide. A…

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A Chinese MMORPG refuses to allow male players to play as female
characters, which (a) is ridiculous, and (b) sparked Tom to confess that he
likes to play ‘Civilization’ as Queen Elizabeth. And here I thought it was
all about the hot elf chicks. Anyway, iPhone unlocks may break the law, but
App…

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Why do you have to be so mean, Apple? The company issued a statement
Monday saying its next firmware update will likely break unlocked iPhones.
That’s just mean. You know Apple doesn’t have to do it this way, and
unlocking is within your rights. Meanwhile there’s a new Zune patent, and
Google w…

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Get your cookies and milk ready–you’ll need them for standing in line.

Halo 3 comes out at midnight tonight, and thanks to Shalin, I’ll
be spending the next three weeks soldering and sewing a tiny, little
Master Chief Halloween costume. Plus, who you tryin’ to fool with that
EULA, Hulu?

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ICANN is having a bit of trouble with the .su top-level domain.
Seems they want to retire it, what with the dissolution of the Soviet Union
and all. But their order to dump the domain has actually increased sales of
.su Web sites. The Motherland lives on! Also today: “Halo 3″ leaks,
triggering …

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NBC has introduced a free, ad-supported Web site where you can
download some of its shows after they air on television. See, we

thought we wanted that. But the shows expire a week after they
air, they come wrapped in an NBC-specific player, they don’t work on
portable devices, and the serv…

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Stop the presses: there’s news from the Zune camp! New Zunes
dropping October 16! Or, you know, you could continue to drool over all
things Apple, even though they’ve announced that they’ll actively block
iPhone unlocking efforts and they’ll be making you repurchase any of your
iPod games if yo…

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If your dog loses a leg, you don’t take him out and shoot him, do
you? Neither does AMD. In a move that’s both clever and ecofriendly, AMD
has decided that quad-cores with a single blown core can be packaged and
resold as triple-core chips. Genius! Also today, Facebook gets all Google,
the “New…

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Yahoo, ever on the cutting edge with hip new ideas and clever,
totally not overused naming concepts, has just introduced a new social
networking service, called Mash! Finally! And wow, will it do cool things,
like let you create a profile and add applications to that profile and get
a little fe…

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