Easy Privacy Come, Easy Privacy Go

[ Audio 23.3 MB mp3 ] January 28, 2012

Supreme Court privacy decisions, Google privacy changes, EU privacy protections, oh my! Miles and Lyle publicly take your calls and comments while talking about privacy.



SOPA Dead!

[ Audio 23.6 MB mp3 ] January 21, 2012

SOPA/PIPA gets a timeout, 12 atoms per bit, and various ways that you and criminals can move information (WiGig & auto theft) while Miles and Lyle take your calls and comments.

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Waterproof Your Phone

[ Audio 24.2 MB mp3 ] January 14, 2012

Jesse Wilkins joins Ben and Lyle for a bit of GeekSpeak News.

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GeekSpeak Resolutions

[ Audio 24.5 MB mp3 ] January 07, 2012

New years resolutions - Back Up Your Data and Upgrade your Ram! MAME on Chrome, WiFi Vulnerability - turn off WPS, Copyright Rant, other news and calls with Lyle and Miles.



Even Dead People are Against SOPA

[ Audio 24.5 MB mp3 ] December 31, 2011

Kepler finds Earth-sized planets, Congress is using the internet like all of us, should we use a new calendar, is your IP router IPv6 ready, and SOPA still sucks! - Ben, Lyle and Miles.



Geeks Need a New Home

[ Audio 24.2 MB mp3 ] December 24, 2011

GeekSpeak needs a new server home - do you want to help? We are leaning towards Linode as our new VPS host. On this episode we cover a bunch of tech news, from Black Holes to Aids Vaccines. Ben Jaffe and Alex Sleeis join Lyle Troxell via Skype.

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Messing up with Magnets, Copyright, and Siri

[ Audio 24.5 MB mp3 ] December 17, 2011
Messing up with Magnets, Copyright, and Siri

Lionel Peter Church joins Linsey Lonne, Miles Elam, and Lyle Troxell.



Fire-Breathing Ponies and Climate Change

[ Audio 24.6 MB mp3 ] December 10, 2011

The Week in Geek: the rise of the Internet Surveillance state, Unicode for the masses, and more while Jordan, Lindsey, and Miles take your calls and comments.



No Reason At All

[ Audio 24 MB mp3 ] December 03, 2011

Pew Research finds there's no reason at all to learn about mobile madness malware and the rest of the "Week in Geek" news with Miles, Al and Lyle. Bonus: the triumphant return of the Crazy USB of the Week!

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Tracking Loans, License Plates, and Heat

November 26, 2011

Kiva.org for gifts that are actually loans, how ovens work, thinking about temperature around your house, pluto might have an ocean, Google has more servers then you, and may other things like your license plates are being tracked.



I, For One, Welcome Our DNS Censor Overlords

November 19, 2011

Ionized plasmas for sterilizers, 2D game performance in browser, and some little bills called SOPA and ProtectIP.

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Exfoliate Your Facebook

November 12, 2011

Political robo-calls to your cellphone if you don't act, Facebook is big and complex and we are all trapped, Russian Phobos to return to earth the #fail way. Lindsey and Lyle take on the geek news of the week and take your calls.

Lindsey and Lyle take on the geek news of the week and take your calls.

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November 5th, Shmomember 5th!

November 05, 2011

Guest geek Katie Dutcher (Linguistics and Religious Studies major from Pomona College) joins us to help us understand how amazing 11-02-2011 actually was.

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Desalinate 7 Billion Brain Simulations

October 29, 2011

Mike Rodkin, former Mayor of Santa Cruz, will join us for a discussion on Santa Cruz water issues. Is a high-price desalination plant a good solution?

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Camera, Tank and Keyboards

October 22, 2011
Camera, Tank and Keyboards

A new camera that you can focus later, Skype can connect your username to your IP address, new infrared camouflage system for tanks, seeing through walls with cool tech, and lots of calls from listeners. Assistive typing with devorak vs qwerty keyboards or use a camera-microphone-pen and more. Al is back with a Crazy USB and Ben and Lyle are there too.



Dennis Ritchie, You Will Be Sorely Missed

October 15, 2011

We mourn the passing of Dennis Ritchie, creator of C, co-creator of Unix, and one of the biggest influences on modern computing. Not for wealth, not for fame, but simply because the challenges existed. He will be remembered fondly by those who knew him as well as by those of us who unfortunately never had the honor.

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So Long and Thanks For All the iPods.

October 08, 2011

A fond farewell to the irreplaceable Steve Jobs. Also quasicrystals, earthquake monitoring, living bridges, and more while Lyle, Terry and Miles extol the virtues of community radio. Pledge KUSP today!



Kindles and Other Stuff

October 01, 2011

The new Amazon Kindles and other non-related news items. All of this while Lyle, Ben, and Miles take your live calls and comments.



Blurry, Soggy, Black Holes Now Available from E-Libraries

September 24, 2011

Horrible segways during The Week in Geek News while Miles, Lyle, Ben, and Alex get all your calls and questions answered incorrectly.

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Exoplanets in Hexadecimal

September 17, 2011

Exoplanets revolving around binary stars; exoplanets revolving around each other; Exoplanets! Ben and Miles answer your questions and comments about technology and hexadecimal as well.