Sustainable Radio

October 20, 2007

A full contingent of geeks chat about the week's tech news and try one more time to get you to donate to our station, KUSP.

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GeekNews

Gaming vs Hollywood

Hollywood Blames Halo 3 sales for Poor Movie Sales

Secure Your Macintosh

Alex suggests this great article that talks about ways to be secure on your Mac, and states things in a way that is reasonably easy to understand.

Schwarzenegger vetoes data-breach bill

"California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill on Saturday that would have prevented companies from retaining certain sensitive payment data and spelled out what information firms would need to disclose in the event of a breach." full article at Security Focus

Retailers look to exorcise credit-card data

Image-based threat on the rise

Stenography is getting renewed life in the crime world, and even being used as a method of trafficking stolen data (CC #'s, SSNs, etc.)

Astrophysicist Replaces Supercomputer with Eight PlayStation 3s

Suffering from its exorbitant price point and a dearth of titles, Sony's PlayStation 3 isn't exactly the most popular gaming platform on the block. But while the console flounders in the commercial space, the PS3 may be finding a new calling in the realm of science and research.

The attached news we did not cover, but here is some stuff that we did talk about:

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