This Is Only a Test 133 – Sittin’ in Norman’s Lap – 8/2/2012
On this week’s episode, Will drinks water, Norm gets grossed out, and Gary is broken. All that, plus the latest on the Oculus Rift, the Windows 8 RTM, the problem with Verizon’s LTE service, and another edition of fake outtakes. Enjoy!
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Gary looks thin and helpless. <3
I think we still get Teletext here in Portugal, nobody uses it but i’m pretty sure it still exists.
edit: now that i think about it, sometimes it is used to solve acessbility issues, like putting subtitles in some public shows.
Watch all of the Olympics, any time, any event, anywhere, for free, with multiple streams, complete VODs, live rewind and fast forward. Don’t be a cunt and use NBC, what’s wrong with you?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/2012/
You could watch the entire opening ceremony the next day on the bbc.co.uk.
http://getfoxyproxy.org/
http://mdvip-tested.md-staging.com/news/news/3338-our-favorite-tech-of-2011-tunnelbear-vpn/
C’mon guys, you can at least read your own website. It takes exactly less than 2.5 minutes to ‘set up’ a free, temporary VPN, you should be ashamed of yourself Will, you are not ‘setting up’ anything, you are using a free legal piece of software that has been programmed for you.
For a laptop bag, even though it may be a bit large for you, is Think Geek’s ‘Bag of Holding Messenger Bag’.
I’m with Norm on the pooping. In and out man. But not for social reasons, just efficiency.
I also had more or less the same reaction as Norm to the open wound story. Do not want.
Welcome back Gary!
You’re right about 16gb being too small for HD video. But why on earth would you need HD video for a 7 inch tablet? If you’re going to be watching it on the tablet and not hooking it up to a bigger screen in a hotel room or something (and often times, even if you are), you can compress the video for a smaller file size.
Teletext is still a thing, at least in Ireland. My parents still use it for news headlines. Quicker to check than booting up the laptop.
Regarding viewmasters:
I still have my set after all these years. Disney set, two viewmasters and maybe twenty or thirty slide cards. Each card has 14 slides/7 images. The 3D effect is still excellent.
I’m down with Will’s laptop bag packing scheme, but EFF to hell the idea of bringing on the largest carryon bag in some mistaken idea you can game the system. Great you aren’t a sucker, you’re just the douchbag that needs to hover over others to place and haul out your monstrosity as everyone that kept their carryon load to a minimum has to wait.
For your look at laptop bags, could you look at the BUILT Neoprene Messenger bag 11-13″
Same here in Sweden but I still use it, mainly for sport results. Though, I can’t imagine that it’s that popular for new users. For me it’s an old habit.. and if you know the right “channel” you can get the data you want really fast.
Some things:
People in the military don’t have a specific timing on how long we can take to poop. We can take as long as we want so long as we’re not in a convoy on in the field, in which case adult diapers occasionally make an appearance. Otherwise, when not deployed, time length is not an issue.
The DoD Porn thing was about porn usage through the entire DoD (Army, Air Force, Marines, Navy, Pentagon). The problem was that people were watching or looking at porn on DoD computers. The way they were doing that was by bypassing the filters and blocks, which means going to low-rent proxy sites (because the big ones are blocked) and low-rent porn sites (because anything that self-identifies as adult material is blocked). That was causing a huge malware problem, because, surprise those sites are chocked full of malware and spyware. This has caused multiple problems such as malware and spyware on computers that form part of missile launch facilities and, in one case, a malware program that has effected an entire fleet of UAVs.
The “Crackdown” is actually a search for a handful of individuals who are effecting the entire DoD network by introducing malware and spyware onto a single computer that is spread through the Outlook mail service used by the DoD.
Also, while it isn’t electrical technology, I’m REALLY surprised you guys didn’t mention Oscar Pistorius with the Olympics talk. A guy born without the lower portion of his legs who uses technology to overcome the disability and not just to function but to compete against the world’s top non-disabled athletes?! That’s some real tech news!
Just clearing something on the Finnish speeding ticket comment:
You can’t get around the huge ticket by registering the car in someone else’s name. When the offense is serious enough to mandate a income based ticket (smaller offenses bring a fixed number ticket to the registered owner of the vehicle), the ticket will go to the driver, no matter who he/she happens to be. (Ps. The maximum amount is a 120 days income for a single offense and 240 days for multiple offenses.)
Teletext still exists in Norway, it was how they did subtitles before it went digital, but it is still around today as people have gotten into the habit. In most cases it is faster than loading up a browser and navigating to the information, as its just 4 clicks on the controller if you know the specific page.
My dad used it for news, sports, lottery numbers and specialized weather forecasts (he is a fisherman). In December he bought himself an iPad and now he has ‘an app for that’. =)
We still have “teletext” in Sweden :p I thought that everyone had that!
I want a Vinny and Gary Poppa Podcast.
Work bathroom break is a 15 minute minimum. I like to take my time. 🙂
Hey, speaking of email company takeovers, I am proud to say that I still have an active Netscape.net email account. I think it changed hands twice, maybe? It is currently run by aol. The same username also directs to that account even though I never signed on with AOL at any point along the way.
Well damn, that’s a shame. Thank you for your response Will, and I apologise for my aggressive tone in the previous post, I think I had caught too much sun that day (we don’t much of it here in England) and was a bit excitable.
Which is pretty reasonable. Unfortunately, not everyone’s reasonable and this has gotten worse in recent years as the inevitable arms race of carryons has advanced. And when multiplied over a whole plane with people operating on different bell curves (of physical capability vs packing competence and realism) with a single egress, it can be frustrating to say the least.
I believe the fall-season premiere of Mythbusters is about finding the optimal method for having people with carryons board planes. I am looking forward to seeing their results.
For the messenger bag test try a Timbuk2 Classic Messenger or D-Lux Laptop Messenger. I believe they can be found on Amazon for under $100.
Oh man, genius! Hope they find something that can actually be implemented outside a police state or needing violence.
Their tests were not about the security checks, but the actual boarding. They had a fake plane with 200 or so volunteers and did a bunch of different tests, you can see some shots of the episode in the fall-season trailer on the Discovery website.
Adam has been critical of airport security technology on a few occasions, fingers crossed that they can find a way to do an episode on that.
Oh I meant more in terms of finding a method of efficient boarding that requires large mean security folks forcing people to do things because the average air traveler is already a couple steps closer to crazy than they normally would be and irrational thinking is what’s causing some of the current boondoggle. If it’s something relatively innocuous there is hope it can actually be implemented.
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