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Another great day for Nerds worldwide. We had some interesting articles to talk about and some great guys to talk about them.

Joining us today was our host David Redekop, Producers Arthur and Nathan Wiebe, Rob Wolf and Patrick Browne.

Host

• David Redekop

Guests

• Rob Wolf
• Nathan Wiebe
• Arthur Wiebe
• Patrick Browne

Good News:

• David Redekop - Had a fantastic week ,planning a trip to South Africa in January.
• Patrick Browne - Great week on the Dale Carnegie Course
• Arthur Wiebe - learning freenas native zfs
• Nathan Wiebe - in a few weeks will have their nerdmobile
• Rob Wolf - Spending time with customers

News and Discussion:

• This may be a reason to make sure everyone using IE is on version 8 which does not seem to be affected by this newest zero-day vulnerability. Microsoft is scrambling to fix it before a reliable exploit is published. Exploits have been released, but they tend to be quite unreliable.
• Here is a possible glimpse into the future of green storage It uses standard hard drives and spins down drives when not in use. This is not new – but there is the problem of the time it takes to spin the drive back up and the resulting delay I access. This system used an SSD on the front end to compensate with some sort o caching scheme. This is still experimental, but it shows that there are greener alternatives to the present technologies.
• I thought this was an interesting legal issue.What is the level of responsibility of media providers like Google? Can they be held liable for inappropriate content? What are the limits? What if someone uploaded video of a horrific crime? Animal abuse? Murder? Services like youtube present the possibility that this will happen. Who regulates this stuff?
• A story from Oz that had nothing to do with tech, but struck me as interesting Thought it might bring out some comments form our Aussie Nerds. I had no idea there even were camels in Austrailia!!
• Online shoppers trust word of mouth
• Christmas sale surge cripples eBay
• Smiling in a bikini on Facebook costs Canadian woman her insurance
• Harvey Norman on the attack as Microsoft forces Aussies to pay more for Windows 7
• Apple Fans Flood Microsoft Window Display With “Get A Mac” Tweets
• Exercise to beat stress
• Lifehacker 61 Free Apps

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