Week of July 8th, 2011

[Troy King]

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July 8th, 2011

Listener Email

Hi Troy. I love your show and have my own rage to share. I have got a ton of stuff on my iPad from apps, to movies, to music. I finally decided to get the latest update from iTunes and it bricked my iPad! I’m getting really sick and tired of having to hook up this blasted thing to my computer just to update, then it screws everything up. After hours of backing up and restoring, I just had to wipe everything and re-install from scratch. I thought this crap was supposed to just work, Apple! Screw you!

John in Florida,

Do Hands-Free Cell Phones Make Driving Safer?
Study finds that Bluetooth and hands-free may not be safer
No concrete evidence
Dialing the number or texting may be most dangerous
9 states ban holding the phone while driving
4 states show no reduction in crashes
No different than talking to someone in the car
Shouldn’t do anything in the car! We’re all F’ed anyways!

Fitness Site Accidentally Shows Sexual Activity
FitBit calorie tracker uploads data to website
Profile is searchable by search engines
Reveals when people are sexually active

This TSA Agent Was Caught with a Stolen iPad in His Pants
Nelson Santiago, a TSA officer since 2009
stolen $50,000 worth of electronics

Atlantis: the final space shuttle as we know it
Returns July 20th
130 flights over 30 years
11,000 contractors already out of work
3,000 more expected layoffs
Use money savings for new rockets and new tech
$10 Billion spent onConstellation moon program rockets scrapped
30 years of overpaying for old tech, and now no replacement system ready to go