I think they've already participated in the episode.

I am mostly Mac at home. At work we are still stuck on XP.

When I work from home and VPN into the office, the VPN client runs on Windows (there is an OSX version of the VPN client, but it doesn't support the required security policies). So I run XP in a Parallels VM.

This is like the Enterprise doing a saucer separation.

Netflix is separating themselves from the part of the business that they think are doomed. That way, when the DVD by mail business does go belly up, Netflix itself won't be around to take damage.

And I think they fully expect it to go belly up. Qwikster? Come on! "*ster" names went out of style almost 10 years ago!

I like this video better

Population Connection - Word Population

I can imagine the announcement from the cockpit: "This is your captain speaking.We will be in a holding pattern for a little bit, while we deal with some minor technical issues. I expect we will be delayed about 1 hour into Chicago...By the way, does anybody on board have an iPad?"

Customer: Can you tell me the location of your office in the United States?
Watson: Toronto?????

I assume he meant Arachnophilia.

No, I hadn't heard of it before either. I just Googled harder.

Many web sites that provide online financial services, and also gateways to MMORPGs, use browser fingerprinting to detect fraudulent use of the service. For example, if a user logs in consistently using a specific browser on a specific computer, and then logs in from a completely different browser, or from a different computer, then there is the suspicion that someone other that the user is logging in using stolen account information. The web site will in such cases ask for some 2nd form of authentication (eg. mother's maiden name, or something more secure) in order to protect the account.

By trying to block browser fingerprinting you might be protecting yourself from online tracking, but you are also preventing legit services from protecting you.

They are launching the pay wall in Canada first, effective immediately.

Everything time something "good" rolls out from the USA (Hulu, iPhone, iPad, lots of shit from Amazon), it takes forever for it to get to Canada, if it gets here at all. Now this (definitely not "good") and they launch it in Canada first. Go figure.

You think? I guess the product placement is not doing very well.

I thought SD cards could fly!

"It looks like you're located outside of the United States. Although you're welcome to read about Google eBooks, please note that Google eBooks are only available for sale to customers in the U.S. at this time."

sigh.

It is probably all marketing fluff. NASA is taking a page from Apple.

Probably Beatles music has been beamed in the direction of Alpha Centuri.