DL.TV

episode 185 (1x185)

Air date: Jul 24, 2007

STUFF • YouTube and CNN teamed up to present the Democratic Presidential Candidate debates. By including YouTube organizers hoped to tap into the popularity of the video sharing site to generate questions for the candidates. Was it a watershed moment or a cheap gimmick? Depends on who you ask but in my opinion it came off like any other televised debate. While the video respondents were nice addition in truth they added little to an already tightly controlled affair. • Sites reflected Intel's new lowered prices on older CPU stock over the weekend. Chief among these was the highly coveted Q6600 Quad-Core processor. A formerly $500+ item before and $400 item on NewEgg.com last week it was going for $300 on Saturday morning. Although up to $375 today more bargains are sure to be had, so keep your eyes peeled. • FUD, FUD, from the folks at Independent Security Evaluators on potential security flaws on the iPhone's WiFi access allowing miscreants to potentially fool iPhone users going to a page loaded with malicious code. Apple, however, already noted the issue earlier and was releasing a patch. Talk about premature press release. • While waiting for FCC approval of the merger between XM and Sirius the respective powers that be decided to push forward with their "a la carte" plan allowing users to choose 50 to 100 channels from both XM and Sirius for $7 to $15 a month. The companies hope to have the plan running within a year for the merger¹s completion. Oh, you'll need to buy new hardware for it to work. • Rich and few other viewers about calibrating the gas mileage on the Scan Gauge II device. Rich writes "The first one is in the MORE > SETUP > SPEED area, and you can adjust The reported speed up or down. The second setting is when you fill your gas tank MORE > FILLUP, when you fill your gas tank, you can tell the Scan Gauge how much gas you actually put in the tank compared to what it thinks you've used." One Child Laptop OS. • Want to see what the