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Grumpy Old Geeks

128: Demand your Replicator

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2015

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Is Star Trek's Utopia coming? Is HP irrelevant? Do e-books earn more at lower prices? Is Twitter going to lose a lawsuit over scanning DMs? Is the ad-blocking Peace app still available? Are we trapped in a closet? Do we like Betteridge's law of headlines? Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/128 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

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0:03.8

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0:08.8

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0:14.1

This podcast doesn't pod itself people.

0:18.2

Iqbinayna Groza Banhof. Save that for the bumper on the intro. Everybody misses those.

0:23.5

Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason DeFilippo

0:32.0

discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.

0:40.4

Welcome to Grumpy old geeks for September 18th 2015 episode 128. I am Jason DeFilippo.

0:47.2

And I'm Brian Schultmeister. Hi Jason. Hi Brian, how are you doing today?

0:51.6

I'm doing all right. How about you? I'm doing fine. Just peachy keen.

0:56.4

Excellent. I want to get something out of the way right away for our listeners because I know

1:00.6

our long-term listeners are very curious about this. It's an ongoing story on Grumpy old geeks.

1:06.1

Yes, the iOS update turned on Bluetooth. Oh, I'm glad you got that out of the way because, you know,

1:11.6

I yes, audiences everywhere were just waiting to know. They were sitting on tinter hooks or is it

1:18.0

tinter? It's tinter hooks, right? I thought it was pins and needles, but that's another way to say it.

1:24.7

It changed so much stuff. I figured I wouldn't even try it this time. I'm more curious about the

1:28.5

point releases because then we get the evens and the odds. But yeah, I mean, I guess we can talk

1:33.5

about iOS 9 really quick because I don't think either of us really want to discuss it too much.

1:38.3

Oh, God, no, there are so many douchebags that they're discussing it on other podcasts that we

1:42.7

we don't need to join that club. We've got a little bit of Apple Talk, but yeah, let's just do it

1:46.6

quick. Yeah, the the only thing that I still want that I still haven't gotten them were on version

1:50.9

nine now is a close all apps. Something or other like hit the button twice to some sort of fancy

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