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As Dan hustles his way back to the studio, we (somehow) begin with Scott’s hands-on of the $6,000 Kohler Numi toilet. Then, the conversation gets weird as we contemplate on what features would be included in our dream toilet that’s worth dumping that kind of cash into. Blue jokes aside, we also debate Democrat Jesse Jackson Jr.’s argument to congress, on his belief, that the iPad is killing American jobs. Dan sheds some light on the self-publishing and distribution logistics of releasing a music album (if you are so inclined to go indie and bank on those “royalty” checks). Finally, more iPhone 5 rumors explored.

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If you were to pry open your laptop, microwave or TV you’d find they’re all loaded with an array of highly-specialized silicon. Designing, manufacturing, or just purchasing these chips is a major cost for electronics makers. Semiconductor company Tabula, which just secured $108 million in funding to help bring its 3PLD ABAX reprogrammable chips to market, hopes to make these dedicated components a thing of the past. Compared to similarly customizable FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays), Tabula’s chips are cheaper, smaller, and faster. This magic trifecta of attributes could put programmable logic into consumer products like HDTVs and may one day allow for hardware to be updated over the internet the way software is now. However, the immediate promise is being able to use the same chip for multiple purposes across several products. That should drive down costs — and there’s no way to make consumers happier than by slashing prices. Full PR and video after the break.

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Oh, sure — it’s pretty much an ultrathin Galaxy Tab 10.1, but then again, it’s an ultrathin Galaxy Tab 10.1. The newly-christened Galaxy Tab 10.1v has finally found itself a pre-order host over at Vodafone Australia, with select customers receiving the newsletter shown above in their email accounts. Purportedly, this “exclusive” offer enables Vodafone customers camped out in the Land Down Under to pre-order the Honeycomb-based slate, with a trio of payment options available. A two-year agreement will cost you zilch upfront (but AU$39 a month over 12 months), a one-year plan dings your credit card for AU$259, and an off-contract option will demand a far stiffer AU$729. A book cover seems to be included with each option, and if you get your order in today, shipping should commence on May 1st. One nation down, six five continents to go. (Sorry, penguins.)

[Thanks, Jeremy]

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This article was written on January 18, 2007 by CyberNet.

If you use BitTorrent search isoHunt.com, you’ve probably noticed that the site is now offline. This happened yesterday, and  according to their website, it says “Lawyers from our primary ISP decided to pull our plug without any advance notice, as of 14:45 PST. No doubt related to our lawsuit brought by the MPAA, but we don’t have more information at this time.” And in the mean time, they were recommending using Google by searching for “Search Terms ext:torrent.”

The Motion Picture Association of America is likely the reason for isoHunt being taken down, they filed a lawsuit against them stating the reason as copyright infringement. They are also not the only ones that the MPAA are after.  It seems that if you’re in the BitTorrent business, you’ll probably need to be running and hiding for your money.

Adding a little humor to their problem, they say that no, moving servers to Sweden or Sealand isn’t going to help.  You’ll probably recall the incident last year when The Pirate Bay was taken down.  The ended up back up, but currently, their hope is to buy a country of their own, Sealand (a man-made British naval platform sitting in the sea off of Southern England) so that they wouldn’t have to worry about being taken down. So far, since January 15th, The Pirate Bay has raised $14,000 in their effort to purchase the rusting platform (sounds suitable for some servers, right?). Their alternative if they can’t get enough funds? Well, purchase another small island somewhere else to claim.

isoHunt has a new ISP, this time in Canada. For now, they say they’re “moving house, if the tubes run smoothly, we expect to be back in full swing tomorrow.” They also say, “BitTorrent was created for distribution of any large media file, and we stand by that ideal as a search engine and aggregator.”

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Right now two camps seem to be getting the most supporters: seven-inchers, like the Streak 7 and BlackBerry PlayBook, and 10-inchers, like the Motorola Xoom and the Apple iPad. But, sometimes weapon systems need to be a little more specialized. Sometimes the templates don’t fit, and the $530 (after rebate, on-contract) T-Mobile G-Slate by LG isn’t fitting into those categories, slotting somewhere in between with its 8.9-inch display backed with Tegra 2 graphics, 4G HSPA+ wireless, and all the oomph you want in a modern Android device. It’s a little smaller and little lighter than the 10-inchers, bigger and meatier than the sevens and, by cutting down the middle, it hits almost all the right marks.

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