Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

• Kids Behaving Badly? Blame It on Mom
• Supreme Court yanks Blagojevich’s license to practice law
• After dieting, hormone changes may fuel weight regain
• New children’s store to offer 25,000 items
• Way to Win!
• I’m Only Making One Trip
• BoingBoing: CORRECTION: TSA identifies, but does not bother to fire screener who left “Inappropriate Note” in woman’s luggage.

  http://t.co/xtH3i6LN

• 21-Month-Old Nexus One ‘Too Old’ for Android 4.0 Upgrade
• Steve Jobs: One Last Thing Documentary to air on PBS Nov 2
• Nokia’s First Windows Phones: Lumia 710 and 800
• Probably Bad News: What An Assinine Excuse
• Push for ‘Personhood’ Amendments Is New Tack in Abortion Fight
• States May Be $4 Trillion in Debt, Report Says
• Nexus One denied Ice Cream Sandwich, becomes official relic of Android’s yesteryears
• Thin Line Between Love And Hate
• Popular tattooed Barbie causes controversy
  (Reuters)
• karaswisher: Mahalo Lays Off 25 Percent for Shift to Apps From Video http://t.co/rRX5xKgz
• Obama accelerates student loan relief
• filmester: Johnny Depp & Keith Richards at Playboy after party for Rum Diaries playing guitar in New York City with @filmester http://t.co/6dkV8VpX
• ‘We’re a culture, not a costume’
• British man’s prosthetic arm doubles as Nokia C7 dock
• How Siri Disrupts Search
• Lung Cancer Deaths Unchanged by Annual Chest X-Rays
• We have entered a post-PC era, report claims [infographic]
• Twitter bumps water cooler as it turns focus to TV
• Boarding pass security breach at Midway
• Fresh Forms of Control
• Technically, It’s ATX Compliant
• Battlefield 3 on PC doesn't exactly work right now—try later
• Solidarity
• Mahalo Lays Off 25 Percent for Shift to Apps From Video
• Chicago-area school district gives free iPads to freshmen
• Murdoch lawyer accused BBC of phone hacking vendetta
  (Reuters)
• iPhone 4S launch drives record number of BlackBerry trade-ins
• Apple building 171 acre solar panel farm to power NC data center
• Mass Species Loss Stunts Evolution for Millions of Years
• We Are The…Whatever Percent Who Use Google Reader
• Spectacular Northern Lights Display Leaves Skywatchers Spellbound
• Let Kids Gorge on Halloween Candy, Dentists Say
• Inside Podcast Special: Windows Server 8 with Paul Thurrott
• Endangered Plants Not ‘Living Fossils’ After All
• Boeing 787 makes inaugural passenger flight
• Modern Algorithms Crack 18th Century Secret Code
• Apple going solar at North Carolina data center
• Comcast, Verizon Ordered To ID Subscribers In Copyright Trolling Suit
• Finished!
• ThinkGeek IRIS 9000 promises to make 2012 a desk-bound odyssey
• Men Struggle With Binge Eating Too, Study Finds
• Juniper adds OpenFlow to its routers, switches
• At Home Painting Service
• Three-Day Outage Testament to RIM’s “Unprecedented Track Record of Reliability”
• Does Windows 8 violate Apple’s new ‘Slide to unlock’ patent?
• Oct. 26, 1992: Software Glitch Cripples Ambulance Service
• Man mistakes the moon for a UFO, dials 999
• Nokia announces the Lumia 800, the ‘first real Windows Phone’ (video)
• Citrix claims it will make virtual desktops cheaper than real ones
• Nokia unveils Asha lineup, bringing Series 40 to emerging markets: 200, 201, 300, 303
• Unshelved on Wednesday, October 26, 2011
• Apple to debut ‘in-store pickup’ program in SF tomorrow
• Lesson #1212 – Graveyards
• Historian Taylor Branch Delivers a Critical View of the N.C.A.A.
• October 26, 2011
• Delta-P
• Man stabbed outside Schaumburg McDonald’s
• Serial rapist targeting sorority sisters?
• Prosecutors say man killed his ailing dad after offering teen $50 to do it
• Hot holiday season could push Kindle Fire sales to 5 million in Q4
• PSA: Xbox 360 Battlefield 3 servers are down, EA ‘aware’
• U.S. Says Parts Smuggled to Iran, Some for I.E.D.’s in Iraq
• Find out if you’re in the Xbox Live Update Preview Program right now
• DailyDirt: You Must Un-Learn What You Have Learned… Really?
• Death toll from tainted cantaloupes hits 28
• 10-year-old Windows XP Ad Predicted the Future of Computing
• The Book of Jobs (Comic)
• Boys should get HPV vaccine, panel says
• Siri shows up on an iPod Touch, no longer plays favorites in the iOS family
• Madigan wants to set limits on union wages, benefits
• John McCarthy, AI pioneer, dies at 84
• Northern Lights Wow Michiganders
  (ContributorNetwork)
• Sprint denied access to AT&T documents in fight against merger
• 155 layoffs planned at city health clinics
• Hope
• Publishers See Apple Newsstand Sales Surge, But Ad Sales Slow To Follow
• Stephen Fry on Steve Jobs
• Report: GTA V to be set in Los Angeles, will feature multiple playable characters
• Microsoft Expert FAIL
• Patience tested over waste, crime at protest sites
  (AP)
• IBM names its first female CEO
  (AP)
• AP Source: Big 12 approves WVU to replace Missouri
  (AP)
• The Ubuntu Font Family
• Amazon results tank as it ships ‘millions more’ Kindle Fires
• Reefer Madness: Marijuana Throws Brain Regions Out of Sync
• Owned by Mom
• Blind To Common Sense
• Denver on a 24-Hour Ride from Balmy to Brrrr
• Amazon net sales up, net income down for Q3 2011
• 5.2 quake hits Japan’s Fukushima prefecture
  (AP)
• Business Model FAIL
• Live grenade found in Joliet office building safe

Look for more stories tomorrow. If an important story has been missed please leave it in the comments.

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I’ve been brooding over this for the past couple of days, as to whether or not to blog about this, and I’ve decided I will.

While listening to Apple Phone Show #43, Scott Bourne was talking to Chris Breen about the iPhone being released in Ireland. During this conversation he made the statement “the iPhone gives them one more reason to drink, like they need another reason to drink’. Being March, and me being Irish, I took some offense to this. Most of the time, something like this wouldn’t bother me, but for some reason it must’ve been the way he said this statement and implied, at least to me, that all Irish are drunkards. I posted a comment on the blog entry for the episode about how his statement implying that all Irish are drunks and they’ll use ‘any excuse’ to drink. With statements like this it is detrimental to ‘New Media’ producers when they are supposed to be expanding the view of listeners / participants and all they are doing is just perpetuating the narrow-minded views of the world.

Here was the conversation (via e-mail) that followed. It is a direct copy-and-paste.

From Scott Bourne:
Wayne I am half Irish. Sorry if that throws a wrench in your diatribe.

If you’re one of those looking to be offended – life will keep you busy. I never insinuated Irish were drunkards. That’s your thing – you decided that. Perhaps you have a problem of being an Irish hater and can’t face it. I said (not insinuated) the Irish like to drink. That’s different from being drunk. And by and large we do like to drink. Should that fact be changed to match some politically correct scorecard you carry? Hell no.

As for new media being forced to cow tow to every politically correct jerk looking for a reason to express faux outrage – well for me, that’s the REASON to do new media. We don’t have to do that. And if new media’s acceptance were to hang on living in a politically correct world where we tip toe over everything we say – then there’s no need for new media. We have old media to be afraid of people like you.

You need to get over yourself and maybe you’d find life more enjoyable.

And as my father’s family would quote

The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another. —Samuel Johnson 1709-1784

I’ve marked your IP address as spam.

Good day.

My Reply:

Mr. Bourne:

I can’t be an Irish hater when I am Irish. Therefore I’m not an Irish hater. But your statement of insinuating that I’m an Irish hater is very disappointing to me. I’m not saying that new media has to go ahead and be politically correct, I actually enjoy that they’re not, it allows me to consume media that I could never get from traditional media But making a statement that ‘it gives them another reason to drink’ is only aiding in stereotyping the Irish. In an age when the whole idea of new media to help others broaden their mindset, statements like that only help narrow it. I’m sorry that this is your mindset. It’s a disappointment to find those who are trying to make a big change in one area but continue to perpetuate stereotypes in other areas.

You’ve lost a listener, who will not recommend any podcasts of yours to anybody. While this one person may not have much impact, it is a lost revenue stream. Particularly after listening to you and Alex on TWiP, I was all set to go off and purchase a book of yours, but no longer. My biggest disappointment in this is that I cannot support Andy Ihnatko or Chris Breen by listening to this podcast. I’ll just have to support them in other ways.

Scott Bourne’s Reply:

Wayne I don’t need your money. I don’t do the shows because of the money I make doing them. If I did have to rely on them for income, I’d be held hostage to people like you. I’d never put myself in that situation.

Your attitude is immature and frankly, I feel sorry for you.

By the way – Chris, Alex and Andy will all find some way to manage without your support. We have millions of listeners. You’re the only one to complain. That says a bunch more about you than me.

Now to me, this is just plain arrogance and complete selfishness on his part. Mr. Bourne doesn’t think that one listener has any potential to change something. Well guess what Mr. Bourne, you’re wrong. There’s no need to feel sorry for me. I’ll be fine, the fact that you have chosen to go ahead and take the ‘I’m holier than thou’ approach will be your downfall.

Needless to say I’ve unsubscribed to the podcast. I’m half debating whether to unsubscribe to any podcast he’s on, but well, Mac Break Weekly and TWiP are too entertaining or informative to stop listening to. But if he doesn’t appear on them, I won’t be sorry.

Tags: Arrogance, new media, Podcast

On SN 94: The Fourth Authentication Type, Leo and Steve talked about how a hacker can have a thumb drive, install keylogging software, put it in a Library computer, leave it there for a week, come back and have all of the user names and passwords of the people who sat there. I’d like to argue this point, heavily. There may be some libraries that do not have any restrictions on their patron terminals, however there are many, including the one that I work at, that do. We run a program called “trust-no-exe”. this does exactly what you think. It stops all EXE files from loading except the ones that you specify. We do this, in addition to several other security related things.

Additionally, many of the libraries in the US had donated, or were allowed to purchase at a significant discount, computers from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. And the B&MGF did not just give the computers and say, here, you deal with security. No, the setup included that all of the users are Non-Administrators. Many libraries are extremely concerned about security and privacy, particularly because they have a very diverse population. One specific thing is that we did not allow thumb drives until we could find a way to restrict them from running programs. Plus, being non-administrator users, our patrons cannot run the U3 Software, since that requires Administrative rights; yet they can still save their files to their thumb drives. Many libraries continued this setup, even if they replaced their aging Gates’ computers.

I find the belief that libraries are lackadaisical when it comes to security, disheartening and rather assumptive on the part of Leo and Steve.

Tags: Bill and Melinda Gates, Leo Laporte, Libraries, Podcast, Security Now, Steve Gibson, Thumb drives, Twit, U3