This week, Apple launches the iPad Mini as well as a slew of other product upgrades. Should you trade up your 3rd Generation iPad for the new Lightning iPad? Listen in and find out. Joining us on the panel this week is Box.com IT consultant Tosin Onafowokan.

But first, the headlines...Kim Dotcom launches Mega, Microsoft launches Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, Surface, SmartGlass & a new Halo 4 trailer, Zynga uses Apple’s launch to cover layoffs of over a hundred employees, and Google officially announces Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and Nexus 10.

What We're Playing With

Andrew: Kindle Paperwhite, Epson 5010e 3D Projector, Yamaha RX-V473 networked 5.1 amp
Dwayne: Rowenta Pro Master, Logitech Harmony One Advanced remote

Headlines

• Megaupload Is Dead. Long Live Mega!
• Zynga Just Shut Down Boston Office, Laid Off 100+ Employees
• Microsoft launches Windows 8, Surface tablet to eager customers
  • Microsoft Launches Windows Phone 8
• Here comes SmartGlass: Xbox ‘second screen’ rollout starts with Windows 8
• Watch This: ‘Halo 4′ Trailer Produced By David Fincher

• Google officially announces Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and Nexus 10

Audible Book of the Week

• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Musical Interlude: All Boundaries Are Conventions from “Cloud Atlas” by Tom Tykwer/Johnny Klimek/Reinhold Heil

Hot Topic

• Everything Apple Announced At Today’s iPad Mini Event
  • Apple announces the 7.9-inch iPad mini
    • Why You Should Hold Onto Your "Old" iPad
  • Apple unveils next-generation iMac with slimmer design and Ivy Bridge
  • Apple introduces new 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display
  • Apple announces its 4th generation full-size iPad with A6X chip, LTE, HD FaceTime & Lightning
• iCloud: Sharing done wrong
• Big Apple exec changes: iOS VP Forstall is leaving; Jony Ive and others step up

Outro: The Cloud Atlas Sextet for Orchestra from “Cloud Atlas” by Tom Tykwer/Johnny Klimek/Reinhold Heil

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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all.

Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), VentureBeat editor Devindra Hardawar, marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor. Occasionally joining them is Box.com IT consultant Tosin Onafowokan.

What rights to privacy can we expect when we choose to act anonymously / pseudonymously on the internet? Do they end at your public actions? Is it acceptable to violate the privacy of one class of user over another? Is it the purview of objective journalism to make that decision? The outing of Reddit's ViolentAcrez, "the Biggest Troll on the Web" by Gawker columnist Adrian Chen brings to light those questions and more this week.

But first, the headlines...Microsoft names launch dates and pricing for Windows 8 & Surface RT, Apple teases the possible announcement of the iPad Mini. Saturday Night Live mocks whiny tech bloggers.

What We're Playing With

Andy: Black Mesa
Chris: Check the Weather
Tom: Yahoo IntoNow’s Capit

Headlines

• Windows 8 packaging and pricing revealed: standard OEM $99, Pro Pack $139
  • Windows 8 campaign kicks off with first official television commercial

• Microsoft Surface RT Priced: 32GB For $499 Without Touch Cover, $599 With; 64GB for $699
  • First Microsoft Surface ad airs on national TV ahead of October 26th release

• Apple announces special event for Oct. 23
  • Apple to launch 24 new iPad models, comprised of iPad minis and perhaps Lightning iPad 3
• SNL’s Sketch Pits iPhone 5 Factory Workers Problems Against The Tech Critics

Audible Book of the Week

• Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky

Musical Interlude: Who Are You by The Who

Hot Topic: Internet Anonymity/Pseudonymity

• Unmasking Reddit's Violentacrez, The Biggest Troll on the Web
  • Clearing up rumors and hearsay as the Internet eagerly awaits the Gawker Reddit Story
  • MBrutsch comments on Gawker article
  • Gawker outs one of Reddit’s shady power users, and the world doesn’t end
  • Reddit CEO Speaks Out On Violentacrez In Leaked Memo: 'We Stand for Free Speech'
  • A Few Words On Reddit, Gawker, and Anonymity
• When the Most Personal Secrets Get Outed on Facebook

CNN Interview With ViolentAcrez

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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all.

Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), VentureBeat editor Devindra Hardawar, marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor. Occasionally joining them is Techmeme editor Lidija Davis.

This week, you don’t get to one Billion friends on Facebook without making a few compromises, Google passes Microsoft, Microsoft shifts paradigms, Foxconn strikes Apple, Apple Maps reveals more than it should, Marissa Mayer revamps Yahoo, Zynga fails, Lightning gets cracked, and we remember Steve Jobs a year later.

What We're Playing With
Dwayne: Pocket Planes-- the game where you run your own airline.
Andy: Netgear R3600, The Simpsons: Tapped Out

Headlines

• Facebook reaches one billion monthly active users in September
  • The Things That Connect Us
• Remembering Steve Jobs: Apple reflects on his passing one year later
  • Why We'll Never Stop Talking About Steve Jobs
• Foxconn denies China iPhone plant hit by strike
  • Apple Choice of IPhone Aluminum Said to Slow Down Output
• Taiwan asks Apple to blur satellite image of radar defense station in Maps app

Audible Book of the Week

• That Is All by John Hodgman

Musical Interlude: Why Can't We Be Friends? by War

More Headlines

• Google Passes Microsoft’s Market Value as PC Loses to Web
  • Ballmer to Microsoft shareholders: 'a fundamental shift [is] underway in our business
• Marissa Mayer Is Working On A Revolutionary Change To Yahoo.com, And Sources Say It Might Look Like This
• Words With Friends co-creators leave Zynga
  • ZYNGA Falls 11%
  • Why Zynga Failed
• Apple's Lightning Authentication Reportedly Cracked, Unauthorized Third-Party Cables coming

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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all.

Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), VentureBeat editor Devindra Hardawar, marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Startup Digest CTO

If you could download and print your own weapon, would you? Should you be allowed to? This week, we get into the impending legal & copyright minefields associated with the untamed frontier that is desktop 3D printing.

But first, the headlines..Facebook launches real-world Gifts, Tim Cook issues an apology for iOS6 Maps, Apple manufacturers start building a mini iPad, Microsoft to launch XBOX Music service, T-Mobile merges with MetroPCS, Judge lifts ban against Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Samsung adds iPhone 5 to lawsuit

What We're Playing With

Andy: iPhone 5; How the West Was Won in 3-strip Cinerama
Devindra: Kindle Paperwhite, Microsoft's new keyboards and mice suck

Headlines

• Say Hello to Gifts, Facebook's New Mobile Revenue Stream
• Tim Cook issues a public apology for Apple Maps, suggests Bing, Google, and others
  • Apple Turning to Select Retail Store Employees to Help Improve Maps for iOS 6
• Apple iPad Suppliers Begin Producing Smaller Version
• Xbox Music to launch on October 26th with free ad-supported streaming
• T-Mobile USA & Metro PCS to combine
• Judge Koh Ends Ban on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
  • Samsung makes good on threat of patent suit against iPhone 5

Audible Book of the Week

• Makers: The New Industrial Revolution by Chris Anderson

Musical Interlude: You Could Make a Killing by Aimee Mann

Hot Topic

• 3-D Printer Company Seizes Machine From Desktop Gunsmith
  • 3D Printer Form 1 Tops $1.4M On Kickstarter In A Week
  • 3D Piracy: Printing, Artists, and the Economy

Final Word

• Startup Weekend Acquires Local Events Newsletter Provider StartupDigest; Product Gets Spun Off As GroupTie

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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all.

Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), VentureBeat editor Devindra Hardawar, marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor. Occasionally joining them is Techmeme editor Lidija Davis.