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Mormon's should have stopped Trump? Voyager nears 40, Bitcoin just forked, a molten metal squirt gun, Patook, DefCon & Black Hat, and the crazy electronic badges of DefCon.

 

Links from this episode:

- Huffington Post says Mormons could've kept Trump from reaching the White House but they didn't - Poll: Hillary Clinton Is Less Popular Than Trump - NASA's Voyager Spacecraft Nears 40th Anniversary, Still Transmits Data - The Emoji Movie - Up - HBO Security Contractor: Hackers Stole ‘Thousands of Internal Documents’ (EXCLUSIVE) - Wait, Bitcoin Just Did What? - Popular torrent client can steal your CPU cycles to mine bitcoins - World's LARGEST SUPER SOAKER!! (not clickbait) - The World's SECOND Largest Super Soaker! - Molten Metal Squirtgun! - Wikipedia: Trojan Room coffee pot - Patook wants to be Tinder for platonic friendships - DefCon - Black Hat - Armatix IP1 “Smart Gun” Hacked with $15 Worth of Magnets - Criminal’s Family Laments The Good Guy’s AR-15 Made The Fight Unfair - Security This Week: The Very Best Hacks From Black Hat and Defcon - The U.S. Army is teaching kids how to hack at DEF CON - Michael Ossmann Pulls DSSS Out of Nowhere - Iran Hacked GPS Signals To Capture U.S. Drone - Paranoid cybersecurity pro on vacation thwarts card-stealing scammers - DC801 - All the Unofficial Electronic Badges of DEF CON - The exquisite art and subculture of Def Con’s (unofficial) badges

Google is cracking down on slipshod Certificate Authorities, a fake strongman duo from Reddit, fish rain in Honduras, SpaceX scraps Mars shot for now, and we discuss the flatness of the universe.

Links from this episode:

- Google drops the boom on WoSign, StartCom certs for good - Firefox ready to block certificate authority that threatened Web security - Wikipedia: Idiot light - SHA-1 Broken - Fake strongman duo, Chop & Steele, that pranked a news station, started a GoFundMe to pay for legal fees after the news station sued them. - Every Year, the Sky ‘Rains Fish.’ Explanations Vary. - Aerial stocking of fish in the Uintas (Utah) - SpaceX drops plans for powered Dragon landings - Everything About Mars Is The Worst - Was the Space Shuttle a Mistake? - How Long Does it Take to get to the Asteroid Belt? - Our flat universe - How many particles in the Universe? - Numberphile

We discuss an episode of Planet Money that discusses the Magnitsky Act, how it relates to Trump, and we discuss why that doesn't matter.

Links from this episode:

- Planet Money: Episode 784: Meeting The Russians - Freakonomics: When Helping Hurts - Freakonomics:Oil #1: We Buy Oil - Supporters of the Magnitsky Act Claim They've Been Targets of Russian Assassination and Kidnapping Bids - Byron York: Harvard study: CNN, NBC Trump coverage 93 percent negative - Scott Adams Blog: Good Example of Our Two-Movie Reality - Trump shaking hands with Putin - Pew Research Center: The Modern News Consumer - Pew Research Center: News Use Across Social Media Platforms 2016 - Social media 'outstrips TV' as news source for young people - Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed *

Dana Loesh's NRA ad is imploding heads, CNN takes on a Redditor and loses, hacker makes a manned multirotor from 76 propeller, Ron Howard takes on Han Solo Movie, & renewable energy study gutted.

Links from this episode:

- Freedom's Safest Place | S2 E2: "The Violence Of Lies" - Watch The NRA Ad That’s So Outrageous, Women’s March Is Demanding An Apology - Women’s March Angry Over New Ad, Set To Protest NRA - Wikipedia: Bundy standoff - Wikipedia: Deep state in the United States - Tech CEOs just met with Trump. Here's why - Kekistan - CNN Threatens a Trump Troll - People Who Can’t Recognize Humor (literally) - CNN Is Standing By Its Controversial Reddit User Story - One line in Trump’s speech in Poland made liberals’ heads implode - Manned Multirotor Flies Again, Electric Style - Repaired Manned Multicopter Flies without Horrifying Crash - Ron Howard on ‘Star Wars’ Han Solo Movie Directing Gig: ‘I’ve Been a Fan Forever’ - FIA Introduces The Intercontinental Drifting Cup - Landmark 100 Percent Renewable Energy Study Flawed, Say 21 Leading Experts

We discuss the 2017 total eclipse, Reddit: Shower Thoughts, are eclipses going extinct? a Rotary 180, USS Fitzgerald collision, and we watch Def Con, Black Hat and Hacktivity videos.

Links from this episode:

- 2017 Eclipse - NASA: Eclipse 101 - PBS Kids: Find Your Blindspot - Solar Eclipse Timer - SmarterEveryDay - Smarter Every Day 2 - Reddit: Shower Thoughts - Total solar eclipses are going extinct - Map of Future Eclipses - Rotary Turns 180 Degrees On Restrictive Firearm Polices - Wikipedia: Silver Beaver Award - Mapping the ACX Crystal's collision with the USS Fitzgerald using publicly available info - Russia Warns U.S. After Downing of Syrian Warplane - Sam the Eagle - Black Hat - DEF CON Videos - hacktivity - Watching Commodity Malware Get Sold to a Targeted Actor - xDedic.biz only on TOR! - DEF CON 22 - Gene Bransfield - Weaponizing Your Pets: The War Kitteh and the Denial of Service Dog - Adafruit TV-B-Gone Kit - Universal v1.2 * - DEFCON 13: Introduction to Lockpicking and Physical Security

We talk about the Planet Money podcast episode 780, Reddit Change My View, Katherine Baicker changes her mind with science, Thomas Midgley and his one-man environmental disaster, and Netflix thumbs.

Links from this episode:

- Planet Money: Oil #1: We Buy Oil - Episode 780: On Second Thought - Reddit/Change My View - NEJM: The Oregon Experiment — Effects of Medicaid on Clinical Outcomes - What is Occam's Razor? - Senate healthcare bill: Read the full text - Pelosi: "We Have to Pass the Bill So That You Can Find Out What Is In It" - Single-Payer Health Care: America Already Has It - New Scientist: Inventor hero was a one-man environmental disaster - Al Gore: Inventing the Internet - Netflix Officially Kills Star Ratings, Replacing Them With Thumbs Up and Down

A home that crosses the US-Canadian border for sale, Navy ship hit by cargo ship, US soldiers helping Philippines, Unicode URLs are phishing you, April 1st fake news, and GMO vs selective breeding.

Links from this episode:

- Ever wanted to live in 2 nations at once? Here’s your chance - Along the U.S.-Canada border, an invisible but hardening wall rises - The Odd Existence of Point Roberts, Washington - ISIS leader al-Baghdadi reportedly killed in Russia-led airstrike – MoD - Seven sailors missing after U.S. Navy destroyer collides with container ship off Japan - Philippines says U.S. troops near besieged Marawi, but not fighting - Exclusive: U.S. special forces helping Philippines troops to end city siege - xn--80ak6aa92e.com - Chrome, Firefox Users Exposed to Unicode Domain Phishing - What I learned playing prey to Windows scammers - Reddit: Shower Thoughts - Postal Clause - Article Two of the United States Constitution: Clause 4 - Did China discover AMERICA? Ancient Chinese script carved into rocks may prove Asians lived in New World 3,300 years ago - FAKE NEWS!! The best and worst April Fools' Day stories - How to Replace Blinker Fluid - Cody Blows Himself Up - H.I. #83: The Best Kind of Prison - Genetic engineering vs. natural breeding: What’s the difference?

Will Puerto Rico become the 51st state? Reddit shower thoughts, a knife or a gun? 24 Hours of Le Mans, & a Virginia county creating their own wireless broadband for education.

Links from this episode:

- Despite Vote in Favor, Puerto Rico Faces a Daunting Road Toward Statehood - Proportional Representation - Reddit: Shower Thoughts - CapArms Question of the Day: Would You Rather Face a Knife or a Gun? - Specialist: Army Training Manual for medical care specialists - HARSH REALITY: Police Are Not Highly Trained Firearms Experts - Knives vs. Guns: Deadly Distance - 24 Hours of Le Mans - Le Mans 99' Mercedes CLR-GT1 Crash Live - Ayrton Senna Qualifying Lap Monaco - To Help Rural Kids Do Their Homework, a Virginia County Is Using Secret Wireless Spectrum - US Frequency Allocation Chart

This episode we talk about the Thor:Ragnarok & Black Panther Trailers, Richard Hammonds current crash, the WOW signal, yellow printer dots code, iOS 11, Foscam fails, & Puerto Rico vote for statehood.

Links from this episode:

- Black Panther Teaser Trailer [HD] - Thor: Ragnarok Teaser Trailer [HD] - Richard Hammond vows return after car crash in Switzerland - Richard Hammond's car crash will affect The Grand Tour, says Jeremy Clarkson - Top Gear - Wow! mystery signal from space finally explained - How a few yellow dots burned the Intercept’s NSA leaker - Why You Can't Print Counterfeit Money on Your Color Laser - Apple iOS 11 Release Has Nasty Surprises - Internet cameras have hard-coded password that can’t be changed - Puerto Rico prepares to vote on statehood - Elon Musk leaving Trump advisory councils following Paris agreement withdrawal - De Blasio’s Chick-Fil-A boycott is a clucking travesty

Today we talk mattresses and review our recent unsponsored purchase of the Purple mattress.  We also have our Wonder Woman spoilercast, and review the movie.

Links from this episode:

- Purple Mattress Company - Purple Mattress Review Videos - Whats inside a Mattress - Bonnell Springs - Standard Mattress Sizes - Wonder Woman Official Website - Wonder Woman Comics