Dave & Gunnar Show

Episode 115: #115: Automate Your Curmudgeonry

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This week Dave and Gunnar talk about kill switches, killer robots, killer apps, and killing products.

  • David Grohl Alley: Mission Accomplished!
  • Bruce Willis is not moving to Dave’s neighborhood
  • Pycon 2018-2019 in Cleveland?
  • SleepBot
  • Sign up for Gunnar’s Newsletter
  • Remember our discussion about data tampering?  Malware scam appears to use GPS data to catch speeding Pennsylvania drivers
  • Meanwhile: Build your own speed trap camera system with a Raspberry Pi and OpenCV
  • MIT Develops Accurate System for Tracking People, Objects via WiFi
    • Enjoy Architecture of Radio


    • SkullConduct: Biometric User Identification on Eyewear Computers Using Bone Conduction Through the Skull

    • KillerDrone = drone + chainsaw

    • Hacker reveals $40 attack that steals $28k police drones from 2km away

    • Android’s unpatched dead device jungle is good for security

    • D&G This Week in Vendor Abandonment: Google reaches into customers’ homes and bricks their gadgets

      • Don’t forget to set your Google Living Will


      • D&G This Week in Vendor Abandonment (Page 2): TSA spent $47,000 on an app that just randomly picks lanes for passengers

      • Speaking of travel: Poor-taste wi-fi name grounds Perth flight

      • D&G Joke Kit of the Week: TSA Lines Causing Frowns? Send in the Clowns! (and Tiny Horses)

      • Websites take control of USB devices: Googlers propose WebUSB API

      • Meanwhile… Half of people plug in USB drives they find in the parking lot

      • Speaking of Google: Google Spaces and Google Allo and Google Duo

      • Red Hat Product Security Risk Report: 2015

      • Red Hat Summit Government Luncheon and Red Hat Summit Government Breakout

      • Fighting Unicorns in the latest issue of NASA’s AeroSpace Frontiers (bottom of page 4)

      • D&G This Week in Product Design: Why do BIC pen caps have holes in them?

      • The part of the show where Dave causes Gunnar to have a seizure: The perfect suffix for your “cyber-” buzzword

        • Cutting Room Floor

        • Containerizing Ave Maria
        • Barbershop solo?
        • A Metal Tribute to iPhone Ringtones
        • Arduino-powered LEGO nuclear reactor
        • Bistrobot: Sandwich making robot
        • Milk-based 3D scanner
        • Your Amazon Echo can now teach you all about The Art of War
        • PAC-MAN suit
        • The Swedish Number: Get connected to a random Swede and talk about anything
        • Simulate electronics circuits in your browser w/HTML5
        • CIA Operative’s 9-Step Hotel Safety Checklist
        • Terrifying Workplace Safety Video Is a 4-Minute Horror Movie
        • Chinese opsec funnies: your foreign boyfriend is a western spy!
        • ShadyURL: Don’t just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening.
        • Super 8 hotel art gallery
        • Hopefully, You’ll Never Need to Use Polycom’s High-Tech Prison Phone
        • Classic Programmer Paintings
        • Creating sparklines in unicode (h/t emorisse)
        • Visual search engine for satellite imagery (h/t emorisse)

          • We Give Thanks

          • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

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