Show Notes

Buffer Overflow: Domesticated Snakes

Episode 131

Facebook Libra, Solaring in the dark, and Moon O2

Hosts

Ned Bellavance

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52

@Ned1313

Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner

Brenda Heisler, Resource Coordinator

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-heisler-b5431989/

Longer Topics

Give me Libra or give me something else!

* The EU launched an anti-trust investigation into the Libra Assoc.

* Japan set up a task force to determine Libra’s possible impact on financial markets

* PayPal backs out on October 4 citing a focus on core business

* Visa, Mastercard, eBay, Stripe all pull out

Solar energy is making inroads in new and interesting ways

* And the prices on the electricity coming from Molten Salt plants is dropping, down from 13.5cents per kilowatt hour in 2009, down to appx 5 cents per kilowatt hour in 2017.

* The feature is called “Anti-Islanding,” and it is intended to protect utility workers who would logically assume that there is no power on the line.

Lightning Round

* Amazon finally dumps Oracle for good

* Motorola RAZR might be making a comeback

* Great news! Putting tiny spy chips into computer hardware is not as hard as you’d think!

* Samsung announces that the thumbprint reader can be unlocked with ANY thumbprint

* Rather than using schmancy antibiotics on bacteria, why not just rip them apart?

* Moon settlers could get oxygen from the surface of the satellite

Music Credits

Intro: Jason Shaw – Tech Talk

Outro: Jason Shaw – Feels Good 2 B