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Episode 34: #34: Velociraptor

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This week on Dave and Gunnar: Oracle plays with science, Amazon plays with the US Postal Service, and everyone plays with tracking you like a criminal.

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  • FLIGHTMARE! Inflight cell calling debuts, dealing heavy blow to quality of life
  • U.S. Reaches Preliminary Deal in American-US Airways Merger Lawsuit
  • Adam Clater will soon be able to recharge his beard phone and guinea pig with microwaves
  • HT Jason Calloway: Beard followup
  • badBIOS and more apocalyptic movie plot ideas, part III: Russia: Hidden chips ‘launch spam attacks from irons’
  • Sorry state of baseband OSes
  • Larry Ellison misunderstands science and economics
  • Amazon Is Closer Than Ever to Running the U.S. Postal Service
  • Did your Adobe password leak? Now you and 150m others can check
  • Anatomy of a password disaster – Adobe’s giant-sized cryptographic blunder
  • Facebook makes Adobe fans change their horrible, horrible passwords
  • How stores use your phone’s WiFi to track your shopping habits
  • Attention, Shoppers: Store Is Tracking Your Cell
  • Google Is Testing A Program That Tracks You Everywhere You Go
  • You Are a Rogue Device: A New Apparatus Capable of Spying on You Has Been Installed Throughout Downtown Seattle. Very Few Citizens Know What It Is, and Officials Don’t Want to Talk About It.
  • Google updates Google+ Hangouts updated… for one tap location sharing
  • More good news: Facebook patented making government data handoffs easier
  • Toronto tailor introduces bulletproof three-piece suits
  • Dave at SC13 in Denver November 17-22
  • Gunnar to deliver Ironman 90 minute keynote Alamo ACE (AFCEA) in San Antonio on November 19-20
  • OpenShift’s everyday low prices: Announcing 50% Lower Gear Prices, More Countries, and 2GB Gears in the Silver Plan
  • Happy 10th birthday Fedora!
  • SELinux coloring book
  • HT Tony James: Automated auditing the system using SCAP
  • Rapport with panelists is more important than knowing what you’re going to say
    • Bonus tips: Confessions of a Public Speaker


      • Cutting Room Floor

      • HT Nathan: Boston Symphony mourns JFK
      • The 1960s Superhero Who Was Powered by Smoking
      • Awesome: Vocals only version of Happy Together by The Turtles
        • And lots more including Alice in Chains, 11 yo Michael Jackson, Beatles, and Dire Straits!


        • Universal Translator? Turn your Raspberry Pi into a Translator with Speech Recognition and Playback

        • 39 Raspberry Pi 3D Scanner

        • The Automata of Terror: Cinema’s 8 Scariest Robots

        • Cognitive surplus: London Underground Simulator game review

          • Related: New York Bus: The Simulation


          • Goodwill Computer Museum in Austin, TX!

            • And if you are near Bletchley Park check out The National Museum of Computing
            • And if you are near Fort Meade check out The National Cryptologic Museum


              • We Give Thanks

              • Jason Calloway, Tony James, and Nathan for giving us ideas to talk about!

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