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.
- 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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