#34: Velociraptor

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!