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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