Ek-cellent

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Ek-cellent
Number 2683
Broadcast Date FEBRUARY 8, 2016
Episode Length 34:38
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Pelle Eklund

Eklund joins us to help explain why the NHL switched streaming in the middle of the season and why it had so many outages even with MLBAM involved.

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Headlines

The telecom regulatory authority of India has issued prohibiting discriminatory tariffs for data services regulations. “No service provider shall offer or charge discriminatory tariffs for data services on the basis of content.” In other words, Facebook’s Free Basics can’t provide some parts of the Internet for free.
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Reuters reports France’s data protection authority has given Facebook three months to stop tracking non-users Web activity without their consent. The company was also ordered to stop transferring data to the US on the basis of the Safe Harbour agreement declared invalid in October.
On Sunday a data dump was posted on Twitter containing the names, titles, email addresses and phone numbers of more than 9,000 US Department of Homeland Security employees. The Twitter account said it would post data from 20,000 US FBI employees next. The data was also sent to Motherboard which confirmed the data was legitimate. The source compromised an email account and then socially engineered access to a US Department of Justice staff portal.
The Financial Times reports sources tell it that Google plans to release a more substantial virtually reality product than its current Cardboard. The new headset would have plastic casing, better sensors and lenses and support a wider range of phones. The report also mentioned more about bringing VR to the core of the Android operating system.
The Pirate Bay has added beta compatibility with the Torrents Time software. If you have Torrents Time installed you can click on a ‘stream it’ option from any listing and begin watching the video in the browser. The video can also be sent to Chromecast or AirPlay. Popcorn Time Online, Torrentproject, Videomax and Online Porntime have also added support for Torrents Time. The majority of content found on these search engines may be protected by copyright laws but the system can be used for legal content as well. But that doesn't matter to Netherlands' anti-piracy group BREIN, which VentureBeat reports sent Torrents Time a cease and desist. Torrents Time responded denying allegations of illegality and refusing to comply.
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Venture Beat has confirmed with Google that Google Hangouts will now route audio and video over a peer-to-peer connection when possible in order to improve quality and speed. The feature has been spotted on Android but is coming to iOS and the Web as well.
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CBS reports the number of people who watched Super Bowl 50 streamed online set a new record. Streamers watched 315 million minutes of game coverage with an average of 1.4 million people streamed the game per minute. Re/Code notes that last year’s Super Bowl on NBC claimed 800,000 avg viewers/minute, with a total of 213 million minutes watched. CBS offered the game free over devices like the Xbox One, Roku, Chromecast and Apple TV via its CBS Sports app.
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Saturday Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey posted “We never planned to reorder timelines next week.” BuzzFeed reported Friday that Twitter would introduce a more Facebook-style algorithmically driven feed. The Verge received screenshots of a test of the new timeline from the Salt mobile carrier in Switzerland. It will add older tweets based on how long since you last checked and a pull down to refresh will give you a chronological views. You can choose to opt out of the feature as well.
Samsung’s UBD-K8500, the first consumer 4K Blu-ray player, is now ahead of its announced March release. Engadget reports Video & Audio Center in Santa Monica sold out of the machine Friday after announcing it was on sale. Best Buy emailed pre-order customers announcing its release Feb 10th. And members of the AVS Forum have reported seeing the machine at Frys in the SF Bay Area and San Diego. The $399 player works with Blu-ray, 3D Blu-ray, DVDs, CDs in addition to 4K Blu-ray and can stream 4K content from services like Netflix.

Discussion

Pick of the Day

Sending in this pick: Air VPN.

I signed up for this VPN product a year ago and have been paying for it every month ever since very happily.

Initially I wanted a VPN service that allowed me to use port 80 (which may or may not have been so I could access the Elder Scroll Online servers over WIRED's corporate networking after hours when I worked there). This worked well at the time, and since then I've taken advantage of the fact that the configuration options are extremely numerous, offering multiple simultaneous connections from multiple devices, multiple servers in many countries (including six in the UK), no bandwidth limits (I've had downstream speeds of 150Mbps on my fibre connection at home while connected to the service), and support for Open VPN as well as SSL, SSH, and multiple other features.

BUT... While I've been a very happy customer, and the service does exactly what it says on the box, I'd really love to know how well the service stacks up in the eyes of a security expert. Maybe listeners with experience - or perhaps Darren Kitchen? - could shed some light on whether Air VPN is seen as a secure and trustable service for more serious security users, rather than just people who want to game over corporate networks or protect their communications in hotels and airports.
Submitted by Nate

Messages

Just listened to the discussion with Scott about Amazon stores and it reminded me of this earlier email. Imagine this - you go into an Amazon store and ask for a specific book. The assistant tells you they have it in the closest distribution centre and if you'd like to have a free coffee while you wait they will drone it to the store.
Sent by Mike


Hello Tom and Veronica or other host

Thinking about the discussion topic from Friday. Is the VR unreal engin editor basically a WYSIWYG editor for game creation / virtual environments, and can it bring 3D environment creation to a more general audience? Depending on the excution and the hardware costs I see a demarcation of game creation happening much like web development. In the early days you had to know html and how to manage servers. Now it is as simple as square space or even just a Facebook page.

I am interested in what Scott was saying about the object oriented databases. What if instead of writing code you just stacked blocks and ran lines together.

Also Good to hear Molly on the show!!

Love the show

You should do a meet and greet in St. Louis sometime.
Sent by Daniel Hoffman recently relocated from Cincinnati to Saint Louis


Dear Tom,

I'm sure you've already heard from the "well actually" crowd on this one but just in case...well actually...

On DTNS 2681 you were responding to an email from George who had said something to the effect that Amazon was returning to the model of Sears etc. who were catalogue stores and then opened retail stores. Your response seemed to imply that George was incorrect in that the stores came first and then the catalogue ordering came later. What you actually said was "These companies had stores and then figured out they could sell to more people by putting out catalogues." I thought that was not totally accurate. So I consulted the "Book of Knowledge", Wikipedia. According to Wikipedia, "Sears, Roebuck and Company", which was founded in 1886, started out as a mail order catalogue company and then in 1925 started opening stores.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears

The reason this piqued my curiosity to go and check it out was because of the many references by my "elders" of the dual use of the Sears catalogue pages. In the current catalogue you could browse them to order products but the expired catalogues' pages were often used in the "little brown shack out back" for another purpose.

I can't speak for any of the other mail order companies but Sears did start out as a mail order company. That is if Wikipedia is accurate.

Anyway, have a great week.

Sincerely,
Sent by Dan Gardner in San Antonio, Texas

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