Stop, Drop, and Land Your Drone

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Stop, Drop, and Land Your Drone
Number 2540
Broadcast Date JULY 20, 2015
Episode Length 44:21
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Lamarr Wilson

Lamarr Wilson and Tom Merritt talk about the new Breakthrough Listen initiative to search for signs of extraterrestrial life. Also Samsung has really thin tablets now.

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Headlines

Ars Technica reports hackers calling themselves Impact Team accessed data from Avid Life Media, publisher of a dating site for married people called Ashley Madison. CEO Noel Bilderman confirmed the hack with with KrebsOnSecurity but not what was accessed. Impact Team claims to have a complete set of user profiles but has only released some internal network maps, employee details and company bank account data. The group demands Avid Life Media take down Ashley Madison and Established Men or it will release all 37 million members customer records and employee information.
Samsung announced its thinnest tablet line, the Galaxy Tab S2 reports TechCrunch. Both the 8 and 9.7-inch Tab S2 are 5.6mm thick and weigh 265g and 389g, respectively. The Galaxy Tab S2 has an 8-core processor, four 1.9GHz cores and four 1.3GHz cores , Comes with 3GB RAM and 32 or 64GB of internal memory and a 2048 x 1536 Super AMOLED screen. The S2s go on sale around the world in August, in white and black. No word on pricing.
Fortune reports Microsoft will acquire Israeli cloud security company Adallom for around $320 million. That would be Microsoft's largest-ever acquisition in Israel. Addalom focuses on security for data both on internal servers and in cloud applications. Microsoft has not commented on the report.
Reuters reports on a study from Citizen Lab about what kind of content is removed from TenCent’s WeChat platform in China. Similar to other social networks in the country, posts that might have a destabilizing effect on society are removed. But unlike other networks, WeChat had a higher percentage of posts removed related to rumors and gossip. An anti-rumour campaign began in China in 2013.
Today is the first day that PayPal and eBay are trading as separate companies. CNET reports that PayPal has a value of about $50 billion, while eBay's market cap is now $34 billion down from $80 billion last week. The split was will allow eBay to experiment with new payment methods, and let PayPal partner with eBay's competitors PayPal closed up 5% at $40.48 a share and Ebay closed at $28.57 a share.
It was a mixed weekend for drones. First the good news. Friday saw the first FAA sanctioned delivery made by drone in the US sending medical supplies from Wise County regional airport to a remote rural clinic. The rest is bad news. The US Forest Service had to ground helicopters fighting a wildfire in southern California for 26 minutes because of several drones operating in the area. The fire crossed Interstate 15 destroying several cars. Spain’s royal family has spotted robotic aircraft near its palace at night. And finally in news that’s good or bad depending on where you stand, a leaked email from Hacker Team describes Boeing discussing mounting WiFi attacking hardware on an airborne system.
Spotify has a new Discover Weekly playlist feature according to The Next Web. The Discovery Weekly playlist will create a personalized selection of songs based on your listening habits and songs liked by others with similar tastes. The playlist is updated every Monday morning and contains about 2hrs of music and can be shared with friends.
Engadget reports that UK’s High Court has overturned “Copyright and Rights in Performances (Personal Copies for Private Use) Regulations 2014”. That means UK users are no longer have explicit legal permission to rip CDs and DVDs for personal use. The court found HMG acted unlawfully when it introduced an exemption to copyright for personal use without fair compensation. EU copyright directive permits member states like the UK to introduce exceptions but must ensure right holders receive fair compensation.
ReCode reports IBM’s earnings were better than expected but sales fell 13% year over year thanks to a strong US dollar. IBM earned. $3.84 per share on sales of $20.8 billion.

News From You

Hey UK folks that have been ripping CDs, you really should read the TorrentFreak article about how Her Majesty’s government wants to increase the maximum prison sentence for online copyright infringement from two to ten years. You CD Rippers will probably be OK though as the law targets organized and commercial copyright infringement.
Submitted by fc88
There is a Medium post written by Andrés Iniestia, a man who lives in Madrid, who likes to take pictures "of his kids, yummy food and interesting buildings" which he shares on Instagram. Last week Instagram closed his account for "infringing on the Terms of Use". Inestia contacted Instagram twice but got no response. A few days later, his Instagram followers noticed that a futbol player named Andrés Iniesta was showing up in their feeds. He contacted Instagram again, and still got no response. So he wrote a Medium article about the situation, and five hours later, his account was restored, with no explanation. The Player's agent at least contacted him and said they had nothing to do with the problem.
Submitted by KAPT_Kipper
Engadget has a report about Dutch construction company VolkerWessels which wants to built roads made from recycled plastic materials. The company thinks the roads would last three times longer and survive greater temperature ranges than traditional asphalt roads. The roads have a hollow structure which is idea for cabling and pipes. The city of Rotterdam is interested in trying them out in its street lab.
Submitted by KAPT_Kipper

Discussion

Pick of the Day

My POTD is a LOCAL (i.e. not cloud) file-syncing program called Syncthing, with the GUI SyncTrayzor.

Like many people (well, a declining number there days, but still significant) I have a desktop and a laptop, and my wife has a laptop as well. Using this, I can EASILY sync files of all types between the devices AUTOMATICALLY.

It’s pretty simple – I have two folders on my desktop machine, one for each Surface Pro 3, and when I want to send something to either of them, I drag that file into the relevant folder (shortcuts on the windows desktop), and the next time the relevant machine appears on the local network, it syncs across. (Same thing works from SP3 to desktop, of course.)

Great for pushing media files, etc., around without using OneDrive, Dropbox, etc., making it MUCH faster and more secure.

I tried several, including the BitTorrent one, and found this to be by far the most intuitive for my small-scale operation.

Thanks for the great show, keep it up. (Pitiful Patreonist as I’m a student, despite being an old person.)

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cheers,
Submitted by Juice in wet and cold Melbourne Australia

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