The Computer Broad and Abusive Act

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The Computer Broad and Abusive Act
Number 2808
Broadcast Date JULY 13, 2016
Episode Length 39:21
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Scott Johnson

Could you go to prison for visiting a website? For sharing a password? The answer is maybe. Tom Merritt talks with Scott Johnson about the vagaries of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

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Bittorrentnews.com launches Monday with coverage of the Republican National Convention, The US Fish and Wildlife service is shooting vaccine-laden M&M's from drones at Prairie Dogs to protect them and the Ferrets who eat them from the sylvatic plague. And here are some more top stories.
Reporters who got a tour of Facebook's mobile device lab in Prineville, OR are releasing their reports. The lab occupies 60 racks in Facebook's Prineville Data Center with each rack holding 32 phones. They aim to bring that to 64 devices per rack. Each rack has its own WiFi signal and an EMI enclosure to shut other signals. Changes to Facebook, Messenger or Instagram for iOS and Android are tested on the 2,000 phones for performance and battery life. Various models run all OS versions from Android Kit Kat and iOS 7 to present. Each phone reboots after every test. The team plans to open source the racks and the software that drives the tests.
Google acquired the team behind Kifi, a startup building extensions to collect, search, and ultimately recommend content links shared on social platforms. In a Google+ post, Google's engineering director Eddie Kessler announced the team will work on the company's recently launched group chat app, Spaces. Kifi's existing app will remain online for a few weeks, and be will available for data exports for several weeks beyond that. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

There's lots more Pokémon News today but we'll try to keep it manageable. The augmented reality game launched in it's 4th country Germany, though many players are spoofing locations or sideloading. In South Korea, side loaders have been heading to the border town of Sokcho because Google Maps works there while it is restricted in the rest of the country. SensorTower estimates the game gets 33 minutes of average daily use, better than Facebook and Snapchat, and has 15 million downloads. Yet Survey Monkey estimates 21 million daily active users in the US making it the most popular mobile game in US history. Meanwhile the game's maker Niantic announced it will offer sponsored locations in the game. YouTuber Travis D has figured out how to use Android emulator BlueStacks and GPS spoofing to play the game without leaving your house. AND US Senator Al Franken sent a letter to Niantic expressing concern over the amount of information being collected from users and asking why it is being collected, how it is used and what control users have over it.
Xbox's Major Nelson posted Wednesday that Xbox Live will now support high quality Twitch Streaming. Users will need to link their Xbox Live and Twitch accounts, but will be able to process their Xbox streams through capture cards or boxes. Previously the only way to get access to Xbox Live's network via Twitch was using the Xbox One app, which limited quality and did not allow any overlays or custom features.
Nissan launched ProPilot Wednesday, a suite of semi-autonomous driving functions meant to assist not replace drivers. ProPilot's main feature is keeping a car a fixed distance from the vehicle in front of it. The feature will appear first on the Serena minivan on sale in Japan in August. Reuters reports Jaguar Land Rover will create a fleet of more than 100 research vehicle over the next four years to test recognizing obstacles, automatic braking, car-to-car information sharing and recognizing emergency vehicles. Fiat Chrysler is offering bug bounties of up to $1500 for security weaknesses in its vehicles. And this week the UK launched an open consultation on adapting regulation to make them more compatible with driverless vehicles.
Google announced new small business plans for its Google Fiber customers. 100 Mbps costs $70 a month, 250 costs $100 a month and Gigabyte service costs $250 a month. Each account can support up to 13 static IP addresses. The new offerings come along with the launch of Google Fiber in Charlotte, North Carolina. Google Fiber also operates in Kansas City, Provo, Austin, and Nashville, where businesses have until July 31 to sign up for the new plans at a discount.

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Submitted by lokirobert

Pick of the Day

I have a pick of the day: Google's Expeditions cardboard app. The app was featured in Google I/O last year and targeted at schools but it has now been made available for everyone. I tested this app with my nieces and they absolutely love it. The way it works is allows one person acting as a “guide” to lead groups of “explorers” through collections of 360° and 3D images while pointing out interesting sights along the way. If the guide points to a point of interest on their device the explorers see an arrow on their device that tells them where to turn to see it.
Submitted by Marlon "TheGuyFromTrinidad"

Messages

I'm already losing interest in the game because so many players are paying to win. Buying "lures" and "incense" and "lucky eggs" jump some players WAY ahead of the rest, and they then dominate the gyms... I am a huge Ingress fan, and this isn't a problem in that game where team play is required to get good gear, so players with money can't just by-pass the game mechanics.
Sent by Steve Boland from Great Pokeweather Saint Paul, Minnesota


On Pokémon Go's staying power, they only have the first generation of pokemon. 250. There are hundreds to come from all the games and additional evolutions for existing pokemon.
Sent by Brett "poke zombie" Spencer


I guess it's a good thing that Pokémon Go came out in the summer, when kids aren't in school. As big as the craze is right now, can you imagine how many new stories we'd have about kids getting in trouble playing Pokémon Go during school? Leaving campus to find Pokémon in nearby neighborhoods, etc.?

Pokémon cards are already forbidden at a lot of schools. I bet school administrators are already emailing each other about this.

If the chat rooms prediction is correct, the crazy should die down by August when school starts back. Here's hoping.
Sent by Raymond in Too-Hot-to-Go-Outside-to-Catch-Pokemon Athens, GA


Regarding the FTC punishing Warner for improper disclosure of paid YouTube videos, we actually had a similar issue back in the mid-2000s when mommy bloggers weren’t disclosing that they were being paid by advertisers in their posts about products. The problem today is … No one’s established when and where disclosure occurs. On YouTube, should it be in the title, or the text, or within the video? Does it need to be a 3 second card at the beginning or does it merely need to be said at some point in the video? And that’s just YouTube. What about Facebook, Twitch, Snapchat, etc.? How does one even fit disclosure in an Instagram post or a 140 character tweet?

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My point is that this whole industry is still relatively young and figuring itself out.
Sent by D

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