We the E-People

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We the E-People
Number 2792
Broadcast Date JUNE 22, 2016
Episode Length 41:31
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Scott Johnson

Should robots be considered people? Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt discuss a proposed resolution in Europe to make working robots electronic persons.

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C-Span isn’t allowed to turn its cameras on during a US House of Representatives sit in so its using Periscope and Facebook Live instead. Her are the rest of the top stories.
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Amazon announced a new Kindle starting at $80/£60 if you agree to receiving ads on the device, $100 without. The new entry-level Kindle adds Bluetooth audio support, the ability to email your notes and highlights to yourself, doubles storage to 4GB, and has a rounded design that’s easier to hold. You can pre-order it in black or white today for shipping in the next few weeks. The $120/£110 Paperwhite is also available in white now too.
Dropbox business users can now use the iOS mobile app to scan documents and upload them directly into Dropbox. Optical Character Recognition will make the documents searchable within the app. A big + button allows the creation of Word, Power Point or Excel documents.You can now look at previous versions of documents for easier reversion. Dropbox did not say when the tools will come to Android.
Tesla announced an offer to buy SolarCity. If that doesn’t strike you as unusual it’s because you didn’t remember Elon Musk founded both of them. Tesla would buy SolarCity for between $2.59 billion and $2.78 billion worth of its stock. Musk has recused himself from the considerations. SolarCity stock has been declining as its debts increase. In a statement Tesla pitched itself as becoming the “world’s only vertically integrated energy company.” Musk owns 22 percent of SolarCity and 21 percent of Tesla.
In a photo of Mark Zuckerberg celebrating Instagram’s 500 million users, a laptop can be seen in the background with something like tape covering the mic and camera. Security company Symantec warned users not to keep computers with webcams in their bedrooms and "not to do anything in front of one that they wouldn't want the world to see."
The BBC reports on a new scam involving malware that launches pop-ups claiming to have a message from a user’s ISP. The popups claim malware has been detected and gives a phone number to call for immediate assistance. Callers will connect with people who sound like they operate a call center for the ISP. They are then maneuvered into downloading trojans or giving out credit card information. Malwarebytes found scams impersonating Verizon, AT&T, TimeWarner, BT, PlusNet, Sky and TalkTalk.
Reuters reports data from the International Federation of Robotics shows global industrial robot sales slowed to 12% in 2015 from 20% growth in 2014. China’s growth slowed dragging down the global number as China accounts for more than 25% of the 248,000 robots sold. South Korea was the second biggest robot market followed in order by Japan, the US and Germany. Robot sales doubled in Mexico due to its expanding automotive production.
An amendment a US criminal justice appropriations bill to allow the FBI to access a person’s Internet browsing history, email account data and other electronic communications without a court order in terrorism and spy cases did not get the 60 votes needed in the US senate to pass ending 58 to 38.

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I want to recommend the Purism Computer line of product which promises to have no tracking and respect privacy. Its librem line of products are supposedly endorsed by the FSF and Richard Stallman. All devices support coreboot and the operating system, based on Debian, is available as a standalone free download in case you want to try it out on either bare metal or on a hypervisor host.
Submitted by Dean form Rainy Perth, Australia

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Tom and guests!
This is Doug form amazingly mild Atlanta in June and I just had a chance to finish listing to episode 2791 and your conversation about the DMCA. There is much that is disturbing to me about the DMCA and the Content ID system, but one of the scariest to me is a potential consequence of a situation that Patrick mentioned. If I use a piece of material for commentary or review purposes and it gets flagged by content ID, not only can the special privileged few in the in the content ID system monetize my work instead of me, but they can choose to leave it up or take it down. In other words, they can control what is being said about their work. Talk about a 1st amendment mess. I am not sure if this has happened, but I could easily see a case where a company choses to monetize for themselves content that is favorable and force the take down of critical commentary. Commentary and critique of both positive and negative natures must be protected at all costs. Large corporations and music artists should not be able to squash negative reviews and commentary.

Argh, this makes me sooooooo angry!!!!


Peace from Atlanta,
Sent by Doug form amazingly mild Atlanta in June


The moment YouTube becomes legally responsible for policing their content for copyright -- the moment they lose Safe Harbor -- they become responsible for policing their content for EVERYTHING.

They would have to police for "child safety", "terrorism", even "political correctness." Everything an individual uploads becomes suspect by default. YouTube becomes incentivized to squash content under a "better safe than sorry" attitude. Free speech becomes a battle with a large and powerful corporation. Of course, this all assumes that the company can even afford to bear such a resource-intensive responsibility.
Sent by Sara in Sunny Seattle


Episode 2781, you mentioned Motorola doing away with the headphone jack and Apple will be following suit. You guys keep talking about wireless headphone issues, but in use my jack for the audio port in my truck to listen to podcasts and music on my truck speakers rather than the unsafe headphones. If all devices go this route, how do we continue without either having to unplug the charger or use earbuds? Nobody ever thinks about the poor truck drivers just trying to stay awake during the long daily drives. And don't even get me started on that assinine self driving truck crap........
Sent by Pat in regular atmospheric conditions NC

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Preceded by:
"Better Safe Harbor Than Sorry" 		We the E-People
 Followed by:
"The Car-bayashi Maru"
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