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| The Mayor of Arby's | |
| Number | 2667 |
| Broadcast Date | JANUARY 15, 2016 |
| Episode Length | 44:15 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
| Guests | Peter Wells, Len Peralta |
Foursquare has a new CEO and a lower valuation. So what makes us keep using social service and once we stop can they ever convince us to come back? Peter Wells and Tom Merritt discuss. Plus Amazon aims to do to shipping what it did to the cloud.
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Headlines
- Android Police reports Android developers can now issue promo codes that can be redeemed in the Play Store for free downloads or in-app upgrades. Developers can give out a maximum of 500 codes per quarter, with no roller over of unused codes and no codes for subscription content. Promotion codes can last up to a year but devs can set expiration dates for or pause codes.
- Ars Technica reports freight-forwarding company Flexport noted the US Federal Maritime Commission has issued a license to Amazon China to operate as an ocean freight forwarder in the United States. The license allows Amazon China to organize the logistics of shipping goods to the US by boat for itself and other companies. Amazon has previously leased 20 jets and bought truck trailers to add shipping capacity which could all be used in a freight forwarding operation.
- Submitted by flyingspatula
- Ars Technica reports security researcher Patrick Wardle has discovered that Apple has not fixed the flaw that allows attackers to bypass Apple’s Gatekeeper feature. Gatekeeper stops files it doesn’t trust. Wardle’s exploit packaged malware in with a trusted binary to pass through gatekeeper. Gatekeeper only inspects the first executable. Apple’s fix merely blacklisted certain files. Wardle has revived the exploit by using different files. He’ll present his findings at Shmoocon this weekend. Apple says it has blocked the new files Wardle alerted them too and is working to make Gatekeeper more effective.
- Xiaomi released a statement that it had sold more than 70 million devices in 2015. This is short of the 100 million originally projected and even the revised 80 million announced later in the year. It’s a 15% rise over 2014 and Xiaomi claims it has the top smartphone marketshare in China for 2015. Huawei may have a different view of the numbers. Huawei says it shipped more than 100 million handsets worldwide in 2015, according to the Wall Street Journal.
- Mike Hearn, a senior developer on bitcoin and former chair of the bitcoin foundation’s law and policy committee took to Medium yesterday to express his opinion that Bitcoin has failed. Hearn believes Bitcoin is too centralized and resistant to change. The five people with authority to change official release have been split for months on how to deal with capacity problems. And a very few people control the majority of the bitcoin mining which creates new coins.
- Facebook has hired Bertelsmann business services unit Arvato to monitor and delete hate speech posts in Germany. According to German weekly Der Speigel Avarto has hired around a 100 people for the job. Facebook rules restrict bullying, harassment and threatening language. In November, prosecutors in Hamburg began investigating whether Facebook violates the country's laws against promoting hate speech.
- BizTechAfrica reports submarine cable operator SEACOM is providing 20 Mbps service to incubation hubs Hive Colab and Outbox in Uganda. SEACOM began supporting innovation hubs in Kenya in 2012 and Uganda in 2014. The EAC (East African Community) has mandates more than 80% of its member nation population have Internet Access by 2030.
- European Union privacy regulators will meet in Brussels on Feb. 2 to agree on a new mechanism to allow personal data transfers with the US. The US submitted proposals this week. A 15-year-old Safe Harbour framework was declared invalid by the European Court of Justice on October 6th.
- A musical called Nerds will open April 21st at the Longacre Theatre in New York City. It comedy tells the story of the rivalry of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. It will of course feature on-stage holograms and an app for audience members to interact. Tickets are available now at telecharge.com with preview showings beginning March 31st.
Discussion
- Foursquare CEO Crowley Steps Down As Valuation Is Slashed
- Foursquare's Fate is Cautionary Tale for Momentous Ideas
- Leveling Up at Foursquare.
- Apple adds Foursquare business listings to Apple Maps
- Foursquare iOS update brings translation, map recommendations
Pick of the Day
- I wanted to share something I learned today. It's not really a pick, but I was unaware of it until I did some investigating.
I wanted to up my patron support to help with Day6 but couldn't quite move up to the next level. On Patreon, I thought I could only give at the prescribed reward levels, but much to my surprise, I found that I could edit my donation amount to whatever I wanted. I upped my support by a dollar, and while it didn't move me to a new reward level, I was still happy to give a little more. Just wanted to pass this information along to my fellow audience members. I'm probably the only one who was confused about this, but maybe my experience could help someone else. - Submitted by Wes in Nome sweet Nome
- I wanted to share something I learned today. It's not really a pick, but I was unaware of it until I did some investigating.
Messages
- Hi Tom & Allison,
I heard you discussing Netflix announcement in your Jan 14th show, about making 'geo-unblocking' more difficult. The only good thing about that announcement was that Netflix is "working towards offering customers everywhere the same content.", because this represents a very real problem.
I am using Netflix from Jan 8, when it first became available in India, and I am truly disappointed with the content they have. Although they do have some good TV shows, their movie collection available in India is a joke.
For example, the 'Sci-fi and Fantasy' genre has a grand total of 32 movies available,
'Thrillers' genre has 26 movies total, that includes Hollywood, Bollywood, the independent and indie movies.
They don't have any foreign movies available India either, just English and Hindi movies.
At this point, I have more movies (ripped) sitting on my 2 TB harddisk then all the movies Netflix has available in India region put together.
I hope they get around to offering same content in all regions sooner than later or they are going to end up disappointing many potential subscribers.
PS: I have been listening to DTNS for about 8 months now. Great show, Love it!
Regards - Sent by Manu Dev
- Hi Tom & Allison,
- I’m sure you have heard of the great Nordic series such as The Killing, The Bridge, Borgen,... These are wildly popular in the UK but only shown on Belgian TV with either French or Dutch subtitles….
…now they seem to be forcing Netflix only to carry a limited set of subtitles too. I can read Dutch and French but too slowly to be able to enjoy the images at the same time.
The effect is culturally to punish people that move around Europe. The European Commission hinted at doing something about it last year, as moving from e.g. the UK to Belgium should be as comfortable as moving from e.g. Illinois to California, but they backed down under lobbying pressure…. - Sent by Simon is British but lives in Belgium
- I’m sure you have heard of the great Nordic series such as The Killing, The Bridge, Borgen,... These are wildly popular in the UK but only shown on Belgian TV with either French or Dutch subtitles….
- Joe the Pilot wrote reminiscing about “the ~1985-95 cars that hadn't quite turned to the car port and hadn't quite turned fully fuel injected. Anyone remembers blinking light car computer codes?
You would turn the key to the on position (not start) and off, repeat two more times leaving the key on. Then watch the battery light blinking separated by short and long pauses:
Blink..Blink.....Blink..Blink..Blink
That was a code 23 for instance.
I had an old Chrysler that …kept giving me the same 3 sets of codes (which meant battery, battery, and fuel flow or something stupid) that didn't help at all.
Who would of thought that useless crap would someday evolve into self driving cars. - Sent by Joe the Pilot
- Joe the Pilot wrote reminiscing about “the ~1985-95 cars that hadn't quite turned to the car port and hadn't quite turned fully fuel injected. Anyone remembers blinking light car computer codes?
Sample of the codes below for a jeep:
- Dave and I had an email exchange after he recalled hearing one time a long time ago that GM was the largest manufacturer of computers.
I dug up that GM posted 7.2 million cars sold in the first 9 months of 2015
http://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/news.filter.html/GM/EN/News/US_Monthly_Sales.html
Lenovo sold 15 million PCs in Q4.
So Dave decided to figure out how many computers would be in each car
He called a customer of his who “has a shop over in Pacific MO and he said that some newer cars have about 25 computers that do all different stuff and communicate using the CAN buss.” Probably to cut down on wiring.
That would be 180 million computers if it was true of every car GM sold. - Sent by Dave
- Dave and I had an email exchange after he recalled hearing one time a long time ago that GM was the largest manufacturer of computers.
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