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Botline Bling
Number 2671
Broadcast Date JANUARY 21, 2016
Episode Length 49:24
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Justin Robert Young

Do we want messaging to replace apps? Wired asks, and Justin Young and Tom Merritt try to answer.

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Headlines

Facebook announced “Facebook Sports Stadium” Wednesday, a place where you can follow major sporting events. The section will feature stats, videos, and posts from other people on Facebook. One tab has things your friends are saying another has comments from experts. Posts will show up in reverse chronological order. The section is available for US iPhone users now and Android users in “a matter of weeks.”
Apple will open an iOS app development center in Naples, Italy in order to give devs training and mentorship. Apple said it plans to expand the program to other countries in the future.
Dropbox released its Windows 10 app which will be available in the next few days on the Windows 10 app store. Dropbox launched a Windows 8 app in January 2013 but the new version adds the ability to drag and drop files from Windows File Explorer, use quick search, accept folder shares from a notification, work with Windows Hello and more. Version for Windows 10 on Mobile is coming soon.
Yesterday we told of you the post by security researchers at Perception Point about a flaw in the Linux Kernel that affected an estimated 66% of android phones. Google says Android 4.4 versions and earlier do not have the affected code introduced in Linux kernel 3.8. That said Google released a patch with all of Google’s up to date security fixes.
Google’s ad business released its annual report on its ability to block ads that carry malware, are deceptive, or disrupt the user experience. Google blocked 780 million ads in 2015 up from 524 million the year before. It suspended 10,000 sites and 18,000 accounts belonging to counterfeiters. Google also blocked 7,000 phishing sites. Malware and unwanted software was down 99%. And Google stopped showing ads on more than 25,000 mobile apps for violations of ad policies. The company rejected more than 1.4 million applications from sites.
GM launched a car sharing service today called Maven. GM president Dan Amman said the service will cost as low as $6/hour. Maven will include a car-sharing trial in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the Lets Drive service in New York City which is expanding to Chicago, the CarUnity peer-to-peer service in Germany and GM campus programs in the US Europe and China.
Submitted by PhilipShane
California Assembly member Jim Cooper introduced a bill Wednesday that "require a smartphone that is manufactured on or after January 1, 2017, and sold in California, to be capable of being decrypted and unlocked by its manufacturer or its operating system provider." A similar bill was re-introduced in New York State earlier this month. Cooper told Ars Technica, "We're going after human traffickers and people who are doing bad and evil things. Human trafficking trumps privacy, no ifs, ands, or buts about it."
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The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that Hon Hai, owners of Foxconn are offering 652 billion yen to acquire Sharp. Reuters says the state-backed fund Innovation Network Corporation of Japan is still the frontrunner to bail out Sharp. The idea would be to eventually merge Sharp with state-owned Japan Display.
Submitted by SteveKap_839
IBM confirmed the report we heard yesterday that it has bought live streaming service Ustream. Tech Crunch reports that IBM will create a new cloud streaming video unit combining UStream, ClearLeap, Cleversafe, and Aspera. Braxton Jarrat of ClearLeap will head the new unit. Jarrat told TechCrunch that UStream was the final piece IBM needed for its plan to create a full-service enterprise level video cloud unit.

Discussion

Pick of the Day

I would like to suggest Cyanogenmod as a "pic of the day".

My old Samsung Galaxy S3 had become useless. The operating system was getting old and the phone was painfully slow even after a factory reset. After I recently discovered that CyanogenMod 13, based on Marshmallow, was available for Galaxy S3, this phone has got a new life. Also, there is no waiting for Samsung or the phone company to push out a new update. There is a new build almost every night (of course you don't have to install all of them).
Submitted by Anders

Messages

Hey Tom & Friends

first time, long time

Just finishing a 4 year degree in Business at my local university (Canada). The biggest reason I decided on attending in person classes rather then an online solution is the networking and mentorship opportunities.

I think a big reason community college's and university will continue to operate in a physical space is the networking between students and instructors. Some of this is possible via chatrooms and skype/hangout systems having done both online and in class classes, the interaction is much more involved in person.

In terms of learning skills, having access to the equipment needed is a major reason for community colleges. Additionally having the ability to have the instructor fix mistakes live and in person provides a better learning environment.

Thanks,
Sent by Tyler from snowy and cold Manitoba


I think your pilot Harry and engineer Paul may have missed an angle here. Yes there’s a lot of human decision making for airplanes, and yes airplanes aren’t built like cars are. The following will probably ring home better with Harry than Paul, just because every book Harry and I have start with the following phrase: “Safety is number one”.

We have a safety problem on the road from poor judgment of the drivers. +30k deaths, and +17k alone are drunk drivers the last time I looked at the Federal stats. There is little to no continual education for drivers, no situational studies outlining decision making, and even if all that was done, you still have a large number of clowns who will drive around drunk or buzzed as impaired drivers.

I’m willing to submit that if we stuck everyone in an autonomous car in five years with current trends those numbers would be shockingly lower by an order of magnitude, however unlikely that situation is. I think Harry is right, you’d still have hundred of accidents a year resulting in death, which is less than 30,000. If people are stupid enough to complain about it, fine, add it to the list of stupid things people complain about. Seriously, the decisions people make out on the road makes me want 709 ride (airline term for we’re not just gonna fire you, we’re gonna take all your licenses away) every one of us. I suck at driving, most people do, and the only thing that saves us from being killed in droves are federally mandated safety standards on the vehicles.

I’m tired, I think at this point we’ve all got friends or family who are dead or forever injured from a vehicular accident, Google take the wheel. Otherwise, make the smart cars educate the drivers while they are driving, and if it’s important enough for you to speed or cross four lanes of traffic at once, you should get a high energy shock from the car that gets progressively worse each time, with a rolling intensity reset every 6-8 hours. Don’t like it? Turn on the autopilot (is there a joke / pun in there for Otto-pilot, like the otto cycle?). If it senses your driving drunk, a giant hand comes out of the dash holding a bag full of soap, and it beats you until you cry and pass out, when you wake up it beats you again until it drives you to the nearest facility for substance abuse education.
Sent by Joe “probably too morbid” Pilot

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