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iPhone 5 recall. The NFL is what? Podcast Nazis. Google drones. Wordpress GOOD news. Hacks of the week. Tony Soprano silliness. App downloads discussed. Facial recognition makes good. Don't buy ice cream. More on the click-bait wars. Facebook explains. Listen or subscribe in iTunes or get the FREE Grumpy Old Geeks App! If you like the show please click here and give us a rating or review in iTunes. It helps us out and lets us know people want more episodes! If you’d like to donate to the show please check out our page on TugBoat Hosted by Libsyn Use the coupon code “gog” while signing up & receive up to 2 months free!   Show Notes iPhone 5 battery recall Hat-tip to @mtemal The Real Super Bowl Question: Should The NFL Be A Nonprofit? Who Owns Your iTunes Library After Death? Podcasters Roundtable Episode 33 - Open Mic Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: John Oliver Literally Destroys Piñatas (Web Exclusive) Time To Do Everything Except Think Facebook wants you to know that Messenger is not spying on you Get the Facts About Messenger The Price of Admission by Dan Savage Watch a Small Child Ruthlessly Bully Ricky Gervais in New Audi Ad Why Mark Zuckerberg’s war on click bait proves we are all pawns of social media Most smartphone users download zero apps per month Your cellphone is killing you: What people don’t want you to know about electromagnetic fields Google shows off 'Project Wing' delivery drones Inside Google's Secret Drone-Delivery Program Is The Universe A Hologram? Conscious Brain-to-Brain Communication in Humans Using Non-Invasive Technologies. DQ Breach? HQ Says No, But Would it Know? Oops! Mozilla left thousands of email addresses and passwords lying around (again) JPMorgan, other banks hacked, and FBI looks to Russia for culprits Automattic Acquires BruteProtect To Help Keep WordPress Users Safe Suspected child abuse fugitive caught by facial recognition after 14 years The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam Trilogy Book 2) by Margaret Atwood No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glen Greenwald William Gibson talking about coining the term Cyberspace. The Iconic Moleskine Notebook Goes Digital Counting Crows Frontman Adam Duritz Explains Why No One Can Find Him On Tinder Neil And Pegi Young Divorce After 36 Years Of Marriage Mythbusters Finale - Plane Boarding Tests Utopia About Utopia Did Tony die at the end of The Sopranos? David Chase Says He Was Quoted Out of Context, and the Sopranos War of Words Rages On Are you proud of yourself, @savedyouaclick? The War - A Film By Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Zara Pulls Kids' T-Shirt That Looks Like a Nazi Camp Uniform Feeling the buzz: where do phantom phone vibrations come from? I Dream of TV Newsletter Reid's Chocolates See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

29 Aug 201459min

We’re back on track this week with some mockery of ice buckets, enhanced security section with copious tinfoil hattery, and enough news to choke a horse. Basically, we’re back in the saddle! Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/72 Listen or subscribe in iTunes If you like the show please click here and give us a rating or review in iTunes. It helps us out and lets us know people want more episodes! If you’d like to donate to the show please check out our page on TugBoat Hosted by Libsyn Use the coupon code “gog” while signing up & receive up to 2 months free!   Show Notes Ice Bucket Challenge ‘Severe’ drought covers nearly 99.8% of California, report says California drought: 17 communities could run out of water within 60 to 120 days, state says Slingshot (water vapor distillation system) Why Facebook is for ice buckets, Twitter is for Ferguson The Ice Bucket Challenge Has Raised More Than $13 Million — Meanwhile, Medical Research Has Been Cut By Billions The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Adam Carolla’s Settlement with the Podcasting Troll Premier League warns about posting goal videos online NFL Asks Musicians for Money to Play Super Bowl The NFL has a REVENUE of over 9 billion per year. Does Facebook think users are dumb? “Satire” tag added to Onion articles And the Onion responds. Should Twitter, Facebook and Google Executives be the Arbiters of What We See and Read? People Keep Getting Into Strangers’ Cars Because They Think It’s An Uber Snapchat Is Now The #3 Social App Among Millennials Twitter now officially says your timeline is more than just tweets from people you follow I Visited Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde In Prison, Here’s What He Had To Say Motorcyclist crashes, flips and sticks a perfect landing on a car’s roof Last Call – The end of the printed newspaper. By Clay Shirky Meet Product Hunt Hospital network hacked, 4.5 million records stolen Professor hacks University Health Conway in demonstration for class What can Brown do to you? Lorem Ipsum: Of Good & Evil, Google & China Dressed For Excess Technology Can Make Lawful Surveillance Both Open and Effective Hacking Into Traffic Lights With a Plain Old Laptop Is Scary Simple White House cybersecurity czar brags about his lack of technical expertise Stealing encryption keys through the power of touchResearchers pilfer decryption keys through Ethernet and human touch side channel. Honorable spies anonymously leak NSA/GHCQ-discovered flaws in Tor Your Anonymous Posts to Secret Aren’t Anonymous After All Normal Which Apps Are Eating Your Battery? Normal Will Tell You. The Walk Originally featured on Episode 38 on December 15th, 2013 Wordfence Source Code Pro iStat Menus 5 is out Aphex Twin Announces New Album SYRO Via the Deep Web Truth And Iliza Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History – #53 finally out! Common Sense with Dan Carlin – Show 279 – If It Even Saves One Geeks and Beats Gluten Poorly Explained The Secret History of the Hidden Track You can watch an ‘unaltered’ version of Star Wars in HD today, if you bend the law Bored Elon Musk In order to preserve the state’s natural beauty, billboards are completely banned in the state of Vermont, and have been for over 45 years. ‘MythBusters’ drops hosts Kari Byron, Grant Imahara, Tory Belleci Resistance Pro Wrestling See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

22 Aug 20141h 29min

Show Notes More at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/72 Why #Ferguson Wasn’t Trending For Some Social Media Users Last Night Why Jargon Feeds On Lazy Minds BREAKING: Apple iPhone 6 Pics — Drool, Geeks! ALSO BREAKING: They’re fake. Shocking… What Makes BuzzFeed Worth $850 Million? BuzzFeed’s boss explains why the site has been quietly deleting thousands of its own posts. Another nightmare Comcast customer service call surfaces I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days. Here’s What It Did to Me NYPD Sends Out Official Memo Telling Officers They’re Allowed to Be Photographed Lyft Accuses Uber of Ordering and Canceling 5,560 Lyft Rides Edward Snowden: The Untold Story USB ‘critically flawed’ after bug discovery, researchers say Why the Security of USB Is Fundamentally Broken The Internet’s Vulnerable Backbone Oryx and Crake SitOrSquat: Restroom Finder by P&G Productions SitOrSquat.com Bald Bryan App The Film Vault Fox News Host Calls Robin Williams ‘Such A Coward’ Rush Limbaugh Says Robin Williams Killed Himself Because Leftists Are ‘Never Happy’ This Is A Masterclass In How To Win A Twitter Fight InfoSec Taylor Swift – @SwiftOnSecurity Good Morning, Vietnam The Fisher King What Dreams May Come Does It Have Legs Good Morning Internet See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

15 Aug 20141h 2min

This week we talk with Jordan Harbinger from The Art of Charm podcast about creativity, social engineering, and other assorted goodies. We also discuss stuff we like and some Star Trek fanfic. Spoiler alert, there are no furries in space. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/70 Listen or subscribe in iTunes If you like the show please click here and give us a rating or review in iTunes. It helps us out and lets us know people want more episodes! If you’d like to donate to the show please check out our page on TugBoat Hosted by Libsyn Use the coupon code “gog” while signing up & receive up to 2 months free! Show Notes The Art of Charm Podcast The Art of Charm Graft Concepts Leverage i5 Case for the iPhone 5 iOS SDK Release Notes for iOS 8.0 Beta 5 How the Internet, Dopamine and your Brain are Working Together to Screw Your Potential. (and what you can do about it) Communications watchdog OFCOM: ‘Six-year-olds understand digital technology better than adults’ Facebook Messenger Facebook Crosses The Line With New Facebook Messenger App Yes, the Facebook Messenger app requests creepy, invasive permissions. But so does every other app. Latest Online Security Breach Forces Mom To Change Post-It Is your Dropcam live feed being watched by someone else? Hacker shows passenger jets are vulnerable to cyber attack 1.2 billion logins scooped up by CyberVor hacking crew – what you need to do Evidence of another Snowden-like mole is worrying Feds How Google plans to get us all using HTTPS Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns Hardcore History Archives Show 42 – (BLITZ) Logical Insanity According to Scientists, This is The Most Relaxing Tune Ever Recorded pzizz sleep pzizz energizer LinkedIn agrees to pay $6 million (U.S.) for overtime, damages Star Trek: Axanar Star Trek Continues Information about Hearing, Communication, and Understanding See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

8 Aug 20141h 29min

This week we debut an as yet unnamed segment on defense against Internet marketers. We discuss the Uber ratings kerfuffle and other big data nonsense as well as some epic book reviews. http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/69 Listen or subscribe in iTunes If you like the show please click here and give us a rating or review in iTunes. It helps us out and lets us know people want more episodes! If you’d like to donate to the show please check out our page on TugBoat Hosted by Libsyn Use the coupon code “gog” while signing up & receive up to 2 months free! Show Notes Rabbit Rabbit OKCupid: we experiment on users. Everyone does OkCupid experiment may have broken FTC rules All Power to the Pack Rats Podcasting patent troll: We tried to drop lawsuit against Adam Carolla The 30-Day Challenge: No Booze, No Masturbating (NOBNOM) You Are Not Late Why does my old iPhone seem to get slower before a new release? Are Uber’s passenger ratings big data for good – or discrimination 2.0? This Restaurant Kept Getting Awful Reviews. Then They Discovered Something Mind-Blowing… The Insidiousness of Facebook Messenger’s Mobile App Terms of Service Facebook moves all mobile chat to Messenger app The perks of being ‘somebody’ online Mystery in the Perseus Cluster How anyone can hack your Instagram account Stephen Sclafani The Power of No: Because One Little Word Can Bring Health, Abundance, and Happiness by James Altucher and Claudia Azula Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield Meditations: A New Translation by Marcus Aurelius (Author), Gregory Hays (Translator) Ernest Hemingway on Writing – Larry W. Phillips (Editor) Sam Walton: Made In America Lorde appointed as ‘sole curator’ of music for next Hunger Games film Agatha Christie’s Poirot’ Comes to an End Keith Urban Boston Concert: Rape Charge Laid Against Sean Murphy, 18 Guy takes shrooms at comic con. Guy texts entire meltdown to girlfriend. Internet rejoices. According to the dictionary, “literally” now also means “figuratively” Honey never spoils. You can eat 32,000-year-old honey. Note: I inadvertently called Sean Bonner’s coffee subscription service the collective and not the possee. My bad! – JD Sean Bonner’s Coffee Possee Riot Fest See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

1 Aug 20141h 21min

Miscreant and misanthrope Sean Bonner joins us this week to talk about his art/music project, Hope X, open hardware, Safecast, and more. We also run down some cool new books and the general tomfoolery on the Internet this week. You know the drill. http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/68 Listen or subscribe in iTunes If you like the show please click here and give us a rating or review in iTunes. It helps us out and lets us know people want more episodes! If you’d like to donate to the show please check out our page on TugBoat Hosted by Libsyn Use the coupon code “gog” while signing up & receive up to 2 months free! Show Notes Didn’t Read Facebook’s Fine Print? Here’s Exactly What It Says Facebook Explains Why It Wants to Be a Retail Store The tech utopia nobody wants: why the world nerds are creating will be awful Help shape OS X Yosemite. LittleBits Now Lets You Build Your Own DIY Smart Home Sean Bonner Exhibition listing on Subliminal Projects, for VITA E MORTE exhibition which opens July 26th Preview of artworks Main CMHHTD project website Stream CMHHTD songs Both CMHHTD EP’s on iTunes (new one is pre order) First CMHHTD EP on Pirate Bay The Majority Of Today’s App Businesses Are Not Sustainable And as if on cue Yahoo! buys Flurry for $300MM Airbnb Host Seeks Help In Evicting Squatter From Palm Springs Home Comcast’s worst nightmare: How Tennessee could save America’s Internet Grumpy Old Geek Pro-Tip: If you steal something, do not post photos of you on social media with said stolen items. Israeli women are showing support for the IDF — by showing their boobs Meet the Online Tracking Device That is Virtually Impossible to Block Snowden: Dropbox is an NSA surveillance target, use Spideroak instead Edward Snowden: ‘If I end up in chains in Guantánamo I can live with that’ – video interview SpiderOak This is how you invent a person online Amped – Daniel H. Wilson Amped – Douglas E. Richards Wired – Douglas E. Richards Earth Awakens (The First Formic War) – Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston The future of warfare: Why we should all be very afraid Operation Shakespeare: The True Story of an Elite International Sting The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA’s Clandestine Service by Hank Crumpton This Is the Best 5,453-Word Interview With Bronson Pinchot About Audiobooks You Will Ever Read Tower 2 Game of War – Fire Age Comic-Con: ‘Firefly’ Cast Reunite for Online Game How to Follow Soccer Now that the World Cup Is Over Led Zepplin: Mothership Alien Autopsy: William Barker on Schwa, two decades later Orphan Black Blake Lively’s Preserve lifestyle site: another pandering mess of e-commerce ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 5′ Gets Summer 2017 Release Date High Schoolers Ponder the Meaning of ‘Fashion’ in 1984 Brian’s record collection See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

25 Juli 20141h 18min

This week, Jordan Cooper joins us to talk about new media, blow job machines, and shares some awesome tips and tricks to build your online fanbase. We also talk about burnout and getting old and giving up on the Internet. It’s a HAPPY SHOW! Listen or subscribe in iTunes If you like the show please click here and give us a rating or review in iTunes. It helps us out and lets us know people want more episodes! If you’d like to donate to the show please check out our page on TugBoat Hosted by Libsyn Use the coupon code “gog” while signing up & receive up to 2 months free!   Show Notes I made my husband try a sex robot A Better To-Do List: The 1-3-5 Rule TO-DO LISTS ARE RUINING THE PLANET! The Death of Journalism, by the numbers The Developer’s Dystopian Future Confessions of an ex-developer The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment of All Time Jordan Cooper Blenderhead Media Tech Douche Bags New Air BnB Logo amuses the Internet for a day Without further ado… Ex-dictator Manuel Noriega sues Activision over ‘Call of Duty’ game Amazon is testing “Kindle Unlimited,” an ebook subscription service for $9.99/month Et Tu, IBM? Apple’s Latest Move Is Not Good News for Microsoft. Microsoft set to axe 18,000 jobs Pinboard Turns Five Microsoft tells users to stop using strong passwords everywhere You can’t hide from the Internet… ‘Hidden from Google’ site remembers the pages Google’s forced to forget Statement Before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism Lifehacker Pack for Mac: Our List of the Essential Mac Apps The Best Way to Point Your Wi-Fi Router Antennas: Perpendicularly Overcast: Podcast Player – Overcast Radio, LLC You Can’t Use Facebook’s New iPhone App — Unless You’re Famous Game of War – Fire Age “Word Crimes” Weird Al Is Tired of Your “Word Crimes” in New Video Paul McCartney re-releases five of his classic albums as iPad apps Want to innovate? Become a “now-ist” Vending machines are twice as likely to kill you than a shark is. Philipp Lahm https://twitter.com/NeinQuarterly https://twitter.com/depresseddarth https://twitter.com/AlanWattsDaily Does It Have Legs 19: Ghostbusters! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

18 Juli 20141h 47min

Some TMI follow-up from last weeks episode. We touch on the obligatory potato salad story. Brian doesn’t even gloat about the Germany win. We dish on some books and software. A little disruption sneaks in too. Listen or subscribe in iTunes If you like the show please click here and give us a rating or review in iTunes. It helps us out and lets us know people want more episodes! If you’d like to donate to the show please check out our page on TugBoat Hosted by Libsyn Use the coupon code “gog” while signing up & receive up to 2 months free! Show Notes Potato Salad Leftshitz piece Study Shows that 10,000 Hours of Practice Isn’t the Magic Number Original source LeBron James Website is the HTML Apocalypse LeBron hasn’t got shit on Jim Carrey. Google’s Larry Page: “I Think the Government’s Likely to Collapse Under Its Own Weight.” Homestar Runner Is Coming Back! Brazil Thought Magical Thinking Would Win Them the World Cup. They Were Wrong. Google Maps can now tell you the exact distance between two points LAPD Exposes Login To Data Harvesting Software During Interview With CNN Crypto weakness in smart LED lightbulbs exposes Wi-Fi passwords “Weaponized” exploit can steal sensitive user data on eBay, Tumblr, et al. Security company says your data can easily be recovered from ‘wiped’ Android phones Big Data should not be a faith-based initiative NSA trove shows 9:1 ratio of innocents to suspicious people in “targeted surveillance” Robogenesis: A Novel Amped Why The Music Industry’s Next Big Disruption Is In The Recording Studio DiskMaker Why Did Starfleet Allow Families Aboard the Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Generation? Bill Murray’s Unreleased 1984 Sci-Fi Comedy Is Now Online Transcendence Gracepoint The Killing 35 Genius Travel Tips That Will Change Your Life Forever The First Text Message Ever Was Sent 21 Years Ago Today RocketSkates let you zip along the sidewalk at a top speed of 12MPH Reid’s Chocolates SAVE OUR PODCASTS LEGAL DEFENSE FUND Music by Amungus See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

11 Juli 20141h 6min