Botnets of compromised routers sustain themselves.
An AI is being built seeded with irate customer service calls.
Belgian privacy watchdog groups call out Facebook for tracking logged out users.
Colombia looks into controlling the supply of cocaine with butterflies.
Genetically modified yeast pushes definition of natural flavors.
Spoiler Alert:
We talk Mad Max: Fury Road
Federal court rules against the NSA’s indiscriminate civilian surveillance.
Worker fired for removing a GPS tracking app.
A kickstarter for a solar sail brought by Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson!
Spoiler Alert:
We talk Avengers: Age of Ultron
This episode recorded across time and space!
Episode 139
Special Guest Skylar joins us and we talk Warhammer 40k. A lot. Also some X-Wing.
Brendan went to a City Council meeting.
Spoiler Alert:
There is no Emperor Ted.
Episode 138
Oklahoma has three times as many earthquakes as California
Earthquakes could be detected via cellphones
Credit card machines were found to have the same default password for over twenty years!
Machine learning algorithms solve for the cocktail party effect.
A case study on click farms and other social media shenanigans.
Russian resupply satellite spins out of control and is falling out of orbit.
Spoiler Alert:
We spoil the Dark Knight. Twice.
Episode 137
The Podcast went to this year’s Countdown to 4/20 show hosted by Doug Benson.
A bar known for showing videos received a strongly worded note from HBO.
The navy develops a drone launcher.
Does using robots in war violate human rights?
Chess grandmaster cheated using smartphone from the bathroom.
NASA’s “Orbital Rainbow” system to make a large mirror in space.
Spoiler Alert:
NotAThing.com is not NotAThingPodcast.com! Not A Thing!
Episode 136
Feds will confirm or deny your existence on the No Fly List.
The EFF busts the podcasting patent, breaking the foundation of a patent troll. Hooray for us!
An example of an e-voting machine implemented terribly wrong.
Brontosaurus is back! Apatosaurus is also okay. Paleontology rocks!
Hacking DNA to create cheese without a cow.
Spoiler Alert:
Brendan is looking into public office. Totally A Thing!
Shooting of the unarmed Walter Scott by a cop was captured on video.
Keybase.io has an interesting method for distributing public keys, and Alan has invites!
Bonus: good video on public key crypto.
India to deploy pepper-spraying drones.
The return of baseball comes with lots of interesting stats.
The DMCA when invoked with regards to automobiles results in you possibly not owning your car.
We both enjoyed Furious 7.
Spoiler Alert:
Brendan only needs 1497 more people to submit signatures to put him on the ballot to run for state legislature.
Episode 134
San Francisco sheriff deputies forced inmates to fight in jail.
A group wants to change the face on the $20 bill.
A novel way to randomly generate a passphrase using dice.
California produces more electricity via solar than the all the other states combined.
There’s a lab that does drug testing for those buying via the internet’s deep web.
Seeing in the dark via biochemistry!
Spoiler Alert:
The trailer for Mad Max Fury Road is ridiculous… ly awesome.
Episode 133
Indiana legislatures pass bill to allow discrimination on religious grounds.
The Pirate Party has highest polled support of political parties in Iceland.
A discussion of licensing and copyright with regards to 3d-printing objects.
Spoiler Alert:
The new Mission Impossible movie will have masks!
X-Files is returning with a 6-episode miniseries
The creators of Super Troopers is funding their sequel on IndieGoGo
Episode 132
Virginia passes bill limiting automated license plate readers.
Eleven-year-old suspended 364 days for possessing a marijuana leaf… that wasn’t a marijuana leaf.
Finalist in Mars One competition speaks out about being a finalist.
Millennials supposedly get 88% of their news from Facebook.
Microsoft backing off from Internet Explorer for Windows 10.
New Community released today on the new Yahoo Screen. #SixSeasonsAndAMovie
Spoiler Alert:
No matter how you do the math, Alan’s too old to be a millennial