Episode 198 - Frenemy Of The State

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Preamble

• An excerpt from Kirby Ferguson’s “Embrace the remix” TED Talk.

Cana-duh

• Open WiFi hotspot equals dead end on the hunt for Pierre Poutine.
• Survey of BitTorrent throttling — how did Cana-duh fare?

Copyfight

• Surfthechannel… in prison.
• Google updates search juju to nix “pirate sites” (except YouTube).

Priva-see

• Creepy spying system revealed by Wikileaks, followed by DDoS.
• I know what you downloaded on BitTorrent this summer.

The Before Time, The Long Long Ago

• Ars Technica tracks market share over 35 years of personal computing.
• An unexpected ass-kicking.

Goin’ Mobile

• Tomi Ahonen describes the forthcoming “mobile moment“.

The NeverEnding Story

• How is this even a doomsday device?
• Assange finds safe haven in Ecuador.
• Google’s autonomous cars log 300K accident-free miles.
• Policing for local sock puppets ftw!

Shout-outs

• Feedback on our last podcast from our man on the Hill.
• Have you joined r/dyscultured yet?

Music

• From their album Departing, here’s The Rural Alberta Advantage with their free track, “Stamp”.

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