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Co-Host: Ibrahim Zallum

News of the Bogus:

• 1:24 – Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive cloud services blocked in Turkey following leaks https://turkeyblocks.org/2016/10/08/google-drive-dropbox-blocked-in-turkey/
• 5:40 – Feds Walk Into A Building, Demand Everyone’s Fingerprints To Open Phones http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2016/10/16/doj-demands-mass-fingerprint-seizure-to-open-iphones/
• 14:36 – Pushing to the very edge of safe Li-ion charging http://www.powerelectronicsnews.com/technology/pushing-to-the-very-edge-of-safe-li-ion-charging

25:50 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: University of Cape Town “Fallists” (nominated by BlameThe1st) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9SiRNibD14

• Watch Leftist Students Say Science Is Racist and Should Be Abolished http://reason.com/blog/2016/10/14/watch-leftist-students-say-science-is-ra

37:18 – Idiot Extraordinaire: IoT device manufacturers https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/hacked-cameras-dvrs-powered-todays-massive-internet-outage/

This Week’s Quote: “Planes fly. Cars drive. Computers compute. If you base medicine on science, you cure people. If you base the design of planes on science, they fly. If you base the design of rockets on science, they reach the moon. It works…bitches.” —Richard Dawkins

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Co-Host: Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 1:23 – New rules of the road for self-driving cars have just been released http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/19/12981448/self-driving-car-guidelines-obama-foxx-dot-nhtsa
  • Federal Automated Vehicles Policy https://www.transportation.gov/AV
  • Anatomy of an Economic Ignoramus https://mises.org/library/anatomy-economic-ignoramus
• 8:23 – DOJ Tells Forensic Experts To Stop Overstating The ‘Scientific Certainty’ Of Presented Evidence https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160921/07335535584/doj-tells-forensic-experts-to-stop-overstating-scientific-certainty-presented-evidence.shtml
  • 5 Types Of ‘Scientific’ Evidence You Won’t Believe Are B.S. http://www.cracked.com/article_23566_5-crime-evidence-myths-everyone-believes-thanks-to-movies.html
  • xkcd: Significant https://xkcd.com/882/
• 17:49 – Obama Vetoes Bill to Let 9/11 Families Sue Saudi Arabia http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/obama-vetoes-bill-let-9-11-families-sue-saudi-arabia-n652911
  • S.2040 – 114th Congress (2015-2016): Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/2040

22:10 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: HP Inc. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/what-hp-must-do-make-amends-its-self-destructing-printers

• 7 Reasons Computer Glitches Won’t Go Away (Ever) http://www.cracked.com/article_18808_7-reasons-computer-glitches-wont-go-away-ever.html

27:28 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Various Conservatives https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/08/congress-has-just-one-month-to-keep-the-internet-under-us-control

This Week’s Quote: “‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ is the stupidest freaking saying in the world. All of the amazing things that have happened throughout human history is because someone decided to take something that they thought was working fine, break it, and build something better.” —Bryan Lunduke