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Co-Hosts: Jonathan Loesche and (briefly) Dave Turcotte

Update: SunRail ridership lags, system to rehire ambassadors http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/traffic/os-sunrail-ridership-ambassadors-20141003-story.html

News of the Bogus:

• 3:06 – Entrepreneur’s private toll road welcomes 100,000th vehicle http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/11149220/Entrepreneurs-private-toll-road-welcomes-100000th-vehicle.html
  • Google Maps https://www.google.com/maps/@51.3960066,-2.4196838,356m/data=!3m1!1e3
  • Kelston Toll Road (@KelstonTollRoad) | Twitter https://twitter.com/KelstonTollRoad
  • What is the cost of constructing a mile of highway? http://www.railstotrails.org/resources/documents/whatwedo/policy/07-29-2008%20Generic%20Response%20to%20Cost%20per%20Lane%20Mile%20for%20widening%20and%20new%20construction.pdf
  • Ask a Paving / Asphalt Superintendent anything http://jobstr.com/threads/show/4514-paving-asphalt-superintendent
  • Asphalt Facts http://www.alasphalt.com/asphalt%20facts.htm
• 15:26 – Why Did the Supreme Court Sidestep Sentencing Dispute http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=1202673758615/Why-Did-the-Supreme-Court-Sidestep-Sentencing-Dispute
  • Supreme Court Considers Two Drug Dog Cases | Radley Balko http://www.huffingtonpost.com/radley-balko/supreme-court-considers-t_1_b_2063820.html
• 18:43 – Anime fan convicted over illegal pictures of imaginary children http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/anime-fan-convicted-over-illegal-7958896

24:51 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Wendy Gittleson http://samuel-warde.com/2014/01/10-reasons-free-market-just-big-fat-blob-stupid/

51:32 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Tracie Harris and Matt Dillahunty (nominated by pretty much everybody) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SXBre5woMw&start=1897

• Does the Internet Prove the Need for Government Investment? http://fee.org/the_freeman/detail/does-the-internet-prove-the-need-for-government-investment

This Week’s Quote: “All the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arise, not from the defects in their constitution or confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.” —John Quincy Adams

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Co-Hosts: Jonathan Loesche and Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:52 – Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., et al. http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-354_olp1.pdf
• 18:17 – EPIC says Facebook ‘messed with people’s minds,’ seeks FTC sanctions – Computerworld
  http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9249553/EPIC_says_Facebook_messed_with_people_s_minds_seeks_FTC_sanctions
• 22:17 – Pirate Bay Founders’ File-Hosting Site Wiped From Google http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-founders-file-hosting-site-wiped-from-google-140628/

26:35 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Connecticut Regional School District 14 http://reason.com/blog/2014/06/30/ct-school-district-apologizes-for-blocki

36:16 – Silver Cluon Award: The Electronic Frontier Foundation http://www.dailydot.com/politics/blimp-nsa-utah-eff-mass-surveillance/

42:16 – Idiot Extraordinaire: PayPal http://www.zdnet.com/paypal-freezes-out-protonmail-asks-if-startup-has-government-permission-to-encrypt-email-7000031116/

This Week’s Quote: “We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.” —William O. Douglas

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Co-Hosts: Jonathan Loesche and Jakob Morris (AnCapBrony) https://twitter.com/AnCapBrony

Follow-up: Password Security

• Facebook Warns Users After Adobe Breach http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/11/facebook-warns-users-after-adobe-breach/
• Anatomy of a hack: How crackers ransack passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331” http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-minced-meat-out-of-your-passwords/

News of the Bogus:

• 12:55 – Cops Called for Underboob Cosplay Controversy http://kotaku.com/cops-called-for-underboob-cosplay-controversy-1464257715
• 15:01 – DOJ Refuses To Let Tech Companies See Legal Arguments It’s Making Against Them http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131112/22472025222/doj-refuses-to-let-tech-companies-see-legal-arguments-its-making-against-them.shtml
• 17:49 – Raising the minimum wage is all the rage, but the winners aren’t who you think http://rare.us/story/raising-the-minimum-wage-is-all-the-rage-but-the-winners-arent-who-you-think/

24:43 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Barack Obama http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/05/obama-denies-you-can-keep-it-videotaped-promises/?sc=1850820228461930801

• House approves bill to allow people to keep insurance http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/11/15/house-cancelled-plans-bill/3576071/

29:36 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Faith Salie http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3445_162-57563689/

This Week’s Quote: “Politics is an extension of war by other means…Once you know which side you’re on, you must support all arguments of that side, and attack all arguments that appear to favor the enemy side…People who would be level-headed about evenhandedly weighing all sides of an issue in their professional life as scientists, can suddenly turn into slogan-chanting zombies when there’s a Blue or Green position on an issue.” —Eliezer Yudkowsky

Note: The Bogosity Podcast will be taking two weeks off for the Thanksgiving holidays. (All right, all right, and the Doctor Who 50th anniversary as well!) See you in December!

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Co-Hosts: Tim Dyson and Daniel Wilcox http://www.youtube.com/Tnu1138

News of the Bogus:

• 0:37 – Greenpeace Golden Rice stance baffling http://www.producer.com/2013/10/greenpeace-golden-rice-stance-baffling/
  • Feeding Edge | The Big Picture Video Gallery | The Escapist http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/2541-Feeding-Edge
• 6:10 – US court rules proxies, IP switching illegal http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2013/08/21/proxies-illegal/1
• 12:04 – 4 On Your Side investigates traffic stop nightmare http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S3209305.shtml
• 17:24 – NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html
  • Brandon Downey – Google+ – This is the big story in tech today: https://plus.google.com/108799184931623330498/posts/SfYy8xbDWGG
  • Mike Hearn – Google+ – The packet capture shown in these new NSA slides shows… https://plus.google.com/+MikeHearn/posts/LW1DXJ2BK8k

25:15 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Canada http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/ottawa-commissioning-study-on-prospect-of-3d-printed-guns-1.1506739

• British police seize gun parts manufactured from plastic on a 3D printer http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/the-canadian-press/131025/british-police-seize-gun-parts-manufactured-plastic-3d-print
• World’s First 3D Printed Metal Gun http://blog.solidconcepts.com/industry-highlights/worlds-first-3d-printed-metal-gun/

30:58 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Adobe http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/11/04/anatomy-of-a-password-disaster-adobes-giant-sized-cryptographic-blunder/

• The top 50 woeful passwords exposed by the Adobe security breach http://grahamcluley.com/2013/11/top-50-passwords-adobe-security-breach/
• xkcd: Password Strength http://xkcd.com/936/
• xkcd: Encryptic http://xkcd.com/1286/
• Take Action Now: Check If You’re Affected by the Adobe Breach http://blog.lastpass.com/2013/11/take-action-now-check-if-youre-affected.html

This Week’s Quote: “Everytime our leaders say, ‘We must make sure this will never happen again,’ they do something to assure that it will happen again.” —Harry Browne

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:28 – FAA allowing most electronic device use throughout flights http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/31/travel/faa-portable-electronic-devices/
• 5:13 – FBI makes record $28 million Bitcoin bust http://rt.com/usa/bitcoin-fbi-seize-money-770/
• 15:26 – Obama admin. knew millions could not keep their health insurance http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/28/21213547-obama-admin-knew-millions-could-not-keep-their-health-insurance
  • “The Incredible Bread Machine” by R.W. Grant http://www.enterpriseintegrators.com/flint/4thr/TomSmithsIncredibleBreadMachinePoem.txt
• 22:18 – As Europe erupts over US spying, NSA chief says government must stop media  http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/25/europe-erupts-nsa-spying-chief-government
• 30:05 – Federal Prosecutors, in a Policy Shift, Cite Warrantless Wiretaps as Evidence http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/us/federal-prosecutors-in-a-policy-shift-cite-warrantless-wiretaps-as-evidence.html

35:38 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Paul Buchheit (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://www.nationofchange.org/public-beats-private-six-reasons-why-1382448019

59:12 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Diane Feinstein http://thestateweekly.com/sen-feinsteins-proposed-bill-would-incriminate-anyone-speaking-against-nsas-spying-and-courts/

• Feinstein Claims NSA Spying Program Could Have Prevented 9/11 Attacks http://thestateweekly.com/feinstein-claims-nsa-spying-program-could-have-prevented-911-attacks/
• Feinstein defends NSA data collection and insists program is ‘not surveillance’ http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/21/dianne-feinstein-defends-nsa-data-collection

This Week’s Quote: “No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth.The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions.” —Thomas Jefferson

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Co-Hosts: Tim Dyson and Charles Thomas http://www.youtube.com/user/Dukect

News of the Bogus:

• 1:18 – From the Start, Signs of Trouble at Health Portal http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/us/politics/from-the-start-signs-of-trouble-at-health-portal.html
  • Obamacare’s Website Is Crashing Because It Doesn’t Want You To Know How Costly Its Plans Are http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/10/14/obamacares-website-is-crashing-because-it-doesnt-want-you-to-know-health-plans-true-costs/
  • ‘So gloriously inept it circles back to amazing’: Obamacare website so bad the ‘error page has an error’ http://twitchy.com/2013/10/12/so-gloriously-inept-it-circles-back-to-amazing-obamacare-website-so-bad-the-error-page-has-an-error/
  • How to successfully register for health insurance on HealthCare.gov http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2013/10/tips-for-creating-heathcare-gov-acount/index.htm
  • Canadian officials fired IT firm behind troubled Obamacare website http://washingtonexaminer.com/canadian-officials-fired-it-firm-behind-troubled-obamacare-website/article/2537101
• 13:30 – The core Internet institutions abandon the US Government http://www.internetgovernance.org/2013/10/11/the-core-internet-institutions-abandon-the-us-government/
• 16:00 – NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-collects-millions-of-e-mail-address-books-globally/2013/10/14/8e58b5be-34f9-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html
• 24:50 – In U.S., Perceived Need for Third Party Reaches New High http://www.gallup.com/poll/165392/perceived-need-third-party-reaches-new-high.aspx

30:20 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Tom Watson http://www.salon.com/2013/10/21/dont_ally_with_libertarians_ideologues_co_opt_an_anti_nsa_rally/singleton/

• Stop Watching Us – A Coalition Against Mass Surveillance https://optin.stopwatching.us/

41:40 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Rep. George Miller http://www.c-spanvideo.org/clip/4468346

This Week’s Quote: “Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept.” —Frank Herbert

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Co-Hosts: Dave Turcotte and Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 0:28 – Shutdown Theater: NPS Orders Closure Of Park That Receives No Federal Funding http://libertycrier.com/shutdown-theater-nps-orders-closure-park-receives-federal-funding/
  • White House Ordering Hundreds of Privately Run, Privately Funded Parks to Close http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/10/02/shutdown-white-house-ordering-privately-run-privately-funded-parks-to-close/
  • Rushmore blockage stirs anger in S.D. http://siouxfallsbusinessjournal.argusleader.com/article/20131004/UPDATES/310040047/S-D-officials-object-feds-barring-visitors-from-highway-viewing-areas-near-Mount-Rushmore
  • Troops Forage for Food While Golfers Play On in Shutdown http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-03/troops-forage-for-food-while-golfers-play-on-in-shutdown.html
• 11:10 – Obamacare On Hold http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanedk/10100703256/
  • Trader Joe’s To Drop Health Coverage For Part-Time Workers Under Obamacare: Memo http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/11/trader-joes-obamacare_n_3902341.html
  • UPDATED: Obamacare Poster Boy Chad Henderson and His Dad Didn’t Really Buy Insurance http://reason.com/archives/2013/10/04/obamacare-chad-henderson-father/
  • Most Obamacare enrollment applications flawed http://www.cnbc.com/id/101087965
• 28:35 – How Snowden’s Email Provider Tried To Foil The FBI Using Tiny Font http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/10/03/228878659/how-snowdens-email-provider-tried-to-foil-the-fbi-using-tiny-font
• 34:05 – All signs point to the obvious with the War on Drugs as supply is up and prices are down http://txcann.com/2013/10/02/all-signs-point-to-the-obvious-with-the-war-on-drugs-as-supply-is-up-and-prices-are-down/
  • The temporal relationship between drug supply indicators: an audit of international government surveillance systems http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/3/9/e003077.abstract?sid=779f6f3f-d4e6-4643-a14c-01de5a8a3ef3
  • P&T Doughnuts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u59-PoxbwE

40:15 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Ed Schultz http://www.mediaite.com/tv/serious-racism-here-ed-schultz-insists-gops-shutdown-showdown-motivated-by-hate/

47:57 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Saleh bin Saad al-Luhaydan http://english.alarabiya.net/en/variety/2013/09/28/Driving-affects-ovary-and-pelvis-Saudi-sheikh-warns-women.html

• Saudis fear there will be “no more virgins” and people will turn gay if female drive ban is lifted http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2068810/Saudis-fear-virgins-people-turn-gay-female-drive-ban-lifted.html

Catch-22: http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=bq4dyGzuN7w&subid=&offerid=239662.1&type=10&tmpid=8433&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.barnesandnoble.com%252Fw%252Fcatch-22-joseph-heller%252F1100216099

This Week’s Quote: “The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.” —Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 0:29 – Internet cafe reopens, pays out cash http://www.news4jax.com/news/internet-cafe-reopens-pays-out-cash/-/475880/21230090/-/knm4yr/-/index.html
• 3:10 – Bradley Manning verdict http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-bradley-manning-verdict-20130730,0,5272878.story
  • Bradley Manning leak did not result in deaths by enemy forces, court hears http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/bradley-manning-sentencing-hearing-pentagon
• 7:50 – Feds put heat on Web firms for master encryption keys http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57595202-38/feds-put-heat-on-web-firms-for-master-encryption-keys/
  • Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57595529-38/feds-tell-web-firms-to-turn-over-user-account-passwords/

15:00 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/07/25/uk-usa-security-congress-idUKBRE96O17W20130725

• DownsizeDC.org’s “One Subject at a Time Act” (OSTA) https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/one-subject/

18:25 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Bernie of Planck’s Constant http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2013/07/electronic_cigarettes_should_be_banned_as_well.html

This Week’s Quote: “So if you smoke or dip or chew / You’d better get your fill / ‘Cause if tobacco don’t get you / An anti-smoker will” —Mike Cross