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Co-Host: Tim Dyson

“Housekeeping” PPV: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4zige4_housekeeping_shortfilms

News of the Bogus:

• 2:00 – ‘Tolerant’ educators exile Trump voters from campus http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/11/14/trump-liberal-college-campuses-michigan-yale-glenn-reynolds-column/93765568/
• 11:30 – U.S. Copyright Office Undecided About Future of DMCA Takedowns https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-copyright-office-undecided-about-future-of-dmca-takedowns-161114/
• 17:05 – Security bods find Android phoning home. Home being China http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/15/android_phoning_home_to_china/

22:18 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Hillary Clinton https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161113/14342136032/hillary-clinton-looks-her-campaigns-many-missteps-decides-to-blame-james-comey-her-loss.shtml

30:10 – Silver Cluon Award: Matt Masur (nominated by Dallas Wildman) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-could-replace-president-trump-with-little_us_5829f25fe4b02b1f5257a6b7

35:50 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Janet Hull and Christina Sarich

• AminoSweet® – Get The Facts Straight From The Start http://www.janethull.com/healthynews/blog/2014/05/aminosweet-get-the-facts-straight-from-the-start/
• Aspartame’s Name Changed to Amino Sweet: A Toxin is Still a Toxin http://naturalsociety.com/toxin-name-still-deadly-fda-changes-aspartames-name-amino-sweet/
• Intense Sweetness Surpasses Cocaine Reward https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1931610/
• Five Facts Natural News Got Wrong About Aspartame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpmQRHq4qmQ

This Week’s Quote: “The more amiability and esprit de corps there is among the members of a policy-making ingroup, the greater the danger that independent critical thinking will be replaced by groupthink, which is likely to result in irrational and dehumanizing actions directed against outgroups.” —Irving Janis

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Co-Host: Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:50 – The Oracle-Google Case Will Decide the Future of Software http://www.wired.com/2016/05/oracle-google-case-will-decide-future-software/
  • Ep. 3: Early Copyright History – Copy-me http://copy-me.org/2014/10/copy-me-webseries-early-copyright-history-episode-3/
  • Google beats Oracle—Android makes “fair use” of Java APIs http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/05/google-wins-trial-against-oracle-as-jury-finds-android-is-fair-use/
• 14:41 – Elders way better at password security than millennials https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/05/25/elders-way-better-at-password-security-than-millennials/
• 23:36 – Should You Be Allowed to Prevent Drones From Flying Over Your Property? http://www.wsj.com/articles/should-you-be-allowed-to-prevent-drones-from-flying-over-your-property-1463968981

37:53 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The W3C https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/save-firefox

46:02 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The FBI (double-hit!)

• FBI Agent Testifies That The Agency’s Tor-Exploiting Malware Isn’t Actually Malware https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160522/16420734519/fbi-agent-testifies-that-agencys-tor-exploiting-malware-isnt-actually-malware.shtml
• Congrats, FBI, You’ve Now Convinced Silicon Valley To Encrypt And Dump Log Files https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160525/00574034542/congrats-fbi-youve-now-convinced-silicon-valley-to-encrypt-dump-log-files.shtml

This Week’s Quote: “It’s impossible to overstate how bonkers the idea of sabotaging cryptography is to people who understand information security…Use deliberately compromised cryptography, that has a back door that only the ‘good guys’ are supposed to have the keys to, and you have effectively no security. You might as well skywrite it as encrypt it with pre-broken, sabotaged encryption.” —Cory Doctorow

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Co-Hosts: Charles Thomas and Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:33 – Judge won’t stop shut-offs, says no right to free water http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2014/09/29/bankruptcy-judge-expected-rule-water-shut-offs/16414323/
• 10:34 – Pirate Bay Goes To College: Free Textbook Torrent Downloads Soar Amid Rising Costs http://www.ibtimes.com/pirate-bay-goes-college-free-textbook-torrent-downloads-soar-amid-rising-costs-1692247
• 19:31 – Darknet drug markets kept alive by great customer service http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/08/dark-net-drug-markets-kept-alive-by-great-customer-service/
• 30:50 – Brown Vetoes Bill Limiting Drone Surveillance http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2014/09/28/brown-vetoes-bill-limiting-drone-surveillance/

37:00 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The News Media http://www.theskepticsguide.org/not-black-holes-do-not-exist-part-2

47:46 – Silver Cluon Award: Mark Daly and nVidia http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/09/18/debunked/

56:10 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Matt K. Lewis http://theweek.com/article/index/268686/why-the-libertarian-boom-is-bad-for-traditional-conservatives

This Week’s Quote: “Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to bands of wandering hunter-gatherers, then to tribes, small settlements, city-states, nations. We have broadened the circle of those we love…If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth. Many of those who run the nations will find this idea unpleasant. They will fear the loss of power.” —Carl Sagan

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Co-Host: Dave Turcotte https://www.facebook.com/TheSuperplexBros

News of the Bogus:

• 1:02 – King of Copyright: On the 50th anniversary of ‘I have a dream’, Martin Luther King’s estate limits use of landmark speech http://www.thedrum.com/news/2013/08/26/king-copyright-50th-anniversary-i-have-dream-martin-luther-kings-estate-limits-use
  • Estate of Martin Luther King v. CBS, Inc. http://www.leagle.com/decision/19991405194F3d1211_11278
• 4:05 – In historic vote, New Zealand bans software patents http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/in-historic-vote-new-zealand-bans-software-patents/
  • U.S. GAO – Intellectual Property: Assessing Factors That Affect Patent Infringement Litigation Could Help Improve Patent Quality http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-465
• 8:42 – Microsoft and Google to sue over US surveillance requests http://www.theguardian.com/law/2013/aug/31/microsoft-google-sue-us-fisa
• 10:45 – Nonprofit says it was threatened with arrest for feeding Raleigh homeless http://www.wral.com/nonprofit-says-it-was-threatened-with-arrest-for-feeding-raleigh-homeless/12815894/
• 15:05 – Does law allow city’s huddle on Panthers? http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/08/27/4268208/does-law-allow-citys-huddle-on.html
• 16:55 – Documents Still Show No Evidence of Excrement at Abortion Debate http://www.texastribune.org/2013/08/26/dps-documents-show-no-proof-excrements/
• 19:35 – Russia Raids Gay People’s Homes http://www.advocate.com/news/world-news/2013/08/28/russia-raids-gay-peoples-homes

21:55 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Allison Benedikt (nominated by BlameThe1st) http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/08/private_school_vs_public_school_only_bad_people_send_their_kids_to_private.html

27:20 – Idiot Extraordinaire: David Miranda http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/partner-of-nsa-leaks-reporter-carried-paper-with-password-says-uk/

This Week’s Quote: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” —John F. Kennedy