Episode 29: College Debts, 3D Printing and Porn Star Bank Accounts

Bart and Norma speculate about life changes and the American Conservative platform, 3D Printing, and porn stars being denied bank accounts (wha?!)

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Show Notes:

• Days are hard
• There was feedback on the Titanic and Eric Smith episode
• Just making a life change to achieve the American Dream isn't as simple as it sounds
• Paul Ryan is a jackass when it comes to poverty in Bart's opinion
• The American Conservative platform is built on the idea of making people miserable to promote change; then their ideas make sense
• College debt is fun
• 3D Printing may be interesting in the future
• Printing casts with 3D technology for faster healing?
• Porn stars are being denied bank accounts

Episode 28: The ESB is Mean, 2-Factor Auth and Managing Machines

Bart and Pete discuss some holiday activities then roll into an explanation of 2-factor authentication and our experiences with certain software packages meant to help manage large numbers of machines. We would love to hear what others have encountered trying to do that...

We had a candy holiday weekend and our brains were stuck in first gear. Hmm...candy...

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Show Notes:

• WTF is "DevOps" - Pete's brief introduction to his love for The Phoenix Project
• Social media sucks over the holidays
• The Empire State Building is not fun if you have a Leatherman...because pliers are dangerous, yo.
• 2-factor auth - with a horror/whoopsie story
• When 2-factor is not enough...
• What is 2-factor?
• Enable it; because phishing is getting sophisticated, and I'm too tired to pay attention
• Automating updates and configuration management on client computers - about as much fun as it sounds

Episode 27: DroneWatch 2014, Twitter Twits, Titanic Sinks and Eric Smith Still in Jail!

Norma and Bart discuss new drone laws in DroneWatch 2014, tweeting twits terrorize airlines and customers alike, and 102 years ago the Titanic sank. We also find that child murderer Eric Smith is once again denied parole. Lots of links in the show notes!

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Show Notes:

• Taxes suck, and Bart found a partial reason they're so convolutedly insane
• DroneWatch 2014: Alaska banning drones from use by hunters and the UK fines someone for flying near a shipyard full of seekrit subs
• 14 year old moron tweeted a terrorist threat to American Airlines, immediately followed by blaming others and denying it was intentional
• US Airways decided they wanted some twitter love by tweeting a photo of a woman loving a plane to an angry customer
• 102 years ago on the 15th: Titanic sank on its maiden voyage to New York, causing Celine Dion to screech about hearts going on for the torture of millions of souls
• Titanic real-time Twitter feed is great to follow this time of year
• Titanic Facts website...interesting!
• Skeptics.stackexchange.com question regarding the "unsinkable" liner
• Eric Smith, murderer, is denied parole once again. Read here for the story. Read here to cringe.

Episode 26: Drones, Autism and Social Programs

Bart and Pete manage to go completely off script and discuss a comment from a previous episode regarding people taking advantage of social programs/assistance. But we did manage to talk a little about autism and a followup on the town that wanted to issue permits to shoot drones out of the sky.

There is a brief garble in the audio near the beginning...not much could be done about that...sorry!

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Show Notes:

• No more presidential selfies?
• Deer Trail, Colorado nixes drone hunting permits
• "We were just kidding, we swear!"
• Abuse of financial assistance programs
• Bart contends that corporations make more, unfairly, than welfare recipients
• Money comes with strings attached
• People will shop at evil Wal-Mart, even to their own detriment, if it means personally saving money in the short term
• Pete says you have to think global but act local
• Chili's cancels an autism fundraiser
• Vaccinations have nothing to do with autism
• ASD children in restaurants...it's a challenge

Episode 25: The Conspiracy Episode

Bart and Norma talk about getting snowed in and a little bit about researchers using "drones" (a remote control quadcopter) to collect info from wifi-enabled devices, but most of the time we talked about conspiracy theories.

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Show Notes:

• Norma joins Bart as today's cohost
• Norma was stuck in a freak winter storm
• Didn't you know NY/PA gets snow?
• Housing in NYC is fun
• Little Italy is disappearing
• New apartments are being built near the Lincoln Tunnel?
• Reminds Bart of David Hewlett movie Nothing
• A drone in London
• Are you justified in shooting down a drone in your backyard?
• Was 9/11 a conspiracy?
• Empire State Building shooting
• Times Square disturbed individual shooting
• Theater texter shoots another texter for annoying him
• People like spying when it benefits them
• Companies won't stop the ability to spy because then they can't spy on you