Episode 44
Tonight’s Guests: Rym, Scott, Luke, Churba, Adam, and Victor
The Rapture!
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture
The Washington Post’s Outlook section invited 10 writers to sift through the world’s clutter and each nominate one thing – an idea, a tradition, a habit, a technology, you name it – that we’d all be better off tossing out this spring. What they got ranged from “The Simpsons” to “Democracy”. What thing would you want eliminated?
Original Article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Everyone “knows” that everyone else is a worse driver than they are, so what if we took humans out of the equation? Well, Google has been silently lobbying to allow robots to drive on Nevada public roads. How do you feel about this?
Original Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/
A bill has been introduced into the senate that would give the Department of Justice and individuals new powers to enforce copyright and trademark law against “rogue” and “pirate” Web sites that offer unlicensed copies of protected content or which sell illegal knock-offs of brand-name goods by taking them off the internet. Never mind the questions of the technological feasibility of this bill, what do you think of the possible ramifications of this, if it even passes.
CNET Article: http://news.cnet.com/8301-
EFF Blog Post: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/
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