The most pirated movies of 2013 don’t stop a record year at the box office. Also Intel CEO Brian Krzanich explains the problem with getting into streaming video. Netflix is either hostile or awesome or both.
S&L Video REWIND – The Hobbit Wrap-Up: December Book Club
This video is part of our re-release of the first season of Sword and Laser videos as they exit exclusivity. This episode originally posted December 28, 2012.
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DTNS 2142 – The fungi at CES 2014
Tom chats with Lamarr Wilson about what’s happening at CES 2014 in las vegas.
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Big thanks to Dan Lueders for the music and Martin Bell for the new opening theme!
Big thanks to Mustafa A. from thepolarcat.com for the logo!
Kylde has joined TomGehrke and scottierowland on the subreeddit! Thanks Kylde!
Show Notes
DTNS 2141 – Reupload: Quanto smash!
This is a reupload of Friday’s episode for some users of iTunes having problems with that ep. If you already have 2141 you can delete this. My apologies for the inconvenience – Tom
Darren Kitchen of Hak5 joins me to talk about Quantum Computers and free Harvard coding classes, while Len Peralta illustrates the show and introduces us to Quanto!
DTNS 2141 – Reupload: Quanto smash!
This is a reupload of Friday’s episode for some users of iTunes having problems with that ep. If you already have 2141 you can delete this. My apologies for the inconvenience – Tom
Darren Kitchen of Hak5 joins me to talk about Quantum Computers and free Harvard coding classes, while Len Peralta illustrates the show and introduces us to Quanto!
Autopilot S3E11 – TJ Hooker
Join Scott and Tom as they break down this week’s pilot: TJ Hooker!
T. J. Hooker is an American police drama television program starring William Shatner in the title role as a 15-year veteran police sergeant. The series premiered as a mid-season replacement on March 13, 1982, on ABC and ran on the network until May 4, 1985. The show was then picked up for a further single season by CBS
Current Geek 01: The English Breakfast
Join us for our relaunch episode! Where guests Veronica Belmont and Mark The Turpster Turpin join Scott and Tom!
Netflix and their weird new price thing, they found Doge, the entire Futrama world in one big image, computer code porn, Winamp and Shoutcast get a new life in Brussels, the Mac Pro is not all that hard to upgrade after all, Steam and the indie game conundrum, what Azimov says about 2014, POP QUIZES, amazon will destroy everyone, your emails and more!
DTNS 2141: Quanto smash!
Darren Kitchen of Hak5 joins me to talk about Quantum Computers and free Harvard coding classes, while Len Peralta illustrates the show and introduces us to Quanto!
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Big thanks to Dan Lueders for the music!
Big thanks to Sam Smith for the logo!
Show Notes
NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption: The Washington Post reports the NSA is building a “crypto logically useful computer” according to documents leaked by Edward Snowden. The $79.7 million research program is named “Penetrating Hard Targets”. Quantum Computers have been demonstrated by labs in the EU and Switzerland and a company called D-Wave. Quantum computers are actually slower than classical computers at most tasks but can perform certain functions like factoring prime numbers more efficiently.
Further reading on Quantum Computing (from Darren)
https://uwaterloo.ca/institute-for-quantum-computing/quantum-computing-101
http://www.pro-technix.com/information/crypto/pages/vernam_base.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography
CES: Wearables, 4k video & tablets: A quick search on Google News for the terms ‘CES expect’ reveals 13,000 results that indicate wearable, 4k video & tablets will be the big trend. Now you don’t have to go.
News From You:
Engadget reports that Fox will continue the tradition of streaming the US Super Bowl football game for free online. Fox will also stream its playoff coverage but that will only be available to certain cable subscribers. CBS, the network that streamed the Super Bowl for free last year, will be streaming all of its playoff coverage online for free. (Submitted by flyingspatula)
EDX, a Massively Open Online Course, or MOOC provider, will offer Harvard’s Introduction to Computer Science course online absolutely free with no prerequisites. Languages covered include C, PHP, and JavaScript plus SQL, CSS, and HTML. (Submitted by Skyjedi)
According to GigaOm, YouTube will not only show off 4K Streaming at CES but will do it with their own royalty-free VP9 codec. Google’s been trying to push the codec since it acquired it back in the VP8 days. This time they have 19 hardware partners on board to help the push, including big companies like Sony, Intel, Samsung, Broadcom and Marvell among others. (Submitted by spsheridan)
More links from the show:
BlackBerry wants Seacrest OUT — of the physical keyboard business:
http://gigaom.com/2014/01/03/blackberry-files-lawsuit-against-typo-ryan-seacrests-keyboard-startup/
T-Mobile CEO calls AT&T’s latest promotion a “desperate move”:
http://recode.net/2014/01/03/t-mobile-ceo-calls-atts-bid-to-poach-his-customers-a-desperate-move/
CES: What Acer is bringing to Las Vegas:
Twitter launches Vine for the Web:
http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2014/01/03/twitter-launches-vine-web/#!rfUCF
Snapchat will let users opt out of its Find Friends feature:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/01/02/snapchat-security/4295789/
DTNS 2141: Quanto smash!
Darren Kitchen of Hak5 joins me to talk about Quantum Computers and free Harvard coding classes, while Len Peralta illustrates the show and introduces us to Quanto!
Multiple versions (ogg, video etc.) from Archive.org.
Please SUBSCRIBE HERE.
Big thanks to Dan Lueders for the music!
Big thanks to Sam Smith for the logo!
Show Notes
Further reading on Quantum Computing (from Darren)
East Meets West 317 – Freaking airlines
Off to a good pace in 2014, if we won the lottery, the advantages of non-profit, HGTV’s Island Hunters, how money changes you, Disconnect.me, why Roger stalks people, why Tom rarely accepts LinkedIn requests, the secret name of Roger, airlines man, freaking airlines.
Get the episode at this link: http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/Eastmeetswest317/eastmeetswest317.mp3
