72: The Grumpy Old Geeks Nominate You!

We’re back on track this week with some mockery of ice buckets, enhanced security section with copious tinfoil hattery, and enough news to choke a horse. Basically, we’re back in the saddle! Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/72 Listen or subscribe in iTunes If you like the show please click here and give us a rating or review in iTunes. It helps us out and lets us know people want more episodes! If you’d like to donate to the show please check out our page on TugBoat Hosted by Libsyn Use the coupon code “gog” while signing up & receive up to 2 months free!   Show Notes Ice Bucket Challenge ‘Severe’ drought covers nearly 99.8% of California, report says California drought: 17 communities could run out of water within 60 to 120 days, state says Slingshot (water vapor distillation system) Why Facebook is for ice buckets, Twitter is for Ferguson The Ice Bucket Challenge Has Raised More Than $13 Million — Meanwhile, Medical Research Has Been Cut By Billions The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Adam Carolla’s Settlement with the Podcasting Troll Premier League warns about posting goal videos online NFL Asks Musicians for Money to Play Super Bowl The NFL has a REVENUE of over 9 billion per year. Does Facebook think users are dumb? “Satire” tag added to Onion articles And the Onion responds. Should Twitter, Facebook and Google Executives be the Arbiters of What We See and Read? People Keep Getting Into Strangers’ Cars Because They Think It’s An Uber Snapchat Is Now The #3 Social App Among Millennials Twitter now officially says your timeline is more than just tweets from people you follow I Visited Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde In Prison, Here’s What He Had To Say Motorcyclist crashes, flips and sticks a perfect landing on a car’s roof Last Call – The end of the printed newspaper. By Clay Shirky Meet Product Hunt Hospital network hacked, 4.5 million records stolen Professor hacks University Health Conway in demonstration for class What can Brown do to you? Lorem Ipsum: Of Good & Evil, Google & China Dressed For Excess Technology Can Make Lawful Surveillance Both Open and Effective Hacking Into Traffic Lights With a Plain Old Laptop Is Scary Simple White House cybersecurity czar brags about his lack of technical expertise Stealing encryption keys through the power of touchResearchers pilfer decryption keys through Ethernet and human touch side channel. Honorable spies anonymously leak NSA/GHCQ-discovered flaws in Tor Your Anonymous Posts to Secret Aren’t Anonymous After All Normal Which Apps Are Eating Your Battery? Normal Will Tell You. The Walk Originally featured on Episode 38 on December 15th, 2013 Wordfence Source Code Pro iStat Menus 5 is out Aphex Twin Announces New Album SYRO Via the Deep Web Truth And Iliza Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History – #53 finally out! Common Sense with Dan Carlin – Show 279 – If It Even Saves One Geeks and Beats Gluten Poorly Explained The Secret History of the Hidden Track You can watch an ‘unaltered’ version of Star Wars in HD today, if you bend the law Bored Elon Musk In order to preserve the state’s natural beauty, billboards are completely banned in the state of Vermont, and have been for over 45 years. ‘MythBusters’ drops hosts Kari Byron, Grant Imahara, Tory Belleci Resistance Pro Wrestling