Show Notes
Buffer Overflow: Domesticated Snakes
Episode 131
Facebook Libra, Solaring in the dark, and Moon O2
Hosts
Ned Bellavance
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52
@Ned1313
Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner
Brenda Heisler, Resource Coordinator
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-heisler-b5431989/
Longer Topics
Give me Libra or give me something else!
- The EU launched an anti-trust investigation into the Libra Assoc.
- Japan set up a task force to determine Libra’s possible impact on financial markets
- PayPal backs out on October 4 citing a focus on core business
- Visa, Mastercard, eBay, Stripe all pull out
Solar energy is making inroads in new and interesting ways
- And the prices on the electricity coming from Molten Salt plants is dropping, down from 13.5cents per kilowatt hour in 2009, down to appx 5 cents per kilowatt hour in 2017.
- The feature is called “Anti-Islanding,” and it is intended to protect utility workers who would logically assume that there is no power on the line.
Lightning Round
- Amazon finally dumps Oracle for good
- Motorola RAZR might be making a comeback
- Great news! Putting tiny spy chips into computer hardware is not as hard as you’d think!
- Samsung announces that the thumbprint reader can be unlocked with ANY thumbprint
- Rather than using schmancy antibiotics on bacteria, why not just rip them apart?
- Moon settlers could get oxygen from the surface of the satellite
Music Credits
Intro: Jason Shaw – Tech Talk
Outro: Jason Shaw – Feels Good 2 B
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