Web Vulnerabilities
Tonight on GeekNights, we talk a bit about web vulnerabilities (like injection attacks and cross site scripting). But first, Rym and Scott had some fun with the Five Boro Bike Tour, Google has possibly partially lost the Oracle/Java fiasco of a trial, Verizon is planning to offer 911 texts (about a decade too late), and Religion is more dangerous than Porn.
- Rym's Thing - FLUID COUPLING, THE PRINCIPLES OF OPERATION
- Scott's Thing - Phoenix Wright Breakdown Supercut (Spoilers)
The Age Old Problem
Tonight on GeekNights, we discuss one of the most ancient and vexxing problems in software, technology, and progress: the principled stubbornness without an underlying functional argument. AKA, why this guy should have added a semicolon. In the news, Intel unveils Ivy Bridge, and some billionaires and to mine an asteroid. In more local news, we'll be at Connecticon (and so be should you), Zenkaikon, MoCCA Fest, PAX Prime, and maybe Otakon!
- Rym's Thing - In Memoriam of one C. Roach
- Scott's Thing - How to Ask a Question
Tech News Roundup March 2012
Tonight on GeekNights, it's a Tech News Roundup! We consider the NHTSA's recommendation to cripple car navigation systems, the NHTSA's revelation that US driver's education is wrong about at least one thing, Facebook's battle to protect your passwords, an MIT professor's prediction that in 50 years we can end disabilities, Japan's fear of free speech on the Internet, and the battle over the custody costs of Megaupload's data.
- Rym's Thing - Super Best Friends Forever
- Scott's Thing - D is for Digital
Network Mounted Storage
Tonight on GeekNights, without getting into any deep technical, boring detail, we talk about network mounted filesystems and the like (SMB, CIFS, NFS, DRBD, etc...). In the news, Rym is back from India and is still tired of the TSA and its attempt to suppress further information showing how useless it is, New York's data are increasingly openly available, and California looks to legalize automated cars following Nevada's progress.
- Scott's Thing - Whats Opera, Doc? (dj BC Wemix)
- Rym's Thing - Skeletor Insult Montage
Filtering Content
Tonight on GeekNights, we talk about content filtering, but not before a great discussion on OSX Gatekeeper and all of its ramifications (including our bet that Apple will drop the opt-out option within three years and stop selling Macs entirely within five), a good discussion of how we'll be first in line to gargoyle it up with some Google Goggles and a surprisingly long discussion of the Star Wars watching order debate (see The Machete Order).
- Rym's Thing - The Machete Order
- Scott's Thing - Nirdhaus
Do Not Track, Ads, and the Free Internet
Apparently forgetting Adblock, host-file ad blocking, DVR 30-second skip buttons, mute buttons, VCRs, remote controls, and the queer idea of getting up to make a sandwich, various people are predicting the end of the "free" ad-supported Internet, this time from people honoring "do not track" instructions. Also, some teachers in Ontario are afraid of Wifi, MIT launches a fully automated online course in electronics, and the EU dabbles yet again with the disastrous idea of a "right to be forgotten."
- Rym's Thing - The Ghost of Stephen Foster
- Scott's Thing - Street Photos of New York from the 50s
Software Development Methodologies
Tonight on GeekNights we phone it in with some discussion on Software Development Methodologies and their ilk. But first, India's Missed Call Ecosystem, the deal with the other Mark Zuckerburg, and Google's troubles with COPPA.
- Scott's Thing - Programming M.C. Kids
- Rym's Thing - How to fold a fitted sheet
