Control Structure #14: My Local Russian Authority

Chris has had enough, and Andrew talks about meteors blowing up, RASPBERRY!, DELL!, the taliban of open source, DRM, Sim City, social engineering, and some stats.

Links

• Russia Rocked by Meteor Explosion! HD 15/02/2013 – YouTube
• Russian meteor explosion: Spectacular dash cam video of meteorite fireball falling in Urals – YouTube
• Meteorite – Meteor Crashes In Russia “EPIC FOOTAGE” – “WARNING VERY LOUD BOOM” – YouTube
• Compilation Of Russia’s Craziest Drivers! 2012 – YouTube
• Star Citizen | Roberts Space Industries
• The Nexus: Technological Convergence
• Supreme Court to Hear Monsanto Seed Patent Case – NYTimes.com
• There Came an Echo by Iridium Studios — Kickstarter
• Raspberry Pi Micro-USB On / Off Power Switch Circuit by MausBerry Circuits — Kickstarter
• Haavard – 300 million users strong, Opera moves to WebKit
• Browser Wars, the game « Fink @ Mozilla
• Opera’s WebKit switch saw it lose 90 employees, many developers | Ars Technica
• Why Mozilla Matters | Brendan Eich
• Anti-Piracy Group Rips Off Pirate Bay Website, Faces Lawsuit | TorrentFreak
• The Pirate Bay: We will sue copycat site for copyright infringement | Ars Technica
• Computer History Museum | @CHM : Adobe Photoshop Source Code
• Carney: Amazon joins Walmart in push for online sales tax | WashingtonExaminer.com
• FCC 2013 Measuring Broadband America February Report
• Flat Pixels: The Battle Between Flat Design And Skeuomorphism
• How Samsung is out-innovating Apple – CNN.com
• Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder | Technology | guardian.co.uk
• BBC Attacks the Open Web, GNU/Linux in Danger – Open Enterprise
• Dell’s Linux Ultrabook gets more pixels, European availability | Ars Technica
• Gamasutra: Mike Rose’s Blog – Using SimCity to diagnose my home town’s traffic problem
• Nvidia Unleashes the Titan | Maximum PC
• LinuxChanges – Linux Kernel Newbies
• Bill Gates not satisfied with Microsoft innovation – CBS News
• Ctrl+Alt+Del – Taking it slow (2013-01-14)
• Burger King Twitter Hacked, Turned Into McDonald’s
• Chasing an active Social Engineering Fraud at Amazon Kindle – Scott Hanselman
• Unusually detailed report links Chinese military to hacks against US | Ars Technica
• FOSDEM 2013 – LibreOffice: cleaning and re-factoring a giant code-base

Music

• Younnat – Radar – His Name is Radar
• Anitek – Windmills
• Younnat – Magician’s Weekend
• dma-sc – Pre-Midnight Pizza*
• Anitek – Lamb of Who?

*used with permission

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #51: CS #14 — What The Hell Did I Just Read?!

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