Control Structure #43: Popular Opinion

Andrew explains Kickstarter and FM transmission, then interviews Steven. They also talk about far flung topics like risk, business decisions, loans, McAfee, chargers, web servers, databases, display managers, social networks, signing up, Steam, compromised security algorithms, listener feedback, and so much more.

Links

• Schneier on Security: Our Newfound Fear of Risk
• NSA and GCHQ: the flawed psychology of government mass surveillance | Chris Chambers | Science | theguardian.com
• The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value – Forbes
• This One Tweet Reveals What’s Wrong With American Business | LinkedIn
• The student loan bubble is starting to burst
• Set Chopin Free by Aaron Dunn — Kickstarter
• Creative Link Effects
• Turning the Raspberry Pi Into an FM Transmitter – Imperial College Robotics Society Wiki
• Twitter / officialmcafee: I felt fine when I went to …
• Wireless Charging Start-Up Claims 30-Foot Radius – Slashdot
• Cota By Ossia Aims To Drive A Wireless Power Revolution And Change How We Think About Charging | TechCrunch
• The STEM Crisis Is a Myth – IEEE Spectrum
• This Russian Software Is Taking Over the Internet | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
• September 2013 Web Server Survey | Netcraft
• phpMyAdmin – 15 years
• PostgreSQL: PostgreSQL 9.3 released!
• What’s new in PostgreSQL 9.3 – PostgreSQL wiki
• PostgreSQL Basics by Example – darthdeus’ blog
• Breaking Capacity Barriers With Seagate Shingled Magnetic Recording | Seagate
• Intel rejection of Ubuntu’s Mir patch forces Canonical to go own way | Ars Technica
• Why your distributed social network will not work—programming is terrible
• Stop Making Me Sign Up — Design + Startups — Medium
• Steam Family Sharing
• Yahoo Files Suit Demanding Greater Accountability from the U.S. Government | Yahoo Global Public Policy
• Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security | World news | Guardian Weekly
• Pretty Good Privacy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Untitled: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/government-announces-steps-to-restore-confidence-on-encryption-standards/
• PDF: itlbul2013_09_supplemental.pdf
• 0to255
• Color + Design Blog / ColorSchemer Studio 2 for Mac (+COLOURlovers) by COLOURlovers :: COLOURlovers
• How to Choose Colours Procedurally (Algorithms) | devmag.org.za
• We Do Commerce
• Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day
• Linux-Kernel Archive: RIP – dead harddisk..
• Prove It With A Unit Test | A site to share coding knowledge of how things work centered around a unit test

Music

• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
• Podcast Fantastic
• Jamendo – In The Middle by Anitek
• Jamendo – Inside a dream by Celestial Aeon Project
• Jamendo – Jetstream by Celestial Aeon Project

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #137: CS #43 — Advance Your Hue!

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