Control Structure #47: Space Like Outer Space

Chris starts the podcast without Andrew, and then proceeds to catch up with things, then they make remarks about the government failures, Titus, security leaks, employee leaks, DRM, robots vs. humans, trolls, REST, Linux kernel structure, and user feedback.

Links

• Project Twentieth Century: Planning | the Andrew Bailey
• GovUptime
• xkcd: Open Letter
• Size Comparison – Science Fiction spaceships by DirkLoechel on deviantART
• Letter from the Chairman: $21 Million! – Roberts Space Industries
• Archaeology: The milk revolution : Nature News & Comment
• “SPECIAL UNIT” THE MOVIE – FundAnything
• October 2013 private data security issue – Meta
• 10 Ways To Lose Your Best Employees | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
• W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web’s standards, says it’s OK for your browser to say “I can’t let you do that, Dave” – Boing Boing
• 923590 – Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM
• Internet Explorer Dev Center
• Rob Conery | Web development with Ruby on Rails, Node, and Whatever Bleeds. Co-owner/Founder of Tekpub, Creator of This Developer’s Life
• Humans Trump Robots at the Grocery Store – WSJ.com
• next generation video: Introducing Daala part 4
• Patent Troll Lodsys Settles for Nothing to Avoid Trial | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Did Shutting Down Silk Road Make the World a More Dangerous Place? – Conor Friedersdorf – The Atlantic
• Silk Road’s Dread Pirate, Ross Ulbricht, asked Stack Overflow question under real name.
• Google in Jeopardy: What If IBM’s Watson Dethroned the King of Search? | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
• That grumpy BSD guy: The Hail Mary Cloud And The Lessons Learned
• Unbundling: AOL, Facebook and LinkedIn — Benedict Evans
• Using HTTP Verbs in a REST Web API – Michel Triana
• Anatomy of the Linux kernel
• Curiosity (rover) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day
• Schlock Mercenary – Archives – Friday October 4, 2013

Music

• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
• MrSolidSnake745’s Floppy Drive Orchestra (Sons of Skyrim Remake, He’s A Pirate, Little Fugue; used with permission)

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #149: CS #47: The Linear Path!

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