Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
We dissect the tech news train wrecks of the week, calling out what went wrong and who’s to blame. Think of this podcast as if Kurt Cobain threw down with Tom from MySpace, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg in a back alley brawl. No mercy, no filter—if tech had a walk of shame, this would be it.
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Sep 25, 2015 • 46min
129: Selfie Selection
Jason's live at DerbyCon; a # is not consent; offloading our memories; Du Hast vomiting rainbows; algorithms will beat your fantasy team; dislike this; #KardBlock'n the dom; mystery emojis; making Steve Jobs boring; Snowden, Maher & Dawkins lose it.
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Sep 18, 2015 • 1h 5min
128: Demand your Replicator
Is Star Trek's Utopia coming? Is HP irrelevant? Do e-books earn more at lower prices? Is Twitter going to lose a lawsuit over scanning DMs? Is the ad-blocking Peace app still available? Are we trapped in a closet? Do we like Betteridge's law of headlines?
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Sep 11, 2015 • 1h 29min
127: Give Me Porn, or Give Me Death
Quiznos burns Burning Man; Apple's new crap; McAfee 4 Prez; Augmented v Virtual reality; Russia bans porn, still into voyeurism; not into OverSuccess; new chairs, mail apps; welcome to the race, Homo naledi; Trainspotting 2, electric boogaloo?
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Sep 5, 2015 • 1h 8min
126: #ForceOpenYourWalletFriday
Star Wars has awakened to your wallet; Ashley Madison who?; Uber's pesky human problem; Google logos; free-dronin'; networkin' on the Playa; comfy butts & phantom wrist syndrome; Mr. Robot shows there's nothing new under the dystopian sci-fi sun.
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Aug 28, 2015 • 1h 7min
125: Brony Madison
What do Ashley Madison & the Middle Ages have in common? Flying Penises & Bronies! Rich idiots; Dismaland & Disneyland; Facebook billion day; Spotify "sorry-2"; cops get weaponized drones; Howard Stern kills advertising; tech chicks, don't get pregnant.
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Aug 21, 2015 • 1h 8min
124: Come and Knock on My Door
Jason slammed for Apple Watch, Brian slammed for Uber; that whole Ashley Madison thing; the real cost of YouTube stardom; Amazon burn & churn; AT&T sells you out; Tarintino, Matt Damon, Patrick Stewart & Simon Pegg plus Bill Murray in Underoos!
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Aug 14, 2015 • 1h 10min
123: ABC, As Easy as Episode 123
Apple Music almost as broke as musicians; Google, sorry, ABC's MusicKey MIA; rent explosions; Sesame Street for the privileged; CIA apology drafts; OverSuccess & Superheros; Blackberry Redux; Top Gear, Westworld & We Are Blood; turn on Ludicrous Speed!
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Aug 7, 2015 • 1h 9min
122: The Middleman Economy
Big data for cities, transparency in music, the Middleman Economy, no good deed goes unpunished, our first salvo against Canada, Facebook's illegal video problem, hacking through audio, Germans invent Warp Drive & we've got a Berenst#in Bears problem.
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Jul 31, 2015 • 1h 14min
121: We Don't Need Another Hero
Your job will never love you; WIFI isn't making you sick; mind your own business, twitter vigilantes; RIP Google+; Win10; air-gapped hack, Rowhammer, Black Darts, hacking sniper rifles, breaking Brinks, FBI plane surveillance & the Hoff, oh my vlog!
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Jul 24, 2015 • 1h 2min
120: Podcasting from the Parking Lot
San Fran fails to fall into the ocean, NASA finds new ones; Americans working longer, 80s lessons learned; Russell Brand vs. Uber, Instagram #ban, jerks with drones; hackings cars, butt dialing & self redacting fonts; M. Night Shyamalan's Electric Banana.
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