Scott Sigler joins the show to talk about Comic-Con and the unholy merging of tech, nerds and the entertainment industry.
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Show Notes
Today’s guest: Scott Sigler, author and podcaster
Headlines
GigaOm passes along a Wall Street Journal piece describing a Google X project to establish what a fully healthy human looks like in order to identify disease faster and easier. The BAseline Study Project will be led by molecular biologist Andrew Conrad, who joined Google X 16 months ago. All info will be anonymized and used only for health-related purposes though it will not be shared with insurance companies. Google will see benefits for the development of its wearable devices.
TechCrunch reports Lyft will begin operations in all five boroughs of New York City, not just Brooklyn and Queens, starting at 7 PM tonight. After negotiations with the New York Attorney General and the Taxi and Limousine Commission, Lyft will license all its drivers through the Taxi and Limousine Commission in NYC and pause operations in Buffalo and Rochester while it works to comply with insurance requirements there.
A Google representative confirmed to CNET on Friday that the company removed more than 50 percent of “right to be forgotten” requests it processed so far. The Wall Street Journal, citing a person familiar with the matter, reported that information Thursday night.
The US House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill today legalizing cell phone unlocking. The bill will allow consumers and third-parties to legally unlock phones that were received through a carrier. The US Senate passed the bill earlier this year, and President Obama is expected to sign it into law. Today’s legislation will not permanently allow legal phone unlocking. The rule will be reconsidered by the Library of Congress once again in 2015 and every three years thereafter unless circumstances should change.
News From You:
KAPT_Kipper submitted the Ars Technica story that Wikipedia has imposed a 10-day ban on the IP address connected to the US House of Representatives. A series of edits described as “disruptive” were revealed on the Twitter account @congressedits that tracks edits made from Congress IP addresses. The account bans all anonymous edits from the IP which affects thousands of staffers. House staffers could make a Wikipedia account, which would allow them to continue editing.
the_big_endian posted the Verge report that Comixology is making DRM-free backups of purchased comics available for some of its catalog. Some publishers have not agreed to remove DRM, and comics from those publishers will not be available. However those that are can be downloaded from the “My Books” section of Comixology’s site as PDF and CBZ files. posted the Verge report that Comixology is making DRM-free backups of purchased comics available for some of its catalog. Some publishers have not agreed to remove DRM, and comics from those publishers will not be available. However those that are can be downloaded from the “My Books” section of Comixology’s site as PDF and CBZ files.
Discussion Section:
http://www.engadget.com/2014/07/24/comic-con-bans-google-glass/?ncid=rss_truncated
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So my only thought on carrier locking. Even if I buy it on contract, why couldn’t it be unlocked? The legal contract is what should be (and is) binding, not the specific device. If I signed a contract for service, it’s for the service, not the physical device. In any case, at least its better than the old days where I had a ‘contract’ with sprint for 5 years because every time I changed my service plan it reset my contract (no free devices back then).
I listen to the feed in audio form only. I came to see what Glen P (sp?) was drawing but see no reference. It’d be great to be able to see his output after the fact.
Followed you here from TNT. Have since abandoned the latter as I don’t enjoy the current format. I’ve only listened to a few episodes so far but hope to get you into standard rotation and will definitely look into sponsoring.
Hey Arthur,
That’s a good idea. Although we do tell people to go to http://lenperaltastore.com/ specifically if they want to see the art. No reason we can’t do both!