Podcast for 2 February 2014

[MrBogosity]

[mp3]http://podcast.bogosity.tv/mp3s/BogosityPodcast-2015-02-02.mp3[/mp3]


Co-host: Dave Turcotte

News of the Bogus:

• 2:09 - What It Feels Like to Be a Gamergate Target https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAyncf3DBUQ
  
  
  
  • Brianna Wu's GTA rape tweets https://twitter.com/spacekatgal/status/555874686085496834
    
  • Brianna Wu on Twitter: "When I was 20, my parents handed me $200,000 to start an animation business. I learned more from that experience than anything in college." https://twitter.com/spacekatgal/status/422793818749288448
• 18:47 - Torrent Site Blockades Are Disproportional, Greek Court Rules http://torrentfreak.com/torrent-site-blockades-are-disproportional-greek-court-rules-150121/
• 22:50 - Is Vaping Worse Than Smoking? http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/opinion/joe-nocera-is-vaping-worse-than-smoking.html
  
  
  
  • New Study Reports High Levels of Formaldehyde in Electronic Cigarette Aerosols http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2015/01/new-study-reports-high-levels-of.html
• 32:36 - 12-Year-Old Girl's Hair Causes OUTRAGE, Wait Until You Hear Why http://madworldnews.com/12-year-old-girls-hair/
• 38:49 - People can be convinced they committed a non-existant crime in just 3 hours http://www.sciencealert.com/people-can-be-convinced-they-committed-a-non-existant-crime-in-just-three-hours

50:01 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Barack Obama http://bigstory.ap.org/article/1800bf6744eb4b3f91a75817d54a2a46/fact-check-obama-claims-credit-incomplete-recovery

• Bureau of Labor Statistics Data http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000
• State of the Union: Barack Obama Rebutted! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fGNwpFq4WY

58:45 - Idiot Extraordinaire: National Sheriffs Association and the Fraternal Order of Police https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/01/27/google-asked-to-muzzle-waze-police-stalking-app/

• Waze Social GPS Maps & Traffic - Android Apps on Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.waze&hl=en
  

This Week's Quote: "Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied." —L. Neil Smith

[evensgrey]

The creation of false memories under interrogation isn't even new.  Back in the late 90's, Dr. Colin A. Ross demonstrated that people could be induced by just the kind of described methods to produce entirely fabricated memories of committing heinous crimes that had never occurred.

Incidentally, I recall where I was and what I was doing quite clearly for both the Challenger explosion and the 9/11 attacks.

The Challenger news came when I was in a high school science class.  The teacher came back into the class after taking the test papers for the test we had just written off to the science department office, and told us of the disaster.  I recall thinking "This must be a joke.  But he doesn't tell jokes, and certainly not like THAT."

I was at work when 9/11 came down.  At the time, I worked for an outsourcing company that was providing tech support for the Rogers@Home, one of the big cable internet providers in Canada at that time.  (Recall @Home?  It went bankrupt about 2 months after this.)  The first indication we had that something was up was the call volume abruptly collapsed (presumably because everyone was suddenly glued to their TV screens and not using the internet).  After a while, callers started mentioning what was going on, then the managers turned on the local news radio station at the operations desk to try and keep up with events.