Podcast for 8 June 2015

[MrBogosity]

[mp3]http://podcast.bogosity.tv/mp3s/BogosityPodcast-2015-06-08.mp3[/mp3]


Co-Hosts: Dave Turcotte and Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:33 - Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison http://www.wired.com/2015/05/silk-road-creator-ross-ulbricht-sentenced-life-prison/
  
  
  
  • Errata Security: Ulbricht's judge punished him for political dissent; you should find this outrageous http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/06/some-notes-about-ulbricht-verdict.html
  • Why Ross Ulbricht's Life Sentence Is A Miscarriage Of Justice http://theantimedia.org/ross-ulbrichts-life-sentence/
• 15:00 - Obama Administration Files Totally Clueless Argument Concerning Software Copyrights In Supreme Court Case https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150526/16550931121/obama-administration-files-totally-clueless-argument-concerning-software-copyrights-supreme-court-case.shtml
• 25:21 - I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss. Here's How. http://io9.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-chocolate-helps-weight-1707251800
  
  
  
  • xkcd: Significant https://xkcd.com/882/
  • Chocolate consumption and risk of diabetes mellitus in the Physicians' Health Study http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/101/2/362.abstract
  • Dietary Intake of Saturated Fat Is Not Associated with Risk of Coronary Events or Mortality in Patients with Established Coronary Artery Disease http://jn.nutrition.org/content/145/2/299.abstract

38:21 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Los Angeles Labor unions http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/05/27/los_angeles_15_minimum_wage_labor_unions_want_to_be_exempt_from_it.html

45:02 - Idiot Extraordinaire: The TSA http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/06/understanding-tsa-math.html

• How The TSA Let Through So Many Explosives - CONAN on TBS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH5JZyrcU0g

This Week's Quote: "At $8 billion per year, the TSA is the most expensive theatrical production in history." —David Burge

[evensgrey]

I'm reminded of how amused the Israeli airport security expert I heard on the CBC was by the TSA's 'techniques'.  He was particularly amused by security checkpoints, which create a big concentration of people outside the security perimeter...which is precisely the kind of thing a terrorist will target.  (That, and all the glass we like to put in airports in North America.  A moderate sized bomb in almost any place outside the security cordon of almost any airport in North America would shower broken glass on a broad swath of the concourse.)

[CarcharOdin]

Dave, I really love that angry tirade you went off on the judge.

I have to agree, this case was nothing more than just the US government saying "Don't defy us" and that judge going on an uber-power trip.

[Ibrahim90]

I'm reminded of how amused the Israeli airport security expert I heard on the CBC was by the TSA's 'techniques'.  He was particularly amused by security checkpoints, which create a big concentration of people outside the security perimeter...which is precisely the kind of thing a terrorist will target.  (That, and all the glass we like to put in airports in North America.  A moderate sized bomb in almost any place outside the security cordon of almost any airport in North America would shower broken glass on a broad swath of the concourse.)

Frankly whoever came up with the TSA should commit Hara-Kiri....it is that disgraceful...