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Grumpy Old Geeks

206: Sarah's Law

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

News, Security, Web, Internet, Tech News, Tech, Comedy, Scams, Entertainment, Music, Lifestyle, Social, Code, Business, Society & Culture, Technology, Engineering

4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2017

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Our AI law; voice recognition; Ballmer's new quest; Facebook's future; Old Man Streaming; Schadenfacebook; AI gone rogue; Linksys security; outsourced ransomware; the Bobiverse; Fahrenheit 451; X-Files, again; Expanse wrap-up; make America grumpy again! Full show notes at http://gog.show/206 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

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0:17.0

Grumpy Old Geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason DeFilippo

0:21.7

discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.

0:30.4

Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks.

0:31.3

I'm Jason DeFilippo.

0:32.5

And I'm Brian Schultmeister.

0:33.8

Now Brian, before we jump in, I'd just like to talk a minute about how utterly maddening

0:38.9

it is to use the web without an ad blocker.

0:41.3

Yep.

0:42.3

Have you tried it recently?

0:43.3

Nope, because we've talked about it a couple of shows ago.

0:46.4

And yeah, it's absolutely useful, our useless.

0:49.4

The useless.

0:50.4

The useless.

0:51.4

This is the internet that we decided that we deserved.

0:55.9

So that's what we got.

0:57.2

We got to play ad videos with the sound on these sneaky full-page takeovers that just

1:02.5

kind of follow your mouse and get you to click on stuff without even, you know, not

1:07.0

trying to, but it's like, oh, here's the read more button.

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