Podcasts about DCMA

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Bioware developers get moved around to work on Mass Effect, DCMA take down on 60fps mod for Bloodborne, Midnight Society shuts down, Multiversus to shut down. We try to tackle our backlogs.

Une exploration des expressions contemporaines du taarab à Zanzibar avec Brain Boy, Siti Amina et l'équipe de la Dhow Countries Music Academy. Un reportage de Jeanne Lacaille en marge du Festival Sauti Za Busara (@sautizabusara). (Rediffusion) Formé dans le creuset du métissage zanzibari au XIXè siècle, mêlant influences africaines, arabes et indiennes, le taarab est LA musique traditionnelle de l'archipel, sa bande-son par excellence. À l'image de Zanzibar, syncrétique et composite par essence, quelles sont les nouvelles mutations du taarab ? Que dit-il de Zanzibar aujourd'hui et quelle est sa fonction ? Quelles sont ses perspectives d'avenir dans un contexte local de sur-tourisme ? Intimement lié à l'histoire politique de l'île, le taarab a-t-il encore un rôle à jouer sur l'échiquier local ? Que reste-t-il de l'héritage des pionnières ? Après Siti Binti Saad et Bi Kidude, le taarab est-il toujours un vecteur d'émancipation pour les femmes ? Nos invités :>> Lauréat d'un Zanzibar Youth Award en 2022 pour son EP The Return of Zenzi Flavor, Brain Boy est une jeune pousse du Zenji Flavor, mouvement hip-hop né dans les années 90 à Zanzibar qui sample abondamment taarab & kidumbaki dans un geste créatif et identitaire. Son rêve ? Un Grammy Award pour le taarab ! Nous retrouvons le jeune artiste côté studio chez Stone Town Records, en marge de son ultime répétition avant son concert sur la scène du festival Sauti Za Busara.>> Fondée en 2001 à Stone Town, la Dhow Countries Music Academy est à la fois une ONG et la seule école de musique de Zanzibar. Sa mission ? Préserver, transmettre et promouvoir les musiques traditionnelles de l'archipel, taarab en tête, à l'heure où toute la jeunesse tanzanienne n'a que deux mots à la bouche : singeli et afrobeats. Malgré ses quelques mécènes et sa trentaine d'élèves — qui pour certain.e.s viennent de loin pour étudier le taarab — l'avenir de la DCMA est menacé par le manque de soutien du gouvernement. Celui du taarab aussi ? Point sur la situation avec Halda sa directrice, le professeur Tryphon et deux jeunes élèves, Frank et Thureiya. >> Comme Siti Binti Saad et Bi Kidude avant elle, Siti Amina a déserté mariage et violences conjugales pour se consacrer à la musique. Frondeuse et féministe, elle est aujourd'hui la chanteuse du groupe Siti & The Band qui a bien décollé depuis sa formation à la Dhow Countries Music Academy avec un taarab aux fondations traditionnelles enrichi d'éclats jazz, de grooves funk ou reggae, et de feats audacieux. Après son triomphe sur la scène du festival Sauti Za Busara, elle nous donne rendez-vous à Hifadhi Zanzibar Majestic Theatre, l'un des derniers lieux de musique live et de culture à Stone Town, l'un des rares bâtiments historiques de la ville à ne pas encore avoir été transformé en hôtel par les promoteurs de la surmise en tourisme de l'archipel. Ce reportage pose les questions suivantes :Quelles sont les nouvelles mutations du taarab ?Que disent-elles de la société zanzibari ?Quelle est la fonction du taarab aujourd'hui ?Quelles sont les perspectives d'avenir dans un contexte de surtourisme ?Que reste-t-il de l'héritage des pionnières Siti Binti Saad et Bi Kidude ?Après elles, le taarab est-il toujours un vecteur d'émancipation pour les femmes ?À lire sur PAMBi Kidude sur PAM.

Une exploration des expressions contemporaines du taarab à Zanzibar avec Brain Boy, Siti Amina et l'équipe de la Dhow Countries Music Academy. Un reportage de Jeanne Lacaille en marge du Festival Sauti Za Busara (@sautizabusara). (Rediffusion) Formé dans le creuset du métissage zanzibari au XIXè siècle, mêlant influences africaines, arabes et indiennes, le taarab est LA musique traditionnelle de l'archipel, sa bande-son par excellence. À l'image de Zanzibar, syncrétique et composite par essence, quelles sont les nouvelles mutations du taarab ? Que dit-il de Zanzibar aujourd'hui et quelle est sa fonction ? Quelles sont ses perspectives d'avenir dans un contexte local de sur-tourisme ? Intimement lié à l'histoire politique de l'île, le taarab a-t-il encore un rôle à jouer sur l'échiquier local ? Que reste-t-il de l'héritage des pionnières ? Après Siti Binti Saad et Bi Kidude, le taarab est-il toujours un vecteur d'émancipation pour les femmes ? Nos invités :>> Lauréat d'un Zanzibar Youth Award en 2022 pour son EP The Return of Zenzi Flavor, Brain Boy est une jeune pousse du Zenji Flavor, mouvement hip-hop né dans les années 90 à Zanzibar qui sample abondamment taarab & kidumbaki dans un geste créatif et identitaire. Son rêve ? Un Grammy Award pour le taarab ! Nous retrouvons le jeune artiste côté studio chez Stone Town Records, en marge de son ultime répétition avant son concert sur la scène du festival Sauti Za Busara.>> Fondée en 2001 à Stone Town, la Dhow Countries Music Academy est à la fois une ONG et la seule école de musique de Zanzibar. Sa mission ? Préserver, transmettre et promouvoir les musiques traditionnelles de l'archipel, taarab en tête, à l'heure où toute la jeunesse tanzanienne n'a que deux mots à la bouche : singeli et afrobeats. Malgré ses quelques mécènes et sa trentaine d'élèves — qui pour certain.e.s viennent de loin pour étudier le taarab — l'avenir de la DCMA est menacé par le manque de soutien du gouvernement. Celui du taarab aussi ? Point sur la situation avec Halda sa directrice, le professeur Tryphon et deux jeunes élèves, Frank et Thureiya. >> Comme Siti Binti Saad et Bi Kidude avant elle, Siti Amina a déserté mariage et violences conjugales pour se consacrer à la musique. Frondeuse et féministe, elle est aujourd'hui la chanteuse du groupe Siti & The Band qui a bien décollé depuis sa formation à la Dhow Countries Music Academy avec un taarab aux fondations traditionnelles enrichi d'éclats jazz, de grooves funk ou reggae, et de feats audacieux. Après son triomphe sur la scène du festival Sauti Za Busara, elle nous donne rendez-vous à Hifadhi Zanzibar Majestic Theatre, l'un des derniers lieux de musique live et de culture à Stone Town, l'un des rares bâtiments historiques de la ville à ne pas encore avoir été transformé en hôtel par les promoteurs de la surmise en tourisme de l'archipel. Ce reportage pose les questions suivantes :Quelles sont les nouvelles mutations du taarab ?Que disent-elles de la société zanzibari ?Quelle est la fonction du taarab aujourd'hui ?Quelles sont les perspectives d'avenir dans un contexte de surtourisme ?Que reste-t-il de l'héritage des pionnières Siti Binti Saad et Bi Kidude ?Après elles, le taarab est-il toujours un vecteur d'émancipation pour les femmes ?À lire sur PAMBi Kidude sur PAM.

Une exploration des expressions contemporaines du taarab à Zanzibar avec Brain Boy, Siti Amina et l'équipe de la Dhow Countries Music Academy. Un reportage de Jeanne Lacaille en marge du Festival Sauti Za Busara (@sautizabusara). (Rediffusion) Formé dans le creuset du métissage zanzibari au XIXè siècle, mêlant influences africaines, arabes et indiennes, le taarab est LA musique traditionnelle de l'archipel, sa bande-son par excellence. À l'image de Zanzibar, syncrétique et composite par essence, quelles sont les nouvelles mutations du taarab ? Que dit-il de Zanzibar aujourd'hui et quelle est sa fonction ? Quelles sont ses perspectives d'avenir dans un contexte local de sur-tourisme ? Intimement lié à l'histoire politique de l'île, le taarab a-t-il encore un rôle à jouer sur l'échiquier local ? Que reste-t-il de l'héritage des pionnières ? Après Siti Binti Saad et Bi Kidude, le taarab est-il toujours un vecteur d'émancipation pour les femmes ?Nos invités :>> Lauréat d'un Zanzibar Youth Award en 2022 pour son EP The Return of Zenzi Flavor, Brain Boy est une jeune pousse du Zenji Flavor, mouvement hip-hop né dans les années 90 à Zanzibar qui sample abondamment taarab & kidumbaki dans un geste créatif et identitaire. Son rêve ? Un Grammy Award pour le taarab ! Nous retrouvons le jeune artiste côté studio chez Stone Town Records, en marge de son ultime répétition avant son concert sur la scène du festival Sauti Za Busara.>> Fondée en 2001 à Stone Town, la Dhow Countries Music Academy est à la fois une ONG et la seule école de musique de Zanzibar. Sa mission ? Préserver, transmettre et promouvoir les musiques traditionnelles de l'archipel, taarab en tête, à l'heure où toute la jeunesse tanzanienne n'a que deux mots à la bouche : singeli et afrobeats. Malgré ses quelques mécènes et sa trentaine d'élèves — qui pour certain.e.s viennent de loin pour étudier le taarab — l'avenir de la DCMA est menacé par le manque de soutien du gouvernement. Celui du taarab aussi ? Point sur la situation avec Halda sa directrice, le professeur Tryphon et deux jeunes élèves, Frank et Thureiya.>> Comme Siti Binti Saad et Bi Kidude avant elle, Siti Amina a déserté mariage et violences conjugales pour se consacrer à la musique. Frondeuse et féministe, elle est aujourd'hui la chanteuse du groupe Siti & The Band qui a bien décollé depuis sa formation à la Dhow Countries Music Academy avec un taarab aux fondations traditionnelles enrichi d'éclats jazz, de grooves funk ou reggae, et de feats audacieux. Après son triomphe sur la scène du festival Sauti Za Busara, elle nous donne rendez-vous à Hifadhi Zanzibar Majestic Theatre, l'un des derniers lieux de musique live et de culture à Stone Town, l'un des rares bâtiments historiques de la ville à ne pas encore avoir été transformé en hôtel par les promoteurs de la surmise en tourisme de l'archipel.Ce reportage pose les questions suivantes :Quelles sont les nouvelles mutations du taarab ?Que disent-elles de la société zanzibari ?Quelle est la fonction du taarab aujourd'hui ?Quelles sont les perspectives d'avenir dans un contexte de surtourisme ?Que reste-t-il de l'héritage des pionnières Siti Binti Saad et Bi Kidude ?Après elles, le taarab est-il toujours un vecteur d'émancipation pour les femmes ?À lire sur PAMBi Kidude sur PAM.

Une exploration des expressions contemporaines du taarab à Zanzibar avec Brain Boy, Siti Amina et l'équipe de la Dhow Countries Music Academy. Un reportage de Jeanne Lacaille en marge du Festival Sauti Za Busara (@sautizabusara). (Rediffusion) Formé dans le creuset du métissage zanzibari au XIXè siècle, mêlant influences africaines, arabes et indiennes, le taarab est LA musique traditionnelle de l'archipel, sa bande-son par excellence. À l'image de Zanzibar, syncrétique et composite par essence, quelles sont les nouvelles mutations du taarab ? Que dit-il de Zanzibar aujourd'hui et quelle est sa fonction ? Quelles sont ses perspectives d'avenir dans un contexte local de sur-tourisme ? Intimement lié à l'histoire politique de l'île, le taarab a-t-il encore un rôle à jouer sur l'échiquier local ? Que reste-t-il de l'héritage des pionnières ? Après Siti Binti Saad et Bi Kidude, le taarab est-il toujours un vecteur d'émancipation pour les femmes ?Nos invités :>> Lauréat d'un Zanzibar Youth Award en 2022 pour son EP The Return of Zenzi Flavor, Brain Boy est une jeune pousse du Zenji Flavor, mouvement hip-hop né dans les années 90 à Zanzibar qui sample abondamment taarab & kidumbaki dans un geste créatif et identitaire. Son rêve ? Un Grammy Award pour le taarab ! Nous retrouvons le jeune artiste côté studio chez Stone Town Records, en marge de son ultime répétition avant son concert sur la scène du festival Sauti Za Busara.>> Fondée en 2001 à Stone Town, la Dhow Countries Music Academy est à la fois une ONG et la seule école de musique de Zanzibar. Sa mission ? Préserver, transmettre et promouvoir les musiques traditionnelles de l'archipel, taarab en tête, à l'heure où toute la jeunesse tanzanienne n'a que deux mots à la bouche : singeli et afrobeats. Malgré ses quelques mécènes et sa trentaine d'élèves — qui pour certain.e.s viennent de loin pour étudier le taarab — l'avenir de la DCMA est menacé par le manque de soutien du gouvernement. Celui du taarab aussi ? Point sur la situation avec Halda sa directrice, le professeur Tryphon et deux jeunes élèves, Frank et Thureiya.>> Comme Siti Binti Saad et Bi Kidude avant elle, Siti Amina a déserté mariage et violences conjugales pour se consacrer à la musique. Frondeuse et féministe, elle est aujourd'hui la chanteuse du groupe Siti & The Band qui a bien décollé depuis sa formation à la Dhow Countries Music Academy avec un taarab aux fondations traditionnelles enrichi d'éclats jazz, de grooves funk ou reggae, et de feats audacieux. Après son triomphe sur la scène du festival Sauti Za Busara, elle nous donne rendez-vous à Hifadhi Zanzibar Majestic Theatre, l'un des derniers lieux de musique live et de culture à Stone Town, l'un des rares bâtiments historiques de la ville à ne pas encore avoir été transformé en hôtel par les promoteurs de la surmise en tourisme de l'archipel.Ce reportage pose les questions suivantes :Quelles sont les nouvelles mutations du taarab ?Que disent-elles de la société zanzibari ?Quelle est la fonction du taarab aujourd'hui ?Quelles sont les perspectives d'avenir dans un contexte de surtourisme ?Que reste-t-il de l'héritage des pionnières Siti Binti Saad et Bi Kidude ?Après elles, le taarab est-il toujours un vecteur d'émancipation pour les femmes ?À lire sur PAMBi Kidude sur PAM.

Une exploration des expressions contemporaines du taarab à Zanzibar avec Brain Boy, Siti Amina et l'équipe de la Dhow Countries Music Academy. Un reportage de Jeanne Lacaille en marge du Festival Sauti Za Busara (@sautizabusara). Formé dans le creuset du métissage zanzibari au XIXè siècle, mêlant influences africaines, arabes et indiennes, le taarab est LA musique traditionnelle de l'archipel, sa bande-son par excellence. À l'image de Zanzibar, syncrétique et composite par essence, quelles sont les nouvelles mutations du taarab ? Que dit-il de Zanzibar aujourd'hui et quelle est sa fonction ? Quelles sont ses perspectives d'avenir dans un contexte local de sur-tourisme ? Intimement lié à l'histoire politique de l'île, le taarab a-t-il encore un rôle à jouer sur l'échiquier local ? Que reste-t-il de l'héritage des pionnières ? Après Siti Binti Saad et Bi Kidude, le taarab est-il toujours un vecteur d'émancipation pour les femmes ?Nos invités :>> Lauréat d'un Zanzibar Youth Award en 2022 pour son EP The Return of Zenzi Flavor, Brain Boy est une jeune pousse du Zenji Flavor, mouvement hip-hop né dans les années 90 à Zanzibar qui sample abondamment taarab & kidumbaki dans un geste créatif et identitaire. Son rêve ? Un Grammy Award pour le taarab ! Nous retrouvons le jeune artiste côté studio chez Stone Town Records, en marge de son ultime répétition avant son concert sur la scène du festival Sauti Za Busara.>> Fondée en 2001 à Stone Town, la Dhow Countries Music Academy est à la fois une ONG et la seule école de musique de Zanzibar. Sa mission ? Préserver, transmettre et promouvoir les musiques traditionnelles de l'archipel, taarab en tête, à l'heure où toute la jeunesse tanzanienne n'a que deux mots à la bouche : singeli et afrobeats. Malgré ses quelques mécènes et sa trentaine d'élèves — qui pour certain.e.s viennent de loin pour étudier le taarab — l'avenir de la DCMA est menacé par le manque de soutien du gouvernement. Celui du taarab aussi ? Point sur la situation avec Halda sa directrice, le professeur Tryphon et deux jeunes élèves, Frank et Thureiya.>> Comme Siti Binti Saad et Bi Kidude avant elle, Siti Amina a déserté mariage et violences conjugales pour se consacrer à la musique. Frondeuse et féministe, elle est aujourd'hui la chanteuse du groupe Siti & The Band qui a bien décollé depuis sa formation à la Dhow Countries Music Academy avec un taarab aux fondations traditionnelles enrichi d'éclats jazz, de grooves funk ou reggae, et de feats audacieux. Après son triomphe sur la scène du festival Sauti Za Busara, elle nous donne rendez-vous à Hifadhi Zanzibar Majestic Theatre, l'un des derniers lieux de musique live et de culture à Stone Town, l'un des rares bâtiments historiques de la ville à ne pas encore avoir été transformé en hôtel par les promoteurs de la surmise en tourisme de l'archipel.Ce reportage pose les questions suivantes :Quelles sont les nouvelles mutations du taarab ?Que disent-elles de la société zanzibari ?Quelle est la fonction du taarab aujourd'hui ?Quelles sont les perspectives d'avenir dans un contexte de surtourisme ?Que reste-t-il de l'héritage des pionnières Siti Binti Saad et Bi Kidude ?Après elles, le taarab est-il toujours un vecteur d'émancipation pour les femmes ?À lire sur PAMBi Kidude sur PAM.

Une exploration des expressions contemporaines du taarab à Zanzibar avec Brain Boy, Siti Amina et l'équipe de la Dhow Countries Music Academy. Un reportage de Jeanne Lacaille en marge du Festival Sauti Za Busara (@sautizabusara). Formé dans le creuset du métissage zanzibari au XIXè siècle, mêlant influences africaines, arabes et indiennes, le taarab est LA musique traditionnelle de l'archipel, sa bande-son par excellence. À l'image de Zanzibar, syncrétique et composite par essence, quelles sont les nouvelles mutations du taarab ? Que dit-il de Zanzibar aujourd'hui et quelle est sa fonction ? Quelles sont ses perspectives d'avenir dans un contexte local de sur-tourisme ? Intimement lié à l'histoire politique de l'île, le taarab a-t-il encore un rôle à jouer sur l'échiquier local ? Que reste-t-il de l'héritage des pionnières ? Après Siti Binti Saad et Bi Kidude, le taarab est-il toujours un vecteur d'émancipation pour les femmes ?Nos invités :>> Lauréat d'un Zanzibar Youth Award en 2022 pour son EP The Return of Zenzi Flavor, Brain Boy est une jeune pousse du Zenji Flavor, mouvement hip-hop né dans les années 90 à Zanzibar qui sample abondamment taarab & kidumbaki dans un geste créatif et identitaire. Son rêve ? Un Grammy Award pour le taarab ! Nous retrouvons le jeune artiste côté studio chez Stone Town Records, en marge de son ultime répétition avant son concert sur la scène du festival Sauti Za Busara.>> Fondée en 2001 à Stone Town, la Dhow Countries Music Academy est à la fois une ONG et la seule école de musique de Zanzibar. Sa mission ? Préserver, transmettre et promouvoir les musiques traditionnelles de l'archipel, taarab en tête, à l'heure où toute la jeunesse tanzanienne n'a que deux mots à la bouche : singeli et afrobeats. Malgré ses quelques mécènes et sa trentaine d'élèves — qui pour certain.e.s viennent de loin pour étudier le taarab — l'avenir de la DCMA est menacé par le manque de soutien du gouvernement. Celui du taarab aussi ? Point sur la situation avec Halda sa directrice, le professeur Tryphon et deux jeunes élèves, Frank et Thureiya.>> Comme Siti Binti Saad et Bi Kidude avant elle, Siti Amina a déserté mariage et violences conjugales pour se consacrer à la musique. Frondeuse et féministe, elle est aujourd'hui la chanteuse du groupe Siti & The Band qui a bien décollé depuis sa formation à la Dhow Countries Music Academy avec un taarab aux fondations traditionnelles enrichi d'éclats jazz, de grooves funk ou reggae, et de feats audacieux. Après son triomphe sur la scène du festival Sauti Za Busara, elle nous donne rendez-vous à Hifadhi Zanzibar Majestic Theatre, l'un des derniers lieux de musique live et de culture à Stone Town, l'un des rares bâtiments historiques de la ville à ne pas encore avoir été transformé en hôtel par les promoteurs de la surmise en tourisme de l'archipel.Ce reportage pose les questions suivantes :Quelles sont les nouvelles mutations du taarab ?Que disent-elles de la société zanzibari ?Quelle est la fonction du taarab aujourd'hui ?Quelles sont les perspectives d'avenir dans un contexte de surtourisme ?Que reste-t-il de l'héritage des pionnières Siti Binti Saad et Bi Kidude ?Après elles, le taarab est-il toujours un vecteur d'émancipation pour les femmes ?À lire sur PAMBi Kidude sur PAM.

No need to wonder what stories Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams were reading this week. They'll tell you about them in this week's podcast. The guys revisit the McDonald's ice cream machine issue to start.   This week, DIY voice assistants and home automation took center stage. But you'll also hear about AI chat models implemented as a spreadsheet, an old-school RC controller, and more. How many parts does it take to make a radio? Not a crystal radio, a software-defined one. Less than you might think. Of course, you'll also need an antenna, and you can make one from lawn chair webbing. In the can't miss articles, you'll hear about the problems with the x86 architecture and how they tried to find Martian radio broadcasts in the 1920s. Miss any this week? Check out the links to follow along, and as always, leave you comments!

In this episode, we're joined by Lauren C. Ayers, whose most recent role has been as a director of program analysis and business transformation for the deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Navy.   Lauren shares her experiences and learnings for successful change transformation, in particular in the area of acquisition and procurement.      Key Highlights:  Introduction to Lauren C. Ayers and business transformation in mega projects  Strategic advice for efficient procurement and maintenance of military hardware   How best to work in a team environment   Skills for negotiating, contract management and future planning  How to navigate DCMA and GovCon processes   Tips for how to effectively communicate with multiple stakeholders    Bonus Learn how software can combat 8 headaches keeping PMOs in the aerospace & defense sector awake at night by accessing a complimentary copy at corasystems.com/defensesoft 

In this episode of Cherry Bekaert's Government Contracting podcast, Brendan Halloran, a Director in Cherry Bekaert's Government Contracting Industry practice ,and  Jeff Annessa, a Senior Manager in the Firm's GovCon practice continue our Contractor Business Systems series, discussing system reviews, audit findings, corrective actions, and ACO determinations.Indicators of potential findings or noncompliances during a DCAA system audit and steps contractors can takeThe DCMA system review processThe ACO process in determining the level of deficienciesWays to get a DCAA finding viewed as non-significant and differences between DCAA and DCMA Business System Deficiency terminologyTools used by the ACO and how they work through the processThe corrective action processCherry Bekaert's Government Contracting Industry advisors excel in navigating business systems requirements and intricate control environments, offering guidance in the development, maintenance, assessment, and audit preparation of compliant systems for contractors facing reviews by DCAA, DCMA, or related agencies.View all Government Contracting Podcasts

In this episode, I have an opportunity to interview Jeff White and Randy Shelby of JA White & Associates while at the FPS Las Vegas week long conference in September 2023.  We discuss a number of things including Randy's background at DCMA and the importance of documentation 

Copyrights have existed for centuries, and the idea of them dates back even further. United States copyright laws are nothing short of a mess, at least according to Professor Rafael Chodos. Not only is intellectual property not property, but copyrights tend to commercialize creativity instead of advancing science. Revisions for things like software and DCMA have been added since the first copyright laws were made, but at the rate technology is evolving, Congress would have to begin amending laws once a decade to keep them relevant. Today host Jack Russo asks Rafael Chodos how laws will have to change with AI playing a heavy hand in developing creative works.

And I present to you, one of the Soulful in our lifetime, a friend and a brother....the DCMA graduate gracing us for the second time, Vikter Soul.tracklist coming soon..

On this episode of The GAP Luke Lawrie and Joab Gilroy talk about that new Zelda game finally coming out. The games they've been playing this week include The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Ripout, Block Blast Adventure Master, and more. Over in the news the Phil Spencer talks about Redfall, The Dota 2 International is returning to Seattle, Nintendo is giving everyone a DCMA, and PUBG has a new update on the way. This episode goes for 2 hours and 16 minutes, it also contains coarse language. Timestamps – 00:00:00 – Start 00:08:14 – IGN 7 out of 10 00:16:36 – Block Blaster Adventure Master 00:23:21 – Ripout 00:37:44 – Star Wars Jedi: Survivor 01:01:15 – The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom 01:49:08 – News 01:55:25 – Questions 02:03:48 – Weekly Plugs 02:05:07 – End of Show Subscribe in a reader iTunes / Spotify

On March 31st of  the FPS' Orlando Government Contracts Week conference, I recorded Podcast #49 with Jeff White of JA White and Associates. Since 2020 there have a been some significant changes to how CPSRs are conducted by the DCMA.  These changes have been mostly positive, but as a vendor to the US Federal Government, you need to ensure your documentation and files are both accessible and organized in a manner that will allow for a smooth purchasing system review.  Jeff will discuss how things have changed (for the better) and how to be more efficient with your documentation.  

When it comes to modernization for federal IT most people focus on data centers, clouds, and agile software development.  One key part of this effort must be acquisition. This is a discussion where subject matter experts from several agencies look at some new mandates from the executive office and detail how they are implementing them. One key motivator is the FAR change that includes recommendations to open conversations with contractors and be more transparent.  The goal is to open federal procurement to make it more equitable. Craig Morgan from the DCMA details how they have a website that shows their strategic plan for modernizing tools and integrating the enterprise environment. They want to unify data so customers can make well-informed acquisition decisions. All participants point out how they are making their acquisition process more transparent.  One of the most remarkable approaches was from Monica Taylor from DHA. She discusses her success using the Procurement Innovation Lab.  They have coached 148 procurement teams to lower the barrier for innovative contractors. The net result has been to encourage nontraditional contractors. The GSA takes the lead in this category with a website that includes The Nine Innovative Acquisition Practices as well as articles dedicated to keeping federal acquisition experts informed in areas of acquisition innovation. Technology can assist in making the federal acquisition question system more equitable.  Brian McCormick from ICF points out that some agencies suffer from siloed systems, separate data sets, and isolated workflows that prevent teams in agencies from communicating accurately.   Brian suggests that platforms exist that can implement Robotic Process Automation and protective analytics, better-leveraging data to make better-informed decisions. Procurement professionals can look at their experience with procurement and see trends. Perhaps they can see preferences for a certain kind of vendor. From there, they can address ways to make their acquisition more balanced. This is such a detailed and nuanced conversation. Dive in to hear comments on The Price Act, The Chip Act, and much more.   

Smaller defense agencies are receiving some much-needed help with the mundane, but important part of acquisition—the paperwork. The Defense Contract Management Agency is sending teams of experts to help improve how these agencies meet these requirements. Federal News Network's DoD reporter Alexandra Lohr found out about some of the agencies that did particularly well during these recent procurement management reviews from the program manager for the review, DCMA's Colonel Joseph Davis.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Smaller defense agencies are receiving some much-needed help with the mundane, but important part of acquisition—the paperwork. The Defense Contract Management Agency is sending teams of experts to help improve how these agencies meet these requirements. Federal News Network's DoD reporter Alexandra Lohr found out about some of the agencies that did particularly well during these recent procurement management reviews from the program manager for the review, DCMA's Colonel Joseph Davis.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Podcaster Robert Knauer discusses advice given him prior to his departure from DCMA for Washington DC to be "careful" in what he said to people. A preacher told me, "Bob whatever you say in DC will be overheard by someone and they will tell on you." Well...that all turned out to be true in my story about the Assistant Secretary of Finance and Admin at DOl when I referred to him as a little Hitler during a conference I attended. Word got back to Mary Peters (then SEC. of Transportion for DOT), and so yes, the story the preacher told me turned out to be very true. WATCH WHAT YOU SAY AND TO WHOM.

The year is 2003, gone is the Attitude Era and fully into the Ruthless Aggression era is the WWE, the lone super promotion in America. As Monday Night RAW continued to be more about the over the top entertainment with the big names, Smackdown spent their time focusing on a more focused drive into creating new names with the help of quality workers like Kurt Angle and Eddie Guerrero. One such name being a man who would go on to be synonymous with the Ruthless Aggression Era, John Cena, who would find himself at odds with then United States Champion Eddie Guerrero, who would challenge Cena to a Latino Heat Parking Lot Brawl Twitch.tv's InzeNL (@InzeBielderman) and MomoTheBard join me to talk about the match, DCMA, play another round of Shoot or Kayfabe, how to properly use a lawn mower and how the match could have been a little bit better if there was a camera in a car. You can support Grumm and The Dork Side of the Ring Podcast: - Twitter: @IAmGrumm and @DorkSideRing - Instagram: IAmGrumm and DorkSideRing - Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgINV82d6_5_FAZmAzoKrFA - Discord: grumm.tv - Patreon: support.grumm.tv

Podcaster Robert Knauer talks about the time in the late 1990s at the Defense Contract Management Agency how an automated Contract Reconciliation System program was rammed down their throats without any Beta Testing. It did not work and thousands of man-hours were wasted/lost and millions of dollars pissed down the drain, that is....until Mr. Knauer stood up at a CRS conference and informed the nice people from headquarters that "We don't call it CRS--We call it the CAN'T REMEMBER SHIT PROGRAM" because it is a POS!

Electrification replaces technologies using fossil fuels with those using electricity. Chancification replaces calculations based on numbers with those based on uncertainties. When it comes to truly understanding what Chancification is, you turn to the guy who wrote the book on it. Jack Russo asks Professor Sam Savage how welcoming the age of chance will drastically change our future. Click HERE to check out Professor Savage's new book, Chancification: How to Fix the Flaw of Averages

Electrification replaces technologies using fossil fuels with those using electricity. Chancification replaces calculations based on numbers with those based on uncertainties. When it comes to truly understanding what Chancification is, you turn to the guy who wrote the book on it. Jack Russo asks Professor Sam Savage how welcoming the age of chance will drastically change our future. Click HERE to check out Professor Savage's new book, Chancification: How to Fix the Flaw of Averages

Hola! Hoy vamos a hablar sobre las nuevas políticas que va a introducir twitch, siendo mas dura si cabe con los streamers por culpa de la DCMA, encargada de controlar los derechos de reproducción y uso de las canciones. Se les acabó el chollo a los Streamers? Os comento mi punto de vista así como las posibles soluciones que le veo en el caso de hacerse oficial.

CJ Miles (IG: @misscjmiles) stands 4'7”, she is a former Penthouse Pet and has appeared in FHM, Maxim and on PlayboyTV. CJ was as born in the Philippines and currently has 2.2 million Instagram followers and over 50,000 subscribers on OnlyFans. Nara Ford (IG: @TheNaraFord, @ItsNaraFord) is a 7 year veteran of the United States Air Force and one of the World's top content creators on OnlyFans. Learn more about Michael's Men of Action Mentoring Program: https://go.moamentoring.com/i/2 Subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MichaelSartain Listen on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-michael-sartain-podcast/id1579791157 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2faAYwvDD9Bvkpwv6umlPO?si=8Q3ak9HnSlKjuChsTXr6YQ&dl_branch=1 Filmed at Sticky Paws Studios: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UComrBVcqGLDs3Ue-yWAft8w 0:00 Intro 1:04 Vegas morning 1:38 CJ's background 2:22 Dell customer support 3:43 Where did “CJ” come from? 4:18 MySpace 6:29 Marilyn Monroe 7:48 Francine Dee and the Rhino 11:08 Car Shows 11:46 Penthouse, Playboy, FHM 12:49 Shooting nude for the first time 14:12 Reality TV shows 15:21 Appearance in Australia 16:57 Family back in the Philippines, Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather 18:19 *David and Victoria Beckham 19:16 *Meeting Nara Ford 21:03 Travel schedule 21:44 Meeting your boyfriend on only fans 22:50 *Fuck-a-Fan 25:12 Send a dick pic 27:58 Soup App, Bill Fox, Sex panther 30:38 The difference between cameras is narrowing 31:34 The singularity is near 32:00 pocket pussy 34:33 CJ and Nara together 35:23 Transition to hard-core porn 37:40 Bella Thorne controversy 39:50 Trey Songz, Tyga and Lil pump with OnlyFans 41:24 OnlyFans management agencies 42:34 OnlyFans crack down on Instagram 43:52 *Instagram is like an ex-boyfriend 45:22 *OnlyFans hates women 48:15 False reporting should cause you to lose your account 49:16 Dr. Gad Saad 50:01 CJ losing her Instagram 51:02 TikTok 52:45 Favorite people to work with 53:58 *JOI 56:16 *Kindly Myers 57:27 ASMR 58:37 Fetish videos 58:55 Men for Nara to peg 1:00:26 OnlyFans content party 1:01:24 Planning out your OnlyFans Content 1:03:47 Barry Bonds, Mickey Mantle, Jose Canseco 1:04:57 Khloe Terae 1:05:22 The challenge of dating CJ Miles 1:06:13 monogamy 1:07:41 *Strip club education 1:09:46 Making content is the new first date 1:11:20 Dr David Buss, Male over perception bias 1:13:45 Attraction triggers for men and women 1:15:54 Charities in the Philippines 1:17:08 #ForTheKids 1:17:57 I am Thompson 1:19:03 Content leaked on Reddit, DCMA 1:23:39 Why Nara Ford does not want to work at Brazzers 1:28:16 OnlyFans is good for society 1:29:18 You literally paid me to talk shit to me 1:30:09 Outro

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Lt. Gen. Dave Bassett, USA, the director of the Defense Contract Management Agency, discusses how smart contracting can save money, lessons from the covid pandemic that can be applied to future crises, accelerating acquisition and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Association of the United States Army's 2021 meeting in Washington DC. Our AUSA coverage was sponsored by RAFAEL USA.

I was pleased to have Phil Jasper, Mission Systems President at Collins Aerospace, join me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss commercial item acquisition. In the early 1990s, there was a recognition that DoD needed to streamline its business processes in order to attract commercial companies. The Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 led to FAR Part 12 procedures, which exempted items determined to be commercial from various regulations such as certified cost or pricing data, cost accounting standards, and business system administration. The past several NDAAs strengthened the preference and opportunities for commercial, including the creation of the DCMA commercial items group (FY13 Sec. 831), treatment of nontraditional contractors as commercial (FY16 Sec. 857), and reduced contract clauses and flowdowns (FY17 Sec. 874). Jasper argues that commercial procedures have important benefits to DoD. First, it allows companies to bring their internal R&D for commercial customers to bear, including open systems architectures. A common avionics system, for example, was tailored for UH-60 and CH-47 helicopters saving the government over $160 million. Moreover it was delivered in just 13 months compared to a normal defense cycle time of three years or more. Similar examples in the aircraft world are found in fuel systems, heads up displays, fire protection systems, and landing gears. These commercial items have lasting benefits in terms of continued private investment throughout the lifecycle that generate capability enhancements. This helps offload obsolescence management from the government and allows it to be handled by industry. Jasper argues that commercial procedures have important benefits to DoD. First, it allows companies to bring their internal R&D for commercial customers to bear, including open systems architectures. A common avionics system, for example, was tailored for UH-60 and CH-47 helicopters saving the government over $160 million. Moreover it was delivered in just 13 months compared to a normal defense cycle time of three years or more. Similar examples in the aircraft world are found in fuel systems, heads up displays, fire protection systems, and landing gears. These commercial items have lasting benefits in terms of continued private investment that generate capability enhancements throughout the lifecycle. This helps offload obsolescence management from the government and allows military systems to be upgraded on much faster cycle times. Despite these challenges, Jasper is hopeful about continued progress in commercial item adoption. "Frankly, at the end of the day, that's what this is all about -- industry and government are aligned in common purpose and that is to get the best technology to the warfighters as fast as possible at the most affordable price and best value for the taxpayer." Amen to that. This podcast was produced by Eric Lofgren. You can follow us on Twitter @AcqTalk and find more information at AcquisitionTalk.com.

Listen to Eric Poppe, a Senior Manager in Cherry Bekaert's Government Contracting practice, and Brendan Halloran, also a Senior Manager in the Firm's Government Contracting practice who previously spent 10 years at the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA), including 7 years as a Divisional Administrative Contracting Officer (DACO), discuss contractor Business Systems requirements and trends they are currently seeing for Business Systems in large Request for Proposals and solicitations. The Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) has a renewed focus on Accounting, MMAS and Estimating systems and is getting back into the program audit cycle with a focus on completing Business Systems audits. Contractors need to think ahead to understand what the criteria are and prioritize the Systems that apply to their business. By working towards being prepared for a potential audit or review, contractors can avoid surprises or scrambling to get a system reviewed for an RFP requirement.Our government contracting consulting professionals have worked extensively in the Federal contract arena and are well versed in business systems requirements and complex control environments. We guide contractors in developing and maintaining compliant business systems, perform assessments against the criteria, provide audit support, and prepare contractors for audits or reviews by DCAA, DCMA or other cognizant agencies.  

Season 3 Episode 24 Episode 96   News:   Homebrew & ROM hacks   Slow Mole - Rage inducing platformer for the NES Capitán Sevilla for Virtual Boy OG Game Boy is getting a new game and it looks adorable Here's How It Looks to Play 'Sonic the Hedgehog' In First-Person Perspective   Emulator news   Vita release: VitaQuakeIII 1.0 Re3 and ReVC (reverse engineered GTA implementations) back on github after DCMA counter notice How to Install Windows 3.1 on an iPad   Doom running on things   Authentic Mod Transforms Super Mario World, Sonic, DOOM Into Game Boy Originals    Weird or otherwise interesting things   Final Fantasy Remasters Reignite Controversies Over Pixel Art Retro: The Anticlimactic Quest To Find The Person Behind Metroid's Most Famous 'Cheat Code' Evidence of a Secret, Unreleased SNK Millennium Console Has Been Discovered Wait, The PS1 Logo Was A 3D Model? KFC follows up KFConsole with Hot Winger 64 retro arcade machine Sealed Mario 64's Record-Breaking $1.5M Sale Has Retro Experts Skeptical A sealed copy of The Legend of Zelda just sold for nearly a million dollars Topic:  Donkey Kong is 40 years old   Game Club Discussion: Donkey Kong 3 Spy Hunter   New Game Club Games: Tiger Heli Commando   Game Club Master List Bumpers, facebook, twitter and more: Zach

Howdy y'all!  I had a day off and thought, you know what?  I want a rock 'n roll playlist to get my mornings going strong!!  Get ready for a pumped up hour of kickin' tunes with yours truly acting as the radio DJ.  Just like with the Funky Hour, all the music you hear in this special came from artlist.io which is an excellent service that provides DCMA free music to creators.  We use it a lot on Writin' Nerdy, and I have discovered a lot of amazing artists on the platform!  So give this a listen, and then go give those artists some love over on your favorite music streaming service.  If you're a creator, I highly recommend Artlist, they are well worth the money!!!

Howdy y'all!  I had a hankering for some funk music so I decided to put together a little playlist with yours truly acting as the radio DJ.  All the music you hear in this special came from artlist.io which is an excellent service that provides DCMA free music to creators.  We use it a lot on Writin' Nerdy, and I have discovered a lot of amazing artists on the platform!  So give this a listen, and then go give those artists some love over on your favorite music streaming service.  If you're a creator, I highly recommend Artlist, they are well worth the money!!!

Two vendors recently made it through a tough gantlet. That is, they underwent a certification exam given by the Defense Contract Management Agency. These two companies are the first to be certified to provide third-party assessments of other defense contractors under the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification or CMMC program. The assessment was done by the DCMA's Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity Assessment Center. Got all that? The question now is whether vendors will decide if CMMC is worth their time or cost. Chris Mitchell is the vice president for global government relations at IPC, an industry association representing 3,000 electronic manufacturers. He tells Federal News Network's executive editor Jason Miller why a recent survey of his membership casts real doubt about whether companies will bother with CMMC requirements.

The National Contract Management Association has a new president. The organization, with thousands of federal practitioners and contractors as members, has chosen for this year's president retired Air Force lieutenant general and former director of the Defense Contract Management Agency, Wendy Masiello.

In episode 38 we cover all of the events that dropped out of nowhere this week, including: PlayStation's State of Play event, Blizzard's BlizzCon 2021 event and the very exciting Pokemon Direct*.Twitch stitching up Metallica by muting their live stream during the BlizzCon event. Thanks to their new DCMA crap.We discuss one of the two Silent Hill games apparently in development.Google Stadia and their class action lawsuit.EA finally gets rid of Anthem.Sad and disturbing news regarding Dying Light 2.Updates regarding God of War: Ragnarok and Horizon: Forbidden West.The rise of car jackings in Chicago could be from only one thing... yes, you guessed it... video games. Which is the lucky game to be blamed for violence this time? Yep, Grand Theft Auto V.Apparently they didn't learn from when people tried to blame video games for real life violence back in the 90s with Doom, Mortal Kombat, Duke Nukem, Carmageddon and the rest. Eye roll.The PlayStation VR 2 finally gets announced. We go over some of its features and some of the things they plan on updating and upgrading. Get keen.*Nintendo Direct is covered by Adam at the end of the episode, as it streamed after we recorded it.

Its Sunday, you know what that means! It is a strange time and there is an evil surge in the podcast universe….we are still missing Tyler but goodness isn’t far as Boris and Phil continue to hold the fort.  This week we have a light news week, it seems like nostalgia is coming back in a big way both in Video Games and in streaming services.  We chat about Blizzard, Nintendo and the Muppets.  We also have a talk about PS5 impressions as the It's Canon wonder twins unite by all having the platform.  Keeping with video games we dive into the news of DCMA talke downs issued for CD Projekt Reds source code.  As well, we finally acknowledge the elephant in the room - the upcoming Justice League directors cut trailer and our impressions of it.   Grab your headphones or crank up your speakers and enjoy a chat about all this happening in the world of pop culture and geek! You can send all feedback to show@itscanonpodcast.com Subscribe to our RSS feed Here Hosts: Boris - @br_aguilar Tyler - @Tyler_RoI Phil - @philtobin You can find the Its Canon Podcast on Twitter and Instagram and on Facebook Music Credit: Huge thanks to the following artists. Check out their work below! "It's Canon" by Kevin O'Leary

Brisbane SEO tips for today, is one that could be possibly detrimental. And that is DCMA complaints. The DCMA is an organisation that looks after digital media copyright. So if you have digital media, whether that's photos, audio, video, on your website, make sure that there's no copyright covering that, because Google actually scours the DCMA database to see if there's websites that have been reported as having copyrighted media. And that will be detrimental to your SEO.

We make a gamble that the Discovery Channel won't give us a DCMA for talking about the Deadliest Catch as we prepare to play Fleet by Ben Pinchback and Matt Riddle, published by Eagle-Gryphon Games!Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at firstturntabletop@gmail.com. Please remember to rate, review, and subscribe! Until next week, play more games!

Ateyo brings RNG & Tea up to full speed since they have last spoke with the crew. Kooky, Sarah, and Lloid continue discussions if it's creepy or flattering a video game character is modeled after yourself, but without your acknowledgement. They also run down The Game Awards nominees, and more news about Twitch's DCMA rules and guidelines.

Brenna and Jameson are back discussing the launch of the next-gen Xbox and PlayStation consoles, Ubisoft's hostage situation, Twitch's DCMA nightmare, and more!! If you want to help support the show, you can give us a review on your podcast platform and subscribe or follow the show. Check us out on our website for more info and ways to support the show! Social Media: Twitter: @DLGamingNews Instagram: @goosecatprod Facebook: @DLGamingNews Sponsors: Loot Crate - Use code: ROBOTSRADIO for 15% off and to support the show! Gamefly - Use the link and sign up for $10 and get a month free!! Green Man Gaming - Use the link when you buy games and support the show! Nord VPN - Use the link to get 2 years for 68% off while securing your internet browsing! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dlgaming/message

TABLE OF CONTENT TALKING POINTS S2 E1611/1/2020(Host Scene)Zazz - Welcome to Table of Content. The round table show where we discuss all the happenings around streaming, gaming and entertainment. I am joined by guest guest co-host and frequent guest Stump. How are you? Zazz - Stump will you reach over and grab my bag…. of mail and read the latest hatemail.  (tellabout hatemail and tell them to send their own bold predictions) This episode of toc is brought to by onlyreapers.com where you can buy Carolina reaper jelly beans without all the filler beans. Use promo code tableoc for 25% off your first order. That's onlyreapers.com. Visit onlyreapers.com and use promo code tableoc. Streaming News Music Right Holders Now Focusing On Twitch Directly  Twitch took some fire from content creators recently for their handling of DCMA takedowns. Twitch sent out emails to various content creators informing them that some of their VODs had been removed from the streaming service due to DCMA takedown requests without informing the content creator of what the violation was, which video it was or even giving them a method to dispute the claim. If this was not enough, Twitch started taking fire from the other side with The Music Industry accusing Twitch of not obtaining the proper licenses and for not doing enough DCMA takedowns. In the letter to Amazon and Twitch, the signed accused Twitch of not obtaining the proper mechanical or synch licenses they feel are needed for use of the music in SoundTrack.  In the letter to Amazon and Twitch, the signed accused Twitch of not obtaining the proper mechanical or synch licenses they feel are needed for use of the music in SoundTrack.  Red - Tell us a little more about these licenses and what you found out when researching this article.Penalty on Twitch for Celebration?From the piece over at TABLEOC.COM- Twitch is testing a new feature titled Celebration. This new feature puts a button labeled “Celebrate” in between the follow and subscribe button. What does this button do? Well let me tell you. This button is like a donation button. It allows viewers to give money outside of bits and subscriptions directly to the streamer while displaying an explosion of confetti or fireworks on the broadcaster's stream. The streamer community is in uproar over this because Twitch is currently taking 50% of funds gifted to the streamer. Streamers do still have the option to use paypal and other methods of donations via services like streamelements. These however come with their risksWe will of course keep an eye on this program as it progresses through its beta stages and becomes a full fledged Twitch feature.Tighe -  How do you feel about taking 50% of this cut? They are taking the risk here I would imagine with charge backs. https://wrestlingheadlines.com/wwe-stars-closing-their-third-party-accounts-paige-blames-wwe-and-says-she-cant-deal-with-them-anymore-paige-wants-unionization-more-on-wwe-policy-changes AJ Styles took to Discord this afternoon and announced that he was suspending his “Stylesclash” accounts on Twitch due to WWE's new policy on unauthorized third party platform activity. Styles thanked his fans for the support and memories. He also said he will be leaving his Discord server up to keep in touch with fans for future happenings. “@everyone, I want to thank you for all the greatest memories on Mixer and Twitch,” AJ wrote. “I will cherish these memories and I love everyone of you that have made this possible and supported me. As many of you know WWE is making some changes that involve streaming. We will see what the future holds in that regard. Mia Yim (Reckoning of RETRIBUTION) announced on Twitter that her “ItsMeSYB” Twitch stream is also being pulled down, right before her scheduled gameplay with Jessamyn Duke. Paige got emotional during one of her Twitch streams this afternoon on her “Saraya Official” channel after finding out about co-workers shutting down their platforms. Paige continued texting, apparently with co-workers on her phone, and came back to the camera. She was more emotional as she went back to addressing her viewers. She then commented that she “cannot deal” with WWE anymore. She also blamed the company for over-working her, to the point that she suffered a career-ending neck injury. She also claimed she is looking into Unionization. Stump - What do you make of this sudden change as we now see these channels being shut down and not continuing under wwe's control?Gaming NewsCyberpunk 2077 Dev Responds To Death Threats Over DelayOur first story is frankly not shocking and that is sad. Developers of Cyberpunk 2077 have received death threats over their delay of the game by 21 days. From the game spot piece - RPG design lead Andrej Zawadzki said on Twitter that he understands why fans may feel angry or disappointed, but sending death threats is unacceptable. "We are people, just like you," he said.Much of the anger seems to have stemmed from a tweet sent by the Cyberpunk Twitter account, just one day before the delay announcement, promising no more delays. While many fans took it in stride as a somewhat embarrassing mishap for the repeatedly-delayed game, others claimed it showed CDPR had intentionally misled its fans.While the game has had its issues 21 days seems like a minor delay.Tighe - What can we do in the community to help battle this sort of madness? Deleting your Facebook account forfeits Oculus VR games you already paid for On to our last story. Back in August Facebook announced that Oculus users will be required to have an active facebook account to use the virtual reality system. The change went into effect earlier this month and now users have discovered a new stipulation to using the system. From the article at polygon“If at any point you decide to delete your Facebook account, you immediately forfeit your access to any games or VR experiences you purchased through the Oculus store.The gotcha was spotted last week, and began to surface first on Twitter, only to be confirmed Friday by the team at UploadVR.”“Deleting your Facebook account will also delete your Oculus information,” warns Facebook in the Deactivation and Deletion section of its iOS app. “This includes your app purchases and your achievements. You will no longer be able to return any apps and will lose any existing store credits.”Facebook has stated that this change faced a lot of inner opposition when announced.They also claim too many new features are tied into accounts and the infrastructure was too complex to change.Fox - How do you see this sort of thing affecting other services going forward? Dutch judge rules that EA should be fined €500k every week until it removes FIFA loot boxes The Netherlands Gaming Authority will be allowed to fine Electronic Arts €500,000 every week it sells loot boxes in FIFA Ultimate Team, after the feature was deemed in violation of gambling rules. The decision was approved by the court of The Hague on Thursday, following a lengthy legal battle between the Gaming Authority and EA.A weekly €250,000 fine will be charged against both EA and its Swiss subsidiary, which is responsible for the sale of FIFA, for a total of €500,000 a week.  According to NU.nl, the FIFA publisher had argued that the content of its FUT packs only had value within the game itself, as they could not be converted into money. However, the judge dismissed EA's objections on Thursday and ordered that if the company wants to avoid the weekly fine, it would need to disable loot boxes within three weeks. Entertainment News Netflix is making a live-action Assassin's Creed series In a bit of lighter news Netflix will once again dip from the video game well with their new live action Assassin's Creed series. From the Verge.com -The live-action show is still in early stages and in need of a showrunner. It's also unclear when it will take place or what it will be about; the franchise is known for combining historical settings with modern narratives and has tackled everything from the Crusades to Vikings.“From its breathtaking historical worlds and massive global appeal as one of the best selling video game franchises of all time, we are committed to carefully crafting epic and thrilling entertainment based on this distinct IP and provide a deeper dive for fans and our members around the world to enjoy,” said Netflix original series vice president Peter Friedlander in a prepared statement.Netflix has already found success in a live adaptation of another beloved game series, The Witcher, starring Henry Cavill. Following the first season, Netflix announced a six-part live-action prequel spinoff. The streaming service also revealed a live-action take on Resident Evil earlier this year.Tighe - Netflix did a great job with Witcher do you have the same hope for an assassins creed series?Apple One: Not even released and Spotify is already causing headaches“Our first story - Apple finds itself in hot water again over bundling their music service with other products offered by the tech giant. From the piece of at TableOC.com - With the announcement of the Apple One subscription service, Spotify quickly voiced their opinion on the new option.Once again, Apple is using its dominant position and unfair practices to disadvantage competitors and deprive consumers by favoring its own services. We call on competition authorities to act urgently to restrict Apple's anti-competitive behavior, which if left unchecked, will cause irreparable harm to the developer community and threaten our collective freedoms to listen, learn, create, and connect.Spotify has a history of launching complaints to the European Union over antitrust behaviors from Apple. What's Spotify's issue with Apple offering a better deal to potential customers? Spotify already believes that Apple intentionally makes it harder for end-users to select their premium music service when compared to Apple Music. Since Apple Music comes bundled on with Apple's device and is not limited by App Store rules, Spotify believes that this gives Apple Music an unfair advantage in competition. If you combine this with offering a discount by purchasing more services, you can see how Spotify might be a little nervous.”Fox - Can you give us some insight into why you think Spotify is making this move? TINY TOONS Will Return for a Reboot Series!  Tiny Toon Adventures was a staple of '90s childhood and for good reason. The hilarious cartoon followed a group of young cartoons attending Acme Looniversity to become the next generation of Looney Tunes characters. The Warner Bros. Animation and Amblin Entertainment series only ran for two years in its original run. Still, it left a huge impression on a generation of toon-lovers. Now, the characters are returning for a reboot series titled Tiny Toons Looniversity. Steven Spielberg is back as an executive producer for the show, along with Sam Register—president of Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network Studios—and Amblin Television co-presidents Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank. Erin Gibson will serve as showrunner and producer. The half-hour series was ordered for two seasons and will air on HBO Max and Cartoon Network. This follows recent announcement of an Animaniacs reboot, also produced by Spielberg but headed to Hulu. 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In Part 2 of the WNP's Spooktacular podcast, Ray returns to the Shining in Doctor Sleep and learn the somewhat weird origin story of Jason. Miles read some spooky manga about zombie girls and old man machines. Then then talk about the most scary thing to all media creators the DCMA and Stadia covering their thoughts of game revenue sharing.   Episode Highlights: Sankarea: Undying Love In/Spectre Doctor Sleep Friday the 13th Friday the 13th Part 2 Streets of Kamurocho Endless Zone Fire Emblem 30th Anniversary Edition Game Streamers vs Game Developers Twitch DMCA Takedown   WNP Website: WNP Email: wnppod@gmail.com WNP Twitter: https://twitter.com/WNPPod WNP Discord: https://discord.gg/acmTN7P Ray’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/SourdoughShonen Ray’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/SdShonen Intro: 24 by Ivan Cervantes Outro: Victory! by Ivan Cervantes Listen to his music here: https://tinyurl.com/yyvsw5wg   Time Stamps: Intro: 0:00 Housekeeping: 2:28 Manga/Comics: 4:20 Movies: 31:09 Video Games: 1:08:55 Announcements: 1:20:35 Big News: 1:36:19 Thanks & Preview: 1:56:15

This week's episode covers the DOJ’s first charges under the Procurement Collusion Strike Force, an interesting bid protest decision involving COVID impacts, a DCMA development focusing on TINA, and an update on SAM.gov-generated unique entity identifiers, and is hosted by partner Peter Eyre and associate Michelle Onibokun. Crowell & Moring's "Fastest 5 Minutes" is a biweekly podcast that provides a brief summary of significant government contracts legal and regulatory developments that no government contracts lawyer or executive should be without.

Welcome to the 18th episode of Amplify Clearwater Show, powered by 13th Ave Media! We are very excited to take you on a journey to learn more about all of the incredible businesses, nonprofits, and community leaders. In this episode, we are featuring Scott Sousa, General Manager of Clear Sky on Cleveland! Scott Sousa has been a highly successful restaurant operator/owner for over 30 years. He cut his teeth working for TGI Friday’s in their heyday, running the busiest and most successful store in New England. He won many awards including highest sales growth, lowest turnover and store of the year for over 300 restaurants. He then took to his entrepreneurial side and partnered with a start-up restauranteur to open four upscale restaurants in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, called Roobar City Bistro. Roobar became the most recognized restaurant group in the Cape Cod Area. Again, they won many awards such as Best Mid-Cape Restaurant, Best Restaurant on Cape Cod, Wine Spectator Award for one of the “Best Wine Lists in the World”, Best Bar, and many more. His Civic duties included being heavily involved in several Chambers of Commerce, heading up the Hyannis Merchants Association and President of the Mashpee Little League. He was the driving force behind being awarded a state grant and building three new softball/baseball fields, two new soccer fields and one new football field, (with a 2 million dollar budget) all at no cost to the city. Scott sold his businesses in 2007, and moved to Palm Harbor where he took over as the General Manager of a brand new, upscale steak house in Oldsmar. Again, this restaurant was known to have outstanding reviews and one of the best wine lists in the area. In November 2018 he went to work for Clear Sky Café, overseeing the beverage program while working at their Clearwater Beach location. He took over the Cleveland St. store in 2019 and started to become involved in downtown activities. He spear-headed a project for the company- during the COVID-19 Pandemic- ordering, organizing and handing out grocery packages to over 500 employees, five separate times. He became a board member for the Downtown Clearwater Merchants Association in February of 2020 and took over as co-chair in August. The DCMA took on a complete rebranding of Downtown Clearwater, and has been instrumental in developing “The District”. He and his wife Stacey reside in Palm Harbor, his four children live in Upstate New York, he has three beautiful grandchildren and three dogs. He is an avid golfer and a runner. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/13th-ave-media/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/13th-ave-media/support

CMMC is coming...   But that doesn't mean 800-171 compliance is out the window.    In this episode, I catch up with John Ellis, Director of the Software Division at DCMA.   We discuss:   - How DCMA is conducting assessments   - Why 800-171 compliance doesn't just go away until CMMC   - Why CMMC is so needed   To hear this episode, and many more like it, you can subscribe to The Virtual CISO Podcast here.   If you don't use Apple Podcasts, you can find all our episodes here.

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With so much happening in the esports world right now, we had to hop on and talk about everything! Twitch, Doc, Ninja, DCMA, bans, Brime and more! 

Host: Sean Flynn Sean Eugene Flynn is a Former Deputy Sheriff for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office and School Resource Officer for the Palm Beach County School District. Sean continues to serve the citizens of South Florida as the Vice President of Cops Helping Kids Inc. ( non-profit organization), as an athletic coach and volunteer helping first responders, civilian adults, and children who have difficulties recovering from PTSD in conjunction with the other mental health conditions that can result from various difficult life experiences. Co-host Col Mike Brown Col Brown served as the Commander of the Defense Contract Management Agency in Tewksbury, Massachusetts form 2013-2015. He led the largest in plant agency in DCMA consisting of more than 4000 personnel, spanning 7 states in the New England Region with contract value of 46.B dollars for all Services. Managed 17 major defense programs including programs from all the Services and MDA including Patriot, DDG 1000, FAB-T, SMART-T, IAMD, UEWR, AEGIS, and JLENS. Col Brown has been a Hospice Volunteer at the Department of Veteran's Affair in Maryland. He has taken suicide hotline phone calls and numerous times was able to get help to distress veterans. Col Brown over the years has been a guest speaker at charity events in support of veteran causes. To Reach Col. Brown: brown.mike734@gmail.com 256-783-9052 To Reach Sean Eugene Flynn: sflynn9179@aol.com 469-588-8642 Crisis in America PTSD Veteran Suicides and media by which it is distributed holds no responsibility for the validity or accuracy of information on this site. Listeners and viewers are advised to seek the input of a professionals whom represent the subject before acting on any information or advice and media by which it is distributed hold no responsibility for the validity or accuracy of information on this site. Listeners and viewers are advised to seek the input of a professionals whom represent the subject before acting on any information or advice. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/debra-blackwell/support

Spirituality Host: Sean Flynn Sean Eugene Flynn is a Former Deputy Sheriff for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office and School Resource Officer for the Palm Beach County School District. Sean continues to serve the citizens of South Florida as the Vice President of Cops Helping Kids Inc. ( non-profit organization), as an athletic coach and volunteer helping first responders, civilian adults, and children who have difficulties recovering from PTSD in conjunction with the other mental health conditions that can result from various difficult life experiences. Co-host Col Mike Brown Col Brown served as the Commander of the Defense Contract Management Agency in Tewksbury, Massachusetts form 2013-2015. He led the largest in plant agency in DCMA consisting of more than 4000 personnel, spanning 7 states in the New England Region with contract value of 46.B dollars for all Services. Managed 17 major defense programs including programs from all the Services and MDA including Patriot, DDG 1000, FAB-T, SMART-T, IAMD, UEWR, AEGIS, and JLENS. Col Brown has been a Hospice Volunteer at the Department of Veteran's Affair in Maryland. He has taken suicide hotline phone calls and numerous times was able to get help to distress veterans. Col Brown over the years has been a guest speaker at charity events in support of veteran causes. To Reach Col. Brown: brown.mike734@gmail.com 256-783-9052 To Reach Sean Eugene Flynn: sflynn9179@aol.com 469-588-8642 Crisis in America PTSD Veteran Suicides and media by which it is distributed holds no responsibility for the validity or accuracy of information on this site. Listeners and viewers are advised to seek the input of a professionals whom represent the subject before acting on any information or advice and media by which it is distributed hold no responsibility for the validity or accuracy of information on this site. Listeners and viewers are advised to seek the input of a professionals whom represent the subject before acting on any information or advice. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/debra-blackwell/support

Spirituality Host: Sean Flynn Sean Eugene Flynn is a Former Deputy Sheriff for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office and School Resource Officer for the Palm Beach County School District. Sean continues to serve the citizens of South Florida as the Vice President of Cops Helping Kids Inc. ( non-profit organization), as an athletic coach and volunteer helping first responders, civilian adults, and children who have difficulties recovering from PTSD in conjunction with the other mental health conditions that can result from various difficult life experiences. Co-host Col Mike Brown Col Brown served as the Commander of the Defense Contract Management Agency in Tewksbury, Massachusetts form 2013-2015. He led the largest in plant agency in DCMA consisting of more than 4000 personnel, spanning 7 states in the New England Region with contract value of 46.B dollars for all Services. Managed 17 major defense programs including programs from all the Services and MDA including Patriot, DDG 1000, FAB-T, SMART-T, IAMD, UEWR, AEGIS, and JLENS. Col Brown has been a Hospice Volunteer at the Department of Veteran's Affair in Maryland. He has taken suicide hotline phone calls and numerous times was able to get help to distress veterans. Col Brown over the years has been a guest speaker at charity events in support of veteran causes. To Reach Col. Brown: brown.mike734@gmail.com 256-783-9052 To Reach Sean Eugene Flynn: sflynn9179@aol.com 469-588-8642 Crisis in America PTSD Veteran Suicides and media by which it is distributed holds no responsibility for the validity or accuracy of information on this site. Listeners and viewers are advised to seek the input of a professionals whom represent the subject before acting on any information or advice and media by which it is distributed hold no responsibility for the validity or accuracy of information on this site. Listeners and viewers are advised to seek the input of a professionals whom represent the subject before acting on any information or advice. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/debra-blackwell/support

Spirituality Col Brown served as the Commander of the Defense Contract Management Agency in Tewksbury, Massachusetts form 2013-2015. He led the largest in plant agency in DCMA consisting of more than 4000 personnel, spanning 7 states in the New England Region with contract value of 46.B dollars for all Services. Managed 17 major defense programs including programs from all the Services and MDA including Patriot, DDG 1000, FAB-T, SMART-T, IAMD, UEWR, AEGIS, and JLENS Sean Eugene Flynn is a Former Deputy Sheriff for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office and School Resource Officer for the Palm Beach County School District. Sean continues to serve the citizens of South Florida as the Vice President of Cops Helping Kids Inc. ( non-profit organization), as an athletic coach and volunteer helping first responders, civilian adults, and children who have difficulties recovering from PTSD in conjunction with the other mental health conditions that can result from various difficult life experiences. To Reach Col. Brown: brown.mike734@gmail.com 256-783-9052 To Reach Sean Eugene Flynn: sflynn9179@aol.com 469-588-8642 Crisis in America PTSD Veteran Suicides and media by which it is distributed holds no responsibility for the validity or accuracy of information on this site. Listeners and viewers are advised to seek the input of a professionals whom represent the subject before acting on any information or advice and media by which it is distributed hold no responsibility for the validity or accuracy of information on this site. Listeners and viewers are advised to seek the input of a professionals whom represent the subject before acting on any information or advice. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/debra-blackwell/support

Introduction: Col Brown served as the Commander of the Defense Contract Management Agency in Tewksbury, Massachusetts form 2013-2015. He led the largest in plant agency in DCMA consisting of more than 4000 personnel, spanning 7 states in the New England Region with contract value of 46.B dollars for all Services. Managed 17 major defense programs including programs from all the Services and MDA including Patriot, DDG 1000, FAB-T, SMART-T, IAMD, UEWR, AEGIS, and JLENS. Today, Col Brown is spending his retirement years traveling, writing a book, visiting friends and family, enjoying the outdoors and has and will always dedicate his life to serving veterans and their families. He has volunteered as intern with Mission Continues, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Red Sox Foundation, in Boston Massachusetts working with veterans and families dealing with PTSD and TBI. Col Brown has been a Hospice Volunteer at the Department of Veteran's Affair in Maryland. He has taken suicide hotline phone calls and numerous times was able to get help to distress veterans. Col Brown over the years has been a guest speaker at charity events in support of veteran causes. To Reach Col. Brown: brown.mike734@gmail.com 256-783-9052 To Reach Sean Eugene Flynn: sflynn9179@aol.com 469-588-8642 Crisis in America PTSD Veteran Suicides and media by which it is distributed holds no responsibility for the validity or accuracy of information on this site. Listeners and viewers are advised to seek the input of a professionals whom represent the subject before acting on any information or advice and media by which it is distributed hold no responsibility for the validity or accuracy of information on this site. Listeners and viewers are advised to seek the input of a professionals whom represent the subject before acting on any information or advice. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/debra-blackwell/support

DL Gaming Devs, Brenna, and Jameson are back with episode one of Year Two!! Listen to us discuss the future of Destiny, DCMA changes, more EA games on Steam, and this week's Chat Room guest is Bryan from the Omega Broadcast: A Fallout Story. Check back each week for new episodes where we break down the gaming news from the previous week. Also be sure to drop a rating, review, follow, and subscribe to keep us on the Top Charts!! If you want to help support the show, check us out on Patreon and get some exclusive content and gear! Listen to the Message from the Developers, previous episodes, and follow us on social media for more info, giveaways, and content!! Social Media: Twitter: @DLGamingNews Instagram: @goosecatprod Facebook: @DLGamingNews Sponsors: Loot Crate - Use code: ROBOTSRADIO for 15% off and to support the show! Gamefly - Use the link and sign up for $10 and get a month free!! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dlgaming/message

Alex opens the show with a note on the PLAT ETF before diving into new TikTok/ByteDance revenue numbers. Next, coverage of the sudden slew of DCMA claims sent to Twitch streamers and TikTok's precarious music licensing negotiations. The second half of the episode contains discussion on Elon Musk tweeting that Amazon needs to be broken up and Instacart's evisceration of grocery delivery competitors during the COVID-19 outbreak (including Walmart!!!). Originally Aired: 06/09/20 00:18 - PLAT ETF 01:37 - TikTok Domination 07:36 - Music Labels Come After Twitch and TikTok 14:59 - Elon Says Break Up Amazon 19:26 - Instacart is Kingc

Hi everyone, and thank you for tuning in to another episode of the We Make Books Podcast - A podcast about writing, publishing, and everything in between! This week we have a very special guest!  We were lucky enough to be able to sit down with author Scott Warren.  Scott is the author of the Union Earth Privateer series and the third and final book of the trilogy is being released the same day as this episode!  Full disclosure: Scott was the first author ever signed by Parvus Press and so it was extra awesome to be able to talk to him ahead of the release of the last book in his trilogy.  Scott is an all-around amazing and fascinating guy, so we were thrilled to be able to get his perspective and thoughts on developing a story past your original plan, writing from your own experience, and wrapping up a trilogy.  We had a great time talking with him and hope you enjoy listening! We Make Books is hosted by Rekka Jay and Kaelyn Considine; Rekka is a published author and Kaelyn is an editor and together they are going to take you through what goes into getting a book out of your head, on to paper, in to the hands of a publisher, and finally on to book store shelves. We Make Books is a podcast for writers and publishers, by writers and publishers and we want to hear from our listeners! Hit us up on our social media, linked below, and send us your questions, comments, concerns, and the best bit alien weaponry you've imagined, or maybe actually invented.  You can trust us!  This a secure line and we pinky-promise that the Roswell guys will never know! We hope you enjoy We Make Books! Twitter: @WMBCast  |  @KindofKaelyn  |  @BittyBittyZap Instagram: @WMBCast  Patreon.com/WMBCast   Episode 36: Every Rivet in the Alien Railgun - Military Science Fiction with Scott Warren transcribed by Sara Rose (@saraeleanorrose)   [0:00]   K: Hi everyone! Welcome back to another episode of We Make Books, a show about writing, publishing, and everything in between. I’m Kaelyn Considine, I’m the acquisitions editor for Parvus Press.   R: And I’m Rekka, I write science fiction and fantasy as R.J. Theodore.   K: And today’s a big day for Parvus.   R: Yes! We, full disclosure, we are being very self-serving today and loving every minute of it! And hopefully you’ll love it, too.   K: Today is the launch of Where Vultures Dare the third and final book in the Union Earth Privateers series and thus the first completed trilogy published by Parvus Press! Oh, also, Scott Warren had something to do with this, I guess.   R: I, well, he can talk later. It’s just us now. We can—   K: It’s just us now. So today we had Scott Warren, author of the Union Earth Privateers series sit down with us to talk about—I mean, we talked about everything in this interview!   R: Yeah.   K: We had a great time talking to Scott, covered a range of topics from writing techniques to crafting action scenes to where he came up with the idea for the UEP series. It’s a fantastic interview, Scott is always a delight to talk to.   R: Yeah, and as a reader I really enjoyed Vick’s Vultures and To Fall Among Vultures and I’m just about to dig in because, of course, I have the inside scoop. I got an advance copy of Where Vultures Dare. I, of course, picked it up because I was interested in a small press, to see what they were all about, and I really enjoyed the first book and the second one went a direction I did not see coming, so it’s really great that Parvus was there to allow Scott to take it in a direction that military sci-fi might have said, “Um, actually, if you’re gonna follow the conventions, maybe don’t do this thing?” And I’m really excited to see where book three is gonna go.   K: Scott was the first author ever signed by Parvus Press, so we are very excited about the success and progress of all of our authors, but this is our first completed trilogy and this is Scott’s first completed trilogy, as an author as well. So big day all around!   Anyway, we had a great time talking to Scott and hopefully you have a great time listening to us talk to him.   R: Yep and because it’s June 2nd when we release this, that means book three is out on shelves. So you can go check out Where Vultures Dare and, if you haven’t already read Vick’s Vultures and To Fall Among Vultures, they are quick reads! They read very fast, in addition to not being big, door stopping tomes. So you could pick up all three and check them out in, probably, a span of a few days. Just tear through ‘em.   K: You won’t be able to put them down. Anyway, take a listen and enjoy, we’ll see you on the other side of the music.   [intro music plays]   K: Alright, well, I’m sure that’s all classified so we won’t ask you too much about that!   R: Which is to say that Kaelyn really wants to ask you about it.   S: You can ask me. I’d answer what I can.    K: I have a master’s degree in American military history, so I am—   S: Oh, you probably know more about my activities than I do.   K: Well, my focus was Vietnam, so.   R: Possibly not.   K: Wellllll, there’s debate over how much submarine activity there was during the Vietnam War. There’s some official numbers and then there’s some… speculative numbers.   S: Oh, I don’t actually have any information on that, unfortunately.   R: That’s the official line anyway.   K: That is exactly what he is supposed to say.   S: Yeah.   R: So we are talking today to Scott Warren, author of military science fiction series the Union Earth Privateers, and we are very excited to have him and we are celebrating with him because today his third book in the trilogy has just released. That is Where Vultures Dare. So, welcome Scott, and would you mind introducing yourself for our audience?   S: Thanks for having me, guys! I am Scott Warren, as you said I’m an author, I write both science fiction and fantasy. My sci-fi series is Union Earth Privateers, published under Parvus Press. Humans have just broken into the intergalactic scene and they’ve found it packed to the rafters. They’re kind of hopelessly outgunned. All of these alien races, every single one, is far more advanced than they are. So they developed a small, elite corps called the Union Earth Privateers, whose single directive is: go out and secure advanced technology through any means necessary.    Vick’s Vultures and its sequels follows one such privateer ship, captained by Victoria Marin, and they go around and they engage with aliens. They help them, they fight them, or they pick their bones in order to bring home technology.    R: So you don’t have history, personally, with spaceflight or salvaging alien technology, but you came to the Union Earth Privateers trilogy with a certain background that, I assume, did help you?   S: So the experience that feeds into Vick’s Vultures is kind of two-fold. The first is the submarine experience in the military. I spent about three and a half years in the military, and then after that I transitioned into civilian aviation. So the way that the space combat is written is kind of a blend of the two. It features a lot of the submarine warfare aspects of stealth and sensor readings, as well as the three-dimensional movement. And, as far as aviation goes, that’s where a lot of the nomenclature and the procedural stuff comes from. So when you see Victoria Marin engaging with other cultures, other militaries, most of the jargon and the lingo they use actually comes from the aviation world, not the military world.   R: And I think one of my favorite things from the first book was humans had this Boogeyman aspect to them because they used that submariner stealth and the other aliens had never seen their faces, they just knew that, if humans came, they were gonna come in through your portholes and take everything. That was a really neat aspect of it.   K: Military sci-fi, that’s a popular genre, to say the least, certainly amongst its fans. I would say it’s one of the most vivaciously consumed of a lot of science fiction and fantasy genres. What, particularly, drew you to writing that because it is a very competitive field to get into, and it’s very hard to write well. It’s interesting that you went from being a submariner to a civilian pilot. I don’t think you can have two more different trajectories there. But I think that, also, as you said, gave you a really interesting perspective to write about here. These stealth operations that the humans in the book are conducting versus being able to incorporate your knowledge of aviation.   S: Well, like you said, the military science fiction genre is huge and has very voracious readers, of which I am one. That was the biggest reason for wanting to write The Union Earth Privateers, is I’ve been reading military science fiction for a long time. I’m, specifically, a big fan of John Scalzi, I like H. Paul Honsigner and his Man of War series, which is also a submarines-in-space style book. But the competitiveness and the market and, really, whether or not I would be able to sell Vick’s Vultures at all didn’t weigh into the equation really at all. I was writing because I wanted a creative outlet. I was coming off of the Sorcerous Crimes Division, so I had just self-published my first fantasy novel and I decided, “Hey, I think I’ll take a try at sci-fi!”    R: And you’re a reader of both, though, right?   S: Yes, absolutely.   K: So, in Vick’s Vultures, and the setting of Union Earth Privateers, humanity’s not in great shape, as you said, at the beginning of this. We are a very small fish in what we are learning is an increasingly big pond, full of very carnivorous other fish. And there’s, instead of this humans going into space and learning and exploring, you have a very—I don’t wanna say more of a dark take on it, but it’s certainly not a very optimistic one. [laughs] Is that—where was that coming from in your writing? Is this what you envision if, you know, we do eventually encounter alien life, is this what you think we’re gonna find?   S: It’s not so much what I think we’re going to find, it’s that I’m a really big fan of the crowded galaxy philosophy, in terms of fiction. But most of the science fiction that I read, humans are usually on force parity with most of the aliens that they encounter, or it’s just hoo-rah, humans are the best forever and ever. I kind of wanted to explore that transitory period where humans get out and it’s not, “Oh, these guys have a similar level of weapons and technology.”    These guys are better than us in every way, so the only way we can survive is if they do not know we’re there. That sort of disparity in force has been explored quite a bit, but usually it’s in terms of aliens invading Earth, aliens invading human space. So the first contact is made by the aliens, and then it becomes a war for survival. I wanted this to kind of be exploring the, “Well how do we prevent a war for survival from happening?”   R: Right, so in your stories the aliens don’t even really know where Earth is or where the humans come from.   S: Mhm. You touched on the humans being kind of the Boogeymen and that was one of my guiding philosophies of that. I wanted humans to be these things that were only scary in the dark.   [10:05]   R: Right, and that was their technique for making sure that nobody messed with them because what else were they going to do? They couldn’t defend themselves against the bigger—the Big Three, as you call them in the books.   S: Right. When I designed most of the alien species in Vick’s Vultures, the kind of philosophy behind it was, well, most of these alien species have long-since settled their differences before they got into space, so they didn’t have the same infighting that humans did, that caused them to be militaristic throughout their existence. And that they’d also been in space for so long that they pretty much had lost their ability to go outside their ships and feel safe outside their ships. So humans were still the only ones using spacesuits and spacewalking. So it’s kind of an age of sail allegory where a surprising amount of sailors didn’t actually know how to swim—   R: Right.   K, laughing: Yeah, right? Yes.   S: —so they feared things in the water. The third aspect of the aliens is that their minds were so much more advanced that they just didn’t need to develop computer technology, so when humans come around with their little, dumb, smoothbrains they’ve been developing computer technology to do their thinking for them, to the point where it’s so advanced that it does things the aliens can’t really wrap their minds around.    K: One of the things that I, personally, really enjoyed about the series with the juxtaposition between the humans and the aliens, is that the humans—like, I get a little annoyed with a lot of science fiction where it is frequently, the aliens come to us first and then the scrappy humans have to come back and fight their way through and unify and, you know, we figure out water is their kryptonite or what have you.    But, what I did like about this was these things is, where we usually have this approach of like, “Oh, you humans, with this, this, and this.” It’s such a foreign concept to these aliens that we’re surprised that they are surprised by this, a little bit.This idea of: they don’t go out into space, they don’t use space suits. As you said, the sailors that can’t swim. So that was something that I really liked about how you differentiated humans versus the aliens in this. That they really have these fundamental differences in how they approach life and space, if you will.   R: But speaking of life in space, you have a lot of action scenes in Vick’s Vultures. That was something that we specifically wanted to talk about in this interview because action scenes are notoriously difficult to write. I don’t care if it’s a giant, massive space battle or if it’s a sword fight between two people in a desert. They’re very hard to write, and you do an incredible job of it while navigating a lot of elements and, as you had mentioned, kind of in the way that a submarine has more than forward and backward and up and down to move, there’s literally infinite directions when coordinating a space battle that objects can move in. Thereby making it even more complicated to keep track of things.   S: Mhm.   R: So how on Earth do you keep track of all these things?   S: Well, the first guiding light is obviously the Rule of Cool. I ignore all the potential things that would just end the scene in one line, so that I can write out an action scene. But when it comes to writing realistic space battles, it doesn’t really happen in science fiction. So, once you have that figured out, you’re kind of free to flub whatever you want.   K: Now, when you say—   S: This is gonna sound like I’m kind of a scam artist peddling snake oil, but really that’s all it is is writing action scenes in space, so far as ship to ship combat, is essentially selling your reader a pipedream.   K: Now when you say—because when you say writing realistic battles, there’s the how you really turn in space, kind of, component to this, and I apologize, I don’t know—I imagine submarines are somewhat of the same where you have to use pressure to force directional changes. In space, in order for, for instance, the space shuttle to turn, it has to release air to force it to do so at a 90 degree angle. Obviously, that’s not how these ships fight each other in space. So, physics is not a consideration for you, at all, when writing these?   S: Somewhat, it is, but very loosely. I mean, when it comes down to it, the best tactic is always gonna be the The Last Jedi, hit a ship with another ship at lightspeed tactic. Why would you never not-use that? Unfortunately, it’s kind of boring to read. So, mostly, I ignore the mechanics of how the ships move like they do. I’m more focused on the story of how some force is going to tackle some other force, based on the disparity in strength. So I’m a little bit closer to a Star Wars kind of ships fighting between each other.   K: So one of the things that I encounter a lot, as an editor, when dealing with any sort of action or combat scene is mapping and tracking all of the components of it. I can’t tell you how many times I get a draft from a writer and we go through this whole thing and I’m like, “Hang on a second, where’s this person? What were they doing the whole time?” and it’s very hard to block that, if you will. And I understand that that’s a phrase for the video component of this, but you kind of have to take it into consideration when writing, too. Where is everyone and how are they interacting? Action scenes are very difficult to write because of that. Because if there’s a fight going on, you can’t have one person that’s just standing there waiting for it to be over because you don’t know what to do with them.   S: Funny story about that, actually, and I’ll answer your question in a second. In the first draft of Where Vultures Dare, the squad that goes down onto the planet, and I’m gonna try and avoid spoilers too much, the small squad initially had another member, a new character that I had made, and by the time they got to that first action scene, I had completely forgotten that, that character even existed and he never shows up in the draft again.   [K laughs]   S: It is difficult to plot out the initial blocking of that action scene. Now, when you use that term, blocking, you say it’s a visual-focused term, and it is, and I also come from a visual art background as well. I still occasionally do illustration on the side, that was originally one of the things I wanted to be, before I joined the military. So when I do this writing, I actually take a very visual approach in two ways. Like you said, I block out all the big pieces first. I make sure the reader’s aware of them. And then I do what’s called working from big to small. So, when you’re painting or illustrating, you start with the biggest brush possible and work your way down. You don’t use a detailing brush until you absolutely need it. And I kind of take the same approach to writing action.    So the first thing I do is I work big to small, I make sure the audience is reading the broad strokes. Because our brains do a handy little thing where they’ll fill in the detail where there isn’t anything present. And the other aspect of writing action scenes is, when I’m writing one, I try and make sure that reading the scene takes exactly as long to read as it would to happen, if you were watching it in a movie.   K: That is such an important thing, I think, to me when writing and plotting action scenes. Authors tend to, and I completely understand why, get bogged down in description and not realize that the time that you’re taking to read this, this guy’s been stabbed to death six times already now.    S: Mhm.   K: In all the time that he’s sitting there describing the sword in the other person’s hand and the stance that he has and the dust clinging to his boots, he’s been dead for about ten minutes. I alway use, and Rekka’s gonna shoot me because I’ve been referencing a lot of Harry Potter things recently, but I always use the reference when, in the end of Goblet of Fire, when Harry gets sucked through the portkey and ends up—and Cedric dies, and there’s this whole long scene—   R,  ironically: Spoilers for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire—   [K and R laugh]   K: It’s your own fault if you haven’t read it at this point. Cedric dies, everyone! There’s this whole long, drawn out scene that I think, in the book, is about two and a half chapters from start to finish, with this whole process. And then I remember when I saw the movie and how quickly that happened!   S: It’s just a snap of the fingers and he’s gone and I loved that aspect of the movie.   K: I loved how fast that happened, that the whole point was that this was incredibly disorienting because this whole encounter, this death, this terrible realization, this shocking revelation of Voldemort is back, all happens in five minutes. And that’s why nobody realized Harry was even gone back at Hogwarts. So, I completely understand why you need to explain and flush these things out, it’s an entirely new setting that you have to describe. You have to establish the characters, you have to establish where they are and what they’re doing, but having that visual component to it eliminates all of the need for exposition there.    So, it’s a really hard thing to do in writing, taking these scenes where you have to set the scene, and still trying to get it to a reasonable amount of time that these actions could be transpiring over.   S: Mhm.   [20 :31]   R: One thing I always like to remind people is that you are a writer, you have control over everything that’s going on, that wouldn’t happen in real life. So you don’t have to describe a scene, you can start your action scene in a place that’s already been described in a quieter, more peaceful moment. Or you can keep in mind what Kaelyn’s saying and describe what the person needs to know in the moment of the action, which is: there’s a door over there and the floor is slippery. You don’t need a whole lot more than that. Or, it’s dark or whatever. That doesn’t take paragraphs, whereas if you feel like you need to get tactile with it and describe the stones’ texture, then that’s probably not something that a person’s going to realize until after the fact. They’re just trying to survive the moment. So big to small is good like that and it’s kind of the same thing that you’re saying. Get the big details and then you’ve placed the scene and you can get the smaller details as they become necessary, as the character is able to even recognize them. I mean—   S: Absolutely.   R: —it’s reasonable to assume that somebody looking at a sword is going to see SWORD, if the sword is drawn. As opposed to looking at the pommel and everything if the sword is sheathed and safe.   K: I always have a line I use that’s been dropped into many a manuscript that I’ve edited: human evolution was designed rather to react than to analyze. We don’t necessarily care what’s chasing us, we just know it’s getting closer and it has teeth. So, along those lines, how do you—you are in a genre where the fans of this really like and appreciate a lot of detail about the spaceship that’s attacking them. They want to hear all of the guns, all of the turrets, all of the engines and components to this. How do you avoid falling down that trap into—because I imagine from your side, and you write in a lot of detail and are clearly knowledgeable about this—how do you avoid falling into that trap?   S: The biggest thing for me is that the focus on combat, most of the combat in Vick’s Vultures is based around the same thing that submarine warfare is based around: a lack of full information. You’re working with very limited details on whatever enemy you’re fighting. So they might know that there’s something out there, but they can’t see what it is. And if they can’t see it, well then there’s no point in me describing it to the audience. Because at the end of the day, I’m writing in third person limited. The narration only knows what the characters know.   R: That is a good point, though, because we are so used to the Star Trek viewscreen and looking at the other ship and knowing as soon as it drops out of warp that it’s a Romulan ship versus a Klingon ship versus, you know, there’s something out there, we don’t know what it is. Okay, well it’s Romulan because they have the technology. But your characters are, sort of, in a submarine in terms of what they know about what’s going on around them and they need some kind of signal from the ship to recognize it, or to be sitting on the outside of the ship in one of their suits. But even then, there’s the realism of how far away is it? How much can you actually see if you’re looking directly at it. So, yeah, that’s a good point and that aids you in the genre, I think, because that adds to that realism that the readers expect.   S: Mhm. Kaelyn you mentioned that readers are very voracious for those details.   K: Yes, yes.   S: But I think a lot of them are also voracious for that level of grittiness and realism, and sometimes you can’t have one along with the other. And, in this case, I think they settle for the realism rather than the exploring every nut and rivet on an alien railgun.   K: I completely agree. I think there is—I don’t want to call it a trade-off, but there is this notion of—well, I’ll call it a trade-off!—trading one for the other. There’s a degree of suspense that you can entrench yourself in and use that as your high, if you will, in reading all of this versus getting to kind of sit and revel in the description of, as you said, every rivet in the alien railgun. Which is now going to be the name of another book that I want somebody to write. [laughs]   R: Well, you know what it’s gonna be, it’s gonna be all exposition, if you want that book.   K: Nah, it’s gonna be… we’re gonna make the, you know, one of those—remember Star Wars during the, when they put the prequels out they made those books that was like the pictorial guide to Star Wars? Well, we’ll do that for Vick’s Vultures. It’s gonna be a lot of black pages with vague shapes in the back of them.   S: And half the text blacked out and redacted.    K: Yes, exactly! Perfect. But, actually, speaking of blacked out text and redacted, this is not a series that is simply, hit-and-run stealth missions. There’s some political components, there’s some scheming, there’s other parts of this beyond just humans going into outer space and trying to further humans’ ability to exist in space. Vick and her team get into some nonsense.   S: As a rule, I tend to try and avoid political themes and huge political arcs in my books, simply because I don’t like reading them. But you can’t really have an interplanetary, sometimes diplomatic, directive or organization without touching on the politics. And so they not only get pulled by the human politics, but they get pulled by the alien politics as well. One of the things I always try and have in Vick’s Vultures, on multiple levels, is a trichotomy. So it’s not just good versus evil, it’s three opposing organizations that are each trying to further their own goals, usually at the expense of another. Sometimes those goals are political, sometimes they’re military, sometimes they’re survival.   K: And sometimes they’re a combination of all of them.   S: Mhm, absolutely.   K: They frequently overlap and motivate different components of what they’re trying to accomplish. So, I have to ask something because—and this is a little bit of, you know, how the sausage is made here—by the time I came on to Parvus Press, Vick’s Vultures had been out for, I guess, about a year at that point and Colin had sent me a copy when I was kind of auditioning, if you will, to be an editor. And I was shocked to realize that Vick was short for Victoria.    S: Mhm.   K: And that this was a woman. I have to, of course, ask—I mean, I love Vick as a character, I love all of the intricacies and nuance to her personality that you write in, but—women are not allowed on submarines.   S: They didn’t used to be. They are now.   K: Oh, they are now! Okay. Why, I have to ask, what made you write Vick as a woman?   S: So there’s three main reasons that I did that. The first one is this notion that male readers won’t read female main characters, so I kinda wanted to do a bait-and-switch like, “Oh, it’s called Vick’s Vultures, so obviously the main character is a guy named Vick!” And then if they don’t read too much into it, it’s like, “Ha! Gotcha!” You’re actually reading about a female character.    The second was I kind of wanted her to be the inverse of, you know, the classic male Han Solo? Where these male captains have, they do all these things that no reasonable, realistic person would do and then get rewarded for them. I kind of wanted to make Vick do those things and then everyone kind of call her out on it, her self-destructive tendencies getting her into trouble more than they get her out of it.    And then the third was that I wasn’t sure whether or not I could write a female character well, but coming off of Devil Bone, which is the first Sorcerous Crimes Division book, a couple fans pointed out to me how well the few female characters had been written. Specifically, there’s two main characters, not main characters, but side characters in Sorcerous Crimes Division that were female raiders. So they would go in with the raiding parties. One was a more leader archetypal mother-hen type and the other was basically a psychopath.    [R laughs]   S: But they were on the same side and people thought they were pretty realistic. So I thought maybe I’ll tackle writing a female main character for the next book. I enjoyed doing that so much that I ended up making one of the female characters also a POV character in the second Sorcerous Crimes Division book, as well. And she ended up being pretty much the fan favorite.   R: I mean—   K: That’s great.   R: Women kinda rock, don’t they?   K: I agree.   [30:16]   S, warily: Let me make sure my wife is not…   R: Wait, before you disagree with me, you mean? No.   K: I was gonna say, maybe this is what she should be hearing!   S: No, I just don’t want it to go to her head.   R: Ah, got it.   K: Ah, alright, fair enough. That’s fair.   S: Also, fun fact: she just finished reading Harry Potter for the first time this week. So—   K: What’d she think?    S: —she narrowly avoided the Goblet of Fire spoiler.   [R and K laugh]   K: See, there would have actually been someone out there who was—   R: I told you! I had to warn you about the spoilers, yeah.   K: I have very little sympathy, apologies to Scott’s wife, for people who are upset by fifteen-year-old spoilers at this point. But what did she think of the books? Just out of curiosity.   S: Uh, she liked them but she’s also very able to pick up on the things that are acceptable in Young Adult writing that maybe don’t so much fly for adults.   K: Well that’s a whole other conversation—   R, laughing: Yeah, I feel like our Patreon deserves Kaelyn’s Rant on Harry Potter and Kaelyn’s Rant on a couple other movies and book series.   K: I’ve got a few of them. It’s a—do not get me started on Game of Thrones. The last season of that. Poor Rekka, poor Rekka had me—   R: I saw it in real-time. I saw it happening. Kaelyn’s devolution into—   K: —madness!   R: Not even madness, just you… couldn’t even speak sometimes—    S: Right.     K: I…        R: —because you were so upset about the decisions made.    K: Rekka had the misfortune of being with me to watch the Battle of Winterfell and then also—   S, laughing: You mean listen to the Battle of Winterfell, right?   R: Yup.   K: Okay, well, here’s the thing: Rekka and her husband Matt should have a service where they go to people’s houses and fix their TVs for them because we could see everything perfectly watching that. So I don’t know what you guys did to your TV, I don’t know what setting you have it on, but we could see everything and then all of my friends are texting going, “Well I think they won. I don’t know, I can’t see anything!” and I was like, “Oh, really?” and I went back and watched it at home and I was like, “Oh, yeah, this is just a black screen with some shapes moving around in it. Oh, there’s fire. Okay, I see fire.”    And then Rekka, also, was sitting next to me when we watched the series finale at the Nebulas out in Los Angeles last year. Parvus and, mostly Colin, finagled a viewing—   R: Viewing party.   K: A viewing party. It was a lot of fun, but oh my goodness. That’s a—   S, a hero bringing it back on topic: Yeah, going into the launch of UEP #3, at least secure in the knowledge that hey! at least it won’t be the last Game of Thrones season. You know, the bar has been somewhat lowered.   K: So, speaking of that—   R: This does close off your trilogy, yeah.   K: Yeah! The trilogy’s wrapping up. How are ya feelin’?   S: I feel pretty good. You know, I’d actually set this book aside for I while. I wrote and published an entirely separate book in the time that this one was—I’d kind of gone through pretty much writing and editing on The Dragon’s Banker while Vick’s Vultures #3 was going through the editing and publishing process. And I don’t know how it is for other authors, but I actually tend to retain very little of a book that I’ve written once I move on to the next book. I forget character names, I forget plot points. All of that just gets flushed. Part of me thinks that’s a result from the studying tactics in the military and aviation where you cram and cram and cram and then knowledge dump immediately after the test.   But I can actually, I’m doing my final review of Vick’s #3 now and a lot of it going to be going through and almost looking at it with fresh eyes, as if it’s something that someone else wrote.    K: Well, we were gonna ask you some questions about resolving plot points, you know without spoiling anything, and completing this three-story arc but do you remember any of it? [bursts out laughing]   R: All right, so feel free, if you need to say “I don’t know that one” we’ll just cut the question like we never even asked.   S: Okay.   R: So you have three books out now that complete a trilogy. Did you see it as a three-book trilogy to start with? Did you have an arc in mind?   S: No, actually. When it started out Vick’s Vultures was not meant to be part of a trilogy, per se. I was thinking of it as more of a serialized thing where each book would be its—   R: Open-ended?   S: Mhm. It's its own separate, self-contained story. Neither one would really feed into the others. Once I had the first book out, I wanted it to be something that could absolutely stand on its own. You could read Vick’s Vultures as just Vick’s Vultures and then ignore the rest of the books and be perfectly happy and get a one hundred percent complete story. Because I didn’t know if there would be sequels, at that point. I was still a very new writer. I wasn’t super confident. I thought this is a good book, but I don’t know how many good books I have in me. What if I run out of ideas half-way through the next one? Six books later, that’s not a huge issue apparently.   K: I was gonna say, what is it with you authors and doubting your abilities to generate stories? That’s all you do!   R: Have you read the Goodreads reviews, Kaelyn? You know, if you’ve ever spent any time looking at other people’s reviews of books you think, “Wow! I could mess up in so many ways I didn’t even consider when I started writing!”   S: Mhmm.   K: Yeah, but those people don’t know what they’re talking about.   S: It helps that I’d committed pretty much every sin that I’ve railed against in Devil Bone, when I wrote my first book. So I was like, “Man, all these mistakes that I see other writers writing! I’m gonna avoid all of those!” And then I did ‘em anyway and I was like, “Oh, it’s because that’s the only way I know how to do it.” That’s what’s familiar.   K: Do you have more stories set in the UEP universe? Do you have other things you’d like to write here? You know, as you said, you saw this as kind of a serialized, ongoing collection of stories. Is that something down the road that you think you’d revisit at some point? And I’m not just asking this as your publisher!   [K and R laugh]   S: I would like to revisit it at some point. I didn’t leave open ends so much in Vick’s Vultures #3—    K: No, that’s kind of why I was asking. Yeah.   S: —but I did seed things that could be explored further, and there’s always other ships in the Union Earth Privateers. I purposefully made this big terrain, this big stretch of stars, the Orion’s Spur, which gets name-dropped constantly in the series. One to say, hey this is the humans’ limit. This is how far we can go because there’s basically a brick wall at each end of the Spur. And the other being like, hey! This is a big playground. You can go anywhere in this and we’ve only touched on a small fraction of it. And, essentially, the number of locations and the number of stories that can be told in that universe isn’t limited by what’s already been written because it’s not going off—this is kinda pulling back the veil a little bit—it’s not going off of real stars, it’s not really going off real systems. Everything’s being made up to serve the narrative. Everything is kind of what it needs to be to tell a good story.   So would I like to go back to it? Absolutely. Right now I’m on a little bit of a fantasy kick. Coming out of Dragon’s Banker I tried to start up a sci-fi novel, wasn’t really happy with it. I restarted it a couple times before saying, “I’m gonna put this back on the shelf for a little bit,” and kind of explore more the things that I explored in Dragon’s Banker with the slice-of-life fantasy, and then go back to maybe doing sci-fi after that, with maybe something either in the Vick’s universe or more esoteric. Kinda closer to something like grimdark 41st millennium, without name-dropping and having DCMA requests called on your podcast.   K: Now, it is interesting because I’ve obviously read UEP series and I did read Dragon’s Banker as well. These are very, very different books. Not only in terms of genre but in terms of, really, your writing style. Do you find it difficult to oscillate back and forth between sci-fi Scott Warren and fantasy Scott Warren?   S: That’s kind of a tricky question, but I like it. One thing to keep in mind is that between Union Earth Privateers and the Sorcerous Crimes Division is that the subject matter for the books, despite being fantasy and sci-fi, ultimately was very, very similar. They were both about elite, professional teams working together in an action-oriented environment. But one dealt with magic, the other dealt with aliens. But when you dig really deep into them, they have more similarities than they have differences.    When it went to Dragon’s Banker, it was a challenge to myself. I’d been writing very violent, very action-oriented books and I wanted to challenge myself to write a book with a true pacifist. Where the main character would not and could not resolve any of his conflicts through violence. I wanted to explore that theme, and I  wanted to explore a novel where lateral thinking was the key to completing all of his objectives. And that, really, he was completing a lot of his objectives just through struggling through his own personal problems and not even realizing that he was contributing, behind the scenes, to all of these conflicts he wasn’t really even aware that he was involved in. Which was a tricky plate to balance.   [40:48]    S: But you mentioned the style of the narration and the dialogue and everything being very different in Dragon’s Banker, and the fact is, writing Dragon’s Banker, my wife read that and once she finished, she put down the book and she looked and me and said, “You are Sailor Kelstern!” And I tried to argue and she said, “Don’t lie! I know you.”   [K and R laugh]   S: So, reading Dragon’s Banker is the closest you’ll get to an unfiltered view of my internal narration for my own life and my own thoughts. And the truth is, in real life I am not a violent or aggressive person at all. I’m the mastermind, I’m the plotter, the planner, and the schemer.   K: Yeah, because I remember reading Dragon’s Banker and I’m going, “Is this really Scott?” [laughs]   S: I mean, that did cause a little bit of friction, I know, in the publishing house because I think Colin was a little hesitant. Like, “Ooh, we have this military sci-fi writer who’s also trying to have us publish this,” and I ended up self-publishing Dragon’s Banker. Ultimately, I decided that was probably the right path for it to go.   K: Because you have—all of the science fiction books you’ve published have been with Parvus Press, but your fantasy books have been self-published. Do you find there’s a cross-over with your fans, that they follow you between these genres? Or do they tend to segregate based on what they like to read?   S: Honestly, I couldn’t say just because I don’t really have a large level of fan interaction.   K: Okay.   S: I’m not like a lot of authors who make a fan page or interface with their communities. I’m honestly not even really aware if I have a community or reader reviews.   K: I can tell you that Union Earth Privateers definitely has a community.   S: Mkay, so the closest I come is to looking at some of the reader reviews on Amazon and Goodreads. What I notice is usually, if the reviews namedrop another book that I’ve written, it is a namedrop of a book in the same genre. So if I had to hedge a guess, I would say that there is not that much genre crossover between my readers. And that might be, in part, because they are segregated in terms of Parvus taking one half of my library and self-publishing doing the other half of my library. Or it might be because there’s just a readership difference in sci-fi fans and fantasy fans. I honestly couldn’t say.   K: So, along those lines, you’ve kind of got a foot in two different worlds here, if you will. Where do you wanna focus next? Do you have a plan for what you’d like to do, if you wanna lean more into the fantasy side or the sci-fi side? Are you just gonna see what comes and what you feel like writing?   S: So, right now I am doing what I feel like writing. I am doing another slice-of-life fantasy that takes place in the same world as Dragon’s Banker and the Sorcerous Crimes Division, it’s more action-focused slice-of-life. I really wanted to get very out there with this one. I don’t have a title for it yet, but I will say that it has an undead protagonist—   K: Excellent.   S: —who is a traveling monster hunter for hire along the west coast of the continent that all these books take place in. And he has an apprentice who is a living human child, between the ages of eleven and fifteen. The main character literally does not know how old he is, and doesn’t care to. But the book kind of explores their traveling and their relationship and their role in the world. One of the biggest complaints with Dragon’s Banker was that the worldbuilding was a little weak, so I wanted to take this book and really delve in and say, “Hey! They’re travelling here, this is what it looks like, here’s the kind of creatures that live here and the people that live here.”   In the future, yes, I definitely want to return to sci-fi. With the fantasy side, I will probably maintain the self-publishing just because I enjoy that aspect of it. With the sci-fi, I had talked to Colin, he wanted a new military sci-fi and that was actually the working title of the book: New Military Sci-fi.   R: Hits the keywords!   K: Of course it was!   S: I wasn’t ready at the time. I had just come off writing back-to-back military sci-fi books and I was honestly a little burnt out at that point, I think, with writing Dragon’s Banker and the untitled monster slayer book. I’ll have created enough space to confidently return to military sci-fi for the purpose of writing military sci-fi. That was one of the big problems with it, is that when I was writing the book, I wasn’t writing it for myself, I was writing it for someone else. With art, as with writing that’s kind of when I start to encounter the mental blocks is when I stop writing for myself and start writing, well, I should write this because an audience will wanna read this. Or I should write this because a publisher will be interested in publishing this. And what I really need to do, and what really contributed to the charm and uniqueness of both Vick’s Vultures and the Sorcerous Crimes Division was I’m writing this because it’s something Scott Warren would write. Because it’s something that Scott Warren would want to read and because it’s something that doesn’t exist currently. It’s a new take on something.    So when I start trying to write to an audience or to a publisher, my whole process kinda breaks down and stalls. Once I get this fantasy flush through my system, I think I’ll be ready to return to military sci-fi and come up with something a little more unique. And I have two different manuscripts for military sci-fi that I was writing during this period of roadblocks that reached about 20,000 words and they had some really fun and interesting ideas4, some of which ended up being in these others books, but some of which really need to be, I think, explored and will be very fun to explore.    Unfortunately, one of the biggest ones, Martha Wells kind of beat me to the punch with a very recalcitrant AI character!   [R laughs]   And as much as I love Murderbot, I hate that it exists because it was very similar to a character that I was actively working on when All Systems Red came out.    R: Well, you know, there’s always something to be said for having a very successful copy book, too, so. You know, feed the people who want more of the recalcitrant AIs. I think that’s fair to say. But that’s good that you can recognize what it is about your writing process that works for you and notice when it starts to break down and see what the symptoms point to. I think writing for yourself is always the best advice for anyone who’s trying to be creative. It’s interesting that you’re big into self-publishing and not so big into write-to-market. I think that’s healthy.   K: Yeah.   S: Mhm. And hopefully that’s not too much nails on a chalkboard on the publishing side of the house!   K: No, no.   S: Because I also do love being a Parvus author.    K: Well we certainly love having you and Vick’s Vultures was the first book that Parvus ever put out and I know Colin is certainly not shy about saying it was a significant cornerstone—the keystone, if you will—to our early success in the publishing world.    We’ve covered a lot of topics, a whole range of things, is there anything that you could go back and tell yourself when you started all of this, or is there any just general advice you have for either people who are self-publishing or somebody who is trying really hard to work around a particularly tricky action scene, or anything that you wish you had known or could offer as advice to those listening?    S: Hm. So there are a couple pieces of advice that I would give to budding self-published authors. So, one thing that Parvus provided was an editor, which I think is crucial and it takes a lot off the pressure off me. When I initially got into self-publishing, the idea was that, “Well I’m gonna be a do-it-yourself guy on my first book and I wanna experience the whole process. The writing, the editing, the marketing, the publishing, and, most importantly, coming from an illustrative background, was the cover art. My fantasy titles actually get a lot of comments on the cover art because my illustration style is so unique and I tend to illustrate the tone of the book, rather than the content.    But the biggest thing when I went into self-publishing—and I will without reservation tell every self-publishing author who’s thinking of their own editing—go ahead and slap yourself in the face right now and get a freelance editor lined up to edit your book.   [R laughs]     S: There’s a reason that editors are so in-demand, so highly sought after and so highly regarded in the publishing industry, and it’s because published authors would not exist without them.   K: I swear I did not pay him to say this! I promise.   [S laughs]   R: I mean, she’s writing a check right now, but that wasn’t arranged beforehand.   K: But that is something that we talk about a lot, is that there’s a reason—even if it’s not just an editor—get other people to read your book and give you feedback on it. Preferably people that maybe have some experience and at least some involvement in this process, but.   [51:21]     S: Mhm. So this advice comes from as much of an art background as it does writing. But you need to be able to have a thick skin, as an author, and be able accept critique without taking it as a personal attack. In both art and writing, the people that succeed are the ones that can take feedback and improve their writing based on it. No one is above critique and when someone comes to you and tells you something doesn’t look right, or something reads wrong, you cannot tell them, “No, you’re seeing it wrong.” 99% of the time, when someone gives you a critique that something is wrong, that critique is accurate.   R: Or at the very least, it draws attention to something you need to look at again. That person may not have nailed the solution or given you the exact issue, but they’re pointing to something that’s not feeling right for them.   S: Right. So when I was working with Arley on the Union Earth Privateers #3, there were a couple times—my favorite quote from an editor that I’ve ever gotten. He left me a comment, after I’d made a change, where he said, “I love that I can spend ten minutes marking out a paragraph and telling you why something doesn’t work, and writing out two paragraphs worth of comments on it, and you can go back two pages earlier, change one line of dialogue and it fixes every problem.”     K, laughing: He was—Arley and I had a lot of conversations about, obviously, how things were progressing on your side and he was very impressed with your ability to, instead of having to tear something down and rebuild it, fix it and move forward. But it’s hard to get work back that you've put so much time, effort, blood, sweat and tears into and have somebody say, “Not this, not this, change this, do this.”   S: It is hard.   K: As an editor, I can tell you it’s coming from a place of love. The opposite of love is not hate, it’s apathy.    S: Right.   K: If we didn’t love what you were doing, we wouldn’t care. We wouldn’t tell you how to improve it.   S: I won’t lie or sugarcoat it, it does kinda sting a little bit.   K: It stings, I’m sure!   S: When you get a manuscript back and you see 1200 revisions or, I think the first Vick’s Vultures book when I first saw it had a couple thousand revisions and I was like, “Ohh! I wrote a terrible book!” But the biggest guiding light for working with an editor that I have to keep in mind, and I would encourage other authors to keep in mind, is that an editor’s job is to make your book the best possible version that it can be.    K, delighted: Oh my god, that’s exactly what I say all the time!   [S and K laugh]   K: I want this book to be the best possible version of itself!   S: Mhm. And you won’t always agree with an editor 100% but you have to keep in mind that that’s where they’re coming from. And sometimes you don’t want to turn a phrase or something that isn’t 100% grammatically correct, but invokes the tone or the narration that you want. You have to recognize that, hey, you can push back sometimes against an editor, but for the most part they are trying to improve your book and you are not looking at it from an unbiased perspective.   K: Well I always remind authors that I work with, or even just people who ask me about this, this is a conversation. I’m not standing on high handing down edicts that you must apply to something that is ultimately your work. This is—if there’s something that you’re really hung up on, I’m gonna ask you, “Why is this a big deal? What am I  missing here? Am I not understanding something? Is there a part of this that is just going over my head?” Because that’s happened before! This is a secret. Editors are not perfect. [laughs] And now I have to go because the secret cabal of editor-ninjas are going to come kill me for saying that into a microphone.   R: Well, lucky for you, we are just about out of time. So, I know we could go on trading war stories about either our off-planet missions or editing, but thank you Scott for joining us today. So everyone listening, definitely go check out Union Earth Privateers. If you haven’t already read books one and two, you could catch up on all of them in one weekend, I bet. Because once you get into one, you’re gonna really just read straight through them.   K: Yeah, no. You’re gonna sit down and blow through that.   R: Yeah! So that’s Vick’s Vultures, To Fall Among Vultures, and Where Vultures Dare and those are all from our favorite little press, Parvus Press! You can get them all today.   K: And Scott, where can people find you online? I know you don’t really have a fan page, but if somebody wanted to send you a note and say how much they love the books.   S: So I am abysmal at social media. I’m a very reclusive author and, actually, kind of a funny story if we have time.   K: Sure.   S: I actually came across a post in the wild, on Reddit, referencing Vick’s Vultures, saying that the person had tried to contact me and had been unable because I hadn’t made a Twitter post in months and I hadn’t made a Facebook post in something like half a year, on my author page. And I responded to their Reddit post saying, “Oh, hey, this is me!” So, honestly, the best place to get in contact with me would probably—   K: Is Reddit!   S: Yeah, because I honestly don’t really check my author e-mail? But I am very active on Reddit in the fantasy community and the sci-fi communities and a few other communities. So my username is /u/scodo, so fairly simple. And you can message me on there and probably get more immediate feedback than if you tried my Facebook or my poorly neglected blog or my Twitter account.   R: So if you are a reader who has read both Scott’s fantasy and science fiction, make sure you tell him that you crossed over genres to follow him. Because he doesn’t know that you’re out there.   K: Tell us, too! Because we’d love to hear that as well.   R: Thank you everyone for joining us, thank you Scott for joining us! And good luck with the book launch.   K: Yeah, congratulations!   S: Thank you and thank you guys for having me.   [outro music plays]   R: Thanks, everyone, for joining us for another episode of We Make Books. If you have any questions that you want answered in future episodes or just have questions in general, remember you can find us on Twitter @wmbcast, same for Instagram, or wmbcast.com.    If you find value in the content that we provide, we would really appreciate your support at Patreon.com/wmbcast. 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There have been voluntary retirement buyouts for one Defense Department agency, giveaways of excessive protective supplies by another, and a weird academy graduation for one of the military services. For the latest developments in the DoD, Federal News Network's Scott Maucione and Jared Serbu joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

HSD has over 20 years of experience in delivering high quality technology solutions that help clients, stakeholders and users improve their business and operations. With locations in Melbourne, Canberra and Adelaide, HSD work with their customers to deliver the best outcomes. To learn more about HSD check out there website www.hsd.com.au . With the assistance of implementing the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), HSD have launched a new product to the market in partnership with Microsoft, the Dynamic 365 Case Management Accelerator (DCMA). It leverages Microsoft Dynamics 365 to improve the timeliness, transparency and effectiveness of your internal processes. In as little as 8 weeks DCMA can take standard procedures and develop them into workflows, enabling customers to meet operational and legislative requirements. DCMA improves oversight through real-time dashboards allowing quick responses to bottlenecks and provide accurate data to executives. If you would like to know more HSD's new product offering, click here. To find out more about the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) go to www.grip6.com.au . There you can access more about EOS including a free organisational health check for your company, click here. To find out more about how accountability charts work, watch the video here To read the first chapter of 'Traction' by Gino Wickman, click here .

On this episode of Fed Talks, we discuss government property, one of the six core DFARS business systems with two experts: Tom Ruckdaschel of DCMA and DPAP acclaim and Alex Mikhelson, a manager with Baker Tilly’s Government Contractor Advisory Services practice. Questions addressed include: What is government property and why is it important? Why has government property seen increased attention lately, and how is this impacting government contractors? What can contractors do to proactively prepare for increased scrutiny of their government property systems and identify and address deficiencies?

Ever wonder who those professionals are that get to crawl around planes and productions lines to inspect government supplies and services to check quality and ensure adequate performance? Don't forget the cost and financial analysts that ensure tax payer dollars are spent correctly on products and services that support our missions. Well in this episode you get a big picture view of what Defense Contract Management Agency does to support the Department of Defense from DCMA's Commander of the West Regional Command, Col. David Learned. Enjoy the episode and make sure your check out the “What DCMA Does” video in the show notes to hear more about what DCMA does from the folks doing the job and the warfighters who use the products and services administered by the Defense Contract Management Agency. Acronyms: FAR – Federal Acquisition Regulation DFARS – Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement CMO – Contract Management Office PMO – Program Management Office What DCMA Does: https://www.dcma.mil/News/Videos/videoid/480264/nav/Default/ DCMA by the numbers fiscal year 2018: https://www.dcma.mil/Portals/31/Documents/InsightMag/DCMA-By-the-Numbers_FY18.pdf?ver=2019-03-12-142023-397 If you would like to share feedback on the podcast, please submit via thecontractingexperience@gmail.com.

Welcome friends to the Someone Gets Me podcast. I am your host Dianne Allen and I am delighted you are here. This podcast was created because I believe there is a visionary leader inside each one of us who is waiting to be seen. In each episode of Someone Gets Me you will hear useful tips from successful Visionaries who will share their stories about how being seen allowed them to take their Vision into Action.   In this episode, I interview Sheryl Nicholson, CSP who is a dynamic speaker, podcaster, author, mother and amazing colleague. Sheryl shares openly about business, family and the importance of having a balanced life.   Topics I discuss include: Women in Leadership Get A Life Balanced podcast and YouTube Channel GetaLifeBalanced.com Learning to trust yourself Being authentic in business relationships LINKS MENTIONED Join our Facebook Group Someone Gets Me  Follow our Dianne’s Facebook Page: Dianne A. Allen, Visionary Leadership Mentor Email contact: msdianneallen@gmail.com Dianne’s Mentoring Services: someonegetsme.com/services To learn more about Dianne’s books and events: visionsapplied.com Sheryl’s Website: sheryl.com   Be sure to take a second and subscribe to the show and share with anyone you think will benefit. Until next time, remember the world needs your special gift, so let your light shine!   More about Sheryl:  International Professional Speaker United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Ireland   Certified Speaking Professional Awarded the top 8% in the Speaking Industry       Past Member of National Speakers Assoc 1988 – 2005 George Morrisey Lifetime Achievement Award Inspirational Woman of the Year   Business Experience Facilitated brain-storming and mastermind groups for various industries. 20+ years interviewing, hiring, training and coaching employees in various industries. Increased sales 330% in 6 months for real estate developer and 20% for Retail Store in THIS tough economy   Nationally Published Business Author Published in Inc., Success, Entrepreneur, The Futurist, Home Office Computing, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Health Care Access, HR Review, etc. New York Times Best Seller Inspirational Contributing Author Published in Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul, Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul, Chicken Soup for the Christmas Soul, Chocolate for the Woman’s Heart and Soul.     Nationally Published Life Balance Author Published in YM, Parents, Woman’s Day, Women’s World, Ladies Home Journal Real Women, ME Magazine, Living in Balance, Personal Excellence and more.   Media Guest and Spokes Model Interviewed monthly on various radio stations.  Internet interviews from “Expert Websites” are posted for 24-hour playtime.  Interviewed for News Stories as a People Productivity Expert on CBS, Fox, NBC etc. Spokesperson and model for various corporate clients.   PARTIAL Client List IBM, Builders Association, US Air Force, Pitney Bowes, CIA, Nations Bank, DCMA, United Way, AAHAM, Pratt Whitney, US Patent and Trademark, Time Inc., NRO, Autozone, Tech Data, Pharmacists Associations, Chiropractic Associations, Urology Associations, City of Kissimmee, City of Sarasota, Nestles UK, Royal Mail UK, Lee Moffit Cancer Center, NAWBO, Suttle Apparatus, GE Capital, SunTrust, Publix, PMI, Florida Schools,  Hospitals, Non-Profits, Chambers, and various Associations.   Podcaster Weekly Podcast with work-life balance strategies entitled Get a Life Balanced heard on iTunes, Stitcher Radio and www.GetaLifeBalanced.com  As a People Productivity Expert ™ Sheryl focuses on the Power Skills to make a business successful…Increasing Sales, Presentation Skills, Communication Strategies, Goal Setting, Leadership Training, Team Building and Life Balance.        

In this episode of the For the Joy of Photography podcast, I talk about 12 different services that help you protect your images from theft.A new episode is recorded (almost) every week. You can watch new episodes here:https://onlinephotographytraining.com/category/podcast/for-the-joy-of-photography/Websites discussed in the order presented:Photo District News: https://www.pdnonline.com/U.S. Copyright Office: https://copyright.gov/Pixsy: https://www.pixsy.com/Image Rights: https://www.imagerights.com/Picture Protection Service: http://www.pictureprotectionservice.com/Lapixa: https://lapixa.com/TinEye: https://tineye.com/Vitrium: https://www.vitrium.com/Image Defenders: http://imagedefenders.com/Copytrack: https://www.copytrack.com/Myows: https://myows.com/Image Protect: https://www.imageprotect.com/DMCA: https://www.dmca.com/

How can you avoid the “crap your pants” copyright infringement letter? In this episode, we find this out and more with Richard Chapo, ESQ,  Founder of SoCalInternetLawyer.com. He shares with us the types of entrepreneurs the inspire him. He goes on to explain why its important for entrepreneurs that create content to comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act or DCMA. Richard also shares his time working in the adult film industry. He goes on talking about working with Pat Flynn, his appetite for traveling,  and trying not to get attack by mountain lions when he goes for a walk. He even shares his take on the recent controversy surrounding Fortnite.  After the break, Richard shares with us steps you should take when starting an online business. He later talks about how when he first started out he wanted to be a traditional lawyer but later opted to take a different direction. Lastly, he shares with us why his superpower is staying focused.  Richard Chapo, located in San Diego, CA is an Internet business lawyer who has been practicing law since 1992 and specializes in helping online entrepreneurs avoid “Crap Your Pants” copyright infringement letters and other threats when operating online. He's traveled extensively around the world, having lived in Siberia in Russia for a year as well as spent time in much of Europe, Central America, and Asia.  He enjoys working on internet legal issues for small business owners because the web is clearly the dominant force in our lives and most entrepreneurs have no idea that you can't do things like the post someone else's photo on your site or use someone else's music in your YouTube video without permission. Richard also helps his clients learn how to operate their business online in light of the new trend of countries enacting laws that are dividing up the web. It's not surprising that Richard would be knowledgeable about how different governments around the world are causing problems online considering how much time he spent wandering around Russia and Asia for a year.  Richard is unique in that he's totally aware that the law is a pretty boring subject. That's why he tries to liven up subjects with humor and by providing specific examples of where well-known companies online have run into the problems he is discussing. Richard's goal is to entertain your listeners instead of scaring them to death. Since the recording of this episode, Richard found the Fortnite case so fascinating that he created content to help explain the case. Check out the video here! Need to contact Richard? Email him at richard@socalinternetlawyer.com or give him a call at 619-637-6043 Create content online? Let Richard help you to be DMCA compliant. Follow The Startup Life Podcast Facebook Page Want exclusive content from The Startup Life Podcast? Sign up to be a patron on The Binge Podcast Network Patreon Page and Select The Startup Life All-Access Tier.  Want gear from The Startup Life? Check out our gear!   Music Credits: Show Title Theme: "Behind Closed Doors" by Otis McDonald Break Theme: "Cielo" by Huma-Huma "Life Is" by Cosmo Fogg 201 "Drive" by Nicolai Heidlas Music "Jazzaddict's Intro" by Cosimo Fogg "Almost Original" by Joakim Karud "We Are One" by Vexento "Jovial" by Peyruis "Cosmic Storm" by A Himitsu "Rock Angel" by Joakim Karud

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Would you like to know about Black Hat and DEFCON? Listen in today as I explain to you some of the things that went on at these two Conferences.   MAGAF might be the end of us?  Yes.  Today I will tell you why we must be concerned about these companies and the people they employ. Weaponizing Satellites? I will explain how it can and is happened and why. Craig is putting up a new membership site (Yes, it is free, but you have to sign up)  On it will have all his special reports that he puts out and you will be the first to get them. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 08/25/2018 11-year-old hacks election machines. MAGAF could kill us all. New dangers in satellite systems. Craig Peterson: [00:00:01] Hi, Everybody. Craig Peterson here. We've got a ton going on as usual. You know the big conference out in Vegas gave us some real surprises, in fact, there's some things that you can learn from it. We'll talk about those DefCon and Black Hat Conferences. You're not going to believe this. Let me tell you what an 11-year-old can do. This is kind of scary when you think about November this year, and going forward. Satellite systems, they can be hacked we've kind of known that for a long time, but have you ever heard about people being exposed to microwave signals, and what happens to them? Well, there's a tie there. And, I really am going to have to do a little bit of a rant here, about our friends out in the Bay Area of California, these Silicon Valley developers just don't understand what's really going on. They may have their hippie ways, but they could destroy us very quickly if you have an internet at your house or on your phone. I've got a couple of tips on how to properly check your internet speed, and how to block and report spam calls and text messages.  [00:01:10] And, did you know Google they are recording your location even when you tell them not to. So, all of that and more, please stick around. We only got half an hour. So, here we go. Well, I'm going to have to start the show this week with a little bit of bad news again. If you have Wi-Fi enabled, and you have more than one hot spot and even if you don't, even if you only have one, I've got to give you a bit of a word of warning. A huge, huge, huge, issue with Wi-Fi, yet again. Check your e-mail from me this week, I'll be sending something out. It's also up on my Web site. You've got to turn off some specific protocols. It gets kind of complicated, but you'll find it here on my Web site. And, in this week's newsletter Craig Peterson dot com. So we'll leave it at that. Now, we'll get back into our regular show for today. Well, I definitely have to get that data, don't I? [00:02:14] It's over 20 years now, and I don't do as many interviews as I used to. Well, actually I do do a ton of interviews but they're not on the radio anymore. I do a lot of stuff over on the web, on our side. You know I do stuff with the FBI Infraguard program and, in fact, I'm doing at least a webinar a week so, I haven't had any complaints. I think most people are pretty darn happy with what's been happening here with the show I get lots of great comments from people thanking me for it. So, we'll we'll leave it at that. But, I do have to change that, although I'm updating a few things, as you've noticed. And, we're back up to about almost a full half hour. It's really great. Here we are. We are running solid through our whole time since we got to cut back a little bit. Which is nice because I'm just so busy, as it were. All right today. Wow. More security stuff if you listen to my podcast. Craig Peterson dot com slash iTunes. You saw some major things this week. We were talking about Black Hat all week and what they can do with our voicemail, of course.  [00:03:24] We talked a little bit about that, on this show, last week, as well. So, if you want to find out about your voicemail how it can be hacked and, in fact, even how it ultimately will be hacked make sure you check out my podcast, again Craig Peterson dot com slash iTunes, you can see many of them up there. I think I'm close to a thousand weekly shows. How's that for a long time. We've been doing it. The most recent few hundred of them are up there. Some of the oldest ones are lost, forever. I hate it when that happens. I had a backup but it turned out the backup was bad. It was bad. Has that happened to you before? So, I lost all kinds of show information, interviews, videos that I had done, and stuff. Now, C'est la vie, move on. Onward and upward. Better back up now that I test frequently, just like I do for my customers. You know I've always done it for my customers. You try and restore machines or restore files. Just make sure it works. But, somehow again it's the poppers kids.  [00:04:29] I mean the cobbler's kids that just don't get the shoes. Hacked satellite systems, we've known about this for a long time, and satellites are all over the world, now. They're just everywhere, in northern and southern latitudes, all the way on up. There geostationary satellites, there are satellites that are moving. Typically the geostationary ones are the ones that we're using for data communications and things. But, here's the bottom line. A lot of these satellites are used by my daughter and by my son when they're at sea. Now, you know I have a daughter who was in the Merchant Marine. In fact, she still is in the merchant marine, right now. She is doing some autonomous ship development work for a company out in Norway. But when they're at sea they use, kind of like cell phones, but their satellite phones you might have seen that if you're a fan of Deadliest Catch, you probably saw Sig Hansen on there he was trying to call another ship to find out, because there are rumors that their emergency beacon had gone off and that little phone that he had, that was a satellite phone. And they're getting simpler, they are getting smaller all of the time and the reason for some of that is that the satellites that we're using for the satellite phone calls are getting closer and closer to Earth. There was a license that came out about five years ago, I think it was and they started flying their first satellites, just last year.  [00:06:03] That's designed to be able to give high-speed Internet and voice to anyone, basically in North America. That's what it's aimed at, but ultimately worldwide, which is really cool. Well, those satellites are close enough to us, that in certain conditions, you could have what is now being called, a hybrid cyber-physical attack. Here's what would happen. This is according to research presented at Black Hat, last week here in Las Vegas, a couple actually two weeks ago, in Las Vegas. But one of these guys is saying based on his study and based on his experience a number of very popular satellite communication systems are vulnerable to a hack. And, what will happen is that the control systems for the satellite are what are actually hacked, and it goes beyond just leaking information. Did you know that these satellites could potentially be used to microwave people on the ground? Think about what happened recently over in Cuba. We expanded or our presence over there, our ambassador, I think we have a full embassy over there now, and some of the workers were complaining about pains, headaches some of them lost some of their hearing, some of them lost all of their hearing, and that was probably due to a directed attack. We don't really know who did the attack. It might have been sonic, but we're not really sure.  [00:07:40] Well, think about what would happen, if somebody was out there who was controlling those satellites and aiming their beams at people and running them at high wattage. [00:07:56] This is a guy named, Ruben Santa Marta, and he did some research that he presented back in 2014, and he said this is a quote "essentially the theoretical cases I developed four years ago are no longer theoretical". So, they're going to be able to use this type of technology connect to the satellite antenna from the ground through the Internet, and then using some security weaknesses in the software that operates the antenna. They're going to be able to seize control of it. So, now the potential damage is going to vary. The very least they could disrupt, they could intercept, they could modify communications are passed through the antenna. So, they could for instance eavesdrop on the e-mails, sent through in-flight Wi-Fi, attempt to launch other hacking attacks against devices connected to the satellite network. That's where my kids come in, because a lot of our vessels, Navy frankly, as well as merchant vessels, are connected to satellites for being able to share data. Now, there are higher risks still, and in some situations for instance in the case of the military, this attack is going to expose the location of this satellite antenna, for the ground equipment or the equipment on the ships that are out there. It could be really bad. Think of the Bond movie The World Is Not Enough, No, Tomorrow Never Dies where there mucking with GPS signals which are used for navigation by the Navy, by our cars right all over the place. Things start getting really bad, and then ultimately they could turn up the wattage on some of these satellite antennas and have them beam microwaves back to the ground.  [00:09:48] Theoretically, cooking equipment and maybe even people. So, not great news, on that front. Well, we've got another piece of news coming out of the conferences, here just a couple of weeks ago out in Las Vegas Nevada. This particular one has to do with some of the Games they play over at Def Con which is kind of a defense conference and some of the games are as simple and fun as "Spot the Fed", right. Who in the audience is the Fed, and who's not the Fed, out there? But, one of the things that they've been doing, that's been getting more and more popular every year. They have what they call a voting village. Now, this village is where the organizers are setting up decommissioned election equipment, and then they let hackers loose on it and they watch these hackers and see how they can hack in. So, they're finding newer, creative, alarming ways to break in. Well, last year, the conference attendees found some new vulnerabilities for all 5 of the voting machines, and as a single e-poll book of registered voters, over the course of the weekend, was hacked into as well. So that caught the attention of senators, and they introduced some legislation and hopefully, it'll be good, right. Who knows? They just don't understand how this all works. But, this year's voting bigger voting village was bigger.  [00:11:26] They had more equipment. They had voting machines that ranged from tabulators to smart card readers, equipment that's all currently in use in the United States. Now, they had another little voting village. This is with the little one. This was a room set aside for kid hackers. An 11-year-old girl hacked a replica of Florida Secretary of State Web site. And she hacked it within ten minutes and changed the results. So, what that means potentially is, that if the people who are doing the national tabulations were not directly contacting a known person that the former secretary of state's office. A known person using some form of two-factor authentication. You know like codewords or something. So, they pick up the phone, they call them, the proper code codewords or exchange bidirectionally. And then the Secretary of State of Florida says and here are the election results and gives them to them. So, if that's not what happens. If what happens is they go to the Web site for the Secretary of State's office, and they find the Hacking results, there. Well, now we're talking about some really big trouble. Because if an 11-year-old kid can hack a replica of the Florida Secretary of State's website within ten minutes. And, we are relying on Secretary of State's Web sites to have the national results, tabulated. Wow. That is huge. Now, we heard this week as well, from our friends at Microsoft saying that they had discovered some Russian hackers who had put up fake Web sites. Websites that pretended to be Democrat and Republican Web sites, to try and again mislead people and create confusion.  [00:13:28] And all. We had Russian hackers attacking 2016, and now already we see them attacking 2018, and of course, they're going to continue to do this. Now, I had this week, the CEO of Black Ops partners on a webinar I did for the FBI's Infragard program and we talked about the hacking that's going on. And, it's even worse than any of us thought. And, there was information that he could not disclose even to the FBI InfraGard team. So, that tells you something here too. But, he's telling us that the Chinese have been actively hacking us and the Chinese were talking about their military, the People's Liberation Army, the communist Chinese military has been covering up their tracks. He said they are using plausible deniability in a very, very big way, versus the Russian hackers that don't seem to really care, frankly, some of these Russian hacks, if you ask me may well be Chinese military hacks, disguised as coming from Russia. The Chinese are very, very, good at this. So, there's been some pushback about this voting village, because it was just so notable, this year. And, one of the largest providers of election equipment in the U.S. sent an e-mail to its Customers, assuring them that while attendees will absolutely access some voting machines internal components physical security measures make it extremely unlikely that an unauthorized person with malicious intent could ever access a voting machine.  [00:15:15] Yeah, yeah. And, then we have the National Association of Secretaries of State quote "Our main concern with the approach taken by Def Con is it uses a pseudo-environment which no way replicates state election systems networks or physical security". So, you know when we're talking about distributing software, a lot of these systems are using thumb drives. Now, remember thumb drives have been hacked. In fact, brand new thumb drives have been shipped with viruses on them. So, you format the thumb drive. Again, there's so many ways, I know ways that I could do, that would fake it enough, that the election systems could be hacked. Believe me, it's very, very possible, even with people that pretty much know what they're doing on the security front. This is this is very concerning to me. Many people say that you know, hey listen, it's just crazy you can't do this. But, here we go. Matt Blaze, he's a veteran of elections security researcher who helped organize voting village said I think the statement was misguided. Talking about the statements from the various Secretaries of State organizations. "It's only through scrutiny that we're going to have confidence in the elections". "That said, the fact that this system has vulnerabilities in it, even incredibly serious vulnerabilities, is not the same as saying any given election has been tampered with. There's an interesting paradox.  [00:16:47] We know the systems are wildly insecure and there's been precious little evidence of these vulnerabilities so, far being exploited in real elections. I think we've been very lucky and I think there's been a little bit of a ticking time bomb here". I absolutely agree with that. Unfortunately, our copyright laws have made it very difficult for researchers to legally acquire the voting equipment and mess with its software and test it. I think we need to have exceptions in the law for security researchers. And, there are some exceptions for certain security researchers under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the DCMA. But, I think it has to be a little better than it has been. All right we're going to get into China, next. And the hippies in Silicon Valley. How were they threatening our security? The hippies, that is. Well, those darn hippies they're back out in California. You remember me talking a few weeks ago about how Google had, well it started with just a few people saying we are not going to work on any projects involved with the Department of Defense. And, it ended up being what was, it like 3000 of these people saying, we will quit our jobs if you have anything to do with the Department of Defense. And we have seen this in a couple of other companies, before. Now, people are stepping back and thinking about what the actual consequences are. Google has a very big artificial intelligence program, underway, and if you use an Apple device there is machine learning behind it.  [00:18:42] If you're using an Amazon Alexa, Google home, there's machine learning behind it. Machine learning is kind of a subset of artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence, AI, where machines are figuring stuff out for themselves, is on its way. Don't, don't get us wrong here. Well, these main companies and I've started calling them MAGAF kind of like Magaf with an F on the end. You know MAGA, President Trumps slogan, I'm using MAGAF to stand for Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook- MAGAF. So, now you know when I refer to that what I'm talking about. Well last month, some of these companies the biggest names in technology they officially signed a pledge promising to not develop lethal autonomous weapons. Now, I can see that as being a very good thing, right. In many, many ways. We had Google's project maven, where employees said, We will not allow our technology, our work product to be used by the military. And some praise them for these initiatives, as ethical and moral victories, right. That's the typical knee-jerk reaction. That's the simple reaction. Who wants killer robots right? I thought Arnold Schwarzenegger demonstrated that to us quite nicely with Terminator. Who wants Skynet? Nobody. Well, I guess somebody does, but most people absolutely don't. While a senior adviser to NATO by the name of Sandro Gatien has come out with some really great statements and I absolutely agree with him.  [00:20:35] Here's a quote straight from him. This isn't a NATO adviser "these naive hippie developers from Silicon Valley don't understand. The CIA should force them to work on this development". Now, he is also the founder of the digital society Institute at this Berlin-based business school called ESMT. But, he came up with some very critical device. And what's really good about this is it's bringing to light a schism, about the future development of artificial intelligence for military purposes. On the one side, you have people who believe the pursuing the development of military AI'S is going to lead to an unstoppable arms race, and frankly, I'm kind of on that side. On the other side, people like Gatien believe that the AI arms race has already begun and that Pearl Hibbett Dean AI research for military purposes will not lead to peace but will give the upper hand to authoritarian systems. Now, that's a good point. So, he's saying if the West wants to stay in the lead, if we want to survive, we need to unify around a concerted strategy. quote another quote from him "Within most military and intelligence organizations, it's a real concern and it's bound to be a much larger concern". So, we've got machine learning tools that are being spread already amongst military devices and we have the Chinese. Now, according to Al Scandia, who's an expert in Chinese military strategy, there is a strong belief that machine learning is going to provide an essential tool, in the Chinese building their military strategy far beyond ours.  [00:22:33] So, we're talking about superiority across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. So, that means faster more insightful AI. It could enable one side to enhance communications, situational awareness other forces, disrupt degrade or deny the adversaries. Think about some of these things we've talked about before, where you have clouds of AI controlled, little things, like the about the size of a bee, that can swarm and kill someone. What would happen if the Chinese had this technology, and they decided to take out the President of the United States? Think about what just happened in Venezuela. Where a couple of drones flew close to their Presidente and blew themselves up. What would happen if one of these matters to land on the President and work its way around? And we're seeing some of this AI type technology, already being used to try and break its way through firewalls, and other things. So, by having these hippies controlling some of the leading AI technologies, saying no, no, no, we're not going to do it. And allowing now the Red Chinese communists, who are trying to develop their AI technology, for military purposes. How are we going to be able to defend ourselves? How will we be able to defend our allies? How will we be able to keep up our NATO commitments? We could very, very quickly, fall behind in this new arms race, and have these other countries like China particularly selling some of this technology. [00:24:18] Think about that. If some of this AI technology gets into the hands of terrorists, and they use it against us in our large cities, etcetera. Think about what would happen there. All right, we're not going to have time today to get into these other articles. But, I want to encourage you to go online. We've fixed all kinds of problems with the Web site at Craig Peterson dot com, right now or just straight has news on it things from the show, security news. We're going to be enhancing that, we'll be starting to post some of my webinars up there, and things. But, right now, we fixed the bugs we had. So, you can find the articles we just talked about online. Plus, the ones we didn't get to today. So, how to properly check your internet speed. I've got articles there that are going to tell you all of the details of the different apps, and different Web sites you can go to. How accurate they are and in what ways are they accurate. And that includes for some of us, that have ISPs, you may be questioning are we getting what we're paying for. And, by the way, maybe this is no surprise, but you using your ISP speed test may not be the best way. How to block and report spam calls and text messages. Things are getting worse. More than doubled since last year. Some really good hints and tips in there, including a couple of surprising ones.  [00:25:46] At least, there's a price and the people I was talking to about them. So, you might find them surprising, as well. And Google. They are recording your location, even when you tell it not to and that's for anything, including iOS devices. If you have Google software on them. So check it out online. Craig Peterson dot com. Lots of great articles up there. And, if you have any feedback, any questions, you can just e-mail me at Craig Peterson dot com or one of the simple things to do is just go ahead and text me. You can do that right now, if you're at the gym or wherever. I love to get feedback! What do you like about the radio show? Tell me specifically, what did you like about today's show? Just text me, 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53. Any questions, any anything. 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53. I hope you have a great week. Be safe, out there. Pay attention to what's going on, and if you're a business owner please, please, please, please, UP your security, and I can give you some great pointers on that. I have all kinds of special reports I can share with you. Again just text. Have a great day. We'll be back Monday morning with Jack Heath, and of course, posting that on my Web site, and on iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher of everywhere and even tune-in. Take care. Bye-bye.  --- Related articles: *ALERT: New, major problem with WiFi* Hippies Are Going To End Up Killing Us All! How China Will Win The Deadly Race For AI Weapons Election Systems Are So Insecure, That Even An 11-Year-Old Changed The Results Of Florida’s Presidential Vote. Looks Like Google Is Always Recording Your Location -- Even When You Tell It Not To Spam Phone Calls Are Up 100% In 6 Months -- How To Block And Report Spam Calls And Text Messages Hacked Satellite Systems Could Launch Microwave-Like Attacks, Expert Warns How To Properly Check Your Internet Speed --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Message Input: Message #techtalk Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

Pirated eBooks - Writers Pirated eBooks - Writers There seems to be two schools of though amongst writers concerning pirated ebooks: those who think it's a good thing or irrelevant and those who would have pirates walk the plank. I am in the latter group after discovering that one site was claiming to have given away 1,755 copies of one of my books when I have sold less than a hundred. That is just one ebook, I have fifty and that is just one pirate company and there are hundreds. If you don't believe that search for 'Pirated eBooks' on Google. They are promoting hundreds of pirates and thousands of articles telling readers where to download free copies of copyrighted books and which the best download sites are. Thank you very much, Google! Google was a good firm when it started but they have been absolute tossers since Panda (look it up - they closed millions of small Adsense accounts so that the big ones could make more money (so they have to write fewer cheques)). Ebook Pirates Anyway, if you hate the ebook pirates too, what can you do about it? There are two effective approaches: 1) Google 'pirated ebooks' and check the sites for your books; or Google 'mybook free pdf' where 'mybook' is the title of your book, and then issue a DMCA with Google for every instance where you discover a link to pirated content. Google will ask whether you have asked the company to desist from promoting a free ebook download link to your book. Just say 'Yes', but don't bother writing to them. They ask for so much evidence that you are the true author that it's a joke. If they reply at all. 2) Join Blasty. It is still free at the time of writing. They will find pirated copies of your book and issue a DCMA to Google for you at the click (or two) of your mouse. The process can even be automated. I have been with them a few months and have issued 1,198 DCMA's and there are 398 in the pipeline. All free. The link is below. An important point to note about DCMA's is that they do not force the pirate to remove the reference to your book, but they force Google to stop promoting it. However, to be honest, if your stuff is not on Google, you might as well close shop. So, there you have it: three options: ignore the piracy, combat the problem yourself, or let Blasty do it for you. Here is the link to Blasty Please LIKE and SHARE this article using the buttons below and visit our bookshop All the best, Owen Podcast: Pirated eBooks - Writers

It sometimes seems the Defense Department is slow to award contracts. But it's also been slow to close them out. That can put both contractors and the government at financial risk. The closeout backlog has been growing — more contracts coming into the Defense Contract Management Agency than it could get to. But staff there have piloted a special quick closeout team that produced real results. It won a David Packard Excellent in Acquisition Award. Irene Johnson, director of special programs at the DCMA, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to explain.

Several items of interest are discussed this week by Peter Broida:Dr. Chris Kirkpatrick Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017 (agency training requirements); Delgado v. MSPB (7th Cir. No. 16-1313 Jan. 29, 2018) (whistleblowing: adequacy of pleading to OSC and MSPB);Dept. of Justice v. FLRA (D.C. Cir. 16-1301 Nov. 17, 2017) ("covered by" doctrine);Dept. of Treasury, BEP and NTEU, 70 FLRA 359 (Jan 16, 2018) (definition of professional employee);Dept. of Defense, DCMA and AFGE Local 2433, 70 FLRA 370 (Jan. 23, 2018) (period for filing exceptions following email issuance of arbitration award)

An original work can now be copied and shared with anyone online in a matter of moments - thanks to the internet and digital technology. But that wasn't the case when our main copyright law was written 23 years ago. Mediawatch looks at what's at stake now the law is up for review. 

An original work can now be copied and shared with anyone online in a matter of moments - thanks to the internet and digital technology. But that wasn't the case when our main copyright law was written 23 years ago. Mediawatch looks at what's at stake now the law is up for review. 

On this episode we talk Red Dead Redemption 2, CCleaner, Heartsthone, YouTube Sponsorship, PUBG lawsuits and more.  Crocs & Hot Pockets is a live video podcast aired weekly on Sundays at 9pm EST. The show is is about life, gaming, live streaming and everything in between. This podcast broken up into two types, each shown on a biweekly basis. These shows are called 1v1 and Free For All.Today's episode is a Free-for-All Episode. This show is about getting together with my friends, kicking back a few brews and having a good time. You can find the details of this episode below. Read, Watch and ListenSubscribe and review on iTunes - View the podcast details on iTunes webpage.Or search 'Crocs and Hot Pockets' using your favorite podcast appWatch Video on YouTube - View the podcast's video uploadDownload Audio from Amazon - Download an MP3GuestsNaaackers - Twitch - Twitter - InstagramSaltySam - Twitch - Twitter - InstagramMrFortyTwo - Twitter - Twitch - InstagramGaming News & DiscussionRed Dead Redemption 2Thursday, Sept. 28 11amCCleaner Distributed MalwareIf you have the latest version, uninstall and do a virus scanPiriform, owned by security firm Avast, says up to three percent of its customers could have been affected after using CCleaner 5.33 (offered for download between August 15 and September 12), and CCleaner Cloud 1.07 (launched on August 24). GravWhat is a game you loved that died?HearthstoneGO 42 GOPewDiePieFirewatch filing DCMA against his videos of him playing FirewatchYouTube releases Sponsorship Update$5/month subs and emotesPug G looking to pursue further action against Fortnite"We've had an ongoing relationship with Epic Games throughout PUBG’s development as they are the creators of UE4, the engine we licensed for the game," says Bluehole VP and executive producer Chang Han Kim in a statement. "After listening to the growing feedback from our community and reviewing the gameplay for ourselves, we are concerned that Fortnite may be replicating the experience for which PUBG is known."We have also noticed that Epic Games references PUBG in the promotion of Fortnite to their community and in communications with the press. This was never discussed with us and we don’t feel that it’s right. The PUBG community has and continues to provide evidence of the many similarities as we contemplate further action."TwitchChat on Video Released

Welcome to another episode of Throwdown Your Questions! On this show, we answer all of your Video Game related questions. Here are all of the questions we answer this week: - Is Michael Pachter trying to defend his position that XB1X won't sell? - Who started this whole "timed exclusive" shit anyways? - How do you feel about Don Mattrick now? - Which will release first: Beyond Good and Evil 2 or Wild? - What are your thoughts on the different ways PS4 & XB1 implement HDR?? - Will the Switch hype fizzle out after Super Mario Odyssey? - How does Mario make a living now that he's no longer a plumber? - Which game franchise should Todd McFarlane make toys out of next? - Should games have a set difficulty or should there be choice? - Could the PS5 be backwards compatible with ALL PlayStation systems? - Why are Xbots so hypocritical this generation? - Is resolution included when folks speak about graphical effects? - What hurts developers more: piracy or used game sales? - Will you guys do the raid(s) in Destiny 2? - What game do you wish you got a refund for? - What game would you have wanted to pick up at launch? - What do you think about PewDiePie saying the N word? - What do you make of the Firewatch dev hitting PDP's videos with DCMA? Thanks as always to Shawn Daley for our intro and outro music. Follow him on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/shawndaley Subscribe to us on YouTube: http://bit.ly/1utYrZf iTunes: http://bit.ly/1tz9G57 Follow us on: Twitter: http://bit.ly/1w31bRY Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1w31eNP Follow the panelists on Twitter: Tony Polanco - https://twitter.com/Romudeth Emilio Lopez - https://twitter.com/EMannLand Chris Sealy - https://twitter.com/LunarDiaries Brett Murdock - https://twitter.com/brett_murdock Carlos Romero - https://twitter.com/Eurocar9 Adam Vale - https://twitter.com/Adamvale Brian Munjoma - https://twitter.com/OneFlyness

The O’Reilly Security Podcast: DRM in unexpected places, artistic and research hindrances, and ill-anticipated consequences.In this best of 2016 episode, I revisit a conversation from earlier this year with Cory Doctorow, a journalist, activist, and science fiction writer. We discuss the unexpected places where digital rights management (DRM) pops up, how it hinders artistic expression and legitimate security research, and the ill-anticipated (and often dangerous) consequences of copyright exemptions.Early in 2016, Cory and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) launched a lawsuit against the U.S. government. They are representing two plaintiffs—Matthew Green and Bunnie Huang—in a case that challenges the constitutionality of Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The DMCA is a notoriously complicated copyright law that was passed in 1998. Section 1201 is the part that relates to bypassing DRM. The law says that it's against the rules to bypass DRM, even for lawful purposes, and it imposes very severe civil and criminal penalties. There's a $500,000 fine and a five-year prison sentence for a first offense provided for in the statute. Here, Cory explains some of the more subtle consequences that arise from DRM in unexpected places. An urgent need to protect individual rights and freedoms Everything has software. Therefore, manufacturers can invoke the DMCA to defend anything they’ve stuck a thin scrim of DRM around, and that defense includes the ability to prevent people from making parts. All they need to do is add a little integrity check, like the ones that have been in printers for forever, that asks, ‘Is this part an original manufacturer's part, or is it a third-party part?’ Original manufacturer's parts get used; third-party parts get refused. Because that check restricts access to a copyrighted work, bypassing it is potentially a felony. Car manufacturers use it to lock you into buying original parts. This is a live issue. Apple has deprecated the 3.5-millimeter audio jack on their phones in favor of using a digital interface. If they put DRM on that digital audio interface, they can specify at a minute level—and even invent laws about—how customers and plug-in product manufacturers can engage with it. Congress has never said, ‘You're not allowed to record anything coming off your iPhone,’ but Apple could set a “no record” flag on audio coming out of that digital interface. Then they could refuse to give license for users to decrypt the audio, making it illegal to use. Simply by using the device, users would be agreeing to accept and honor that no-record stipulation, and bypassing it would be illegal. DRM hinders legitimate research and artistic expression Matthew Green [one of the plaintiffs in the EFF lawsuit] has a National Science Foundation grant to study a bunch of technologies with DRM on them, and the Copyright Office explicitly said he is not allowed to do research on those technologies. The Copyright Office did grant a limited exemption to the DMCA to research consumer products, but it excludes things like aviation systems or payment systems like Green wants to research. Bunnie Huang [the other plaintiff] is running up against similar limitations on bypassing DRM to make narrative films with extracts from movies. We have one branch of the government refusing to grant these exemptions. We have the highest court in the land saying that without fair use, copyright is not constitutional. And we have two plaintiffs who could be criminal defendants in the future if they continue to engage in the same conduct they've engaged in in the past. This gives us standing to now ask the courts whether it’s constitutional for the DMCA to apply to technologies that enable fair use, and whether the Copyright Office really does have the power to determine what they grant exemptions for. Our winning this case would effectively gut Section 1201 of the DMCA for all of the anticompetitive and the security-limiting applications that it's found so far. DCMA exemptions can have serious consequences The Copyright Office granted an exemption for tablets and phones so people could jailbreak them and use alternate stores. This exemption allows individuals to write the necessary software to jailbreak their own personal devices but does not allow individuals to share that tool with anyone else, or publish information about how it works or information that would help someone else make that tool. So, now we have this weird situation where people have to engage in illegal activity (trafficking in a tool by sharing information about how to jailbreak a phone) to allow the average user to engage in a legal activity (jailbreaking their device). This is hugely problematic from a security perspective. Anyone can see the danger of seeking out randos to provide binaries that root a mobile device. To avoid prosecution, those randos are anonymous. And because it’s illegal to give advice about how the tool works, people have no recourse if it turns out that the advice they follow is horribly wrong or ends up poisoning their device with malware. This is a disaster from stem to stern—we're talking about the supercomputer in your pocket with a camera and a microphone that knows who all your friends are. It's like Canada’s recent legalization of heroin use without legalizing heroin sales. A whole bunch of people died of an overdose because they got either adulterated heroin or heroin that was more pure than they were used to. If the harm reduction you’re aiming for demands that an activity be legal, then the laws should support safe engagement in that activity. Instead, in both the heroin and device jailbreak examples, we have made these activities as unsafe as possible. It's really terrible. The security implications really matter, because we hear about vulnerabilities and zero-days and breaks against IoT devices every day in ways that are really, frankly, terrifying. Last winter, it was people accessing baby monitors; this week, it was ransomware for IoT thermostats and breaks against closed-circuit televisions in homes.

The O’Reilly Security Podcast: DRM in unexpected places, artistic and research hindrances, and ill-anticipated consequences.In this best of 2016 episode, I revisit a conversation from earlier this year with Cory Doctorow, a journalist, activist, and science fiction writer. We discuss the unexpected places where digital rights management (DRM) pops up, how it hinders artistic expression and legitimate security research, and the ill-anticipated (and often dangerous) consequences of copyright exemptions.Early in 2016, Cory and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) launched a lawsuit against the U.S. government. They are representing two plaintiffs—Matthew Green and Bunnie Huang—in a case that challenges the constitutionality of Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The DMCA is a notoriously complicated copyright law that was passed in 1998. Section 1201 is the part that relates to bypassing DRM. The law says that it's against the rules to bypass DRM, even for lawful purposes, and it imposes very severe civil and criminal penalties. There's a $500,000 fine and a five-year prison sentence for a first offense provided for in the statute. Here, Cory explains some of the more subtle consequences that arise from DRM in unexpected places. An urgent need to protect individual rights and freedoms Everything has software. Therefore, manufacturers can invoke the DMCA to defend anything they’ve stuck a thin scrim of DRM around, and that defense includes the ability to prevent people from making parts. All they need to do is add a little integrity check, like the ones that have been in printers for forever, that asks, ‘Is this part an original manufacturer's part, or is it a third-party part?’ Original manufacturer's parts get used; third-party parts get refused. Because that check restricts access to a copyrighted work, bypassing it is potentially a felony. Car manufacturers use it to lock you into buying original parts. This is a live issue. Apple has deprecated the 3.5-millimeter audio jack on their phones in favor of using a digital interface. If they put DRM on that digital audio interface, they can specify at a minute level—and even invent laws about—how customers and plug-in product manufacturers can engage with it. Congress has never said, ‘You're not allowed to record anything coming off your iPhone,’ but Apple could set a “no record” flag on audio coming out of that digital interface. Then they could refuse to give license for users to decrypt the audio, making it illegal to use. Simply by using the device, users would be agreeing to accept and honor that no-record stipulation, and bypassing it would be illegal. DRM hinders legitimate research and artistic expression Matthew Green [one of the plaintiffs in the EFF lawsuit] has a National Science Foundation grant to study a bunch of technologies with DRM on them, and the Copyright Office explicitly said he is not allowed to do research on those technologies. The Copyright Office did grant a limited exemption to the DMCA to research consumer products, but it excludes things like aviation systems or payment systems like Green wants to research. Bunnie Huang [the other plaintiff] is running up against similar limitations on bypassing DRM to make narrative films with extracts from movies. We have one branch of the government refusing to grant these exemptions. We have the highest court in the land saying that without fair use, copyright is not constitutional. And we have two plaintiffs who could be criminal defendants in the future if they continue to engage in the same conduct they've engaged in in the past. This gives us standing to now ask the courts whether it’s constitutional for the DMCA to apply to technologies that enable fair use, and whether the Copyright Office really does have the power to determine what they grant exemptions for. Our winning this case would effectively gut Section 1201 of the DMCA for all of the anticompetitive and the security-limiting applications that it's found so far. DCMA exemptions can have serious consequences The Copyright Office granted an exemption for tablets and phones so people could jailbreak them and use alternate stores. This exemption allows individuals to write the necessary software to jailbreak their own personal devices but does not allow individuals to share that tool with anyone else, or publish information about how it works or information that would help someone else make that tool. So, now we have this weird situation where people have to engage in illegal activity (trafficking in a tool by sharing information about how to jailbreak a phone) to allow the average user to engage in a legal activity (jailbreaking their device). This is hugely problematic from a security perspective. Anyone can see the danger of seeking out randos to provide binaries that root a mobile device. To avoid prosecution, those randos are anonymous. And because it’s illegal to give advice about how the tool works, people have no recourse if it turns out that the advice they follow is horribly wrong or ends up poisoning their device with malware. This is a disaster from stem to stern—we're talking about the supercomputer in your pocket with a camera and a microphone that knows who all your friends are. It's like Canada’s recent legalization of heroin use without legalizing heroin sales. A whole bunch of people died of an overdose because they got either adulterated heroin or heroin that was more pure than they were used to. If the harm reduction you’re aiming for demands that an activity be legal, then the laws should support safe engagement in that activity. Instead, in both the heroin and device jailbreak examples, we have made these activities as unsafe as possible. It's really terrible. The security implications really matter, because we hear about vulnerabilities and zero-days and breaks against IoT devices every day in ways that are really, frankly, terrifying. Last winter, it was people accessing baby monitors; this week, it was ransomware for IoT thermostats and breaks against closed-circuit televisions in homes.

Disney drones; Canada tries UBI; Rule 41; Firefox Focus; Facebook metrics & fake news problems; robot dinosaurs & CRISPR; DCMA; data caps; PoisonTap; texting China; modern happiness; Washington; rendered va-ja-jas; Spotify junk; courageous Apple book. This episode is sponsored by Freshbooks! To claim your free month, go to FreshBooks.com/GRUMPY and, this is REALLY IMPORTANT, enter GRUMPY OLD GEEKS in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/186

The O’Reilly Security Podcast: The chilling effects of DRM, nascent pro-security industries, and the narrative power of machines.In this episode, I talk with Cory Doctorow, a journalist, activist, and science fiction writer. We discuss the EFF lawsuit against the U.S. government, the prospect for a whole new industry of pro-security businesses, and the new W3C DRM specification.Here are some highlights from our discussion around DRM: How to sue the government: Taking on the DCMA We [Electronic Frontier Foundation] are representing [Bunnie Huang and Matthew Green] in a case that challenges the constitutionality of Section 1201 of the DMCA. The DMCA is this notoriously complicated copyright law, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, that was brought in in 1998. Section 1201 is the part that relates to bypassing digital rights management (DRM), or digital restrictions management as some people call it. The law says that it's against the rules to bypass this, even for lawful purposes, and that it imposes very severe civil and criminal penalties. There's a $500,000 fine and a five-year prison sentence for a first offense provided for in the statute. The law's been on the books, obviously, for a very long time—since 1998. Given that all digital technology works by making copies, it's hard to imagine a digital technology that can't be used to infringe copyright; no digital technology would be legal. Recent changes add urgency A couple things changed in the last decade. The first is that the kinds of technologies that have access controls for copyrighted works have gone from these narrow slices (consoles and DVD players) to everything (the car in your driveway). If it has an operating system or a networking stack, it has a copyrighted work in it. Software is copyrightable, and everything has software. Therefore, manufacturers can invoke the DMCA to defend anything they’ve stuck a thin scrim of DRM around, and that defense includes the ability to prevent people from making parts. All they need to do is add a little integrity check, like the ones that have been in printers for forever, that asks, "Is this part an original manufacturer's part, or is it a third-party part?" Original manufacturer's parts get used; third-party parts get refused. Because that check restricts access to a copyrighted work, bypassing it is potentially a felony. Car manufacturers use it to lock you into buying original parts. This is a live issue in a lot of domains. It's in insulin pumps, it's in voting machines, it's in tractors. John Deere locks up the farm data that you generate when you drive your tractor around. If you want to use that data to find out about your soil density and automate your seed broadcasting, you have to buy that data back from John Deere in a bundle with seed from big agribusiness consortia like Monsanto, who license the data from Deere. This metastatic growth is another big change. It's become really urgent to act now because, in addition to this consumer rights dimension, your ability to add things to your device, take it for independent service, add features, and reconfigure it are all subject to approval from manufacturers. How this impacts security All of this has become a no-go zone for security researchers. In the last summer, the Copyright Office entertained petitions for people who have been impacted by Section 1201 of the DMCA. Several security researchers filed a brief saying they had discovered grave defects in products as varied as voting machines, insulin pumps and cars, and they were told by their counsel that they couldn't disclose because, in so doing, they would reveal information that might help someone bypass DRM, and thus would face felony prosecution and civil lawsuits. When copyright overrides the First Amendment There are some obvious problems with copyright and free speech. Copyright is a government monopoly over who can use certain combinations of words or pictures, or convey certain messages in specific language, all of which seems to conflict with First Amendment rights. In both the Eldred and Golan cases, the Supreme Court said the reason copyright is constitutional, the reason the First Amendment doesn't trump copyright, is that copyright has these escape valves. One is fair use. The other is what's called the traditional contours of copyright, which determine what is and isn’t copyrightable (i.e., copyright only covers expressions and not ideas, copyright doesn't cover non-creative works, and so on). But the DRM situation is urgent. Because DRM can be used to restrict fair use, because it can trump the traditional contours, and because it has criminal penalties, we were able to bring a challenge against it. When there are criminal penalties, you don't have to wait for someone to sue you. You can sue the government. Related resources: EFF is suing the U.S. government to invalidate the DMCA's DRM provisions (BoingBoing) America's broken digital copyright law is about to be challenged in court (The Guardian) 1201 complaint in full

The O’Reilly Security Podcast: The chilling effects of DRM, nascent pro-security industries, and the narrative power of machines.In this episode, I talk with Cory Doctorow, a journalist, activist, and science fiction writer. We discuss the EFF lawsuit against the U.S. government, the prospect for a whole new industry of pro-security businesses, and the new W3C DRM specification.Here are some highlights from our discussion around DRM: How to sue the government: Taking on the DCMA We [Electronic Frontier Foundation] are representing [Bunnie Huang and Matthew Green] in a case that challenges the constitutionality of Section 1201 of the DMCA. The DMCA is this notoriously complicated copyright law, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, that was brought in in 1998. Section 1201 is the part that relates to bypassing digital rights management (DRM), or digital restrictions management as some people call it. The law says that it's against the rules to bypass this, even for lawful purposes, and that it imposes very severe civil and criminal penalties. There's a $500,000 fine and a five-year prison sentence for a first offense provided for in the statute. The law's been on the books, obviously, for a very long time—since 1998. Given that all digital technology works by making copies, it's hard to imagine a digital technology that can't be used to infringe copyright; no digital technology would be legal. Recent changes add urgency A couple things changed in the last decade. The first is that the kinds of technologies that have access controls for copyrighted works have gone from these narrow slices (consoles and DVD players) to everything (the car in your driveway). If it has an operating system or a networking stack, it has a copyrighted work in it. Software is copyrightable, and everything has software. Therefore, manufacturers can invoke the DMCA to defend anything they’ve stuck a thin scrim of DRM around, and that defense includes the ability to prevent people from making parts. All they need to do is add a little integrity check, like the ones that have been in printers for forever, that asks, "Is this part an original manufacturer's part, or is it a third-party part?" Original manufacturer's parts get used; third-party parts get refused. Because that check restricts access to a copyrighted work, bypassing it is potentially a felony. Car manufacturers use it to lock you into buying original parts. This is a live issue in a lot of domains. It's in insulin pumps, it's in voting machines, it's in tractors. John Deere locks up the farm data that you generate when you drive your tractor around. If you want to use that data to find out about your soil density and automate your seed broadcasting, you have to buy that data back from John Deere in a bundle with seed from big agribusiness consortia like Monsanto, who license the data from Deere. This metastatic growth is another big change. It's become really urgent to act now because, in addition to this consumer rights dimension, your ability to add things to your device, take it for independent service, add features, and reconfigure it are all subject to approval from manufacturers. How this impacts security All of this has become a no-go zone for security researchers. In the last summer, the Copyright Office entertained petitions for people who have been impacted by Section 1201 of the DMCA. Several security researchers filed a brief saying they had discovered grave defects in products as varied as voting machines, insulin pumps and cars, and they were told by their counsel that they couldn't disclose because, in so doing, they would reveal information that might help someone bypass DRM, and thus would face felony prosecution and civil lawsuits. When copyright overrides the First Amendment There are some obvious problems with copyright and free speech. Copyright is a government monopoly over who can use certain combinations of words or pictures, or convey certain messages in specific language, all of which seems to conflict with First Amendment rights. In both the Eldred and Golan cases, the Supreme Court said the reason copyright is constitutional, the reason the First Amendment doesn't trump copyright, is that copyright has these escape valves. One is fair use. The other is what's called the traditional contours of copyright, which determine what is and isn’t copyrightable (i.e., copyright only covers expressions and not ideas, copyright doesn't cover non-creative works, and so on). But the DRM situation is urgent. Because DRM can be used to restrict fair use, because it can trump the traditional contours, and because it has criminal penalties, we were able to bring a challenge against it. When there are criminal penalties, you don't have to wait for someone to sue you. You can sue the government. Related resources: EFF is suing the U.S. government to invalidate the DMCA's DRM provisions (BoingBoing) America's broken digital copyright law is about to be challenged in court (The Guardian) 1201 complaint in full

James, Andy, Michael & Randy talk about apps and hardware. Also Wire client is open sourced and EFF sues the US government over DCMA 1202

In today's podcast, Hacktivists return to DDoS—the Library of Congress is hit. AKP emails continue to receive scrutiny. A look at the jihadists' toolbox. Some quick takes on automotive cyber security, as the industry moves toward fully autonomous cars. Wassenaar and the DCMA still aren't getting much industry love. And we talk to attorney Tom Coale about security clearances and Ben Yelin on the constitutionality of Stingrays.