Summary: Coming up in this episode... * It’s election season and one of our favorites has won * What ever happened to toys of mass destruction? * A social network I’ll never be joining - EVER! Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://www.chuckchat.com/technorama/2012/03/06/technorama-ep-336-sign-on-the-dotted-line/) for complete show notes and video from the show. Introducing the team... * Shout out to the hangout * Happy Birthday to: * 07 - Ben Maddox a.k.a. CptRootbeer * 07 - Caleb from Dancing With Elephants (http://dwithe.com/) * 08 - Ali Zein Yousuf a.k.a. superAL1394 * 08 - BJ Keifer a.k.a bjk * 11 - Andy Helsby of Absoblogginlutely! (http://absoblogginlutely.net/) * 11 - Ken Kitzman a.k.a kitzken * 13 - Johanna Gonzalez a.k.a. MightyJo * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. * Join us on the Google+ hangout every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET to see and hear the show raw and unedited. Just circle Technorama Podcast, Kreg, or me and you’ll see the announcement when we join the hangout. Feedback Will Shattuck writes: “Hey Guys, Here's a social engineering hack. A security expert used several social engineering techniques to sneak in to the RSA Security Conference. Kind of ironic, huh? :) Take care, Will” On This Day In History for March 7, 2012 * It was on this date in 1876 that Alexander Graham Bell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell) is granted a patent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent) for an invention (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention) he calls the telephone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone). * The German (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany) liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Kaiser_Wilhelm_der_Grosse) becomes the first ship to send wireless (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_telegraphy) signals to shore today in 1900. * and it was 100 years ago today that Roald Amundsen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Amundsen) announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole) nearly 3 months earlier. * on March 7, 1950, The Soviet Union (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union) issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Fuchs) served as a Soviet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union) spy. * it was today in 1985 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985) that The song "We Are the World (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_the_World)" has its international release. * Divers from the USS Preserver (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Preserver_(ARS-8)) locate the crew cabin of Challenger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-51-L) on the ocean floor 26 years ago today. * and today in 1994 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994), the U.S. Supreme Court (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States) rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell_v._Acuff-Rose_Music,_Inc.) by the doctrine of fair use (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use). * the Kepler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_(spacecraft)) space observatory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_observatory), designed to discover Earth-like planets (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_planet) orbiting other stars, is launched exactly three years ago today. Happy Birthday goes out on this day to: * French physicist Antoine César Becquerel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_C%C3%A9sar_Becquerel) born on this date in 1788 * Also born today in 1792 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1792) – John Herschel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel), the English mathematician and astronomer * Astrophotography pioneer Henry Draper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Draper) was born on this date in 1837 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1837) * American television broadcaster Willard Scott
