#13: Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz is German for winning Scrabble.

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: NYC Checkbook, passwords, FSF getting silly, open source dying, killing patent trolls with fire, RHEL6 STIGs, Rasberry Pi, and next week’s Red Hat Summit.

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• NYC Checkbook 2.0
• LinkedIn adds two step verification
• Anatomy of a hack: How crackers ransack passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331”
• FSF’s insane campaign against regulations.gov
• Monty thinks open source is dying
• Patent troll attacks podcasting
  • “The farther over goal they are, the safer I feel.” — Roman Mars of 99% Invisible



• White House Trollhunt


• USPTO + StackExchange == Crazy Delicious


• Gunnar and Luke interview Phase2 about Drupal on FedOSS


• Defense in Depth Workshop June 26 in Tysons Corner, VA


• RHEL6 STIG! STIG!


• Pi and Pigs: Lauren and Dave’s interview with Element 14’s community team
  • Lauren’s summer job: Case Western Reserve University’s think[box] institute for collaboration and innovation
  • Lil’ G-man using Scratch with his makeymakey and Playdoh (action photo)
  • Raspberry Pi puts holes in China’s Great Firewall
  • Raspberry Pi + rocket launcher == one step closer to world domination



• Pidora is a part of Dave, Lauren, and Dan Walsh’s secret project


• Red Hat Summit 5K: run with Jim Whitehurst and benefit The One Fund Boston


• Word of the day: Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
  • German for “law for the delegation of monitoring beef labelling”
  • Formally dropped, but feel free to use it anyhow, especially when playing Scrabble in German
  • Hear the proper pronounciation here
  • Longest word ever composed in German: Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft
  • German for “Association for Subordinate Officials of the Head Office Management of the Danube Steamboat Electrical Services”
  • The longest word in the Oxford Dictionary of English is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
  • Is the English Language open source?
  • The “Story of English” on PBS

Cutting Room Floor

• We’re the #1 search result for “alliteration and vampires” on Google
  • Colonizing the internet, one keyword at a time!



• Developer codes VNC-over-GIF tool… in 37 (but growing) lines of code!


• Atari video game burial site to be excavated

We Give Thanks

• Karl Fogel for writing the Checkbook 2.0 article
• Eric Sorenson and Lil’G Man for sharing their computer science research
• Will Cordis for the password cracking article tweet
• Gunnar’s Dad for the Rasberry Pi
• The Element 14 Community Team for taking the time to interview Lauren and inspire kids and adults around the world