#33: Beard Phone

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about badBIOS and unreliable narrators, 85% of Android is crap, warrant canaries, and special guest star Adam Clater talking about OpenShift and ownCloud

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• badBIOS disputed
  • Analysis is wrong
  • Researcher skepticism
  • Almost related: Motorola wants you to tattoo a smartphone microphone onto your throat



• Cloud to Butt 2.0: xkcd substitutions Chrome extension


• Risk Walking Dead Survival Edition


• Gunnar is enjoying his Nexus 5 and its inability to receive email using client certificates


• Protect your Android phone by getting rid of its crapware


• Power Plants and Other Vital Systems Are Totally Exposed on the Internet


• Google aims to replace car dashboard buttons with Minority Report hand gestures


• Frenzy Is a Private, Dropbox-Powered Social Network


• A Red Hat Solutions Architect Manager We Like: Adam Clater because he tells us about OwnCloud on OpenShift


• Red Hat Government Symposium was outstanding. A bunch of great announcements from CFPB, DOE, and ODNI!


• D&G Show video edition!
  • Challenges in the cloud
  • How does PaaS differ from IaaS?
  • Why is PaaS better for managers?
  • How PaaS changes the way developers work co-starring Bob Kozdemba



• Red Hat Summit CFP extended to November 19 for customers and partners


• Red Hat Innovation Awards nominations open until December 13


• Dave will be at Supercomputing 2013 November 17-22


• Gunnar will be at
  • JBoss Day in Austin on November 12
  • C5ISR Summit in Charleston on November 13
  • Alamo ACE (AFCEA) in San Antonio on November 19



• Word of the Week: “Warrant Canary”
  • Apple just used one.



• How to mostly dial with Google Voice with a correct call log for later Hadoop analysis
  • Voice Plus
  • GV Outbound Call Log Repair
  • CallTrack logs to your calendar
  • Hadoop



• 10 Tips for an Awesome Coffee Meeting

Cutting Room Floor

• HT Noel Weichbrodt: More hipster than you: the carbon-fiber penny farthing
• Why we should get rid of Daylight Savings Time
• The most terrifying reading of Goodnight Moon you’ll ever hear
• Grave markers embedded in airport runway
• Nine worst doctored photos of Chinese officials

We Give Thanks

• Adam Clater for guest starring!
• Gunnar’s mom for teaching us about warrant canaries