Episode 38
#38: Penchant for Hyperbole
January 7th, 2014
1 hr 14 mins 58 secs
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About this Episode
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: watching your email, hearing your GnuPG key, the smell of fresh-baked OpenStack, a taste of ARM on Fedora, a touch of Skynet.
This episode’s title is dedicated to Peter Larsen. We heard you, and welcome your feedback!
- Lauren wins the National Center for Women & Information Technology Aspirations in Computing 2014 Ohio Affiliate Award
- PaaS and Three Cruelties of Federal IT
- Gunnar enjoys Plague Inc when not catching up on Game of Thrones
- Dave says Roku 3 + Android app + {YouTube|Netflix} = Awesome
- Almost related: Fulfill your New Years resolution of clearing out your YouTube backlog at 2x speed
- Pandora for Android gets an alarm clock but it needs a cell or wifi connection
- Learn Over 60 Google Now Commands with This Infographic
- Jaguar makes fun of Mercedes-Benz cars for having the vestibular ocular reflexes of a chicken
- BadBIOS, part n: Acoustic cryptanalysis, and there’s a CVE for that
- Gmail blows up e-mail marketing by caching all images on Google servers
- Disable it if you want: Disable Automatic Image Loading in Gmail to Save Data and Privacy
- PSA: Your Phone Logs Everywhere You Go. Here’s How to Turn It Off
- Ebooks now read you
- Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots
- Turning mobile phones into 3D scanners
- Microsoft Security Essentials misses 39% of malware in Dennis test
- Open Cloud Meetup, hosted by our own Jason Callaway
- The Dan and Gunnar Show presents Is it PaaS or something else? via web January 14 and 15
- Massachusetts launches open cloud to spur big data R&D
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 is here
- Fedora 20 is out: ARM is now Tier 1 and Gunnar’s FedUp
- Today in “OS is dead”: Want to run OpenShift on ARM? OK, why not
- Dan Risacher on Hellekson’s Law
- Betteridge’s Law: For example, Is REST losing its flair – REST API Alternatives
- HT Robin Price: WebRTC and Echoplex
- Salt vs. gravel vs. cheese vs. beet juice
Cutting Room Floor
- HT Jim Stogdill: Fear, Uncertainty, Dopamine (or: “How to build an effective cult”)
- Totally unrelated: Free OpenShift stickers!
- Easily denounce your friends with a North Korean press release generator
- This week in cognitive surplus: George Takei’s and Newt Gingrich’s Amazon reviews
- Why are eggs egg shaped?
- This Crazy Pneumatic Tube System Will Deliver Burgers at 87 MPH
- Nokia’s Strategy For Selling The Lumia 2520 Windows 8 Tablet Is To Make You Very Uncomfortable
- EGTS stands for Electric Green Taxiing System and can stand for other things too
- How to make really long words in German
- Charming Parisian Subway Etiquette Guide
- Airport cell phone crashing
We Give Thanks
- Peter Larsen for being a good sport about our show titles
- Dan Risacher for advancing the cause of Hellekson’s Law astroturfing
- Robin Price for the WebRTC and Echoplex pointers
- Jim Stogdill for mind-hacking videos