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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The mustard shall indicate progress. And oversight from German regulators.

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

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