Episode 23: #23: Klingons and the Cognitive Surplus

06/08/2013 44 min

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This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: key deathwatch, mobile carrier deathwatch, klingon deathwatch, and Google Meat, Mk I.
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Red Hat’s Eye of Sauron.

Action photos from Lauren’s Akron LUG presentation on Scratch and Raspberry Pi

Lauren’s impromptu app


Gunnar sitting in Red Hat’s new office, which dominate the Raleigh skyline
Soylent Green is Google!: Something to snack on while you wait for your mind to be uploaded
Netflix US removes Star Trek III due to missing Vulcan and Klingon dialogue

Klingon lesson of the week:
“Heghlu meH QaQ jajvam” means “today is a good day to die”
Bonus link: How to Learn English Through Awkward Aerobics in 1992 Japan


What could possibly go wrong: Shloosl Copies Your House Keys Using a Smartphone Photograph

Millions of Kwikset Smartkey Locks Vulnerable to Hacking, Say Researchers
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Lauren won’t need to ask for an iPhone, she can now make her own



OpenBTS: Mobile carrier deathwatch?


Almost related: Republic Wireless, and they are located in Red Hat’s old NC State offices


Gunnar driving to Mil-OSS LANT, RIGHT NOW
Dave moderating an open source tech leadership panel at Fedscoop’s Lowering the Cost of Government with IT Summit

Preview: Luke Fretwell and Gunnar talk Open GIS with FCC GIO Michael Byrne


Gunnar and Dave are working ahead on the Red Hat Government Symposium
10gen and Red Hat Deliver Integrated Security Solution for MongoDB

Use Red Hat Enterprise Linux Identity Management for MongoDB SSL cert management & data in motion encryption
Use Red Hat Enterprise Linux Identity Management to centrally manage MongoDB users


10 Annoying Sounds People Need to Stop Making

Dave is guilty of pulmonic ingressive voiceless alveolar glide and mid-central vowel, with optional unreleased final bilabial stop, and cybersecurity


More Zeppelin news (near Dave’s house): Goodyear bids goodbye to blimps, says hello to zeppelins

YA Novel for Lauren, if she likes Zeppelins: Leviathan



Cutting Room Floor

Raspberry Pi based robotic beer dispenser
How To Setup Your Own Free Mail Server (using RoundCube on OpenShift)
(83% accurate) vampire robots?
Cocktail party idea: yarn based laser grid
First Open Source Airplane Could Cost Just $15,000

Ted Brunell’s interview
OpenROV: Open source robotic submarine


HT Lauren: Vulcan’s Trekcetera Museum opened August 2, 2013
Yes, There’s an Air Force Class Flying With My Little Pony Patches
167 Theremin Players Perform Beethoven
Pay attention to detail: Hotel Takes Special Requests from Guests Very Seriously

We Give Thanks

Lauren’s computer science teacher Mr. James Allen for attending Lauren’s Akron LUG presentation and being so supportive
Dave Hamblin, Community Support Lead at Premier Farnell, and Element 14 for raffling off a Raspberry Pi at Lauren’s Akron LUG presentation
Rick Nemer, Steve Alexander, and all the folks who organized and attended Lauren’s Akron LUG presentation