Episode 38: #38: Penchant for Hyperbole

07/01/2014 1h 14min

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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.
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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

Related: Google Play Books update allows ePub and PDF uploads right from your device


Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots

Related: U.S. military may have 10 robots per soldier by 2023
See also: Cyberdyne Systems, DARPA Tried to Build Skynet in the 1980s, A Bizarre Petting Zoo Where Robots Replace Animals
D&G DIY Joke Kit of the Week: Robot anesthesiologists to put patients under before colonoscopies


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