Dave & Gunnar Show

Episode 38: #38: Penchant for Hyperbole


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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
                • ...more
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