Episode 38: #38: Penchant for Hyperbole

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. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes. 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