Control Structure #12: Pterodactyl Day!

Andrew and Chris eventually get on topic and talk about Dell being bought out, interoperability with Google and Mozilla, Amazon, BtrFS, drive prices, hacks, too big to fail, Javascript, and listener questions, among other things.

Links:

• The Escapist : Video Galleries : Escapist Podcast : 078: Electronic Arts, Dead Space 3, and Puppies!
• EVE Online’s Battle of Asakai: who was involved, the stakes, and the aftermath | News | PC Gamer
• Corrupted Blood incident – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Dell in $24 Billion Deal to Go Private – NYTimes.com
• Dell goes private in $24.4 billion deal, including $2 billion loan from Microsoft | The Verge
• Dell CEO And Others Take Company Private In $24 Billion Deal : NPR
• Chromium Blog: Hello Firefox, this is Chrome calling!
• Hello Chrome, it’s Firefox calling! ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
• Google’s Project Glass Glimpsed In FCC Documents – Development –
• Amazon.com Suffers an Outage – Datamation
• xkcd: Devotion to Duty
• Image: sysadmin shirt
• Twitter Hacked: Data for 250,000 Users May Be Stolen – NYTimes.com
• No, I’m not going to download your bullshit app
• A Brilliant Parody of DRM – Forbes
• Submarine Cable Map 2013
• scene.org – news
• Why you should use WebGL – Codeflow
• The Future According To Google’s Eric Schmidt: 7 Points – Corporate Intelligence – WSJ
• Microsoft has ‘no plans for future versions’ of XNA software, will not phase out DirectX | Polygon
• IGN Parent Company Changes – IGN
• GFW Radio – Podcasts (The Brodeo)
• Geeks are the New Guardians of Our Civil Liberties | MIT Technology Review
• Fixing ‘too-big-to-fail’ | The Great Debate
• Labels in input fields aren’t such a good idea | Laura Kalbag
• Amazon Media Room: Press Releases
• Microsoft Points phased out in favor of cash in Windows 8 | The Verge
• RAID 5/6 code merged into Btrfs [LWN.net]
• 1% of CMS-Powered Sites Expose Their Database Passwords » Feross.org
• Android Terminal Emulator – Android Apps on Google Play

Javascript code:

var falsevar=false; var temp=falsevar.toString(); var test=new Boolean(temp); alert("test is "+test);

Music:

• Younnat – Radar – His Name is Radar
• Younnat – Magician’s Weekend
• Tryad – this (instrumental)
• dma-sc – Visitors From Dreams

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #43: CS #12 — Base Lupine Nature!

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