Episode 91: #91: The Truck Factor

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Kommisars in the board room, Akron Police Department’s compulsory feeling of safety, more warm fuzzies from OPM, and more Yahoo! news than you ever thought possible.

• Lauren strikes again: US Air Force lab: robots, open source, and virtual reality
• D&G Mailbag: Thanks to Red Hat Middleware Solutions Architect David Murphy for finding our episode 89 Easter egg!
• Soylent Shake: Burger chain adds bugs to the menu…on purpose
• ‘Private’ biz Xiaomi sets up Communist Party exec committee
• Police stop Akron drivers to build safe relationships
• Iowa school district asks principals to wear body cams
• OPM, ODNI turn to paper forms to keep security clearance process going
  • Let’s not forget:
    • Digital Photocopiers Loaded With Secrets
    • Russian Security Now Using Typewriters to Thwart the NSA

  
  
  
  


• D&G Uber Evil Move of the Week: FTC asked to block Uber from getting location data in background


• D&G Ad Experience Optimization of the Week: The Next Java Update Could Make Yahoo Your Default Search Provider


• Speaking of getting optimized: US Bombs ISIS Command Center After Terrorist Posts Selfie Online


• D&G This Week in Vendor Abandonment: Yahoo does Spring Cleaning: Shuts down Maps, Pipes & more
  • No, seriously, they’re really out



• D&G This Week in Things We Wish Vendors Would Abandon: Flash
  • Ironically(?), occupyflash.org uses Flash to see if Flash is installed



• Worldwide PC shipments biggest drop in 2 years thanks to mobile


• No joke? Commodore Pet smartphone


• Top 500 Supercomputer List Reflects Shifting State of Global HPC Trends


• D&G Red Hat Summit Replay Video of the Week: Security compliance automation with Red Hat by Matt Micene
  • See it reenacted live at Defense in Depth!



• It’s like Netflix for Red Hat Training: Red Hat Learning Subscription


• So Long Voicemail, Give My Regards To the Fax Machine


• The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative
  • The CII Census Project
    • White paper by Dr. David A. Wheeler!

  
  
  
  


• D&G Term of the Week: Truck Factor

Cutting Room Floor

• PG-13: Ultra Hal AI Chatbot Talks with another Ultra Hal AI Bot
• Top Secret: The goofy retro ‘undercover’ fashion guide for East German secret police spies
• Baby goats in pajamas
• America Used to Give Out Weird Participation Awards for Nuclear Tests
• Now you finally know: Why Do Some Guitarists’ Fingers Smell Like Garlic?
• 600 years of war casualties visualized
• e-NABLE provides open, 3-D printed protheses for children, will make you cry
• Disney business plan
• Warhammer 40k Mr. Potato Head
• Iterating on large projects like Google
• Hybrid Cloud is not a Strategy, It’s a Symptom
• Open source chess with http://lichess.org (h/t robinpriceii)
• Google proves machines dream of more than Electric Sheep (h/t matt.micene)
• html5 games made from crack (h/t robinpriceii)
• littlebobby encryption (h/t robinpriceii)
• condo high rise with drone landing pad (h/t emorisse)

We Give Thanks

• Thanks to Red Hat Middleware Solutions Architect David Murphy for finding our episode 89 Easter egg!
• The whole dgshow Slack crew