Links for 12-05-2013

• For Nearly Two Decades the Nuclear Launch Code at all Minuteman Silos in the United States Was 00000000
• How Intel TV failed -- pay attention, Google and Apple | Internet & Media - CNET News - How many times around was this?
• The Pitfalls of Techno-optimism (and the Ambition of Amazon) | Tech.pinions - Perspective, Insight, Analysis - "In fact, the Bezos announcement belongs to the same absurd-but-taken-seriously genre as Udacity founder Sebastian Thurn’s proclamation  that the success of massive open online courses would eliminate the need for all but 10 universities in the world, and the reporting of it mostly without a bit of critical analysis reveals a major failing of tech journalism."
• On Smarm
• Twitter / Beaker: California - the land of ... - RT @Beaker: California - the land of sunshi... Oh, crud. 27 degrees and my car is iced over
• SC13 Rocked as My Last Industry Conference This Year | Moor Insights & Strategy - "OpenStack has a completely different kind of energy.  If standing up web services is your business or you supply infrastructure to those who do, you should be there."
• Google Geo Developers Blog: Jazz up your site or blog with the new Google Maps embed
• 2014: Cloud joins the formal IT portfolio | ZDNet - "In 2013 enterprises got real about cloud computing. In 2014 we will integrate it into our existing IT portfolios - whether IT likes it or not."