The Weekly Weird - 2014-11-14
- The word of the week is "Bioswales" http://gothamist.com/2014/11/10/bioswales.php
- The robot apocalypse will be heralded by the sound of tiny air compressors: http://www.hizook.com/blog/2014/11/12/big-hero-6-soft-inflatable-robot-meets-big-screen You can imagine being able to get some interesting properties by using partially-conductive fabric too: http://www.azom.com/news.aspx?newsID=42772
- And it's not just robots, future historians will be confused that The Tuxedo wasn't a documentary http://tv.slashdot.org/video/?embed=BibGJmbjqEWGpdsKlqlW07lEhbtCkbrp
- HARPOONS: TRICKY; SCIENTISTS: [WINE] http://xkcd1446.org/# (start from the beginning at http://xkcd1446.org/#0 )
- So much good stuff in this week's LWN: = "...an ftrace-based mechanism and kernel interface for doing live patching of kernel and kernel module functions. It represents the greatest common functionality set between kpatch [1] and kGraft [2] and can accept patches built using either method." : http://lwn.net/Articles/619390/ = Some really interesting academic research on RCUs: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/619355/2de1a9f236d242c6/ = KVM security including that Google Cloud Engine uses kvm but not qemu: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/619376/ab084952266cc6aa/
- Amazon just had it's big AWS event so they also have a ton of product announcements including: = Amazon...lambda? http://aws.amazon.com/lambda/ I'm not quite sure what to make of this but it's neat sounding (and billed by the millisecond). Except for being javascript only... = and Docker just won the internet: http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/cloud-container-management/ = Aaaand a bit of insight into what an AWS site actually looks like: https://gigaom.com/2014/11/12/amazon-details-how-it-does-networking-in-its-data-centers/
- Remember that big, mysterious crater that appeared in Siberia a while back? Well here are some pictures: http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0018-exclusive-new-pictures-inside-mystery-siberian-crater/
- Rounding out the take from the old-news-story-followup department: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-17/how-russian-hackers-stole-the-nasdaq#p1