The Weekly Weird - 2016-12-16
- 1.3PB storage cluster inna (4U) box. $0.008/GB/Month.
- The grim future of ipv6, every xmas light will have its own address.
- "General relativity breakdown" is a pretty good indication that the story is bunk, even if it's from Nature. Wake me when it's 5σ.
- I can't figure out where I got on this train of thought but I wondered what the largest check ever written was. The internet thinks it might be this one that 'saved' Morgan Stanley but this 9-figure personal check has to merit an honorable mention.
- Orbital ATK, who seems to have gotten their Antares rockets to stop exploding, had a much less dramatic launch failure of their other, wackier launch system the other day. Pegasus is literally dropped from an old Air Canada airliner before firing all its guns at once and exploding into space. The airliner is, of course, a civilian replacement for NASA's oldest and best-named B-52. Postgresql liked the naming scheme so much they went to the wall with it and I'm just as surprised to include that sentence here as you were to read it.
- Yes, we encrypted all your data and are demanding a bitcoin ransom but just infect two others and we'll let you off the hook. Ransomware and MLM, the official taste sensation of 2016.
- A cute little ring buffer optimization.