The Weekly Weird - 2015-08-07

Today's delayed weekly weird brought to you by the letters 'H' and 'angover'

• Fortunately there's plenty of Schadenfreude to make me feel better. Mark Karples of MtGox fame was arrested in Japan for being a giant idiot. Seriously, do you know how hard you have to try to give php programmers a bad name?

  • HN Comments on the arrest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9985664
  • A reddit thread of an early MtGox employee answering questions: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3fe92x/im_ashley_barr_aka_adam_turner_the_first_mtgox/
  • and HN comments on that thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9988090

• Also firefox has been uploading your .bash_profile and .ssh keys to the Ukraine for a while now. No biggie. https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/08/06/firefox-exploit-found-in-the-wild/

• I generally steer clear of politics in general but this is too juicy to pass up: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/08/donald-trump-and-bill-clinton-collide-best-conspiracy-story-ever

• THE MOON IS AWESOME!

  • Lagrange points are awesome: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/dscovrepicmoontransitfull.gif (also ZZ Top's favorite gravitational phenomenon)
  • Apollo 11 averaged about 7 inches to the gallon: http://www.vox.com/2015/8/2/9086791/buzz-aldrin-apollo-11-document

• Do you struggle to explain IaaS, PaaS, WhateveraaS to people? Try the pizza analogy: http://t.co/vWJQAAyTRM

• Well, I think we all know who's piloting this: http://gfycat.com/SnappyYellowGraywolf
• Sort of nsfw: http://interretialia.tumblr.com/post/27494054838/carpe-natibus-has-been-corrected-to-carpe-natem
• English is so dumb: https://i.imgur.com/qTaxHpI.jpg
• Today's example of why checking credentials is important: http://www.thelocal.de/20140625/fake-engineer-di-mauro-designed-berlin-airport-fire-system (From a long Bloomberg article about the airport that's a little long on Greece analogies but entertaining: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-07-23/how-berlin-s-futuristic-airport-became-a-6-billion-embarrassment )
• A great webcomic: http://www.viruscomix.com/page588.html (lots of reading. I vaguely recall other comics on that site not being entirely sfw but I didn't actually check. This page is entirely fine)
• Remember Rowhammer? Heere's javascript: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/08/dram-bitflipping-exploit-for-attacking-pcs-just-add-javascript/
• Cat tax: https://i.imgur.com/9PKQ7Rt.jpg