I appreciate the concern but I am comfortable with the setup. My customers send me spreadsheets all the time but Excel is set not to autorun anything and warns me if anything looks like code. I get warnings opening my own SQL functions cheatsheet because it sees code snippets. If I feel I have to open an odd attachment it is opened in a sandbox - and that goes for all file types, not just office.

Interesting that you mentioned 19 years. I buy a new computer every 3-5 years and each time I pull out my Office 2003 CDs and install them again. I run my consulting business with Excel and Access and these versions do everything I need. I have learned to use the newer versions but I am much faster with the legacy versions. For drafting correspondence and blog posts I prefer WordPad.

One of the tests you do when you are dreaming, to determine that you are dreaming, is to try to read something twice. Supposedly you can't read in a dream or the text will change. That would make coding fun.

As a person who has experienced several very fun lucid dreams, I can't imagine wasting them doing code.

That is true, but in this case there was a second step toward validation:
"To further verify their findings, the team created model cells of Alzheimer's disease in the lab using stem cells and treated them with sildenafil. The drug not only increased brain cell growth but also decreased hyperphosphorylation of tau proteins, a process that usually leads to tangles."
Not proof, but more than simple correlation.

1) Technology companies are pushing back, and it is enough to get the Intel folks to complain. This gives the average Joe more tools to work with.
2) Congress is also pushing back. I am amazed at how the Intel folks can say (with a straight face) "congress approved all this and was fully briefed and should have known". Because many in congress don't feel like they were appropriately briefed. I think that is behind the recent stalemate in congress.

The "how" is easy part - just publish the work and they will crawl out of the woodwork and find you!

I think we have a new Turing Test goal. Come up with a computer program that can take over the call and keep these guys running in circles for x minutes.

I read that some small towns around Paris had their Websites defaced with the ISIS flag. I am surprised the Anons haven't thought of defacing a few ISIS leaning web sites with images of the cartoons in question or something similar. That way, instead of the terrorists feeling like they reduced the distribution of the images they will actually be faced with more of the images right on the sites they use. And this gets the images out there without giving ISIS any new targets. OTOH if the Anons take-down an ISIS site it would probably just deprive the NSA and MI5 of some valuable intelligence. This is something more within their skillset.

I read that some small towns around Paris had their Websites defaced with the ISIS flag. I am surprised the Anons haven't thought of defacing a few ISIS leaning web sites with images of the cartoons in question or something similar. That way, instead of the terrorists feeling like they reduced the distribution of the images they will actually be faced with more of the images right on the sites they use. And this gets the images out there without giving ISIS any new targets. If the Anons take-down an ISIS site it would probably just deprive the NSA and MI5 of some valuable intelligence.

As the OP of the original post, I would like to point out that I listed 3 possibilities and the first was that the story was wrong, maybe even intentionally wrong.

I am the submitter and the layout of the original submission was much different with a new paragraph there.