Comment Re:F Commander Taco! (Score 1) 319
Robot chickens don't defecate, so you wouldn't have gotten any $hit.
Comment My personal research (Score 1) 215
has revealed that it doesn't matter if I look like a spaz on the dance floor, once I lick my eyebrows I have my pick of women!
Comment Re:Let me see if I've got this right... (Score 1) 186
Except that doesn't happen. First of all if it did she can fix it, she's quite smart.
I have had the iGoogle page crash (rare) on me more than any other flash games but I won't play facebook games.
Then I guess we both have smart women but mine wouldn't know what a
Second, we have properly configured and well maintained systems.
Other than software updates and FF or Chrome (She has killed both), what is there to configure? Is there a special flash configuration that prevents flash crash other than no flash?
And Linux is not an option for her, needs win for Quickbooks.
She's never had a Flash crash that I know of, though she might not even tell me since it would be a rare and trivial issue.
If she avoids the facebook games they are usually rare. Zinga games are horrendous and support is about the same state as AOL was decades ago, clear everything and reinstall flash, so sorry, try again.
Comment Re:Let me see if I've got this right... (Score 3, Funny) 186
Your wife/girl friend (LMAO! A
Submission + - DLL Hijacking: Facts and Lots of Fiction (threatpost.com)
Trailrunner7 writes: It’s been interesting watching DLL hijacking grow from interesting phenomena to a full-on snowball of hype and FUD over the last few days. As of this writing Google turns up 152 news articles on the subject. The vast majority of coverage is calling this a “new class of attack” and pointing out how “over 30 zero-day vulnerabilities have been found so far!”. The only way to paraphrase many of the headlines is: “Panic!” The root of this problem lies in the past in an industry far removed from internet security. Many years ago a Microsoft design error included the current working directory in the list of directories Windows will search when looking for a DLL.
Yet, ten years later, the fact that this DLL hijacking technique can still be used in some very specific circumstances is apparently cause for panic. The number of applications that this impacts is apparently big news. Lists are being published. Headlines read that “exploit code hits the wild”.
The reality is anyone who can stumble through the DLL project wizard in Visual Studio can write an ‘exploit’ for this vulnerability, and when the dust settles the lists will look a bit silly — virtually every Windows application will be found to be vulnerable in one way or another.
Yet, ten years later, the fact that this DLL hijacking technique can still be used in some very specific circumstances is apparently cause for panic. The number of applications that this impacts is apparently big news. Lists are being published. Headlines read that “exploit code hits the wild”.
The reality is anyone who can stumble through the DLL project wizard in Visual Studio can write an ‘exploit’ for this vulnerability, and when the dust settles the lists will look a bit silly — virtually every Windows application will be found to be vulnerable in one way or another.
Submission + - New Data Implies 'Fine Structure Constant' Changes (technologyreview.com)
eldavojohn writes: Two papers in prepublication claim that the fine structure constant has changed (probably over time). It's long been theorized that as the universe ages constants we have now change ever so slightly over time and the only way to test this theory is to point very sensitive equipment at light that passed through gas clouds millions of light years away. The real conundrum comes from the measurements that researchers have collected from the Keck Telescope in 2004 and the Very Large Telescope today. The Keck data, which was harvested from the Northern Hemisphere, indicates that the fine structure constant was once smaller while the VLT data, which was harvest from the Southern Hemisphere, indicates that the fine structure constant was once LARGER. This causes the research to indicate a spatial dependence on variances in the fine structure constant with suggestions that changes in the fundamental constants may be observable as 'spatial anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background, the accelerated expansion (dark energy), and large-scale structure of the Universe.' Of course, challenging constants is all the rage these days.
Submission + - NoSlang Translates Teens' Texts for Parents (cnn.com)
Hugh Pickens writes: "CNN reports that in 2005 software engineer Ryan Jones created noslang.com and as more readers have submitted terms related to drugs and sex, what started out as a fun little lexicon of innocuous shortcuts has become a valuable educational tool for parents to learn about what their children are up to because Jones has now made it his mission to help parents detect when their children are discussing dangerous activities online. In his online dictionary, there are thousands of slang terms related to drugs and sex (there are 88 drug shortcuts beginning with the letter "a" alone). "A- boot," for example, means someone is under the influence of drugs, "cu46" means "see you for sex," and "gnoc" means "get naked on cam," meaning a webcam. "Whether you're a parent, teacher, law enforcement officer or simply a concerned friend — it's important to stay up to date on the latest drug-related slang terms," writes Jones. "Parents write me thank you notes all the time, and I occasionally get hate letters from teens.""
Comment Re:What's the name on the brain? (Score 1) 148
It was a hard habit to break.
Comment Re:What's the name on the brain? (Score 1) 148
What kind of brains do you have?
The grey kind.... Both of them...
Comment Ummm Yes (Score 5, Insightful) 148
Given that the environmental structure is common to all persons at the location, it should remove some of the variables that exist and allow researchers to focus on the changes over time with regards to the disease itself rather than the differences that would be experienced with a geographical larger study.
Comment What's the name on the brain? (Score 1) 148
Abby.
Abby what?
Abby Normal.
Nuns Donate Their Brains to Alzheimer's Research
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Many Catholic religious orders are participating in a long range Alzheimer's disease study. Rush University's Religious Orders Study began in 1993 and tracks the participants' mental abilities through yearly memory testing. In addition to the annual tests, the study subjects agree to donate their brains. From the article: "The researchers sought members of religious orders, hoping they would be willing to donate and would not have children or spouses interfering with that arrangement at the last minute. More than 1,100 nuns, priests and brothers across the country representing a wide range of ethnic groups are taking part."
Comment Re:This gives me a great idea! (Score 2, Funny) 86
Wankbook?
Comment Re:That's not the professional term (Score 1) 487
The professional name is "Redneck", translator is here. http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/
Also translates to Jive, Cockney, Elmer Fudd, Swedish Chef, Moron, Pig Latin, or Hacker.
Comment Ebonics experts (Score 1) 487
Whats next... Spanglish experts?? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanglish
