Gibibutt is now a part of the Buttric System.
Other members of the Buttric System include:
Crapload
Buttload
Buttload (Whole)
Asston (Imperial)
Asston (Metric)
Assload
One gibibutt is equivalent to about 1000000000 metric buttloads, or about 866733404 whole buttloads.
Internet: We claim “Bear Raptor™” and “Python Butler™”.
We called dibs, sorry.
Add this to the list of incompetent “secure” web technologies: Verified By Visa, which restricts passwords to 8-15 chars, with NO special characters.
When I am setting a password, I expect to be able to use special characters. Nothing crazy, just the ones above the number keys.
It seems that more and more often, websites are restricting the use of these characters. Why?! Because they are too lazy to program their web backends to not go haywire when processing them. More frustrating, they all disallow different sets of characters!
Proudly, you make a password that looks like complete gibberish, but this site says “You’re blowing my mind, man!”, so you change it slightly, substituting a character perhaps. Then you get to another website, and the character you changed is allowed, and the one you changed it to is strictly forbidden.
Oh, and don’t forget the sites that restrict you to only 8 characters. We wouldn’t want to make it difficult for brute force hacking, would we? We wouldn’t want to force you to rewrite the table schema you wrote back in 1996. Too much trouble, I understand.
And don’t even get me started on password recovery questions. Where was I born? Gee, no one else knows that top secret information. My pet’s name? Oh no, I never have visitors or post pictures of her online. My mother’s maiden name? Geneology information is a closely guarded family secret! Give me a break. Let me pick my own obscure and nonsensical question that only I know the answer to: “What platonic form does a minute have?” “An eggcarton.”
Makes total sense to me.
Dear Internet: Stop forcing me to use simple passwords, and stop making it so easy to social engineer the mechanisms to reset them.
The CDC has just released a special advisory regarding the incidence of a new strain of virus – Feline Hornetrabies.
This is apparently fallout from Qualcomm‘s latest experiments. As researchers are discovering, proper protocol regarding QA on their lab specimens was not followed. It turns out that they were just paying local homeless to round up alleycats and other strays, which were much cheaper than the labspec specimens.
Prognosis of symptoms are still under investigation, but a brief summary of possible signs is outlined below:
Roughly 18 hours after the initial infection/incubation period, the virus begins metabolizing proteins in the blood into mastoparans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornet#Sting), a strong irritant which makes you feel like your veins are crawling with stinging hornets.
Then, about 12 hours later, the viral load releases en masse, and begins mutating the gene known as HOXb8 (http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20020006014545data_trunc_sys.shtml), which has been found to cause excessive grooming in mammals. At this point, the victims will find themselves unable to stop licking and grooming nearby objects, which is how this particular virus spreads.
Terrible Stuff.
If you, or anyone you know begins exhibiting behavior such as licking the walls while screaming, you may already be at risk. Isolate the infected by pointing a red laser pointer at the wall or ceiling, a tactic which has been proven irrestistable to victims suffering from this illness, and call your local infectious disease hotline immediately.
This has been a Public Service Announcement from The Jux Entente. Stay safe, you guys.
There is always a slight hiss of background static in my mind, perhaps yours as well. I decided to transcribe what came to mind, while ignoring echoes (things that immediately come to mind that are directly related to the preceding phrase). The exceptions to this are the first two lines, which were the seeds of a poem I was thinking up earlier.
Perhaps it is a form of poetry:
Am I the only one that sees crazy surreal huge fonts on this search result? Imagine if I hadn’t typo’d that specific search string?
Google Reticulates splines all day, but reticulaing splines? Now that's tough work.
I like to think I awoke some sort of sleeping grammar AI, and this was its dire warning.
I found an awesome RC M1A1 Abrams tank at Target the other day for $30. The last major piece of the robot is now provided for. It has nice rubberized treads and a good hollow flat platform for the electronics to go in. I also have some H-Bridge chips coming in the mail so the robot can control the motors directly.
Excitement!
There’s been a phishing exploit making the rounds on Facebook. Someone just messaged me with it, so I’m putting out a PSA:
If someone messages you with the text:
“hey , check out this blog.. it’s hilarious [URL Omitted]“
Do not click it! It will take you to a fake facebook site, which will then steal your login information.
In moving, even tentatively, into this new area of lending, Fannie Mae is taking on significantly more risk, which may not pose any difficulties during flush economic times. But the government-subsidized corporation may run into trouble in an economic downturn, prompting a government rescue similar to that of the savings and loan industry in the 1980′s.
”From the perspective of many people, including me, this is another thrift industry growing up around us,” said Peter Wallison a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. ”If they fail, the government will have to step up and bail them out the way it stepped up and bailed out the thrift industry.”
What’s creepier? We’ve finally arrived at that point, and even the bailout needs a bailout.