No. "1" is always 1 in any number system, independent of the base. "10" is always equal to the base. In this case, pi squared would be "100", pi cubed would be "1000" and so on.

Compare with base 10, in which "10" is 10, "100" is 10 squared and "1000" is 10 cubed.

I just realized something: No pussy => masturbate => kitten dies => no pussy. It's an evil circle!

That was my reaction too, until I RTFA and realized that it is about phones with a touchscreen.
Summaries published by kdawson ought to have some kind of warning label, perhaps something like "Warning: This summary may not reflect the contents of the related article!"

How about if we change the idea slightly to not only block existing passwords, but also block passwords that are similar to existing passwords? "Similar" could for example mean a Levenshtein distance less than 3.
Even if you knew a blocked password, you would not know if that particular password had actually been used.

You mean, like, inch by inch?

It's quite easy to disable the popup, though. Just google for "disable avira popup". You can find a description here. The idea is to disallow the executable avnotify.exe to run.

<pedantic>"Over 3000" is just as correct as "over 30000"</pedantic>

Anyway, does it really matter? Who can honestly say that they have read more than 3000 books in their life? Even if you get to be 100 years old, you would still have to read more than one book every two weeks for your entire life! (I realize of course that the number of books does matter because a greater number of books means a larger selection to choose from.)

Well that's very interesting, because I am in fact made entirely of wood.

That article does not argue against refactoring, it argues against rewriting your code from scratch. In fact, the author mentions refactoring as a good alternative to rewriting the code.

I wonder how the researchers determined if a person is a multitasker?

The article says:

In each of their tests, the researchers split their subjects into two groups: those who regularly do a lot of media multitasking and those who don't.

Do they simply ask "Do you do a lot of media multitasking?" ?

Children are very good at filtering what they understand and what they don't from material aimed at adults.

Yeah. I show my kids porn. They go: "Ooh dad look! Now she's pretending to be a dog!"

Ok... I read that as: "I just move stuff with my mouth....it just sticks there on the screen."

Luckily I realized my mistake before I could reply with a suggestion to brush your teeth more often.

Ok, now do it with strings!

P.S. I actually did see a funny and witty comment on /. a few days ago.

Link, or it didn't happen.

In that case I should have had many Nobel Prizes for my physics experiments.