My order is Others, Family, Self.

I look after others, then I look after my family, then I look after myself. My family know how to look after themselves, and I can trust that they will be ok in a disaster.

They know that I am a first responder, and therefore if I am at home at the time disaster strikes, it'll be a quick reverse check (do I have my balls? is everyone else ok? out the door I go). My data is backed up offsite. My possessions are insured, and I didn't marry a useless SO who can't look after herself.

Of course, in the tradition of blackberry, the device will be a tablet with a keyboard, and won't have a touch screen. Fortunately they will instead use the new trackpad, instead of the trackball. Blackberry don't have a good record with touchscreen... In fact, its pretty atrocious. People forget, the touchscreen is what makes a device. This is why iPhone, iPad, etc are so popular, Apple have nailed the touchscreen. (btw - in case anyone accuses me of otherwise - Avid blackberry user, hate the iPhone, love the blackberry, but I call it like it is - Apple ownz touchscreens).

I don't understand the need for wide-area highly accurate (less than 1ms accurate) timing. Once you get beyond a reasonable distance, the speed of light starts playing into the equation.

Stats change, originally my statement was correct. Still, even with 57 vs 43, its still high enough for my statement to stand, stop with the backwards Americanisms.

spelt /sp'elt/

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I think that, given the current results, with Celsius being the highest response by far, its time for Slashdot to embrace your new found international overlords.

We will treat you well, so long as you start using metric, and spelling colour correctly. It'd also help if you spelt Celsius correctly too.

The tables have turned, and I believe this shows clear evidence that Slashdot is an international community. I mean, really, how hard would it have been to include equivalent temperatures in the list too?

Bottom line is if you never tell anyone that your base password starts with p455W0rd, then I don't think having a personalize system of 2+ characters to distinguish which system the password is for, and another 2+ characters to allow to reoccurring password changes would make your password any less secure, with the benefit of making them easier to remember. For extra security, add some ! _ - @ % etc characters to break up the 3 parts to your password. i.e. p455W0rd#02!01

Hi, please sign up for a system that I run, where I log every users IP, PTR record, username, full name, DOB, etc, etc, and PASSWORD to a nice database. Now I can begin work on cracking your other passwords.

I wish people would stop thinking that the systems you log in to are secure. This especially bad with the users who have one standard password, or the mysecret-slashdot. The ones who use apples01, apples02 are rarely better. Your system just adds a little bit more complexity.

I'm sorry, the only way to deal with the multitude of passwords today, given there is no wide-spread smartcard deployment, is a secure encrypted password DB stored on a portable eletronic device (eg phone, ipod touch, palm, etc, etc), and use the autogen password tool to generate new passwords.

What you want (being able to define pages) is wrong in many many ways.

You should, as an authoring tool, never define a page, or its dimensions, especially academic works, which will be printed in different formats, on different paper (A4/Letter/Tradeback/etc/etc)

At most, whatever markup you have, many define things like page breaks, but even then, they are more a typesetting issue.

What you want is either LaTeX or DocBook.

He's not wanting to holiday there, he wants to move there. A country with a history of unstable government, and one that is in the middle of a military coup d'état is not a good place to live.

you are shitting me... Right?

Actually, its not, well, not exactly spherical, and yes, I'll do your homework (though if you are older than 12, your teacher should shoot you for using Wikipedia as a reference) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth#Shape

(Hint - All wiki facts should be referenced, check the reference and quote it instead!)

Wikipedia answers:

Eg - you are old and out of date - T568A is the correct, current standard.