Time to introduce cat 6

Since you've almost nailed it, I'll just add one thing. Here on Slashdot we have a -1 Troll option and a -1 Flamebait option. Almost nobody here knows what either of those terms mean anymore, including right here on Slashdot. As an example, when someone is clearly making moronic statements that they actually believe, and one calls them a moron, that is neither a troll, nor is it flamebait. Wikipedia gets it completely wrong as well. Flamebait is much like trolling, where the poster says something ridiculous in order to bait people into flaming them. Ergo, if I call someone a moron when they have made it clear that they are either a moron or intending to be one, my response might be a follow up to flame bait (if the poster intended to get me to call him a moron), but is not itself flamebait. Now, I'd really like to see people read this, understand it, and start modding correctly, but let's face it: there are a lot of morons in the world ;-0

Yeah weird huh? The requirements to become an Australian citizen (which I'm well versed in, as my American wife has just obtained her Australian citizenship a few months ago) are:

- You have lived lawfully in Australia for at least 4 years; and
- You have lived in Australia for at least 12 months as a permanent resident

(OR ... you were born in Australia or used to have citizenship but lost it for whatever reason)

My wife moved here after we were married and lived here for 4 years. The first two she was a temporary resident (all spouse visas are temporary for the first two years, and can then be migrated to permanent). The latter two she was permanent. She qualified earlier this year, did the test, had the ceremony and voila.

Woz seems to be thinking that, if you are well-known and/or rich, you can bypass all these requirements. I am not sure that is the case. You can certainly qualify for a permanent residence visa to live here on the basis of being rich ('investing' in the country), but that isn't citizenship.

I managed to break a GalaxyS(not 2), but I did so by falling with it in my back pocket right onto ice with my butt. Before that, 'tossing' it to the floor by accident was pretty much a daily occurance and no damage was done. I got an otterbox for my next phone(atrix), and managed to break the case after a year. The phone is fine. Did the case do it's job, or is the phone just that tough? I'll have to see.

I don't know the specifics of what happened in your case, but there are reports of phones surviving things like multi-story drops out of helicoptors. A less than 1 story drop is supposed to be well within their design tolerance; even onto concrete.

Given my experience I figure there was some sort of 'aggreviating factor' to the cracking of the screen of your phone - being stepped or fell on, hitting something pointy on the screen, etc...

No, its user abuse.

For every user with a cracked glass I raise you 1 million users who do not abuse their phones.

The point was never that you couldn't break a alkali-aluminosilicate glass screen, its just that it breaks less easily than prior materials, and allows equal strength with less thickness.

Odd you should lash out a a key component of miniaturization in a story suggesting that phones are getting too big.

Modern phones have much stronger glass on the display. I've yet to scratch mine, and it has shared a pocket with keys.

Having some replies does not represent the quality of your post, and there is not much to reply to when you make the first post either.

Facebook lets them send messages to others telling them they 'like' something. So they 'like' it, then get to send the spam message advertising their viagra/rolex/whatever they're trying to sell.

Simple really. If 98% of email is spam, them likely 98% of likes are spam too.

"Earlier this year Facebook revealed that about 5-6% of its 901 million users might be fake - representing up to 54 million profiles."

If 5% of their users are fakes, that's 45 million, if each likes 5000, thats 200 billion fake likes. The bigger question is why do advertisers imagine that Facebook pages are somehow more traffic'd than Internet pages, when every facebook user is an internet user, but not every internet user is a facebook user.

It's like putting adverts in second life, remember that?

nothing about.

I actually read the article and still dont really know what this is about.

Why would people just go around liking stuff.

And the same with motorcyclists. I often see them weaving between lanes while cars are on either side.

Improved headline: Untrained rats map minefields with explosions.

Indeed, in a city a Postcode is usually a street, part of a street, or a single block of flats. Out in the countryside a postcode can cover square miles of farmland.

Google Maps sometimes shows postcode boundaries, here's one in Glasgow that's about 200m across
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=G2+4jq&hl=en&sll=55.86512,-4.267604&sspn=0.002071,0.004506&hnear=G2+4JQ,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=16
Wheras this one near Inverness is about 1km across
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=IV6+7XN&hl=en&ll=57.528981,-4.470577&spn=0.015852,0.036049&sll=57.529572,-4.536686&sspn=0.253622,0.576782&geocode=CZh9Pqs90U35Fd3rbQMdgOy4_ynT6PPhdwCPSDE0q-qJe8xFvw&hnear=Muir+of+Ord+IV6+7XN,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=15

Wrong. My postcode covers about twelve square kilometers; down in the village they have three within a hundred metres. It's based on a (rough) number of delivery addresses.