This is why i use openDNS on my kids computer. You do realize children are not capable of making their own decisions 100% of the time right? You do realize that some things should be censored from kids so that they can have a childhood right?

I agree. And that is your responsibility as a parent. But I do not agree that the world at large should be barred from certain subject matters simply because your child should not see it.

Isolated clusters of galaxies (such as the local group) are expected to have low total angular momentum (basically because the initial condition has low angular momentum, and in the absence of large mass anisotropy nearby, there is nothing to change this.) The mass of the local group is dominated by Andromeda and us, and hence so is the angular momentum. If the us/Andromeda pair has low angular momentum about their centre of mass (and given the pair is gravitationally bound), they will both pass close to that centre of mass - i.e., they will collide.

Of course, having an actual measurment is much more satisfying than having a theory.

Also - although they can be spectacular from outside, galactic collisions aren't expected to have bad results for life living on their planets. The biggest effect is that colliding dust clouds trigger a burst of star formation, so the night sky will be pretty.

It has been a few decades since I studied this, so I hope this is all accurate.

Facebook is not just a social network, it's consumer groupware. Compare it to television or telephone, not to Myspace and other previous offerings focusing solely on the social factor.

I expect the following:

- provides ticketing for events.
- a store for media content and app content.
- even a premium subscription model to remove ads (hi Slashdot!).

On my older 2.2-based phone, Firefox was completely unuseable. Really - clicking something would take more than a second to respond in some cases.

Same version of the browser on my new Android 4-based phone and it's a joy. It flies. Lately I've used the Aurora nightlies as my default browser for some time to try the new interface and it's really, really good. I abandoned Dolphin completely for Firefox once the new UI appeared. I basically only miss text reflow when zooming; other than that it is already everything I want.

So takeaway message: it really, really depens on your phone whether your experience will be good or not.

Another problem I've complained about in the past is rebus icons. I once used a source control system where the icon to commit a change had a document page with a tick mark and an arrow pointing at the page. I'd been using it for several years before I realized what it was supposed to represent - Americans call a tick mark a 'check', so this was the 'document check-in' button. At which point I also realized the same applied to an email client which had an icon with an ticked envelope - 'check mail'.

So, icons were supposed to be language independent, but instead in these examples they only made sense in one particular dialect.

I also have a problem with Swedish appliances (washing machines, ovens) which have indecypherable icons for the various modes, and the manual has invariably been lost years ago. If they just labeled the modes in Swedish, at least I'd be able to look up the meanings online.

phases that include 'Detect Corruption,'

Given the other phase names, I surprised the marketing department didn't call this "Detect Awesomeness!".