> That equates to an average of 75 downloads per iOS user. That's a lot.

I just checked mine: I have downloaded a total of 225 apps on my iPhone 3GS, which I bought a year ago.

Going through the list there are a lot of one-time usage apps on (voting and event related which I checked once or twice and then deleted, games which I played until finished and then removed, documentation/walkthrough for games). Right now I have about 100 apps installed.

So 75 downloads is easily doable.

My aunt on the other hand has only 15 apps installed. It still averages out :-)

Australia has the concept of Debit "Credit-Cards", which immediately deduct the money from the account.

I assume the person you replied to has one of them.

In the last two years I have been given a replacement credit-card from the NAB bank twice.

One day everything work fine, the next day they don't work anymore and three days later when you call them they say that they are in the process of re-issueing them.

Thanks for not letting me know on day one, and thanks for not being able to buy anything for two weeks.

Crank up the warning level of your compiler and make it warning free.

May 16 at 8:56 a.m. EDT.
That is just before midnight in Sydney, Australia. Count me in!

> All ipv6 would do is get every Windows PC pwn3d twenty four hours after deployment

How will you get its IP address? Don't tell you are able to scan through 2^64 IP addresses within a reasonable time.

In Australia everything is either compulsory or illegal.

This issue doesn't need to be that it reaches the pilot's eye(s), when the beam reaches the window and it "scatters" the beam giving it a bright area through which you can't see.

I'm running IPv6 via tunnels since 2001. I'm running native IPv6 since my ISP did their first try-out via ADSL.
Come on guys, it is not that difficult. Why is slashdot.org still not accessible via IPv6?

Now run this by me again...

How does
create profiles for non-registered individuals based on publicly available information

result into
which is expected to boost its membership from 6.5 million to 340 million worldwide.

?

I'm still waiting for my flying car and meal as a pill.

You are waiting for meal as a pill? I feel bad for you.

I think I'd be shaking in my boots if I was a Discovery bound astronaut.

If you didn't, then you don't understand what is happening at a launch :-)

They called the Space Shuttle most complex mechanical machine ever built (these days the Large Hadron Collider has that award). John Glenn had his famous his famous quote about his Mercury spacecraft launch: "I was thinking that the rocket had twenty thousand components, and each was made by the lowest bidder".

Congratulations, you totally missed the point!