Mineral water is big in Germany (and, I believe, the rest of central Europe as well)— If you order water at a restaurant, it's going to be mineral water unless you specify otherwise (though, if they cater to Americans or recognize you as an American they're more likely to ask, rather than just carting out the mineral…

Fruit juice mixed with sparkling water or seltzer

This is about what I was going to say, also. I take my dog— distinctive: a very pretty, very friendly, very well behaved, 3 legged Husky-Malamute mix— with me fairly regularly when I eat out, since I live alone (so she gets bored) and Germany is very friendly towards well behaved dogs in restaurants.

And yet, whatever password I do use here is completely insecure since they don't enable https login.

Until of course they hack the site where your password info is stored and then your 20 common word pass phrase is rendered...well....useless.

Sir Ive didn't sit in his plush little Apple office, slaving over a drawing board

I should've been more clear in my question: "If you can confirm that the 2 negative contacts are in electrical contact (which in my experience usually just requires a look to see that the 2 coantacts are in fact the same peice of metal), then why worry about isolating them?"

I should've been more clear in my question: "If you can confirm that the 2 negative contacts are in electrical contact (which in my experience usually just requires a look to see that the 2 coantacts are in fact the same peice of metal), then why worry about isolating them?"

I don't assume anything, either (at least wrt this sort of stuff). But if I were able to see that the 2 negative contacts are, in fact, a single peice of metal I certainly wouldn't worry about trying to isolate the 2 negative ends from each other. Of course, I also wouldn't use aluminum foil instead of the right…

The picture shows the two pieces of foil touching which is causing the battery negatives to be attached together. At least TRY for a little isolation.

How much does a good password matter if it's not being sent via https?

Start the pour slowly. Look down on the opening to ensure the bottle's opening is right above it. Slowly start to tilt the bottle— when the bottle tilts just to the point where the oil comes out, it will come out slowly enough to come down straight, right into the hole. As you slowly and gradually tilt it further,…

There are, however, way too many wires (5) and the battery pack is too large. The wires WILL get stuck on anything and everything.

::sigh:: In response to many many people below...

I'm pretty sure the reference to playing the audio file is about outputting the audio via bluetooth. Let the phone think you're trying to listen to a particularly bad mp3, but the cable knows what it means.

::sigh:: In 2012, we can Nyancat on a terminal, but we can't figure out how to keep functions that used to work— like approving commenters— working on the redesigned gawker.

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Yes. So frustrating, especially when a site _doesn't allow_ non-alphanumeric characters.

Not to downplay the importance of good strong passwords or anything, but I'd be more interested in reading posts like this if Gawker sites supported https. Especially after having an otherwise good, strong password potentially compromised when gawker was hacked.

How is that over-designed? It appears to have a top, a bottom, a surface to hold the side buttons, and.... not much else. It appears that anything extraneous has been removed.