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First read this:
http://m.xkcd.com/1015/[^]
Justification is the same. I wish Kindle would either disable full justification or hyphenate text. 
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Um. I don't use the dedicated Kindle reader, but I do have the app on my Nexus tablet - And I hate using it. I prefer FBReader which justifies, hyphenates, and kerns nicely.
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OriginalGriff wrote: and kerns nicely.
Aaahhh ... there's nothing as satisfying as a good kern! 
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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Particularly when it's Pair Kerning! 
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I haven't got a Nexus. The Kindle battery lasts a couple of months, worth the minor annoyance of unevenly spaced words.
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Hah! 91% 
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Keep going. There are more.
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That was my final score after the ten: two 100%'s in there.
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Ah, Pete ... you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year wishing. 
And remember ... truly wonderful the mind of a child is ... especially if you can pinch their Mince Pies when they are not looking!
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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And a happy, jolly, yuletide to yourself young Miss Choccywoccydoodah!
(We went to see Choccywoccydoodah last week - very disappointing, all those people kept getting between the O'Hanlon family and the chocolate ).
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Miss Choccywoccydoodah!
I am VERY tempted to change my name to that!
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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Got 95%
Got most of them to 100% (although often there were some differences to the "solution" so I don't really understand how that is 100% then...)
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Do you use accented characters in passwords? Do sites in your language allow them? (just curious)
Yesterday a site (which shall remain unnamed) refused a password because it had a space in it. Why the [bleep] not? It's just another character. Don't their devs read XKCD?
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Oh, that is annoying - but not as bad as the morons who don't check the email address rules and won't accept hyphenated domains...
I end up signing up with a Ten Minute Mail address, and changing it afterwards. Strangely, these sort of idiots don't often check validity for changes, just for sign up!
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My Gmail address has a dot in it (in the name part, not the domain). A lot of sites used to reject it. It is mercifully much less frequent recently.
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gmail doesn't [or at least didn't] allow hyphens with which my full name is blessed. I replaced it with a full-stop.
veni bibi saltavi
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Try having an Irish surname. I get sick of sites not taking the correct form of my surname because they think it's the start of a SQL Injection attack.
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But Pete, you were trying to type:
O' UPDATE Logins SET Password = 'HanlonIsGod'!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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It's only because the stupid password system didn't do this automatically.
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Thats nearly as good as the Internet provider that I get my home broadband from didn't like the email address that I entered to gain more information about a product.
but the email address is one that they gave me.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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In Hungarian, there are 14 vowels - a, á, e, é, i, í, o, ó, ö, ő, u, ú, ü and ű - it's bally annoying. I have an English keyboard but have to switch to Hun for the bloody stupid long double accent o and u.
veni bibi saltavi
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Use the Alt key sequences. These are the ones I use on a "regular" basis:
ALT 0223 = ß
ALT 0228 = ä
ALT 0246 = ö
ALT 0252 = ü
ALT 0196 = Ä
ALT 0214 = Ö
ALT 0220 = Ü
ALT 0207 = Ï
ALT 0235 = ë
ALT 0232 = è
ALT 0226 = â
ALT 0234 = ê
ALT 0238 = î
ALT 0244 = ô
ALT 0251 = û
ALT 0201 = É
ALT 0233 = é
ALT 0224 = à
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The problem with accents is that most keyboard do not have them naturally (dedicated keys) and finding the proper key combination is a bitch.
At one point my laptop was set to use the AZERTY (instead of (QWERTY) layout when it asked for password and that was fun!!! (my password had numbers and symbols).
I'd rather be phishing!
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I went through that sort of thing on an internal company site the other day. The page listed the requirements (length, upper, lower, digit), but didn't say that a "special character" was required (or forbidden), but threw back a vague error message when I tried to use an equal-sign. I sent an email off to the developers.
A worse thing is that there seems to be a one-password-change-per-day limit, but no one tells you about it -- so all you get is an "invalid password" message, which is absolutely untrue and unhelpful. 
A 486 I once had allowed a BIOS password -- but considered DELETE a valid character  so I had to remember something like passs<delete>word. 
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