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So instead of some kind of representation of the answer you elected for something totally unrelated to it in any way? You're not by any means the first to do it so I'm not singling you out. It's just that I have to wonder, also not for the first time, what the value of this daily puzzle is if all the potential solver has available is a wild stab in the dark based purely on the position of a repeated letter. Somehow I can't imagine even Sherlock Holmes deducing that you're using a ROT -1 cypher on the Greek alphabet for no other reason than that you can.
It seems a long time between occasions on which the answer and the 'question' are remotely 'synonymous'! This bothers me. Others it may not.
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Well FOSW rely heavily on obfuscation, basically the first way to solve it is to look for the words with that number of characters and search for a pattern - dooubles, repeating substrings and so on, then giving it a shot.
If it is feasible then one can make an ASCII representation of the word in order to give a clue, especially if there are no patterns. Graphically rendering the letters, as could be 8\1^^|# for Brittle, may oversimplify things.
The idea in my case was that I was consistently using a single alphabet - so they probably were representations of the single characters. Looking at the Character Map (or the common greek knowledge built up in any decent human/math/physics high school course) one could find all the greek characters and looking at right the next one or the previous one wopuld be a common first try. At least, it it what I would do in such a case.
Also, hints are pretty important - as you saw it didn't take very long for the puzzle to be solved, all of my FOSW has been solved in less than 3 hours and with 2 hints maximum, which with all the time zones complications is indeed a short time. I don't think I made a poor job - in this case though I couldn't do better since the word was hardly describable in a 7 characters ASCII art.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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Sorry to see that you have to explain yourself so detailed on such an easy game. But my 5 for that explanation and you did a good job on that one, i liked it!
BTW, you could just have send him to read to rules to get a "better" idea of it, therefore take another virtual +5 and a Medal of Honor for this explanation 
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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I like explaining things on which I reasoned about. BTW I find it funnier setting FSOW than actually solving them, and if someone gives me feedback I'm happy, at least I did not waste such good thoughts 
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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In Forum(Question-Answer) section, authors use "code" to format/display code properly when answering/questioning. Like "Javascript" tag use to define javascript code. I think there is requirement to add one more tag as "Razor". Razor generally use in ASP.NET MVC veiw page. When we are adding razor code it is not properly displaying like others.
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I suggest you post this in Site Bugs / Suggestions.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Are you sure it doesn't exist already? I've used it a few times, doesn't seem perfect but appears to at least be recognised.
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That means we need to use "HTML" tag for that? If it is other than that please specify.
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Hello all,
Essentially in our company we switched from Vodafone to Orange and it doesn't have data signal in the street where our company is (we can use the phones in our company though).
This is only affecting me as I'm used to call my wife when I'm leaving the company.
Before I had a blackberry and all the voice recognition was performed in the device itself so I could press a hardware button and start speaking to get the call done, therefore I was able to call anyone while driving.
Now the voice recognition (we have Samsung galaxy s4 phones) runs on external online servers and this means that I can't make a voice call when there is no data service.
Is it possible to get a program to do this?
To attach it to a double press of the home button...
Anyone has found a good option to do that?
PS: I tried UTTER time ago, but it can only listen to English, therefore it is a bit strange calling my wife in a weird accent... 
I've read in the Internet that "Google Now" can do it but I've not found the way to make it.
Thank you in advance!
modified 29-Nov-15 5:58am.
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The 5.3 update of Google App contains offline mode for a selected group of voice commands - calling not included...
The only option you have now is using some 3rd party from here: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=voice%20command&hl=en[^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Thank you Peter!
I've been searching there for a long time and it looks like it's simply not there...
Curiously the Blackberry approach was powered by Nuance and even that option for Android requires a data connection...
Even Utter which seems to be the option when speaking about offline voice commands is returning an error when no data connection is present...
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mmmm... in the video I can see the data connection is active.
They are not telling that it works offline...
I'm afraid it will not work...
I do have the SVoice from Samsung installed (it comes by default) which is capable to listen and react while there is a data connection which is not my case... 
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Not exactly the same, but there's a Settings widget where you can choose Direct Dial and then your wife's number.
Two touches as you mentioned - one for the homescreen, one for the Direct Dial icon.
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread 
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That is another option, a pity something that worked on a truly old blackberry is not working here, but... I'll check it.
Thank you Vikram!
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Windows10 updated yesterday - and was a PITA about it. Finally completed, I turned off for the night and relaxed.
This morning though... 
No network. None whatsoever. My adapter doesn't even switch into gigabit mode... And win 10 is refusing to admit any connection exists, or to add a new one.
Why do you do this Microsoft? Why do you make me hate windows10? And why is the new settings app so completely useless?
Two hours, the reboots, and it *might* be ready to admit that my Ethernet network actually exists - not actually connect to it, no. But existence is a start...
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And last week I was thinking about to check this SP1 - now I think that even a VM is waste of time ans space...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I'm trying to rollback the update via a restore point - but that needs my windows password, so if got to reboot back into windows to find that, so I can unboit back ty recovery mode to see if windows created a restore point before it cr@pped allover my computer...
It looks like it's a windows sockets problem - like there aren't any or something.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Put all your password into passwordsafe (or a similar product) let it live in dropbox (or a similar service) synch it to your portable bits.
Why do people who a religious about backups not do this to passowrds! 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I have my own password manager, which is backed up every which way I can think of - but it only runs on Windows because I haven't got round to learning Android yet...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Most of us just use "password" for the password for all accounts, soooooo - who needs a password backup? 
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I like to make it difficult, I use a capital p!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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unrelated quick question:
What's your first pet's name?
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Why password of course...
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Now you know how MS improved Security Essentials - if there's no internet connection, there are (almost) no viruses. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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