If you discard the password hash, your session key will expire and prompt you for a password again. For normal systems this might be fine, but in the case of mobile devices, you're not paying regular attention to it, and the keyboard is annoying to type with.

How about untruthful? It's not decidable in the provable mathematical sense, but they appear to have a statistical classifier system.

As for how they defined "fake", they went to Mechanical Turk and deliberately paid people for "fake" reviews. As this is one particular behavior we wish to detect and punish, I don't care about the ontological arguments. The real problem is whether this can cope once shills use it to tweak their bullshit until it "passes".

Help me out here. How would it be different if the phone stored Kerberos credentials instead? Yes it hashes your password, but now that hash is the decryption key. Disclose that and you're fucked, just as much as

Is it nessecarily dumb? Not if the price of being locked out is a lot higher than the risk of bullshit forum account being hacked.

Research has shown that between complicated 8 character passwords and basic 16 characters, it takes far fewer tries to generate 16 character passwords, and fewer typos and passwords forgotten, while having the same estimated entropy. It makes a bit of sense; many of the special characters are harder to type. I suspect with mobile, the effect is even more pronounced.

Actually, JPMorgan invented the CDO and got out of them after they decided they were too risky and dangerous.

Well, when you're talking about a company that earns 6 billion a quarter, a 3 billion of investment annually still leaves plenty of room for swimming.

Maemo Linux, the OS that runs my n900, runs Xorg just fine. I don't think GNOME would be a good fit, but Hildon does use GTK, dbus, hald, pulseaudio, NetworkManager, and the evolution DB backend. And while you can't run amd64.deb, it does have a repository of ARM arch .debs. I think the best way to define what Slashdot would call linux is "capable of running wireshark". And the N900 meets that task, but does hilight your point that desktop apps are not in and of themselves, ready for mobile. I think the opposite might be true though; things that work on phones should be able to work natively on desktops without much fuss.

Maemo goes back to the n770 in 2005, so Android is hardly the first ARM phone attempt. Frankly, the reasons for success and failure here don't involve Linux technicals. It's about market position and strategies. Nokia has so many base patents on cellphones that they feel entitled to dictate the pace of phone growth. Their Maemo smartphone strategy assumed a leisurely 5 years and a patent portfolio to stop competition from racing ahead. Well that didn't stop Apple, or Google, and Nokia is happy to collect their profits in the form of patent settlements instead, while the board of directors approves a backdoor sale of Nokia to Microsoft.

I noticed you're affiliated with KSU. Have you seen K-SLUG? (#k-slug on freenode!)

It's about Maemo, the last, best hope of the true linux phone.

Or you can let them in an hour early for a fee. Or better yet, wait for the library to just ship everything to amazon.

Apparently this is deliberate. I can see their point, a lot of games with "good AI" are basically impossible to beat on easy. But it's kinda annoying to have a civilization constantly impaling themselves on your wall of pikemen etc.

It's more like an opportunity to create a storyline where Google fails and Baidu succeeds. Even the linked article offers it up: Baidu outcompetes Google, forcing them to close shop in China. Now they're going to succeed where Google has misstepped. Or something.

One of the challenges with generating and using data sets is cleaning them up. Data entry errors, OCR failures, conflicts between multiple sources, etc. make it a pain to search and summarize data. Gridworks helps me hunt down bad records and normalize fields. If it keeps improving, people might start using it before publishing their crap data.

There's a lot of jobs on the coasts, where costs are higher and annual wages compensate for this.