"The study suggests to me that people just aren't fluent in using their e-mail applications."

Did you actually read the study? Everyone was using the same email client, and had been doing so for quite a while, and the sample only included people who'd used all retrieval features at least once.

Of course, we don't know whether bluemail is better at one kind of use vs the other. Except for this study...

Which is why the study looks at total compensation instead of just salaries:

Because the contractor billing rates published by GSA include not only salaries but also other costs including benefits contractors provide their employees,[66] POGO added OPMâ(TM)s 36.25 percent benefit rate to federal employee salaries[67] and BLSâ(TM)s 33.5 percent loading to private sector employee salaries to reflect the full fringe benefit package paid to full-time employees in service-providing organizations that employ 500 or more workers.

This is what food stamps and Pell grants are for.

"Enrollment is down"

What the hell is Wisconsin doing wrong? Every school I've looked at has growing enrollment. It's the natural thing in a recession: the opportunity cost of attending school far lower when you don't have a job to quit in the first place.

"FIPS-validated AES256 encryption, integrated into Active Directory"

What does that mean? Your sysadmin can decrypt your bitlocker?

You don't need a cellular contract, and many parents now buy their kids a plan. A kind of digital leash, if you will.

Even if you didn't have a cellphone, you don't need one to get iOS or Android via iPods and Galaxy Player. Plenty of students have iPods now.

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!)