Which on a personal phone, is fine for your personal mail. Not work work email as well.

And on the ones I've used (Ranging from motorola e770v to a sony erricson with android 2.1) have not handled high quantities or sizes of messages well.

You don't have to use your hardware my way, just like I don't have to use my hardware your way. You have to be careful with sweeping statements like the one posted a few posts back. They rarely bare any resemblance to reality, but not always. For if you were to tell me that sitting on tacks is not fun, I'd be inclined to agree with you.... Darn, I can think of someone who would disagree (no seriously!).

Are you trolling? Or are you serious?

I recently broke my collar bone and am frequently visiting the hospital. Web mail is one more valuable tools I can use to keep working on my phone while I wait for my appointment that is running late because the health system is over loaded. It's also great on an over-crowded train where a laptop simply isn't viable.

Without having read the article, I imagine the aim is to give the companies something they will have to compete with, which they can be held to. They have to compete on it because if their numbers are lower than someone else's, then that is a disadvantage. But if their numbers are higher they have to follow through.

While we can be pedantic about the words in a summary, it's probably missing the point.

I like your thoughts on the avg and max speeds as well.

I guess you replied before you got to the third sentence?

How they are saved depends on the distro. If you use something like Fedora before this, then whether using a gui or command line, you are effectively editing a file and then reload that file by restarting a sudo service. If you use something like gentoo, then it saves your firewall on shutdown or at your request.

The DBUS stuff to have apps make requests is potentially very cool, I really hope it's well thought out though...

I've seen someone go through this and despite having video evidence in his favour (that the police saw at the start), the police continued for 2 years and eventually lost. But not before racking up enough legal costs to take several years to pay off. The police don't have to win to do severe damage. If someone is on a blind crusade, they can do one hell of a lot of financial damage and damage to his reputation before they run out of options.

This case is less cut and dry. It will be harder to prove, and harder to defend since it's about intentions rather than an act. But I suspect for the police, that's not the point.

This is something I wouldn't have predicted, and I'm wondering if it's going to be along term trend. It's potentially a powerful game changer, and with such power, comes massive responsibility and impact. I hope that those pushing the leaks keep a fairly balanced view of the world so the cause doesn't consume them and push them to the extremes. Because if that happens, it becomes worthless again (and very damaging).

The thing that strikes me about this is that when something new comes out that has different strengths and limitations, at first we are at a loss for how to make it useful, but then we work around the limitations and are much better off.

The things I'm aware of that make the contrast between high and low important is measurement of those highs and lows and short term memory. So those are potential areas for improvement that could make the technology viable.

Just because they haven't worked out how to do it yet, doesn't mean it can't be done.