That "filter" doesn't explain it. There's a LOT more natural-born Americans in America than people born outside America (duh!). Therefore, there should be more American-born (not from a recently-immigrated family etc.) women in these fields. But there's not.

That points a clear picture that there's simply something broken about our American society, which pushes women to stay out of these fields.

However, is it that the women are missing out on a great opportunity, or are they avoiding a bad career path which offers excessively-long hours for no extra pay than they'd get with a cushy HR job?

OO (and LO) isn't written in Java, only a few modules (which you probably never use) are. The rest is either C or C++, I forget which (probably C++).

So is all this 2014 profitability coming after their stupid DRM-laden 2.0 coffeemakers?

I guess this just again proves H.L. Mencken's adage: "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people."

I think this sounds like a great thing, however I do have to question why it took so long for him to do this. How long have Obama and Holder been in office? Now, finally, when we're in Obama's last two lame-duck years, Holder decides to finally do something useful?

So yeah, it's great that he's finally fixed this horrible problem, but he sure could have done it earlier.

You mean that company that's about to go bankrupt, and is in talks with Samsung to be acquired? You know what happens when a company is acquired, right? Their products are usually quickly eliminated in favor of the parent company's, as the whole purpose for acquisition is to eliminate competition and perhaps acquire some technical talent, rather than product lines.

Buying into a Blackberry now would be sheer idiocy, as it's not going to be supported.

I'm jealous, my problem is I can't find a carrier that has a plan cheap enough for me.

This is the USA: ALL plans are horrifically expensive. That's what we get for having a cartel and not having any decent government regulation.

Maybe the iPhone just sucks with non-Apple bluetooth accessories? Dunno, I've never tried BT keyboards before.

As for the Kyocera, did you try installing Firefox on it? My crappy old HTC's browser sucks too, with constant crashing, but then I installed Firefox and it works great. With Android, you're not stuck with the browser that came on the phone.

The previous poster thinks that Bluetooth is too slow. What do you think of this?

Most people don't care about keyboards these days because then you wind up either with a tiny screen (compared to today's typical slate phones with 4.5"-6" screens), or a much larger (thicker) phone with a clunky slide-out keyboard module that eventually breaks. Most people are happy with on-screen keyboards, and they're much cheaper and easier to manufacture, so that's where everything went. No one wants to pay a huge premium for a special-model phone just for a keyboard.

An add-on keyboard isn't a bad idea though. But that's probably going to be rather inconvenient, trying to somehow prop up your phone so you can see it while holding the (BB-sized) keyboard in your hands, and having to fiddle with plugging a keyboard in. A small number of people would probably like this though, so they can use the keyboard when they want to and don't have to carry around a whole notebook computer. Or maybe someone could make a case that clips onto the phone and includes a keyboard plus a plug which plugs into the phone port. That way, if the keyboard breaks, you can replace it without replacing the phone.

I'm completely disappointed by my Android phone, however my next will will likely be Android too just because there's no decent alternatives. I can't stand iDevices and how inflexible they are, and there's just no fuckin' way I'm going to use a phone by Microsoft. My best bet is just to make sure I get something that's well-supported by CyanogenMod and use that.

So Android is a real conundrum, on the hand, it's open source, but on the other...

Android is NOT really open source, that's a popular misconception and a canard. An "open source" OS is not filled with closed-source binary drivers that you need to make the thing work. By that standard, Windows is an "open source OS" because there's a few lines of code in there somewhere which are open source.

Linux is an open source OS because all the code you need to run it is open-source (there are a couple of proprietary video drivers, but you don't need these as open-source drivers exist, they just aren't as fast). In addition, it's easy to install Linux on a typical PC. This just isn't true of Android phones: installing a new OS requires rooting the phone, which isn't trivial, and even then it may or may not be possible to run a real open-source Android version on it (like CyanogenMod), depending on whether there's binary (closed-source) drivers required for that device.

In years past, kids who were good at that usually understood it too. Unfortunately, we've regressed to where understanding is not required (hence, iDevices).

I grew up when 8-bit microcomputers were popular: C=64, Apple ][, etc. Yes, kids who were good at using these things did understand them well, however those kids were a small minority. We had computer classes in school back then (~1986) teaching kids how to use Apple ][ computers; most kids were able to turn them on and load a program on disk, and type in a BASIC program, but nothing terribly advanced. Usually, the regular kids ended up asking the computer-savvy kids how to do stuff when the step-by-step instructions the teacher gave failed to work. It did NOT produce whole classes full of kids who really knew how computers worked. It didn't even produce classes full of kids with any interest in computers; they just did enough to pass the class and that was it. When they got to college many years later and were required to buy a computer, this was a big deal for them because they usually didn't already have one.

If that were true RHEL and Ubuntu Server wouldn't have 5-year support on LTS.

It IS true.

Look at what I wrote before:

Anyway, no one really cares that much about desktop and server Linux distros having support for that long because (emphasis mine)

"that long", in this conversation, means as long as Windows XP had support. See the previous comment: Ironically that still isn't as good as Windows (10yrs from obsolescence vs 5yrs from introduction).

5 years isn't even close to as long as WinXP had support. Now, it is important to note that not even MS normally supports stuff that long. Win7 isn't getting support for that long. XP was just a special case.

However, it certainly isn't true that a linux upgrade can't break things, especially proprietary stuff.

It's not nearly as likely, though it is possible if the application is crap and relies on libraries no longer present in modern distros, or relies on specific versions of them which are obsolete, etc. Usually, though, proprietary stuff is all statically-linked and includes all the libraries it needs, so it shouldn't be much of a problem.

New Jersey also has some of the highest property taxes in the nation, and a majority of those taxes are to support the schools there. The state has a separate, independent school district for every single municipality (all 550 of them), because everyone wants "home rule" and no one wants to combine their school district with the poorer sections of their county. By contrast, other east coast states farther south usually have a separate school district for every county, not every single little town, so they end up having an order of magnitude fewer districts statewide, and consequently far lower administration costs. Every one of those 550 school districts in NJ has to support administrative staff, plus a superintendent who makes $250k/year, plus extremely generous retirement pensions for everyone.

I've been wondering when people would start to take notice of this problem with Android. There is no general policy of security backports on it at all.

If you want to see big companies taking linux seriously vendors need to start matching Windows support timelines.

Wrong.

Android is not Linux. Android being mismanaged has nothing to do with Linux versions such as Red Hat, Ubuntu, Arch, Debian, etc.

Anyway, no one really cares that much about desktop and server Linux distros having support for that long because it's easy to simply update the OS to a newer version periodically: it doesn't cost anything, and it doesn't usually break anything either (unlike Windows where changing from, say, XP to 7 will break all kinds of things because there's so many fundamental changes in the OS).