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Comment Re:iPad too fucking expensive (Score 1) 139

Personally, I give much importance to the presence of a physical keyboard. Keyboards are what makes the students able to create original content and tinker with a device. They make the difference between a machine that you can use to write essays, program, communicate... and a device that is only able to play Angry Birds and send short KTHXBYE messages on Whatsapp.

Comment Re:Strong Thunderbird? (Score 1) 296

At a past institution where I still have an e-mail address, they have recently moved their mail infrastructure to Gmail "business" services. The sysadmins now advise against using Thunderbird because it uses "outdated security practices" (my interpretation: it does not support two-factor authentication). Of course, Google is very happy with that (online client = yay more ads).

Comment With whom do you entrust your METAdata? (Score 2) 178

As many have said, this is a non-problem if you use encryption. A more actual problem is: who do you choose to give your METAdata? If you have Dropbox permanently running on your pc, encrypted or not, they get to know when you are logged on your PC and where you are. Similarly for your mail provider and your instant messaging/VOIP provider. Hell, your NTP server of choice could probably log your location by geolocating your IP address and fingerprinting your NTP request.

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