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They aren't on Verizon or Sprint quite yet because Microsoft didn't have time to get the OS ready for CDMA devices. Considering how poorly the first CDMA Android devices performed (example: phones using Android 1.6 couldn't use A-GPS for a long time if I remember correctly), getting the bugs out first seems like it was a solid strategy.

Oh yes, I certainly agree lottery isn't a very good choice, except for the project was due in a few days and it was simple :)

I was, however, quite surprised that there seemed to be no schedulers with priorities and no ladder already in the the kernel.

There's another massive problem with I/O scheduling on Linux: all of the schedulers are designed for physical disks. With solid state drives as opposed to physical spinning platters, a ladder algorithm is useless and only serves to reduce performance. With solid state drives, the best scheduler is currently noop, which doesn't implement priorities. I prototyped a lottery based scheduler for a class that would allow ionice to be used in a sensible way on solid state drives, but never got it into a state where it didn't crash the kernel. The whole system does seem a little massively out of date.

It used to be that an enterprise WPA2 network had a similar level of privacy to a switched wired network, where individual users couldn't see each other's traffic. Now it is equivalent to a network with hubs, allowing connected users to see each other's traffic.

If you can't trust the computer you're on... why do you want to mount encrypted files on it? Wouldn't that defeat the point?

Also with locked software distribution are all the Verizon phones tied to BREW. Those can only download apps from Get It Now (if I remember the name correctly, it's been a while), and were also code signed. There were also almost no applications, and the ones that did exist were $5 tetris games and the like. Utterly useless except to make Verizon money.

The complete rewrite came after Netscape was open sourced and became Mozilla. It is this complete rewrite that has allowed Firefox to progress the way it has. If you're really curious, see http://commons.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Open_Sources_2.0/Open_Source:_Competition_and_Evolution/The_Mozilla_Project:_Past_and_Future.

I've had an iPhone application for quite a while that uses this. It's called WritingPad, and the about screen has a link to http://shapewriter.com/.