Fedora's invisible passwords and visible squabbles

No, not at all. It is quite irritating when you leave your ipad around to see that someone had fun in locking it for almost 15'.

Really, this does not make any sense. To avoid brute force attacks a few seconds are more than enough: 100000 trials * 36 sec = 3600000 sec = 3600h = half a year > average time between recommended password changes.