To avoid having to deal with blocked AS, you have to monitor and control you customers. I scan all my ip addrs daily in the populars dnsbls. If a user gets listed, block direct outgoing mail (automatically), tell them to use the (scanning) smarthost and offer services to fix the source.

My (receiving only) mail cluster is in the backscatter dnsbl. since I like to do sender verification (with result caching) . This hasn't affected my outbound machines/AS in all these years.

SV is only to be used for scoring, there are enough legit retards out there without valid from or misconfigured BATV setups to cause false positves when you use it for immediate rejects before data.

All interfaces mentioned are incompatible at app. levels. But all interfaces have something in common: they all have the same CLI.

You can open a xterm (which in itself isn't a KDE app) in KDE. telnet/ssh into the settop box/server. Open an adb shell to the android device (or install a termianl emulator (like connectbot)).

This can be used to sync data between them all in some way.

-phone: linux with android on top
-desktop: linux with kde on top
-laptop: linux with kde on top
-tablet (hypothetical): linux with android on top
-settop box: linux with enigma on top
-server: linux

In my case linux just works fine as OS, the actual interface to is is use case specific. Only use case for Windows in my case is games but haven't felt the need since getting a console and finding out Civilization actually runs fine with wine. YMMV.

You should read/watch more news: demand for fuel is dropping.

Otherwise you can remap fn to ctrl, atleast on a X201 fn isn't a dead key.

Restarting ntp wasn't enough for me, I had to reset the date with:
date -s "`date`"
Only one machine went haywire though.

changing weapons takes time, bow to sword to magic in short time wouldn't be to reallistic now.

Yes they have commercials, only difference they are for their own programmes.

So they claim they spend 20% of dev and support time on the android versions. Now why was the last update to battleheary more than half a year ago?

"And am I mistaken, or would adding GPS add no more than perhaps $2 to the marginal cost of each tablet these days?"

Don't know about the costs, but all gps enabled devices I have seem to have the GPS and 3G "glued together" on 1 chip. I guess it's to get AGPS to work. Adding a standalone GPS might be cheap, but it will take ages to get a fix.

Could please specify which of the freedoms you list don't apply to android?

Hmmmm, my message got a little misplaced, I wanted to reply to http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1274931&cid=28391937 But I agree that Asterisk isn't gratis, but not because Digium hardware isn't free (you don't need to buy anything from them) or the time it takes to maintain it (there are virtual PBXs online) but because telephony isn't free. I guess GV is a lot easier to setup/use and apparently gratis, but Google is a business and had to get something of value from the people using it (maybe money for features or just personal information).

With a decent IPBX you can do anything GV can do (transcribing voicemail may be the exception), e.g. Asterisk. The real difference is the interface and required knowlegde to setup this kind of behavior.