I love (and hate) SIP but it's rare you'll get as good call quality as Skype. Both ends need a wideband codec which is rare.

Having a monopoly isn't illegal, this whole "convicted monopolist" refrain shows a complete lack of understanding. They were convicted of monopoly *abuse*.

Plus upgrading Asterisk to a new version will need a new version of the plugin, so after 2 years you won't be able to continue using it if you need to upgrade *

Duh.

The article may not say so but the law says that cookies which are required to perform a specific service which the user has requested (such as tracking a shopping basket) are exempt. This would include session cookies for sites where the user's behaviour isn't tracked by the session. Admittedly defining what is and isn't tracking in this case is a bit of a grey area.

SFTP or FTPS I presume?

I think it would because they're handling user data in the EU. Personal data collected in the EU is covered by EU data protection law as far as I'm aware.

It's pretty unlikely that Twitter don't have an EU datacentre. If they do then interactions between an EU citizen and Twitter servers in the EU would be covered by EU data protection law.

There's a gulf between bias and propaganda.

You shouldn't anthropomorphisise climate change, it doesn't like it.

By the way you missed the point of both those questions. They weren't about whether health care reform would would reduce the deficit or whether anthropogenic climate change is occurring, they were about wheth particular groups of people believed on those subjects ( 'most economists', 'most scientists' ). Whether you think those people are right or wrong is irrelevant, that wasn't the question.

Maybe it wasn't meant to be C?
(Yes I'm sure the IPSEC stack in OpenBSD is C but still...)

I'm from the UK and I have to agree. While the UK is somewhat less gung-ho, so far I've not heard any calls for Assange's execution from politicians, the slip-sliding away of basic rights here is nearly as bad as in the US. Not quite mind, we don't have a Guantamo Bay yet as far as I'm aware. Our rights to privacy on the other hand are being destroyed.

Aside from the jingoism in his post though I think the basic point that Assange's case in the UK will be dealt with pretty much to the letter of the law is likely to be true. In something this high profile there would be a huge stink if it looked like the police or judiciary had cut any corners.

It doesn't seem likely that the original charges were engineered (though they do seem bogus). However, that they were dropped by the prosecutors originally as having no merit but then re-instated later, allegedly at the behest of a politician, and that Interpol issued a red notice for something that they normally wouldn't, it all looks a bit fishy.

The release numbers are "year.month".

Oh come on, it's the default behaviour so most installs are going to be affected.

> Not to mention it requires the end user to manually run untrusted code.

As does the kernel flaw. A compromised or deliberately malevolent app will suffice in either case.