I'm a fan of Elon and Tesla, but it sounds like they need to invest heavily in fixing sleep mode.

Google Voice offers call screening. Anyone in your contact list is allowed through - everyone else has to announce their name which is played to you. You then have the option to take the call or send them to voicemail.

$1/mo? Is that with 911 service? Who is the provider? Callcentric is $2.95/mo but you tack on another $3/mo for a 911 fee.

That was one of the greatest Grandcentral features that Google eventually adopted. GC users could report a number and other GC users could subscribe to those reports, automatically blocking reported numbers. It was great.

What do you mean bad old days? Verizon still does this.

Even my venerable Nexus One had to be rooted to remove the twitter and facebook apks and that was a stock phone straight from google play. No crapware that I noticed on the Nexus 4, so at least that's alright. But it's nearly impossible to exit the Google ecosystem entirely and use an android phone.

Well you can find out for yourself at the OpenBSD home page, which explains their approach to security: http://www.openbsd.org/security.html OpenBSD is definitely an educate yourself then ask questions sort of OS. I'm not slagging on you, just saying it makes more sense for me to post a link than try to recreate the contents of the webpage it goes to. Check it out. Decide for yourself.

Really? You've never heard of a transparent bridge? It is possible to work entirely in passthrough mode and quietly learn all MACs on the network whilst never doing anything yourself but packet passing. If there's no new MAC on the network, there's nothing to trigger IDS.

First this is just a marketing fluff piece by some recruiter wherein he shares his fantasy that for some reason companies will lay off or let retire great swathes of workforce, and then for no discernible reason hire them back through modis so they can take a 33% passthrough cut.

Second , I hear you about contracting vs full-time. It took the .com bust combined with a down-swing in energy to force me out of a contracting for the first time since 1900. But, where I work now also doesn't keep contractors on more than a year and doesn't do business with any but a short list of large shops, all of whom want entirely too much dosh for a 1099 passthrough. So again, this guy is talking out his backside if he thinks there's suddenly going to be a sea of contracting jobs. We don't hire contractors unless we have to just because of the one year limitation. It's not enough time to teach people complex systems, get them productive and reap the benefits.

None of them are perfect, but if I had the NSA's budget, I could probably roll a few together into one useful tool. If they're hiring I ain't cheap, but it sounds like fun.

Oh yeah they *really* loved it when Citibike went in.

I am an avid consumer of most google products. But Google Voice is just too unreliable to merit serious consideration. My texts randomly show up 12, 16, 18 hours later with no rhyme or reason. Sometimes it's when I restart my phone, switch between wifi and the network, sometimes it's just because. Plus the failure to support MMS except in limited circumstances.

Sure, if there's as many people driving Teslas as driving every other car model combined. You've just doubled the amount of traffic on the road and sold as many Teslas as every other kind of car as well in your effort to create a strawman. You're also completely ignoring the fact that Tesla have the opportunity to charge these packs ahead of time, flattening out your tenuously arrived upon peak demand. What a wonderful town you must live in where everyone can afford not only a second car, but a Tesla at that! In the real world - where of the 80,000 people in your area on average 800 could *afford* a Tesla and of those perhaps 10% would choose to buy one, I don't really see a charging station holding 8 battery packs on hand for all 8 owners in your town as an issue, do you?

This is why I call OpenBSD PVP UNIX. If you failed to armor up, you will be flamed to death by fellow players. :-)

OpenBSD is PVP unix. External attackers or your fellow players can kill you any time. As long as you understand that, it's fine.