You can buy a neutered MP5 with the single-shot trigger group. Try buying one with the 2- or 3-shot burst or the full auto trigger group. You can buy a neutered M-16 de-milled to single-fire. Try buying a real one.

Unless you're the state.

The point is that the state will never allow citizens to be on the same footing as itself when it comes to firearms.

And do you really think that more men were killed by snipers than by M-16s and AK-47s? Incidentally, at least two local police departments near me will issue MP5s (selective fire!) to any officer who cares to qualify.

That is not so. The state can buy as many MP5s as they can afford. Mere citizens cannot.

I think you've hit the nail on the head. Any decent large-scale eavesdropping facility like, oh, I don't know, the one the NSA is building in Utah will be scanning VoIP traffic for audible triggers ("bomb" "whitehouse" "boom") and will certainly notice when the nominal codec doesn't match the payload. Such traffic will certainly be flagged for closer inspection.

Theo retained copyright of the CD layout, to prevent counterfeits. But even as far back as 1999, way before 3.0 was released, the FAQ included this:

Does OpenBSD provide an ISO image available for download?

You can't. The official OpenBSD CD-ROM layout is copyright Theo de Raadt, as an incentive for people to buy the CD set.
Note that only the layout is copyrighted, OpenBSD itself is free. Nothing precludes someone else to just grab OpenBSD and make their own CD. [emphasis mine]

So I could produce a functionally identical CD and even sell it, but if I stuck the original artwork on it, I'd be in violation.

Do you think that if libiax was still maintained, IAX2 might be more popular? As things stand now, it's pretty much useful now only for inter-Asterisk trunking.

There is already something in asterix although I think skype tried to kill it.

Skype for Asterisk is dead. Skype killed it, purely by coincidence of course, right around the time things got serious with Microsoft.

Most of my MX records point at a CNAME,

Doesn't that ever cause you problems? MX records must not point to a CNAME RR.

It seems pretty straightforward. "Your continued use of the Websites following the posting of updates to this Privacy Policy will mean you accept those updates." So stop using the site.

IANAL, but if the changes appear to be retroactive and are really objectionable to you, I guess the best thing to do would be to send them a certified letter telling them that your business relationship has ceased and that you expect any prior data they've collected to be handled according to the old policy.

There are enough free CDN sites out there that no one should let TOS, AUP, PP, etc. changes take them by surprise anymore.

this policy is subject to change at any time, with or without notice to you.

Borders' Privacy Policy is still available. It doesn't quite seem to say that.

Why pick on Social Intelligence Corp? Let the feds clean their own house first and get rid of the Patriot Act. Then they can go after the small-time privacy infringers.

There's more to power-hungry devices than the cost of electricity. I live in an area prone to power outages, some of which last for hours. My primary mail server, routers, and Asterisk boxes need to stay up. The longer I can run them on UPS battery, the less likely it is that I'll have to haul out a generator. That's why power consumption matters to me.

In this case, we actually are talking about dog food, not software, so the answer is no. But my servers and firewalls/routers run OpenBSD, and my smallest, most pugnacious dog is named Theo. Really.

How do I prepare the dog food? I dump some in stainless steel bowls, and then I don't eat it. My dogs do. That's why it's called dog food. To anticipate your followup questions, I also don't eat the batteries or the ammo, and I don't drink the gas.