There is no DAW software as good as Cockos Reaper. Shades of a GIMP advocate!

Reaper and GIMP don't have a lot in common.

Don't fool yourself, computer networks can be tamed much easier than than say, the ocean.

Enough committed individuals can become quite oceanic.

Since the Canadian supreme court ruled in April that even in exigent circumstances that the government must obtain a warrant the bill is unconstitutional on its face. This is just like the US Congress passing CDA, COPA et al, it's pandering to the conservative right even though anyone with a brain has to know it won't stand up to judicial review.

This is an arena where a few motivated civilians can play, too.

At the moment, I'll put Anonymous or a group of Eastern European boys I met a few years ago against the best that a political party's "opposition team" can put together.

Playing War in a distributed worldwide network is not the same as throwing a bunch of hardware onto a battlefield.

So far, the best armies on the Internet are not the ones affiliated with a government or establishment political party. Hell, despite the Octopus doing its best, Pirate Bay and wikileaks are still up and running. If they go down, I'll be more worried.

Now we wait

We wait mainly for the Basque government to change, now that their opposition is going to be so well-financed. I'm guessing there will also be a rash of media stories saying the Basque government is "anti-jobs" or "ineffective" or "anti-business".

The story is the same all over the world: You don't go against the Family (the "Family" being powerful corporations).

Err, what? The turn by turn directions will tell you what section are tolls and even allows you to avoid toll roads. This even works with google maps mobile. The two features I wish GMM had are cache along route (caching the tileset around a specific point is a start but it needs to be able to do it along an entire route). and route override (ie drag and drop route placement, sometimes I know a certain part of a route won't work and the only way to do this with GMM is to pre-plan the route on the PC and save it).

No, there are 3GPP extensions (VoLTE and VoLGA) that optionally do this. Neither has any serious momentum in the US at the moment. Also it will be a long, long time before every tower in the country has a fiber backhaul to enable LTE so phones that can fall back to GSM/CDMA will be needed for the foreseeable future.

There are cordless phones with multiple handsets that will use your cellphone for the outgoing line.

Or, for the same $35 you could get unlimited data and text on Virgin Mobile and use Skype/Google Voice (or if you're like most people just live with the 300 minutes a month, overages are only $.10/minute so unless you talk more than 5 hours a month regularly it's damn cheap).

VoLTE/VoLGA is currently going nowhere in the US and even more nowhere in the rest of the world. It'll be at least five years we see any type of adoption.