The UK Armada /is/ running Windows, depressingly... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/05/windows_for_warships_hits_type_23s/

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.