Now, I admit I'm not nearly as much of a networking geek as most of you/.'ers, so maybe I'm totaly off base here, but how would you freedom fighting, long haired hippies feel about the Saudi Govn't using free software to make this firewall?
I think the benefits would be enough to make them switch. They could drop their dependence on non-Saudi organizations (like American businesses) and depend only on technically minded Saudi nationals. I could here the Microsoft commercials now, trying to show how bad Linux or *BSD is for making oil prices go up.
When you get right down to it, setting up a firewall in Linux or OpenBSD is very easy. I've done it and I have only a basic knowledge of networking and by reading the documentation. Would you guys be able to sleep at night if Linux was used to keep the common man down?
Before someone else says it, I must inject the obligatory "Who uses X anyway?"
Once emacs gets color on the console (version 21, hopefully soon), we will never need X again. You will have all of the functionality of a windowing system, widget set, mail reader, text editor, calendar, diary, news reader, common lisp, two flavors of VI emulation, and a web browser all built in to a console window manager.
Anyone know if it would be possible to hack in framebuffer support for images in emacs on the console so I could get my pr0n on the console?
Seeing as how I don't live in europe, I was wondering: do any of the europeans out there know if this treaty considers drug related websites a crime? I'm sure slashdoters out there remember some of the recently failed bills in america that tried to make the distribution of drug related information (and even linking to information) on the internet illegal, not to mention sites that sell drug related paraphernalia. Often these clauses are tacked on to unrelated bills (like bankruptcy law reform). For those that don't know, check out this bill.
So my question is, basically, what is the situation like across the pond? Here, even buying hydroponic equipment for legit reasons gets you put on a list to be watched. Is this treaty going to make it even harder to get the facts people need to make informed decisions?
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Now, I admit I'm not nearly as much of a networking geek as most of you /.'ers, so maybe I'm totaly off base here, but how would you freedom fighting, long haired hippies feel about the Saudi Govn't using free software to make this firewall?
I think the benefits would be enough to make them switch. They could drop their dependence on non-Saudi organizations (like American businesses) and depend only on technically minded Saudi nationals. I could here the Microsoft commercials now, trying to show how bad Linux or *BSD is for making oil prices go up.
When you get right down to it, setting up a firewall in Linux or OpenBSD is very easy. I've done it and I have only a basic knowledge of networking and by reading the documentation. Would you guys be able to sleep at night if Linux was used to keep the common man down?
Before someone else says it, I must inject the obligatory "Who uses X anyway?"
Once emacs gets color on the console (version 21, hopefully soon), we will never need X again. You will have all of the functionality of a windowing system, widget set, mail reader, text editor, calendar, diary, news reader, common lisp, two flavors of VI emulation, and a web browser all built in to a console window manager.
Anyone know if it would be possible to hack in framebuffer support for images in emacs on the console so I could get my pr0n on the console?
Seeing as how I don't live in europe, I was wondering: do any of the europeans out there know if this treaty considers drug related websites a crime? I'm sure slashdoters out there remember some of the recently failed bills in america that tried to make the distribution of drug related information (and even linking to information) on the internet illegal, not to mention sites that sell drug related paraphernalia. Often these clauses are tacked on to unrelated bills (like bankruptcy law reform). For those that don't know, check out this bill.
So my question is, basically, what is the situation like across the pond? Here, even buying hydroponic equipment for legit reasons gets you put on a list to be watched. Is this treaty going to make it even harder to get the facts people need to make informed decisions?
We're so much more organized and motivated than you! Right guys...um...
What was I talking about?