For example a document that goes by the name "Railaksen Selvitys" and dated 2005-12-16 lists several critical problems and unanswered questions regarding the censorship. These problems are listed in the very beginning of the document and include things like effectiveness of the filtering solutions, the problem of collateral damage when censorship affects more material than it should, freedom of speech, what kind of crimes the censorship should exactly target, etc. Most of these went unanswered and the problems are seen with the current implementation of the censorship. Some of the issues were only addressed partially, for example the freedom of speech regarding reception of illegal material was touched but the police has now been found censoring even sites that do not contain illegal material themselves. What is being practiced now isn't what was planned.This isn't the first time that a site has been wrongly blocked; at least for a period in the past the Lapsiporno.info site protesting against the filtering, maintained by Matti Nikki, was blocked. (NB. 'Lapsiporno' is 'child pornography' in Finnish, but the Lapsiporno.info site has nothing to do with pornography, or indeed any other sordid materials) Tietokone (Google Translation)
The OSD2 aims to be more than just a consumer device, however. Describing it as a "super-reference design," Born explained that one aim for Neuros has been to create an open hardware design that can be used as the basis for other products, by customers who want to make set-top boxes, but do not want to design their own hardware. "We're trying to do for the TV set what the IBM PC did for the computer -- provide an open platform so Visicalc doesn't have to be in the hardware business," [Neuros CEO Joe Born] explained.[gallery] LinuxDevices.com
[Project Kenai is] More Than Just a Forge! [It] is the foundation for the connected developer of tomorrow. Freely host your open source projects and code. Find and collaborate with developers of like mind and passion from around the globe.Project Kenai [via O Static]
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The folks over at CodeWeavers (of CrossOver fame) have managed to create a working port of Google Chrome for Linux and Mac using WINE. The port is available for free on the CodeWeavers site. Most of the Google Chrome functionality has been implemented, the biggest missing feature seems to be auto updates. Jeremy White writes on the CodeWeavers blog:[On] Thursday, September 4th, I called a company Fire Drill. I said I wanted to ship ported versions of Chromium for Mac and Linux, and I wanted to do it as fast as possible. By Friday, we had a first working build. But it had a major problem - you couldn't do https sites, so logging in to Gmail, for example, was right out. Unfortunately, supporting that required that we finish the implementation of a nearly brand new DLL in Wine - the winhttp dll. Luckily for us, Hans Leiddeker had recently joined CodeWeavers, and in a bit of a hazing ritual, we asked him to scramble madly to implement what we needed. A little more than a week later, and he had done it. Of course, there were many other people who pitched in and tuned Wine to make Chromium just that much nicer.NB. The CodeWeavers implementation is "free as in beer" but not "free as in speech".
Computerworld [via Slashdot]
- Make your site visually appealing,
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