Whilst bypassing a proxy filter can be difficult, most browser-based and local filtering can easily be bypassed by a quick registry hack, or even just a hidden away option for example, my previous employer allowed access to Facebook and news-sites during lunch hours, using a combination of a registry entry to lock down IE6 settings, and obtaining the settings from a script hosted on the LAN. All you had to do was unlock the settings, and input the proxy address manually. And if I'm not mistaken, the proxy only filtered on a DNS basis, so IPs were cool.

Industry analysts find it hard to overstate EA's satisfaction.

I think that was just a rumor perpetuated by a disgruntled blogger/EA Employee, calling themselves EA Louse./

To me, that sounds like a Publisher's wet dream... They'd just need to come up with the marketing to "justify" it, I'm certain the gaming community would swallow it whole.

Well, to me this isn't about "Fuck Games, I want mah Linux!", this is about the legal right to do as you please with your own property, and this is something that I would think is in everybody's interest. But instead we've seen gamers ride to the defense of Sony, forfeiting their rights as consumers, in favor of getting their latest game-fix. Most arguments I've seen are along the lines of "Piracy is bad!" (Don't get me wrong, Piracy is bad, but the lengths some people go to decry it are astounding), or "Well, now PSN will be full of Hackers. And to me, those arguments pale in comparison to what Sony is trying to establish as some sort of "standard practice", and why that is bad. And I guess that on some level, I expected some overlap between the Gamer and the Geek, but I guess I was wrong.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why gamers will never be taken seriously. This attitude of "Fuck rights! I want mah GAEMS!" that has been displayed by many gamers during the entire GeoHot Vs Sony episode has me seriously perplexed.

True. But as a dev, you'd want to expose your product on as many markets as possible, and I fear that some devs may not be too careful about what license aggreements they accept, and bam, suddenly the entire gaming community is tied up in ridiculous licensing distputes. But I may just be a bit pessimistic, I dunno...

Now what I wonder, should we care about speed? As many others have pointed out, getting from point A to point B as quickly as possible seems to have become somewhat irrelevant. Nowadays when everybody and their dog is carrying a smartphone, capable of processing, sending and receiving large amounts of information, "on-the-go", the need to physically be in another location seems to decrease.

Really? That's odd. I ran it on a Samsung N350 Netbook, with 2Gigs of RAM and the dual-core version of the Atom CPU, and I had very noticeable interface "lag".

To be fair, he *does* run a whitehat company, which seems legitimate enough.

Had similar problems, tried to install Kubuntu Netbook on my laptop. Really shiny interface, but *way* too heavy for my poor Atom CPU.

Maybe I'm stupid for taking the bait, but what's wrong with Mitnick all of a sudden?

Now correct me if I'm wrong here, I'm not too updated on all this license business, but wouldn't it theoretically be possible to close the software under the BSD license, as it's not copyleft?