Blocked sites are: jihadmin.com, mujahida89.wordpress.com, is0lamnation.blogspot.fr and alhayatmedia.wordpress.com.

But the system is incomplete: smaller ISP do not seems to be blocking them right now. Perhaps the government forgot to tell them about it.

Summary says: "Syrian military allegedly launched sarin gas rockets".

It is not that obvious who used chemical weapons. We have evidence rebells used sarin

IMO, tools are a secondary problem. Many FLOSS project succeed with just e-mail and a distributed version control system (even plain old CVS). Motivation if the key point of FLOSS: people really want their contribution to get upstream, and that push them to make a lot of efforts. This may be difficult to reproduce with employed developers that may not care much about the project.

We are heading to the situation where patching the kernel will be faster than patching applications:

Kernel upgrade: no downtime

Adjusting a parameter in Java application: wait for 4 minutes for Glassfish to restart

Submitter wants a "widespread compiled language that has good ties into FOSS".

What about plain old C? Otherwise, second best choice seems C++

Posting porn: wrong

Expressing your identity by posting porn: good

There is something weird in this logic.

It is more like "Crimea is ours. Deal with it". Obviously Russia never intended to take over Ukraine, as their army could be in Kiev in less than a week if they wanted to perform a real invasion. We talk about Ukraine, a failed state, versus Russia, a major nuclear power.

But of course, invading western Ukraine, where a lot of people hate russians, would mean dealing with a fierce resistance after the military victory. This is probably the reason why they did not do it. Invading Crimea, which mostly contained russians, made sense, invading Ukraine does not.