With this kind of information, are you applying for a job that might be created by the surveillance system described in tfa?

That too

ISPs and mobile phone companies will have to allow various civil servants access to their logs. I didn't notice anything about the access only being at the ISP's premises (some civil servants have been known to do things like leave laptops containing confidential data on trains) or with judicial oversight, both of which are worrying points. I would suggest using encrypted email, but sender and recipient would still be known and you can get 2 years at Her Maj's pleasure for forgetting your password when it's required.

Sounds like Genuine People Personalities straight from the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation - "sounds ghastly" is about right

Will they keep wearing the masks on which a license fee is probably paid to a SOPA/PIPA backer? Haven't they seen the irony in this since they started using them?

There will never be a year of the linux desktop but every year will be the year of the linux tablet. I can live with that

If this awful piece of legislation gets passed, how long before there is a works-most-of-the-time workaround available? Am I misunderstanding the bill to think that way?

Rumour has it that Gibson walked out part way through because it was so similar to what he'd already imagined for what became the setting for Neuromancer

Google "deindividuation" to see that once part of the mob, there were probably no "some of them" acting for any other reason than as part of the general violence and theft. I can't prove that there was an absence of people thinking that they could change things by their actions (however dumb that would make them), but then absences are notoriously difficult to prove - can you prove a presence of them?

There's been a lot written about these "riots", as if the authors were looking at individual rioters' motivations, but basic mob psychology suggests that becoming part of a mob relives the individual of individual motivations or at least the usual demotivators that affect their behaviour as shown in (or similar to) the Milgrim and Stanford Prison Experiments. My take on the thing is that there was some initial anger influenced by general and specific circumstances but then, when those involved saw that their actions weren't being clamped down on, they became a mob and lost some of their personal self control, which is when the hell started breaking loose.

Individuals won't last long against a mob, but this supposedly shows a group of people scaring the looters away from their businesses. Seems like the looters don't deal well with people standing up to them

Given how thin the walls in my last house were, I don't think I'd like to live in one built with less materials. Sounds like a race to the bottom with things being cheap and use once then recycle rather than built to a good standard and to last for a while. It might boost the GDP, but I'd rather not live in a cardboard and polythene house.

Is there a reason for wanting to increase the economic growth of a nation other than the fact that we've all been told it's a Good Thing all our lives? Has it cleaned our air or water (when getting them dirty has added to the GDP), made a more law abiding population (when paying for the crimes add to the GDP) made a healthier or happier population (when hospital use and medication increases GDP) or a more peaceful nation (when war and other military activity adds to the GDP)?

Does just charging more (and getting people to pay it) for something increase the economic output of that thing? If so, would legalising narcotics* decrease their economic output? Does inflation mean automatic economic growth?

*assuming that legalising them would bring their street price down

So does this disprove the greenhouse effect and radiative heat transfer will continue to vary as T^4 regardless of what we put in the atmosphere?

I'm not saying I know the cost saving for pv solar panels, but the Daily Mail is hardly a good source of reliable information

Or adapt standard Slashdot units maybe? Amount of energy released by burning 1 Library of Congress = 1 BLC Amount of energy required to make a Volkswagen from mining the ore to finished product = 1 VW

There are some landfill sites in England that are producing electricity from the landfill gas: http://www.eco2uk.com/en/our_projects/landfill_gas.asp I don't know how much they're making from this or how much of that is from selling electricity and how much from government green grants, but there's enough money from somewhere to make it happen on admittedly fairly small scales