As with all legislation, just like contracts, you never know how, good or bad or how they will exactly be interpreted, until they are tested in court. The fun thing about trying to sue them of course is what you are entitled to do under the discovery process. The corporations have no qualms about suing government and try all sorts of things on all of the time. It is about time the electorate did exactly the same thing, form temporary political activism groups and class action sue corporations and the government for all sorts of things. Pretty cheap to try on and by spreading out the cost and using as much volunteer labour as possible, likely reasonable cheap in the long run compared to what they will have to spend.

I had a lot of sympathy for people on Facebook 4-5 years ago. After several years of repeated stories in the mainstream press about privacy violations, anyone who still has an account is guilty of wilful stupidity.

What secure OS do you run where the video codecs have had a full security review? Google found (and fixed) around 300 exploitable holes in libavcodec / libavformat in the last year. Do you want to bet that they found them all? Do you always run video codecs in an unprivileged process?

Not every hunter-gatherer got crushed by a mastodon either - that doesn't mean it wasn't a selective factor in tribes that hunted them.

And yet the contents of the tweet made it into the Slashdot summary, quoting from the Huffington Post article. It's no doubt now been posted by other news outlets. How many people do you think would have seen some idiot's tweet, verses the number that will now see it quoted in the news?

Surely we should start with ping and then add Pong?

Huh? I guess that's true if you go back to the ancient greek Olympics (although the winners would rarely actually join the army). The modern olympics had competitions including poetry and sculpture when it began.

Hansard proceedings are now online. I wonder if this gives us grounds to sue all of the MPs that voted for this particular bit of legislation.

They only give you the free copy for the photo of the cover for public domain books. If you want to read these, install FBReader (which has a nice search interface for various online collections) and don't waste time with this app. To get copies of in-copyright books, you need to deface the copyright page. If you can do that in a book shop without having to buy the book, then you live somewhere with very tolerant shopkeepers...

I already have an app that catalogues the books I own by reading the bar code (which contains the ISBN in most cases). It takes a couple of seconds on my cheap phone (Moto G) to scan each bar code - it takes longer to look them up in a DB. Why would I want to use an app that relies on being able to recognise a cover, which is both more computationally expensive and less reliable (several of the books I own have had a dozen or so different covers for different printings - try looking at all of the covers an Agatha Christie novel has had over the years sometime)?

Ah, so I have to deface my books and take two pictures (one of the copyright page, one of the cover)? No thanks.

More interestingly they have not bothered to define what is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character or who classifies it as such, so the legislation as a whole seems to be faulty. So it is really hard to tell what they meant by it.

IMDB ratings are a complete and utter waste of time. The majority of initial ratings and reviews in the first few hours and days will be single posting ratings scoring it at 9 or 10. The same thing will occur on DVD release. So the IMDB score is just a measure of how much the dick heads at the studios are willing to spend with PR=B$ firms on deceitful reviews. Amazons sucks because it purposefully fails to fix it by allowing review and rating filters to block utterly pointless reviews and ratings. As for the others, meh, still similar problems.

Well, that would be the exact reason why to say no, the main video gamers are participant orientated and little bit of viewing is more than enough. It is the failed jock strap douche's that watch sports, hour after, boring hour, after oh my super boring hour and they are not bored at all, just deluding themselves that they are on the field ie computer games can of course right there and then enter their field. Also in the real world PvP is not so much player versus player but purse vs purse. The greed balance of selling virtual junk for real currency versus allowing people to win for free. Let people win for free instead of admins logging on with powered up characters kicking those cheap bastards arses who are not spending enough.

Perhaps they should be looking at the Olympics from the other point of view, should they either just stop or end the lies about amateurs or simply stop lying and make it all professional.

The internet delivered a great thing for most geeks and nerds, the opportunity to escape sports broadcasting and the advertising associated with it.

UK laws, significant core difference to the US. Citizens do not bring charges, they are a witness, it is the state that bring charges for crimes. So the citizen only reports the crime. You also have to be careful with difference between facts and opinions. You are free to express you opinion no matter how nasty but it must be expressed as an opinion. However you are not allowed to make false statements of fact. You can target and challenge organisations and deride them however you can not target and challenge their members and deride them. So hate speech, make a false derogatory statement of fact targeted at individuals. Not hate speech, render an opinion about an organisation no matter how derogatory. Quite simply freedom of speech is the right to express an opinion and not the right to lie, if fact there are a whole range that expressly forbid lying in a whole range of circumstance not least of which is perjury or just like what happened in a very recent US grand jury, an intent to submit witnesses who you knew to be lying to the grand jury as if those witnesses were telling the truth and to the press and the public at large, in fact the whole world got to see first hand the corruption in US injustice system.