You are wrong. Sweden has to follow its own laws, and cannot give special treatment to any person. This explains it pretty well I think. It is from Dagens Nyheter, the largest morning news paper in Sweden. (it's google translated to english) http://translate.google.se/translate?hl=sv&sl=sv&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dn.se%2Fnyheter%2Fvarlden%2Fasyl-till-assange-ar-ett-slag-i-luften To quote from the end of it:

It has nothing to do with if Julian is being reasonable or not. He is suspected of a crime on Swedish soil. In a democracy you cannot give one individual special treatment.That is what you do in a dictatorship.

I think he might be referring to this where Richard Dawkins explains it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48EWLj3gIJ8

Sure it was, but should they be at Metacritic? Anyone can rate anything without looking if they like to, but it will be of little or no use to anybody else.

Even though meta critic has become the standard for measuring the quality of a game, they sadly do not check the quality or sincerity of the reviewers they pick. I myself work at a smaller indie game studio. Our last project got reviews between ranging from between 2 to 10. How that even is possible is due to several factors, though the main one being that some reviewers didn't really review the game at all. They just scraped at the surface of it, and Metacritic then used that score. Our game wasn't perfect, neither was it crap. It is fun, addictive, beautiful, with a few bugs. But was it a 2 or a 10? Never.

I know that the larger companies in the business keep track of every journalist and blog that has been lucky enough to have been taken up at Metacritic. If the reviewer is known for giving constantly low or bad reviews they will never receive a copy for reviewing. That doesn't hinder people from buying the game at release and then reviewing it anyway, though it might stop those important first reviews from being bad I guess. Guess we have to do the same at our little studio.

What is really needed is a meta-meta-critic. A site where journalists and reviewers themselves are rated based on their seriousness. Something like the system for rating comments here at Slashdot.

Awesome read! At the JANUARY 29, 1987, entry,

"Roland is a hacker of the old school. He’s polite and unprepossessing in his dress and demeanor, careful about money and contracts. He drives a Saab with license plate SNABBIL."

That plate text translates to FAST CAR in Swedish... doubt if he knew... since he didn't comment on it ;)

I'm from Sweden. My friends began to move from MSN to Skype around four years ago.Now I have basically no one on the MSN list. Last 4 companies I worked at use Skype internally. So I think you might be wrong, MSN is not the standard IM client is Sweden. At least not in the computer games industry or in internet technology businesses :)

The Facebook data center in Luleå will use about 100 megawatts electricity, while the steelworks only uses 80-90. Just using the waste heat from the center is enough to to supply 40.000 houses with heating... though the waste heat from the steelworks is already used for that... so the waste heat from the center will just be eh... wasted...

Guess it is because the silicon wafers that a CPU's are made from must be cut along the atomic layers of silicon. Silicon in solid form at room temperature crystalizes into a diamond cubic crystal structure. It is very strong, but also very brittle. It is easy to cut along stright lines, following the faces of an octahedron. To cut at any other angle would propably be very difficult and risky. Maybe it would therefore be hard to cut a wafer it trianglular shapes?

The difference is that Wikipedia is just one on many outlets of information, while SOPA tries to control the flow of information in itself.

If you feel that you cannot trust Wikipedia you can always chose another place to voice your opinion or obtain information from. If SOPA becomes reality then that might not even be an option.