Not in the handling of Assange, but his own double standards. Apparently WikiLeaks is being controlled from "secret locations", yet he isn't disclosing them! (BBC News) How is it fair and consistent to disclose the US's "list of vital sites" (which no-one need know) but not WikiLeaks' "list of vital control sites"? ;)

I don't know. It isn't great, but I'd put at least the Sun below it, and probably the Mirror.

That said, the Sun probably doesn't claim to cover lots of news - it just focuses on anything to do with football and anything that has big breasts.

The point of DRM, from the publisher's perspective, isn't to prevent piracy - it's to delay it. Most of the sales will happen within the first week, due to the advertising focus...

So why don't they release patches to remove the DRM later on? Relic are the only company that I know of that did it when they released one of their patches for Dawn of War (not that I'm a huge gamer or anything). IIRC it was around the time of the Winter Assault expansion pack.

Not that their DRM was overly effective anyway...

And did it fall on Bieber? Please say it did. ...

Actually, it'd need to be a huge tree to take out all of his fans as well, so that we didn't end up with a "oh noes, teh Bieber is dead" flood instead!

As opposed to that wonderful excitement that is Baseball...

Okay, so us Brits have Cricket, which isn't much better, but you're watching a crap channel (possibly Fox, I guess) if your commentators can't hear themselves and if the cameras are basically static so that you just see a blur fly past.

It isn't the crashes that are important, it is the attempts at overtaking and the near misses. Plus Bernie and the FIA don't take kindly to unofficial video and I think it often gets taken down quite quickly.

Okay, so it probably isn't quite as accurate, but how would this play against the things that webmasters need but which can also be used for tracking - i.e. Apache log files and the like? I can do all sorts of path following and user tracking with logs if I wanted, just by analysing the log files from a normal server. It won't be quite as accurate as something tracked with a cookie, but then even cookies aren't bullet-proof.

Either they've overlooked log files, or they're going to need some really weird standard that gets tracked in a log file so that people can analyse them after the fact without analysing the people who don't want to be tracked...

Given the largest trackers are US companies (or companies the US could find someway to fine) like Google, Webtrends, Microsoft, and Facebook, I think it is totally enforceable.

I can see it now - just like the companies move to Ireland for low tax then they'll move to other nations (officially, at least) to run the tracking.

On top of that then all companies that already follow local but not American law (i.e. just about every European company) will get bitched at by some Americans who think that their laws should apply to the company because they are American, even if the site isn't. The American Government may even try to get them enforced.

On top of that then America will find that the EU has some different/stronger/conflicting laws and will completely ignore them because "they're not our laws", even if they want it to work the other way around.

TL;DR: It'll be business as normal, only for tracking laws instead of tax/etc.

No, then I'd have suggested trying to prevent bomb plots by checking for bombs (possibly using methods that are currently incorrectly implemented, but which should be effective should they be implemented correctly, and which would be demanded should anything happen and they weren't there).

I'm from elsewhere (Read: (comparatively) sensible little nation called Great Britain)

Then a person, place etc.. will exist at some point in every conceivable way it CAN exist.

Wow, who needs Thought Police. Everyone should now be imprissoned because they must, in some instantiation of themselves, have committed some awful crime. Why worry about whether it is in this universe or another? Safer to just lock them all up anyway.

politically opposed websites (because I don't want my children exposed to those liberal crazies, with all their gay rights and pro-choice propaganda)...

It's okay, it is only a UK politician this time, so there isn't so much of a worry about that one. There might be a tiny minority who are like that over here, but overall we're quite sensible and accepting.

Until you get to the politicians, of course. Then they seem to read the Daily Mail too much (think Fox News in paper form, only not quite as blown out of all proportion) and get all these silly ideas that now that they have power then they should use it for "good" (read: interference)

Because most people only want to download (watch TV, listen to music, read emails, browse the web) and most uploads are comparatively small (game data, emails, photos, requests).

Yeah, some people do big uploads (home-mad music, podcasts or videos), but it is like complaining that 90% of the ticket gates are set to only allow people in to a station during morning rush hour. Yeah, you might not like the delay for being stuck behind someone else when coming out of the station, but you're SOL if you think anything will change and go against the majority requirements.

Well, that and the telcos have their hands far up the asses of our government.

Just to beat some American to it:

"blah blah blah TSA blah blah blad"

If you're talking about needing to "be able to release something every day" and you're talking about Ubuntu then the first few days are simple to sort, and I'm sure you could continue a pattern that would keep 90% of Ubuntu users happy:

Day 1: Lighten purple in default background
Day 2: Darken orange in default background
Day 3: Darken purple (but not enough to be back to original shade of purple)
Day 4: Put orange back to what it was
Day 5: Make all window buttons red instead of red and grey
Day 6: Put all window buttons back on the right side of the window
Day 7: Add a clock widget that uses bold
Day 8: Bundle a load of random pictures, slap Ubuntu logos on them and call them "The Ubuntu Desktop Pack" (see Gnome-Look.org for examples)
Day 9: Change the cursor theme so that it turns into an Ubuntu logo when hovering over a title bar - that's a feature, right? ...

Profit may be in there somewhere as well.

Where's the "+1 scary in that it could be true" rating? And I don't just mean "insightful" ;)

People in England talk differently.

I'd kinda know that, what with being British and all ;)

Instead of asking for your "numbers" they'll ask for your "numerics".

You know some weird-arse Brits, then! I've never heard anyone say "numerics". You can say "it was numeric", since "it was numbers" makes you sound stupid.

IP addresses are numeric in as much as they are made of numbers, but that is a description of the format of the IP address and not an alternative word to be used in place of "address". Alternatively you'd say "a numeric IP address", but given that you can't have "a textual IP address" then it is a bit redundant (you can have hex encoding, but that's just a different numeric base).

"IP holder" was partly a confusion in the context about IP - they're talking about copyright, so "IP holder" normally means "Intellectual Property owner", or "the litigious bugger who would rather sue than modernise his ways" - but also just an oddity in the language - there is no property for you to hold or lease. You can be a leasee or assignee of an IP address, but "IP holder" just jarred a bit.