Those situations have absolutely no baring on what happened here in the UK and you can't compare them. In those countries, they were actively uprising against a political struggle and the whole of the nation was behind the movement. In the case of the UK riots, it was essentially a load of complete reprobates wanting to cause as much trouble as possible and loot some free shit from houses and business. The feeling over here, on the whole, is one of utter disgust and I would imagine that most people in the UK would support any actions that could prevent the spread of violence if it can be justified. This might be a step too far, but as someone above me mentioned, it's only being discussed at the moment. Twitter was a complete nightmare throughout the ordeal, with fake and unsubstantiated reports being broadcast and getting people worked up for absolutely no reason.

Personally, if you were going to use a third party alternative, I'd go for something like SparkleShare http://sparkleshare.org/

Apparently it has Win 7 support, especially for jumplists, but I don't see it...

I'll take a bit of a hole in direct debit security if it makes Clarkson look like the knob that he is.

Ever the idiots, Sony have again dropped the ball with this. All they need to do is hold their hands up, congratulate the hackers on their work and release some sort of API allowing software to be loaded on GameOS. Allow Other OS to be reinstalled as well and 80% of the people interested in this will run away and make proper homebrew software rather than concentrate on piracy.

I wouldn't wish 4Chan's wrath on my worst enemy but it sounds like this guy needs a taste of his own medicine to me.