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Commented on Imbeciles: update
Yeah, time to start pushing hard. His record indicates that he'll rebel against his party on issues that have major popular support, but otherwise not. If you can drum up a significant local campaign, that should get his attention. I...
Commented on It's a crime
I don't think SF and crime fiction are inherently opposed here, simply because not all SF is divergent over the course of the book. Admittedly some of your work wouldn't fit with it too well, but let's consider the Eschaton...
Commented on Imbeciles: the second round
Charlie @14, there's more to this one than just the whips and party line. With Labour likely to lose the next election and their seats at risk, backbenchers are more willing to buck the whip, since de-selection at this point...
Commented on Imbeciles: the second round
Please arrange to see your MP as soon as is convenient, make sure they know exactly who you are, and have a good long rant at them about this mess. The government's pushing this one hard, so we need as...
Commented on Imbeciles
We really need to kill this thing dead. I wrote a long email to my MP last night....
Commented on Still on the road, sort-of
I find myself wondering when it becomes cheaper to shield from cosmic rays by making your "biosphere" large enough to retain an atmosphere via gravity - meaning planetary mass, albeit for a fairly small planet. I'm not talking about full...
Commented on News from the Future Front
@35: Yes, this actually happened. It's just one of the many stupid things that has happened in the history of the Coordinated Online Register of Electors, which is little more than a national database of the names and addresses of...
Commented on News from the Future Front
I'm not sure anybody is going to get single-sign-on in a practical sense. The problem is the widespread use of third-party applications that implement their own authentication system. Getting third-party vendors to support this kind of stuff is notoriously impossible,...

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Charlie Stross commented on It's a crime
Eric @47: trouble is we don't apply that legal yardstick and penalty to humans -- if we did, there'd be a hell of a lot of dead 16-year-olds (caught kissing a 15 year old, go on the sex offender's register -- this is a real problem right now). Nor do we recognize dogs as people. Is the AI more like a human being or a dog? This question has the potential to tie courts (and philosophers, not to mention theologians) up in knots for centuries if we ever develop GAI....
Charlie Stross commented on It's a crime
tim @62: "The Wire" is a piece of fiction. I prefer primary sources, thanks....
Charlie Stross commented on It's a crime
tim, It's American. I am not writing an American crime story. I'm writing a Scottish one. Different organizational culture, different model of policing, different legal system, different types of crime. Scottish policing goals, objectives, and methods differ radically from those you'd expect in Baltimore -- almost certainly far more so than you imagine. Furthermore, the direction in which they're shifting is rather un-American, too....
Charlie Stross commented on Imbeciles: update
niczar: Labour is not a monolith -- it's a political party. Despite being much more tightly whipped than an American political party it is, nevertheless, representative of a coalition of interests. My take on the DEB is that the Department for Trade and Industry (or whatever it's called these days), prop. P. Mandelson, is subject to regulatory capture by the industries it deals with -- in this case, the big media conglomerates (e.g. NewsCorp). There's a three-pronged strategy under way by big media, to defend their turf: (a) sue the pants off individual file sharers (for propaganda milage -- these...
Charlie Stross commented on Imbeciles: update
FrancisT: I suspect you have something in common with the Adam Smith Institute /me: * Brain asplodes *...

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)

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