Moving towards decentralised internet infrastructure such as https://ipfs.io could help with this. ISPs setting up IPFS caches for their customers could save a LOT of peering bandwidth.
Ethereum is addressing this. They made sure that the algorithm was bothering by memory bandwidth, to try and make it harder to create specialised ASIC hardware.
For anyone that is interested in picking up a language really quickly, I can highly recommend Fluenz http://fluenz.com/
I tried the Pimsleur audio lessons, but I am a visual learner. Fluenz structured things very easily. After 2 hours I could point and say I wanted items. 6 hours I could say I want to look at things and talk about other people. I'm at the 12 goes out lessons point and I can now go into shops and ask basic questions and know how to ask about prices.
I'm doing this with just 1 hour every few days with the lessons.
In Australia, the government is trying to grant their security organisation (ASIO) permission to read citizens emails, monitor web behaviour, etc.
There is a similar petition for Australians to sign http://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/privacy/protect-us-but-res...
Eg. Sonic 3 ice cap zone https://chiptune.app/?play=Sega%20Genesis%2FSonic%20the%20He...