But the majority (75% of world population) would notice little or no effect.
I think everybody would feel the effects of an electronic meltdown.
No television. Telephones are fried. No airplanes that fly. Wall Street starts using coconuts as tender. Closer to home: your new stereo with DTS is nuked. You can scoop up your computer with a spoon.
Infrastructure would probably derail. How would you enforce a ban on transporting cows, sheep etc.? Ironically, the people in 'third-world' countries would be the least affected.
Good things: Microsoft would sell only useless stuff and FedEx renames to PonyEx.
The NY Times is already watching where it links to. Notice that their mentioning of www.2600.com is not a url but merely a string. Oops, I meant to say www.2600.com. Am I going to be sued now?
Your job is to get as much eyeballs to your site in order to influence something offline. Do you think it is possible for an online community to do the opposite and gain enough offline clout to successful lobby for, say, an amendment to or abolition of, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act? So how can the Open Source community use the Internet best as a political tool?
I have serious doubts that it can be used as political tool because I think politicians do not take the Net seriously. What is your view on this?
(Please, no campaign speeches, I don't get to vote anyway.)
I've used open source software for over 8 years. My coding skills are limited, I know only a bit of C and shellscript programming. I can, however write a decent document or manual page. I'm wondering, does writing the documentation for something require that you know the program as well as the person who has written it? Would I need weeks of experience with the software before I could even start writing? Or would the programmer be able to help me by providing a "rough, technical draft"? How does this work? Are most manuals written by the people who wrote the program as well?
Also brought to you by the smart people of WIPO: the proposal that forbids reverse engineering or circumvention of security in software.
They hid that particular piece in a very big proposal about copyright protection that was almost unanimously accepted by the European Union, (whose politicians wouldn't know a harddrive from a frisbee).
And wasn't in that same proposal the insane notion that caching was a breach of copyright and therefore illegal?
Slashdot Mirror
I think everybody would feel the effects of an electronic meltdown.
No television. Telephones are fried. No airplanes that fly. Wall Street starts using coconuts as tender. Closer to home: your new stereo with DTS is nuked. You can scoop up your computer with a spoon.
Infrastructure would probably derail. How would you enforce a ban on transporting cows, sheep etc.? Ironically, the people in 'third-world' countries would be the least affected.
Good things: Microsoft would sell only useless stuff and FedEx renames to PonyEx.
--Zarn
The NY Times is already watching where it links to. Notice that their mentioning of www.2600.com is not a url but merely a string. Oops, I meant to say www.2600.com. Am I going to be sued now?
mirror in the Netherlands of the 3 PDF files of Courtweb.
Your job is to get as much eyeballs to your site in order to influence something offline. Do you think it is possible for an online community to do the opposite and gain enough offline clout to successful lobby for, say, an amendment to or abolition of, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act? So how can the Open Source community use the Internet best as a political tool?
I have serious doubts that it can be used as political tool because I think politicians do not take the Net seriously. What is your view on this?
(Please, no campaign speeches, I don't get to vote anyway.)
Remmelt de Haan,
the Netherlands
I've used open source software for over 8 years.
My coding skills are limited, I know only a bit of C and shellscript programming. I can, however write a decent document or manual page. I'm wondering, does writing the documentation for something require that you know the program as well as the person who has written it? Would I need weeks of experience with the software before I could even start writing? Or would the programmer be able to help me by providing a "rough, technical draft"? How does this work? Are most manuals written by the people who wrote the program as well?
--Zarn
Also brought to you by the smart people of WIPO:
the proposal that forbids reverse engineering or
circumvention of security in software.
They hid that particular piece in a very big proposal about copyright protection that was almost unanimously accepted by the European Union, (whose politicians wouldn't know a harddrive from a frisbee).
And wasn't in that same proposal the insane notion that caching was a breach of copyright and therefore illegal?
Unfortunately, yes, these dinosaurs are for real.
--Zarn