You make it sound as if developers were like everybody else.

Or perhaps the article made it sound as if developers are somehow different from anybody else.

How many teachers in that country are going to put textbooks online now?

The most ideal answer would be "All of them." Next all the students. All their parents. All their neighbors.
It will be the only way to change the law.

Our ancestors will not have that problem. They will be reminded by copyrights, patents and trademarks

Because Europe was better? Why not:because we want to increase our quality regardless of what others are doing. Think about it: if the Europeans would not have been better, what you had would have been good enough. Or "We could predict the storms better and save potential lives, but who really cares? We are already the best in doing it. USA! USA! USA!"

Furniture moves around. They are not fixed. Ever been to an office where there are no cubicles? They need false floors to do the wiring to the desks a lot of the time or it comes out of the ceiling.

For an office false floors are a standard. For a house, they are not. That will add extra cost that most people rather spend on an extra room or paint or windows.

You will have perhaps 3 extra outlets and for that your new false floor will be too expensive.

5318008 and turn your calculator over.

1) Do something
2) Keep your name in the press
3) ???
4) Profit

A 20 second loading of cellphones is not really a must have. It is a nice to have. With a phone you will be for longer then 20 seconds to reload it (e.g. at your desk, when you sleep)

Where such load times would come in handy is with electronic cars. That way you can drive cross country and do refills at the same speed as you do now.

I, like probably most here on /., have my own domain. Whenever I need to enter details for something I order, I use a new email alias for each site. e.g. for this site it would be slashdot.org@example.com That way I will know who the fucks were that sold my address, because in many cases it will be sold and not leaked.

And them , if I know, I could decide what action to take. e.g. in your case none if it were the Americans or a lot, if it were the Swedes.

It does not prevent anything. It just makes identifying the guilty easier.

OTOH in the last 10 years that I do this, I have not once seen spam coming into one of those addresses, unless it was from the website itself.

In Europe, the call centers are payed for by taxes, just like you pay for police and fire departments and they come out of their budget.
The fee for the actual call is absorbed by the telco and thus is payed by everybody else indirectly. That amount however is minimal and just a cost of doing business, just like the computers they use, the domain they own and even toilet paper.

In Europe you pay the sticker price. That must include all taxes. If the pricing is wrong, they will have to give you it for the advertised price as long as it is reasonable. So no buying a Mercedes for 50EUR if they forgot a couple of zeroes.
I did buy a headset for 10EUR instead of 30 as that was how much it was advertised as. Obviously they corrected the price immediately.
This is also the case for restaurants and bars. So no tipping in many places (or minimal tipping) as people get payed by their boss for the work that they do.

Thankfully my rights aren't governed by popular opinion.

So why do people vote again?

Why patent it at all? Even if what you have should not be patentable, but your country somehow allows for software to be patentable, why patent it at all?

Imagine that you make something available and you do not patent it. Somebody else sees it and patents it. Good for him. He just wasted a fuckton of money for something that can be easily proved as having previous art, BECAUSE it is open source.

If you want those patents to defend against other patents, beware of the following:
1) You need a LOT of money.
2) You are now fighting in the mud with the pigs. Only to realize after a while that the pig likes it.

I am not sure what you think, I think it means that Climate Change is Gods punishment for gay marriage.

OK. It is completely not what is said, but if you can twist what is presented, so can I.

Incredible when it actually says that "Global warning is man made" you try to spin it. Now take your thinking and come back with proof. Unless you have actual proof, I will disregard it as if it were identical to 'I believe'.

The problem is, those two things go hand in hand. If you don't understand the details of the technology, you're highly likely to miss a bunch of nuance in understanding how (and how much) it can solve your business problems.

Untrue. Let us take a car example. I as CEO want to move our product from place A to place B. I also want to move myself from place A to place B.

So I ask people who know about these stuff and he will then ask me how much stuff there is going to be moved and how often. He then proposes a truck or a fleet of truck or even train or transport by boat or a combination.

For the personal transport, he will also ask a few questions and then will come up with a bicycle or a Maybach with driver or something else, depending on the answers.

Where it will go wrong if the wrong questions are asked or if I give the wrong answer, because I want to influence the answer.

e.g. if I as a CEO ask what the best Helicopter is for my daily transport, I will get an answer to THAT question. However if I live at the office, the answer to transport should have been "Walk".

And that is often the problem: People who think they know something about the technology will ask for the wrong things and then are surprised they get the wrong answers.

Very few CEOs get this. Very few are able to let go and just trust the people in their team to be qualified in their field. I have had only a few who actually said to me "I do not understand what you are trying to explain, but I trust your experience and expertise and believe you will deliver." Obviously this does not happen at the first day at work. It takes honesty from both sides. i.e. me telling when I did not achieved some goal, why and how I would prevent it in the future. Not trying to hide my ass and blame something or somebody else. My team? My fault!

It is the basic difference between being a leader and being a manager. https://www.stephencovey.com/7habits/7habits.php