Doug Kerr
Well-known member
Wikipedia, a giant source of information, will be "inaccessible" for 24 hours (all of 2012.12.18, based on Eastern Standard Time) in protest of the proposed bills called SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (the Protect IP Act, or to give it its real title, the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011), that have been introduced in the US legislature. These bills purport to provide protection against copyright infringement and related crimes conducted via the Internet. They are very controversial.
The Wikipedia Foundation advises that, in case of emergency ("I just have to know who Artie Shaw's third wife was"), one can access Wikipedia via a mobile device (on which the blocking mechanism is not operational), or can access it from conventional computers by disabling JavaScript in the browser. I have not yet tested this.
To save you the trouble of doing that, let me advise that Artie Shaw's third wife was Lana Turner.
So it shouldn't be a total loss, I'll close with a photo of Lana Turner:
Best regards,
Doug
The Wikipedia Foundation advises that, in case of emergency ("I just have to know who Artie Shaw's third wife was"), one can access Wikipedia via a mobile device (on which the blocking mechanism is not operational), or can access it from conventional computers by disabling JavaScript in the browser. I have not yet tested this.
To save you the trouble of doing that, let me advise that Artie Shaw's third wife was Lana Turner.
So it shouldn't be a total loss, I'll close with a photo of Lana Turner:
Best regards,
Doug