Well, the recent Google/Oracle case pretty much decided that "Structure, sequence, and organization" is not a copyrightable element of Java. Why would it be copyrightable in this case?

OF COURSE if you give real-time access to the OBD-II port, you can have all kinds of shenanigans. So don't do that!

How many people would notice an ODB-II Bluetooth adapter plugged into the port? http://www.amazon.com/Soliport-Bluetooth-OBDII-Diagnostic-Scanner/dp/B004KL0I9I

Submitted earlier with a better headline. (sigh)

No, the gotcha is not revealing project code names. Why post code names if the names are secret? The gotcha is...(ahem)

REVEALING THE NAMES OF ANALYSTS WITH ACCESS TO TOP SECRET PROJECTS!

Reflections on Trusting Trust (PDF alert). Required reading for anyone with interest on that very topic. Written by Ken Thompson, in fact.

"Just keep in mind that a government at 1990's prices would provide half the defense and services that it did in the 1990's due to 20 years worth of inflation."

And if you reduced US defense budgets to 25% of current, you still be spending more than the next largest spender (China). But don't take my word for it.

But it's not an asset until it's sold. Until then, it's a number with no intrinsic value. Now if you BOUGHT BitCoins instead of mine them, it would be capital gains when you sold them.

>Facebook is not a company known for it's good faith or concern for their customers.

Wait now. If you are a Facebook user and you don't pay them anything, you're NOT the customer, you're the product!

Why would you even consider getting a CS degree here now?

Perhaps you would like to understand WTF you are talking about. A performance is not copyrightable, as it has not been fixed upon tangible media. A script? Yes. A film? Absolutely. But not a performance.

Not quite. If you do not publish, you have nothing to copy. Copyright is, literally, the right to copy.

Um, could you please point to the tangible media to which the copyrighted work is fixed?

(TL;DR: Magic tricks are not copyrightable material.)

Yup, that was David Small's "Magic Sac". You had to find your own Mac ROMs, though.

How about PC-Ditto, a daughter card with a NEC V20 processor on it so your ST could be a PC as well.

Yes, my Atari 1040ST was a Mac and a PC. And the Atarti ST wasn't too shabby either.

"Analysis" sounds like someone's ideas. Ideas are not copyrightable, only expressions of ideas.