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Comment Re:Confused. (Score 1) 577

I guess I was attempting to ask if they can blanket copyright the logic in an API so that you can't create an API similar to another API based on a high level description (although I'm probably getting patents confused here).

So from your nice explanation the implementation/logic is what is being copyrighted and not the purpose or "idea" behind the API itself.

Comment Confused. (Score 1) 577

What exactly is implied by a "copyrightable API"?

Does this mean that we can copyright an API in a broad generic manner? i.e. a "web service that returns a JSON object of apps in an app store".

Or is the specific manner in which the API fetches the information the part that is copyrightable?

Comment Boiling Frog (Score 1) 188

It's going to be interesting to see how people react to the slowly encroaching restriction on what we can/cannot access online.

With the Middle East & Co. the cut-off was drastic, whereas I think in the West we're facing the Boiling Frog syndrome.

People in this thread are asking if the governments' are slow/inefficient, but really I think the general populace is even slower.

Comment Re:Less Impact (Score 1) 384

The only complaints that have any merit are the (mostly perceived) detriment to property value.

We've had them for years powering Bowling Green, OH and if anything they've been an attraction. http://www.bgohio.org/departments/utilities-department/wind-turbines

Do you have any scholarly references to subsonic vibrations causing health issues with wind turbines? I'd be interested in reading those because it sounds like psycho-FUD tbh.

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