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Hyperdrive?

:shocked: To the Moderator: You should know that the above post is in clear violation of U.S. Copyright law. I'm not joking. I read a case in my copyright law class that dealt with exactly this issue.

The text of the post above should be removed except for the link.
 
THe point is that its a copyright violation and beleive it or not, companies do sue over this. I like anandtech.com and do not want to see them embroiled in copyright litigation. There is a reason all of the tech news that comes in on this site is linked to and not quoted directly. That reason is copyright law and people who sue for the unauthorized reproduction of freely available material!

this is directly from the terms and consditions of the new scientist website:

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holy geez man, get over it. Here i'll edit the stinkin' article.


I wanted to discuss the feasbility of hyberspace, not gripe over copyright law. I dont think anyone's going to care..

sheesh.
 
Thanks tetado. I appreciate that you wanted to discuss hyperspace and not copyright law. But after reading several cases where magazine and newspaper companies sued the pants off of websites just like anandtech for copying the entire text of their articles, I think my paranoia was justified. <patentman steps off his high horse re: copyright law>
 
people like you and others is why we have such a litigious society.

Can we please get back to the topic at hand?
 
Originally posted by: tetatdo
people like you and others is why we have such a litigious society.

Can we please get back to the topic at hand?
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It isn't very fair to attack him because he makes the law knowen. That's like attacking a police man for letting you off even though you were speeding. He warned you, you know the rules, you fixed the problem; so there is no need to gripe.

Sorry, this was not the topic at hand but I'll comment on hyper-space as soon as I get home from my commute from work.
 
Originally posted by: patentman
:shocked: To the Moderator: You should know that the above post is in clear violation of U.S. Copyright law. I'm not joking. I read a case in my copyright law class that dealt with exactly this issue.

The text of the post above should be removed except for the link.
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Retract your post. You don't have your real name posted in a publicly accessible profile, and you're annoying the OP.

Link to law

If you're gonna nitpick, make sure you got your sh!t straight. 😉 😛
 
Originally posted by: silverpig
Originally posted by: patentman
:shocked: To the Moderator: You should know that the above post is in clear violation of U.S. Copyright law. I'm not joking. I read a case in my copyright law class that dealt with exactly this issue.

The text of the post above should be removed except for the link.
Click to expand...

Retract your post. You don't have your real name posted in a publicly accessible profile, and you're annoying the OP.

Link to law

If you're gonna nitpick, make sure you got your sh!t straight. 😉 😛
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lol! Beat me to it!
 
hyperspace propulsion will never work until the constant of the copyright dimension will be settled 😛
 
I don't know if anyone here is capable of analyzing the possibilities that such a device is, at least theoretically, possible. That said, my inclination is that it's got a few flaws in it. There's been minimal peer review. Even now, when a few physicists have interest in it, why aren't they publishing peer reviewed articles?

And, for what it's worth, I agree with Patentman completely about copyright violations. They happen sooooo frequently here that no one seems to give it a second thought. Heck, half the time, the OP even quotes the part that says "you may not copy this and make it available anywhere else without the author's express written consent." (Now, I've gotta hurry and change my profile, in case I'm annoying someone for being off topic in my second paragraph.)
 
I agree with Roger Lenard, we need a more perspicacious introduction to the mathematics...actually a more perspicacious introduction to the theories behind the mathematics would be better for me.

Seriously though, if you believe that Burkhard Heim developed a mass theorem which predicts the mass of fundamental particles far better than had been done previous, you must believe he probably has (rather, had when he was alive) a handle on something important. Who can tell where this will lead?
 
Originally posted by: NeoCorn
I agree with Roger Lenard, we need a more perspicacious introduction to the mathematics...actually a more perspicacious introduction to the theories behind the mathematics would be better for me.

Seriously though, if you believe that Burkhard Heim developed a mass theorem which predicts the mass of fundamental particles far better than had been done previous, you must believe he probably has (rather, had when he was alive) a handle on something important. Who can tell where this will lead?
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Yeah I've read about Heim-<something> theory. It sounds interesting but I haven't read much of it. I found their paper and want to read it, but it was at one of those pay sites.
 
This makes me ever more want to switch from cs to physics. As much as I'm very interested, I'm completely clueless.
 
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