Douglas R. Hofstadter and his writting, Godel, Escher, Bach
Roger Penrose and his writting, The Emperors New Mind
Carl Sagan, especially his work in The Demon-Haunted World. I read this in more recent years, and found myself launched into a new understanding and exploration of the nature of science and humanity.
...and pick any of the large number of scifi authors, of course.
I didn't see reference in the posting who originated this C&D, whether this was from GameSpy's in-house counsel or from an outside firm. Its likely that even if they have in-house counsel (which would be a lawer or group of lawyers), it is not handling this personally, but have outsourced this to a legal firm.
These lawyers would not be sending out C&D's without direction from in-house counsel, and (likely) they not without go-ahead from their business management unit. It all points back to a poor business decision to take this direction, be it thru policy, bad decision/facts, or bad legal advice.
Sort of a case of dont blame the lawyers, they can't help themselves. And, your right, GameSpy et al probably has the hope/expectation that they will strike enough fear into his mortal soul to get him to comply with their demands.
Actually, to accompany "Wow! 2 comets slam into the sun, which burps", on that fateful day in 1998,/. posted:
Crackers break into Indian Nuclear Centre
Editorial:Towards World Domination
Ask Slashdot:LCD Projectors
Use ICBMs as Fireworks!
Katmai release bumped up
Wearable Linux Machine
RAM for a buck
ABC news on Hacker v. Cracker
Linux.org Gets a Revamp
Crackers, Hackers, and ICBM's, oh my!
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In terms of pure science and academa, a few have been reasonably covered here already. A few from my personal library:
Anything from Donald Knuth
Andrew Tannenbaum and most of his publications
The greatest fundamental contributor to all great science, however, is inspiration. WRT/scientific inspiration, a few loom large in my mind...
Most things from:Marvin Minsky (Negative Expertise was at one point groundbreaking for me)
Richard Feynman holds a place in my personal history
Douglas R. Hofstadter and his writting, Godel, Escher, Bach
Roger Penrose and his writting, The Emperors New Mind
Carl Sagan, especially his work in The Demon-Haunted World. I read this in more recent years, and found myself launched into a new understanding and exploration of the nature of science and humanity.
UA
These lawyers would not be sending out C&D's without direction from in-house counsel, and (likely) they not without go-ahead from their business management unit. It all points back to a poor business decision to take this direction, be it thru policy, bad decision/facts, or bad legal advice.
Sort of a case of dont blame the lawyers, they can't help themselves. And, your right, GameSpy et al probably has the hope/expectation that they will strike enough fear into his mortal soul to get him to comply with their demands.
UA
Actually, to accompany "Wow! 2 comets slam into the sun, which burps", on that fateful day in 1998, /. posted:
Crackers break into Indian Nuclear Centre
Editorial:Towards World Domination
Ask Slashdot:LCD Projectors
Use ICBMs as Fireworks!
Katmai release bumped up
Wearable Linux Machine
RAM for a buck
ABC news on Hacker v. Cracker
Linux.org Gets a Revamp
Crackers, Hackers, and ICBM's, oh my!
UA