(2) All known methods or operations for obtaining new effectively calculable functions from given effectively calculable functions are paralleled by methods for constructing new Turing machines from given Turing machines.
A basic tenet of OO modeling is the encapsulation principle, which states that objects, the basic building blocks of the model, encapsulate (own) processes, known as methods or operations.
As many have pointed out, the Post's report never accused Trump of discussing sources, methods or military operations.
Reports in The Washington Post and other media outlets, however, did not say the president discussed "sources, methods, or military operations" with Russian officials, but did reveal intelligence from a secret source.
Top Trump administration officials, including Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, disputed the reports, saying that the president did not "discuss sources, methods or military operations" with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Secretary of State Tillerson, also present at the meeting, offered a carefully crafted response similar to McMaster's, acknowledging that Trump discussed a "broad range of subjects" with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador: "During that exchange, the nature of specific threats were discussed, but they did not discuss sources, methods or military operations".
Specifically, according to the Copyright Act, copyright protection in a work must not extend to any functional system or method of operation, regardless of the form in which the system or method is described in the work. .
Many of us clearly think that APIs fit under this as a system or method of operation.
An author cannot acquire patent-like protection by putting an idea, process, or method of operation in an unintelligible format and asserting copyright infringement against those who try to understand that idea, process, or method of operation.
The trial court ruled in 2012 that Oracle's Java API was "a system or method of operation under Section 102(b) of the Copyright Act" that therefore could not be copyrighted.
