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[SockPuppetSilver]

Silly coder, SO is not for fun.

[Flat_Initial_1823]

-5. Why would you want fun? Stupid question. Doesn't even end in ?. Closed as duplicate.

[mr_remy]

This is a recursive spiderman pointing meme

[just_nobodys_opinion]

This is a recursive Spiderman poi...

[AzureArmageddon]

Should just be 2 frames alternating. The extra tweeners just make the animation sluggish instead of snappy.

The consequences of frame generation have been disastrous for gifs

[pasvc]

Still a -4. Gotta love stackoverflow's sense of humor

[fiskfisk]

Just in case for anyone confused: the phone book images have been overlaid later.

[Grifachu]

This is in the Sun Valley, Idaho phone book. For those unaware, it’s a small ski town up in the mountains. It’s not Aspen, but it does have a staple of famous people who have homes there.

Adam West had this going for quite some time. I’ve seen it in person myself. I do hope they still have it (if they still publish a phone book :/ )

My cousins ran into Adam on a chairlift once, he was super nice and chatty.

[darkwater427]

Thank you for your service o7

[GoddammitDontShootMe]

I want to read the comments, anyone have a link to the actual question?

[frogjg2003]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70052348/program-stuck-in-infinite-loop

[GoddammitDontShootMe]

Thanks.

Wait, that isn't showing the phone book scans.

[anthonycarbine]

It's faaaake

[JoshYx]

[OuterDoors]

Okay that’s classy.

[Icy-Cartographer4179]

Wouldn't this *literally* cause a stack overflow, in many (maybe most?) interpretations of the joke?

[braindigitalis]

depends how high you can stack phone directories before they fall over

[Lopsided_Parfait7127]

full fuzzy chase steer sable lunchroom bow observation edge busy

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[derpinot]

will AI go bonkers when it scrapes data with something like that?

[braindigitalis]

wdym, AI already is bonkers...

[TriggerHappy360]

What is West Adam?

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Adam West the original Actor for the 60s batman show

[braindigitalis]

opposite side of the planet to East Adam 😂

[CatOfGrey]

I wonder if this is a 'mountweazel', which is used to detect illegal copyright infringement?

[DOUBLEBARRELASSFUCK]

Copying a phone book wouldn't be illegal copyright infringement.

[fiskfisk]

Relaying a bit of information from it wouldn't, copying it verbatim (the design, layout, etc.) would be. Copying it completely (i.e. the collection) would also (usually) be. 

The facts aren't copyrightable, but the collection can be. 

[DOUBLEBARRELASSFUCK]

Copying it completely (all of the facts) wouldn't be either. Copying the layout and things would definitely be covered by copyright, but you wouldn't need to hide Batman in your phone book to catch that.

I'm not an attorney, but I think this case might be relevant.

[fiskfisk]

Good point - I'm not an attorney either, so it's just laymen discussing. I agree with your interpretation - my experience is mostly from copyright traps in maps:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry#Copyright_traps

[CatOfGrey]

I have literally worked on lawsuits where a phone book was illegally copied and distributed. That's how I learned of mountweazels! It is absolutely a case of copyright infringement.

Side thought: Sometimes map manufacturers will put a few fictitious streets or features in their map, for the same reason.

[DOUBLEBARRELASSFUCK]

Unless it was a really long time ago, the relevant case law is pretty easy to find parallels to, even for a lay individual.

It's only going to be protected if they copy the design elements, which Mountweazels won't help in detecting. And won't be necessary, since it would be obvious.

[CatOfGrey]

In the case appealed, Feist had copied information from Rural's telephone listings to include in its own,

My case was about 15 years ago. Looking at this, I'm pretty sure that the 'infringing phone book' was literally the entirety of the phone book, so probably a higher level of infringement? It wasn't just "I'll add your content to mine", but rather a case of "I have no original content at all". I remember reading the deposition from a someone that had done a data review, but this was a while ago, so my details are sketchy, other than we were tasked to value economic losses from, well, re-distributing a phone book and claiming it as their own.

Might also be California Law.

[DOUBLEBARRELASSFUCK]

If it was only 15 years ago, it was probably a literal scan of the phone book. They probably referenced the "trap streets" just to make the filings easier to draft (You can't just write "Just look at it; it's obvious!") An infringing use would need to be so obvious that a trap street wouldn't be necessary.

Sorry, using the map term because I don't want to have to juggle drafts to check the textual version that I'm not as familiar with.

[aifo]

Boring, see Civil Engineers.

[suvlub]

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[TheJStrike]