is an Elizabethan Middle-English phrase meaning that the person testifying or giving a sworn written statement such as an affidavit or response to an interrogatory has no more to say about the matter.

refers to the Function-Way-Result-Test or Function/Way/Result Test.

refers to a restaurant, inn, bar, tavern, or any other similar place of business in which the public or patrons assemble for the primary purpose of being served food or drink, in which the majority of the gross square feet of space that is non-residential is used for that purpose, and in which non-dramatic musical works are performed publicly.

refers to when a Work is set in a tangible medium of expression. It occurs when a work's embodiment in a copy or phonorecord, by or under the authority of the author, is sufficiently permanent or stable to permit it to be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated for a period of more than transitory duration. A work consisting of sounds, images, or both, that are being transmitted, is "fixed" for purposes of this title if a fixation of the work is being made simultaneously with its transmission.

refers receipt, or expectation of receipt, of anything of value, including the receipt of other copyrighted works.

A patent system in which the first inventor to file a patent application for a specific invention is entitled to the patent. In India and in most other countries, the first person to file has priority over other people claiming rights for the same invention.

Specific sums payable for various services provided by the Indian Intellectual Property Office.

Use of works for purposes of private study, research, criticism, review or news reporting that does not constitute infringement of copyright.

(File Transfer Protocol) -- A very common method of moving files between two Internet sites. FTP is a special way to login to another Internet site for the purposes of retrieving and/or sending files. There are many Internet sites that have established publicly accessible repositories of material that can be obtained using FTP, by logging in using the account name anonymous, thus these sites are called anonymous ftp servers.

When an online discussion degenerates into a series of personal attacks against the debaters, rather than discussion of their positions. A heated exchange.

See Also: Flame

Originally, flame meant to carry forth in a passionate manner in the spirit of honourable debate. Flames most often involved the use of flowery language and flaming well was an art form. More recently flame has come to refer to any kind of derogatory comment no matter how witless or crude.

See Also: Flame War

A combination of hardware and software that separates a LAN into two or more parts for security purposes.

See Also: Network , LAN

An Internet software tool for locating people on other Internet sites. Finger is also sometimes used to give access to non-personal information, but the most common use is to see if a person has an account at a particular Internet site. Many sites do not allow incoming Finger requests, but many do.

(Fiber Distributed Data Interface) -- A standard for transmitting data on optical fibre cables at a rate of around 100,000,000 bits-per-second (10 times as fast as Ethernet, about twice as fast as T-3).

See Also: Bandwidth , Ethernet , T-1 , T-3

(Frequently Asked Questions) -- FAQs are documents that list and answer the most common questions on a particular subject. There are hundreds of FAQs on subjects as diverse as Pet Grooming and Cryptography. FAQs are usually written by people who have tired of answering the same question over and over.