You've got an attention span so impressive that people actually want to study you. But you don't have time for that; you're too busy coding, or tinkering, or thinking, or obsessively trying make the world a better place through invention with that savant-like brain of yours.
User: A symbol is _____. an intentional departure from the normal order, construction, or meaning of words something that is itself and also stands for something else a literal and concrete representation of an experience of the senses or of an object known by the senses.
There are quite a few answers about Internet Protocol but in another context IP also stands for Intellectual Property or more commonly known as patents. There are quite a few IP laws to protect the patents and to discourage large organisations from taking undue advantages of IPs.