I think it may be a good idea the create an FB account in your real name, but it should be a dummy account, existing just to block "pranksters" from using it.
Patent law creates the tort of patent infringement, granting patent owners the right to sue those who practice their inventions without permission the right to sue for the tort of patent infringement. No violation of law is involved. If there were it would be the government taking the infringer to court, not the patent owner.
How about simply requesting a death certificate and then verifying by consulting the public records of the issuing jurisdiction? All the other folderol proposed here is superfluous.
An obituary does not provide proof of death. A death certificate provides proof of death. If they have to have some sort of a link it should be to the relevant entry in the records of the jurisdiction where the death occurred (Yes, your death is a matter of public record. More of your precious privacy gone.)
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And thus the CDDL serves its purpose.
...for articles like this.
"...prizes leave participants vulnerable to prosecution." I don't see any in the article.
The energy crisis is all the fault of McDonalds.
> Don't use real names on FB.
I think it may be a good idea the create an FB account in your real name, but it should be a dummy account, existing just to block "pranksters" from using it.
Or maybe they were careful to avoid any Sun patents that their lawyers consider enforceable and were expecting this and are ready for it.
> ...this is the Sun versus Microsoft lawsuit all over again.
No it isn't. That was over the use of the JAVA trademark.
Patent law creates the tort of patent infringement, granting patent owners the right to sue those who practice their inventions without permission the right to sue for the tort of patent infringement. No violation of law is involved. If there were it would be the government taking the infringer to court, not the patent owner.
> If no laws have been claimed to be violated, there cannot be a lawsuit.
Yes there can. Lawsuit are filed over breaches of contract and torts. In this case it is the latter, patent infringement being a tort.
So you are saying that instead of developing Android Google should have bought Apple?
To avoid being sued by Oracle or having the platform on which your software has been debugged sued by Oracle.
The word has multiple meanings. A patent owner can grant a license.
They did. Sun licensed it to everyone. Read the grant in the specification. > ...not stolen it.
It is impossible to steal an idea.
> ...I'm sure everyone violates some law every day...
True, but this is about patent infringement. Oracle has not alleged that any laws were violated.
...not to use Java.
How about simply requesting a death certificate and then verifying by consulting the public records of the issuing jurisdiction? All the other folderol proposed here is superfluous.
There are these things called "death certificates"...
An obituary does not provide proof of death. A death certificate provides proof of death. If they have to have some sort of a link it should be to the relevant entry in the records of the jurisdiction where the death occurred (Yes, your death is a matter of public record. More of your precious privacy gone.)
> The creation of matter out of energy cascades and destroys the laser.
No it doesn't. It limits the intensity which can be achieved by focusing laser energy. The cascade occurs outside the laser.
The preprint says "Submitted on 29 Apr 2010".
> More to the point, there are fewer neutons/protons/electrons around.
Not true.
> IIRC, it's the neutrons that are getting converted into energy, right?
Wrong. It is the binding energy that is being released.
Can you sell yourself short?
Actually, the whole thing smells of insider trading.
Yes.
> We don't really know how the Death Star works.
Of course we do. Cheesy Hollywood special effects are well understood.