Since the application for the patent was filed before 1995, the lifespan of the patent is 17 past the grant date of the patent. And the patents was granted in 1998. So it should expire until 2015.
The other patent on the case was filed in 2002 and granted in 2009, so it'll expire in 2022. (starting in 1995 patents expired 20 years past the application date).
IIRC a submarine patent is a bit more involved than that.
1. File Patent Application.
2. Wait a while.
3. Submit something that delays the Application process.
4. Repeat 2-3 until you decide its time to let your Patent be Granted.
5. Profit.
What the PTO did to combat this is starting in 1995(?) they changed it where the life of the patent is 20 years past the application date, instead of 17 years past the grant date.
The lawsuit was filed Oct 06th, 2009.
There are two patents on the case.
US Patent No. 5838906
Filing Date 1994-10-17
Grant Date 1998-11-17
US Patent No. 7599985
Filing Date 2002-08-09
Grant Date 2009-10-06
Clearly the second one was the one that they were waiting on to sue people over.
That is my favorite part about astronomy. "We think there is a planet there because the star is somewhat blocked regularly" Maybe its just an alien in a space ship somewhere in-between Earth and that star, and every so often he sorta blocks out that star and giggles to himself about how crazy the Earthlings must be going thinking that there is a planet there.
Why on earth does C.S. Lewis link to the Chronicles of Narnia article on Wikipedia instead of say, I don't know, the C.S. Lewis article?
Which easily enough is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.S_Lewis
Someone outside the prison is going to use a directional antenna and point it at whatever location they keep the console at. And then the prisoner can talk to other people, albeit via typing with the controller.
I think it's there were 470,000 connections to the wifi network, so everytime a device disconnected from one wireless router and connected to the next router gets counted. So each time all the students with their iPhones on walk across campus they probably get counted 5-10 times.
Did the police return the $1 to the bank? Or did one of them pocket the dollar for his snack later that day?
Better yet, do you think the bank is going to file an insurance claim? After all, they lost some unknown amount of business during the robbery, the insurance should cover that vague amount.
Google has a "Page" on Facebook, so presumably they have some "dummy" account that whoever manages that page logs into to use. They probably just left that session open on a spiderbot server on "accident" and ended up spidering Facebook with a "dummy" account!
Wouldn't a metal rod in the middle mean that it is possible to bend the lightsaber? Or are we assuming this is some super metal?
Maybe the light in the Star Wars galaxy is made of stronger stuff than our light?
At the university I went to, it felt like a lot of the students who didn't know what degree they wanted, would pick CS because it "had to do with computers" and they had no clue what it would actually entail. Hence large amounts of them failing CS 1.
And as for some pre-CS1 course. I went straight into CS1 without any previous experience programming. I managed an A in it with ease. If you are dedicated, read the silly book, do the homework, it doesn't matter if you knew nothing coming into the class.
One way to verify who you are is to either require you reset your password from the console you last connected to the PSN with or just send an email to the email address they have stored... Because, theoretically neither of those items are accessible to the hackers.
I also found it interesting that they ripped the text from Engadget but referenced the other article.
And if we wanted to read Engadget's descriptions we would read them on Engadget.
I wonder if I can buy a Mac from Amazon and get a refund for OS X because I wanted to run Windows on it.
From what I've read/heard, you are paying for the hardware and the hardware only. As Apple is a "hardware company." OS X is a freebie according to this logic many Slashdot users like to profess.
Besides, Apple's standpoint is that you need to use Bootcamp (and therefore OS X) to run Windows on a Mac.
Slashdot Mirror
Since the application for the patent was filed before 1995, the lifespan of the patent is 17 past the grant date of the patent. And the patents was granted in 1998. So it should expire until 2015.
The other patent on the case was filed in 2002 and granted in 2009, so it'll expire in 2022. (starting in 1995 patents expired 20 years past the application date).
IIRC a submarine patent is a bit more involved than that.
1. File Patent Application.
2. Wait a while.
3. Submit something that delays the Application process.
4. Repeat 2-3 until you decide its time to let your Patent be Granted.
5. Profit.
What the PTO did to combat this is starting in 1995(?) they changed it where the life of the patent is 20 years past the application date, instead of 17 years past the grant date.
The lawsuit was filed Oct 06th, 2009.
There are two patents on the case.
US Patent No. 5838906
Filing Date 1994-10-17
Grant Date 1998-11-17
US Patent No. 7599985
Filing Date 2002-08-09
Grant Date 2009-10-06
Clearly the second one was the one that they were waiting on to sue people over.
Oh, I found a comic about this theory (more or less). http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/368.html
That is my favorite part about astronomy. "We think there is a planet there because the star is somewhat blocked regularly" Maybe its just an alien in a space ship somewhere in-between Earth and that star, and every so often he sorta blocks out that star and giggles to himself about how crazy the Earthlings must be going thinking that there is a planet there.
Why on earth does C.S. Lewis link to the Chronicles of Narnia article on Wikipedia instead of say, I don't know, the C.S. Lewis article? Which easily enough is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.S_Lewis
Someone outside the prison is going to use a directional antenna and point it at whatever location they keep the console at. And then the prisoner can talk to other people, albeit via typing with the controller.
If I had mod points, I'd mod you up for this.
In response to #2, it is an open network. But that alone wouldn't be enough to get that number, so it is likely a combination of 1 and 2.
He got 47 per user by assuming there are 5000 faculty and staff members also connecting to the network. 5000 students + 5000 faculty/staff
I think it's there were 470,000 connections to the wifi network, so everytime a device disconnected from one wireless router and connected to the next router gets counted. So each time all the students with their iPhones on walk across campus they probably get counted 5-10 times.
^ this. Also, there are plenty of sci-fi examples of why this is a bad idea.
Did you completely miss who asked this question?
Thinkgeek sold a Stealth Switch that did that for years, apparently they don't sell it anymore though. http://www.joystiq.com/2006/10/01/foot-activated-boss-button-enables-gaming-at-work/
but I really don't see how this is Slashdot material in any way.
Its under idle, anything goes in idle land.
Did the police return the $1 to the bank? Or did one of them pocket the dollar for his snack later that day? Better yet, do you think the bank is going to file an insurance claim? After all, they lost some unknown amount of business during the robbery, the insurance should cover that vague amount.
Google has a "Page" on Facebook, so presumably they have some "dummy" account that whoever manages that page logs into to use. They probably just left that session open on a spiderbot server on "accident" and ended up spidering Facebook with a "dummy" account!
Wouldn't a metal rod in the middle mean that it is possible to bend the lightsaber? Or are we assuming this is some super metal? Maybe the light in the Star Wars galaxy is made of stronger stuff than our light?
At the university I went to, it felt like a lot of the students who didn't know what degree they wanted, would pick CS because it "had to do with computers" and they had no clue what it would actually entail. Hence large amounts of them failing CS 1. And as for some pre-CS1 course. I went straight into CS1 without any previous experience programming. I managed an A in it with ease. If you are dedicated, read the silly book, do the homework, it doesn't matter if you knew nothing coming into the class.
One way to verify who you are is to either require you reset your password from the console you last connected to the PSN with or just send an email to the email address they have stored... Because, theoretically neither of those items are accessible to the hackers.
I also found it interesting that they ripped the text from Engadget but referenced the other article. And if we wanted to read Engadget's descriptions we would read them on Engadget.
explains why I can never get into the good dorms. There are a bunch of middle age men camping in them!
I am a CS student, and out of all 7 of my advanced math classes, the ONLY one I have ever found useful with programming is Discrete.
From what I've read/heard, you are paying for the hardware and the hardware only. As Apple is a "hardware company." OS X is a freebie according to this logic many Slashdot users like to profess.
Besides, Apple's standpoint is that you need to use Bootcamp (and therefore OS X) to run Windows on a Mac.