The GPLv2 may not be the right license for Android, but GPLv3 isn't either. There's no way cell phone manufacturers would distribute patent licenses with their code, especially with all the patent lawsuits happening now. Ignoring a one critical aspects of the use case for another makes this useless.

The linux kernel is modular. You can execute some parts and not others. They were able to argue that they didn't use the part of linux that could infringe this patent.
Different distributions compile their kernels with different options with different things enabled or compiled as modules.

It's usually block level, so if you and I rip a CD it's possibly that we share most blocks except where I had a scratch, or we share just the metadata because we both ripped with the same program.

I'd like to see the reference. It seems to me broadband over power lines would be a shared bandwidth solution, and the number of consumers of the data wouldn't matter much.

Your blog discounts the likely possibility that this is lies for the purpose of FUD, or that even if true the FUD is more valuable than actually asserting the patents.

I think the patent allegations are made to slow adoption. But I think indemnification may be still be necessary, because even proving non-infringement is expensive.

I hope if the patent pools manifest, Google sues for a declaration of non-infringement.

The CPU Limit is there mainly so they can abort programs rather than wait for potential infinite loops. Or at least that is what it was for in the programming competitions I participated in. Get some example problems before making a decision, but I'd definitely lean toward a scripting language, and something with a robust set of shipped libraries.

Part of the source for this randomness is the propagation of electricity in the circuit which can be different due to manufacturing impurities. You could potentially predict it, if you had the individual chip. That's better than what we have now, by a mile.

Get them to append the policy (they probably won't read it), to allow you to send remind emails and texts. Have the frequency ramp the longer they don't comply. Eventually they will give in, or fire you.

Building efficient systems is difficult. Building them small is even more difficult. By shifting the problem, you have one less problem. We already need more efficient less polluting power plants.

And even if the hacker is in the US, getting law enforcement cooperation to get logs from that hacked box will be nigh impossible.

How many of these scams and hack originate in the US anyway? Will their customers really have information to share?

Agreed, I think less than 1% of the patents accepted now should be, but I believe there may be valid patents that have unfair terms and are stifling new development.

Ultimately the only entity that can force a sale is the government. The government made a mess; they need to clean it up. But even if they clean up the mess, they need to solve the corner cases.

Sadly, I think the answer may be government intervention. I was at the aviation museum in Seattle, and I learned something interesting.

The government had to nationalize a bunch of patents, set the license fees reasonably and pay back the original inventors to get more people working on planes.

It may be that something similar has to happen to get us the web we want.