That's not true. You can have multiple concurrent patents on the same thing that all expire on the same day. You can also have improvement patents or patents on different ways of doing things. But then it's not "the same thing".

You can have multiple patents which cover the same thing, expiring on different dates, some even applied for after the expiration of the previous one. This is not supposed to happen, but it does.

This also is not true. Any small difference between the prior art and the patent means that the prior art does not anticipate the patent. Any small difference between the accused infringing device and the patent claims means that the accused device does not literally infringe the claims.
However, the prior art may still teach or suggest the patent and render it obvious, and the accused device may infringe through the doctrine of equivalents if the differences are minor.

The doctrine of equivalents is applied so broadly and obviousness so narrowly that what I said is the case in practice. Particularly not once the patent is granted and has a presumption of validity in its favor.

I use my 100LX as an alarm clock.

I use an HP100LX daily ... as an alarm clock.

Not at all. Mistakes lead to the deaths of civilians and friendly forces.

Yep. The "news" part of "PR Newswire" is an aesthetic, meaningless part of their name. The "PR" stands for "Public Relations." All it takes is some paperwork to get your account set up, a little dab of money, and they'll push any random drivel you want out to the news outlets -- regardless of veracity. Any time you see *anything* come from PR Newswire, you should treat it as coming from the website of someone who has an inherent bias regarding the topic.

Reformat and reinstall is the only way to remove a root kit.

I abandoned Windows about six months ago as being simply too expensive to maintain. I do not look forward to the inevitable increase in attacks targeting macs. At least OS X doesn't do autorun.

I think they're likely to be used on the main road(s) through small towns or villages, where a 50-60mph limit road becomes a 30-40mph limit one (because suddenly there's loads of buildings, schools, pedestrians etc) but some drivers still don't slow down. With conventional cameras they slow down at one point and immediately speed up again, with this system they need to stick to the limit (or below).

#!/bin/env ruby
 
puts "GOOGLE FOR TEMPLATE META PROGRAMMING"

There ya go. Ruby is so easy!

RISC can do a surprisingly heavy lift, pound for pound...

My old RAQ2 didn't even have heatsinks on the CPU...

By the time you get around to setting up that Solaris server, Btrfs will have stabilized through 3-4 more mainline kernel releases.

If you ever tried to use java.net anytime in the last couple years to host an open-source project, you'd know how close to true that is.

They are making it already, They are selling a lot application servers, most of Oracle Databases that they sell is to be connected using JDBC, even that crap developing suite that they have is open-source based and they are making money with that either, in other worlds... Most of profit that Oracle is having in the last years is due the Java and not just because they have one very good RDBMS, because most of Oracle products are Java based. So what they want now? What I'm seeing is that they simple don't want have open source, and will be one matter of time to they start delivering SDKs that does not reflect the latest improvements... to sell the SDK with the last updates... but if they do that will give one shot in their own feet. Since they bought Sun, I don't remember to did have read any news telling that they have plans to invest into open source.... nothing about that... just a few comments like "everything will keep like is now", and nothing else. One of the biggest problem that they have now is disassociate the brand Sun from Java, because does not exist one Java developer that will associate Oracle with Java now, and it will take time and that they don't want wait to see.

Nice trolling!

precisely. especially that 'slashbot' word reeks a lot of conservative namecalling, which is also quite common in slashdot. since, you know, we are all treacherous liberals, right.

I, for one, sincerely hope they don't.