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TiVo Wins Appeal On Patents For Pause, Ffwd, Rwd 215

Posted by kdawson from the satellites-descending dept.
Lorien_the_first_one writes "After years of wrangling, TiVo has won its day in court against Dish Network, formerly known as the EchoStar, when the Supreme Court declined to take up Dish Network's appeal, forcing the satellite television company to pay $104 million in damages. According to the article, 'TiVo originally won a patent infringement case in 2004 against Dish, which was then named EchoStar Communications. It charged that Dish illegally copied its technology, which allows people to pause, rewind, and record live television on digital video recorders.' Despite an injunction, Dish continued distributing its set-top boxes in the belief that the work-around they had implemented avoided infringing TiVo's patents. Now the case goes back to the lower court for review to determine if they did indeed steer clear of those patents."
Education

MIT Student Gets Artistic With LED Art 163

Posted by Zonk from the what-are-they-teaching-those-kids-up-there dept.
Gibbs-Duhem writes "An MIT graduate student has up a page showcasing a standout art project. He's designed custom LED light fixtures which are seven times brighter than the closest similar commercial models, and include colors which can't be reproduced by a normal RGB cluster (including two ridiculously bright UV LEDs). The result: some beautiful mixed media artwork. The author's goal is to eventually publish a guide to make getting into creating such artwork more accessible to the general public. The site includes lots of great photos and a movie of the art in action. It also has in depth descriptions of the theory involved in this relatively new form of art, an explanation of how the paints were chosen, and an in depth technical discussion of how such lights are designed with schematics and board layouts for those who might wish to build their own lights."

Comment Re:"Democracy" is frequently used inappropriately (Score 1) 296

by aidoneus (#19902803) Attached to: Democracy Player Is Dead, Long Live Miro

When our founders created our country, only 1/3 of the federal body politic was directly elected. We had the lowest taxes, fewest regulations, our federal civil service was actually serving, rather than ruling, the people and federal police powers were few and far between. Today, well, speaks for itself.

Sure, and if you weren't white you were only 3/5th of a human being and women had no rights to participate in civil society and to vote you had to own land. <sarcasm> Gee, that sounds great. </sarcasm>

There may be problems with our current bureaucracy, but I'd take it over the 1790s any day.
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Submission + - Missed Opportunity at Harvard?

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theodp writes: "In naming a replacement for the controversial Lawrence H. Summers, who resigned after causing a furor with comments regarding women's math and science abilities, Harvard has opted for a decidedly non-mathematical, non-scientific President in its choice of Drew Gilpin Faust, a specialist in the history of the South in the antebellum period and Civil War. Did Harvard miss an opportunity by not naming a female mathematician or scientist to the top post?"
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Journal Journal: The first one. 1

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Ignore this. No really, please do. It's just a place for me to test changes to my profile.

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