Meeting 2008-02-06
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- Date: Wednesday, February 6, 2008
- Time: 8:30PM
- Place: Torgerson 3180
Attendance
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Goodies
Game
News
TiVo wins appeal against Dish, uses patents to shut down Dish DVRs
TiVo sued Dish in 2005 for patent infringement of a 'multimedia time warping system.' In April 2006 it was ruled guilty, so Dish counter sued to have the patent re-examined. Last Novemeber the patent was ruled to be valid. Dish appealed, but lost. In all likelihood Dish will either have to pay the $89.6M infringement fees or be forced to deactivate its customer's DVRs.
Ars Technica - TiVo wins on appeal
Ars Technica - TiVo patent upleld
Slashdot summary
NFL prohibits churches from showing the super bowl on anything larger than a 55' screen
United Nations University starts using OpenCourseWare
Cinelerra community forks the video editor
- It's about time. Heroine was only slowing them down...and slowing me down (as a user). --Conley 05:30, 7 February 2008 (JST)
SFFC posts election results
- Elizabeth Stark
- Fred Benenson
- Brendan Ballou
- Christina Ducruet
- Kevin Driscoll
College Affordability Act still going down
The EFF says that the language requiring a piracy detection system at universities still remains in the bill. See the article.
VTLUUG installfest
Sunday, February 10th, from 12 PM till 6 PM in Squires 145
Movie nights with the VTU
We have March 21st and April 4th to do movie nights
Show and tell
Open floor
Free Film
Check out a list of free films.
Suggestions:
- Conley
- WRTJ Ep 56-75
