Comment Re:Fraud (Score 1) 256
how is the parent a troll? It sounds spot on.
Comment Re:Just stop watching TV (Score 1) 479
that's generally not on broadcast television
Comment Re:BRING BACK WOZ (Score 1) 399
yes, it's one dollar a year.
Northeastern University Sues Google Over Patent 159
kihbord writes to mention that Boston's Northeastern University and Waltham, Mass. based company Jarg have brought suit against Google for apparently infringing on a distributed database system developed by Kenneth Baclawski. "The patent describes a distributed database system that breaks search queries into fragments and distributes them to multiple computers in a network to get faster results. The patent was assigned to Northeastern University, which licensed it exclusively to Jarg, according to the lawsuit, filed last Tuesday with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas."
Submission + - FCC Moves to Regulate Cable TV Competition (washingtonpost.com)
explosivejared writes: "The Federal Communications Commission is likely to impose a new regulation on the largely unregulated cable television industry, the first of what may be more to come.
Under a proposed rule circulating at the FCC, cable companies such as Comcast and Time Warner Cable would have to slash the price they charge smaller television programmers to lease access on spare cable channels, a move the FCC says would open up cable viewers to a wider diversity of shows.
In addition, the FCC is contemplating a national ownership cap that would prevent one company from having more than 30 percent of all cable subscribers."
