Comment Re:hmm, Perjury? (Score 1) 192
They stated that the merger would *enable* them to reduce prices. They did not say they *would* reduce prices.
Yes, they're weasels. No, that's not perjury.
Comment Re: /. headline is misleading (Score 1) 192
It did enable them to lower prices. They just chose not to.
Bingo!!!
Comment Re:/. headline is misleading (Score 1) 192
LOL! is the Jayfar account run by Trump or something?
Hardly. Just stating True Facts® and kind of a stickler for words having well-defined meanings. There simply is no promise offered or implied in the wording provided. People who think they see a "promise" where the word itself doesn't actually occur are bound to be disappointed regularly.
"enable the merged company to reduce prices" != "the merged company promises to reduce prices"
That doesn't mean I don't think AT&T is being shady, but they promised nothing.
Comment /. headline is misleading (Score 0, Troll) 192
/. headline sez: "AT&T Promised Lower Prices After Time Warner Merger -- It's Raising Them Instead"
Yet I am unable to find the word "promise" in the quote from AT&T's filing. Someone tell me, which word in the passage below is a synonym for promise?
"The evidence overwhelmingly showed that this merger is likely to enhance competition substantially, because it will enable the merged company to reduce prices, offer innovative video products,"
Comment Re:Cuba? (Score 1) 91
The new head of the NSA believes climate change is a hoax.
*NASA
Comment In other news (Score 1) 91
Aluminum foil stocks rose sharply today.
Comment Say hi to Bubba for us (Score 1) 285
Hi Tyler. Hope you're having a great time in prison. Tell Bubba we send our love.
Comment Re:"Unexpected reboot" (Score 1) 155
Nah, it's just pining for the fjords.
Comment Re: How's that swamp draining (Score 1) 55
The EPA is run by what, an oil exec?
Nah, you're thinking of the State Department, run by the former CEO of Exxon Mobil Rex Tillerson. The EPA is headed by Scott Pruitt, who, as Oklahoma Attorney General, sued the EPA every day before lunch.
Comment Startling new discovery (Score 1) 92
tl;dr version: A quarter century after the birth of the WWW, a web publication discovers that text on the WWW contains embedded hyperlinks to still more text, which in turn contains still more hyperlinks and so on ad infinitum.
Comment Re:In the words of Trump (Score 1) 677
Trump's FCC is doing away with common carrier status for ISPs. They didn't become common carriers until 2015.
Comment Re: A purpose built chip (Score 1) 91
Not sure why they didn't just call it what it is: ASIC.
Well TFU kinda did that: "TPUs are what’s known in chip lingo as an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC)."
Comment Re:It's Just Facebook Data Mining (Score 1) 69
I just entered my zip code and it accepted that. Of course that may give you a couple extraneous representatives, since zips don't exactly correspond to legislative boundaries.
Comment Re:Killed by the internet... (Score 1) 176
The problem is it didn't keep to its roots. With the maker movement it could had positioned itself a place for makers to quickly get parts, and also as a place to do 3D printing. As well to get replacement electronic parts. Where you can get parts faster than waiting for shipping. But for the most part they just focused on selling stuff you can get at other retail stores.
Maybe, but I doubt that model would have supported for than a couple stores in each city, certainly not all of the remaining 1700-some locations.
Comment Re:Only remove it for California (Score 1) 218
The law doesn't single out imdb. Wikipedia is in violation if imdb is. Hopefully a federal court will put an end to this nonsense.
But Wikipedia doesn't offer paid subscriptions, so no. The law is tailored to sites that do.
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