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Comment Re:Tax Shelter (Score 1) 1065

It's far more likely the loan contract is written such that the lender would call the loan at some point during the decline in value and force him to liquidate the collateral and then some to satisfy the debt.

Now if the stock crashed in a short span (matter of days) then it's possible he could escape the debt because they couldn't force liquidation in time to recover any real value. For a company like Facebook that isn't entirely unthinkable but it is unlikely in the current climate.

Comment Thanks (Score 1) 1521

Rob,

Thank you for creating Slashdot

I know you had plenty of help along the way but as a wise person once said - ultimately, all we have to offer to each other is ourselves. You definitely gave more than your share of time and energy to making plenty of people happier. You suffered fools with class and you should be proud of what you have done.

Good luck

Comment Re:So what (Score 1) 243

The NS glue records in the .com TLD are 172,800 seconds (2 days) but that has nothing to do with IPv6 day.

The actual IPv6 DNS records being advertised today are things like www.cisco.com (TTL 30 seconds), www.cisco.com (TTL 300 seconds), www.google.com (TTL 300 seconds) so backing them out isn't a big deal or something that needs a lot of lead time.

Comment Re:Targeted: Fansubbers (Score 3, Informative) 177

This is incorrect. This ruling went against Nagano Shoten's Maneki TV service which was targeted almost exclusively at a small number of Japanese living overseas - especially people who were doing the same thing by sticking a media PC at their Japanese apartment or parents house or whatnot and streaming it themselves.

Sony sells a device called location free TV that does the same thing except you set it up yourself with no service provider involved.

I wouldn't read too much into this ruling. If Sony is sued successfully then this would actually be news.

Comment Re:Dual stack failed? (Score 1) 320

This is simply wrong. Please don't spout this anymore - you are spreading a myth.

There are about 40 /8 blocks allocated to organizations.

Since 2004 we've used at least an average 10 blocks each year and I'm not including the rush in 2010 when 19 blocks were allocated.

If we could magically reclaim all 40 of these /8 blocks today it would buy us no more than 4 years. And remember - those organizations that lost their space would be eligible to immediate regain some percentage of their space based on their actual need.

So do we spend the next 4 years moving to IPv6 or do we spend 5 years in courts with 15-20 of the largest organizations on earth trying to reclaim space that was lawfully granted under the rules in place at the time? What is the better use of the effort that has to be expended either way?

Maybe if we went after all the legacy blocks we might be able to gain close to 10 years but at what cost - how can you possible make it happen quickly enough for it to make a difference?

Some of these organizations have already returned space and I don't doubt we'll see a couple more in the next year or two but it doesn't make a difference. We need to ask ourselves - do we solve this issue now or do we kick the can down the road? I'd rather be one of the ones who helps fix the mess we made.

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