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Comment: The ITC's mission (Score 1) 200

by Nalez (#40049001) Attached to: Microsoft Wins US Import Ban On Motorola's Android Devices

The mission of the ITC is to "serve the public by implementing U.S. law and contributing to the development of sound and informed U.S. trade policy"

Exactly how is banning a good chunk of mobile phones from entering the country (HTC and Motorola, and making insane decisions "developing sound and informed trade policy"?
I am just waiting for samsung devices to be banned too.

Comment: Text rates may apply (Score 1) 194

by Nalez (#39918813) Attached to: Verizon To Begin Offering "Text To 911" Service
Thank you for contacting 911. Standard text message charges may apply from your wireless provider, depending on your text message plan. If you have an unlimited text messaging plan, then there would be no additional charge. 911 is not responsible for any fees charged by your wireless provider. If you wish to continue to send notifications to 911, please reply with CONTINUE. At any time you may discontinue 911 text services by sending STOP to 911.

Comment: Not a SINGLE shift in streaming+dvd customers? (Score 2) 349

by Nalez (#37416678) Attached to: Netflix To Lose 1 Million Subscribers
I find it quite interesting in the netflix prediction:
Prior to model change:
Streaming only: 10,0m customers
Streaming+DVD: 12.0m customers
DVD Only: 3.0m customers

Post-implementation of the new pricing model, Netflix expects the customer base break-out to be:
Streaming only: 9.8m customers
Streaming+DVD: 12.0m customers
DVD only: 2.2m customers

So let me get this straight - the price for streaming+dvd is at least doubling - and Netflix is not expecting that customer count to go down at all. Instead, they are expecting a net loss on the two plans they are creating to make things better - instead of a net loss on on the plan that is going up 100% for many customers.

Comment: ...But how useful is that netbook (Score 1) 636

by Nalez (#35789760) Attached to: Are Graphical Calculators Pointless?

For $100 more than the NSpire CX CAS you could buy a netbook and fill it with cutting edge mathematical software such as Octave, Scilab, SAGE and so on

Yeah, sure you can get that netbook, and get the cutting edge software, but can you use it on the SAT. Nope - so its not all that useful for a learning tool anymore, is it.
You should use a type of calculator you plan on using for your long term educational career. My good old TI-85 got me through 6 years of school, and I still have it 10 years later.

Comment: Can you sell IP blocks? (Score 1) 264

by Nalez (#35607106) Attached to: Microsoft Buys 666,000 IP Addresses
From what I can tell, you can not, looking at ARIN's policies.

8.1. Principles
Number resources are nontransferable and are not assignable to any other organization unless ARIN has expressly and in writing approved a request for transfer. ARIN is tasked with making prudent decisions on whether to approve the transfer of number resources
It should be understood that number resources are not 'sold' under ARIN administration. Rather, number resources are assigned to an organization for its exclusive use for the purpose stated in the request, provided the terms of the Registration Services Agreement continue to be met and the stated purpose for the number resources remains the same. Number resources are administered and assigned according to ARIN's published policies.
Number resources are issued, based on justified need, to organizations, not to individuals representing those organizations. Thus, if a company goes out of business, regardless of the reason, the point of contact (POC) listed for the number resource does not have the authority to sell, transfer, assign, or give the number resource to any other person or organization. The POC must notify ARIN if a business fails so the assigned number resources can be returned to the available pool of number resources if a transfer is not requested and justified.

That seems clear to me.

Comment: Re:Idea (Score 1) 323

by Nalez (#35063250) Attached to: Egypt Goes Dark As Last ISP Pulls Plug

We should propose that as a rule.

If your country falls off of the Internet for longer than 24 hours, you forfeit all of the address space allocated to your country, and it goes back in to the unassigned pool. All service points will be instructed to drop peering agreements with your country.

If your country wishes to continue a presence on the Internet, you may re-apply for IPv6 address space

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