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I'm not sure it even qualifies as a copyright dispute. (Although the copyright issues raised in techdirt's blog post last week are fascinating.)

The goal isn't copyright enforcement at all because noone (up to and including David Slater's own lawyers) is sure who does own the copyright.

Rather, it appears to be an attempt at preserving David Slater's revenue stream by paying lawyers to rattle a few sabers.
According to Netflix's 2010 SEC filing, their operations expenses are around $400 million. Adding in development, marketing and general administrative costs, their total non-license costs were around $800 million.

They paid $1.2 billion in licensing costs. It's their most expensive cost, by far.
I'm the author of the original blog post. I also ran my tests with a Samsung Series 5 Chromebook. Its DHCP Vendor-Class string is "dhcpcd 5.1.4". The DHCP performance seems fair, around 2 seconds. However, the total network initialization time tends to be a bit longer. It may have some of the same link establishment delays that I'm seeing on my Ubuntu 10.04 EeePC.
How MemSQL compares with TimesTen? Or even with Oracle RDBMS with bunch of RAM? Or Oracle RDBMS with Oracle In-Memory Database Cache (TimesTen) on application app servers?
What is MemSQL "secret sause" comparing to competitor?

EDIT: Just so say that I'm so very happy to see a company which tries to solve real problems not Web 2.0 social networking crap is able to raise money.

EDIT2: The company like this needs $40M investment not $2M.
I have a EeePC 900A and the driver for wireless is by far the best I've experienced on Linux.
That's true, but you should able to manage your team as you see fit. If it doesn't work then you get the blame.

Nothing is more demoralizing that being a manager, but having little to no control over your team and being blamed for the failures. I'm amazed how many business people I come across that ignore or simply don't realize that you can only hold people accountable for things that they have the power to change.
They just told me in an email, and I just canceled my subscription.

I didn't appreciate the way they did it: No explanation of why the increase is necessary, plus idiocy like: "Your price for getting both of these plans will be $15.98 a month ($7.99 + $7.99)." No package discount, and no consideration for having been a loyal customer for six years straight. No, just a form letter and a 60% price hike.

Their post-cancelation survey offered no way to indicate this change as the reason (and no free-form entry). Didn't they anticipate this? Maybe they don't want to know.

This makes me sad. I love Netflix. I'm not saying it's not worth $16/month, and I may even join again someday. But I hope a few million customers slap their corporate hand.
If you think Google has access to your raw, plaintext credentials logged somewhere on their servers, I have a Nigerian banker to forward your way who'd love to give you a million dollars if you help him up-front with a little cash.
As someone who's just reached their wit's end at a small startup (I put in my 2 weeks yesterday), I really want to send this article along as a helpful lesson on what not to do with the next guy.

As others have said, some of the points in the article are things I could feel but not articulate. Great lessons to be learned from it.
" Mr. Pascazi does not really understand trademark law, it appears. While he is correct that many civil law countries have a first-to-file process, that does not mean they have no ability to challenge the issuance of the mark.

A trademark must be a source identifier. In other words, Mr. Pascazi's 'client' must be recognized as the source of a product by consumers if the mark Bitcoin is used.

As for enforcing international marks in the U.S., this is not as easily done as Mr. Pascazi would hope. Especially if he is able to obtain a registration abroad on such shaky grounds. It could still be subject to the same cancellation process as a U.S. mark.

The question is whether Mr. Pascazi will truly try and enforce a foreign mark on foreign soil. Paying international lawyers is not cheap.

And will he continue to maintain the mark and defend it against attacks?

Mr. Pascazi's client is over-reaching. I recommend Mr. Pascazi or his lawyer consult real trademark attorneys about this. They might receive more thorough advice. "

From:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110708/00564015004/lawyer...
Are you sure about your claim? The article explicitly claims that they are using HTML5 for audio, with a flash fallback mechanism.
Non-native english speaker here. Help me, please.

Are you saying that the GP that complained about a locked bootloader should just root his phone and update the ROM or bootloader? I mean - isn't that missing the point of the braindead idea/implementation of a locked bootloader?
(vowel+consonant).times(6).join('')
How is this the DHCP server's fault? DHCP is designed to reassign unused leases to new clients if the subnet is all leased out.
Proxy it through a URL on your box i.e. make http://myserver.com/song_id point through to http://soundcloud.com/song_id?secret=params
Nice editorial, headline.
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Developing on someone else's platform, you're just doing market research for them. See: Windows, Mac OS, iOS, Android.
Reply from study author:

You raise a very good point. The philosophy thus far is to see how far we can get with conventional, inexpensive materials, and periodically reevaluate where problems remain. Low-cost manufacturability is critically important. For example, in the case of the rotating heat-sink-impeller we are converging towards cold-forging as the fabrication process. Having said that, in a manufacturing setting many seemingly exotic coating materials are used on a routine basis in small quantities without incurring significant additional cost (e.g. CVD coatings for tungsten carbide end mills). With regard to CVD diamond coating, the main questions I have concern the current state of affairs in this technology area. How expensive are such coatings, and what are typical values for coefficient of friction?

With regard to the thermal resistance of the air gap, unfortunately it is not possible to reduce the air gap much below ~10 microns without incurring large frictional losses; the power dissipation associated with shearing of the “fluid” layer in the air gap regions scales as 1/h, were h is the air gap distance. The approach you suggest would be tractable at very low pressure, but at very low pressure convection cooling is ineffective.
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Hi Pony,
Thanks for your comments. I fully welcome any criticism and I believe in iterative launch. People think launching software is like launching rockets into spaceship but it is very different for bootstraped startups like me. I am working on the screenshots and samples. Letting people download and start using takes lot of load off my chest but still lot of work is pending and will never end.

The application is available to be used directly on my site
http://www.mockuptiger.com/wireframe/mockups/register.php

I am not just charging for it, it is free and not marketing it as i am not ready for it yet.

Thanks again for your input
I pay ~100/month for cable. I've had a Netflix subscription for ~6 months. Since subscribing to Netflix, my girlfriend and I have watched less than 20 hours of television via cable. We maintain a cable subscription for pretty much the same reason people rationalize a landline phone (just in case).

Netflix can raise their prices about 10x before I'd even consider not renewing my subscription.

"But comparing Netflix to Cable is a bullshit comparison, the content on Netflix is way less" you might say. In theory, you are right. The content available via Instant Watch is way limited; and it has less newer content.

All I know is that since we've started using Netflix, I've stopped buying DVD's (I used to order 15-20 a week from Amazon), I've stopped watching the DVD's I already own (I have about 1000 sitting in giant plastic tubs in the closet that I never dig through), and I've stopped watching regular television.
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Definitely. Take care of it and it'll last, probably got mine 7 years ago now. If it were to break on me today I'd get another one.
A real victory for YC as well as the founders (congrats to them - great software!)

This is the best example yet of YC's considerable ability to take a very deep tech, non-consumer startup, help vet and guide its technology and marketability, and provide the credibility to get it well-funded.

Fantastic round for a database software startup, a breed written off not long ago. I'd think it wouldn't happen maybe anywhere besides YC. Really shows why YC should be (and is) sought out by founders looking to build this kind of company.
Reminds me of the infamous Rapidshare Captcha with cats. [1] There were hard to solve. However, also for humans.

[1]: http://www.labnol.org/internet/favorites/cats-inside-rapidsh...
The mac implementation is good for 99% of the times, since it is really fast, but the 1% of the times that it steals an ip adress it is really a pain in the ass. I don't mind to wait a few seconds to get a connection in the stardard way.
Sorry, but nobody cares what the people in your room think.
I have heard some people talking about an assassination market with bitcoins being used for payment. If some lawyer threatened bitcoin it wouldn't be surprising to see his name pop up on such a site.

The bitcoin speculators I have seen are anti-government or anarchist types that hoard guns, gold and bitcoins.
Missing the point. Netflix has sizable gaps in their streaming that are only filled by the DVD plan. Filling those gaps for $2 is a lot more reasonable than $8.
Definitely not a good boss, but possibly still a friend.

(No, I'm not just trying to fill out the matrix here. ;)

It's important not to take management too personally. Just because this guy was horrible at understanding motivation doesn't mean he was a bad person or a bad friend, just that he was a really lousy boss. Lots of people don't understand how to motivate others. Lots of people don't consciously understand how to motivate themselves, in fact.

It's probably a good idea not to put up with this forever, but it doesn't mean you can't be friends. I have many friends whom I would never work for. Most of us do, I'm sure.
The best rebuttal would be to send a cease and desist right back. I mean... they can't prove that they have the copyright either.
"This whole notion of being so proprietary in every facet of what we do has really hurt us." Steve Jobs, circa 1997
How long should a soldier expect to live if the enemy catches him in the middle of destroying encryption keys and understands right away that it is what he is doing?

Cryptosystems are designed to protect military secrets, not an individual soldier in such a highly specific circumstance. It's not unheard of to have a "duress code" or other silent wipe functionality, but I doubt hiding the keypress effects from a local observer is a primary concern of infantry soldier gear.

The idea is that they would wipe the keys before they are captured. If they are captured in the act of wiping the keys that would be following standard orders. The radio operator would be worth more alive than dead, but he'd still better put his hands up when there's a gun in his face.

Are you serious? Who are you trying to fool? This is an insult to the intelligence of every reader of this site.

I'll take that as a 'no' then.

This back-and-forth is kind of frowned upon on this site. My email is in my profile if you'd like to continue the discussion.
Thanks, August! You all are definitely the other site that gets it when it comes to language exchange. Looking forward to chatting with you as soon as we have a bit of a breather.
Netflix brought this on themselves by including streaming in the plans for free to start with, which gave the message that this should be valued at $0. Now they want to charge $8 for that, and should not be surprised if there is a backlash.
"It's scary that a person's career earnings may be capped before they turn 18."
In every single jurisdiction where the trademark standard is first-to-file, though? It seems like a lot to ask.
Give back to the OSS community (please?)
Last week, I was ticked off by the behavior of a colleague: he complained the duplicated code panel in Sonar was not explicite enough. When I remarked he could give feedback to the Sonar team, he replied he had other things to do!
You used to buy 15-20 DVDs per WEEK from Amazon? Did you even watch half of them? I'm confused.
Wrong, I care. I don't have any way of confirming it myself so his double-checking was appreciated.
Do you have access to the product? I am very curious. The presentation demo looked intruiging, but also limited to text which doesn't sound like fun. What is the product like? Have you been using it? I was worried that it was vaporware.
15-20 a week from Amazon? What the fuck. I know one series you may end up on: Hoarders.
And "freedom of speech" only applies to the government, and only governments in the US. Websites that delete your comments are not limiting your freedom of speech. </pet_peeve>
If you only watch new releases, your math makes sense.

But the big draw of Netflix DVD by mail is its enormous back catalog. The size of the Redbox library pales in comparison.
The only time Ive ever had issues with OS X connecting to wifi was while using a cheapo router that insisted on advertising its 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks using the same SSID.

Moving to a router that allowed them to be configured with different SSIDs resolved all my issues.
PHP and CSS3 are as orthogonal as a pillow and a toaster.
Google Readies Ambitious Plan for Web-Data Exchange
Evidently many people were abusing the unlimited streaming + DVD subscription before and it was not cost-effective for the company to continue to offer the deal.

How do you abuse a plan advertised as "unlimited"?
It's possible that many people were also watching those DVDs and they would rather delay your stream a small amount instead of licensing another disc out. I'm sure there are some algorithms in place to deal with usage spikes. If it helps keep their costs low then I am ok with slight delays.
True. But when you're developing a platform, you want it to be known as a place where developers are treated fairly. Just as with their trigger-happy deletion of apps a while ago, Facebook seems to be sending a message of "screw you, we'll do what we want". Presumably I'm not the only developers considering whether or not to invest resources in the Facebook platform who notices stuff like this.
Spend 200 on ads, if you make > $206, repeat. 1% conversion is pretty good for only 80 hours.
Unnecessarily editorialized headline.

notably as well, given that Netflix has been fighting with content producers to continue getting streaming rights are we really surprised they've been forced to do this?
Would be nice if Apple TV supported Amazon Prime.
If developers could sue Zuck, he would be doing 7 times life now.
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The discourse so far has been pretty polite, aside from that last crack about "lifting" the content. It would be fun to send it back, but the reasonable response is just to reiterate the previous points about there being no copyright holder, and they will be happy to comply once there's some legally binding reason to do so.
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Branding matters. Marketing matters. UX matters.

Android/Linux? GNU/Linux? Stop, just stop. This goes to the open source community: If you name it GNU/Linux, don't be surprised when Android hits mainstream instead. Stop naming things Ubuntu when the competition is Windows. Stop naming things Diaspora when the competition is Facebook.

It doesn't matter what is rational or sensible. Branding is survival of the fittest, and so far it's been a massacre.
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I've had a similar conversation multiple times with several different friends - though usually around skills instead of knowledge. The desired skills always seem to boil down to trades like auto repair, masonry, or carpentry. Presumably because I spend so much time in-doors, in front of a computer, creating "things" in the abstract, instead of creating something tangible with my hands.
It was something I did pay for, just not as much. They increased cost by increasing convenience.
This is very cool! How does it work with my websites SSL?
I have never actually tried to download the songs on grooveshark, I'm sure its possible though.
Apple hires lead patent counsel; Samsung alleges conflict of interest
Someone's in for a world of (cyber) hurt.
They didn't actually raise the price of a streaming-only plan though.
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Google ChromeOS is Google's Sneak Attack and Here is Why.
If you are anything like me, you've taken a look at the ChromeOS and thought "lolwut" when it comes to the niche its trying to fill. Techies want more out of it, your parents can't use iTunes with it, and Grandma heard old people like the iPad better. ChromeOS seems to be a solution to a problem nobody has.

Today I booted a VM of ChromeOS and it immediately hit me: Everything the Google Chrome and Chrome OS team have been doing lately points to one thing: a universal architecture.

If you partnered with or packaged a virtual machine seamlessly around Google ChromeOS, you could deliver an Internet experience to the user that protects them from almost any sort of attack. Chrome inherently is already sandboxed, but if you add the stripped down kernel of ChromeOS that is self-healing, you built an almost bulletproof attack surface.

There are still some issues with this idea. But the fact of the matter is that computers have the speed necessary to isolate entire operating systems in a virtual environment with little to no impact on performance for the user.

Was this Google's strategy all along? What do you all think?
The oddest part to me about this pricing announcement is that the company announces a new set of plans, but only mentions the price of just one option in the announcement - the one in which prices are rising the highest (1 dvd at a time plus streaming).

I am currently paying for 2 DVDs at a time plus streaming, for $14.99/month. According to the recently updated Your Account page, this will cost $19.99 in a few months, a price raise of 33%.

Not as dramatic as the rise mentioned in the announcement - so why not mention that? Why make me hunt for how much other plans will be changing?
Buzz also had millions of users.
Seems that groups like Anonymous would tend to be pro-BTC... Guess we'll find out.
They are limiting your freedom of speech; however, they are not infringing on the rights granted by the 1st amendment of the U.S. constitution.
I don't think people get sent to prison for civil suits.
Its a content farm, probably to count ad impressions or some other BS. This is the original (from the bottom of the article):

http://vanillajava.blogspot.com/2011/06/java-secret-using-en...
It's funny that I came up with exactly the same idea this spring and was almost going to apply for YC funding. But I changed my mind after talking to a couple of my friends (international students who know more than one language), most of them said it's a good idea but they also felt it's not very comfortable for them to talk to strangers face to face (online). Another challenge facing such kind of site is how do you motivate strangers to actually teach each other languages while keeping their attention span long enough, say, 5 minutes. Without a good motivation system verbling will just end up being another video chatting site. I also couldn't find an easy way of generating profit besides selling ads and charging user for talking to professional language teachers. Maybe the site will build a reputation system so the best users can get paid talking to other premium account users, and site will take commission from each transaction. But in order to do that, you need to have a big user base, after all it's a chicken and egg problem.
They were mostly movies I'd already seen, and just wanted to have a copy of.

When I first started buying DVD's, I got it in my head that I didn't ever want to be in a situation like: "Oh, I feel like watching movie X, but I don't own it." Instant gratification.
But if you could take a valid reason for firing someone to your manager, and they would be fired, I think that would be enough to manage the team right?
"Scammed" is probably not the right word here - at least to me, it conveys a malicious intent, while mistakes like this are merely ignorance. I'm sure most of us have made mistakes just as stupid as this, despite working hard to earn our pay.
And that's why you make sure you always have platform independence.
They can write it in VB for all I care as long as they make it stop completely screwing up and deleting my bookmarks.
I agree. I have tried various language exchanges, and picking a partner and scheduling things is an unnecessary distraction and time consuming. I am looking forward to when you offer chinese. You should schedule it for the evenings in the US, which is the morning in china.

One potential problem you will face is that the time spent on each language needs to be balanced. I don't want to spend all my time teaching English, and then have the person hangup on me.
Congratulations! Your laptop does the equivalent of using the exit lane to jump ahead in traffic. There's bound to be an empty spot near the end, right?
Even if you put write ahead logs on different I/O subsystems the lock needed to ensure consistency will probably be a bottleneck (and crappy Linux implementation asynch IO on multi processor system does not help). How do you guys organize data so it is consistent and lock is not a bootleneck?
This presents a unique opportunity. So current storage tech lasts about 10 years or so, give or take. I think there will be a massive migration of data and if you can prove your media lasts say 50 years, people will be quite excited to embrace your standard. As an aside, I have a massive Commodore 5 1/4" disk drive reader at my parents house. Found it in a goodwill. Thing weighs like 15lbs. Anyone know of drivers I can download to make it work on a modern PC?
Very well executed.

It seems slow, like it's built using AJAX/PHP/MySQL. What stack powers this thing?
Nope, you're wrong. Google will always be in a situation where they can read your password. Otherwise authentication to the rest of their services would be impossible.
Buzz also gained millions of users in a short period of time.
Macroeconomics, German, Italian, wine making, sailing, playing a guitar, auto repair. I feel like I've scratched the surface on most of these and wish I had time to dig deeper. But I also have this constant feeling that what I supposedly do know well isn't enough and must improve.
Once or twice a year I'd prune out all the movies that I was certain I'd never want to watch again (Shallow Hal, I'm looking squarely at you).

I did the same thing with CD's when I was younger. Thankfully, the universe ran out of music that I like.
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