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divide (rather arbitrarily) the population into a few groups.

very wealthy: anyone with net worth exceeding $10M.
wealthy: anyone with net worth between $1M - $10M
upper middle class: anyone with net worth between $100k - $1M
middle class: anyone with net worth between $10 and $100k
poor: anyone with net worth < $10k

now let's make some overt generalizations!

the very wealthy seem to fall into one of two groups: successful business owners and venture capitalists on the one side, and bankers, traders, and some classes of lawyers on the other.

the wealthy and middle classes all seem to consist of professionals and small business owners, who have met with varying degrees of success.

the poor consist largely of immigrants, people living in impoverished urban and rural areas, as well as people without a trained skill.

here's what i think is happening: a group of the very wealthy, mainly those on the banker-trader-lawyer side of the divide, have this country by the balls. they have accomplished this by having their politician friends (how many politicians are former lawyers? and how many came from wall street? ok, now how many are former business owners or venture capitalists?) convince the poor that the "rich" are responsible for their plight. to fix this problem, they propose raising taxes on the "rich."

this proposal invariably means raising income taxes, which the very wealthy rarely pay because their income is mostly in the form of capital gains. the democrats propose a tax raise, the poor vote them into power, and income taxes go up. the wealthy and the middle class both feel like they're getting fucked, probably because they are. so they fight back, saying they want to lower taxes, reduce government spending, and cut social programs. the republican party says they support these ideals, so they get this type of vote. once in power, the republicans pass a tax cut on both income and capital gains taxes. they also increase government spending, because, hey, why not, fuck you buddy. the poor see this response and it confirms to them what the very wealthy have been saying through their proxy politicians, so the fight goes on.

if this process is going to stop, we need a new word to describe the members of the very wealthy who are contributing nothing but misery to the economy, whether by gambling with other people's wealth and getting bailouts when they lose, or simply by using the broken legal system as a weapon to extract wealth from the venture capitalist / successful business owner side of the divide. if we had a single word to embody this concept, i think more people would become aware of the distinction between the 'productive rich' and the 'destructive rich' and we could fix the problem. since 'destructive rich' isn't exactly catchy, i propose we call those people 'dicks.'
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So typically what are the total out-of-pocket fees for filing these requests including the bill from competent lawyer?

How likely are they to succeed in invalidating an issued patent?

If done poorly, couldn't they have the potential to actually reinforce a lousy patent?

Is this "cheap" course of action actually available if you're already being sued over some bogus patent you didn't know existed (or didn't choose to pay for the reexamination) in advance?
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Kind of crazy to see how almost every Country on the list has the United States as a destination.
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How are they any different for the user? They both accomplish the same thing: a subscription service for watching movies.
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First, I'm doubtful that a family at the poverty line ($22K for a family of 4) pays 10% in income tax. I could be wrong, however.

>> If you believe theologically, ideologically, or otherwise that "all men (and women!) are created equal" then it follows they should pay equally.

On this, I'm not sure how you can come to that conclusion. I'm assuming (possibly wrongly) that you're referring to the DOI, which states:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

This seems to refer to equal starting points, equal liberties, and equal opportunities–not equal amounts of wealth or income throughout life. I think "pursuit" is a key word here. We should all be free to pursue what makes us happy, but there are no rights or guarantees that we will get it.
Same here - I actually caught myself looking up at the date on the taskbar before realizing the same thing. I think the ridiculousness of the 'Qwikster' brand name was what made me doubt it at first.
Apologies in advance for making a fairly trivial observation but I really like this guys use of bold in the text. It's a little like a tabloid newspaper but I found that it genuinely added to the writing making it more readable and more amusing.
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I'm no security expert, but that doesn't seem right to me.
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The communication seems really bad on this. In one hand Hastings says it will open all kinds of new possibilities, but then in the next breath he's emphasizing how nothing but the logo will change. That and they sound like they're both reading from a teleprompter the whole time.

Makes me wonder if the real reason for this is to have different legal entities for negotiation or something like that.
Small inventors are not filing suits against dozen of defendants in carefully chosen jurisdictions. Often, they'll just target the top few companies breaching the patent. They aren't looking to make a living on patent settlements, they're looking to make a living on the technology they invented.

Why not? Simply because small inventors have to pay retail price for their lawyers, whereas the patent trolls typically are (or have regular full time) lawyers. There's nothing inherent in the "small-inventor-ness" of the plaintiff that makes them file suit in certain patterns.

Therefore, a small inventor may get a better deal either selling the patent to the manufacturing company or making good on the threat to sell it to a trolling firm who will aggressively seek to ruin them. Better that than waste their life savings on legal expenses that will likely drag on for years.
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I don't understand why this crowd is more likely to hit the verbal 'dislike' button than average. Why do people think it's so important to share that they resist the attraction of something? The name-calling and prodding is especially disturbing.
Those data collection agencies that work within the boundaries set by the law have absolutely nothing on me.
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In many places those are mandated by law. Even if you throw them away they still have to offer you one.
Another thing. Not all users have a device connected to their TV that works with Netflix (like an Xbox).

Nor do those same people want to watch a movie or a TV show on their computer.

Those people request DVDs.

I don't see the issue with keeping everything under one brand.

Netflix became popular because of their DVD-in-the-mail service. It's a shame to spin that off into a sub-par seeming brand. Just keep it all under one house but emphasize the streaming service.

It's not like they can't design their one site to give users an option on what they want (streaming or DVD-in-the-mail).

Keep it simple, stupid.

If they are doing this because of the economics of the DVD and streaming service, then nevermind.
I don't think this field escapes the problems of philosophy in general.
Wealth is being transferred in - it is money that is being transferred out. The net result is that we are trading China some green pieces of paper for flat screen TV's.

I like my Chinese-made laptop more than green pieces of paper, so it sounds like a win to me.
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Qwikster is a terrible name, and this is a terrible move.

Hastings is now in competition with that guy running HP to see who can destroy their company first.

Maybe Ballmer will get in the game and spin off Windows/Office from Microsoft, and rebrand them "Facetown", while proclaiming Bing to be the future of the company.

Unbelievable.

Update: I predict Qwikster is dead and buried within 5 years, and someone else pushes past Netflix on the streaming side to be the leader there.

This move is unbelievably stupid. Any trust I had in Netflix over the long haul is gone.
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And that is my main problem right there. Netflix streaming is good for finding old niche content but for general mainstream content, not so much. And now with Starz leaving....

The blog posting by the CEO was good but he still didn't answer questions about the content problem with streaming. He gave it a one liner at the end as if it was an afterthought.

I am going to keep Netflix for now but I am on the edge. I know one thing, I'm far from an enthusiastic customer.
Interesting, I would have argued the opposite: well thought-out subscription businesses are goldmines. Once you have a customer, you aren't billing them a single time -- often, you're billing them repeatedly for the option to use your service, whether or not they actually use your service. A customer has to take an additional action to stop paying you.

Are you arguing that non-subscription businesses don't have customer acquisition costs? Or just that CAC for subscriptions are higher?

"Name a few successful subscription businesses. Successful (in my mind) means PROFITABLE. Revenue does not mean sh. Come-on, name 'em. (Those that you do name will have some sort of monopoly or exclusive right to a physical asset)."

What about most SAAS businesses? Or most magazines? Hosting providers? World of Warcraft?

But I totally agree with you about the content providers like Starz calling the shots and ultimately deciding whether Netflix lives or dies.
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This also won't help with filevault turned on.
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You may want to read googles' terms of service for their wallet system:

http://www.google.com/wallet/privacy.html

I quote: "Transaction information - When you use Google Wallet to conduct a transaction, information regarding the transaction may be stored in the Google Wallet Application. We may collect information about these transactions from the Google Wallet Application. We also collect transaction data from your use of the Google Wallet Service. For example, if you use the Google Wallet Application to make a purchase at a merchant or download a merchant coupon, we may obtain information regarding that transaction from the Wallet Application, from the merchant and/or a partner, as applicable. The information may include the date and time of the purchase, the store location, the amount of the purchase, and the offer associated with the transaction. "
Oh dear...where to start:
* 37Signals
* Salesforce
* <insert name of food product> of the month club (you said profitable - not Fortune 500)
* <insert name of major gym> membership
* Does Amazon Prime count?
* Costco - you need to pay to be a member, whic his, by definition, a subscription business
* Successful hosting providers - I myself use the great Bluehost.com

Though you could argue that paying for and building a gym gives you exclusive right to a physical asset.

Out of hand rejection of subscription businesses is your prerogative, but there are businesses which charge monthly rates that have surperior proritary products or services, or which use the membership as a means to incent more purchases, that can be very successful.

<full disclosure - I love CEK :)>
Exactly which other HTTP based scheme?

SOAP v1.0 tunneled everything over POST so you could not cache responses.

A frequent non-restful solution is to return a domain specific id to a client and have the client 'know' that the correct URL is say http://{base}/product/{id}.

The restful solution is to return the URL to the client have them use it what is given rather than construct it. The restful solution allows for many product servers which are independent from the original server. This makes for looser coupling and improved scaling.

REST is essentially what they were thinking, or now think they should have been thinking, when they designed HTTP. So truly honoring the spirit of HTTP gets you close to REST.
Well, yeah, that's the point of a patent.

Many people seem to be in disbelief about this but the purpose of a patent is to give the holder a monopoly on the "invention", at least in the sense that the patent can be used to prevent anyone else from doing anything productive with it.

Stupid, huh?
My advice, unless you have zero runway, don't offer him anything, or ask any favors.

Get the beta rolling, tweak, tighten, fix up, repeat, then go talk to investors whom you have spoken with already, and go from there.

I am not sure if this character fits in well, he wnats to be your boss again.

Perfectionist = foolish because you don't determine what perfect is, your customer does. So let your customers play with it and get feedback.

There is always angel list, and local angels. Raising money for something that is growing is much easier. Get the product out.
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Netflix has been profitable for several years.

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"Name a few successful subscription businesses. Successful (in my mind) means PROFITABLE. Revenue does not mean sh. Come-on, name 'em."

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You may have seen Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention by Watson. Could be a good umbrella book to tie it all together.
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For those who think Netflix has been smoking a bong with this move: https://mobile.twitter.com/Qwikster
Qwikster is a joke and will be dead or acquired in 5 years.

And Netflix streaming is not ready to carry Netflix forward. We won't be subscribing to Qwikster, and we're already looking for alternatives on the streaming side -- most likely, Amazon, who would never do something this idiotic.
I'm actually with you more than you'd think ... but here's where I get hung up ...

I have a friend who is roughly the same age as me, same race (white), parents were the same class, and we grew up < 3 miles from each other. Yet he is the laziest eff'ing slob I know. His wife works part-time, he collects unemployment and makes no attempt to train or find a job. They live in subsidized housing and make ends meet via welfare and taking advantage of others' charity.

I'm curious how you argue that all of society (including people like this) should have their lifestyle increase in perpetuity.
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I have no way of knowing whether 37signals is actually profitable or not, but perhaps Salesforce is a real example. You found ONE.

Your gym membership does not count: Physical asset.

Amazon Prime is not a business. And I guarantee you it is NOT profitable anyway. It's a marketing program.

Hosting does not count: It's a physical asset.

Costco is not a subscription biz. It's a retailer that uses membership as a marketing ploy to drive loyalty.
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I would highly recommend reading Programming Pearls by John Bentley. It is an eye opener and gives you too the point tricks to solve problems that companies generally ask.

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Also, there is careercup.com. Fantastic site if you want to get a feel of what sort of questions are asked in different companies.
He's not "owing up", that's pure PR. This was hatched back in May, and it was stupid then, stupid now, and will be stupid 5 years from now when what's left of Qwikster is sold off in a fire sale and Netflix shareholders start wishing they had bought Yahoo!
This isn't something that's communicated very well in our society. I didn't realize it until I actually did the math on the tax tables.
When you talk like that you sound like someone who equates 'subjective' with 'useless'

The subjective is very important which is precisely the value of philosophy and other liberal arts.
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I did trust the company. That's gone now. All that time we've spent rating stuff? Spun off to this POS Kwikster company, and no longer integrated.

It's rare that companies this size make such stupid moves; this is one of those times.
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A value of 1 is required for ACID compliance. You can achieve better performance by setting the value different from 1, but then you can lose at most one second worth of transactions in a crash. With a value of 0, any mysqld process crash can erase the last second of transactions. With a value of 2, then only an operating system crash or a power outage can erase the last second of transactions. However, InnoDB's crash recovery is not affected and thus crash recovery does work regardless of the value.

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In absolute sense (number of dollars) the pie grows and so does everybody's share in the pie. But you have to take in to account buying power as well and once you do that for lots of people their actual take drops.