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Submission + - GoDaddy deactivate domains before they expire

Submitted by
Saphati
Saphati writes: "I have discovered that GoDaddy cancels domains before the expiration dates.
I have a .be domain that was expiring on the 30th of August. They submitted the cancelation notice to Key System in Germany on the 26th. On the 27th it was deactivated.
This was 4 days BEFORE the expiration date.
If you have paid for a term then you are due that term. GoDaddy believes otherwise.

Digging further, I discovered that the domain was tagged as 'expired' on the 20th of July.
How can a service expire before the expiration date?

Because the domain is expired on the 20th of the previous month, it is possible for someone else to purchase that domain from auction before the end of term.

GoDaddy is using the .com expiration rules on .be domains. The 2 systems do not match.

Has anyone else experienced this or similar problem with GoDaddy?"

Submission + - Fair Use bolstered by "What What (In the Butt)" (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by uigrad_2000
uigrad_2000 writes: Viacom, who is known for trying to prosecute small publishers for copyright infringement, now finds itself in the odd position of using "fair use" as their own defense a case brought forward from "Brownmark", a two-person company that makes youtube videos.

Arstechinca reports that the judge's early dismissal of the case may have unintended consequences for Viacom. The threat of lawsuit against small publishers causes them to be conservative when approaching the fair use boundary, because of the costs of defending such cases, even if they are victorious, is so high. With this new precedent, defending in cases of fair use may now be much easier, and also much less costly.

Submission + - Did Netflix Streaming change again?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: At home we have 2 Rokus and 2 IPads, and we routinely stream Netflix to multiple devices simultaneously with our "unlimited" streaming account. Last night, however, attempted establishment of a second stream informed us that our "unlimited" plan now includes only one simultaneous stream.
    If this were true it would be a much bigger deal for us then paying more for DVDs, which I frankly have expected for some time & by which I was not surprised. Concerned, this morning I called Netflix customer support, who gave me the following baffling explanation:
    Netflix 'unlimited' streaming now only includes one stream. To get 2+ streams one needs to sign up for 'unlimited' streaming + 2 DVDs (does not include streaming). In other words, your selection of an option annotated with "does not include streaming" affects your streaming. As nonsensical as this is, it would be slightly less so if 'unlimited' streaming plus 1 DVD allowed 2 streams. However, as explained by customer support: # of DVDs = # of streams.
    This is so bizarre I didn't believe it at first, but customer support assured me it was true. Nothing on the Netflix website mentions how many simultaneous streams is 'unlimited', but somehow I thought it would always be more than 1.

Submission + - Limits on Growth of Energy Use and Economies (ucsd.edu) 1

Submitted by
snoop.daub
snoop.daub writes: "Dr. Tom Murphy, professor of astrophysics at UCSD, has a new blog called "Do The Math", and the first few posts are doozies. In the first, he shows the impossibility of continued exponential growth in energy use. Even if a new, "free" energy source is developed, thermodynamic limits on efficiency mean that the heat associated with converting this energy into useful work will increase the temperature of the earth to unbearable levels within 300 years. In the second, he extends the argument to economic growth. The timescales there are faster, only 50-100 years. Fascinating stuff. Time to stop breeding, folks, or to get our butts into space."
Android

Submission + - Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core (wordpress.com) 1

Submitted by suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes: Amazon's biggest feature by far, has been their Free App Of The Day promotion. Publicly their terms say that they pay developers 20% of the asking price of an app, even when they give it away free. To both consumers and naive developers alike, this seems like a big chance to make something rare in the Android world: real money. But here's the dirty secret Amazon don't want you to know, they don't pay developers a single cent. Before being featured by Amazon, you get an email like this one:

      " As you may already know, the Free App of the Day offer placement is one of the most visible and valuable spaces on the Amazon Appstore. We would like to include your app "[name removed]" in our Free App of the Day calendar. We have seen tremendous results from this promotion spot and believe it will bring you a great deal of positive reviews and traffic. It is an opportunity to build your brand especially in association with a brand like Amazon's. The current price of this placement is at 0% rev share for that one day you are placed. "

All this seemed way too one sided to us, Amazon is being predatory here, and asking developers (who are often desperate for exposure) to give away their app, in order to promote Amazon. In the end we agreed that we had entered the world of Android development as an experiment, and it would seem silly not to add more data to the experiment we were conducting. The day of our promotion came:

That’s right, Amazon gave away 101,491 copies of our app! At this point, we had a few seconds of excitement as well, had we mis-read the email and really earned $54,800 in one day? We would have done if our public agreement was in place, but we can now confirm that thanks to Amazon’s secret back-door deals, we made $0 on that day. That’s right, over 100,000 apps given away, $0 made.

https://shiftyjelly.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/amazon-app-store-rotten-to-the-core/
Google

Submission + - Why Women Users Are Important for Google Plus (payattentionpeople.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: "With a smaller-than-average female presence on Google Plus more men than women are offering feedback. As Google makes adjustments to G-Plus they are making changes based on that feedback. If Google wants to compete with Facebook, and I think their design of Google Plus clearly indicates they do, they are going to need the insight of more women. Tailoring a product based on predominately male feedback is just not smart if the market mostly utilized by women."

Submission + - 2004 Ohio Presidential Election Results Hacked? (freepress.org)

Submitted by darien.train
darien.train writes: A new filing in the King Lincoln Bronzeville v. Blackwell case includes a copy of the Ohio Secretary of State election production system configuration that was in use in Ohio's 2004 presidential election when there was a sudden and unexpected shift in votes for George W. Bush.
Cloud

Submission + - SUSE Unleashes Virtualization Secret Weapon (itworld.com)

Submitted by
jfruhlinger
jfruhlinger writes: "SUSE Studio has come out with its first post-Novell Linux release, and it's got a doozy of a secret weapon: Virtualization. SUSE Linux users will be able to deploy custom OS images pretty much anywhere, from System z mainframes to Amazon's public cloudl. Seeing that 40 percent of servers are currently virtual, this might appeal to sysadmins trying to manage all those virtual images."
Bitcoin

Submission + - Bitcoin Trademarking Lawyer Now Sending Bogus DMCA (techdirt.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A couple weeks ago, Slashdot wrote about a lawyer named Michael Pascazi who was trying to trademark Bitcoin. Techdirt picked up on the story, via Slashdot, and wrote a post about it, which included Pascazi's evidence of the trademark. Pascazi has now sent Techdirt a bogus DMCA takedown request over the post, claiming that the header and footer in his stationary, which appears via an embed on the story violates his "copyright." He appears to be claiming that simply posting any version of his stationary is a copyright violation. It's not clear if the content in question is even copyrightable, and if it is how Techdirt's use isn't fair use.

Submission + - Broken DRM : Hulu+ Android leaks contents

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Direct access to HW decoder is too hard, Hulu uses http decoding proxy. Hulu+ android app fork http proxy thread and run default android media player using local address with very very long URL.

http proxy connect to Hulu server to get encrypted contents
and android media player connect http proxy ( local ) to get decrypted contents.

So Hulu+ app is more compatible than Netflix. but we can easily dump decrypted data using "tcpdump"

it is easy to dump local loopback interface(lo) traffic. You just root your device.and install tcpdump ( your device may have tcpdump ) , run tcpdump against loopback device.

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