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Submission + - Google Checkout TOS Friday Massacre 1

Submitted by cmkeane
cmkeane writes: Google has changed its payout schedule for checkout sellers. If a seller account is linked to the android marketplace, then payouts now will be on a 15 day delay for the month following the payment, rather than on a 2 business-day continuous schedule. This appears to apply even if you don't sell anything on the marketplace. And to add insult, they emailed notice on February 11 for a change effective February 6.

For a non-profit like I work for, we used google checkout to handle our credit card transactions because the cost of PCI compliance, etc, we needed to offload it. And we can't afford to ship physical goods with google holding on to the cash for up to 45 days, So off to evaluate the other competitors in this arena. What are others' thoughts on similar services provided by paypal, amazon, etc?

Not to mention their link in the email to:
https://checkout.google.com/sell/support/ is coming up as a page not found, Way to stay classy.
Iphone

Submission + - Testing Your Blood Sugar with Your Iphone (singularityhub.com)

Submitted by kkleiner
kkleiner writes: Multinational pharmaceutical giant Sanofi Aventis just unveiled it’s latest diabetes technology: a stand alone blood glucose monitor that can plug directly into your iPhone and iPod Touch. The device, known as the iBGStar, would allow diabetics to test their blood sugar levels on the go, record notes, and send information to their healthcare providers via a free iPhone App. Devices like this are just another way in which continuous health monitoring could revolutionize medicine in the years ahead.
Google

Submission + - Is the Web heading toward redirect hell? (pingdom.com)

Submitted by
Ant
Ant writes: "Royal Pingdom reports that every web sites seems to be heading toward redirect hell — "Google is doing it. Facebook is doing it. Yahoo is doing it. Microsoft is doing it. And soon Twitter will be doing it.

We're talking about the apparent need of every web service out there to add intermediate steps to sample what we click on before they send us on to our real destination. This has been going on for a long time and is slowly starting to build into something of a redirect hell on the Web.

And it has a price..."

Seen on Linux Today."
Books

"Choose Your Own Adventure" On Your iPhone 135

Posted by samzenpus from the turn-to-page-14 dept.
If you spent a good portion of your childhood reading the classic "Choose Your Own Adventure" books, you'll be glad to know that you can soon waste countless hours at work turning to random pages on your iPhone. Edward Packard, one of the original authors of the series, has helped create an app called U-Ventures which uses special effects to create a story in the traditional Choose Your Own Adventure format. From the article: "The first U-Venture is a sort of a sequel to a classic title, The Cave of Time. In 'Return to the Cave of Time,' the U-Venture, 'you go back in the cave — you don't have a choice on that,' Packard tells NPR's Neal Conan. But from that point on, the reader chooses her own course."

Submission + - Utah Attorney General Tweets Execution Order (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Kilrah_il
Kilrah_il writes: In a new all-time record low for Internet use, Utah Attorney General, Mark Shurtlef, used Twitter to announce to the public his approval of the execution of convicted murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner. "I just gave the go ahead to Corrections Director to proceed with Gardner's execution. May God grant him the mercy he denied his victims," the attorney general wrote. The AG's 7,000 followers retweeted the message further on and soon many replied concerning the awfulness of tweeting the execution of a human being. "Another user, known only as Brenstrong, observed in a public reply that: 'death penalty bad enough. Firing squad! And there's an absurdity to a man's demise being announced over twitter...'"
Music

Submission + - Aussie Gyms to pay 15x more to play music (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by porjo
porjo writes: An Australian federal magistrate has ruled in favour of a price hike on copyright fees for music played to patrons of gyms & fitness classes. The action was sought by the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia representing labels including Sony Music, EMEI, Universal & Warner. Under the new ruling, fees would rise from 96.8 cents to $15 a class. Stephen Peach representing PPCA had this to say in response to protests from the fitness industry "We feel confident in our position that one of the reasons for the hysteria on the other side is because they know how important music is in a gym. I mean, who wants to exercise in silence? Music is so central to what they're doing, but it would seem to be valuable to them in every way except financial.'' Lauretta Stace of Fitness Australia responded with "The music industry is in trouble, nobody's buying CDs and the PPCA wants to plug the hole left in their pockets by passing the burden on to our clients"

Submission + - New Atari Compatible Computer in Series Production (atari.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Do you remember your Atari ST or Falcon computers? Yesterday — 17 years after Atari released their last computer — a team of Atari enthusiasts from all over the world announced that their new Atari compatible computer is in series production. One of the aims of the so-called "Atari Coldfire Project" is to deliver a new GEM machine. Not only for the retro computing fans, but also for the remaining earnest Atari users. In fields like prepress and layout with Calamus or audio engineering Atari computers are still in professional use. The ACP team seems to be a joint venture of Atari demo coders the highly active Open Source community which developes the Posix Operating System for Atari computers called "MiNT" and commercial clone producers like Medusa Computer Systems or Inventronic who has developed the only recently deliverable Atari compatible computer, the Suska-board. The team of 40 people works for more than one year, without any payment in their spare time. What makes the project highly interesting is that they use free licenses like GPL or Creative Commons for their developments. It is a complete personal computer under free licenses. The schema is already online the used FPGA IP-cores also as Open Source.

The problems for Atari users began when Motorola decided in the first half of the 90ies to abandon their 68k processor line. Apple managed the migration to PPC, Amiga and Atari did not. So the most modern Ataris are the TT with a 32 MHz 68030 processor, and the Falcon with 16 MHz and the legendary 56001 DSP. Atari users had to use Clones like the Hades or the Milan computer, or to wait for upgrades like the CT63 . The fastest available Atari compatible computers today utilize a 68060 processor with about 105 MHz. The Atari Coldfire Project now tries to introduce Freescales ColdFire Processor which uses a subset of 68k instructions. These processors are available up to 266MHz for everyone and for special customers already as 540MHz chips. The second important part is a FPGA, which has mapped all original Atari Chips, which are no more available, in hardware. These are working for years now inside the Suska board.

The ACP team has an up-to-date GCC 4.5 also for cross compilation likewise the TOS native Pure-C compatible compiler AHCC which already can produce binaries which are executable at 68k and ColdFire processors. Also the new FireBee computer shall bring recent connectivity like DVI-I, USB, SD-Card etc. to the Atari platform.

The project comes along smoothly, and the announcement of series production is absolutely serious as all clone producers, which already proved 4 times that they can do a complete personal computer, are involved in one or the other ways. The Atari users can look into a future, which might bring back enough power for using their computers for everyday tasks.
Idle

Submission + - Google Stops Ads For Mature Women Sites (gizmodo.com) 2

Submitted by teh31337one
teh31337one writes: Google are refusing to advertise CougarLife, a dating site for mature women looking for younger men. However, they continue to accept sites for mature men seeking young women.According to the New York Times, CougarLife.com was paying Google $100,000 a month since October. The Mountain View company have now cancelled the contract, saying that the dating site is "nonfamily safe."
Businesses

Submission + - Amazon Patents Selling Used Goods at Starbucks, BN

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: Having already been burned by Amazon's 1-Click patent, one imagines Barnes and Noble will be fuming to learn that the USPTO granted Amazon a patent Tuesday covering the use of Barnes and Noble's physical stores to fulfill orders placed for used goods on Amazon. The e-tailer was awarded U.S. Patent No. 7,702,545 for its System and Method for Facilitating Exchanges Between Buyers and Sellers, legal-speak for arranging a place to meet to exchange cash for used goods ordered online. From the patent: 'In an exemplary embodiment, buyers and sellers are permitted to designate exchange locations in the system 100. An exchange location may be a location that the user regularly visits. For example, users may designate locations such as health clubs, schools, coffee shops, book stores, and so on, as acceptable exchange locations.'
Networking

Ubisoft DRM Causing More Problems 279

Posted by Soulskill from the there's-a-lesson-here-that-nobody-will-learn dept.
Joe Helfrich writes "Ubisoft's Settlers 7 servers have been causing problems for over a week for users worldwide, and Australian gamers are hardly able to connect at all. 'The problem reportedly strikes after the game has already confirmed an active Internet connection, and prevents the user from playing even the single-player campaign, returning the error "server not available." But they are available, because other people are logged into them and merrily playing away.' Wonder how they're going to describe this one as an attack."
Firefox

Mozilla Plans Fix For Critical Firefox Vulnerability In Next Release 140

Posted by Soulskill from the sooner-than-later dept.
Trailrunner7 writes "A month after an advisory was published detailing a new vulnerability in Firefox, Mozilla said it has received exploit code for the flaw and is planning to patch the weakness on March 30 in the next release of Firefox. Mozilla officials said Thursday that the vulnerability, which was disclosed February 18 by Secunia, is a critical flaw that could result in remote code execution on a vulnerable machine. The vulnerability is in version 3.6 of Firefox."
Internet Explorer

Microsoft Previews IE9 — HTML5, SVG, Fast JS 473

Posted by kdawson from the this-time-stop-after-embrace dept.
suraj.sun sends this excerpt from CNET on Microsoft's preview of IE9 in Las Vegas just now. "At its Mix 10 conference Tuesday, Microsoft gave programmers, Web developers, and the world at large a taste of things to come with its Web browser. Specifically, Microsoft released what it's calling the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview, a prototype designed to show off the company's effort to improve how the browser deals with the Web as it exists today and, as important, to add support for new Web technologies that are coming right now. Coming in the new version is support for new Web standards including plug-in-free video; better performance with graphics, text, and JavaSript by taking advantage of modern computing hardware. One big change in the JavaScript engine Hachamovitch is proud of is its multicore support. As soon as a Web page is loaded, Chakra assigns a processing core to the task of compiling JavaScript in the background into fast code written in the native language of the computer's processor." Microsoft didn't say what codec they were using for the HTML5 video demo, but the Technologizer says it's H.264.

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