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Grim Cancer Statistics From China - Businessweek

2013-04-09T20:45:23Z

Grim Cancer Statistics From China - Businessweek
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-09/grim-cancer-statistics-from-china

Cancer is the leading cause of death in Beijing, according to data released by the city's Cancer Prevention and Control Research Office. A division of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, the center has found that since 2007, more Beijingers have died each year from cancer than from cardiovascular disease, previously the top killer.
Exposure to environmental pollution, as well as changing diet and more sedentary lifestyles, are contributing factors, says the center's Deputy Director Wang Ning. Noting that the number of cancer diagnoses is rising in both rural and urban China, he told China Newsweek (no relation to U.S. Newsweek/Dailybeast) on April 7, “In the next 10 years, the cancer burden won't be lowered – we can only hope to eventually stabilize it.” His research team estimates by 2020, the total number of cancer deaths in China will climb from about 2.5 million to 3 million annually.
Rising vehicle emissions pose health hazards in large Chinese cities: Beijing's Environmental Protection Bureau told the Beijing News last week that levels of two major air pollutants – nitrogen dioxide and PM10 (particulate matter less than 10 micrometers in diameter) – had risen steeply in the last year. The average levels of those two pollutants were nearly 30 percent higher in the first three months of 2013 than in the same months of 2012. (Meanwhile levels of sulfur dioxide, a third major pollutant, decreased slightly.) Nationwide, China just experienced its smoggiest March in 52 years, the China Meteorological Administration announced on April 1.
While smoggy cities attract frequent headlines, the risks from pollution are often most acute in small towns and villages, where environmental regulators have little authority to rein in polluting industries that contribute substantially to the local tax bases. In February, China's national Ministry of Environmental Protection for the first time acknowledged the existence of long-rumored “cancer villages” in China. “Toxic chemicals have caused many environmental emergencies,” as the text of a new plan for controlling hazardous chemicals put it. “There are even some serious cases of health and social problems, like the emergence of cancer villages in individual regions.”
The increased transparency in China about worsening pollution is a sliver of a silver lining.

Flawed F-35 Fighter Too Big to Kill as Lockheed Hooks 45 States - Businessweek

2013-02-24T22:53:11Z

Flawed F-35 Fighter Too Big to Kill as Lockheed Hooks 45 States - Businessweek
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-02-21/flawed-f-35-fighter-too-big-to-kill-as-lockheed-hooks-45-states

The Pentagon envisioned the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter as an affordable, state-of-the-art stealth jet serving three military branches and U.S. allies.
Instead, the Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT) aircraft has been plagued by a costly redesign, bulkhead cracks, too much weight, and delays to essential software that have helped put it seven years behind schedule and 70 percent over its initial cost estimate. At almost $400 billion, it's the most expensive weapons system in U.S. history.

Australians Face Gangrene Photos as Tobacco Brands Vanish - Businessweek

2012-12-03T12:36:13Z

Australians Face Gangrene Photos as Tobacco Brands Vanish - Businessweek
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-12-02/australians-face-gangrene-photos-as-tobacco-brands-vanish

As of Dec. 1, all cigarettes in Australia must be sold in the uniform packs, with the brand name relegated to the bottom quarter of the package on a drab brown background.

Voilà à quoi ressemble l'étagère du buraliste australien :
http://i.imgur.com/IT7Ol.jpg

Et le paquet de Marlboro, avant/après.

How the Experts Would Fix Cyber Security - Businessweek

2012-11-10T08:36:23Z

How the Experts Would Fix Cyber Security - Businessweek
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-08-02/how-the-experts-would-fix-cyber-security

Paller: Normally, when you shoot a weapon at somebody, you do damage. When you shoot a weapon in cyberspace, you may do damage—but [then] the weapon is out there. And when the weapon is out there, it can be transformed, and it will probably come back. So it's not just that we've allowed people to think it's OK to do this—we've also empowered them with pretty sophisticated tools to do it. And the key is: We're much more connected than they are. We're much more vulnerable.

(...)

Q: There's a general presumption that both China and Russia have more people involved.
Paller: The people who do the work that you're talking about are very skilled people. We're not producing them. There is no pipeline for them right now. The last book on this, Joel Brenner's book [America the Vulnerable], said 30,000 in the PLA, 150,000 in the militia available. Our best numbers at that skill level are 1,000.
DeMarco: Part of that is precisely because of America's economic success when it comes to the Internet. Our best talent and brains may not be going into security because they're going into e-commerce.

#cyberguerre #stratégie #chine #russie #etats-unis

On Diaspora's Social Network, You Own Your Data - Businessweek

2012-08-22T13:25:40Z

On Diaspora's Social Network, You Own Your Data - Businessweek
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-05-10/on-diasporas-social-network-you-own-your-data

Big players, however, were watching them closely. In June 2011, Google released Google Plus, its big, this-time-is-for-real push into social networking. Tech bloggers quickly noted how much the new site looked like Diaspora—Google was “drinking Diaspora's milkshake,” said the blog ReadWriteWeb—and, in particular, how Google's “Circles” resembled Diaspora's “Aspects.” That Google “took their open ideas” made Zhitomirskiy very proud, his mother says. “They clearly cribbed a bunch of stuff from us,” Salzberg says. Google says its designs predate Diaspora.

Je viens de recevoir un message de Diaspora qui présente leur dernière invention :

Thus, Makr.io <http://makr.io/>was born, and we launched last week
<http://allthingsd.com/20120816/diasporas-next-act-social-remixing-site-makr-io>! We wanted to spend some time on a unique problem we discovered while working on
Diaspora* the past couple of years—the value of ownership. Existing social networks do not encourage their users to feel like they have the power to MAKE things on the internet. Rather they are just “capturing” the ephemeral social actions that define social networks today. With Makr, we are making creativity accessible to everyone, in the hopes it enables people to realize that what you post and create online is *worth* owning. The idea is simple: make a new post
with words and photos, and then any other user can ‘remix' your post, creating an endless collective conversation that can be inspiring or hilarious.
You can read more about our Makr mission <http://makr.io/about>here.

https://d2v75xn1eqsd0m.cloudfront.net/screenshots/f6f1adeae7933464.jpg
J'ai l'impression qu'ils viennent d'inventer un truc qui existe déjà mille fois. Il faudrait sortir plus souvent au lieu d'essayer de battre le record mondial de créativité devant l'écran.

Facebook Lawsuit Against Ads Given Go-Ahead by U.S. Judge - Businessweek

2011-12-20T07:08:25Z

Facebook Lawsuit Against Ads Given Go-Ahead by U.S. Judge - Businessweek
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-20/facebook-lawsuit-against-ads-given-go-ahead-by-u-s-judge.html

California's Right of Publicity Statute prohibits the non- consensual use of another person's name, voice, signature, photograph or likeness for advertising.
Facebook claimed it was immune under the law's “newsworthiness” exemption, which doesn't require consent. The plaintiffs are public figures to their friends and expressions of consumer opinion are generally newsworthy, Facebook said.
The plaintiffs, in their statement of claim, cited Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg saying that “nothing influences people more than a recommendation of a friend” and a “trusted referral is the Holy Grail of advertising.”

Important : toute l'économie de Facebook (et de Twitter ?) est justement dans la commercialisation des liens d'influence. (Je suis pas certain que ça vaudra vraiment les milliards prévus, mais je suis sûr en revanche que ça fera beaucoup de dégâts.)

cartographie visualisation correlation Businessweek

2011-12-16T22:11:41Z

#cartographie #visualisation #correlation

Businessweek

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/correlation-or-causation-12012011-gfx.html

Correlation or Causation?
Need to prove something you already believe? Statistics are easy: All you need are two graphs and a leading question
By Vali Chandrasekaran
Correlation may not imply causation, but it sure can help us insinuate it.

Europe's Insult Diplomacy - Businessweek

2011-11-08T13:05:55Z

Europe's Insult Diplomacy - Businessweek
►http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/europes-insult-diplomacy-11032011-gfx.html

http://images.businessweek.com/cms/2011-11-02/etc_euroinsults46__01__960.jpg

Iranian Police Seizing Dissidents Get Aid Of Western Companies - Businessweek

2011-10-31T09:15:30Z

Iranian Police Seizing Dissidents Get Aid Of Western Companies - Businessweek
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-31/iranian-police-seizing-dissidents-get-aid-of-western-companies.html

The Iranian officers who knocked out Saeid Pourheydar's four front teeth also enlightened the opposition journalist. Held in Evin Prison for weeks following his arrest early last year for protesting, he says, he learned that he was not only fighting the regime, but also companies that armed Tehran with technology to monitor dissidents like him.
Pourheydar, 30, says the power of this enemy became clear as intelligence officers brandished transcripts of his mobile phone calls, e-mails and text messages during his detention. About half the political prisoners he met in jail told him police had tracked their communications and movements through their cell phones, he says.

....

“My mobile phone was my enemy, my laptop was my enemy, my landline was my enemy,” says Shojaee, who turned to using pay phones.

Ericsson, the world's largest maker of wireless networks, confirmed that in the fourth quarter of 2009 it sold a mobile- positioning center for customer billing purposes to MTN Irancell Telecommunications Services Co., Iran's second-largest mobile provider.

Drug-Evading Tuberculosis Shows Rising Superbug Threat in China - Businessweek

2011-10-11T07:24:37Z

Drug-Evading Tuberculosis Shows Rising Superbug Threat in China - Businessweek
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-09-29/drug-evading-tuberculosis-shows-rising-superbug-threat-in-china.html
#santé #mdr #tb #chine #inde #afrique_du_sud

alors, les negawatts, ça pourrait exister ? ❝something shocking is happening to demand for…

2011-09-11T08:11:50Z

alors, les #negawatts, ça pourrait exister ?

something shocking is happening to demand for electricity in the Age of the Gadget: It's leveling off.
Over the next decade, experts expect residential power use to fall

Power demand from US homes is falling - BusinessWeek
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9PJR0100.htm

#énergie #électricité #cdp

Russia Warns U.S., NATO Not to Aid Syrian Protesters After Libya - Businessweek

2011-06-02T06:16:34Z

Russia Warns U.S., NATO Not to Aid Syrian Protesters After Libya - Businessweek
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-06-01/russia-warns-u-s-nato-not-to-aid-syrian-protesters-after-libya.html

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned the U.S. and European nations not to encourage anti-government protesters in Syria by holding out the prospect of military support like they provided in Libya.
“It is not in the interests of anyone to send messages to the opposition in Syria or elsewhere that if you reject all reasonable offers we will come and help you as we did in Libya,” Lavrov, 61, said yesterday during an interview in Moscow. “It's a very dangerous position.”

#Syrie

The Battle Royale for Supercorn - BusinessWeek

2011-04-15T12:07:39Z

The Battle Royale for Supercorn - BusinessWeek
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_17/b4225072062602.htm

bientôt du maïs #transgénique qui consomme moins d'#azote

Corn that doesn't need so much nitrogen could cut America's $8-billion-a-year fertilizer bill, send less pollution into the water and less carbon into the air. Meet the scientists trying to build a better kernel

#ogm #environnement #agriculture