“#Google Talk [..] was based on an old standard that predated the advent of #cloud computing” - extremely poor justification for yielding to regressive impulses by dropping #XMPP/#Jabber interoperability ! http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/15/4318830/inside-hangouts-googles-big-fix-for-its-messaging-mess
35 arguments contre les #GoogleGlass
http://www.edrants.com/thirty-five-arguments-against-google-glass
I put forth the modest proposition that Google Glass, conjured and constructed and conceived only in terms of “cool” and propped up by ostensible “journalists” who have never thought to question Mr. Brin’s brilliant PR, could pose more problems to our world than any digital invention we have seen in some time. Contrary to Mr. Brin’s suggestions, his device will not “free” us. It will quite possibly destroy several vital qualities of life we now take for granted, preying upon kind and decent and hardworking people who are still playing pickup from an economic blitzkrieg in which they had no power, little hope, and no control. One would think that a man born in Moscow under Brezhnev would grasp the cruel irony of being directly responsible for an entirely new set of encroachments upon freedom and human possibility. On the other hand, great hills of money often move mountains in other ranges.
Pétition demandant le dégroupage du « cloud souverain », c’est-à-dire concrètement, que des acteurs efficaces et motivés puissent se servir des machines du défunt projet Andromède pour enfin en faire quelque chose.
http://www.avaaz.org/fr/petition/Degroupage_du_Cloud_souverain_francais_1
Personnellement, je suis entièrement d’accord avec les prémices (le cloud souverain est un gaspillage d’argent public, qui n’a servi qu’à arroser quelques gros dinosaures bien placés dans les allées du pouvoir, et qui se sont montrés d’une inefficacité totale, c’est le Quaero moderne).
Mais j’hésite encore sur la solution proposée (le dégroupage). Faudrait-il plutôt une nationalisation (sans indemnités, vu l’argent public déjà dépensé) ? Ou simplement arrêter les frais ?
À noter que la pétition est proposée par des acteurs du logiciel libre (AFUL, SlapOS) et des entreprises (Gandi).
Une bonne synthèse sur le cloud souverain : ►http://fluxetfixe.wordpress.com/2012/10/27/cloud-national SeenThis en avait déjà causé : ►http://seenthis.net/messages/92311 et http://seenthis.net/messages/66582
qui n’a servi qu’à arroser quelques gros dinosaures bien placés dans les allées du pouvoir
Pas seulement, ça a aussi servi à financer le sport Français :
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xx0jsu_publicite-cloudwatt-la-cloudwatt-box-avec-teddy-riner_tech
Votre score de crédit social - Slate.com
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/01/wonga_lenddo_lendup_big_data_and_social_networking_banking.single.html
Les Big Data peuvent déterminer qui mérite vraiment un prêt... - mais n’est-ce pas déjà le cas ? Ne sont-ce pas déjà des algorithmes qui déterminent votre banque à vous autoriser ou non un crédit ? - De nouveaux algorithmes souhaitent distinguer les emprunteurs fiables de ceux qui risquent de faire défaut, souligne Evgeny Morozov en évoquant plusieurs start-ups du secteur comme Lenddo, Wonga, Kreditech ou LendUP - qui utilisent Facebook et Twitter pour vérifier votre fiabilité via votre réputation. Le (...)
Intel : une nouvelle interface pour mixer toutes les autres - Technology Review
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/509941/intels-new-interface-idea-is-a-mash-up-of-all-the-others
Au CES, Intel a présenté son concept ’d’informatique perceptive". Un système qui ressemble à Kinect ou Leap Motion, c’est-à-dire une caméra capable d’interpréter vos gestes, mais qui plutôt que d’être un produit spécifique, se présente comme une interface ouverte adaptable à tous produits, permettant de basculer des gestes à la voix. L’idée d’Intel est de créer une « pluralité harmonieuse » des #interfaces utilisateur via un kit de développement ouvert. Tags : (...)
International data transfers: EU urged to scrap use of binding corporate rules and model contract clauses in cloud computing amidst concerns over US surveillance of data
http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2013/january/eu-urged-to-scrap-use-of-personal-data-measures-for-cloud-computing-amid-us
The report, ordered by the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), said that the EU had created “derogations” from traditional rules governing international transfers of #personal_data that, in a #cloud_computing context, could not adequately protect the #privacy of that information. It said BCRs and model contract clauses were examples of the ’derogations’ created and that both are were “equally unsuitable to prevent the use of #cloud #data for #surveillance purposes”.
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/libe/studiesdownload.html?languageDocument=EN&file=79050
“Both the [Article 29 Working Party] and the Commission place great faith in ’audit’ procedures to ensure Cloud services are compliant, but no commercial audit methodology can seek to uncover secret surveillance which is ’lawful’ under the national security rubric of a third country (especially if that audit is conducted by a company from that country). There is no way that an EU DPA can know whether this is happening or not, if the Cloud software fabric is designed and controlled from outside EU jurisdiction.”
The End of x86? An Update
http://fernstrategy.com/2012/12/21/the-end-of-x86-an-update
In October 2010, I predicted the disruption of the x86 architecture, along with its major proponents Intel and AMD. The purpose of this current article is to reassess this prediction in light of recent events. Below, I present the classic signs
Source: FernStrategy, Inc.
Gartner’s 2012 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies Identifies « Tipping Point » Technologies That Will Unlock Long-Awaited Technology Scenarios
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=2124315
http://singularityhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/gartner-2012-hype.jpg
The Hype Cycle graphic has been used by Gartner since 1995 to highlight the common pattern of overenthusiasm, disillusionment and eventual realism that accompanies each new technology and innovation. The Hype Cycle Special Report is updated annually to track technologies along this cycle and provide guidance on when and where organizations should adopt them for maximum impact and value.
ce qui est amusant c’est que ce schéma estime qu’aucune des #technologies décrites ne finira abandonnée dans les poubelles de l’histoire
Donc, le summum de la hype, c’est l’#imprimante_3D ! Ensuite ça va retomber comme un soufflé, puis les gens trouveront ça banal, et il y en aura partout…
How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/all
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/2012/08/matHonan_v4edit.jpg
In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages. And worst of all, my AppleID account was broken into, and my hackers used it to remotely erase all of the data on my iPhone, iPad, and MacBook.
Reply : ►http://www.auto-hebergement.fr
http://wiki.ubuntu-dijon.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?cache=&media=affiche:sdl_juin_12r.png
Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder | Technology | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.computing.richard.stallman
The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion. Maybe I’m an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It’s complete gibberish. It’s insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?
... Google Drive est disponible aujourd’hui.
#google_drive #cloud #cloud_computing #dropbox #box.net #skydrive #GNU #Stallman #fashion
et on peut désormais partager des fichiers dropbox par lien sans avoir besoin de s’inscrire (pour celui qui reçoit le lien, jveux dire) (comme c’est déjà possible avec Wuala par ex) http://www.01net.com/editorial/564877/dropbox-offre-le-partage-via-un-simple-lien
What It Takes to Power Google - Technology Review
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38556
Google uses 260 million watts continuously across the globe, the company reported on Wednesday. This is equivalent to the power used by all the homes in Richmond, Virginia, or Irvine, California (around 200,000 homes), and roughly a quarter of the output of a standard nuclear power plant.
On est quand même loin de faire bouillir une tasse de thé à chaque requête, comme annoncé par des Cassandres il y a quelques années.
J’ai commis un article sur l’énergie et l’internet dans le dernier numéro de Ecorev’ (http://ecorev.org)
Face Recognition Study
http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/face-recognition-study-FAQ
Q. Face recognition has been around for a long while, and Web 2.0 companies have deployed it in their tools/applications. What is new about this study?
Indeed, in recent times, Google has acquired Neven Vision, Riya, and PittPatt and deployed face recognition into Picasa. Apple has acquired Polar Rose, and deployed face recognition into iPhoto. Facebook has licensed Face.com to enable automated tagging. So far, however, these end-user Web 2.0 applications are limited in scope: They are constrained by, and within, the boundaries of the service in which they are deployed. Our focus, however, was on examining whether the convergence of publicly available Web 2.0 data, cheap cloud computing, #data mining, and off-the-shelf face #recognition is bringing us closer to a world where anyone may run #face_recognition on anyone else, online and offline - and then infer additional, sensitive data about the target subject, starting merely from one anonymous piece of information about her: the face.
Earth Day Enemies: Greenpeace Slams Apple, Facebook, Google Data Centers
http://mashable.com/2011/04/22/cloud-computing-dirty-energy
Environmental activist organization Greenpeace emphasized the environmental effects of cloud computing this Earth Day, releasing a report that assigns grades to 10 prominent technology companies based on how they power data centers.
According to the report, computer servers in data centers account for about 2% of global energy demand and are growing their energy consumption at a rate of about 12% per year. About half of the companies studied, which include Google, Facebook and Apple, used coal to meet 50% to 80% of their energy needs instead of renewable energy resources like wind and solar.
Working with the Chaos Monkey
►http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/04/working-with-the-chaos-monkey.html
The Chaos Monkey’s job is to randomly kill instances and services within our architecture. If we aren’t constantly testing our ability to succeed despite failure, then it isn’t likely to work when it matters most – in the event of an unexpected outage.
#cloud #redondance
la #programmation a des côtés #fun
Amazon Malfunction Raises Doubts About Cloud Computing - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/23/technology/23cloud.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss
“This is a wake-up call for cloud computing,” said Matthew Eastwood, an analyst for the research firm IDC, using the term for accessing services and information in big data centers remotely over the Internet from anywhere, as if the services were in a cloud. “It will force a conversation in the industry.”
Quels bullshiteurs ces mecs d’IDC ...
Google Apps Admins: Use APIs Without Writing Code - ReadWriteCloud
http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/02/google-apps-admins-use-apis-wi.php
Earlier this week Google released its #Google_Apps #Shell Interface (GASI), an a new way for Google Apps admins to work with the Google Apps #API without writing code.
Declouding freedom: reclaiming servers, services and data - 2020 FLOSS Roadmap
https://flossroadmap.co-ment.com/text/NUFVxf6wwK2/view
Le cloud computing libre selon Philippe Aigrain
In practice, offers of [#libre] #cloud computing hosting as well as service provision on them will have to fulfill three conditions:
True software freedom, including for #virtualization software,
Architecture choices that put #data and services under user control. A freedom-respectful approach must include support for three models, with smooth transition between them: #centralized hosting and #personal hosting (as in the wordpress.com model), but also #group hosting allowing users to host for “their friends and neighbours”,
* #Transparency (for the user) of location (physical control is essential to autonomy), except when cloudiness of the data location is needed in face of #censorship, #repression, or #surveillance.
(RT @hlc)
#Amazon’s #WikiLeaks Response Threatens #Cloud_Computing - Tech Europe - WSJ
http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2010/12/13/amazons-wikileaks-response-threatens-cloud-computing
La décision d’Amazon de couper l’hébergement de WikiLeaks est très mauvaise pour l’image du business des « nuages », dit Joseph Reger, le CTO de Fujitsu :
The provider [Amazon] simply cut off cloud services for WikiLeaks—that is, its server capacity, which made WikiLeaks inaccessible on the internet.
(...) Many potential customers for cloud computing services will, I fear, have been paying attention and will now be forced to reconsider whether they can afford to make their IT that dependent on a third party. Cloud-computing’s reputation has been damaged. For IT, this is the real tragedy.
3 Infographics About Cloud Computing - ReadWriteCloud
http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/11/3-infographics-about-cloud-com.php
#cloud_computing #infographie #clevermarks
Rough Type : Nicholas Carr’s Blog : Encryption and the law
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/06/encryption_and.php
lire celui là... le reste c’est plus que moyen... visiblement, c’est son taf de bloguer, et ça se ressent ;P
#hosting #cryptage #loi #issues #for_ketchoumi #cloud_computing
