EX-CIA DIRECTOR: Bashar Assad Win May Be Syria’s ’Best Option’ - Business Insider
▻http://www.businessinsider.com/michael-hayden-syria-assad-2013-12
The sectarian bloodbath in Syria is such a threat to regional security that a victory for Bashar al-Assad’s regime could be the best outcome to hope for, a former CIA chief said.
Mercator Projection v. Gall-Peters Projection - Business Insider
▻http://www.businessinsider.com/mercator-projection-v-gall-peters-projection-2013-12
Because the Earth is roughly spherical, every flat map distorts our planet one way or another.
The most popular version is the Mercator projection, created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. It’s been widely used for centuries, including today in various forms by Google Maps and many other online services. This map preserves directional bearing, presenting rhumbs (imaginary lines that cut all meridians at the same angle) as straight lines, thus making it a useful tool for navigation.
Despite its benefits, the Mercator projection drastically distorts the size and shape of objects approaching the poles. This may be the reason people have no idea how big some places really are.
#cartographie #visualisation #représentation #mercator #projection
US agrees to pay $50m after ’piracy’ of software
▻http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25137089
The US government has agreed to pay $50m (£31m) after it was said to have pirated “thousands” of copies of military software.
Trop parler nuit…
Presentation revelation
Apptricity later estimated that 9,000 users were accessing the program, in addition to the 500 that had been paid for.
The unauthorised copying only came to light after a US Army official mentioned “thousands” of devices running the software during a presentation on technology.
Et un gentil appel à "témoignage" sur ce site spécialisé.
Army ‘Borrowed’ Logistics Software ; Pays $50M To Apptricity « Breaking Defense - Defense industry news, analysis and commentary
▻http://breakingdefense.com/2013/11/army-borrowed-logistics-software-pays-50m-to-apptricity
If readers know details of other cases where the military has “over deployed” their intellectual deployment, please click our Tips button in the upper right of our page and send us the details
C’est pas du piratage, c’est de l’ #over_deployment…
Encore mieux ! Rétro-ingéniérie délictueuse…
US Army Gets Caught Allegedly Pirating $180 Million In Software - Business Insider
▻http://www.businessinsider.com/us-army-pirate-software-2013-11
And when the Army found out, the company alleged it tried covering its tracks.
“Apptricity discovered that ... the Army had engaged another contractor, Future Research Corporation of Huntsville, Alabama, to reverse engineer a portion of Apptricity’s software application suite and proprietary framework architecture to replace certain infringed intellectual property rather than pay for the license shortfall,” the complaint read.
The company went on to explain it found out through the Army providing them one of the reverse-engineered copies of the software.
How McDonald’s and Wal-Mart Became Welfare Queens - Bloomberg
▻http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-13/how-mcdonald-s-and-wal-mart-became-welfare-queens.html
According to one study, American fast food workers receive more than $7 billion dollars in public assistance. As it turns out, McDonald’s has a “McResource” line that helps employees and their families enroll in various state and local assistance programs. It exploded into the public when a recording of the McResource line advocated that full-time employees sign up for food stamps and welfare.
Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest private sector employer, is also the biggest consumer of taxpayer supported aid. According to Florida Congressman Alan Grayson, in many states, Wal-Mart employees are the largest group of Medicaid recipients. They are also the single biggest group of food stamp recipients. Wal-mart’s “associates” are paid so little, according to Grayson, that they receive $1,000 on average in public assistance. These amount to massive taxpayer subsidies for private companies.
#précariat #pauvreté #travail #profitation #subvention #exploitation #capitalisme
Pendant qu’on y est...
Wal-Mart asks workers to donate food to its own needy employees:
▻http://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-asks-customers-to-donate-food-2013-11
You just can’t make this stuff up !
McDonalds tells workers to “sing away stress,” “chew away cares,” and go to church - Salon.com
▻http://www.salon.com/2013/11/19/revealed_mcdonalds_tells_workers_to_sing_away_stress_chew_away_cares_and_go_t
While McDonalds offers tips for individual self-improvement, and has responded to past criticism by touting its opportunities for individual self-advancement, the past year has seen an unprecedented wave of collective action against the fast food industry. As I’ve reported, a wave of one-day strikes which began a year ago in New York City spread to include sixty cities in an August walkout, all demanding $15 an hour and the chance to form a union without intimidation. The Service Employees International Union has been the main national player behind the campaign’s funding and strategy. The campaign has previously slammed McDonalds for the sample budget it offers online for low-wage workers, and for a McResource phone line whose advice includes seeking food stamps.
The McResource site suggests workers focus on the positive: “Stress hormone levels rise by 15% after ten minutes of complaining.”
London Is Experiencing A Major Housing Shortfall, Since All The New Developments Are Just Being Built For The Rich
▻http://www.businessinsider.com/london-affordability-gap-2013-11
More than 50% of #housing demand in #London comes from households earning less than £50,000 year (...), but developers are instead focusing on high-end prime properties. These cost more than £2m to buy or £5,000 a month to rent, with many ending up in the hands of overseas investors.
CIA Analyst Details The Fundamental Paradox Of The ’War On Terror’
▻http://www.businessinsider.com/the-paradox-of-the-war-on-terror-2013-10
(...) University of Pennsylvania Sociologist Dr. Bridget Nolan (...), a CIA Graduate Fellow in sociology, produced the ethnography by making observations and interviewing 20 analysts in NCTC’s Directorate of Intelligence (DI) while also working full time as a counterterrorism analyst at Nation Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) from January 2010 to January 2011.
She notes that many analysts feel overwhelmed because “they often were not really sure what their jobs were, and they felt that they had very little understanding of what other people in the organization do.”
Weird Amusement Park Attractions - Business Insider
▻http://www.businessinsider.com/weird-amusement-park-attractions-2013-8?op=1
Who doesn’t long for the days of gas masks and military interrogations in Soviet occupied Lithuania?
Išgyvenimo Drama, or Survival Drama in a Soviet Bunker, is the result of some enterprising Lithuanians and a modern curiosity about life in the USSR. Located in a real bunker from the Soviet occupation, the theme park offers a recreation of the Soviet lifestyle for those brave enough to give it a try.
Visitors will give up their phones, wallets, and cameras to don thin Soviet-style coats, learn the Soviet national anthem, and undergo interrogations from real former Soviet army members in recreated Stalin camp.
AI PIOPPI on Vimeo
▻http://vimeo.com/76694540
Hidden among the trees of an Italian forest, Bruno has been building swings, slides, seesaws, gyroscopes and roller-coasters for the last forty years. They are his passion and a way to attract clients to Ai Pioppi, the restaurant he runs with his family. Throughout this short documentary, his hand-powered toys move alongside his thoughts about existence and death; and why he spent more than half of his life creating rides.
A Fabrica film
▻http://www.businessinsider.com/ai-pioppi-italian-amusement-park-photos-2013-10
▻http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2460167/Italian-man-hand-builds-entire-theme-park-spare-time-40-years.html
La page officielle du restaurant Ai Pioppi
▻http://www.aipioppi.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=8
Le menu
▻http://www.aipioppi.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3&Itemid=6
▻http://www.osteriaaipioppitreviso.it/cosa-facciamo
MENU’ OSTERIA
– Vino in bottiglia 5.00
– Vino ciotola 1.00
– Vino ½ secio 2.00
– Vino al secio 4.00
– Braciola senza polenta 5.00
– Salamina con polenta 4.00
– Wustel con polenta 4.00
– Formaggio cotto con polenta 4.50
– Costicine con polenta 4.50
– Lumache ai funghi con polenta 8.00
– Baccalà alla vicentina con polenta 8.00
– Funghi / Patate fritte 2.00
– Fagioli conditi 1.50
– Panino con sopressa 1.50
– Piatto sopressa 4.00
– Cestino di pane 1.00
– Polenta (4 fette) 1.00
– Formaggio crudo 1.50
– Ciambella fatta in casa 5.00
– Tortina 1.00
– Acqua 0.80
– Bibite 1.50
– The caldo 1.00
– Anguria 1.50
– Gelato 1.50
– Sgroppino 1.50
– Crema caffè 1.50
– Caffè 0.50
MENU’ RISTORANTE
Menu fisso 20.00 euro
– 4 Antipasti
– 1 Primo
– 1 Secondo
– Contorni
– Dolce fatto in casa
– Zabaiò
– Acqua, vino, caffè, liquori
Adulti 20.00 euro
Menu bimbo 10.00 euro
Menu fisso 25.00 euro
– 5 Antipasti
– 2 Primi
– 2 Secondi
– Contorni
– Dolce fatto in casa
– Zabaiò
– Acqua, vino, caffè, liquori
Adulti 25.00 euro
Menu bimbo 10.00 euro
Le camping
▻http://www.campng.net/de/camping/19061
▻http://www.aipioppi.it
Message à la NSA
▻http://fchaix.eu/shaarli/?p6Bcrw
J’ai configuré mutt pour qu’il ajoute un header à chaque mail : my_hdr X-NSA-Message : sort -R /home/ego/Bordayl/NSA | head -n 10 | tr "\n" " "
En gros, ça prend 10 mots-clé au hasard dans /home/ego/Bordayl/NSA (▻http://fchaix.eu/zerobin/?1b62fe5b467d8acf#Xo4yi+BCKRRQK8qJ2A7i5p+h5qCuzRqFKimTWXI00cc=), et ça les met à la suite dans le header. LA liste vient de là : ▻http://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-prism-keywords-for-domestic-spying-2013-6
Juste pour le (...)
La question, pas tout à fait anodine, sur un forum qui a fait tomber Silk Road (et #bitcoin…)
Silk Road Stack Overflow Post - Business Insider
▻http://www.businessinsider.com/silk-road-stack-overflow-post-2013-10
According to the criminal complaint against Ross William Ulbricht, the man who allegedly ran the vast online drug marketplace from his San Francisco apartment, ventured humbly onto the site in March 2012 to ask a couple of friendly questions.
The first one, it seems, was relatively innocuous, if a bit unorthodox. But a second query struck FBI investigators as rather incriminating, in retrospect: “How can I connect to a Tor hidden service using curl in php?” the user asked. Silk Road is, of course, a Tor hidden service — perhaps the world’s most famous one at that.
But here’s the facepalm-worthy part: According to the criminal complaint, Ulbricht posted the question using his own real name. Less than one minute later, he changed his username to “frosty.” And then, one assumes, banged his head against a hard wall several times.
According to the complaint, the Stack Overflow post served as key evidence for authorities trying to link Ulbricht to Silk Road.
(…)
Oh, and the encryption key on the Silk Road server ended with the substring “frosty@frosty.” Whoops.
j’ai pas bien compris : StackOverflow a donné ces informations au FBI (changement de pseudonyme) ou ce sont toutes des informations publiques ?
Il a posté une question « délicate » sur un forum public sous son vrai nom, puis sous un pseudo, pseudo utilisé par ailleurs dans la clé publique de Silk Road.
En gros, « coucou, c’est moi… »
oui, mais comment sait on qu’il a changé son nom pour un pseudo, apparemment moins d’une minute plus tard ? Il y a des traces publiques de ça ? Sinon, ça veut dire que stackoverflow donne des informations à la police ?
Difficile d’en savoir plus que ce qui est indiqué dans la plainte ▻http://fr.scribd.com/doc/172773407/Ulbricht-Criminal-Complaint-Silk-Road (c’est le point 43, en bas de la page 30).
Apparemment, l’enquêteur a eu accès à l’historique du compte utilisateur. Le compte a été créé chez StackOverflow avec le vrai nom comme pseudo le 5/03/12 et son adresse GMail, pseudo changé le 16, juste après la question. L’enquêteur sait aussi que l’adresse mail a été changé ultérieurement.
Et oui, les FAI et tenanciers de forum fournissent des infos à la police, en particulier sur réquisition judiciaire… cf. en parallèle ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/181277 (sur lequel, je vois que tu viens d’intervenir… ;-)
Bitcoin Collapse Silk Road - Business Insider
▻http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-bitcoin-collapse-silk-road-2013-10
Today the FBI seized and shut down #Silk_Road, a website that allowed customers to buy illegal drugs using #Bitcoin. As part of the bust, the government took 26,000 Bitcoins, or the equivalent of about $3.2 million, from Silk Road.
Following the news, Bitcoin’s value began to collapse. Early this morning, one Bitcoin was worth about $123. As of this writing, it’s hovering around $100.
Here’s a chart that shows Bitcoin’s collapse today.
’Tech’ Is Misnomer for Internet Giants | Business
▻http://www.washingtonspectator.org/index.php/Economics/tech-is-a-misnomer-for-internet-giants.html
The British humorist Douglas Adams once summed up the trajectory of computers and the internet in four teleological sentences: "First, we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII—and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television." Finally, observed Adams, "with the World Wide Web, we’ve realized it’s a brochure."
They aren’t about math and science and building things. They are about acquiring, processing, and selling information to steer consumers toward a purchase.
Of course, the computer is all these things today, and now with ubiquitous wireless networks, the computer has become the all-in-one mobile device. It’s the phone-camera-computer-walkman-TV-gameboy-GPS all in one.
Je découvre ces « teleological sentences » de D. Adams et je les trouve belles.
With one #algorithm Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin built an advertising giant the likes of which the world has never seen. The first step, in classic Silicon Valley tech form, was to patent the invention in order to create an extremely valuable monopoly. Patent No. 6,285,999, a “method for node ranking in a linked database,” did the trick. Stanford University owned the rights and licensed the invention to Page and Brin (who conveniently put the president of the university on their company’s board of directors). The terms of that license remain undisclosed, but it has #Google paying #Stanford a pretty penny. That single patented equation allowed Google to offer a search engine that provided, on average, search results that were of seemingly higher quality, and more relevant to users.
Then in a flurry of activity that has never stopped, Google’s code writers proceeded to file 228 distinct #patents based directly on the original “method for node ranking in a linked database” invention. On top of this, the company filed another 3,079 patents, the majority of which are intended to monopolize infinitely more clever means of gathering and processing the personal and social information of web users so as to sell ads at higher and higher rates.
So why do we call Google a “tech” company if most of what it does is advertising? (...) Perhaps then #Silicon_Valley ’s finest should be called the new ad industry?
Angry Over U.S. Surveillance, Tech Giants Bolster Defenses - By Claire Cain Miller
New York Times, 1er novembre 2013
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/01/technology/angry-over-us-surveillance-tech-giants-bolster-defenses.html
companies are building technical fortresses intended to make the private information in which they trade inaccessible to the government and other suspected spies.
Yet even as they take measures against government collection of personal information, their business models rely on collecting that same data, largely to sell personalized ads. So no matter the steps they take, as long as they remain ad companies, they will be gathering a trove of information that will prove tempting to law enforcement and spies.
The New #Mobile Advertising Ecosystem Explained via @opironet que je remercie
▻http://www.businessinsider.com/the-new-mobile-advertising-landscape-2013-11
Nouvel article qui confirme que #Facebook a l’ambition de devenir une sorte d’opérateur #telecom (ou du moins de peser sur les #telcos) et fédère en ce sens :
Facebook Leads an Effort to Lower Barriers to Internet Access
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/technology/facebook-leads-an-effort-to-lower-barriers-to-internet-access.html?pagewant
Half a dozen of the world’s tech giants, including Samsung, Nokia, Qualcomm and Ericsson, have agreed to work with the company as partners on the initiative, which they call Internet.org.
►http://www.internet.org [une bien belle URL]
The companies intend to accomplish their goal in part by simplifying phone applications so they run more efficiently and by improving the components of phones and networks so that they transmit more data while using less battery power.
Avec la vidéo qui va bien :
Car bien sûr, M. Zuckerberg nous l’assure :
We’re focused on it more because we think it’s something good for the world,” he said, “rather than something that is going to be really amazing for our profits.
Précédents articles sur Facebook et le #mobile :
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/technology/facebook-beats-expectations-on-strong-mobile-growth.html
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/technology/for-developing-world-a-lightweight-facebook.html?pagewanted=all
Un arrosage de la planète qui pourrait passer par... des #drones donc : ►http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/04/now-facebook-has-a-drone-plan
Rise Of The Renting And Sharing Economy Could Have Catastrophic Ripple Effects - Business Insider
▻http://www.businessinsider.com/rise-of-the-renting-and-sharing-economy-2013-8?op=1
What’s to blame? A few main effects are at play here, according to the ConvergEx team: (1) the bursting of the housing bubble and the attendant rise in personal bankruptcies; (2) lower disposable incomes as wage growth in America remains elusive; and (3) the introduction of new apps and websites in the past few years that enable more renting and sharing opportunities.
“The potential impacts of renting/leasing as a long-term trend, though, are worrisome: Renting and sharing could lead to lower home sales (and, subsequently lower home values and net worths), as well as lower auto and retail sales,” write the strategists. “The ripple effects could also be catastrophic: Adjusting to a consumer who does not necessarily buy, but rather rents, would necessitate a shift in production, sales, and even employment structures. Everything interesting in economics happens at the margin, so if the nth consumer chooses to rent an apartment instead of buying a house or making do with a car-share program instead of purchasing a new vehicle, then demand for new houses and cars drops.”
L’économie s’adaptera... En l’occurrence si personne n’achète et tout le monde loue, l’offre de location aura tendance à se raréfier, le loyer coûtera plus cher, et il deviendra intéressant d’acheter pour proposer à la location. Ça ne fera pas baisser la demande de produits neufs, ça changera simplement le B2C en B2B2C.
Je ne suis pas fan de tout louer mais d’un point écologique cela peut nous permettre de faire plus avec moins, c’est à dire de proposer le même confort de vie à plus de personnes sans avoir à produire plus. L’évolution sociétale est intéressante.
Cordialement.
Medieval French Finance Ministers Executed - Business Insider
▻http://www.businessinsider.com/medieval-french-finance-ministers-executed-2013-4
...executing chief finance ministers appears to have been a relatively common occurrence in pre- and early-modern Europe.
This was most true in France, where between 1314 and 1328 three different treasury superintendents were executed.
With the help of Pierre Clément’s “Trois drames historiques”, André Liesse "Evolution of Credit and Banks in France from the Founding of the Bank of France to the Present Time," and Herodote.net [FR] we present how they went down:
...
• 25 Abandoned Yugoslavia Monuments
►http://www.cracktwo.com/2011/04/25-abandoned-soviet-monuments-that-look.html
@simplicissimus... nous sommes à la recherche désespérée de celui-ci :
Le site dit qu’il se trouve à Korenica, mais... il n’y a que cette photo sur le net !! Help help help !
►http://www.cracktwo.com/2011/04/25-abandoned-soviet-monuments-that-look.html
Est-ce que quelqu’un a une idée de quel Korenica s’agit (Croatie ou Macédoine ?) et existe-t-il vraiment encore ou a-t-il été détruit ?
Toute aide est la bienvenue !
Ouille !
Je cherche Korenica, je tombe sur celui de Croatie et je vois que c’est à moins de 10km de Bihać. Je me dis, c’est mal barré…
Malheureusement, cela se confirme.
Sur cette page (l’une des nombreuses avec les photos de Kempenaers — visiblement, tout le monde se copie)
▻http://stan-one.livejournal.com/419232.html
LA photo est légendée comme étant en Croatie
Кореница (Korenica). Хорватия.
Sur celle ci,
▻http://www.businessinsider.com/jan-kempenaers-photos-of-yugoslavian-monuments-2013-12
This monument is in Korenica, on the border of Croatia and Bosnia. It commemorates Yugoslavia’s victory in World War II. It has reportedly since been torn down.
Enfin, le plus précis, en croate…
▻http://www.lupiga.com/vijesti/zaboravljena-povijest-nekada-vazna-remekdjela-simboli-kojih-se-danas-svi-sti
Korenica je za vrijeme Drugog svjetskog rata bila još jedno jako partizansko uporište. Nakon rata podno Plješivice niknuo je spomenik narodnooslobodilačkoj borbi. Uz njega je kasnije bilo postavljeno i šest brončanih skulptura iz ciklusa „Tifusari“, već spomenutog kipara Vanje Radauša. Za vrijeme okupacije pod vlašću takozvane SAO Krajine, netragom je nestalo svih šest umjetnina.
SAO pour Srpska autonomna oblast
L’article de WP [hr] sur la RSK mentionne que la plupart des monuments ont été détruits…
▻http://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republika_Srpska_Krajina#Prikaz_RSK_do_nestanka
Je ne trouve pas d’info sur la destruction, mais elle est plus que probable.
Ici
▻http://www.vaseljenska.com/region/jedan-hrvatski-pogled-sramna-epizoda-hrvatske-istorije
Sur les 6000 monuments antifascistes, plus de la moitié auraient été détruits (le chapeau donne le chiffre de 1000). On y mentionne explicitement un monument à Marko Orešković à Korenica…
Dans cet article de 1985, ▻https://srpskaistorija.wordpress.com/2014/04/12, l’auteur se plaint que les monuments de Croatie ne parlent que du soulèvement du peuple croate, alors que de nombreux partisans serbes sont morts dans cette région de la Lika (dont Marko Orešković)
Pour celui-ci, on connait le jour de sa destruction : le jour anniversaire de son inauguration par Tito,…
Très bizarre, dans le livre de Jan Kempenaers, la photo est datée de 2007 !
▻http://issuu.com/romapublications/docs/spomenik_preview
Peut-être le plus simple est de le contacter ?
▻http://www.jankempenaers.info/about
C’est pour cela que je trouve aussi bizarre qu’on ne trouve pas d’autres photos récentes... car généralement les monuments en Croatie ont été détruits juste après la guerre, mais Kempenaers a pris la photo assez récemment... Cela reste un mystère pour moi, mais peut-être tu as raison, il faudrait contacter le photographe !
Il y a encore un mystère (j’ai écrit à Kempenaers pour l’autre, mais pas sure qu’il va répondre), ça concerne celui-ci :
▻http://lenscratch.com/2013/06/jan-kempenaers-spomenik
By the way, c’est vrai que beaucoup ont été détruits, mais beaucoup beaucoup sont encore debout. C’est juste pas simple à trouver (et le travail est très long... on en a identifié et placé sur une carte env. 150 et seulement les plus « spectaculaires » et « abstraits » —> pas de statues)... mais on va produire une jolie carte avec @reka et vous verrez le résultat bientôt !
@simplicissimus : concernant le spomenik que tu as mis en photo, là où tu parles de sa destruction... celui sur la photo n’existe plus dans sa forme, effectivement...
Regarde maintenant comment il est :
Un législateur russe senior et le gouvernement de la Syrie accusent les États-Unis de fabriquer la preuve d’utilisation d’armes chimique par le régime de Bashar Al-Assad pour justifier l’intervention au 27ème mois de guerre civile.
▻http://www.businessinsider.com/us-accused-of-fabricating-syria-evidence-2013-6#ixzz2WEhzI6TI
22 cartes qui montrent la profondeur des conflits linguistiques américains - Business Insider
▻http://www.businessinsider.com/22-maps-that-show-the-deepest-linguistic-conflicts-in-america-2013-
Intéressante série de cartographies de l’Amérique qui montrent comment la prononciation de mots peut varier d’une région à une autre. Tags : internetactu2net internetactu fing #langage #culture
Interessante approche.
Deux remarques :
– l’échantillon est constitué par autorecrutement sur la toile ; il suffit de s’enregistrer pour répondre au questionnaire (122 questions, tout de même). Pour les native speaker(s) of English c’est là ▻http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/cambridge_survey . Pour les autres aussi, mais en échange de l’enregistrement, on ne peut que consulter les résultats (ensemble des réponses individuelles géolocalisées ; on n’en connait pas le nombre)
– le lissage géographique masque (parfois fortement) la très grande variabilité des réponses individuelles en un même endroit.
Exemple pour la langoustine (q. 27)
version lissée :
version brute :
Il s’agit ici d’un double - voir ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/145579 chez @reka avec quelques annotations critiques sur l’usage du mot « conflit » dans ce contexte spécifique.