How to inspire grassroots change in your city: Kristin Stith & Paul Klein at TEDxUniversityofNevada
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/how-to-inspire-grassroots-change-in-your-city-kristin-stith-and-paul
Kristin Stith and Paul Klein are MBA students and full time professionals in Reno, Nevada. In this video they describe how you can start a grassroots movement of change in your city using the...
USA : 6 sites précurseurs autorisés pour les drones à application civile
▻http://dronologue.fr/usa-6-sites-precurseurs-autorises-pour-les-drones-application-civile
Pendant des mois, cette nouvelle était attendue aux Etat-Unis. Deux jours avant la date limite, la FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) a nommé six gagnants sur les 25 candidats initiaux. Ce sont l’Université de l’Alaska, l’état du Nevada, l’aéroport international de…Lire la suite →The post USA : 6 sites précurseurs autorisés pour les drones à application civile appeared first on LE DRONOLOGUE.
l’Université de l’Alaska, l’état du Nevada, l’aéroport international de Griffiss dans l’État de New York, le département du commerce du Dakota du Nord, Texas A & M University et Virginia Tech.
Chaque site d’essai sera responsable de #drones d’essai dans un contexte différent. Le Nevada, par exemple, va faire beaucoup de recherches sur l’impact des drones sur le contrôle de la circulation aérienne.
Diptyque (mais pas conçu comme tel) d’A. Contreras sur le festival Burning Man et son feu, qui irradie au-delà de la #silicon_valley (août 2013).
« #Burning_Man - La Diaspora des burners » - France Culture
▻http://www.franceculture.fr/emission-sur-les-docks-«-burning-man-la-diaspora-des-burners-»-2013-12
▻http://www.franceculture.fr/sites/default/files/sons/2013/12/s01/RF_3B0858E2-572D-49AD-A967-E4D3EFD25037_GENE.MP3 Depuis 1986, se déroule chaque année dans le désert du Nevada un événement artistique hors du temps : Burning Man. « Le festival le plus fou de la planète », mais surtout une ville éphémère sur une mer de sel. Des dizaines de milliers de personnes affluent du monde entier et suivent à la lettre pendant sept jours des commandements dont les principaux sont l’inclusion radicale, la pratique du don, l’auto-suffisance, l’effort commun, ne pas laisser de trace.
Burning Man : #Utopies du désert
▻http://www.franceinter.fr/emission-interception-burning-man-utopies-du-desert
Google’s Road Map to Global Domination - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/magazine/googles-plan-for-global-domination-dont-ask-why-ask-where.html?pagewanted=a
Google has about 25 experimental self-driving cars on public roads in California and Nevada. So far they have driven more than 600,000 miles without being involved in a serious accident. The self-driving algorithms do not work because there has been some breakthrough in artificial intelligence; they run on maps. Every road that Google’s robo-cars drive on was first surveyed by a human-driven pilot car outfitted with sensors accurate enough to measure the thickness of the painted lines in the middle of the road. Every detail of the road has been mapped beforehand. According to Peter Norvig, Google’s head of research, it’s a hard problem for computer vision and artificial intelligence to pick a traffic light out of a scene and determine if it is red, yellow or green. But it is trivially easy to recognize the color of a traffic light that you already know is there.
In effect, the robot car is not driving through the real world so much as it is moving through, in Borges’s words, “a map of the Empire, whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it.” When the real world is transformed into a data set, it starts to take on some of the aspects of the virtual.
Sergey Brin, Google’s co-founder, has promised to release self-driving technology within four years, and Google’s maps will then be a standard feature in its robot cars. Not to be outdone, Elon Musk has promised that Tesla Motors will deliver a self-driving car in three years. It’s too early to know whether Tesla will use O.S.M.’s maps — but the indications are that it will not use Google’s.
The map, at that point, will just be data: a way for our phones, cars and who knows what else to navigate in the real world.
Voiture autonome : il ne reste plus qu’à améliorer le facteur humain !
▻http://www.internetactu.net/2013/11/06/voiture-autonome-il-ne-reste-plus-qua-ameliorer-le-facteur-humain
Chris Urmson, le responsable du programme de voiture autonome de Google, a récemment présenté les résultats de deux études portant sur les données issues des véhicules autonomes autorisés à circuler en Californie et au Nevada (toujours avec un pilote prêt à en reprendre le contrôle), rapporte Tom Simonite pour la Technology Review (@techreview). La première a montré que lorsqu’un homme…
Prescription drug abuse now more deadly than heroin and cocaine combined - ▻http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/08/prescription-drug-abuse-now-more-deadly-than-heroin-and-cocaine-combined
Prescription-drug overdose rates are highest in the poorest regions of the US: Appalachia and the Southwest. West Virginia has the highest rate, at 28.9 deaths per every 100,000 people – a 605 percent increase since 1999. Following close behind are New Mexico, Kentucky, Nevada, and Oklahoma.
Rates are lowest in the Midwest. North Dakota has the lowest rate of prescription drug overdose deaths, at 3.4 per every 100,000 people.
The most common misused prescription drugs are painkillers [#opiacés] (such as OxyContin, Percocet, and Vicodin), depressants such as sedatives, and stimulants used to treat narcolepsy and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). While men age 25 to 54 are most likely to abuse these drugs, rates among female abusers are accelerating. Since 1999, overdose deaths have increased 400 percent among women compared with 265 percent among men.
DEF CON : The Documentary - Jason Scott
▻http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUhyeY0Fsvw&feature=youtu.be
DEF CON is the world’s largest hacking conference, held in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2012 it was held for the 20th time. The conference has strict no-filming policies, but for DEF CON 20, a documentary crew was allowed full access to the event. The film follows the four days of the conference, the events and people (attendees and staff), and covers history and philosophy behind DEF CON’s success and unique experience. Written by Jason Scott
où l’on voit le général Alexander
►http://seenthis.net/messages/162024
voir aussi cet autre #film #documentaire de Jason Scott :
►http://seenthis.net/messages/46338
Some Last Triage of the DEFCON Documentary « ASCII by Jason Scott
▻http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4074
“What you need to understand is that hackers are portrayed as destructive loners, when they’re really creative sharers.”
L’homme qui vendait la lune (j’en connais d’autres...)
‘The Man Who Sells the Moon’ - NYTimes.com
cc @fil au cas où tu l’aurais pas vu
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/11/opinion/the-man-who-sells-the-moon.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130311&_r=
‘The Man Who Sells the Moon’
By Simon Ennis
The Man Who Sells The Moon: This short documentary profiles Dennis Hope, a Nevada entrepreneur who has earned millions, under questionable legal authority, selling plots of land on the moon.
By SIMON ENNIS
Published: March 10, 2013
The notion that one man can lay claim to all the extraterrestrial bodies in our little corner of the galaxy sounds preposterous. Yet Dennis M. Hope, 65, of Gardnerville, Nev., the subject of this Op-Doc video, believes just that. For three decades, he has built a thriving business by “selling” land plots in space, on places like the moon, Mars and Venus. Of course, he has no legal authority to do so. How does he get away with this? He told me that, back when he was a ventriloquist in the days before he “owned” the moon, his dummy taught him a valuable lesson: you can say anything you want to anybody as long as you smile.
The Two Most Ridiculous Claims In Yesterday’s Anti-Marriage Equality Decision
By Ian Millhiser on Nov 30, 2012 at 8:52 am
[Obama kiss]
An openly straight politician publicly flaunts his sexuality
Yesterday, George W. Bush-appointed Judge Robert Jones upheld Nevada’s practice of denying marriage equality to gay couples. Like a similar decision by a Reagan-appointed judge in Hawai’i, Judge Jones goes out of his way to resolve any uncertainties in the law in the light most unfavorable to equality — although, in fairness to Jones, his hands were at least somewhat tied by a 22 year old anti-gay precedent.
Precedent aside, however, Jones’ opinion will be very difficult to defend on appeal. He attacks gay rights in ways that undermine basic protections for racial minorities and women; and he displays an almost quaint naïveté about how politicians present their sexuality to the public. By the end of the opinion, the reader is not simply left with the impression that Judge Jones has never actually met an openly gay person, but that Jones does not spend much time observing heterosexual relationships either.
The most dangerous part of Jones’ reasoning is a section where he claims that, because gay people made significant cultural and political progress in recent years, this somehow deprives them of their ability to seek the full protection of the Constitution:
Today, unlike in 1990, the public media are flooded with editorial, commercial, and artistic messages urging the acceptance of homosexuals. Anti-homosexual messages are rare in the national informational and entertainment media, except that anti-homosexual characters are occasionally used as foils for pro-homosexual viewpoints in entertainment media. Homosexuals serve openly in federal and state political offices. The President of the United States has announced his personal acceptance of the concept of same-sex marriage, and the announcement was widely applauded in the national media. Not only has the President expressed his moral support, he has directed the Attorney General not to defend against legal challenges to the Defense of Marriage Act (“DOMA”), a federal law denying recognition to same-sex marriages at the federal level. It is exceedingly rare that a president refuses in his official capacity to defend a democratically enacted federal law in court based upon his personal political disagreements. That the homosexual-rights lobby has achieved this indicates that the group has great political power. The State of Nevada has itself outlawed sexual-orientation based discrimination as a general matter. Congress has not included the category under Title VII’s protections, however. In 2012 America, anti-homosexual viewpoints are widely regarded as uncouth.
Though it is true that Supreme Court precedents accord greater constitutional protection to groups “relegated to such a position of political powerlessness as to command extraordinary protection from the majoritarian political process,” it simply cannot be the case that a group loses its power to invoke the Constitution’s guarantee of “equal protection of the laws” once they start to gain rights and recognition through the ordinary political process. If this were true, neither African-Americans nor women could seek shelter under the Constitution, as both race and gender equality enjoys far greater protection under federal law that the rights of LGBT Americans.
Later in the opinion, Judge Jones dismisses the significance of the fact that LGBT people are underrepresented in legislatures and other elected positions, claiming that this could be attributed to nothing more than a universal desire among politicians to keep their sexuality in the closet:
[T]he “seemingly” small number of open homosexuals in positions of power or authority may be largely attributable to neither exclusion nor sexual-orientation-based shame that discourages them from identifying themselves, but rather to the fact that people as a general matter—and especially people in positions of power and prestige—tend not to draw attention to their sexual practices or preferences, whatever they may be, for social, career, and economic reasons. This natural disinclination of public figures to announce their sexual practices or preferences does not necessarily transform into passive oppression simply because the sexual practices or preferences of a particular subset of persons also happens to be a matter of special social controversy.
One has to wonder whether Jones has ever heard of Michelle Obama. Or Laura Bush. Or Hillary Clinton. Or, for that matter, Monica Lewinsky. The idea that straight elected officials “tend not to draw attention to their sexual practices or preferences” by not even revealing to the nation that they are heterosexual is self-evidently absurd. The closet is the product of years of animus directed at LGBT people, not some kind of Victorian desire to keep private lives private.
Father discovers missing boy he searched for 15 years was ‘locked in a room by mother and stepfather and so malnourished he still had baby teeth’ « MasterAdrian’s Weblog
►http://masteradrian.com/2012/10/27/father-discovers-missing-boy-he-searched-for-15-years-was-locked-in-a-
Father discovers missing boy he searched for 15 years was ‘locked in a room by mother and stepfather and so malnourished he still had baby teeth’
October 27, 2012
►http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2223361/Im-gonna-son-Father-finds-missing-son-locked-room-years-malnourished-ba
‘I’m gonna have my son back’: Father discovers missing boy he searched for 15 years was ‘locked in a room by mother and stepfather and so malnourished he still had baby teeth’
Tony Wawrzynski of Nevada was informed by Georgia detectives that his long-lost son, now 18, is the alleged victim in a Georgia abuse scandal
Wawrzynski said his son, Mitch, was kidnapped by the boy’s mother 15 years ago
A retired policeman found Mitch in Los Angeles looking malnourished, confused and only around 12 or 13 years old
Mitch told police he was put on a bus to California on his 18th birthday by his stepfather
He said his parents had barely fed him and forced him to stand on his tiptoes, facing a wall, with his hands on his head for eight hours every day
His two stepsisters said they could hear him cry and scream for food
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER and ASSOCIATED PRESS
PUBLISHED: 01:16 GMT, 26 October 2012 | UPDATED: 03:29 GMT, 26 October 2012
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Found: Tony Wawrzynski of Reno, Nevada has found his son that was kidnapped by the boy’s mother 15 years ago — and the boy is believed to be a victim in a Georgia child abuse scandal Found: Tony Wawrzynski of Reno, Nevada has found his son that was kidnapped by the boy’s mother 15 years ago — and the boy is believed to be a victim in a Georgia child abuse scandal
A Nevada man’s 15-year search for his missing son has ended after the boy, now 18, was found wandering around Los Angeles following years of alleged abuse by his biological mother and stepfather.
Tony Wawrzynski of Reno, Nevada says he hasn’t seen his son, Mitch, since the boy’s mother kidnapped him when he was just three years old.
Wawrzynski has written dozens of letters and hired a private investigator to try and find the boy, but his mother had changed her name and moved across the country.
As the years passed, Wawrzynski had all but given up hope that he would ever find his son.
Then last week, a detective found one of Wawrzynski’s letters in the Georgia home of Sheila Comer, who is being investigated for allegedly locking her child in a room and starving him for years.
That child’s name is Mitch, and investigators believe that he is the son who Wawrzynski lost so many years ago.
Authorities called Wawrzynski last week and informed him of their discovery and the Nevada father was overjoyed, but also heartbroken over what investigators believe his son has endured.
‘It’s been really hard on me, I mean, me and Mitch when he was a baby, we were really close,’ Wawrzynski told the Atlanta Journal Constitution. ‘We were inseparable. When Mitch was a baby, I was the one that fed him. I was the one that changed his diapers.’
Investigators say 18-year-old Mitch Comer was locked in a room in his home for years and was so malnourished that he still had his baby teeth and looked like a pre-teen
Shackled: Paul and Sheila Comer are led into Georgia courtroom for a hearing. They have been charged with child abuseShackled: Paul and Sheila Comer are led into Georgia courtroom for a hearing. They have been charged with child abuse
Sheila Comer appears in a courtroom for a hearing in Dallas, Ga
Paul and Sheila Comer are led into a courtroom for a hearing in Dallas, Ga.,
The pair were shackled in chains and in stripey jumpsuits when they arrived at court today
‘I thought he was a 12-year-old boy,’ said Georgia Detective Kevin Morgan at the bond hearing of Paul and Sheila Comer, who were arrested last month on charges of cruelty to children and false imprisonment.
Mitch Comer was just 5′ 1″ and weighed only 87 pounds when he was found wandering around downtown Los Angeles.
He was so neglected, his skin was translucent and he told investigators he hadn’t seen the sun in two years. He said he was confined to a bathroom and bedroom and wasn’t fed often, occasionally getting soup or cereal but little of substance, Morgan said.
Wawrzynski said he’s not sure how much his son knows about him, since he was taken from him at such a young age. He is hoping to reunite with him at a Nov. 10 fundraiser for Mitch in Powder Springs, Georgia, he said.
‘I definitely want some time for us to be able to talk and for him to get to know me,’ Wawrzynski said. ‘My hopes are definitely that I’m gonna have my son back.’
Arrest warrants filed in Georgia say the Comers ‘made Mitch kneel on the floor, bend his head and place his forehead against the wall, and place his hands behind his head for long periods of time.’
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In jail: Paul and Sheila Marie Comer allegedly starving and maltreating 18-year-old Mitch, who was found wandering around a bus station more than 2,000 miles from home
Detectives said the 18-year-old boy had practically translucent skin and looked no more than 12 or 13 years old. Pictured, police searching the family homeDetectives said the 18-year-old boy had practically translucent skin and looked no more than 12 or 13 years old. Pictured, police searching the family home
The Comers’ two daughters, who are 11 and 13, told investigators they heard him cry and scream for food often, Morgan said.
Paul and Sheila Comer, who had lived in the house 14 months, admitted to investigators that Mitch was confined to the room.
‘They both conceded that that was his life,’ Morgan said. ‘He lived in that room for years.’
The boy was kept in such seclusion that his two younger sisters in the same house did not know what he looked like, the authorities revealed.
‘The sisters haven’t seen the brother in over two years,’ said Paulding’s Cpl. Ashley Henson. ‘They didn’t even know what color his hair was.’
Paul Comer told investigators he brought Mitch Comer food at 7am noon and 7pm each day and fed him whatever the family was eating.
On September 11, a retired police sergeant working security at a downtown Los Angeles bus station noticed Mitch Comer.
Police decided to investigate further because the teen looked much younger than the 18 years he claimed, Los Angeles police said last month.
Mr Comer and the boy’s mother Sheila Marie were arrested on six charges of child abuse and one charge of false imprisonment on September 12, at their home near Dallas.Parents: Mr Comer and the boy’s mother Sheila Marie were arrested on six charges of child abuse and one charge of false imprisonment on September 12, at their home near Dallas
The teen told authorities he had suffered from years of abuse after being taken out of school in the eighth grade.
He told authorities his stepfather gave him $200 and a list of homeless shelters before he was put on a bus to Los Angeles on his 18th birthday. Paul Comer told investigators Mitch Comer wanted to be an actor.
Mr Comer and the boy’s mother Sheila Marie were arrested on six charges of child abuse and one charge of false imprisonment on September 12, at their home near Dallas.
As an 18-year-old, Mitch was not eligible for foster care, but has been taken in by a local family and is ‘doing well’, detectives said.
He did not know his own address, but his parents were quickly tracked down.
The couple’s two daughters have been in protective custody since their parents were arrested, investigators said.
The Comers have no prior criminal history, but were the subject of a 2009 investigation by local authorities following an abuse allegation when the family lived in Cherokee County.
The case was referred to the Cherokee Sheriff’s Office, but was later closed, and no charges were filed.
Neighbours on the quiet cul-de-sac of two-story brick and vinyl siding homes, about 30 miles outside Atlanta, said the couple kept to themselves and were shocked to discover that the family had a son.
’Abuse’: Mitch told detectives he was forced to stand against the wall at the family home near Dallas, Georgia, for up to eight hours at a time‘Abuse’: Mitch told detectives he was forced to stand against the wall at the family home near Dallas, Georgia, for up to eight hours at a time
The FBI and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation have joined the case, Cpl. Henson added.
Mrs Comer’s mother, Diana Powell, of Iowa, said she hadn’t spoken to her daughter in more than a decade and hadn’t seen her grandson since he was a toddler.
Powell told the station that she had feared her daughter and husband abused their children but had no direct evidence.
‘They mistreated him something terrible. I got on her case about it and she disappeared from my life,’ she said crying.
Authorities say that they are just at the ‘tip of the iceberg’ with the case and more charges could be brought against the parents.
Monica Moore, an investigator with the Paulding County District Attorney’s office, described the 18-year-old victim as small, very timid, and extremely polite.
Moore confirmed that a local family had agreed to house the teenager, according to Channel 2.
A spokesman from Paulding County Public Schools could also not confirm whether the children have ever been enrolled in the school system.
Records show the Comers have lived in almost two dozen different homes during the past two decades. Neighbours said the family had lived at their large Dallas home for at least a few years.
Dion Walker and Mea Smith told the Atlanta Journal Constitution that their children had played with the Comers’ daughters over the years but that they had never even seen Mitch.
They said they were surprised to learn the family had a son. ‘Maybe, when the young girls would stare at us, were they trying to say something?’ said Mr Walker. ‘Should we have noticed?’
Mitch was flown back to Dallas on Wednesday to participate in the investigation and legal proceedings.
His stepfather had his own business repairing home appliances, said next-door neighbour John White. They rarely spoke.
Mrs Comer never left the house unless she was with her husband, not even to check the mail, said Mr White. Their two daughters would sometimes come outside and play, but only in the back yard.
Neighbours assumed the girls didn’t go to school either – they never caught the bus that picked up other children in the cul-de-sac every morning.
Neighbors said they had no clue the Comers had a son until a detective came knocking at their doors asking questions last week.
‘I had no idea, no clue. There were no signs of a son at all,’ said Mr Walker, who has lived next to the Comers for two years. ‘The few occasions we would see them go to the van, it was always the parents and the two girls.’
Walker said police swarmed the Comers’ home last week, arresting the parents and taking both girls into protective custody.
Walker said the Comer family did not take part in neighbourhood association meetings and their girls never attended the neighbourhood Halloween block parties.
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New Nuclear Commission Chief Faces Safety Questions - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/14/us/new-nuclear-commission-chief-faces-waste-storage-questions.html?_r=1
as a member of a blue-ribbon commission appointed to explore alternatives to Yucca Mountain, [Dr. Macfarlane] argued for changes in the process used to choose a site. (Congress chose Yucca Mountain over the objections of Nevada, which later gained enough political and legal muscle to fight it off.)
While Dr. Macfarlane was upbeat about the long-term prospects for nuclear waste, she took a somewhat harsher tone on the industry’s evaluation of earthquake risk. The old approach, which involved building a plan to withstand the strongest earthquake a site has ever had, will not do, she said.
Sometimes engineers do not understand geology and approach it as a static body of knowledge, she said.
“As a geologist, I also know that geological knowledge is constantly changing,” she said. For example, she said, geologists did not think there could be a mega-earthquake off the east coast of Japan until the Indian Ocean earthquake off Indonesia in December 2004, which also produced a devastating tsunami.
(...)
On another front, Dr. Macfarlane said she had instructed her staff to “use more transparent language.”
“People who live near a nuclear facility should be able to read the documents that the N.R.C. produces,” she said. “That will certainly give them more confidence of our ability to regulate safety.”
La diplomatie de Las Vegas (Le Monde diplomatique)
►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/carnet/2012-08-15-Vegas
Rencontre en Paul Ryan, le candidat républicain à la vice présidence des Etats-Unis et le milliardaire Sheldon Adelson, un des principaux contributeurs du Parti républicain
Car M. Adelson a des idées très arrêtées sur certains sujets. Outre la haine de la fiscalité (celle du Nevada est pourtant l’une des plus basses des Etats-Unis), le milliardaire du jeu s’est entiché de l’extrême droite israélienne. Obtenir son concours impose donc, non seulement de soutenir la politique de Tel-Aviv en tous domaines (même s’il adore les républicains, qui le lui rendent bien, M. Benjamin Nétanyahou n’a pourtant rien à reprocher à M. Obama), mais encore de donner libre cours à son mépris et à son aversion pour les Palestiniens. Sur ce plan, les candidats de la droite américaine ont acquis quelques longueurs d’avance. C’est d’ailleurs devant M. Adelson, mais cette fois à Jérusalem, que M. Romney a opposé le mois dernier la « vitalité économique » d’Israël à ce qu’il estimait être l’infériorité culturelle des Palestiniens. Des Palestiniens dont M. Adelson avait pour sa part estimé que c’était « un peuple inventé (2). »
Yucca Mountain | John d’Agata
►http://www.zones-sensibles.org/index.php?mod=auteurs&a=04
En 1980, un an après l’accident du réacteur de la centrale de Three Mile Island, le Comité américain de l’énergie atomique fait pression sur le Congrès pour que tous les déchets #nucléaires du pays soient stockés sur un seul site. Ce sera Yucca Mountain, à 140 kilomètres de Las Vegas, Nevada. Ce #livre révèle les moindres détails de ce projet d’enfouissement massif
►http://www.zones-sensibles.org/files/img/Y3-2.jpg
(A noter : le projet a été enterré en avril 2011 [ ►http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/05/10/10greenwire-gao-death-of-yucca-mountain-caused-by-politica-36298.html ]… mais le bouquin reste passionnant, et tellement bien écrit — d’ailleurs l’auteur est prof d’écriture.)
Yucca mountain: Does Ryan support create challenge for Romney in a critical swing state? — 08/22/2012 — www.eenews.net
►http://www.eenews.net/public/Greenwire/2012/08/22/2
un blog de #FAS sur l’aspect scientifique de la question :
▻http://blogs.fas.org/sciencewonk/2013/09/yucca-mountain-hydrogeology
#McDo vu du ciel, #cartographie d’un empire | Big Browser
►http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/2011/11/11/malbouffe-mcdo-vu-du-ciel-cartographie-dun-empire/#xtor=RSS-3208
« La lecture de cette carte nous confirme que le géant du fast-food, qui compte plus de 13 000 restaurants aux Etats-Unis, s’implante méthodiquement dans et autour des agglomérations, ainsi que le long des réseaux autoroutiers, analyse le site fluctuat.net. Les rares zones d’ombres de la carte s’expliquent par la topographie : parc national des Everglades, désert du Nevada, montagnes de l’Idaho, grandes plaines du Dakota Sud, etc. »
Le blog Arcorama s’est amusé à fabriquer la même carte pour la France, deuxième plus grand marché du groupe à l’échelle mondiale.
Je me souviens, quand MacDo avait voulu s’implanter dans le Gers. Ça a résisté longtemps.
Depuis l’automne dernier, on a aussi un Quick
Et je ne sais pas si tout un chacun a remarqué ce détail, le logo de McD a changé de couleur de fond, de façon très progressive et donc très insidueuse, il n’est plus rouge viande.
Par ailleurs sur cette carte je constate que mes Cévennes chéries sont une béance sombre de cette carte
@philippe_de_jonckheere
McDonald’s se tourne vers la défense de l’environnement avec un nouveau logo vert
►http://blog.logoenvue.fr/analyse-logo/mcdonald-s-defendre-environnement-nouveau-logo-vert-566
En conclusion, l’équipe de Logo en Vu admet que McDonald’s a réussi une bonne campagne de repositionnement vers le développement durable qui masque les méfaits de certains produits proposés par la chaîne de fastfood.
Ancien logo rouge de McDonald’s
tout s’explique :)
Construction of Hoover Dam
►http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2011/10/11/construction-of-hoover-dam
September 30, 2011 marked the 76th anniversary of the dedication of Hoover Dam. The dam straddles the border of Arizona and Nevada in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River and was dedicated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935. Rising 726.4 feet from its foundation, Hoover Dam was constructed in five years, beginning in 1931 and completed in 1936. Take a look back at its construction and history.
Je crois qu’on a trouvé quelque chose d’encore plus sympa que #stuxnet : là on a un virus qui infecte directement les drones de combat américains.
Exclusive : Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet | Danger Room | Wired.com
►http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/virus-hits-drone-fleet
A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones.
The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their missions overseas. Nor have there been any confirmed incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside source. But the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from Creech’s computers, network security specialists say. And the infection underscores the ongoing security risks in what has become the U.S. military’s most important weapons system.
“We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back,” says a source familiar with the network infection, one of three that told Danger Room about the virus. “We think it’s benign. But we just don’t know.”
But despite their widespread use, the drone systems are known to have security flaws. Many Reapers and Predators don’t encrypt the video they transmit to American troops on the ground. In the summer of 2009, U.S. forces discovered “days and days and hours and hours” of the drone footage on the laptops of Iraqi insurgents. A $26 piece of software allowed the militants to capture the video.
Tiens : pas un mot sur la conférence de presse du Hezbollah de l’année dernière, qui démontrait pourtant la première utilisation militaire avérée de l’interception d’images de drones (israéliens, pour le coup).
Tiens, je remarque qu’on fait le même rapprochement avec Stuxnet. Ça promet effectivement d’être croustillant à l’avenir. Skynet arrive à grands pas.
Predator Drone ’Virus’ Could Be Military’s Own Monitoring
►http://techzwn.com/2011/10/predator-drone-virus-could-be-internal-monitoring-system-analyst
According to security researcher Miles Fidelman, however, the virus may be an internal Department of Defense (DoD) security monitoring package. He noted there are “a couple of vendors” who sell such technology to the DoD, which are “essentially rootkits that do, among other things, key logging.”
Cela impliquerait donc que les virus trouvés soient des logiciels légitimes, sans que les opérateurs ne le sachent, au point que l’info fuite dans la presse et dévoile ainsi un mécanisme de défense secret ? Eh bien...
Ça se trouve, il se propage via ce canard USB ? ►http://www.usbrubberducky.com ;-)
Les chaleurs du #festival Burning Man | Clément Baudet
►http://owni.fr/2011/09/06/dans-la-chaleur-du-festival-burning-man
Sur la côte Ouest des États-Unis, le festival Burning Man, le plus dingue de la planète, s’est achevé la nuit dernière. Récit tout en longueur de ces folles nuits dans la ville éphémère de Black Rock City.
#Cultures_numériques #Freeculture #burning_man #contre-culture #Google #hack #nevada #open_source
DES COUPONS POUR DU PAIN : : Le Courrier : : Quotidien suisse indépendant
►http://www.lecourrier.ch/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=444799
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