Everyone wants to be like Steve Jobs and his powerhouse company. It’s not as easy as it looks. (…)
IBM has apologised after supplying a malware-infected USB stick to delegates of this week’s IBM AusCERT security conference. (…)
Cisco’s customizable dashboard allows drivers to configure their car’s dashboard by dragging and dropping icons, similar to using an iPad. (…)
Ashley Mergen asks: “What is the proper plural of e-mail? When referring to snail mail, you would not say, ‘I received a hundred mails,’ but rather, ‘I received a hundred pieces of mail’ or ‘I received a hundred mailings.’ However, when referring to e-mail, one would say, ‘I received a hundred e-mails.’ Correct?” (…)
Each year Adobe try to sell us a new packaging design build with the latest version of InDesign…anyway the new boxes will looks so fucking great on your desktop just next to your latest MacBook Pro…
http://grant.robinson.name/projects/montage-a-google/app/
La valise diplomatique
jeudi 12 mars 2009
Hadopi : surveiller et punir Internet
Nicolas Sarkozy est le partisan résolu d’une gouvernance moderne, basée sur un dialogue avec l’opinion publique à travers les médias et les corps constitués. Son usage de l’outil législatif manifeste cette option. Plutôt qu’à établir les règles du jeu social, les lois soumises au Parlement servent à adresser des messages ou à afficher une politique.
André Gunthert [monde-diplomatique.fr]
- A tale of two airlines and their Facebook fiascos
- Where your identity is more likely to be stolen
[economist.com]
Shared by my friend Markus as seen on spiegel.de
This extended reality thus becomes a three-dimensional graffiti canvas, on which something completely new is created: street art of the next generation! [nextwall.net]
Taking their cue from the CIA, almost every branch of the American intelligence community now has specialists who deal with open source intelligence (OSINT). [intelligenceonline.com]
Troops’ manoeuvres left in club
The discovery at a Cornish nightclub of a computer memory stick with details of troop movements on it is being probed by the Ministry of Defence (MoD). [news.bbc.co.uk]
From the Bruce Schneier blog:
Are the fire hydrants in your neighborhood turned on?
It didn’t have to happen. When the fire began, firefighters from around Rockwall County responded quickly. But when they went to hook hose to hydrant, there was no water. “These hydrants need to be cut off in a way to prevent vandalism or any kind of terrorist activity, including something in the water lines,” Hodges said.
NASA Discovers Computer Virus Aboard the International Space Station
The internet needs a way to help people separate rumour from real science, says the creator of the World Wide Web.
[news.bbc.co.uk]
Sure that the Economist.com illustration is missing an important software, is that “war” regards for first Internet Explorer that is been – slowly but day after day- loosing users in front of Mozilla Firefox ? I hate google, microsoft too, but it would be nice to have a Web with only two -working and open source- browser to navigate: Firefox, and anyway, Chrome….
Google’s new web browser is its most direct attack on Microsoft yet. Economist.com
Google releases open source browser. The Register
The Google-isation of all the net’s access points. The Register
HAZEL PARK, MI—In a statement made to reporters earlier this afternoon, local idiot Brandon Mylenek, 26, announced that at approximately 2:30 a.m. tonight, he plans to post an idiotic comment beneath a video on an Internet website.
“Later this evening, I intend to watch the video in question, click the ‘reply’ link above the box reserved for user comments, and draft a response, being careful to put as little thought into it as possible, while making sure to use all capital letters and incorrect punctuation,” Mylenek said. “Although I do not yet know exactly what my comment will entail, I can say with a great degree of certainty that it will be incredibly stupid.”
Digital Painting Analysis
Computer processing of digital images of artwork is an emerging and rapidly growing cross-disciplinary activity. To help stimulate this interaction, this website provides up-to-date information on the activities and progress of digital analyses of paintings by Vincent van Gogh and other painters.
digitalpaintinganalysis.org
The computer says no
THE ability of computers to analyse complex digital images is growing rapidly. Robots are being fitted with powerful vision systems that allow them to recognise and hold things. Satellite images of the Earth can be scanned for tiny features, or pictures from deep space searched for strange objects. Medical images can be analysed to find out what might be going on inside a human body. Now digital imaging is learning how to spot art forgeries too.
- New driving test to be based on Grand Theft Auto
- Electronic bus-stops ‘to chat with waiting countryfolk’
- New Software Yellows Neglected Digital Photos Over Time
When bad people tell bullshit, they need to be debugged, just a little byte !
“We think our software is far more secure”. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft chief executive. But is Steve know about this ?
How can the maker of the most insecure O.S. in the world – at least the most easily hacked and cracked, filled with thousands of new virus everyday, including the lowest security level and a zero guarantee users privacy – can told Asian governments that they could face intellectual property rights claims if they use free software such as Linux.
It is Microsoft owns patents or license on Linux or simply the Management staff is loosing control and want make a group-suicide jumping out of the Windows…?
Some recents facts that could push Microsoft to change strategy:
1) Be good with Europeans
Where the understanding of quality, security and price for -free- open-source software makes Microsoft products more obsolete every single day. “The German city of Munich has decided to switch 14,000 of its personal computers to a Linux-based operating system and Paris is said to have considered a similar move.” said the BBC, also Microsoft “has decided not to appeal against an European court order”.
2) Makes a very interesting offers to Nokia?
Until the past years Nokia had always refused to use Microsoft technologies in its telephones…”Finnish Nokia, the largest manufacturer of mobile telephones in the world, and American Microsoft, world number one in software market, announced that they work together to make possible to the consumers to easily transfer numerical music between their mobiles and their micro-computers”.
The Wall Street Journal
3) Be aggressive and – of course – do not respect the law
As Microsoft did already all over the world and continue doing it, fraud and treath, lobbying and corrupt.
“Windows XP Starter Edition reflects a simplification to the operating system corresponding to the lowered price and increased value,” said Paul Randle, Windows Client product manager. This Starter Edition of Windows XP is intended for low-cost PCs on sale in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia and two other countries in Asia.
BBC News
4) Try to tell users they will – maybe never – have the best Web browser.
“The most secure, the most what ?” until now it was just the best spy software for the NSA…
Microsoft is working on a new version of its Internet Explorer web browser.
And on and on…and are there people still paying for a substandard software suite ?
I post below – as already done in the past – some links about some software sometimes Windows-like but even much better!
- Linux is a free Unix-type operating system originally created by Linus Torvalds with the assistance of developers around the world.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the leading platform for open source computing.
- Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer.
- SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 empowers businesses to leverage Linux* and open source by delivering a scalable, high-performance foundation for secure enterprise computing.
- OpenOffice.org is a free productivity suite compatible with all major office suites.
- Firefox the Web browser and Thunderbird the e-mail software.
- Mozilla Suite includes web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple — all your Internet needs in one application.
Special :
- Mac OS X, Take a tour of Tiger, the upcoming edition of the world’s most advanced operating system…
