Mois : octobre 2013 (Page 5 of 14)
Le ministère de l’Intérieur et le ministère de l’Artisanat, du Commerce et du Tourisme ont annoncé conjointement leur intention d’imposer aux parisiens un délai de 15 minutes entre la réservation d’une course et la prise en charge par une société VTC.
Shape files to fusion tables, geoJSON and topoJSON
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Financial startup Square launched a new arm of its business Tuesday that allows two parties to transfer cash between themselves using only their debit card numbers and e-mail. Square Cash may trump similar services like PayPal in ease of use in that it doesn’t require extra bank info, and transactions can happen directly via e-mail.
Twitter s’apprête à exploiter les données de ses utilisateurs pour vendre des publicités à d’autres sites et applications, affirmait lundi 14 octobre le Financial Times. L’annonce suit d’un mois celle du rachat pour 300 millions de dollars (222 millions d’euros) de la régie publicitaire par enchères spécialisée dans les mobiles MoPub. Une fois l’achat bouclé, le site de microblogging prévoit de lancer son offre de publicités fondées sur les données de ses utilisateurs, explique le quotidien américain.
En France, personne n’est ainsi capable de mettre en place la correction par les pairs, qui permet aux professeurs d’éviter d’avoir à corriger mille copies en une semaine, ce qui peut arriver avec une salle de classe planétaire.
« The Ellis Act is a key mechanism for undermining San Francisco’s rent control laws. The state law gives landlords the right to evict all tenants, even if they have always been good tenants and paid their rent on time. The use of the Ellis act is a legal deception where owners pretend to go out of business. In actuality they aim to create new expensive housing options in the form of group-owned tenancy-in-common flats or condos. Condos are forever exempted from rent protections even if subsequently rented out. There is no limit to the number of times a building owner can “go out of business”. The data shows some owners buying and Ellising multiple buildings over time. If these new owners do not want to be landlords, why are they buying buildings full of rental units? »
A pair of researchers have uncovered more than two dozen vulnerabilities in products used in critical infrastructure systems that would allow attackers to crash or hijack the servers controlling electric substations and water systems. The vulnerabilities include some that would allow an attacker to crash or send a master server into an infinite loop, preventing operators from monitoring or controlling operations. Others would allow remote code-injection into a server, providing an opportunity for an attacker to open and close breakers at substations and cause power outages.