Auteur/autrice : noflux (Page 610 of 633)

Delivering his keynote address at this week’s annual CA Expo in Sydney, former Google CIO Douglas C Merrill added to the growing belief that punishing and demonizing file-sharers is a bad idea. Merrill, who after his Google stint joined EMI records, revealed that his profiling research at the label found that LimeWire pirates were iTunes’ biggest customers.

Serveurs basés en Europe alimentés de Madagascar, connexions au site Tripadvisor avec une clé 3G ou depuis un cybercafé pour brouiller l’identification de l’ordinateur utilisé… Tous les moyens sont bons pour ces sociétés étrangères et françaises qui alimentent en faux avis les sites Internet de leurs clients. Une stratégie de com’ illégale, discrète et très rentable.

Now distribution is going mainstream with the App Store. And it’s already begun changing the lives and businesses of independent software developers. On the surface, it all looks good. There are more customers, increased revenues, and many great new products. But this expanded distribution is also putting our business at risk: there are people in this new market who claim a right to a part of our hard work. Either by patent or copyright infringement, developers are finding this new cost of litigation to be onerous. The scary part is that these infringements can happen with any part of our products or websites: things that you’d never imagine being a violation of someone else’s intellectual property. It feels like coding in a mine field.

Financièrement, le mode de vie américain, basé sur l’étalement urbain comme principe de modernité, s’analyse comme une fuite en avant qui se finance sur le pari de l’accroissement perpétuel. Dès lors, l’échec est programmé, au moins dans une économie américaine où les infrastructures de réseaux sont largement financées au niveau fédéral mais dont l’entretien revient au local.

Traditionally, courts have held that the Fourth Amendment does not cover the trailing of a suspect because people have no expectation of privacy for actions exposed to public view. But the appeals court argued that people expect their overall movements to be private because different strangers see only isolated moments and a police department’s surveillance resources are limited. GPS technology, by allowing police departments to inexpensively track someone’s comings and goings, changes that equation