In 2009, the social networking site helped exonerate Mr. Bradford after prosecutors charged him with a robbery in Brooklyn. Mr. Bradford countered that he was at his father’s home in Manhattan at the time. He even had posted a joking complaint on Facebook about breakfast. Subpoenaed records from Facebook backed up Mr. Bradford’s alibi, and the charges against him were dropped. But a year later, while Mr. Bradford, 20, was out on bail on a charge that he had assaulted a relative of his girlfriend, prosecutors hauled him back before a judge to explain a disturbing message that had appeared on the girlfriend’s Facebook account. The posting, written by a friend of the woman, warned her that Mr. Bradford had evil intentions.
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un lundi à Rennes (by isokron)
(Source: http://vimeo.com/)
Moby n’a pas pris de gants pour régler le sort des majors : « Il fut un temps ou le business de la musique était incroyablement monolithique et où il n’y avait pas 36 voies pour se faire entendre : signer avec un major ; voir ses clips diffusés sur MTV et sa musique sur les grandes stations de radio. Dieu merci, cette époque est révolue. Pour 99,9 % des artistes sur la planète, la pire des choses qu’ils puissent faire est de signer avec une major. Elles ont mal traité les musiciens. Elles mal traité les fans. Plus grave encore, elles ont mal traité la musique. C’est la raison pour laquelle elle doivent se réinventer rapidement ou disparaître. »
Mobile access for the tube has been discussed for many years but has been deemed too expensive, due to the practical difficulties of installation. Critics of the scheme fear that terrorists could use a mobile network to remotely detonate bombs on the transport system. Although no contact with London Underground has been finalised for the mobile network, Huawei is believed to be the only equipment provider in the running, although other manufacturers were also considered, according to people familiar with the discussions.
Our goal is simple: to give people the most relevant answers to their queries as quickly as possible. This requires constant tuning of our algorithms, as new content—both good and bad—comes online all the time. Many of the changes we make are so subtle that very few people notice them. But in the last day or so we launched a pretty big algorithmic improvement to our ranking—a change that noticeably impacts 11.8% of our queries—and we wanted to let people know what’s going on. This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites—sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful. At the same time, it will provide better rankings for high-quality sites—sites with original content and information such as research, in-depth reports, thoughtful analysis and so on.
A utiliser directement avec une extension dans Firefox, Safari ou Chrome… (http://www.tineye.com/plugin)
« Google conserve toutefois des copies de sauvegarde des données sur bande magnétique, qui ne sont pas reliées aux serveurs, mais qui demandent un traitement bien plus long pour la restauration. Méconnu, le stockage par bande magnétique n’est aussi archaïque que l’on croit. Au contraire. Développée par HP, IMB et Quantum, la technologie ouverte LTO (Linear Tape-Open) permettra selon la roadmap du consortium de stocker jusqu’à 32 téra-octets de données sur une seule cartouche, dans sa 8ème génération. Actuellement, la 5ème génération permet déjà de stocker 1,5 To à 140 Mo/s, et la prochaine permettra de stocker 3,2 To à 270 Mo/s ».
(via Des bandes magnétiques sauvent Gmail de la catastrophe)