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Élargissement de la taxe sur la copie privée

La taxe sur la copie privée étendue à la tablette la plus fermée et vendeuse de musique et aux GPS… Je peine à cerner la logique…

Élargissement de la taxe sur la copie privée Élargissement de la taxe sur la copie privée 09:30 – mardi 21 décembre 2010 par David Civera – source: PC Inpact Zoom À partir du 1er février prochain, la taxe sur la copie privée sera étendue aux GPS et tablettes. Le moins que l’on puisse dire est que cette taxe est particulièrement critiquée. La validité d’une surcharge sur les supports de stockage afin de compenser les pertes dues aux piratages a même été récemment condamnée par le Conseil d’État qui a annulé les lois de 2007 et 2008 issues de la Commission copie privée. Néanmoins, dans les faits, cette décision de justice n’aura aucun impact puisqu’elle qu’elle n’empêche pas l’existence de cette taxe qui ne doit seulement plus prendre en compte le nombre de copies illicites qu’il est possible de réaliser. Auparavant, le système de plafonnement faisait qu’un support de 20 Go et 2 To étaient soumis à la même rémunération de 20 €. Le nouveau système abolit le système de plafond. Avec le nouveau calcul, un support de 2 To demandera une taxe de 38,27 €, soit environ 15 € de plus. Enfin, l’iPad et les autoradio avec plus de 2 Go intégrés, ainsi que les GPS, devraient maintenant être soumis à ce régime.

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Resistance anti-pub verte


Tree in Front of Billboard « Helmut Smits

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Que laisserons nous aux générations futures?

Column « Helmut Smits

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Et Dieu créa les cookies

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Let It Dough! – NYTimes.com

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Tom Chatfield: 7 ways games reward the brain | Video on TED.com

Une passionnante conférence @TED sur l’utilisation possible des mécanismes de motivation des jeux vidéos dans la réalité.
Comment l’on peut on passionner et garder captif un public sur un projet long ou complexe…


Tom Chatfield: 7 ways games reward the brain

Tom Chatfield: 7 ways games reward the brain | Video on TED.com

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Jamais les stats n’ont été aussi passionnantes…

Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade?

Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade? | Video on TED.com

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hack thriller

Très long mais passionnant, l’histoire du plus gros hacking de tous les temps… Un vrai roman d’espionnage…

The Great Cyberheist

One night in July 2003, a little before midnight, a plainclothes N.Y.P.D. detective, investigating a series of car thefts in upper Manhattan, followed a suspicious-looking young man with long, stringy hair and a nose ring into the A.T.M. lobby of a bank. Pretending to use one of the machines, the detective watched as the man pulled a debit card from his pocket and withdrew hundreds of dollars in cash. Then he pulled out another card and did the same thing. Then another, and another. The guy wasn’t stealing cars, but the detective figured he was stealing something.

Indeed, the young man was in the act of “cashing out,” as he would later admit. He had programmed a stack of blank debit cards with stolen card numbers and was withdrawing as much cash as he could from each account. He was doing this just before 12 a.m., because that’s when daily withdrawal limits end, and a “casher” can double his take with another withdrawal a few minutes later. To throw off anyone who might later look at surveillance footage, the young man was wearing a woman’s wig and a costume-jewelry nose ring. The detective asked his name, and though the man went by many aliases on the Internet — sometimes he was cumbajohny, sometimes segvec, but his favorite was soupnazi — he politely told the truth. “Albert Gonzalez,” he said.

After Gonzalez was arrested, word quickly made its way to the New Jersey U.S. attorney’s office in Newark, which, along with agents from the Secret Service’s Electronic Crimes Task Force, had been investigating credit- and debit-card fraud involving cashers in the area, without much luck. Gonzalez was debriefed and soon found to be a rare catch. Not only did he have data on millions of card accounts stored on the computer back in his New Jersey apartment, but he also had a knack for patiently explaining his expertise in online card fraud. As one former Secret Service agent told me, Gonzalez was extremely intelligent. “He knew computers. He knew fraud. He was good.”

Gonzalez, law-enforcement officials would discover, was more than just a casher. He was a moderator and rising star on Shadowcrew.com, an archetypal criminal cyberbazaar that sprang up during the Internet-commerce boom in the early 2000s. Its users trafficked in databases of stolen card accounts and devices like magnetic strip-encoders and card-embossers; they posted tips on vulnerable banks and stores and effective e-mail scams. Created by a part-time student in Arizona and a former mortgage broker in New Jersey, Shadowcrew had hundreds of members across the United States, Europe and Asia. It was, as one federal prosecutor put it to me, “an eBay, Monster.com and MySpace for cybercrime.”

After a couple of interviews, Gonzalez agreed to help the government so he could avoid prosecution. “I was 22 years old and scared,” he’d tell me later. “When you have a Secret Service agent in your apartment telling you you’ll go away for 20 years, you’ll do anything.”

He was also good-natured and helpful. “He was very respectable, very nice, very calm, very well spoken,” says the Secret Service agent who would come to know Gonzalez best, Agent Michael (a nickname derived from his real name). “In the beginning, he was quiet and reserved, but then he started opening up. He started to trust us.”

The agents won his trust in part by paying for his living expenses while they brought him to their side and by waiting for Gonzalez to work through his withdrawal. An intermittent drug addict, Gonzalez had been taking cocaine and modafinil, an antinarcoleptic, to keep awake during his long hours at the computer. To decompress, he liked Ecstasy and ketamine. At first, a different agent told me, “he was extremely thin; he smoked a lot, his clothes were disheveled. Over time, he gained weight, started cutting his hair shorter and shaving every day. It was having a good effect on his health.” The agent went on to say: “He could be very disarming, if you let your guard down. I was well aware that I was dealing with a master of social engineering and deception. But I never got the impression he was trying to deceive us.”

Gonzalez’s gift for deception, however, is precisely what made him one of the most valuable cybercrime informants the government has ever had. After his help enabled officials to indict more than a dozen members of Shadowcrew, Gonzalez’s minders at the Secret Service urged him to move back to his hometown, Miami, for his own safety. (It was not hard for Shadowcrew users to figure out that the one significant figure among their ranks who hadn’t been arrested was probably the unnamed informant in court documents.) After aiding another investigation, he became a paid informant in the Secret Service field office in Miami in early 2006. Agent Michael was transferred to Miami, and he worked with Gonzalez on a series of investigations on which Gonzalez did such a good job that the agency asked him to speak at seminars and conferences. “I shook the hand of the head of the Secret Service,” Gonzalez told me. “I gave a presentation to him.” As far as the agency knew, that’s all he was doing. “It seemed he was trying to do the right thing,” Agent Michael said.

He wasn’t. Over the course of several years, during much of which he worked for the government, Gonzalez and his crew of hackers and other affiliates gained access to roughly 180 million payment-card accounts from the customer databases of some of the most well known corporations in America: OfficeMax,BJ’s Wholesale Club, Dave & Buster’s restaurants, the T. J. Maxx and Marshalls clothing chains. They hacked into Target, Barnes & Noble, JCPenney, Sports Authority, Boston Market and 7-Eleven’s bank-machine network. In the words of the chief prosecutor in Gonzalez’s case, “The sheer extent of the human victimization caused by Gonzalez and his organization is unparalleled.”

The Great Cyberheist – NYTimes.com

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Le frigo solaire

Sans prise… Le plus écolo des frigos…

Global Cooling: Solar-Powered & Ultra-Portable Mini-Fridge « Dornob

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The True Size Of Africa

The True Size Of AfricaThe True Size Of Africa

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Les pages jaunes, ancetres de FaceBook et de l’abandon de l’intimité

By the Book – Reason Magazine

The first phone book, published by the New Haven District Telephone Company in New Haven, Connecticut, appeared in February 1878. It contained 50 entries, a mix of individuals, government services, clubs, and most of all commercial enterprises. Phone numbers didn’t exist yet–at that point, if you had a phone, the operator at your local exchange knew who you were. The phone itself was a pretty big deal, of course, helping intimacy transcend proximity. But phone books provided a crucial element to the system: intrusiveness. In the beginning of 1880, Shea writes, there were 30,000 telephone subscribers in the U.S. At the end of the year, that number had grown to 50,000, and because of phone books, each one of them was exposed to the others as never before. While many American cities had been compiling databases of their inhabitants well before the phone was invented, listing names, occupations, and addresses, individuals remained fairly insulated from each other. Contacting someone might require a letter of introduction, a facility for charming butlers or secretaries, a long walk. Phone books eroded these barriers. They were the first step in our long journey toward the pandemic self-surveillance of Facebook. “Hey strangers!” anyone who appeared in their pages ordained. “Here’s how to reach me whenever you feel like it, even though I have no idea who you are.” […]

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Vélo en bambou!

Mis à part l’expédition voilà un vélo sacrément vert : Bamb EcoLogical Technology

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Unpopular Science

Les sciences dans la vie de tous les jours : la relativité du temps :

Christoph Niemann - PhysicsUnpopular Science – NYTimes.com