Special Report It's that time of year again. As the Christmas lights go up, Wikipedia's donation drive kicks off. Wikipedia claims that the donations are needed to keep the site online. Guilt-tripped journalists including Heather Brooke and Toby Young have contributed to Wikipedia in the belief that donations help fund operating costs. Students, who are already heavily in debt, are urged to donate in case Wikipedia "disappears".

To demonstrate how an attacker could exploit this security hole, the experts made a proof-of-concept video. They showed that a cybercriminal could record a video of the targeted user via his/her own webcam and seamlessly post in on their Facebook timeline.

"Il y a des jeunes qui semblent dépassés par les jeux vidéo violents. Je ne suis pas certain que ce soit une bonne chose. Si tout cela lance une conversation entre un parent et son enfant, alors c’est un succès. [...] Nous suggérons aux parents ayant des enfants jouant à des jeux vidéo violents de jeter un oeil aux jeux. Nous demandons aux parents d’essayer de mieux comprendre ce qui intéresse leurs enfants. Avoir une conversation est l’étape suivante. Si les parents sont d’accord avec le fait que leurs enfants jouent à ces jeux, ça nous va. "

NON... tout sera… incinéré!!

A newly published patent application filed by Sony outlines a content protection system that would use small RFID chips embedded on game discs to prevent used games from being played on its systems, all without requiring an online connection. Filed in September and still awaiting approval from the US Patent Office, the patent application for an "electronic content processing system, electronic content processing method, package of electronic content, and use permission apparatus" describes a system "that reliably restricts the use of electronic content dealt in the second-hand markets."

One of the most fascinating documents we came across was the BPD's subpoena of Philip Markoff's Facebook information. It's interesting for a number of reasons -- for one thing, Facebook has been pretty tight-lipped about the subpoena process, even refusing to acknowledge how many subpoenas they've served. Social-networking data is a contested part of a complicated legal ecosystem -- in some cases, courts have found that such data is protected by the Stored Communications Act.

Playdead is an independent game (software and web) developer and publisher based in Copenhagen. It was founded by Arnt Jensen and Dino Patti in 2006.

LIMBO was Playdead’s first production, but we’re working hard on bringing our next project to the masses. This is being realized with an almost intact LIMBO team and of course with Arnt Jensen as the Director.

Les messages privés payants pourraient bientôt arriver sur Facebook. Le réseau social est en train de tester un nouveau mécanisme consistant à obliger un usager à payer une petite somme d'argent pour contacter un autre utilisateur. S'il se généralise, Facebook assure qu'il ne concernera que certains messages très spécifiques.

A few weeks ago, as I was writing a Facebook update, I noticed that a friend who had been arrested in Syria had “liked” a Facebook page dedicated to selling insurance policies. I was shocked and immediately checked his status to see whether he had been released. He had not updated his status for months, and yet he appeared to like some random page from a company that I do not believe he would have had any interest in anyway.

Plastic surgery ...is it a boon or a bane for mankind??take a look at transformations in some celebrities in terms of their physical appearance...all due to plastic surgery...

Chaque jour, sur Facebook, les rédactions des journaux diffusent des articles auprès de leurs abonnés. Au Monde, nous avons choisi de vous en présenter quotidiennement une sélection représentant un large spectre de l'actualité, qu'ils soient sérieux ou légers.

Robots list
http://www.robotstxt.org/

QAWizard 1700$
https://www.greymatter.com/product/QA-Wizard-Pro/277978
http://www.qawizard.com/

TestComplet 1999$
http://smartbear.com/products/qa-tools/automated-testing-tools

vTest 1300$
http://www.verisium.com

irobotsoft FREE
http://www.irobotsoft.com/

AppPerfect Web Test 400$
http://www.appperfect.com

Programming $$$$
http://www.robvanderwoude.com/vbstech_internet_website.php
http://www.xstandard.com/en/documentation/xhttp/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5038681/how-to-write-a-vbs-script-to-check-a-website-and-then-stop-and-start-a-windows-s
http://suite101.com/article/using-vbscript-to-extract-data-from-a-web-page-a89800

General information about the C++ programming language, including non-technical documents and descriptions

Project to create new autoblog.

How can I find my path?

Conseil : ne vous fiez pas au numérique. Et c’est bien en tant que fan du numérique que je vous dis qu’il est très dangereux de s’y fier à 100%.

When we think about writing books, especially the technical kind, we think about a person or small group of people hunched over their keyboards typing away. There’s a good reason for that mental image: that’s how the majority of books are written. That’s not the way it has to be, though. Philip M. Parker, a marketing professor at INSEAD, has a patented system for algorithmically compiling data into book form. Thanks to Parker’s system, Amazon now has over 800,000 books for sale from his company. Other organizations pay for this service to compile data for their reports, so the system clearly has flexibility.

Le pire massacre dans une école aux USA a eu lieu à Bath, Michigan. 38 morts. C'était en 1927.

http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/International/2012/12/14/010-connecticut-fusillade-ecole.shtml

http://tvanouvelles.ca/lcn/infos/lemonde/archives/2012/07/20120720-042449.html

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-hs4Jr7WzTNI/UMxFOG1zGAI/AAAAAAAAJyU/HPPjndbAJj8/s628/image001.jpg

gun control
contra:
http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp
pros:
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-07-27/opinions/35489132_1_gun-laws-gun-crime-gun-control

"Police are extremely concerned as there is no water supply within the Park and temperatures can reach as high as 46 degrees [Celsius] making this a potentially life threatening issue. Some of the motorists located by police have been stranded for up to 24 hours without food or water and have walked long distances through dangerous terrain to get phone reception."

Parler argent en entreprise lorsque vous n’êtes ni un pro de la négociation ni très à l’aise avec cela n’est pas chose aisée. Et pourtant, connaître un minimum de règles peut vous permettre d’aborder le sujet en toute sérénité… et dans l’esprit d’un accord « gagnant-gagnant ».