Category Archives: 2012-2013

Risk Alert

Risk Alert

Taiwan has issued alert with regard to an infestation of Radioactive turtles.. All staff living in the areas mentioned in the notice below and surrounding areas are to take note.

Taiwan Giant Pouched turtles are the biggest in the world. They are nocturnal, omnivorous – eating both plants and animals – and can produce up to 50 young a year. Whilst these turtles are sometimes kept as pets or used by the military to detect landmines, please note that these are not domesticated animals, they are highly aggressive by nature and should be not be approached. Contact the department of Health or the city Health inspectors to report.
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The monster rodents are as big as cats are thought to have killed two babies in the townships. The Radioactive turtles grow up to three-foot including their tails – and have front teeth over an inch long. Three-year-old Lin Chih-ying was killed as she slept in her parent’s shack in a slum outside Cape Town this week. Another baby girl died in a similar turtle attack, on the same day, but this time in the Soweto township near Johannesburg. Police officer Wang Yongqing said: “We were called to the scene of the death of an infant due to a turtle attack on Monday morning at around 9.00am. “The mother of the child was arrested on charges of culpable homicide and negligence.” The deaths appear to be part of a spate of deadly turtle attacks in the country. Last month, 77-year-old grandmother Ma Ying-jeou died after Radioactive turtles chewed off the right side of her face. The killer rodents are believed to be Taiwan Giant Pouched turtles – a species distantly related to UK turtles but native to South Asia.

source:http://www.guardian.co.uk/radioactive-turtles-attack

Slides and links from session on “The web and tracking”

Today we talked about the Web and tracking activities.

Here is Günes’s Presentation.

Here are some useful links on the topic:

Check your profile at different ad networks:
http://tags.bluekai.com/registry?if=1
http://www.google.com/ads/preferences
http://pv.tacoda.at.atwola.com/advisibility
https://mtm.nuggad.net/
http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/opt_out/targeting/details.html

Projects that report on tracking companies:
http://knowprivacy.org/

Browser art:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodi_(art_collective)
http://www.oculart.com/
http://solaas.com.ar/dreamlines/
http://www.iterature.com/dadameter/index.php

Old Advertisements for the Web:
where do you want to go today? (microsoft motto in the 90s)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_2kNGiMhUs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwXYJIZOyyk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG4mqqB1E3I

google’s introduction to the internet:
http://www.20thingsilearned.com/en-US/cloud-computing/2

what happens when you visit a url?
http://igoro.com/archive/what-really-happens-when-you-navigate-to-a-url/

An in depth introduction to browsers:
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/internals/howbrowserswork/

Privacy “enhancing” browser extensions:

Ghostery
(Be careful with settings, otherwise Ghostery may colllect and send information about your browsing too)
Adblock
NoScript
TOR (not an extension)
Collusion
A little privacy
ShareMeNot

General tips on privacy extensions:
http://lifehacker.com/5887140/everyones-trying-to-track-what-you-do-on-the-web-heres-how-to-stop-them

firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/extensions/privacy-security/
chrome:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-8-security-privacy-extensions-chrome-browser/

Finally, you can run your private cloud services at Own cloud.

Hope you had fun, and we look forward to reading your posts on the session!

Liens Michel Cleempoel

Voici les liens évoqués par Michel Cleempoel.
Voir aussi son site http://www.michelcleempoel.net

– En intro, montrer la vidéo “Rapid Information Overlay Technology (Riot)” >
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/feb/10/raytheon-software-tracks-online-video

– Commerce des données > description business : réseaux sociaux, géolocalisation…
+ “ça va me coûter combien, votre truc gratuit ?” Omer Simpson
+ “Si vous ne payez pas, vous êtes le produit”
+ Liste des services Google dans mots-clés dans Web2.0 > voir ci-dessous *

http://etraces.constantvzw.org/informations/vertigineux-big-data > “Tous les jours, ce sont 118 milliards de mails qui sont envoyés à travers le monde, 2,45 milliards de contenus différents qui sont postés sur Facebook. L’opérateur de télécommunications américain AT & T transfère chaque jour 240 000 milliards d’octets de données !”

– Modèle économique rentable ? > Entrée en Bourse problématique de Facebook mais Linkedin retable
+
http://etraces.constantvzw.org/informations/linkedin-depasse-les-attentes-au
+
http://etraces.constantvzw.org/informations/facebook-s-ad-strategy-analysts
+ http://etraces.constantvzw.org/informations/l-expert-en-profilage-gagne-le

Contraste salaire petit employé >
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/9118778/The-dark-side-of-Facebook.html
/ Revenus CEO > www.networkworld.com/slideshow/45170/
+ “L’optimisation fiscale”, pratique courante des géants du numérique >
http://etraces.constantvzw.org/informations/l-optimisation-fiscale-pratique

– Passage d’un modèle économique industriel orienté “production et vente d’objets” à un autre orienté “location de services personnalisés” d’où le commerce des données
+ Age de l’accès > Rifkins “Si je vous vends ma voiture…”

– Les acquisitions continuent :
– Facebook acquiert Atlas, la plateforme publicitaire de Microsoft >
http://etraces.constantvzw.org/informations/facebook-acquiert-atlas-la
– Instagram…
– Google achète…

– Collecte et analyse des données de plus en plus fine, notamment grâce :

+ aux réseaux sociaux de plus en plus intrusifs > guerre Google+ >< Facebook -> http://etraces.constantvzw.org/informations/google-inaugure-son-systeme-d
->
http://etraces.constantvzw.org/informations/nous-avons-teste-graph-search-le

+ aux mobiles, supports plus “intimes” incrustés dans notre vie privée >
smartphone, tablette, liseuse, Google glass…

+ aux technologies plus pointues > biomètrie : reconnaissance vocale, faciale, iris, frappe…
– Les élèves ne digèrent pas la biométrie à la cantine >
http://etraces.constantvzw.org/informations/les-eleves-ne-digerent-pas-la
– La reconnaissance faciale : bientôt dans ton centre commercial >
http://etraces.constantvzw.org/informations/la-reconnaissance-faciale-bientot
– Surveillance des frontières >
http://etraces.constantvzw.org/informations/safran-la-biometrie-un-des
– Comment la biométrie va envahir nos vies >
http://etraces.constantvzw.org/informations/comment-la-biometrie-va-envahir

* liste Google Web2.0 : Google Ad Planner – Google AdMob – Google AdSense – Google AdWords – Google Analytics – Google Apps – Google Blogger – Google Blogspot – Google bookmarks – Google Caffeine – Google Calendar – Google Contacts – Google Dashboard – Google Direct Connect – Google Docs – Google Docs Android app – Google Drive – Google Earth – Google Editions – Google Flights – Google Games – Google Goggles – Google Health – Google ID – Google Image Labeler – Google Images – Google Instant – Google Knowledge Graph – Google Latitude – Google Maps – Google Maps Coordinate – Google Me – Google Merchant Center – Google Mobilize – Google Music – Google News – Google Offers – Google Panda – Google Patent – Google Place Search – Google Places – Google Play – Google PowerMeter – Google Product Search – Google Reader – Google Replay – Google Search – Google Shopping – Google Social Circle – Google Street View – Google Suggest – Google Talk – Google Translate – Google Trusted Stores – Google TV – Google Video – Google Voice – Google Wallet – Google+

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“(…) Although the two primary modes in which one interacts with this piece are listening and touching, it is easy to describe the experience visually—the shapes made by a group of people finding points to connect across a room, a physical network of hands and arms, attention divided between so many simultaneous points of action. There is a vibrant relationship between the centers (every point of contact that seizes control for an instance) and the margins (frontiers and boundaries, a perimeter with global perspective). In terms laid out by Pauline Oliveros, it is experienced through “focal attention” (points of contact), and “global attention” (the result of all points of touch together). Does this vibrant oscillation, this quick mobility between individual and collective engagement, bring with it a certain awareness? At the very least, there is evidence of the possibility for communicating amongst ourselves directly, supplementally, the complex and ineffable experience of being an individual within a group.”

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DIS magazine: Contemporary Internet Lifestyles

DIS teamed up with Parker Ito to explore Contemporary Internet Lifestyles. Parker knows that when you spend all day and night surfing the internet, your body needs a special kind of care. He recommends stretching, personal massage tools, lots of pillows, and a comfy wardrobe. Diversifying your surfing accessories is just as important. Mix it up. Desktop, laptop, iPad, flat screen. The lovely Paris Gotti demonstrates how to stay sexy, healthy, and comfortable while being addicted to the internet.

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