BotCast #2 show notes
Botrax
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INTRO
The internet is a series of tubes through witch congressmen can reach out and fondle teenagers.
-Talk about the intro (why it will be the only of this version) fact1 poor version
special tip to the tune that will play at the end of the show
-Remerciements: Lastcall pour faire un peu de promo pour mon netcast et me donner des hot tips pour produire un meilleur cast.
Last fait pu de casts, alors je prends la relève
Bingo Master pour avoir mis sur son site le RSS de Le Devoir... parce que je ne l'ai pas trouvé sur le site de Le Devoir.
-Félécitations MasterSex pour ton nouveau baby, Thierry. Pas fait avant... viré zombie.
-Now on Odeo
-Now on iTunes, News & Politics "Le Botcast with Cheese"
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FIRST SEGMENT
-Podcasts are cool, c'es pas du professionel en canne
-Audacity audio editor.... attroce.... interface impossible, crashed premier essai
-4 channel MODs on Amiga. The challenge or using 4 channels
They are editable, unlike MP3
-BotCast sur iTunes maintenant. iTunes does not install on desktop (Klite), have to create iTunes account to submit a podcast and use iTunes to submit, even if nothing is charged on credit card
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OUTTRO
Tune: Facts1.poorversion
Artist: 4-mat?
Year: 1992
From demo: Facts of Life, The Party 1992, 1st place
Duration: 6:42
Type: MOD
Channels: 4
Samples: 25
Size: 346k
Patterns: 52,42 , different
Details: Dance part of demo was just memory page flips, sort of stop motion
Why: First demo ever saw
> J'ai répondu ca a un gars qui voulait que son XP soit remboursé
> parce-qu'il est mort quand le courant chez lui à été coupé
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Trade unions take issue with "iPod City" report
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
Why are manhole covers round? What if you get that in a job interview?
The question of why manhole covers are typically round, at least in the U.S., was made notorious by Microsoft, who began asking it as a job-interview question. Originally meant as a psychological assessment of how one approaches a question with more than one "right" answer, the problem exerts a strange fascination on people.URL: http://digg.com/programming/Why_are_manhole_covers_round_What_if_you_get_that_in_a_job_interview
11 Septembre la BD
Lebanon's month-old oil slick sinks down to blanket Mediterranean marine life
A scuba diver's video made public by Greenpeace graphically detailed some of the environmental destruction a month after an oil spill unleashed by Israeli bombardment began sinking - blanketing marine life with a tar-like sludge in what experts from the United Nations and elsewhere have called Lebanon's worst-ever environmental disaster.The UN has said the spill could take as long as a year to clean up and cost $70 million Cdn.MSN Messenger Adds One-Click Sex Offender Report Button.
Young people using Windows Live Messenger or MSN Messenger to chat online with friends can now make a report to police with one click if they are concerned their online 'buddy' is a sex offender.URL: http://digg.com/security/MSN_Messenger_Adds_One_Click_Sex_Offender_Report_Button
Qantas to Dell owners: Reveal thyselves!
Filed under: Laptops, Transportation
30 USB port-powered "BBQ"
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
[Via Dottocomu] Re
Cellules souches: sauver les embryons
New York -- Une entreprise américaine spécialisée dans les biotechnologies annonce avoir développé une technique permettant de créer des cellules souches tout en évitant la destruction des embryons d'origine, qui provoquait une forte opposition morale et politique à la recherche sur les cellules souches. «Cela va rendre plus difficile de s'opposer à ces recherches», a affirmé Robert Lanza, de l'entreprise californienne Advanced Cell Technology, qui présentait sa technique hier sur le site Internet de la revue britannique Nature. SuiteUn projet de l'ETS menace deux maisons historiques
L'École de technologie supérieure (ETS) veut ériger des résidences universitaires en démolissant au passage deux petites maisons en bois qui datent du début du XIXe siècle. Les examens préliminaires de spécialistes du patrimoine laissent penser qu'il s'agit de rares survivantes immobilières de la période des faubourgs de Montréal, selon les informations obtenues par Le Devoir. La plus vieille des deux maisons, au 1230 de la rue Notre-Dame Ouest, daterait des années 1810 et aurait même servi d'auberge et de relais de poste. Suite du texte réservée aux abonnésLac Devils: la plainte des écologistes est rejetée
La Commission de coopération environnementale (CCE), qui gère le traité subsidiaire à celui de l'ALENA, a rejeté hier la plainte des nombreux groupes canadiens qui se sont plaints de la dérivation des eaux polluées du lac Devils, dans le Dakota du Nord, vers la rivière Sheyenne, qui se jette du côté canadien dans les eaux de la rivière Rouge, puis dans le lac Winnipeg et la baie d'Hudson. Suite du texte réservée aux abonnésWrzesnewskyj démissionne de son poste
Vancouver -- Le porte-parole adjoint en matière d'affaires étrangères du Parti libéral du Canada (PLC), le député Borys Wrzesnewskyj, a démissionné de son poste hier à la suite de ses propos controversés au sujet du Hezbollah, qui figure sur la liste canadienne des organisations terroristes. SuiteURL: http://www.ledevoir.com/2006/08/24/116583.html
Plusieurs membres influents de la communauté juive, dont Gerard Schwartz et Heather Reisman, ont désavoué le parti en raison de ce qu'ils ont perçu comme étant un manque d'appui envers l'offensive israélienne contre les milices du Hezbollah au Liban.
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20061006/CPACTUALITES/610060770
Le problème c'est pas qu'ils ont arrêté le gars parce qu'il avait des armes « prohibées » mais qu'ils l'ont fait parce que le gars s'exprimait sur un site web…
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/10/05/fbi-border.html
U.S. investigations on Canadian soil done within the law: Day
Last Updated: Thursday, October 5, 2006 | 8:12 AM ET
CBC News
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day acknowledged Thursday that U.S. agents conduct investigations in Canada but said all are done according to Canadian law.
Day was responding to a report regarding an internal FBI audit that shows U.S. agents are carrying out investigations without the approval of the Canadian government.
It says the FBI has given agents in its Buffalo field office clearance to conduct "routine investigations" up to 50 miles into Canadian territory.
When asked about the report during question period, Day said Canadian security forces work with Canada's allies, including the U.S, and have agreements in terms of information sharing.
"We have teams that are designated going back and forth across the border and sometimes it is farther than 50 miles or 50 kilometres," Day said.
"I can assure you that everything that is done on Canadian soil in relation to security and safety investigations are done in accordance with our law."
The most recent audit by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's inspector general, done in 2004, documents the growth of FBI operations in Canada since 2001.
As well as the reference to "routine investigations" inside Canadian territory it also says that about 30 per cent of FBI agents crossing the border to work in Canada failed to get "country clearance." In other words, they didn't get Canada's approval.
The inspector general's report documents 135 unapproved FBI crossings and says there is no sign the crossings will stop.
Canadian officials say they have made no protest to the U.S. government about FBI agents operating without permission on Canadian soil.
According to the report, the FBI has struggled to keep up with its Canadian workload despite opening two new branch offices. It pursues thousands of leads a year in Canada, far more than in any other country except the United States.
http://www.pcworld.ca/news/article/1856cbde0a01040801c7c7c31638e69a/pg1.htm
YO! interactive Wallpaper (not on your desktop wallpaper, the shit you
glue on your WALL!!!) lis ca man!
Microsoft smart home showcases interactive wallpaper
Author
Eric Lai
Computerworld
October 5, 2006
The latest remodel of the Microsoft Home, the software vendor's techno-fueled vision of domestic accoutrements of the future, has no robot butlers nor any flying cars parked in the driveway.
The latest remodel of the Microsoft Home, the software vendor's techno-fueled vision of domestic accoutrements of the future, has no robot butlers nor any flying cars parked in the driveway.
But what it does showcase -- and predict will be available to well-heeled cocooners five to 10 years hence -- are a variety of smart appliances, from lamps to interactive wallpaper , that can be controlled by tablet PCs or cell phone-wielding residents.
Microsoft Corp. showed off the Home, located on its Redmond, Wash., campus this week. First built in 1994 at a different location, the Home is stocked with technology that has been refreshed every few years. In the latest edition, not a single desktop or even laptop computer was displayed. Rather, Microsoft officials assume that computing power, mesh networking and thin LCD and OLED screens will become so cheap and ubiquitous that residents will be able to interact with computers from anywhere in the home.
The community mailbox outside tracks the mailman's location using GPS, and users can get a real-time estimate of when mail will arrive on the mailbox display or by cell phone. RFID tags embedded into envelopes even detail what mail is on the way.
Visitors that ring the front doorbell have their picture taken by a digital camera, which is sent along with a notification to the cell phone of the homeowner, who can quiz the visitor or unlock the door. Upon entering, the visitor or homeowner can issue commands to the Home computer system, which in this case is named "Grace." Or they can tap touch-sensitive OLED screens hidden under the wall's paint. A sculptural light display in the corner flickers red to indicate when e-mail from a favorite sender -- say, parents, children or siblings -- has arrived.
Meanwhile, a bulletin board in the kitchen has been updated for the digital age. Pin a party invitation onto its smart surface, and information read from its RFID tag causes the question "Accept invitation, yes or no?" to be displayed below it. Or place a pizza coupon onto the board and the restaurant's menu and phone number are displayed, the latter of which can be called with a tap on the board.
Jonathan Cluts, director of customer prototyping and strategy at Microsoft, predicts that RFID tags will become ubiquitous due to low cost and the ability to program and print them out at home using ink-jet printers with polymer-filled cartridges.
In the Home, a girl's bedroom features a mirror that doubles as a screen. By holding clothes up to it, she can get information about them, including whether matching items like a skirt or jacket are in the closet or the wash. Meanwhile, wallpaper now being developed by companies such as Philips serve as giant displays for pictures from a MySpace page or even video.
The network that enables such ubiquitous connectivity relies on both wired and wireless technology. The physical cabling is not the key enabler, Cluts said. Rather, it is the IP-based network that uses Web services protocols developed by Microsoft over the years which link all of the electronic devices in the home.
Though Cluts said there is no cap on how much his team can spend on these prototype homes of the near future, Microsoft does try to include only high-end technologies that it believes will cost consumers six years from now about the same as their mainstream equivalents today. One example was the 2000 version of the Microsoft Home, when Cluts demanded, over protests, that no televisions or monitors with cathode-ray tubes be allowed.
"People thought we were crazy because regular-size plasma TVs were selling for US$30,000," Cluts said. "Now, a 65-inch screen plasma television costs less than $10,000."
Microsoft doesn't claim to be IT prescient, he said. Some of the technology, such as a digital home entertainment center displayed in the 2000 Home, leads directly to products from Microsoft. In that case, the Media Center versions of Windows XP emerged. Others, such as the video-on-demand technology in the original 1994 home, or a "smart" trash can that could detect garbage and alert homeowners about what to replenish, never make it as products.
"It's like with a concept car," he said. "Sometimes we make a [Chrysler] PT Cruiser. Sometimes we just make a hunk of glass and metal."
http://www.cconvergence.com/shared/article/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=193105220
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! trop dorle
DIAL - A - PRAYER
Dial-a-Prayer Call Center in Rome
Catholic volunteer call center fields calls from busy faithful.
10/06/2006, 3:46 PM ET
Busy Catholics can now outsource their prayers to a call center in Rome.
As absurd as it sounds, it's no joke, according to the U.K.'s Daily Mail: 200 volunteer agents at the Sant'Anastasia al Palatino (St Anastasia of the Palatine) Church in Rome answer phones and relay prayer requests to a prayer group.
Church rector Father Alberto Pacini:
"The idea basically is very simple -- we just wanted to offer the possibility of prayer to people who cannot make it to church. In this age of mass media and internet I suppose you could say that it is a sign of the times but if it helps people to come closer to God then it can't be bad. Obviously I would prefer the people to physically come into church and pray but if they can't then we are at the end of a telephone and we can do it for them."
Subject: SVP ne jamais m'envoyer des jambons comme referal :-)
Si vous voulez rire,
Je commence à faire des entrevues pour le poste de testeur.
Y'a du monde qui comprennent pas pourquoi qu'ils auront jamais d'entrevue nulle part.
Bob*** has applied for the following job:
Job title: Quality Assurance Tester
Bob***
HI my name is Bob***, I have no experience in the corporation (game Industries) but i do have 16 years of experience in playing games(Consoles)(PC).
I started playing at 4 year old with a Commodore 64 (PC)
and ATARI, then came the Nintendo, Snes, Sega,Sega Saturn
Game boys and Ect... up until the X-360 I swear I had near
80-85% of all consoles since 1987-to-2006 distrubuted in Canada and have played and played and played non stop
since 1987...My sourrondings have nickname me
THE SUPER ULTRA GAMER,I have no school diploma because
i would play so much and i am now 21 years old and have
a daughter of 3 year old.
The only future for me is in the game industries the ONLY...
This is what GOD gave me, Nothing else, the gift to play,
the gift to play night and day,bring in the hours and I will bring
my fingers and eyes.I
LIVE FOR THIS SHIT.( sorry)
i love this Hand to Eye Coordination invention, creation...
My dreams are not only to test the game but some day help
create a game and even create a masterpiece,game of the year, someday..............I am not only a true player-gamer but
a wise man of games i have good coordination, team-spirit,
great ideas, Suggestion, computer skills,Very good in English
pls note: that i am French...(perfect billingual)Ritting and speaking, very patient, observant, creative, initiave and could be a very very very good ASSET to the team...
P.S I will travel all the way 100%
or I will move to close proximity 100% (only for serious employer )
Thank you
Bob
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mais ça disait que vu que la corée a fait des test nucléaires et admis avoir la bombe, y a pu aucune raison d'attaquer l'iran, étant donné que l'offense nucléaire de la corée est plus immédiate,
Donc, si les US attaquent l'iran pour des soupçons sur leur programme d'uranium enrichi, il devraient aussi attaquer la corée pour le fait qu'ils ont des armes de destruction massive.
Mais la corée sait que militairement, les states n'attaquent que les faibles et les pauvres, et attaquer la corée serait pire que le vietnam et pire que l'irak parce que y feraient une guerre qui deviendrait nucléaire, dans le but d'eviter un conflit nucléaire?
Donc les States ne peuvent plus se permettre d'attaquer l'iran
La seule façon qu'il réussissent à attaquer l'iran, c'est avec un false flag attack contre israel, et ce ne serait pas une invasion US-led, mais bien Israeli-led
Alors d'une certaine façon, on peut remercier King Jong Ill, parce qu'il connais les américains et il sait a quoi s'attendre d'eux
Actuellement en corée, si t'es pas militaire, tu crève de faim, et l'onu propose des sanctions economiques contre la corée, mais ca ne va que toucher le peuple, et ils le savent
leur seul choix c'est d'accepter la corée dans les pays qui ont l'arme, sinon y faut qui nuke la corée de façon a ce que la corée ne lance aucune tete
ce qui serait evil en criss
A partir du 2 novembre (la semaine avant les élection américaines), HBO vas présenter un documentaire sur comment les machines électroniques ont étés utilisées pour trafiquer les votes en 2000, 2002 et 2004.
C'est important de bien connaître ça parce qu'ont vas peut être en avoir ici pour les prochaines élections provinciales.
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3605
HBO to Premier 'Hacking Democracy' Just Prior to November Election!
TIMELY DOCUMENTARY HACKING DEMOCRACY
EXPOSES THE VULNERABILITY OF AMERICA'S VOTING SYSTEM
WHEN THE EXCLUSIVE HBO PRESENTATION DEBUTS NOV. 2nd,
JUST BEFORE ELECTION DAY
Electronic voting machines count 80% of the votes cast in America today. But are they reliable? Are they safe from tampering? From a current congressional hearing to persistent media reports that suggest misuse of data and even outright fraud, concerns over the integrity of electronic voting are growing by the day. And if the voting process is not secure, neither is America's democracy.
The timely, cautionary documentary HACKING DEMOCRACY exposes gaping holes in the security of America's electronic voting system when it debuts THURSDAY, NOV. 2 (9:00-10:30 p.m. ET/PT) – less than a week before the midterm elections – exclusively on HBO. Other HBO playdates: Nov. 5 (9:00 a.m.), 7 (9:00 a.m., 6:30 p.m.), 13 (12:30 p.m., 10:00 p.m.), 18 (6:00 p.m.) and 26 (1:15 a.m.).HBO2 playdates: Nov. 4 (noon), 7 (11:45 p.m.), 10 (6:30 p.m.) and 15 (3:00 a.m.).
In the 2000 presidential election, an electronic voting machine recorded minus 16,022 votes for Al Gore in Volusia County, Fla. While fraud was never proven, the faulty tally alerted computer scientists, politicians and everyday citizens to the very real possibility of computer hacking during elections.
In 2002, Seattle grandmother and writer Bev Harris asked officials in her county why they had acquired electronic touch screen systems for their elections. Unsatisfied with their explanation, she set out to learn about electronic voting machines on her own. In the course of her research, which unearthed hundreds of reported incidents of mishandled voting information, Harris stumbled across an "online library" of the Diebold Corporation – which counted around 40 percent of the presidential votes nationwide – discovering a treasure trove of information about the inner-workings of the company's voting system.
Harris brought this proprietary "secret" information to computer security expert Avi Rubin of Johns Hopkins University, who determined that the software lacked the necessary security features to prevent tampering. Her subsequent investigation took her from the trash cans of Texas to the secretary of state of California and finally to Florida, where a "mini-election" to test the vulnerability of the memory cards used in electronic voting produced alarming results.
As the scope of her mission grew, Harris drew on the expertise of other computer-science experts, politicians and activists, among them: Andy Stephenson, candidate for secretary of state in Washington state; Susan Bernecker, Republican candidate in New Orleans; Kathleen Wynne, an activist from Cleveland; Hugh Thompson, director, Security Innovations, Inc.; Ion Sancho, Florida's supervisor of elections; and Harri Hursti, a computer-security analyst. Academics, public officials and others seen in interview footage include: Deanie Low, supervisor of elections, Volusia County, Fla.; Mark Radke, marketing director of Diebold; David Cobb, presidential candidate, Green Party; Rep. Stephanie Tubbs-Jones of Ohio; and Sen. Barbara Boxer of California.
Diebold software, or other software like it, is installed in thousands of counties across 32 states. David Dill, professor of computer science at Stanford, says the problem is that there are "lots of people involved in writing the software, and lots of people who could have touched the software before it went into that machine. If one of those people put something malicious in the software and it's distributed to all the machines, then that one person could be responsible for changing tens of thousands of votes, maybe even hundreds of thousands, across the country."
In Florida, Supervisor of Elections Ion Sancho presided over a trial "mini-election" to see if the vote could be hacked without being detected. Before votes were actually cast, computer analyst Harri Hursti "stuffed the ballot box" by entering votes on the computer's memory card. Then, after votes were cast, the results displayed when the same memory card was entered in the central tabulating program indicated that fraud was indeed possible. In other words, by accessing a memory card before an election, someone could change the results – a claim Diebold had denied was possible.
Ultimately, Bev Harris' research proved that the top-secret computerized systems counting the votes in America's public elections are not only fallible, but also vulnerable to undetectable hacking, from local school board contests to the presidential race. With the electronic voting machines of three companies – Diebold, ESS and Sequoia – collectively responsible for around 80 percent of America's votes today, the stakes for democracy are high.
One of the executive producers of HACKING DEMOCRACY is Sarah Teale, whose previous HBO credits include "Dealing Dogs" and "Bellevue: Inside Out." HACKING DEMOCRACY was directed by Simon Ardizzone and Russell Michaels; produced by Simon Ardizzone, Robert Carrillo Cohen and Russell Michaels; executive producers, Earl Katz, Sarah Teale and Sian Edwards; edited by Sasha Zik. For HBO: supervising producer, John Hoffman; executive producer, Sheila Nevins.