How unmeaningful work affects our motivation, and what we can do about it. 5414.png (7984×4781) Lettre d'une pigiste perdue dans l'enfer syrien. 9 questions about Syria you were too embarrassed to ask. The United States and allies are preparing for a possibly imminent series of limited military strikes against Syria, the first direct U.S. intervention in the two-year civil war, in retaliation for President Bashar al-Assad's suspected use of chemical weapons against civilians.
If you found the above sentence kind of confusing, or aren't exactly sure why Syria is fighting a civil war, or even where Syria is located, then this is the article for you. What's happening in Syria is really important, but it can also be confusing and difficult to follow even for those of us glued to it. Here, then, are the most basic answers to your most basic questions. Ineffable. — American Dreamers. These lights will make you feel brand new.
Burning Man, it’s something that could never happen anywhere than American. It’s most powerful expression of the individual and its potential, the quintessence of the American lifestyle. There is a deep humanism, a faith in the human being that we are able to build magnificent things. Be Amazing. Now Is The Time For All Good Nerds To Come To The Aid Of The Internet. The Internet is broken.
It is burning. Facebook and Twitter fiddle while it smokes and we, the sapped members of the Internet class, watch the flames and wonder what’s next. Say what you want about the politics of whistleblowing or the tendency of the exhausted sysadmins to finally give up, now is the time to fix this before all we hold dear – the freedom that NSA snooping was ostensibly designed to protect – is gone. Ignore this moment at your peril. Compagnies aériennes: jusqu'où iront Ryanair et les autres rois du low cost pour réduire les coûts? Face à la concurrence qui fait rage, Ryanair et les autres compagnies aériennes sont prêtes à tout pour faire des économies.
Les 100 bonnes idées à importer en France (1 à 10) Paris. USA. Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide' - The Chronicle Review. By Daniel J.
Solove When the government gathers or analyzes personal information, many people say they're not worried. "I've got nothing to hide," they declare. "Only if you're doing something wrong should you worry, and then you don't deserve to keep it private. " The nothing-to-hide argument pervades discussions about privacy.
The nothing-to-hide argument is everywhere. The argument is not of recent vintage. I encountered the nothing-to-hide argument so frequently in news interviews, discussions, and the like that I decided to probe the issue. NSA "Whistleblower" Snowden: Hero? Fool? Traitor? Or ... ? Oops.
I'd thought there was a good probability I could get through today without having to post again about the ever more confusing NSA mess. What is the NSA's PRISM program? (FAQ) Editors' note: Updated on June 12 to include new information.
You've been hearing about a top-secret government program reportedly giving the NSA access to digital consumer information held by large tech companies. But what is it, really, and how does it affect you? Reports are changing fast, so we created this FAQ to let you know what is known so far. We will continue to update it as the facts become clear. What is PRISM? It has now been acknowledged by the Obama administration. Why Working More Than 40 Hours a Week is Useless.
For many in the entrepreneurship game, long hours are a badge of honor.
Starting a business is tough, so all those late nights show how determined, hard working and serious about making your business work you are, right? Wrong. According to a handful of studies, consistently clocking over 40 hours a week just makes you unproductive (and very, very tired). Apple After Steve Jobs: Does a Closed Software Company Need a Genius? The old tech adage is that “open beats closed.”
In other words, open technological systems, or those that allow interoperability, always beat their closed competitors. This is an article of faith for certain engineers. It’s also the lesson from Windows’ defeat of the Apple Macintosh in the nineteen-nineties, Google’s triumph in the early aughts, and, more broadly, the success of the Internet over its closed rivals (remember AOL?). But is it still true? The adage has been seriously questioned over the last few years, primarily because of one firm. But now, over the last six months, in ways little and large, Apple has begun to stumble. To explain, I need to first be careful about what I mean by “open” and “closed,” words that are widely used in the tech industry, but with various meanings. What does “it’s a good start” really mean — Octavian’s Thoughts. When I moved to the US, I thought americans were just too damn positive. There was no way that everything was so ‘great’ and ‘awesome’ all the time! And then it struck me: it was all just a matter of translation.
What if people simply have different meanings for the words they use other than the dictionary meaning? 48 Items That Technology Will Replace This Decade. InShare129 Predictions: These changes stand to affect the future of media, marketing, and commerce.
This month everyone in the tech community and beyond is trying to predict what will happen in the coming year. As a different exercise I wanted to take a look at what will no longer exist when this decade concludes. Apocalypse, Hitler - France 2. Economie Collaborative en France. Consommation Collaborative. Pourquoi Universal a perdu contre Deezer en référé. Lundi, nous rapportions que la maison de disques Universal Music France a perdu la première manche du procès qui l'oppose à Deezer. Les nouveaux cons de Etienne Liebig - L'élève en école de commerce. Petite Poucette, la génération mutante.
Michel Serres, diplômé de l’Ecole navale et de Normale Sup, a visité le monde avant de l’expliquer à des générations d’étudiants. Tous ces délits jugés moins graves que le partage de la culture. RECUPE - Donner au lieu de jeter - Site de Dons. Donnons.org - site de dons d'objets sur internet.
Echange, troc, petites annonces gratuites. Les enfants sont plus emails et SMS que livres ActuaLitté. Quelques données supplémentaires viennent d’être dévoilées quant à l’étude de la National Literacy Trust sur les habitudes de lectures des enfants. (notre actualitté) En entreprise, être désagréable paie - Economie. “Dis, maman, on est pauvres ou riches ?” FAQ autour de l’IVG et de la nécessaire poursuite de la lutte : questions courantes et propositions de réponses [Ce texte est mis à votre disposition : vous pouvez donc le copier et le republier sur vos propres sites, l'imprimer, le distribuer, en sélectionner des morceaux...
Indiquez simplement la source et ne modifiez pas les propos, puisque j'engage mon nom sur le contenu. Les billets les plus lus - A partir de quand est-on riche ? Quand on n'est plus obligé de pirater… Billet initialement publié le 19/08/2011 C'est donc la question que tout le monde se pose.