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Hacker Culture: The Key To Future Prosperity?

Hacker Culture: The Key To Future Prosperity?
Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Dan Abelon, Founder of SpeedDate. Dan blogs about global startup issues at WorldStartups.org. One of the most exciting trends of the early 21st century has been the explosion of hacker culture around the world. By hackers, I don’t mean people who pose security threats to computer networks. Just a few short years ago, we would have been amazed by any story in which a small team of developers created a service rapidly adopted by millions of users worldwide. It is becoming less expensive to create web-based services due to the cloud and prevalence of open source technologies. While hackers can make useful products, in many cases they need mentorship and capital to turn their early progress into massively successful, globally-distributed services. You would think the Internet was designed to solve such problems. Nations should consider hackers to be a precious resource.

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Changer la société : le hacking pour modèle (parce que de nombreux commentaires renvoient une forme d’impuissance, de pessimisme fort compréhensible face aux constats politiques et économiques développés ici-même, il est important d’amener aussi des aspects constructifs et positifs à toute cette histoire. Les crises sont facteurs de création, de liens et d’inventivité puisqu’elles forcent à compenser les difficultés inhérentes qu’elles génèrent. Il est possible de hacker la société, à son échelle individuelle, et avec un mouvement de ce type de plus en plus partagé par le plus grand nombre, de faire basculer un peu les choses, voir beaucoup.) Pour les plus jeunes, les moins de 25-30 ans, certains modes de fonctionnement sont quasiment inconnus. Enfin, bref, il fut une époque où pas mal de monde bidouillait les voitures, mais pas seulement. Il est évident que les oligarchies qui tiennent l’économie, et par défaut l’orientation politique du pays, sont très dépendantes du fonctionnement de la population. C’est quoi le hacking ?

The Word "Hacker" April 2004 To the popular press, "hacker" means someone who breaks into computers. Among programmers it means a good programmer. To add to the confusion, the noun "hack" also has two senses. Believe it or not, the two senses of "hack" are also connected. Hacking predates computers. It is sometimes hard to explain to authorities why one would want to do such things. Those in authority tend to be annoyed by hackers' general attitude of disobedience. This attitude is sometimes affected. But even factoring in their annoying eccentricities, the disobedient attitude of hackers is a net win. For example, I suspect people in Hollywood are simply mystified by hackers' attitudes toward copyrights. Partly because some companies use mechanisms to prevent copying. It is by poking about inside current technology that hackers get ideas for the next generation. In 1977 there was no doubt some group within IBM developing what they expected to be the next generation of business computer.

Geração F5 - Artigos Esta era de excesso de informações fez com que eu desenvolvesse uma espécie de TOC digital. Sou dessas pessoas que ficam de olho constante naquela barra laranja do Twitter que constantemente atualiza a quantidade de “new tweets” postados em minha timeline. Também sofro, como o Cris Dias, da “ansiedade de inbox zero”, que faz com que eu consulte minha caixa postal com regularidade irritante. É fato: nenhuma pessoa, do alto da sanidade que ainda é capaz de manter neste mundo insano, é capaz de acompanhar todas as novidades e informações que nos são bombardeadas por revistas, jornais, sites, mensagens de SMS, canais de TV, yada yada yada. Aquele que ficou ansioso pela chegada do convite para acessar o Pinterest hoje aperta a tecla F5 de meia em meia hora a fim de saber se seu perfil no Facebook já está com os novos recursos anunciados no Mashable. Não é preciso ser guru digital para constatar que tamanha avalanche de informações resulta em ruído ininteligível aos sentidos.

Canoë - Techno-Sciences - LimeWire complice de téléchargement illégal La Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) vient de gagner une manche dans son affrontement contre le téléchargement de fichiers en ligne, cette fois contre LimeWire. L’éditeur du populaire logiciel de partage de fichiers peer-to-peer (P2P) a été reconnu coupable de complicité pour violation de droit d’auteur mardi. Treize entreprises, menées par la RIAA, alléguaient depuis 2006 que LimeWire permettait aux internautes de télécharger de façon illégale du contenu protégé par le droit d’auteur. C’est un tribunal fédéral à New York qui leur a donné raison. La peine, les dommages et les intérêts doivent être fixés le 1er juin. Par contre, il faut peut-être se demander si la stratégie des entreprises de l’industrie musicale contre LimeWire est la bonne. Un logiciel des plus connus LimeWire est un des logiciels les plus connus pour partager des fichiers en ligne. Selon les calculs de l’INRS, l’utilisateur type de P2P est un homme de 20 à 39 ans.

Hyperlink ‘Já somos ciborgues’ Durante palestra no SXSW, antropóloga Amber Case defente que o computador e o celular já são nossos cérebros externos Por Redação Link Gi Sakamoto*Especial para o ‘Link’ AUSTIN – Amber Case é uma jovem de 25 anos com o título de antropóloga ciborgue e fundadora do site Geoloqi.com. Ela já apareceu em diversas publicações como as resvistas Forbes e Wired, e foi eleita uma das mulheres mais influentes da tecnologia pela revista FastCompany. —- • Siga o ‘Link’ no Twitter, no Facebook e no Google+ “Somos todos ciborgues”, disse Case no início de sua palestra no domingo, 11, durante o festival South by Southwest (SXSW), que ocorre em Austin nesta semana. Durante toda a história ferramentas foram usadas como uma extensão do corpo físico, mas hoje a tecnologia traz uma extensão mental. Tudo isso traz novos comportamentos que também não nos damos conta. * É diretora de planejamento da agência de pesquisa Talk Inc. + Veja a cobertura completa do South by Southwest.

Les méthodes de téléchargement condamnées en série Un signe, une tendance ? Les sites proposant des contenus en téléchargement sont la cible des législations étatiques. Encore une fois, The Pirate Bay subit le courroux de la justice suédoise et de son côté, LimeWire vient d'être accusé d'infractions au droit d'auteur. Dans un contexte de durcissement des législations, la régulation de l'Internet semble être dans la ligne de mire. Après son déménagement vers l'Ukraine, The Pirate Bay avait fait le choix de trouver refuge dans un ancien abri anti-atomique de l'OTAN, aux Pays-Bas. A la loupe, on se rend compte que les initiateurs des poursuites contre le bateau pirate est un collectif composé des gros producteurs Columbia Pictures, Disney, Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, et Warner Bros. C'est cette même logique qui voit LimeWire être au centre des polémiques.

Center for Collective Intelligence Handbook of Collective Intelligence Edited by Thomas W. Malone and Michael S. Bernstein Collective intelligence has existed at least as long as humans have, because families, armies, countries, and companies have all--at least sometimes--acted collectively in ways that seem intelligent. This book will introduce readers to many disciplinary perspectives on behavior that is both collective and intelligent. The goal of this edited volume is to help catalyze research in the field of collective intelligence by laying out a shared set of research challenges and methodological perspectives. The book is under contract with MIT Press, and we are making early draft chapters available here, in part, to solicit comments from a wide range of people via the Web. For each chapter, there is a “clean” version that is the most recent version released by the chapter author(s). Chapter 1. Chapter 2. Chapter 3. Chapter 4. Chapter 5. Chapter 6. Chapter 7. Chapter 8.

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