The Little Hacker's Room

La température de l'eau pourrait forcer le report ou l'annulation de la compétition de natation qui doit se dérouler samedi entre Péribonka et Roberval.

La pétrolière albertaine soutient avoir endigué le déversement survenue dans la rivière Kalamazoo grâce à des barrières flottantes et dit se concentrer sur les opérations de nettoyage.

Le produit intérieur brut américain augmente de 2,4% au deuxième trimestre, en recul par rapport au premier. Le président Obama opte pour un optimisme prudent et défend son aide au secteur automobile.

Une remise en liberté sous caution est refusée à la mère de famille de la région de Montréal qui aurait poignardé sa fille à la tête dans ce qui semble être un crime d'honneur.

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Des cliniques privées de Montréal offrent à des patients les services d'un médecin de famille moyennant quelques centaines de dollars pour se soumettre au préalable à un bilan de santé.

Des cliniques privées de Montréal offrent à des patients les services d'un médecin de famille moyennant quelques centaines de dollars pour se soumettre au préalable à un bilan de santé.

La capitale britannique devient la première ville européenne à adopter le vélo libre-service développé au Québec. Plus de 6000 vélos et 400 stations sont déjà installés à travers la ville.

Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times covers a report released by the National Research Council, which says the ability of the US to identify the source of a nuclear weapon used in a terrorist attack is fragile and eroding. The goals of the highly specialized detective work, known as nuclear attribution, is to clarify options for retaliation and to deter terrorists by letting them know that nuclear devices have fingerprints that atomic specialists can find and trace. 'Although US nuclear forensics capabilities are substantial and can be improved, right now they are fragile, under-resourced and, in some respects, deteriorating,' the report warns. 'Without strong leadership, careful planning and additional funds, these capabilities will decline.' The report calls on the federal government to take steps to strengthen its forensic capabilities and argues for the necessity of better planning, more robust budgets, clearer lines of authority and more realistic exercises."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F07%2F31%2F006239%2FUS-Ability-To-Identify-Source-of-Nuclear-Weapons-Decays" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=US+Ability+To+Identify+Source+of+Nuclear+Weapons+Decays%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FczrSye" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/07/31/006239/US-Ability-To-Identify-Source-of-Nuclear-Weapons-Decays?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1738556amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframe pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/iiY9TzFZ2Hgo1FNlcQmASNldibM/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/iiY9TzFZ2Hgo1FNlcQmASNldibM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/iiY9TzFZ2Hgo1FNlcQmASNldibM/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/iiY9TzFZ2Hgo1FNlcQmASNldibM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/odrzbzzzWQk" height="1" width="1"/

Cartoon for Today, Jul 30, 2010

La justice américaine renonce à poursuivre l'ancien vice-président en raison d'un «manque de preuves crédibles». Al Gore était accusé d'abus sexuels par une masseuse professionnelle.

Le ministre Jean-Pierre Blackburn affirme que le Canada doit rester vigilant pour protéger son espace aérien, deux jours après l'interception de deux bombardiers russes au nord du Labrador.

Des résidents des banlieues sud de Montréal se plaignent du bruit causé par les haut-parleurs provenant du parc Jean-Drapeau.

Channard writes "While there have been occasional reports of previous PS3 firmware upgrades causing system crashes and so forth, Sony's new firmware upgrade for the system, 3.41, is apparently stopping PS3 owners from upgrading their hard disks. This problem has been encountered by many users on Sony's forums and occurs when you try to put a new hard disk into a PS3 that already has the firmware upgrade installed. The general course of action for upgrading a PS3's drive is that you download the latest PS3 firmware onto a memory stick and, after swapping the hard drive in the PS3, plug the stick in, allowing the PS3 to properly prepare the disk for use. But as of upgrade 3.41, the PS3 fails to recognize the firmware on the stick, complaining that it can't proceed until you insert the correct firmware. Repeating the process and re-downloading the firmware does not fix the problem, as I can confirm, having encountered the problem myself. Users can put the old hard disk back in, provided they've not reformatted it for some other purpose, so all is not lost. Sony have apparently told gaming website CVG that 'The information available to our Consumer Services Department does not suggest that this is a problem PlayStation owners are likely to experience when upgrading the HDD with 3.41 update.' This seems to fly in the face of the currently available information mdash; although whether or not this statement was issued by Kevin Butler is unclear. Either way, PS3 owners encountering this problem will likely have to wait a few days for a fix and use their old HDDs for now."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F07%2F30%2F2345205%2FNew-PS3-Firmware-Causing-HDD-Upgrade-Problems" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=New+PS3+Firmware+Causing+HDD+Upgrade+Problems%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FaUiQvh" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/07/30/2345205/New-PS3-Firmware-Causing-HDD-Upgrade-Problems?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1738550amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframe pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MT-oio5yJ8U6Wa0F71yuGKlcSyQ/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MT-oio5yJ8U6Wa0F71yuGKlcSyQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MT-oio5yJ8U6Wa0F71yuGKlcSyQ/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MT-oio5yJ8U6Wa0F71yuGKlcSyQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Gym6d-Amivk" height="1" width="1"/

Plus de 430personnes sont mortes au Pakistan au cours des trois derniers jours dans des inondations considérées comme les plus importantes depuis 1929.

Les orages et les feux de forêt causés par une canicule sans précédent font une trentaine de morts. Ces derniers jours, la température a frôlé les 40 degrés Celsius.

Why Chelsea Clinton continues to fascinate

Le syndicat des débardeurs accuse leur employeur d'être responsable des retards enregistrés au port de Montréal, en dépit de la levée du lock-out survenue samedi dernier.