EFITA Newsletter / 746

Châtenay-Malabry (FR - 92290), 25 July 2016

EFITA newsletter / 746 - European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment

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Data aggregation: What does it mean? And why should you care? (by Willie Vogt - Farm Industry News)
See: http://farmindustrynews.com/precision-farming/data-aggregation-what-does-it-mean-and-why-should-you-care

Hackers get your help (from Farm Industry News)
We live in a world of computer hackers, not doubt about it. Our data is subject to capture by unscrupulous individuals and groups that can profit from our information. Trouble is, we're also our own worst enemy. CBC News carried a story that shows that often hackers have an easy time of getting our information. The story looked at a report from Verizon that points out that while we think hackers are pretty sophisticated (and they are), the fact is we help them out too. Check out how computer users may be their own worst enemy.
See: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/hackers-get-lots-of-help-from-careless-victims-studies-show-1.3031986

A robot question: Elephants or spiders?
The future of farm robotics could take on many forms as the industry continues to strive for efficiency, and to deal with a shrinking labor pool.
See: http://farmindustrynews.com/blog/robot-question-elephants-or-spiders

Living in the Age of Stupid: How to comprehend Brexit, Trump and the Anti’s - Posted by RISKMONGER on JUNE 25, 2016
Today the world woke up to a vote by the British public to move backwards and leave the European Union. This decision went against strong overwhelming advice from economic experts, against the strongly-worded advice of the UK’s business leaders and the widespread consensus of the mainstream political establishment. It was a decision based on emotion, fed by fear of immigrants and a faceless bureaucracy people could not understand, relentlessly blasted via social media circles.
It was a decision that makes perfect sense in the Age of Stupid.
We are indeed living in the Age of Stupid: a time where dialogue is dead, where fear is the main decision-making motivation and where we seek to confirm our bias with short emotional messages flaring continuously across our closed Internet tribes. Those whose ideas differ from ours are banned from discussions or routinely ganged up on by insult mobs; experts who provide challenging evidence are personally attacked; and trust is found, not in the leaders, scientists and technologies, but rather the activists with story-telling campaigns. With anecdote taken as evidence, there is no longer a search for understanding or knowledge in exchanging ideas – in the Age of Stupid, people search for the right crowd saying the right thing to confirm their righteous beliefs.
See: https://risk-monger.com/2016/06/25/living-in-the-age-of-stupid-how-to-comprehend-brexit-trump-and-the-antis/

Sites to visit in France
See: http://www.voirdupays.com/ind_ad.php
Signalé par Georges LARROQUE
Mél : glarroque(a)outlook.fr

The Certain Trumpet by James Stavridis
Donald Trump’s uninformed, reckless pronouncements to the New York Times on foreign policy would expose the United States to grave danger.
See: http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/07/21/the-certain-trumpet-donald-trump-new-york-times-interview-baltics-russia-nato/

Richest countries take lion’s share of emissions cuts under EU plan
See: http://www.euractiv.com/section/transport/news/richest-countries-take-lion-share-of-emissions-cuts-under-eu-plan/

Can Greece copy Morocco, and stop sulking?
Anyone ever tried to get from Athens to Skopje or Pristina? It’s a journey from hell as the excellent Aegean Airlines, which links all the region’s cities, have eliminated Macedonia and Kosovo from their satellite map, writes Denis MacShane.
See: http://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/opinion/can-greece-copy-morocco-and-stop-sulking/

Russia Loves Science When It Comes To Cheating In Sports, But Not In Food
See: http://www.science20.com/science_20/russia_loves_science_when_it_comes_to_cheating_in_sports_but_not_in_food-176857

Pensamiento del día
No hay ninguna idea inteligente que pueda ganar aceptación general sin mezclarla antes con un poco de estupidez. - Fernando PESSOA
(No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.)

Los enemigos de la innovación
En los últimos 600 años las sociedades humanas se han opuesto a la llegada del café, la imprenta, la agricultura mecanizada, los frigoríficos, la música grabada o los transgénicos con tácticas muy parecidas
Ver: http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/07/22/ciencia/1469179145_789347.html

Los transgénicos son comida Frankenstein como el teléfono fue invento del demoni
Ver: http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/07/22/ciencia/1469179145_789347.html

Blonde

An airline captain was breaking in a new blonde stewardess.

The route they were flying had a layover in another city.

Upon their arrival, the captain showed the stewardess the best place for airline personnel to eat, shop and stay overnight.

The next morning, as the pilot was preparing the crew for the day's route, he noticed the new stewardess was missing.

He knew which room she was in at the hotel and called her up wondering what happened.

She answered the phone, crying, and said she couldn't get out of her room.

"You can't get out of your room?" the captain asked, "Why not?"

The stewardess replied:

"There are only three doors in here," she sobbed, "one is the bathroom, one is the closet, and one has a sign on it that says 'Do Not Disturb'!".

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Jokes, Quotes and Anecdotes... an Anatomy of Wit
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