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Get brazilian great rates on the internet
20
Feb
After energy, gasoline and alcohol, now the brazilian pocket begins to weigh on the internet if before the speeds were reduced, now operators began cutting from the minimum rate, the goal is to buy more expensive plans and the big taxes in pre-plans paid already begun.
Now all operators will block the navigation after the data packet engaged, instead of reducing the connection speed as they always have and as they still do in postpaid plans.
The internet access which is already one of the most expensive in the world, they get even more expensive in Brazil, and by no means improved signal quality, just pay more and make operators and government collect more taxes.
TIM already said on its website that the new rule became effective from January 15 to prepaid customers in Rio Grande do Sul and Pernambuco states and municipalities of the greater São Paulo and interior are covered by DDD 19 (tele number in cities), but others are beginning to appear with cut services.
All customers of Hi are already under this new “service”, which the Anatel (Brazilian FCC) has no problem, and claims that the operators are “free to adopt models of charges” and it is pure collusion.
We had already announced in our blog that the most expensive service in the world would be surcharged, and the greedy operators continue to gain in the country who do not earn anywhere on the planet, and with exorbitant prices.
Carnival, history and networks
13
Feb
Carnival is not brazilian invention, comes from antiquity, both in Mesopotamia, as in Greece and in Rome had these parties, curiously it ends at the beginning of Ash Wednesday when Catholics and Lutherans begin their Lent.
The word carnival comes from the Latin carnis levale, remove the meat to the letter, but would be the carnal parties before the meaning of entering a period of fasting and carnal pleasures.
This date connection with the traditional Christian churches dating from the eighth century, when Lent was established as a religious period to perform the process of asceticism through which people fix their life routes.
It was the Portuguese who brought to Brazil a party called “Shrovetide” a mess event as water wars, flour, lemons and often exceeded the limits, so that was eventually banned in the 1840s.
So it was a lounge party in many years until in 1920 Chiquinha Gonzaga made the first famous “marching” the Abre Alas and the party returned to become popular, and “networks” of revelers were forming cords, blocks and later with a larger samba schools.
With the introduction of the samba schools, there are a return to different formal structure of the networks, the first was called “Deixa Falar” (Lets Talk) which years later changed its name to Estacio de Sá, but the blocks and strands remain and the Block Rooster dawn tries to stay in the Guinness as the largest carnival group in the world.
Olympics without dump
12
Feb
Residents of a town that where would the BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) that would link the neighborhoods Barra and Deodoro in Rio de Janeiro, won the action that would remove 900 families who were “in the way” of Transolímpica via a work for the Olympics 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Interestingly much of that population lives in Street Esperança (Hope), and justified the name because they have spent the last two years struggling not to lose their homes because of the Olympic work, the Transolímpica will have 25 km of expressway with a forecast of about 70 thousand passengers per day Bar, where the Olympic Park is to the Olympic Complex in Deodoro da Fonseca.
In the humble village of Union, almost every house has a “SMH” spray-painted on the wall, who is the symbol of a graffiti that actually happened and is named the Municipal period of residence in the houses there were claimed from City Hall Rio de Janeiro.
According to local data collection, the community was divided, and the reason is that some residents who had very poor house receive government best apartments, but many residents have appreciation for the place despite poor and structural deficiencies.
The site RioOnWatch reports different realities of Rio’s favelas, including the Village Union.
World Forum and technologies
11
Feb
In addition to economic discussions, the
serious political and social problems that many parts of the world cross, also the technologies has its place, the forum pointed technologies that are on the rise: Wireless cars, molecular nutrition, use of sensors that communicate with “things“ around us (ubiquity), sensors to monitor the health all the time that can be included in the body and some others.
One of the technologies that can greatly help humanity, we are facing a water crisis in many places, one tecnbologia to desalinate water at low cost was discussed and could be a highly sustainable way out, because the sea level is rising, they will reduce the energy consumption by 50% or even more.
Electric cars arrived, the problem is even autonomy of supply, but cars Wireless and greater autonomy are already being designed, the idea is to supply moving from an electromagnetic field installed on the roads, as the problem are long trips, there are already such tests in Seoul, South Korea.
Modern techniques could wipe out malnutrition in millions of people worldwide, using natural proteins essential to human, biotechnology promises to take power at the molecular level, however, fundamentalists may object as always.
Scientists working for many years to put “organic“ circuits inside the human body, they could produce medicines in the right dose within the body, acting so located around the diseased cell.
The technology is there to help the man, but a lot of backward mentality lingers.
Swiss Leaks and dirty Money
10
Feb
A group of journalists investigated the HSBC accounts in Switzerland and found the more affluent customers,
finding 61 people, including the 100,000 who have deposits of more than $ 100 billion in that bank.
Among the deposits found artists to sportsmen, through politicians, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ, the acronym in English) made investigations from the files released in the set of documents being called Swiss leaks.
The newspaper Le Monde had initially released some news, as profits from tax evasion or to fund illegal or questionable assets, such as those related to dictatorships and corrupt governments, but now ICIJ released more data.
In number of customers Brazil is in fourth place with 8667 customers in HSBC Private Bank list, taking the lead Switzerland with 11,235 customers, followed by France (9187) and third the UK with 8844, and after Brazil comes to Italy (7499).
Computing, social networks and corruption
05
Feb
Computing and social networks can help combat corruption, and the measures are not so hard and are so practical that when implemented in São Paulo attracted the attention of many political analysts and managers.
In São Paulo, there is an obligation of all servers deliver their statements of assets, but as they were in envelopes and not electronics, were never verified and checked recently a database with more than 160,000 servers in São Paulo was made and an agreement between various organs allowed cross the data.
An array of “risk” was mounted in areas sensitive to tuition and the certainty of impunity that was taken into account by the corrupt, many did not hide assets or puts them in the name of oranges, little by little it begins to change, the results will pop up.
In Sao Paulo in Kassab management, Secovi (Housing Union in São Paulo) came to forward a report with complaints about the ailments suffered, but the dossier fell into the hands of just Ronilson Bezerra Rodrigues, accused by prosecutors of mafia boss of tax.
The second stage is more complicated than is to identify “oranges”, but through profiles on Facebook can get to homes and property, for example, a civil servant who has a hostel in Rio de Janeiro valued at $ 6 million.
Today should be triggered a major operation, awaiting the news, is a good start and a warning, now are corrupt being watched and not ordinary citizens well.
Technology: need or consumerism ?
22
Jan
It’s insane the amount of people who criticize the technology only what men do, machines do not devise anything, though it can reproduce human desires, intentionality in the use of the given object (not just technology) is defining your practice.
Throughout its existence on the planet, the man does not always inhabited this earth, he invented many tools to help you overcome their daily needs, the very division between the Stone Age and metals, is the manipulation of technology.
Many of these inventions, although designed to benefit humanity, just used to harm the life, and make the contemporary technological object an object of desire, consumerism, does not mean that it does not have its usefulness.
It was John Danton possibility that energy of atoms, but never imagined that it would be used in a war (Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II), now the use of technology by extremists, does not mean that the use of technology is “bad” or “good.”
Now let us take the example of the Internet, unscrupulous sites that exposes children, adolescents and young recruit, but we must not forget that these values are passed by movies, television shows and even radio, and some argue that even in schools.
The technology is a necessity of human evolution, it is bad if used by bad people and good if used by people of good intentions, as consumerism is an array of a form of human society and independent of technological advancement, is the consumption to give easy money to people that even though good-natured, does not have good intentions, they only seek profit.
Ranciére: image and technology
07
Jan
Jacques Rancière argues that the image already met its fate (The Future of the Image, 2007) and it is not fetishism, for it continued their power directly affect man and at the same time are record and marks in history to educate and transform .
But it is important and possible to put them in a relationship to be, if we remember the category difference and repetition (Heidegger, Deleuze and others), the temporal image operations and the time-image, I prefer the category dynamic image, it can be think that this belongs to the future emanating from it.
It is no longer the painter of the frame or photo, although they persist and continue to have an ontological importance of recording, but now one can speak in combinations and breaks the visible and speakable ad infinitum, as Rancière thinks.
What Rancière says in the background, of course is just a vision of an interpreter, is that politics is not just a struggle for power, but should always have a certain distribution of the sensible, a redefinition of ways to view and organize the real, and this are also the networks and the virtual.
This particular form of the sensitive agency that gives visibility to things in a way that previously they had not, and opens the person who appropriates the new ferrramentas in good ways to work on the power to speak and act in social alliances, not just party or sectorized groups.
In reading Ranciére notes the concern with the possibility of aesthetic acts were likely always new ways of feeling common to new forms of political subjectivity (Rancière,2009).
Jacques Rancière: Politics, History, Aesthetics (2000). Eds. Phil Watts and Gabriel Rockhill. (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2009), and I think that technologies enable and empower this possibility.
Hybrid cloud, the IT strategy for 2015
29
Dec
A survey commissioned by Avanade, enterprise business IT solutions and services, with a sample of more than a thousand executives and leaders of business units in 21 countries, found that half of the services will be deployed in hybrid clouds in 3 years.
Hybrid cloud is a service “hosting” where cloud computing uses IT resources that are provided through an internal private cloud within the company and resources provided by third party service providers in the cloud “publishes” the application type, storage and network systems.
The fact that the pace of investment in this area is accelerated in Brazil, according to Avanade, this will be a great solution focuses on the area in 2015, three caveats must be made:
– Despite the adoption of hybrid cloud be a priority, only 58% have any implementation strategy,
– The potential of hybrid cloud is poorly understood, some are able to identify the benefits provided and turn them into benefits in the workload and efficiency, and
– Most agree that organizations will have a generic benefit of improving business growth, but can not say why this happens.
So beware, not all news is beneficial to the company was not understood and implemented correctly, noted that 2015 will be a year of travel “sideways” in brazilian economy.
Brazil in the rapprochement US and Cuba
19
Dec
The Brazilian government, through the Foreign Ministry, praised Obama’s
position and Castro rapprochement, after 53 years of cold war, in a statement released on Thursday (18/12).
The note also praised the efforts of His Holiness the Pope Francisco, “the important contribution that provided the diplomatic efforts”, and said that diplomats discreetly contacted the Brazil on the agreement, keeping the country informed of negotiations.
The blogger Yoani Sánchez, had a tumultuous visit to Brazil, said his Twitter, Yoani, that “an era ends” and he hopes “this new beginning has civil society as protagonist.”
For Brazil is a political victory, as always defended the end of the embargo, but the result of the economic views is still uncertain, the analysts differ on how effective results to the communist island (which can only be enacted by the US Congress) could benefit the Brazilian government, which is guarantor of the largest private investment ever made in that country, the port of Mariel (photo).
The trade between Brazil and Cuba grew almost seven-fold, from $ 92 million in 2003 to $ 625 million in 2013. Brazil is the third largest trading partner of Cuba, after China and Venezuela.
