Arquivo para July, 2013
Facebook is a monster surveillance
08
Jul
Even taking attitude of privacy, users should take care that we are still subject to security issues
in the tool, the use of states and companies.
Who said this was Richard Stallman, founder and supporter of Free Software in the International Free Software Forum (FISL) in Porto Alegre that ended last Saturday.
Stallman his lecture on Friday at FISL in Porto Alegre (Brasil), insisted that the Web is only useful if it is free.
What Facebook did to Stallman, by allowing the use of the data, it was an eyesore to allow monitoring of the data stores of its users, and added: “And so I strongly suggest you do not use.”
“But as a surveillance system, the web is very dangerous,” said Stallman, and stands against almost every kind of delivery of personal data to institutions, and mentioned the recent scandal of mass surveillance of NSA american agency.
Creator of the vicious circle of free software to create the GPL (GNU Public License), which all use free software to free software maner.
He was the creator of GNU, Unix like operating system that gave rise to Linux, and stated that digital surveillance is a strategy of the government to the citizens stop watching public institutions. “We learn what the government does when someone complains. If the government can track digitally anyone who will (have courage) report?” he concluded.
The enemies of free software claim that it is detrimental to the economic system, but it is actually harmful to private and public companies who want to control public opinion and the economy more broadly.
Brazil is one of the most watched, the data indicate.
Forum of Free Software speak about manifestations
05
Jul
The 14th edition of the International Free Software Forum (FISL) that began on Tuesday
(3/7) in Porto Alegre (RS-Brasil) also made references of manifestations of the streets in Brasil.
Already in the opening FISL coordinator Ricardo Fritsch, used the slogan of the demonstrations used the phrase “it is not for 20 cents” and completed it with “but by free software.”
Although it seems small compared to even thinking about the heavy use that was made of social networks, one of Marco Manzoni initial speeches said: “Social networks discuss these problems for a long time. We are now hearing because there was the role of people into the streets, “but in many networks have been circulating information in a transparent manner.
The forum is held at the Convention Center at PUC / RS (Porto Alegre), with more than 500 activities including courses, workshops, lectures and debates and ends Saturday (6/7).
As 4G worked in Confederation Cup
04
Jul
As expected there were many failures in communications and 4G data volume was late, the data in the World Cup final match Brazil vs Spain were 1.7 million mobile connections and more than 4.6 million data communications, including sending e-mails, photos and multimedia messages, with an average size of 0.5 MB.
Of total data communications in final match, about 4 million were on 3G and 650 000 by 4G networks, which results somewhere around 18%.
Cesar Alvarez, had gone to Rio de Janeiro to participate in a meeting of FIFA on telecommunications and even with Maracanã empty, failed to make a connection inside the stadium, and said that that day would have a meeting with the company to know what happened in the moments of concentration of people also were observed many flaws.
So he admitted that is not working as it should, but considering only the surroundings of the stadiums where companies that “whim” in image of this events, imagine what happens to the rest of the country.
The proposal of auction of LTE in the 2.5 GHz frequency predicted that 50% of the urban areas of the six host cities of the Confederations Cup would be covered from June 1, but did not.
Authoritarian government is overthrown in Egypt
03
Jul
President Mohamed Mosy although democratically
elected, was having authoritarian attitudes in Egypt and was ousted on Wednesday after an evolution of events in the country, fo installed the head of the highest court of the country as interim leader, announce various news agencies .
General Abdul Fattah al-Sisi said it was fulfilling its “historical responsibility” to protect the country expelling Mohamed Morsy, the Islamic leader educated in the West and was elected a year ago.
Morsy failed to meet demands to share power with the people and with opponents who crowded the streets of Cairo, and the crowd exploded when the announcement when the announcement was made of the deposition.Prior to the statement, the troops took key positions around the city and surrounded a manifestation of followers of Morsy in a Cairo suburb.
Altavista search engine pioneer is disabled
03
Jul
Next Monday (08/07) the Altavista search engine
pioneer with 18 years of existence is turned off, it has mainpage in USA and has been very popular.
They were popular in the 90s also Lycos, Infoseek and Yahoo.
It was created when the Web was born and the Internet had in twenty in 1995, but changed owners several times, the creator Digital (DEC, Digital Equipment Corporation) was purchased by Compaq in 1998, when it was bought by HP changed hands.
HP sold vovo search for Oberture, which in the same year was bought by Yahoo in 2003.
With this the search giant’s empire grows stronger, though not lacking critical and semantics, relevance and volume of Google searches.
Alternatives disabled to RSS Reader
02
Jul
Announced at a good time, the service was disabled RSS Reader yesterday, 
although Google says it has no relation to the untimely death of its creator Aaron Shwartz, which was processed and pressed by available scientific articles from JSTOR.
There are several alternatives already known to the market, such as the already popularized Feedly (for Apple and Android), Digg Reader, NetNewsWire and Newsblur.
But there are alternatives still little known and quite interesting:
KlipFolio offers a unique experience of RSS, the application has a panel where you can customize the news, your favorite blogs, weather feeds, and many other information. The program is available for desktop and you can also customize it to your style.
Sage is an RSS feed basics and news aggregator for Firefox. Free course like everything in Firefox, you can browse the latest news feeds right from your Firefox browser Nabarra side. Its interface is extremely easy to navigate, with a top panel to the bottom panel of headlines and a history.
Snarfer (download) is a feed reader for experienced programmers, your RSS and Atom feeds, where the most experienced in RSS can find it, this is because its interface is organized in a uncomplicated way to be used as a generic application, but only there are versions for Windows.
There are other alternatives like FeedDaemon, Grablt and Ticher Desktop (download all)
News of manifestations today
01
Jul
Brazil won the World Confederation Cup, but the demonstrations outside and even within the field were carefully “edited” by the free channels, but the intervals were all flooded with advertisements government.
The reason was to give an anesthetic in the demonstrations, since they are confirmed over 4 million protesters as vemprarua.com site.
This d’ont encounter en great midia, only in social netwoks.
The hashtags coming to Facebook
01
Jul
The statistics from the beginning of the demonstrations
shows a growth of Facebook, which at first did not reach 8% while 90% had Twiiter now indexes indicate that 70.4% of the messages are on Twitter and 29.6% on Facebook between 19 to June 21, made by the group Maquina/ Brandviewer.
The group mantaining the “temperature map” about manifestations.
For these numbers, you can understand the proportion social networks have already taken in the dissemination of street protests throughout Brazil, rportadas by volunteers who use these technological tools.
The main reason is advancing since the demand for more information and opinions, as Twitter messages are made short and direct, with “hashtags” that indicate a focus, as vemprarua #, # ogiganteacordou, # acordabh (on this Facebook page) and others; posting on Facebook can be mayores.
