Arquivo para August, 2013
Google makes internet failure fall 40%
20
Aug
In last Friday between the hours of 20h37 and 20.48 (GMT), all Google services suffered an outage.: Gmail, Drive, Maps and clear the search, the company said in a statement that lasted “between one and five minutes .
Google said on your page that, during the period of interruption, “50% to 70% of requests Google received” error messages, but the service was corrected after four minutes and was restored to most users on a minute.
According to the company GoSquared there was a 40% drop in global internet traffic that
night and studied showed that, after the fall of a few minutes, internet traffic soared logos after restoration.
During the fault, according to the Google page, “50% to 70% of requests Google received error messages”, but did not report the source of the failure.
The failure showed how the internet is still fragile and the possibility of even temporary damage is not a fallacy.
Privacit is violated in NSA
19
Aug
Are the initial findings of an internal audit, and write in Washington Post, last week, 
the National Security Agency of the United States (NSA) “has violated the rules of privacy and exceeded his authority thousands of times a year since 2008, mainly through unauthorized surveillance targeting American and foreign intelligence in the U.S.. ”
Internal audit, dated May 2012, found 2,776 incidents or violations in which many were made without any “court order” american journal of capital guarantees.
The audit is particularly compromising U.S. government claims that post several surveillance actions were made with the consent of the government.
Firms Google, Facebook and Microsoft now deny the claim “unfettered access” to the U.S. government, but clearly cooperated earlier.
Called to give explanations, representatives of the Internet giants participated in a public hearing in the Senate on Thursday and declared: “There has been no large-scale access”, defended the company Bruno Magrani, manager of government relations Facebook , saying they were only 0.00002% of the requested information to Facebook, were requested directly by the U.S. government.
The government can deny, but vigilance happens, especially in Brazil, not because we are considered “special” to the U.S., but because we are a big hub in the global network.
Hacker group attacks newspapers
17
Aug
The Syrian Electronic Army (traduction in english),
group that had attacked the British daily The Guardian and BBC, now attacked the Washington Post, the group is in favor of the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
By accessing the U.S.A. daily, the reader was directed to the site of the activist group, one of the goals of the group was to attack the journalist Jason Kreid, according to the website Krebs on Security, written by journalist Brian Krebs.
Hackers supporting the regime of Bashar al-Assad, Syrian dictator facing a civil war that has killed more than 100,000 people, and has also attacked twitter profiles.
The Krebs oyn Securit, stated that the attack was made with use of the site Outbrain, a website content recommendation to others, explained the site:
“A few days ago, the Syrian Electronic Army allegedly subjected Post newsroom employees of a sophisticated phishing attack to get the password information.’s Attack on the area where you saw the screen capture above used to attack against phishing resulted in periodic personal Twitter account a staff writer being used to send a message Syrian Electronic Army. for 30 minutes this morning, some items on our web site were redirected to the website of the Syrian Electronic Army . “
Apple would have bought Matcha
16
Aug
According to the site Venture Beat, Apple is acquiring
startup company recommendation videos Matcha.tv and developer of the app, which provides an overview of programs available on cable channels like Comcast, video streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime.
The Videos app also allows the user to record what you’ve watched, see the recommendations of videos and connect to social networks to see what friends are watching and enjoying.
Venture Beat also said that Apple reportedly paid $ 1.5 million for the company, but estimates that the value may have been higher because the Matcha.tv recorded steady growth and is among the top 15 entertainment apps from the Apple Store but the site was just anticipating since other sources suspect this value and immediately countered.
Probably not coincidentally, the app was disabled almost all day.
Capitalism, Markets and technology
15
Aug
What is certain is that the markets 
are breathing in the midst of a systemic crisis still intense, the London Stock Exchange rose 0.57%, Frankfurt gained 0.68% and Paris advanced 0.51%, closing at the maximum of the session, everyone knows that the end of the tunnel is far, but it’s a relief (Source: Dow Jones Newswires).
The reasoning is not immediate, but it is clear that something within a society whose driving force is the capital and not the welfare of citizens, talking about the stock market and the “health” of society is always the subject, especially in economic discourse, and rarely in technological conversations.
Who has helped large companies are technology, Apple shares rose 4.75% on Tuesday and it is investor Carl Icahn in the area, wrote on his Twitter that the company’s micro-blog “currently has a great position “in stock and believes the company is” extremely undervalued ” he is write.
The chief executive of Apple, Tim Cook, said his company also has good health, and the Dow Jones Hewlett-Packard (+2.09%) led the gains while large companies in other industries such as Alcoa (-1 , 33%) and JC Penney (-3.72%) were the major highlights in the fall.
The pioneer in analyzing specifically the influence of technology was Joseph Schumpeter who lap process innovation at the heart of his theories of development, economic evolution is characterized by disruptions and discontinuities with the present situation should be the introduction of innovations in the way the system work, this is how innovations influence the process.
Disciple of Schumpeter, Clayton M. Christensen wrote “The Dilemma of Innovation” (1997), which speaks of disruptive technologies, those that impact the market.
But since man is man, technology is part of their history, and economists such as Adam Smith knew that technology is key to creating wealth, though that stand out the sources of technological innovation were “men who worked with the machines and discovered ingenious ways to improve them, as well as manufacturers of machinery “(The Wealth of Nations).
Karl Marx wrote a series of books on the history of technology and those who think he despised this aspect of the economy read “Machinery and Modern Industry” present in his major work “Capital”.
What sounds in Wikipedia?
14
Aug
This was a joke made at the launch of South by Southwest, the media conference in 
Austin Texas, which actually was the basis of a new open source project to edits audio and animations to Wikipedia.
Listen to Wikipedia, is the latest transformation of the online encyclopedia for additions and subtractions of sounds, strumming guitars and soothing sounds for you to meditate or listen during a massage or a reading.
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Pitch changes are possible according to the size of the edition, the visual aspect green circles and white circles indicate editions editions of registered users, and also the size of the overlapping circles indicate how many editions.
The announcement was made at The Verge, and its creators Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi said the about L2W (original name): “There is something comforting in knowing that each user makes a noise, each issue has a voice or a roar” they said.
LaPorte Hashemi and built the Listen to Wikipedia using D3 and HowlerJS and say that was the inspiration Listen to Bitcoin, a digital project done by Maximillian Laumeister, floating in the bubbles of Bitcoin transactions.
Brazilian law PEC 479: broadband is a priority
13
Aug
The PEC 479 amends Article 5 of the Brazilian Constitution, to provide broadband 
to the population should be a priority of the State, since “in contemporary society, universal access to information is consolidated as a key element for economic development and social nations”, according to its author Mr Sebastião Bala Rocha (PDT-AP-Brasil).
The reasoning is simple: to provide broadband to the population should be a priority of the State, since “in contemporary society, universal access to information is consolidated as a key element for economic and social development of nations” as stated by the deputy I proposed.
The PEC was proposed in 2010 and approved by the Constitutional Commission of Justice of the chamber in May 2011 and sees the social changes taking place, since “the internet, in particular, plays a crucial role in the construction of this new reality.”
The meeting is scheduled for tomorrow, 14/8/2013, 4 on the floor of the House of Representatives, and the SGP, the rapporteur Mrs Gorete Pereira (PR-EC), is approved, will be voted in two readings by the House still this month.
Resolution of Goldbach Conjecture is announced
12
Aug
The problem of logicism is important because it is still part of the current thinking in the scientific
literature of the day, sometimes even presented as a novelty, but that debate was the beginning of the last century at the University of Vienna, for this was known as the Vienna Circle also is it that left currents neopositivism, a review of positivist thinking of Auguste Comte, even then in decline.
The circle developed between 1922 to 1936, it took part names like Karnap, Kurt Gödel and W. V. Quine, but the group disbanded during World War II.
The was he related the problems of logic, and Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, which states that every system contains some denial and need a “foreign official” and Fermat’s last theorem and Goldbach’s conjecture were part of the talks due to logical problems here treated.
The Goldbach Conjecture was announced in a letter to Euler in June 1742 when he proposed:
Every even number greater than 2 can be written as the sum of three prime numbers.
Euler became interested in the problem and extended the conjecture:
Whole number greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two primes.
The tests were made by calculating the number exhaustively known in mathematics as the brute force method, in 1938, N. Pipping tested all the numbers up to 105.
Now the Peruvian Harald Andrés Helfgott says he tried in Article submitted on May 13, 2013, from Cornell University, and the initial reviews indicate that the result is valid.
Obama changes spying
10
Aug
The American intelligence revealed by Edward Snowden, Obama’s popularity has dropped and now the U.S.A.
president went public to say that the monitoring program will be clearer and more transparent.
In a statement yesterday (8/9) Barack Obama revealed that the Patriot Act, which permits unilateral action of spying, no more records will store the telephone and Internet access to every citizen, but says there will be “more transparency and limits on use of this authority. ”
Now the secret court that approves the actions of the National Security Agency (NSA) must have a public representative to defend the public interest, the question is whether this representative will have sufficient autonomy in cases of abuse.
This representative will defend civil liberties and privacy of citizens, is also significant that the White House will have a board of external experts can evaluate the government’s actions and post them on a bimonthly report.
Some sites like The Verge claim that no one knows for sure if these experts will be heard.
New application for videos
09
Aug
In 2005, Hurley and Chen co-founders of YouTube, the largest video site in the world, sold to
Google 18 months after the development of the site, for $ 1.76B.
They were the first two employees at PayPal, a payment service online leader who is now part of eBay.
After the sale created the AVOS, and in 2011 acquired Delicious.com, a service leader bookmarking.
Now, according to the website TechCrunch, the creators of YouTube has released a tool for video editing, focusing on the issue of médium and short videos, ranging from seconds to 68 minutes (plus 1 hour) for the creation of videos of médium size.
There are already other apps, going doVine and Instagram, informs the site, but the differential for these platforms is that while these instantly share something that happened a few seconds, the MixBit will be able to offer a more material worked, eg that speaks of na event, to be published later, as do publishers newscasts and documentaries, for example.
The idea is to insert in the films of other pieces to create your own movie, and also use the application to create a new film, as a native mobile application, in this case, up to 16 seconds to go in the end you put the pieces together and document some thing.
Assembly may be up to 256 files to make an original production, although it apart from other productions. The sharing option will also be available and may well fall into the social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and even MixBit).
