Arquivo para March, 2014
Snowden make virtual appear in USA
17
Mar
Monday begins the American marketplace SXSW and Edward Snowden will make a virtual conversation via Hangout and can converse with audience members .
Anticipating his speech he said he had no regrets and everything he did was to protect the majority of ordinary citizens who have had their privacy ” violated on a massive scale.”
As a solution to the privacy issue , he said the programming community must develop new mechanisms to ensure data security and encryption for privacy .
The SXSW takes place in Austin (USA), and the connection will be made in Russia , due to ban him enter the United States for their complaints , but where is located and continue in secret transmission is protected for seven proxies (connections with servers) to mislead any search for your location .
The event received is called “A conversation with Edward Snowden” and he said he did reaffirm that an oath to support and defend the U.S. Constitution.”
Cell Phones: finally a process
14
Mar
After humiliation, negligence and the price of the highest
in the world, operators will now have to answer in court against the dissatisfaction of thousands of Brazilians , the association acted in our defense was the Proteste (Brazilian Association of Consumer Protection).
The association went on Thursday in court in Brasilia against the four major carriers in the country: Claro, Oi, TIM and Vivo, the main complaint 3G services, this combination being grounds for complaint more than 43 thousand people .
The Association asks operators to offer the service contracted, that it should be policed by the Anatel (Brazilian FCC), with the penalty of fines for non-compliance, compensation for collective damages to consumers with discounts on mobile bills for the period of one year and that are prohibited for new sales as agreed with the Anatel.
The company makes measurements of the service in 16 Brazilian states, and according to the data the instantaneous speed and average speed must be at least 95% of the measurements and 70% of average speed .
Data in December last year, had 12 Oi inferior to the stipulated indicators, TIM had 16, Vivo had ten, and Claro, six.
Privacy is theme in CeBIT
13
Mar
Opening the CeBIT in Hannover, the focus of the speeches and dialogues were the privacy 
and security of data, which on Big Data environments, was named datability.
Angela Merkel, who was herself the victim of espionage digital data, said the event is crucial in the “digital world a legal framework, an underlying order”, and stressed the ruling that “national laws alone will not suffice.”
Have Dieter Kempf, president of the German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (Bitkom), stressed the rights of citizens: “With the use of privacy, organizational measures and new technologies such as homomorphic encryption is possible to increase data protection for higher degrees. ”
The fair opens tomorrow, March 14, to the public with some new devices, but the emphasis will be on business enterprises, Business to Business, B2B.
Day and Web Librarian: a coincidence ?
12
Mar
The day of the librarian is celebrated in Brazil on March 12 , interestingly this is the date which can also be considered the foundation of the World Wide Web , because on March 12, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee published an article on this ” layer “over the internet.
Yes this is the basic explanation on the Web , an application or a software that accesses information that is online from Internet addresses , though they have the same type of numbering of e- mails , locate servers that have a DNS (Date name System) , which is a kind of ” fancy name ” the actual address .
In a basic explanation , the web is a software to browse the information that is online . Its distinguishing characteristic is the ability to click on links to open the files on computers that can be anywhere .
Librarians who have had their day yesterday , I take to congratulate them , are guardians of the mission of dissemination of information and the democratic right of access to it , among which includes the printed book , but not just him , but all forms of information including culture, history and heritage information and it is also clear, digital information .
The information on the Web is still largely open and egalitarian as the speed , but the attempt to create a sub-Web , differentiating the public interests of trade exists , and has been the scene of much debate , including the Marco Civil Brasileiro (Brazilian Internet Civil Code), the internet law herein.
FIFA sites may be targets for hackers
11
Mar
It is said that the Reuters agency, which was able to 
speak even with a probable activist group Anonymous , which uses fake Eduardo Dioratto, he said the groups will know the Brazilian dribbling to promote cybersecurity intrusions during the World Cup.
The Brazilian government says it is ready to handle such attack, and is also preparing for such a war street demonstrations , saying they will avoid these situations in the country during the World Cup , we hope to maintain the right of expression of ordinary people and Brazilian citizens who see excessive spending .
According to Army General José Carlos dos Santos , head of the Brazilian command , ” it would be unwise to say that any nation is 100 % safe with respect to a digital threat , but Brazil is prepared to answer it,” the statement said to Reuters .
Have information that the hacker will know the Brazilian dribbling to promote cybersecurity intrusions: ” We’re already all planned out, I do not think there is much they can do to stop us”, said the digital activist.
We hope it is kept straight to peaceful demonstration and freedom of expression.
Understand conflict in Crimea
10
Mar
First there historical background , a strong conflict that 
occurred between the years 1853 to 1857 , just had the name of the Crimean War , and had a hand in Russia itself (it was not Soviet ) on one side and gold the UK France, the Kingdom of Sardinia ( piece of Italy today ) and the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey).
The motivation was allegedly Christian since Tsar Nicholas I invoked the right to protect the holy places of Jerusalem , but actually wanted to extend influence over the Balkans .
For this reason the Tatar minority (300,000 , about 10 % of Crimea) asks Turkey to intervene against the annexation to Russia , which always suffered reprisals , but the majority of the population in the Crimea is Russian , about 58.3 % against a minority 13.3% of Ukrainians.
A minority Belarusians , Jews and Armenians, who together are about 2%, day 16 there will be a referendum , but the Russian presence in the region is already overt , although there is a small military force Crimea , as it is an independent state of Ukraine.
On the internet there is a declared war, the security forces of the Army of Ukraine accused Russia of cell phones in the country, since the Ukrainian hackers, meanwhile , said they “vandalized” the site of an international Russian TV station .
The European Union and the United States argue that along with Ukraine, the Crimea become part of the European Union.
Day of Woman: coherent writer
08
Mar
Doris Lessing was an extraordinary writer, having won a Nobel Prize, feminist consciousness in a very
concrete type, Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007 , aged 80 years , and he died in November last year.
Some readings are Prisons we choose to live, which says the current state of humanity, ” this state of affairs is an unconscious reaction of reactionary forces against the forward thrust that delineate the latter centuries in humanity .”
The thesis of the book is that we have a huge amount of information that make us act in this or those ways ” but not used in the improvement of our institutions and consequently of our lives .”
A project from another book is the ” Golden Notebook Project ” a proposal for collaborative reading his book Carnet Gold, where women’s issues in this book are shared by readers , and has become the benchmark in reading collaborative network .
He wrote several books, has a website in his memory hotly fought for women’s rights, but it was never milliner, her sentence that I keep in my mind : ” I can not and will not offend my conscience just to join the fad of the day.”
Nobel Prive in Medicine see problems in science
07
Mar
Would only be a tribute to the 2002 Nobel Prize in Medicine, Sydney Brenner, but an article published on 
February 24 by eMagazine The King ‘s Review of King’s College, University of Cambridge, a pump and an interview became a complaint.
New ideas are bureaucrats science funding , there are magazines articles that are corrupting science because they employ editors who are simply frustrated scientists working for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are petty thieves and the work of others , was the one who said the biggest names in molecular biology south African Sydney Brenner , now 87 , who worked for his doctorate in the 60s , the Laboratory of molecular biology in Cambridge with Francis Crick (pictured center), one of the discoverers of the structure and functioning of DNA.
Brenner received the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2002 with two other colleagues for their discoveries concerning the mechanism of genetic regulation of the development of organisms and cell death.
Graduated in medicine at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, he received his doctorate in chemistry at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, where he worked in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge with Francis Crick (at center of picture), one of discoverers of the structure and functioning of DNA.
Viena is a first city with own domain
06
Mar
Different areas of the traditional final suffixes .Org , .Com or .EDU among others, are already allowed some time, but now those areas may be cities .
Now if you want to see taxis in Vienna , you can browse the site and other taxi.viena for the city because the domain acquired by the city.
The final award of the domain however, will have several phases , giving higher priority to companies and trademarks only later that people may ask domains , and the domains are already registered www.seestadt.viena , which has an urban design for the city .
Paris is also negotiating its domain and brands that want to have this area should shell out somewhere around one hundred thousand euros ( at current exchange rates £ 325,000 ) which may become prohibitive for many brands and small businesses , although the price is lower for bloggers and other famous sites , the aspect of commodification is highlighted.
This increasing commercialization of new domains may in future take the free aspect of the Web and makes it even more strongly controlled by economic power.
Viber releases links
04
Mar
With the announcement that the WhatsApp allowed phone
calls between users even in 2014, the Viber counterattacked and allowing free calls to fixed phones for two weeks, from late January to early March.
In three days of the campaign, according to the company, the app hit his record and reached 7 million minutes in calls for Brazilian users, and promises to move forward.
But the price was cheap, since m November 2013, released a feature that allowed calls to mobiles and landlines, the Viber Out to calls needed to buy credits between $ 5 and $ 25, but now it’s free .
The Viber was bought by Japanese Internet company Rakuten for $ 900 million, the app is now used by 12 million people in Brazil, while WhatsApp has 38 million.
