Arquivo para February, 2015
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).
Liquid consciousness of a modernity that has always liquid.
09
Feb
For Bauman, as it was to the Enlightenment, the solid modern design would be the world control project for the reason pair make the world the best of worlds, ?? through the rational planning and technical (and it condemns today’s technology!).
Thus the state, through a solid project: provide the criteria for assessing the reality of the contemporary day dividing the population into beings as if they were useful plants to be encouraged and carefully cultivated and weeds to be removed or torn ??. (Bauman 1999, p.29 in Brazilian edition)
Bauman conceives of modernity as solid state and scientific control plan, valuing thus social and political institutions.
Also works with another category that is ambivalence, or disposal, everything should be known and categorized to then be controlled, so all that remained double, confused and ?? on the fence should be eliminated, but sometimes this ambivalence is present in Kant in overcoming subject and object, and its use in the categorical imperative.
After identifying real consequences of modernity, the concentration of capital and the manipulation of consumption, he sees it just the fact that the state is experiencing a wasting, ie, there is a strong tendency to the elimination of the nation state.
Misses of state sovereignty, which has to give up its control to favor the new world order.
Finally see it that this new state that arises would be a dependent machine of production processes, when it was not?
This condition leads to what the author calls the new world disorder, and when it was not, what about the two wars where Lyotard saw postmodernity? Shallow culture.
In Bauman there is no paradigm shift fund, only reworks Enlightenment concepts such as national identity, parties, national history and modernization.
Bauman, Zygmunt. Modernity and Ambivalence. 1st ed. N.Y. Ithaca:., 1991.
And who is corruption ?
06
Feb
The term corruption in this country, it has become an abstract word, everyone defends the “morality”, but at the time of arrest relate to oranges and intermediaries.
Still others insist on the innocence of crimes already declared and who made it big hole in the public purse, but there are people still defending common criminals, who had no name would already be punished with certainty.
Yesterday the PF agents met 18 coercive conduct warrants when the person is taken to give testimony and released, including the PT treasurer John Vaccari Neto, plus 40 search and seizure in São Paulo, Rio, Bahia and in Santa Catarina.
A collection of watches expensive in number 500, see above photo released by the Federal Police, and the society shocked watching these scenes, while another pretends that are already taking corrective measures.
If a good person loses his mind and commits a violent action, do not advocate this, are wondering why, it is because the omission and impunity will paralyze society.
Perhaps the country needs an operation “clean hands” like Italy, only here the Mafia controls the power, distributes favors and will dodging attempts by the Brazilian Public Ministry and the Federal Police to curb their actions.
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.
Film Alan Turing and his inventions
04
Feb
The film “The imitation game” especially expected by technologists and the digital world enthusiasts debut in Brazil from the day February 5, in many brazilian cinemas.
The author does your role Benedict “Sherlock” Cumberbatch is according to many critics, the perfect opportunity to let people know the person who contributes most to the computer, although the main mathematical model has been completed by the mathematician Alonso Church.
This is the point that separates art technology, as Turing managed to advance technology in a few decades more than many researchers all his life, and this because he lived only 42 years, having committed suicide by pressure suffered as a homosexual.
In 1936, with only 24 proposed a machine called “Turing machine” based on a tape that could be read in two directions (there were only cellulose tapes for film then), and the instructions would be of a character (letter, symbol or number), moving the machine forward or backward and could solve many problems.
During the war, the Allied submarines were being decimated at sea, and the communication was made in a code by a machine called Enigma, that Polish spies stole and made a replica, Turing studied and deciphered the code.
At the end of the war Turing worked in an English secret project that was operating an “electronic brain” called ACE (Automatic Computing System) that could calculate complex mathematical systems and not just equations, interrupted the project, but he worked in the Manchester Unviersidade a project that would be finalized, the Mark 1.
Later ACE 15 computers were sold and the first personal computer, called Bless G-15 was totally based on this model.
One of the first devices that made the voice encryption was done by Turing, called Deliah, and later developed the SIGSALY at Bell Laboratories, USA.
Turing always had a correct concept of intelligence, for it was not a question whether machines think but could imitate humans, worked in 1941 in “machine intelligence” because in 1947 used the term “artificial intelligence” and in 1950 published a study “artificial intelligence“, one of the first mentions of the term.
The “Imitation game” is his most famous contribution, put hidden people and computers and suggest things to know where it was either.
Net of modernity awareness
03
Feb
Boaventura de Souza Santos lends the concept of “objective world” to explain how different actors act in modern society, or postmodern as a continuation of this, explaining the two pillars of rationality that makes up the socio-cultural project: an emancipation and other regulation.
Bauman is a figure that oscillates between these two pillars for it delights both the alleged religious “liberators” as statist “enlightened” state regulation of defenders, that the alleged role of the “welfare state” or in social project, which basically are the same thing, give crumbs less affluent layers to prevent momentum of a deeper shift towards a more egalitarian society.
Habermas was created this concept of the objective world as saying “the world only charges objectivity by virtue of being recognized and regarded as one and the same world by a community of subjects capable of language and action” (Habermas, 1987, p. 30).
Ulrick Beck and Anthony Giddes go to the other extreme, where subjectivist Beck uses the reflexive modernity expression, since they believe that the reflexive modernization could answer certain gaps of modernity discontinuities generated from modern life.
The late modernity indicates a change in the way of experiencing the relationship, so there is an identity with reason as an ordering element that produces confidence and minimizes the rich, so the individual should confront their exaggerations (consumption, eroticism and others) and assume, thus as a reflection object able to make a rational criticism of the system itself, becoming a theme and a problem for you.
The only possibility of ontological security, is to have the ability to “re” -inventar traditions and get away from the genuine traditions of modernity, that is, those values radically linked to the pre-modern past, there is the cause discontinuity of modernity, the separation between what is really new and what remains a good heritage of the old.
Martha Nussbaum, Peter Sloterdijck and others identify this discontinuity at the origin of Kantian thought and not in modern liquefaction, this is nothing but nostalgia Enlightenment (the regulatory tradition of state) or illusionist emancipation (alms to the poor)>
Modernity is liquid from its origin, because dividing society into two pieces and thought between objectivity and subjectivity, where the ontological Being is not possible.
Pirate Bay returned to the Web
02
Feb
After numerous lawsuits and arrests, a former director of the Pirate Bay have disabled your blog, now he is in the air again since yesterday, changed the logo pirate ship by the Phoenix.
One of the founders of the site, Peter Sunde, said that the file download via torrent platform was overcome and full of advertisements that did not belong to the domain, and then said the best thing to do was the same decree the end.
Peter Sunde that is no longer part of the team, said the new online community will bring more surprises and should be more efficient than the previous site.
To celebrate the “rebirth” of the site, the pirate ship logo was replaced by the drawing of a phoenix, a legendary bird of Greek mythology, who died when he returned after some time from its own ashes.
Around the air was scheduled for early February, but stepped forward, to the delight of users, the site’s domain remains the same and also all original collection of links.
According to the site Torrent Freak, who conducted research on the servers of The Pirate Bay, the number of lost files seems to have been minimal.
Share is a right, like lending a book or a disc, but holders of content business enterprises do not agree with it, and play hard to make the internet also a business territory, but one day this right will be recognized.
