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Btw a great explanation about "the bridge with erected blocks" in portuguese: https://noticias.uol.com.br/in...

How exactly do you fill 700GB?

it's a disease: they are called "accumulators" (there's even Discovery Home & Health TV show about it), can't leave old junk behind...

How the rise of fake Facebook news - and the fall of local papers - fueled #Trump http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/...

Sounds like #Brazil, where in week leading up to impeachment, 3/5 of most shared articles on Facebook were false http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/p..."

Indeed.
From http://convergenciadigital.uol...
"More than that, the judge considers that if it is not possible to break the encryption, the service itself must be prohibited, since it does not lend itself to the enforcement of judicial decisions."

Should ban curtains (or any other window coverings) on windows too.

Unnecessary, there are many, many ways around that.

Indeed. From http://convergenciadigital.uol... "More than that, the judge considers that if it is not possible to break the encryption, the service itself must be prohibited, since it does not lend itself to the enforcement of judicial decisions."

Should ban curtains (or any other window coverings) on windows too.

From a Brazilian news, the order was to offer a backdoor to the encrypted messages and/or to redirect the messages to the authorities before encryption.
http://tecnologia.uol.com.br/n...

Indeed. From http://convergenciadigital.uol... "More than that, the judge considers that if it is not possible to break the encryption, the service itself must be prohibited, since it does not lend itself to the enforcement of judicial decisions."

I'm Brazilian. Unfortunately your "anecdotal evidence" is wrong.

Samples from most important media portals in Brazil (google translate them): Globo, Record, Folha.

Already overruled.
http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/m...

A higher level judge ordered the ban to be lifted, stating (google translate, just being lazy...):
"in light of constitutional principles, it does not seem reasonable that millions of users be affected as a result of the company's inertia in providing information for the justice"
also:
"You can always, respected the conviction of the authority identified as constraining, raise the amount of the fine to a sufficient level to inhibit any resistance"

It's a bad ruling from a single judge that pleases the ones executing the order and, therefore, wasn't questioned.

The terms and conditions for brazilian users tell exactly this, more specific the section 5 that in english is 195 words long, but in portuguese is 764 words long. And thats not just because of the translation, this part goes into more details on what they do.

It says:

"In order to allow guests in our site to experience the kind of communication they expect as members, we may create profiles that may interact with them.

The purpose of us creating these profiles is to provide entertainment for our guests, to allow guests users to explore our services and to promote greater participation in our services. The messages sent are computer generated. The messages from the profiles we create try to simulate communications so you can also become a member, pushing you into participating in more conversations and to raise interaction between friends.

You acknowledge and agree that some profiles published in the site, with whom you may communicate as a guest, may be fictitious. The purpose of the creation of these profiles is to provide our invited users with entertainment."

So, at least to non paying users its clear that a lot of the females users and their messages are computer generated.

More here in Portuguese: http://gizmodo.uol.com.br/term...

This fossil was stolen..
[pt-br] http://noticias.uol.com.br/cie...

And The NeverEnding Story never ended.

As for Final Fantasy... Yay, catgirls!

Here. What happens when your device is too thin (portuguese)

What I could confirm otherwise is somewhat old news. http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/f...

This are the kind of phones this system will block: http://tecnologia.uol.com.br/a...

Noname Iphone look-a-like that runs android
Knockoff Motorola Ferrari that runs some java based OS
Same with a SonyEricsson Walkman
An Galaxy S3 copy with a Nokia battery
There is also the Hiphones, Sqmy, Sonia, PolyStation and so many others...

Moreover, this is not merely the purchase of 36 planes (28 made for a single pilot; 8 with space for a co-pilot). Long-distance missiles, bombs and towable targets for training are all part of a larger package of logistics and training materials. http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2013/12/1387576-after-more-than-10-years-dilma-chooses-swedish-jets-for-fab.shtml

in brazil you have: http://tramavirtual.uol.com.br/ not all the artists but a lot of them very open minded, including some free albums and artists that you may find album at free music archives as well ( http://freemusicarchive.org/ ), yet as another example of free legit songs download...

Next thing we need to do is start using all touchpad PIN entry and cypher it by having each of the keys (0-9) in a random place on the screen each time, that way, once you've entered your PIN, there's no way to know what number a certain gesture corresponded to

You mean, something like this? (Google translation)

Google News? I live in a small country and I get a very personalized view - plenty of news from national newspapers, a section with news just about my country, etc.

Recipes depends on the sites semantically tagging their recipes, using hRecipe. Sites like Tudo Gostoso, even though it's in Portuguese, appear fine since they tag their recipes (you can find the hRecipe marks in its source).

He said:

"Quando você não pode competir, você se declara aberto. Isso mascara a incompetência".

from:

http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/tec/798606-microsoft-critica-posicao-do-governo-brasileiro-sobre-o-software-livre.shtml

linked from:

http://lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?topic=10523.0

which was linked from TFA.

You can have evaporation ponds, using wind power to pump the sea water.

The big problem then is separating the more valuable compounds from the sodium chloride

The US is not a large importer of sugar because we grow enough to export

check yor facts. the US is _not_ an exporter of proccessed sugar. not of the sugarcane variety, not of the beet variety

There is no tariff on sugar from Costa Rica for the first 19,225 metric tons

which means theres still a tariff. where's the fabled "free market", then ?

Corn syrup is cheaper than cane sugar for us to produce.

because of high levels of subsidy from the federal government. take those away and imported sugar from brasil, thailand, etc. becomes cheaper, even factoring transport costs.

USA is the hypocritical of all countries when the subject is international trade. when in benefits the US, lets all "free trade", but when it steps on a few lobbists toes, it's heavy tariffs here, restrictions there, sanctions somewhere else.

no wonder developing nations are more and more trading between themselves than with US.

[citation needed] ? here it is (in portuguese). to sum it up, china is now brasils larget comercial partner. all asian nations togheter now respond for 30% of our exports. in my 35 years of life i saw the importance of the US as a trade partner drop from more than 40% of our comerce to less than 12%. some of this change can be attributed to the growth of asian nations, but some of them you can put on american atitude too.

oh, and sorry for the harshness of this post. mod me as a troll, but sometimes things have to be said.

In Brazil, the Senate recently passed legislation demanding that ISPs keep logs for 3 years. It's causing total outrage at the ISP side, because it'll raise operational costs. The project still has to go through the Chamber of Deputies (i.e., Congress). The Budapest Convention (whatever that is...) requires 90-days logs.

Use your translator here (or, if you are able to comprehend Spanish you shouldn't have a lot of trouble with written Portuguese):

http://br-linux.org/2008/ja-era-senado-aprova-projeto-de-lei-da-internet-todos-os-acessos-deverao-ser-arquivados-no-provedor-por-3-anos/

http://idgnow.uol.com.br/internet/2008/07/10/prazo-para-guardar-logs-de-internautas-deve-ser-modificado-diz-abranet/

Actually, there is no program at all being sent from Portugal to Brazil. We don't consume pretty much anything from them.

Reference

It is true that this is a very rare thing, and I have to admit that I don't know for sure whether it aired, but at the very least, the planned airing of a Portuguese telenovela in Brazil involved dubbing into Brazilian Portuguese.

Most impressive, I say I live in a small town near São Paulo, where Telefonica has complete monopoly over a laughable broadband. http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/informatica/ult124u419329.shtml I wish i still had a modem sitting around sometimes.

According to local press, the little laptop isn't doing so good. One study in fact (mentioned in Veja news magazine) even found that student's grade got worse, since they became distracted.

The XO laptop was also doing badly because there were not nearly enough qualified teachers. We're talking teachers here that can barely teach with a blackboard and chalk. The international Pisa student evaluation (done in 57 countries) places Brazilian students at the lowest tier in Mathematics proficiency http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/educacao/ult305u351481.shtml (pt_br).

Now, as we all know, even for the lowly Turtle logo, a modicum of Mathematics is necessary for both the student and the teacher.

In this respect, open source (source code) will bring nothing to these students. Maybe for a statistically negligible elite. Well, so be it.

As for the purported 52 mil, the nationwide 2004 school census had the numbers at 8.7 mil for "mid-level" school and 10.7 mil at 17-17 years.

http://br.monografias.com/trabalhos/educacao-pobreza-brasil/educacao-pobreza-brasil2.shtml (pt_br)

This 52 mil is probably self-promotion bullshit from the chronics at this leftist government, who do nothing but lie in general and specifically with numbers. The only real numbers I can see sprouting forth with any substance is the shitload of money the political free-software clique that revolves around the Worker's Party will make in installing Debian for such a huge basis. Hooray!

There's very little being done in terms of educating teachers so as to harness the power of free software in building knowledge (and the GPL is not good for that - BSD systems would really empower people to sell their work instead of giving it for free).

My feeling from young kids I know from public schools is that Linux will produce nothing but rejection in the end, as soon as they realize you can't play those neat video games in it. You know how kids are, they don't care about the GNU toolchain...Their bottom line thinking is: "no fun - then the fuck with it!"

Anyhow, if I sound against the thing, I just want to say I'm not. I just would not believe the hype. We've seen Brazil and Free Software in the headlines before and in terms of concrete achievements, they have delivered very little.

Make copyright last the duration of retirement. Produce your last best works when you're 64, retiring on the royalties when aged 65 up to 115 (50 years) is already quite generous. Not that retirement at 65 is even necessary (Tina Turner, Paul McCartney, soon Mick Jagger).

Will you still need me
Will you still feed me
When I'm sixty four

According to http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/dinheiro/ult91u337699.shtml, the 40 suspects - there still are 4 runaways - detained are been accused of passive and active corruption, tax evasion, falsification of documents and concealment of assets. Only 4 where Cisco executives. Aleggedly, they had a network of 14 offshore companies, used to tax evasion and get a 70% cost reduction on Cisco products. Yesterday, Cisco did not want to make comments for Brazilian Newspaper Folha.

Here in Brazil, Petrobras gasoline stations have the brand BR over a green and yellow pair of stripes. And then somebody had the idea of branding their gasoline stations 13R, using a font almost impossible to tell the differrence between BR and 13R. And of course this 13R stations sell very low quality fuel...

But you don't need to believe me, you can believe your own eyes. This is the 13R station and This is a real BR station.

I think you're missing the fact that she is no longer a stoned-looking 14-year-old, but a very hot redhead 19-year-old college student. :P I mean, my god man! Look at her eyes here!

http://www.faq-mac.com/mt/archives/img/escaparate/ Ellen%20Feiss.jpg

Don't fall in! The lips aren't that unattractive, either. Ok, yeah, the rest may not be so hot (I've not seen any of her 'film acumen') but that much, at least, is.

I'd like to know how you found that out, since the case goes under "justice secret" and the details aren't known... as for the court order, read those (portughese, I assume you're brazilian anyways): http://noticias.uol.com.br/bbc/2007/01/05/ult2363u 8993.jhtm http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Tecnologia/0,,AA14090 12-6174,00.html

It *seems* that it blocks only the video, not the whole site. But BrT (large brazilian ISP) has blocked Youtube entirely (maybe because they know you can't effectively block the video, since it will always be reuploaded under a different name). AFAIK, it is the only ocurrence of the blockade, all other ISPs have not blocked anything so far (including mine).

According to the Brazilian media, the local courts have only asked Youtube to remove the video. There is no DNS blacklist or anything like that.

Read yourself (in Portuguese) at Folha de Sao Paulo or, use Google Translator to translate it.

"The version of that all the YouTube would have of being removed of air arrived to be propagated by some Brazilian sites and international agencies in the thursday, but it was contradicted by the Court of Justice. Justice only determined that the YouTube hinders the propagation it video with Daniela Cicarelli."

Likewise, a new CD in Brazil can cost 3 - 5 dollars. Again, legally.

Where did you get that information? I don't think you source was any good. I happen to be in Brazil at the moment. Here you can expect to pay between R $20 and R $30 for most popular international titles. Figuring 2 Real to the $US dollar, that comes out to more than double the price you give - $10 to $15. The price of CDs by local artists is not far behind.

The only web site I could find as a reference in a half-hour search is: http://shopping.uol.com.br/cds/index.html Here you can click through the pages of CDs and eventually you will come across many top US and International artists you will recognize. Then just mentally cut the price in half to arrive at an approximation of it's cost in $US.

It's nice to go to a country where the huge companies do not simply write whatever laws they want, but have to contest with the needs of the consumer, who have alternatives to the restrictive legal route.

I'm not sure how many companies actually write whatever laws they want, as much as set prices for their products - a thing any of us are fully entiled to do, but it's certainly true they often have to contend with "consumers who have alternatives to the restrictive legal route" - read here - pirated merchandise and knock-offs.

Now, you may think that's nice that these companies have to contend with lawless knock-offs and pirates, but I am sure if it was YOUR company losing margins because of pirates, you might get pretty pissed off. If you think "It's nice to go to [such] a country", you perhaps are not aware that unchecked crime, violence, and corruption are often found in such countries too, and this could make you life pretty miserable if you happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong moment.

And here I am, in Brazil. Just voted this afternoon and we already have 87% of the votes (about 124 million people voted) processed and in a few hours we will know the results. Sure, less than 1% of the voting machines had problems, and were they had we used paper voting. Electronic voting works just fine :) The current results (ipdated every 5 minutes): http://eleicoes.folha.uol.com.br/folha/especial/20 06/eleicoes/apuracao1.html

You are surely an example to your countrymen, of how someone can have the head stuck in the ass and still be proud of it.

http://biblioteca.uol.com.br/

Try a brazilian dictionary:

"Acepções
  substantivo feminino
1 Rubrica: retórica.
          discurso ou texto em que se defende, justifica ou elogia (esp. alguma doutrina, ação, obra etc.) "

It says "speech or text that defends, justifies or praises (especially ('esp.' ?) some doctrine, action, work etc.)"

Get a clue.

IAAL

As long as crimes are being committed here in Brazil (which they are), Brazil does claim and have jurisdiction. It's not a matter of where the data is located. Location of data is an entirely different issue, related to procedural criminal law and the production of evidence, and Google US has delivered and will deliver data over to Brazilian authorities if asked:

http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/informatica/ult 124u20482.shtml

This is pretty smart of Google, by the way. The procedures for getting data sent from a foreign country are more problematic than simply subpoenaing a company that's around the corner, like Google Brasil. It all comes down to the volume of crimes that are being perpetrated. Five? Not a problem at all going after Google US. Hundreds? It becomes a chore.

Blame it on what we call "false cognates". "Apologia", the portuguese word, translate s into "incitement", but the similarity between the words "apologia" and "apology" is just plain irresistible.

• "Apologia" as "Vindication".

• incitement as "incitamento, estímulo, incentivo".
• apology as "desculpa; defesa; justificação"
• vindication as "prova, defesa, justificativa"
• defense as "defesa; proteção"
• justify as "justificar, demonstrar a inocência de alguém, provar uma teoria ou idéia; justificar (tipografia: ajustar o tamanho das linhas)"

An autograph from the software guru Richard Stallman was auctioned (emphasis mine ) for R$23 at FISL 7.0, on Saturday the 22nd. The initiative (the idea) came from Leonardo Vaz, from OPEN BSB inthe state of Rio Grande do Sul, who caused quite an uproar on this last day of the event when he went to personally deliver the money collected to Stallman, accompanied by about 100 persons.

The auction idea sums up the relaxed atmosphere of this last day of FISL 7.0. Scheduled for 4:00 PM is the launch of GULA (Grupo de Usuários de Linux Alcoólatras, or Alchoholic Linux Users' Group), which promises to shake up the final hours of the event.

There's a comic strip in Brazil called Overman , a parody of the super hero genre.

I expect the next one to actually let you swing the controller to swing your sword.

Since the time when I heard about Nintendo's new controller I've been hoping that it would be some kind of improvement on the mouse/keyboard design for PC games. I love using the mouse in first person shooters and other PC games, (like RTS games, ex. starcraft) but I could never get the hang of using the thumbstick for FPS games on consoles. More generically, anytime you had to move some sort of cursor on a console I always seemed to have trouble. I hope Nintendo's new controller can somehow adapt a mouse like feel to console games. Then maybe I'd stand a better chance against friends on consoles!

I'm sure many people have seen this, but its fun to see all the old Nintendo parts from controllers: Click here to design your own Nintendo controller.

"We don't want to offer an inferior technology for those with lower income. This is discrimination."

"The hardware would probably be so crap that WinXP wouldn't run on it, but hey..."

Minimum Hardware Configuration:
- Compatible with Intel D315/D320 ou AMD 2200/2400;
- RAM 128 MB;
- HD 40GB;
- CD-ROM 52x;
- Floppy drive 3½' - 1,44 MB;
- Fax/Modem 56 Kbps;
- Network/Audio/Video;
- Keyboard ABNT2;
- 2-button Mouse;
- 4 USB connectors;
- Monitor CRT 15'.

Software Package:
- OS;
- Text Editor;
- Spreadsheet Editor;
- Presentation Editor;
- Web Browser;
- Anti Virus;
- Personal Firewall;
- Email Client;
- File Archiever;
- Download Manager;
- FTP Client;
- Automatic Updates;
- Java Plugin;
- Flash Plugin;
- PDF Reader;
- Calculator;
- Chat Client;
- Instant Messenger;
- Videoconference;
- Media Player;
- Games;
- Audio Editor;
- Image Editor;
- Drawing Editor;
- HTML Editor;
- 3D Animation.

More information avaible on IDG Now! [Portuguese].

Here on Brazil a woman walked and can speak before stem cell have been implanted on her brain. http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ciencia/ult306u 12664.shtml/

A crafty engineery already jumped through these hoops:
http://wernerkai.sites.uol.com.br/google/google.ht m

We don't? So thats why Tomb Raider II only made $154 Million in the cinemas?

and thats why none of you just clicked on this (nudity) link.

Slashdot has for some reason ignored some big articles on Governmental Open Source. This is what I mean: Brazil has a government department bent on migrating all of the government's software into Open-Source software. This department already has 2,000 employees DEDICATED for migration operations. It's estimated that over 300,000 computers will migrate to Linux. As it stands it still is the largest government-backed program for Open Source. This is nothing new. This dept. was created back in December of 2003 and was covered by Wired. In any case, the most amusing consequence of this was Microsoft's response calling this program "ideologically motivated" in a veiled allusion to President Lula's left-leaning socialist tendencies. But of course, an instant loss of 6% in revenue for Microsoft makes them a bit, uhm, "twitchy". A few links if anyone's interested: Wired Article The Register Folha de São Paulo (in portuguese)

I laugh when I see a cheesy newbie ISP commercial that promotes "We have pop-up blocker technology!!!" Shit no kidding, so does my free Mozilla browser.

Why is it that the car they're actually producing is no where near as cool looking as the car from the development site . I know most of the arguments pro and cons of electric cars are of a technical nature, but let's not forget that humans often buys with their eyes. A slick looking electric car would probably sell better than one that looks like a moris minor.

My mom drives a toyota yaris with a rear projection digital speedometer (picture here). It's always easier to read than analog speedometers, regardless of the lighting conditions. Also, only the driver can read it, so you don't get comments from passengers when you're skirting the speed limit.

Reflective screens are also becoming more commonplace, they also tend to be equally easy to read in bright sunlight, and dark twilight.