The "study" was realeased one week after the domain being created, by a gatech student.
This guy must be ROFL..
look at this:
Domain Name: aptiquant.com
Registered at http://www.dynadot.com/
Registrant:
Gill Web Services
Tarandeep Gill
7867 138 St.
Surrey, BC V3W7b5
Canada
Administrative Contact:
Gill Web Services
Tarandeep Gill
7867 138 St.
Surrey, BC V3W7b5
Canada
taran@gatech.edu
+1 7782429002
Technical Contact:
Gill Web Services
Tarandeep Gill
7867 138 St.
Surrey, BC V3W7b5
Canada
taran@gatech.edu
+1 7782429002
Record expires on 2012/07/14 UTC
Record created on 2011/07/14 UTC
No. There is no evidence of hackers attacking the grid. The only news regarding that hyppothesis appeared only after the CBS article.
By the way, yesterday (oct-10) around 10:30pm there was a new blackout affecting the brazilian south western states.
Again the same stations from Furnas (the electricity transmission company for the region) were affected. These stations use capacitor banks from ABB and are (were?) the only of this kind in the world for 735kV.
The blackout in 2005 was a human failure. One transmission line went down, the team recovering that line made a mistake and instead of activating the repaired line disabled the backup line. Result: 3 states withou electric power.
The blackout in 2007 was due a circuit breaker shutting down one line, the same happening after in the backup line, that could manage the excess load (this happened during peak hours, 5 p.m. during a working day).
Ok, these are official explanations and the blackouts may have been caused by evil hackers but, in this case, the brazilian government made an excelent job holding that information for years, leaking now thanks to an american former military that may have some vested interest spreading fear.
Google's problem started when they opened a office in Brasil.
Orkut use in Brazil is widespread. Since the beggining people used Orkut's forums to open communities for spreading racism, nazism, pedophilia and other types of behaviour that are considered criminal by brazilian law.
I don't know if by lack of knowledge or haste the brazilian DA started to sending subpoenas to Google's office and the typical scenario happens again: the offending data is in another country and the local office has no power to hand them to the local judiciary system.
Maybe Orkut data will be moved to Brazil, maybe they convinced the brazilian MP to present it's requests properly in USA. I think that arrangement will be more clear in the next days.
It is a problem with people accessing through Brasil Telecom's network (one of the brazilian telcos). Since their DNS aren't recursive I couldn't check if this a DNS problem or a network problem.
the problem is: the Brazilian prosecutors subpoened Google's Brazilian office.
the Brazilian office doesn't have access to the data stored in the servers, based in the USA. Google's brazilian office is a law firm, probably there are no techies there.
when the brazilian prosecutors present their request properly to Google in USA the data will be handed over. It has been done before:
The budget for the fome-zero (zero-hunger) program of hunger erradication among porr families is R$1.68 billion (around US$630 million)
Source: Orçamento do programa Fome-zero (budget for the zero-hunger program) http://www.camara.gov.br/internet/direto ria/Conleg/notas/2004_4758.pdf
its a official document from Camara dos Deputados (brazilian federal legislative house, deputy chamber)
The stimated value spent by the brazilian government (cites, states and federal government) is R$2 billions (around US$ 740 millions). that info is from the consulting firm 4Linux http://www.linuxplace.com.br/sqush_place/105898724 2/index_html
There is a specialized secretary for IT strategies (Secretaria de Logística e Tecnologia de Infraestrutura) that is collecting data to present "official" values expent with licences.
If not a basic requirement for inteligence, surely for progress.
If there weren't the lazy ones, we'd still living in the caves, since they were good enough for shelter. the workholics don't tend to think about an easy way to do something. just do it... harder or faster... but not better...
Thinking about it, the workholic is as sociopath fuck, that can't interact with other persons and dives into work and the society that we have today glorifies the type...
I think that they assume that only japanese or descendants speak the language, so the surprise. another thing that can surprise them is when someone (japanese) can speak but can't read, since the illeteracy rate in japan is near zero.
I have an orkut account, but I don't know it's workings very well, but the owner from that community can't block undesirable posts? I see my sister-in-law doing this in the communities that she made.
It's an extra overload, but avoid people becoming upset...
My French teacher used to say... if you are a foreigner, speak to a Frenchman with the worst possible French and he will do his best to help you, speak to him in English and the answer (in English) will be "if you took the time to lear English, why didn't you learnt also French?" and there goes your help...
orkut is a big hit among brazilians as any other app that enables some kind of messaging, be it email, IRC, msn, icq or email.
if the brazilians are majority is simply due they accept/invite more their friends than americans. why? just a question of taste... brazilians liked more orkut's format than americans
maybe it will lead to an improvement in orkut, like selecting communities by language.
the only problem that I see is that some brazilians create communities with an english title and use only portuguese to comunicate, it upset some english speaking people. if you create a community and someone posts with an undesirable language, ignore or delete the posts...
the "wrath" that some people are experiencig when they criticize brazilians is just lack of sense of humor... people shouldn't take what happens on internet so serious...
the guy that does soon will quit from the "only broadbanded guy" label in the company as soon he perceives that he has no more sleep hours, or weekends or holydays...
And you don't need to make a fuss about it... on the first "use your broadband to fix us" call you say "I don't have one..."
not hard... I have an old (more than 15 years) voltmeter and ohmmeter from hioki, sized like a credit card.
a large size from the footprint is due to the rotary dial (select VAC, VDC, ohms and continuity). Using the phone keys for selection you could have the same footprint of any cell phone, a bit bolder due the probes connectors.
it's feasible, the problem is: there is a market for this?
geeks of the world in need of a cell phone with multimer, unite:-)
minitel was a long stablished mean of communication, with lists of services for chats, shopping, finding persons and goes on.
Internet when startedat public wasn't rich as it is today. it was geek thing being pushed as the "new economy", were a business operating at loss was the way to go
france started to adopt internet when it's services and utilities became on par with minitel.
think about your phone service, you don't you stop using it and only use IP telephony? because today ip telephony can't give you the same services that POTS, in given time the switch would be possible
metric is the official standardized size, but you can find other sizes.
I mistankely bought a pack of letter sized paper at carrefour once. I spent the whole packing cursing the people that don't identified it in the shelf.
The metric units of volume and mass were created to have that consistence, but that doesn't mean that you should have the ton of water.
it was about standards. as you say, your current king may have a foot of 30cm or not... so it can be a standard. antropomorphics measures were widely used in the antiquity, but as the mankind evolved and it's needs evolved more precision was needed.
the meter was defined as a fraction from the distance to poles at the first time. today is the radiation (of sodium crystals?) in vacuum. something that can be replied at scientific labs around the world. scientific labs, not on the street, we are talking about national standards.
the most dificult standard to be stablished is the mass ok 1kg. the metal spheres used to create that standard are known to have lost mass, and scientists can't tell why. a google search would take to a very curious and insightful subject.
I can use the same cold salt water, inside my mout is 36 fold it six times and have the same (lack of) precision in Celsius... so???
The Celsius scale was created using certaind standards: water, level sea.
proceding: measure the temperature when the water is freezing and call taht 0 degrees
measure the water again when it's boiling. let's call that point 100 degrees
divide with evenly spaced scales these two points in the termometer.
AFAIR the Farenheit scale was made the same way, the 0 being the freezing point of water and some salt and the 212 point water boiling. but the distance betwenn the water (without salt) freezing and boiling should be separated by 180 points
every scale is arbitrary. the only absolute is the measurement, that must be consistent among different scales. the resources to build a scale are the same, be it F, C, K or some funny scale that you seem fit for your purposes.
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Schools (public or private) in Brazil don't have lockers for students. Maybe some private schools that area modelled after foreign schools.
The "study" was realeased one week after the domain being created, by a gatech student. This guy must be ROFL.. look at this: Domain Name: aptiquant.com Registered at http://www.dynadot.com/ Registrant: Gill Web Services Tarandeep Gill 7867 138 St. Surrey, BC V3W7b5 Canada Administrative Contact: Gill Web Services Tarandeep Gill 7867 138 St. Surrey, BC V3W7b5 Canada taran@gatech.edu +1 7782429002 Technical Contact: Gill Web Services Tarandeep Gill 7867 138 St. Surrey, BC V3W7b5 Canada taran@gatech.edu +1 7782429002 Record expires on 2012/07/14 UTC Record created on 2011/07/14 UTC
No. There is no evidence of hackers attacking the grid. The only news regarding that hyppothesis appeared only after the CBS article.
By the way, yesterday (oct-10) around 10:30pm there was a new blackout affecting the brazilian south western states.
Again the same stations from Furnas (the electricity transmission company for the region) were affected. These stations use capacitor banks from ABB and are (were?) the only of this kind in the world for 735kV.
The blackout in 2005 was a human failure. One transmission line went down, the team recovering that line made a mistake and instead of activating the repaired line disabled the backup line. Result: 3 states withou electric power.
The blackout in 2007 was due a circuit breaker shutting down one line, the same happening after in the backup line, that could manage the excess load (this happened during peak hours, 5 p.m. during a working day).
Ok, these are official explanations and the blackouts may have been caused by evil hackers but, in this case, the brazilian government made an excelent job holding that information for years, leaking now thanks to an american former military that may have some vested interest spreading fear.
2 cents..
Google's problem started when they opened a office in Brasil.
Orkut use in Brazil is widespread. Since the beggining people used Orkut's forums to open communities for spreading racism, nazism, pedophilia and other types of behaviour that are considered criminal by brazilian law.
I don't know if by lack of knowledge or haste the brazilian DA started to sending subpoenas to Google's office and the typical scenario happens again: the offending data is in another country and the local office has no power to hand them to the local judiciary system.
Maybe Orkut data will be moved to Brazil, maybe they convinced the brazilian MP to present it's requests properly in USA. I think that arrangement will be more clear in the next days.
It is a problem with people accessing through Brasil Telecom's network (one of the brazilian telcos). Since their DNS aren't recursive I couldn't check if this a DNS problem or a network problem.
the problem is: the Brazilian prosecutors subpoened Google's Brazilian office.
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the Brazilian office doesn't have access to the data stored in the servers, based in the USA. Google's brazilian office is a law firm, probably there are no techies there.
when the brazilian prosecutors present their request properly to Google in USA the data will be handed over. It has been done before:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?co
The budget for the fome-zero (zero-hunger) program of hunger erradication among porr families is R$1.68 billion (around US$630 million)
Source: Orçamento do programa Fome-zero (budget for the zero-hunger program)
http://www.camara.gov.br/internet/diret
its a official document from Camara dos Deputados (brazilian federal legislative house, deputy chamber)
The stimated value spent by the brazilian government (cites, states and federal government) is R$2 billions (around US$ 740 millions). that info is from the consulting firm 4Linux http://www.linuxplace.com.br/sqush_place/10589872
There is a specialized secretary for IT strategies (Secretaria de Logística e Tecnologia de Infraestrutura) that is collecting data to present "official" values expent with licences.
probably due a bad data sampling...
the 5 top brands in latin america are virtually unknown in brazil...
the largest population (both in absolute size and internet users) in latin america is brazilian.
anyway, since the site the made the poll is also unknown here, I'm not surprised...
If not a basic requirement for inteligence, surely for progress.
If there weren't the lazy ones, we'd still living in the caves, since they were good enough for shelter. the workholics don't tend to think about an easy way to do something. just do it... harder or faster... but not better...
Thinking about it, the workholic is as sociopath fuck, that can't interact with other persons and dives into work and the society that we have today glorifies the type...
I think that they assume that only japanese or descendants speak the language, so the surprise. another thing that can surprise them is when someone (japanese) can speak but can't read, since the illeteracy rate in japan is near zero.
I have an orkut account, but I don't know it's workings very well, but the owner from that community can't block undesirable posts? I see my sister-in-law doing this in the communities that she made.
It's an extra overload, but avoid people becoming upset...
My French teacher used to say... if you are a foreigner, speak to a Frenchman with the worst possible French and he will do his best to help you, speak to him in English and the answer (in English) will be "if you took the time to lear English, why didn't you learnt also French?" and there goes your help...
orkut is a big hit among brazilians as any other app that enables some kind of messaging, be it email, IRC, msn, icq or email.
if the brazilians are majority is simply due they accept/invite more their friends than americans. why? just a question of taste... brazilians liked more orkut's format than americans
maybe it will lead to an improvement in orkut, like selecting communities by language.
the only problem that I see is that some brazilians create communities with an english title and use only portuguese to comunicate, it upset some english speaking people. if you create a community and someone posts with an undesirable language, ignore or delete the posts...
the "wrath" that some people are experiencig when they criticize brazilians is just lack of sense of humor... people shouldn't take what happens on internet so serious...
the guy that does soon will quit from the "only broadbanded guy" label in the company as soon he perceives that he has no more sleep hours, or weekends or holydays...
And you don't need to make a fuss about it... on the first "use your broadband to fix us" call you say "I don't have one..."
how much earlier?
even if the school had given his degree the could suspend it due academic fraud.
the university take too much time to notice. so what?
this not a sign of any hidden agenda, it is a sign that papers are not exhaustively checked for fraud.
the guy is dishonest, wants to get scott free, if not with a degree at least with the money.
with a character like that he may even work at a certain outfit in utah...
not hard... I have an old (more than 15 years) voltmeter and ohmmeter from hioki, sized like a credit card.
:-)
a large size from the footprint is due to the rotary dial (select VAC, VDC, ohms and continuity). Using the phone keys for selection you could have the same footprint of any cell phone, a bit bolder due the probes connectors.
it's feasible, the problem is: there is a market for this?
geeks of the world in need of a cell phone with multimer, unite
modded as funny?
I mean it...
a multimeter...
lots of times I needed a damn multimeter and I looket to the cell phone and imagined it could have a pair of probes...
at least a AC/DC voltmeter up to 300V...
minitel wasn't "versus internet" in france.
minitel was a long stablished mean of communication, with lists of services for chats, shopping, finding persons and goes on.
Internet when startedat public wasn't rich as it is today. it was geek thing being pushed as the "new economy", were a business operating at loss was the way to go
france started to adopt internet when it's services and utilities became on par with minitel.
think about your phone service, you don't you stop using it and only use IP telephony? because today ip telephony can't give you the same services that POTS, in given time the switch would be possible
that is the minitel x internet...
metric is the official standardized size, but you can find other sizes.
I mistankely bought a pack of letter sized paper at carrefour once. I spent the whole packing cursing the people that don't identified it in the shelf.
The metric units of volume and mass were created to have that consistence, but that doesn't mean that you should have the ton of water.
it was about standards. as you say, your current king may have a foot of 30cm or not... so it can be a standard. antropomorphics measures were widely used in the antiquity, but as the mankind evolved and it's needs evolved more precision was needed.
the meter was defined as a fraction from the distance to poles at the first time. today is the radiation (of sodium crystals?) in vacuum. something that can be replied at scientific labs around the world. scientific labs, not on the street, we are talking about national standards.
the most dificult standard to be stablished is the mass ok 1kg. the metal spheres used to create that standard are known to have lost mass, and scientists can't tell why. a google search would take to a very curious and insightful subject.
look here: http://www.npl.co.uk/mass/faqs/kilogram.html
I can use the same cold salt water, inside my mout is 36 fold it six times and have the same (lack of) precision in Celsius... so???
The Celsius scale was created using certaind standards: water, level sea.
proceding: measure the temperature when the water is freezing and call taht 0 degrees
measure the water again when it's boiling. let's call that point 100 degrees
divide with evenly spaced scales these two points in the termometer.
AFAIR the Farenheit scale was made the same way, the 0 being the freezing point of water and some salt and the 212 point water boiling. but the distance betwenn the water (without salt) freezing and boiling should be separated by 180 points
every scale is arbitrary. the only absolute is the measurement, that must be consistent among different scales. the resources to build a scale are the same, be it F, C, K or some funny scale that you seem fit for your purposes.
a fair accounting of sales would lead to more royalties paid to artists. *AA doesn't want that kind of accuracy...
insanely stupid reason as in I can make a compilation of my records as I see fit? stupid as in I paid for it?
if some simple care is let them in the box, fine... if simple care is a controlled temperature and humidity room...
don't forget that all the world isn't in the temperate zones