really,
i'm tired of hear this bullshit of my countryman, weeping about how poor and ignorant Brasil is. the litany (or opera bouffe) is everytime the same: "Let me weep over my cruel fate, And that I long for freedom!" (Rinaldo, Haendel).
I know that the brazilian economy is fucked up, but times are changing. this last push of brazilian government is very laudable. you know, open source is a integrant part of social forms!
this push will help a lot the work of people like Rodrigo Baggio. Poor peolple from outskirts are longing for rescue their aplomb! I know that! I give all my old computers to local rappers and I can tell you: their very eyes shine before an old box carring a cyrix dx2/66...
in Brazil, the elections in every level are a smooth automated process. Maybe we can teach something about electronic elections to the most powerful country of the planet.
Here in Brazil geeks are taking something called "Ice" in order to enhance "gamming and programming skills". No doubt it's another media huckster. Personally, sometimes I like take some grass to interact with my LAN, but something are getting very wrong, because eventually I feel like that guy in "Pi" movie who suffers from horrible migraines. Question: drugs and machines are a good combination? Or do you think it's a step towards some thinkers are calling "technomorphism"?
No doubt Lanier have good points ("computers are disfunctional creatures", "softwares nowadays has poor design [because it reduces human action]"). This points are shared by people from Long Now Foundation too. Seems like every day the technocrats are reliefing the "responsability factor".
Lanier have good points indeed. But I think he states some dangerous "truths", like: Marx was wrong.
tell this to the people who went to Prague!
i like Cryptogram pretty much, but this last Schneier piece seems like a 'mea culpa' about the failure of his 'math utopia'. i'm still in the full disclosure side. full disclosure (plus the security 'process', apud Schneier) is the less wrost solution. like democracy, you know?
Every time I read a topic like this, I give thanks and praises. Long time ago I've noticed the silent and implacable coup d'etat orchestrated by CTOs, IT chiefs et al inside companies in general.
Slashdot Mirror
Let's see how Jon Udell behave.
...RoboCock.
Seems like The Nimrod Flip-Out, by Etgar Keret, is in the net.t ory&story_id=229
http://www.all-story.com/issues.cgi?action=show_s
Brazil, as any other team which won and will win any World Cup, won't have to qualify for the next World Cup. This a rule from FIFA.
Because, thanks in part to Napster, businesses don't see a lot of worth in the concept, unless they want to trade MP3s (or porn or movies).
I guess NextPage is thinking EXACTLY the opposite.
really, i'm tired of hear this bullshit of my countryman, weeping about how poor and ignorant Brasil is. the litany (or opera bouffe) is everytime the same: "Let me weep over my cruel fate, And that I long for freedom!" (Rinaldo, Haendel). I know that the brazilian economy is fucked up, but times are changing. this last push of brazilian government is very laudable. you know, open source is a integrant part of social forms! this push will help a lot the work of people like Rodrigo Baggio. Poor peolple from outskirts are longing for rescue their aplomb! I know that! I give all my old computers to local rappers and I can tell you: their very eyes shine before an old box carring a cyrix dx2/66...
This *is* the REAL THING
in Brazil, the elections in every level are a smooth automated process. Maybe we can teach something about electronic elections to the most powerful country of the planet.
Here in Brazil geeks are taking something called "Ice" in order to enhance "gamming and programming skills". No doubt it's another media huckster. Personally, sometimes I like take some grass to interact with my LAN, but something are getting very wrong, because eventually I feel like that guy in "Pi" movie who suffers from horrible migraines. Question: drugs and machines are a good combination? Or do you think it's a step towards some thinkers are calling "technomorphism"?
No doubt Lanier have good points ("computers are disfunctional creatures", "softwares nowadays has poor design [because it reduces human action]"). This points are shared by people from Long Now Foundation too. Seems like every day the technocrats are reliefing the "responsability factor". Lanier have good points indeed. But I think he states some dangerous "truths", like: Marx was wrong. tell this to the people who went to Prague!
i like Cryptogram pretty much, but this last Schneier piece seems like a 'mea culpa' about the failure of his 'math utopia'. i'm still in the full disclosure side. full disclosure (plus the security 'process', apud Schneier) is the less wrost solution. like democracy, you know?
MPAA will adore the cool 404 page!
Every time I read a topic like this, I give thanks and praises. Long time ago I've noticed the silent and implacable coup d'etat orchestrated by CTOs, IT chiefs et al inside companies in general.