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  1. Re:Seems like they don't have a "leg" to stand on on Lufthansa Sues Passenger Who Missed His Flight in an Apparent Bid To Clamp Down on 'Hidden City' Trick (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Regarding point A, not exactly. You'll go through customs when you first arrive in a country, even if you have a connection to another city in that country. So you'll have all your bags and could walk right outside instead of going to the other gate.

    I just experienced that returning to my country, get all my bags and go through customs in the first stop. Check bags again and take a new flight/plane to reach the final destination, no customs this time.

  2. Adios Tumblr on Tumblr Will Ban All Adult Content On December 17th (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This is like thepiratebay announcing they will only serve legal torrents :)

  3. Re:Get the Moto E4 instead. on Motorola Launches Verizon-Exclusive Moto Z3 Smartphone, 5G Moto Mod (phonedog.com) · · Score: 1

    Moto E is their most basic phones, usable but the Moto G or Moto Z Play are so much better and still cheap compared to the options from most manufactures. Only ASUS phones compare price/performance wise to Motorola here.

    I'm still very happy with my 1st gen Moto Z Play, it is rocking Oreo with Junes security update. When i had a Samsung i rarely got this security updates. Battery is very good, fast charging, decent performance, headphone jack and all :)

  4. Astronomy Picture of the Day on 'Blood Moon', the Longest Total Lunar Eclipse of the Century, Underway (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Lunar Eclipse over Rio: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap1...

  5. For the people commenting that now the elections will be rigged etc, please notice Brazil has been using e-voting machines for 20 years, that boat has sailed a long time ago.

    I prefer the electronic voting, it is a lot faster to vote and get the results, and it is not like paper voting is any safer: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/wo...

    The best reason to go electronic is to avoid pressure on voters. People used to "sell" their vote for pennies, the ticket from paper voting was the proof they voted for the buyer.

  6. I was too slow, whats.app is taken :(

    Those new TLD only interest search engine operators since we'll have no idea what kind of naming standard each site or service is using.
    I'm already seeing things like bank.example1 as the URL, meanwhile the others still use www.example2.com. Soon example1.app ? Why?

  7. Re:Really an organ? on Meet the Interstitium, the Largest Organ We Never Knew We Had (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    FTA:
    "The characteristic histological features of this bile duct submucosa structure (spaces filled with fluid and with collagen bundles lined asymmetrically by flat cells) are readily visualized in other tissues."

    This fits all definitions you posted, it is a a structure or group of tissues with some particular function that is part of the human organism. It is as much as an organ as the skin, it fits the same definition.

  8. There are a couple dozen subtitle formats, some are much more than a simple text and timecode, they look a lot like HTML files.

  9. Re:Is this just removing stuff like Popcorn Time? on Amazon Bans Sales of Media Player Boxes That Promote Piracy (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably that, they'll block the items that make it dead easy to watch pirated content, just like Popcorn Time. Any computer can be a pirate box with kodi, if they sold Intel NUCs loaded with kodi and those plugins it would also be pulled. Or at least it is the sane thing to do.

    BTW, since when http://kodi.tv/ was seized? I don't use it but i don't remember seeing anything about they losing their website.
    "This domain name has been seized by ICE - Homeland Security Investigations, pursuant to a seizure warrant issued by a United States District Court under the authority of 18 U.S.C 981 and 2323. "

  10. Palemoon on Japanese Government Requires Java and Internet Explorer 11 X86 · · Score: 1

    If the problem are the modern browsers that disabled NPAPI plugins then you can use Palemoon, even the x64 build still runs Java.

  11. I hate this... on Say Hello To Branded Internet Addresses (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I received a letter from my bank and it had a "link" to their website, i bet 99% of the people who got that mail didn't realize banco.bradesco was actually a website. It didn't have a http or www that most people now are familiar with, it was just banco.bradesco, you could think they missed a space if you were not careful.

    Years having to tell people they don't need to write http:/// now they "changed" it and people will begging to ask again - "banco.bradesco? So www.branco.bradesco? How about http, this one have that thing too? How do i open it? Oh just a regular site? " :-(

  12. Re:Brazilians know that sound on EU Court Blocks Brazilian Company From Trademarking Sound Of a Ringing Phone (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Some other simple sounds that appear to have a trademark: Intel pentium sound, espn 6 notes, NBC chimes

  13. Brazilians know that sound on EU Court Blocks Brazilian Company From Trademarking Sound Of a Ringing Phone (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Ask any brazilian and they tell you that is Globo's "plim-plim" (thats how we call it). I don't know where the phone related claim comes from, i only know it from TV, not ringtones...

    Here it is:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    It is decades old (since the 70s) and marks when the commercial breaks start and end. Thats how they used to signal to all regional re-transmitters when to switch to/from commercials. It is a very recognizable branding of Globo TV.

    "She stated, in particular, that that mark consisted of a simple and banal ringing sound and that it could not be perceived as an indicator of the commercial origin of the goods. The examiner therefore requested that the applicant submit its observations to her within a period of two months."
    Like i said, that is wrong, just because you don't know it doesn't mean it is not their branding...

  14. Such claims are not new, in Brazil a woman had an ID with birthday in 1880, she died at age 130. Also this year they found a men whose birth certificate has his birthday in 1884, 131 years old. This men lives in a remote village and has a 30 years old daughter, it is also very unlikely he was a father at 101.

    100 years ago in remote places the records are just not trustworthy, the birth certificate from the men above is from the 70s and it probably was his first one. It was very common even 50-70 years ago to people get their first birth certificate when they started working or applying to social benefits when already adults.

  15. Wrong...

    Open waters event will take place in a beach with the entire ocean in front of it. The water is constantly circulating and any material is quickly dispersed in the ocean. Millions of people go to that beach every year, it far from anything like swage.

    Sailing and rowing i believe are in a bay where water isn't renovated that much. Any piece of trash just stays there for a long time...

  16. You want to stop all global travel and trade? Thats the only way to stop diseases from spreading.

    Blocking tourism wouldn't be effective, trade vessels were the first means of transporting diseases and they still are a risk today.

  17. Why don't you first ban everyone in the USA from going to Brazil. You are like the 2nd or 3rd most common tourist there...

    I can't stop thinking this kind of people work for Donald Trump campaign :D

  18. Re:athletes and tourists are at risk of getting il on Olympic Swimmers 'Certain' To Pick Up Virus From Three Teaspoons of Rio Water (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It is not like there is no tourism and business travelers already all year long... The olympic games will not have any significant impact in the distribution of any disease...

    News flash to some idiot creatures from the "developed world" lurking the internet. Most of this tropical diseases are mosquito-borne (Malaria, Dengue fever...) and mosquitos hate cold weather. So unless we don't put a hold on global warming you will never, and had never before, had this mosquitos in your country...

  19. The same overreaction this kind of news is spreading... there is no difference whatsoever!

  20. Samsung Galaxy S? on The Most Popular Product Of All Time · · Score: 1

    If the iPhone is one product, how many Galaxy S have Samsung sold since the first one? The iPhone have its variants, Samsung has much more variants but still counts as 1 product, right?

    This is as big fanboy clickbait article as it can be.

  21. Re:One thing I don't understand on Olympics Committee Says Non-Sponsors Are Banned From Tweeting About the Olympics (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    What is the problem? You probably can even host the winter olympics during the summer in some places, it would be harder but still possible i think.

    The "summer" games is much easier, they can happen any time given you have stadiums with a roof to avoid snow if that happens in that city. Given the average temperatures in Rio, i'm sure it could be the coldest winter in 100 years and it wouldn't be a problem to any competition taking place.

    Pretty much the same happened in 2000, the games in Sidney were on September...

  22. Lies Nidi62, lies... there are pictures everywhere of the problems mentioned, like clogged drains, dirty floor or windows... too much drama for me but OK, they had a reason for that.

    "things that haven't happened yet, but will". lol, what if the power goes out one night? The power went out during the superbowl recently, isn't that true? I didn't see anyone reporting how crap that place was because the power went out for a few minutes. I don't remember any power failure during the WC in Brazil...

    You people think because a place has poverty than EVERYTHING must be crap. People should actually experience a day in a developing country to wake up from all the bad things the media throws at them.

    "Don't go to Brazil, you'll get a exotic disease and lose a liver to some drug lord. And they can't control their own crimes, i'm sure terrorists will wander free there. Here, go to France instead to see the UEFA Cup. Don't mind the terrorist attacks that just took place, i'm sure they will be able to stop any terrorist attempts."
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    And Australia returned to the village today, sure there were some problems but it is not cataclysmic like most people think.

  23. Re:"Blocked". What does "blocked" mean in this cas on Brazil Judge Orders Phone Carriers To Block WhatsApp Message App (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    From the article:
    "Telefonica Brasil SA" - Land (fiber/dsl) and Mobile lines, check.
    "America Movil SAB's Claro - Land (cable) and Mobile lines, check
    "TIM Participacoes SA" - Land (dsl/fiber) and Mobile lines, check.
    "Oi SA" - Land (dsl/fiber) and Mobile lines, check
    "Nextel Participacoes SA" - mobile only

    That probably covers over 95% of residential and a little less of commercial connections in Brazil.

    So there is no point in trying to use 3G/4G or your land/wifi connection, you'll have close to no one to talk to.

  24. Or just start using Lastpass...

    TBH i didn't get how this software works. You type the password and it checks it against a few sites? Thats it? That would be incredibly ineffective...

    I have over 100 sites and passwords on my Lastpass Vault and it can tell me where and what passwords are currently being reused.

  25. Don't hydro plants just dump the excess water when their reservoirs are full? Can't they just do the same thing and offer cheaper energy to use more water while still maintaining an optimal reservoir capacity?