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Muitos, menos os nuestros hermanos espanhois.

Dar um nome a uma gama de produtos é sempre um desafio para as empresas: tem de soar bem e há que evitar problemas. Tipo o Opel Ascona, por exemplo, que em Português… não fica lá grande coisa

A intenção da Nokia com os novos Lumia 800 e Lumia 710 era sem dúvida pura e luminosa como as neves finlandesas mas o problema mesmo é que em calão espanhol Lumia significa…. prostituta. Ups

Um pequeno erro que, talvez, será corrigido optando por outro nome em terras dos súbditos do Rei Juan Carlos. É que já se imaginaram dizer à vossa mulher / marido: olha querido/a vou ali gastar dinheiro num Nokia Prostituta 800 e já volto

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Color portrait of a gremlin watching a 3D movie. Done by John Ingoglia at Johns Tattoo in Long Island, NY 

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The serendipitous meeting that transformed Barry Feinstein’s career took place in the early 1960s at the office of a longtime friend. That friend, Albert Grossman was then the manager of Bob Dylan, and thus began Mr. Feinstein’s close and enduring association with the legendary singer. Just before Dylan achieved his greatest fame, the duo travelled across America in a Rolls-Royce Grossman had bought in California and needed it driven east. Later, Feinstein would accompany Dylan on the European portion of a 1966 world tour and the 1974 Dylan and the Band tour.

It was during the former tour that he took the photo above; the iconic photo, taken in London in 1966, shows the singer in the back of a limousine smoking a cigarette and gazing straight ahead through dark sunglasses, seemingly oblivious to the imploring fans and the intrusive flashbulbs pressed against the window. In other unforgettable images from that tour, the singer was shown huddled in a seat in an otherwise empty Royal Albert Hall, playing with children in Liverpool and standing on a ferry dock in Australia, a photo later used as the cover for Martin Scorsese’s 2005 documentary No Direction Home.

“Just in their stark atmosphere, I liked the angles Barry used,” Dylan noted, no doubt thinking about the foreboding photo taken from below that graced the cover of “The Times They Are A-Changin’” — a portrait that recalled an earlier era of dustbowl hobo troubadours.

Barry Feinstein shot more than 500 album covers, and three established him as one of rock’s premier chroniclers. On the cover of Janis Joplin’s posthumous and final album was Feinstein’s photo of the troubled singer, taken the day before she died. For the Rolling Stones’ Beggar’s Banquet, he used the image of a dirty toilet in a graffiti covered bathroom taken at a bathroom at a Porsche repair shop in Los Angeles. The distributors believed it was too explicit for release and replaced it with a sparse white cover. And for “All Things Must Pass,” his first album after the breakup of the Beatles, George Harrison portentously posed for Feinstein amidst a pile of four toppled, garden gnomes. Mr. Feinstein recalled that for this album, he photographed George Harrison for days outside the singer’s home at Friar Park:

“Then someone called and told [Harrison] that the gnomes that were stolen from Friar Park in about 1871 could be bought back. They asked him if he wanted to buy them back. He said, ‘Sure.’ They brought them back and laid them on the lawn. We went out and looked at them. I said, ‘There’s the cover.’ We didn’t move a thing. In about two minutes, we had the cover. It was spontaneous.”

Most of his best work was shot in black-and-white, using high contrast film and no flash; he preferred natural light, just like that other giant of American photography, Robert Frank, to whom he was oft-compared to. He had no formal photography training and began his career as a photographer for Columbia Pictures, taking memorable images of Steve McQueen on set of his most famous film, Bullitt. He captured a heartbroken Marlene Dietrich at Gary Cooper’s funeral and a feisty Marlon Brando at a civil rights march facing counterdemonstrators taunting him with racist signs. He was called to Marilyn Monore’s home after she had been found dead; among the shots he took was one of the bottle of pills on her bedside table, “a chilling image of the reality behind the glittering facade of her celebrity” The Times commented.

And fittingly for someone, who more than any one else, has captured those realities, angst and hippiness of that 60s generation, Mr. Feinstein died last week at his longtime abode in Woodstock. He was 80.

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Comentário: Para o último ditador europeu uma união de facto é idêntica, eticamente, à feitiçaria e ao tribalismo.

1. Use a unique password for all your important accounts.

   Use unique passwords for your accounts, especially important accounts like email and online banking. You are likely to have dozens of accounts across the web, and you cannot guarantee the security of all of them. Criminals target sites that lack strong security, in order to harvest usernames and passwords that they test against other popular sites. When you use the same password across the web, a cyber criminal can learn the password from a less secure site and then use that password to compromise your important accounts.

2. Use a long password

   The longer your password is, the harder it is to guess. There are almost one quintillion possible 10-character passwords (that’s 4,000 times as many possibilities as if your password only has eight characters) … and that’s if you only use numbers and letters.

3. Use a password with a mix of letters, numbers, and symbols

   Using numbers, symbols and mixed-case letters in your password increases the difficulty of guessing or cracking your password. For example, there are more than 6 quadrillion possible variations for an eight-character password with numbers, symbols, and mixed-case letters – 30,000 times more variations than an eight-character password with only lowercase letters.

4. Try using a line from a song, film or play

   Some passwords are easy to guess or crack: Simple words or phrases like “password” or “letmein,” keyboard patterns such as “qwerty” or “qazwsx,” patterns such as “abcd1234” or personal information like your birthday or street name.

   So choose a combination of letters, numbers, or symbols to create a unique password that’s unrelated to your personal information.

   One idea you can try is to choose a line from your favorite song, film or play, like “To be or not to be: That is the question.” Then use numbers, symbols and mixed-case letters to recreate it: “2bon2bT1tq” is a password with quadrillions of variations. The more unusual the phrase you choose the better!

   Or you could pick a random word or phrase, and insert letters and numbers into the beginning, middle, and end, such as “sPo0kyh@ll0w3En.”

5. Make sure your password recovery options are up-to-date and secure

   Make sure your recovery email address is up to date so that you can receive emails in case you need to reset your password. Sometimes you can also add a phone number to receive password reset codes via text message. Additionally, many websites (including Google Accounts) will ask you to choose a question to verify your identity if you ever forget your password. If you’re able to create your own question, try to come up with a question that has an answer only you would know. Try to find a way to make your answer unique – you can do this by using some of the tips above – so that even if someone guesses the answer, they won’t know how to enter it properly.

6. Keep your password reminders in a secret place that isn’t easily visible

   Don’t leave notes with your passwords in plain site, on your computer or desk. If you do decide to save your passwords in a file on your computer, create a unique name for the file so people don’t know what’s inside. Avoid giving the file an obvious name, such as “my passwords.” If you have a difficult time remembering multiple passwords, a trusted password manager may be a good solution. Spend a few minutes checking out the reviews and reputations of these services.

7. Add an extra layer of security to your Google Account

   When you leave your house you feel a bit safer knowing the door’s locked. But imagine how much safer you’d feel if the door was guarded too? The same goes for the information in your Google Accounts. By switching on 2-step verification you’ll have not one, but two security measures to help prevent someone from breaking in.

   Once you’ve created a password for your Google Account, you can add an extra layer of security by enabling 2-step verification. 2-step verification requires you to have access to your phone, as well as your username and password, when you sign in. This means that if someone steals or guesses your password, the potential hijacker still can’t sign in to your account because they don’t have your phone. Now you can protect yourself with something you know (your password) and something you have (your phone).

It’s good to know that there are several ways to make your password stronger. Read the next topic: How to protect yourself against phishing

The Element of Intelligence

A new approach adapting the user experience to ones own needs, by:

Logging

the user's activities and notifications with and from his data.

Associating

the data with each other by learning from the user's history.

Providing Intelligence

for other applications and services to enhance the user experience.

What is your motivation?

Zeitgeist’s motivation is to bring the element of human contextual awareness to computer systems, paving the way for more user friendly and easier to use software.

Reading Metadata is not like interpreting content as “similar”.

But a live tagging system, evolving metadata… that’s more like the human brain, which abstracts patterns after repeated encounter. After a while, it simply “recognizes.”

Learning is an incremental process, only possible with selective memorization and pattern abstraction.

What is Zeitgeist?

Zeitgeist is a service which logs the users’ activities and events, anywhere from files opened to websites visited and conversations had.

It makes this information readily available for other applications to use. It is able to establish relationships between items based on similarity and usage patterns.

The service consists:

• Engine
• Extensions
• API
• Dataproviders

Who uses Zeitgeist?

Zeitgeist technology is already being used by a lot of mainstream software solutions, e.g. Ubuntu, GNOME and KDE.

The project is currently being sponsored by several institutions and foundations in the domain of Free & Open Source Software (FOSS).

It is also endorsed by some very successful community projects such as Docky, AWN, and Synapse.

What about security?

People are sometimes scared that information Zeitgeist has logged can be dangerous if it gets leaked. If you feel worried that malware might gain access to your information you need to be a bit more paranoid.

Zeitgeist events are available in the same way your Firefox and Chrome browsing history is very easily accessible. Pidgin even saves your password in plain text in your home directory.

Now remember the two golden rules of security on a Linux installation.

• Don’t run as root
• Don’t install untrusted applications

If you are running as root and you are attacked by malware, the damage done is more than running with your normal user account. Under a root user the malware can install itself in global location or put itself to run every time you boot your system.

If you are running untrusted applications, then you can be at risk. If the application is malicious, they can steal your passwords stored in browser, browsing history, bookmarks, Pidgin passwords and if they are intelligent they can also steal your Zeitgeist events.

Don’t install applications from a PPA (for Ubuntu users) if you don’t trust the PPA owner.

Which technologies does Zeitgeist use?

Python, DBus and SQLite.

Instructables member Makendo created a chest of drawers that resembles a Rubik’s cube. Using lazy susans, he created the Rubik’s cube twisting effect. Now, the trick is to try to find the drawers!

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Pescadores de Córdoba, na Argentina, encontraram uma traíra de três olhos em um reservatório alimentado pela usina nuclear local, o que sem dúvida irá complicar o desejo do dono da usina de concorrer a prefeitura da cidade.

Os pescadores dizem que a descoberta (que lembra bastante o Blinky, o peixe de três olhos dos Simpsons) está assustando os moradores que residem próximos aos reator. E ao invés de fazerem um culto com a pesca, e provavelmente ganhando os superpoderes do provável altíssimo nível de radiação do peixe, os homens decidiram deixá-lo ser testado por autoridades para ver se a mutação é mesmo consequência da usina nuclear. [Infobae via Geekologie]

Pescadores de Córdoba, na Argentina, encontraram uma traíra de três olhos em um reservatório alimentado pela usina nuclear local, o que sem dúvida irá complicar o desejo do dono da usina de concorrer a prefeitura da cidade.

Os pescadores dizem que a descoberta (que lembra bastante o Blinky, o peixe de três olhos dos Simpsons) está assustando os moradores que residem próximos aos reator. E ao invés de fazerem um culto com a pesca, e provavelmente ganhando os superpoderes do provável altíssimo nível de radiação do peixe, os homens decidiram deixá-lo ser testado por autoridades para ver se a mutação é mesmo consequência da usina nuclear. [Infobae via Geekologie]

By way of Raymond Johnson, the best statistics multiple choice question ever written on a chalkboard. Try not to think too hard. [via]

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By way of Raymond Johnson, the best statistics multiple choice question ever written on a chalkboard. Try not to think too hard. [via]

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Props to Kevin Hart for producing a standup worthy of viewing over and over again and with each subsequent viewing, gets funnier and funnier.

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