02 abril 2004

TECNOSFERA

Free E-Mail With a Steep Price? Google's plan to offer free Web-based e-mail has raised worries among privacy advocates that the service could make it easier for law enforcement to conduct surveillance of its users.
[Repare-se no pormenor de ser um servidor seguro de email...]

VITAMEDIAS

Portal do Governo: o Governo está empenhado no lançamento de uma nova entidade reguladora, talvez uma das peças mais decisivas neste processo, que agregará competências dispersas e que garantirá um exercício de prevenção e fiscalização claro e eficaz em todo o sector dos "media".
[Prevenção dos media?... Importam-se de clarificar o conceito?]

01 abril 2004

VITAMEDIAS

10 funniest media jokes on April Fools day:
- Switzerland celebrates unbelievable pasta harvest
- Big Ben will be electronic
- Tattoo in exchange for a lifetime discount
- American State of Alabama will soon change the Pi number
- Help the poor-buy them weapons
- Lenin's body will be exhibited in Disneyland in Paris
- April 1 was created by the Byzantine emperor Konstantin
- Diego Maradona will play for Moscow's "Spartak"
- Russia will soon manufacture hand grenades incrusted with diamonds
- Eiffel tower to be dismantled

VITAMEDIAS

The Spinelessness of US Journalism: It happened as U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell was beginning a press conference in Baghdad during his brief visit to Iraq.
As he started to speak, all of the Iraqi and other Arab journalists in the hall got up and walked out, along with many reporters and camera crews from European and other countries.
About the only journalists remaining in their seats when the protest ended were the Americans, who on television could be seen shuffling in embarrassment in their seats.
The cause of the protest was the killing, only a few hours before, of two Dubai journalists from Al Arabiya by U.S. troops, who "took out" their car as they were driving past a military checkpoint. [...]
the truth is that some 36 journalists have been killed in the course of covering this war, including a number who were directly and deliberately targeted by U.S. guns and bombs.

ZITE

This Is Broken: A new project to make businesses more aware of their customer experience, and how to fix it.

CONTAMINANTES

Wash Those Hands! Nearly 10% of Americans who are admitted to a hospital pick up an infection while they are there. Sometimes the culprit is a germ that they've brought with them to the hospital — typically some bacteria on the skin that follow the path of a needle or catheter into the body. But most hospital infections are transmitted from one patient to another by doctors, nurses and other health-care workers. No, doctors and nurses aren't carrying around vials of disease-causing bugs and cracking them open at bedside. Often the germs are hitching a ride on the hands of hospital workers.

CONTAMINANTES

Dogs do resemble their owners, finds study

ECOPOL

EU to require passenger data from airlines under an agreement reached yesterday by EU justice and interior ministers.
The agreement highlights the turnround in the attitude of EU governments towards intelligence data-gathering following this month's bombings in Madrid.
Britain forces through demand to retain EU airline passenger data: France and Germany last night bowed to a British demand that EU governments automatically retain data on airline passenger records to help fight illegal immigration and investigate terrorist networks.
Files & Biometric Identifiers on More Than a Billion Passengers to be Computerised and Shared Globally by 2015
El Metro de Londres tendrá cámaras que analizarán 'conductas sospechosas': Los pasajeros del Metro de Londres, el más antiguo y uno de los más extensos del mundo, serán vigilados por más de 6.000 cámaras 'inteligentes'. Estos 'ojos electrónicos' serán capaces de detectar comportamientos sospechosos y potencialmente terroristas, según el fabricante Ipsoteck.
Así, el 95% de las estaciones del famoso 'Tube' londinense estará permanentemente vigilado por dispositivos de alta tecnología [...]

TECNOSFERA

Amazing Video of Dancing Humanoids (via blogdex)

CONTAMINANTES

O custo de seis milhões de dólares de uma vida humana nos Estados Unidos está muito longe dos 438 euros em Portugal. São "oitenta e sete mil oitocentos e onze escudos" em moeda antiga...