04 maio 2004
ECOPOL
Gabriel Silva explica o alcance disto: "A Constituição da República Portuguesa passou a ter uma cláusula aberta, pela qual se aceita a vigência das normais jurídicas europeias, sendo que a sua aplicabilidade interna (em Portugal), passa a ser definida pelo direito da União Europeia e não já pela CRP"
VITAMEDIAS
In Improving Economy, Papers Can't Shake Circ Doldrums: Even as advertisers return with gusto to newspapers, circulation continues to be a lagging economic indicator.
Fully half of the nation's largest 38 newspapers reported weekday circulation declines [...] for the six-month period ending March 2004.
Fully half of the nation's largest 38 newspapers reported weekday circulation declines [...] for the six-month period ending March 2004.
CONTAMINANTES
U.S. Is Losing Its Dominance in the Sciences: Foreign advances in basic science now often rival or even exceed America's, apparently with little public awareness of the trend or its implications for jobs, industry, national security or the vigor of the nation's intellectual and cultural life.
"The rest of the world is catching up," said John E. Jankowski, a senior analyst at the National Science Foundation, the federal agency that tracks science trends. "Science excellence is no longer the domain of just the U.S." [...]
One area of international competition involves patents. Americans still win large numbers of them, but the percentage is falling as foreigners, especially Asians, have become more active and in some fields have seized the innovation lead. The United States' share of its own industrial patents has fallen steadily over the decades and now stands at 52 percent.
A more concrete decline can be seen in published research. Physical Review, a series of top physics journals, recently tracked a reversal in which American papers, in two decades, fell from the most to a minority. Last year the total was just 29 percent, down from 61 percent in 1983.
Another downturn centers on the Nobel Prizes, an icon of scientific excellence. Traditionally, the United States, powered by heavy federal investments in basic research, the kind that pursues fundamental questions of nature, dominated the awards.
But the American share, after peaking from the 1960's through the 1990's, has fallen in the 2000's to about half, 51 percent. The rest went to Britain, Japan, Russia, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and New Zealand.
China, said Martin Blume, the journals' editor, has surged ahead by submitting more than 1,000 papers a year. "Other scientific publishers are seeing the same kind of thing," he added.
Another downturn centers on the Nobel Prizes, an icon of scientific excellence. Traditionally, the United States, powered by heavy federal investments in basic research, the kind that pursues fundamental questions of nature, dominated the awards.
But the American share, after peaking from the 1960's through the 1990's, has fallen in the 2000's to about half, 51 percent. The rest went to Britain, Japan, Russia, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and New Zealand.
"The rest of the world is catching up," said John E. Jankowski, a senior analyst at the National Science Foundation, the federal agency that tracks science trends. "Science excellence is no longer the domain of just the U.S." [...]
One area of international competition involves patents. Americans still win large numbers of them, but the percentage is falling as foreigners, especially Asians, have become more active and in some fields have seized the innovation lead. The United States' share of its own industrial patents has fallen steadily over the decades and now stands at 52 percent.
A more concrete decline can be seen in published research. Physical Review, a series of top physics journals, recently tracked a reversal in which American papers, in two decades, fell from the most to a minority. Last year the total was just 29 percent, down from 61 percent in 1983.
Another downturn centers on the Nobel Prizes, an icon of scientific excellence. Traditionally, the United States, powered by heavy federal investments in basic research, the kind that pursues fundamental questions of nature, dominated the awards.
But the American share, after peaking from the 1960's through the 1990's, has fallen in the 2000's to about half, 51 percent. The rest went to Britain, Japan, Russia, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and New Zealand.
China, said Martin Blume, the journals' editor, has surged ahead by submitting more than 1,000 papers a year. "Other scientific publishers are seeing the same kind of thing," he added.
Another downturn centers on the Nobel Prizes, an icon of scientific excellence. Traditionally, the United States, powered by heavy federal investments in basic research, the kind that pursues fundamental questions of nature, dominated the awards.
But the American share, after peaking from the 1960's through the 1990's, has fallen in the 2000's to about half, 51 percent. The rest went to Britain, Japan, Russia, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and New Zealand.
TECNOSFERA
U.S. blunders with keyword blacklist: The U.S. government concocted a brilliant plan a few years ago: Why not give Internet surfers in China and Iran the ability to bypass their nations' notoriously restrictive blocks on Web sites?
Soon afterward, the U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) invented a way to let people in China and Iran easily route around censorship by using a U.S.-based service to view banned sites such as BBC News, MIT and Amnesty International.
But an independent report released Monday reveals that the U.S. government also censors what Chinese and Iranian citizens can see online. Technology used by the IBB, which puts out the Voice of America broadcasts, prevents them from visiting Web addresses that include a peculiar list of verboten keywords.
Soon afterward, the U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) invented a way to let people in China and Iran easily route around censorship by using a U.S.-based service to view banned sites such as BBC News, MIT and Amnesty International.
But an independent report released Monday reveals that the U.S. government also censors what Chinese and Iranian citizens can see online. Technology used by the IBB, which puts out the Voice of America broadcasts, prevents them from visiting Web addresses that include a peculiar list of verboten keywords.
03 maio 2004
VITAMEDIAS
Dia Mundial da Liberdade de Imprensa:
Pedro J. Ramírez [?]
- Defende como principais ameaças à imprensa independente a concentração, as interferências dos poderes político e económico e a deterioração dos critérios jornalísticos. Qual é a pior?
A ameaça mais grave é a do Estado e dos poderes públicos. A interferência do governo.
- A concentração é inevitável?
Não é inevitável se os governos democráticos tomarem medidas. Sou defensor da economia liberal, mas também da protecção do mercado. Têm que ser os cidadãos a decidir qual é o seu jornal, rádio e televisão. Sem público, o resto é teoria.
Governo admite maior concentração nos media: O ministro da Presidência, Morais Sarmento, admitiu que, em alguns casos, é preferível aumentar a concentração da propriedade dos media a deixar entrar grupos estrangeiros, referindo-se concretamente à televisão.
Processados por Difamação: autores de Diário de um Jornalista afirmam que vão ser processados por difamação e não receberam vencimentos de Abril.
Os insultos da Cabrita: Ao longo deste ano recebi ameaças, insultos, pressões, processos e censuras.
Former New York Times managing editor discusses media problems, future: The nation's media is under assault from internal and external forces and must evolve in order to recapture a public that views it with increasing skepticism, according to Gerald Boyd, who resigned as managing editor of The New York Times after the Jayson Blair scandal.
New Internet Site Turns Critical Eyes and Ears to the Right: With more than $2 million in donations from wealthy liberals, Mr. Brock will start a new Internet site this week that he says will monitor the conservative media and correct erroneous assertions in real time.
Links to Terrorism: Build a Web site, go to jail
53 names added to Journalists Memorial: The names of 20 journalists who died during the war in Iraq last year and an Associated Press Television News cameraman killed while filming violence in the West Bank were among 53 names added Monday to a memorial to those who died covering the news.
Pedro J. Ramírez [?]
- Defende como principais ameaças à imprensa independente a concentração, as interferências dos poderes político e económico e a deterioração dos critérios jornalísticos. Qual é a pior?
A ameaça mais grave é a do Estado e dos poderes públicos. A interferência do governo.
- A concentração é inevitável?
Não é inevitável se os governos democráticos tomarem medidas. Sou defensor da economia liberal, mas também da protecção do mercado. Têm que ser os cidadãos a decidir qual é o seu jornal, rádio e televisão. Sem público, o resto é teoria.
Governo admite maior concentração nos media: O ministro da Presidência, Morais Sarmento, admitiu que, em alguns casos, é preferível aumentar a concentração da propriedade dos media a deixar entrar grupos estrangeiros, referindo-se concretamente à televisão.
Processados por Difamação: autores de Diário de um Jornalista afirmam que vão ser processados por difamação e não receberam vencimentos de Abril.
Os insultos da Cabrita: Ao longo deste ano recebi ameaças, insultos, pressões, processos e censuras.
Former New York Times managing editor discusses media problems, future: The nation's media is under assault from internal and external forces and must evolve in order to recapture a public that views it with increasing skepticism, according to Gerald Boyd, who resigned as managing editor of The New York Times after the Jayson Blair scandal.
New Internet Site Turns Critical Eyes and Ears to the Right: With more than $2 million in donations from wealthy liberals, Mr. Brock will start a new Internet site this week that he says will monitor the conservative media and correct erroneous assertions in real time.
Links to Terrorism: Build a Web site, go to jail
53 names added to Journalists Memorial: The names of 20 journalists who died during the war in Iraq last year and an Associated Press Television News cameraman killed while filming violence in the West Bank were among 53 names added Monday to a memorial to those who died covering the news.
TECNOSFERA
La mitad de los ciudadanos europeos ya utiliza Internet: En 2003 la mitad de la población de la UE ya utilizaba Internet, 10 puntos más que un año antes. Los países del Norte de Europa presentan los mayores índices de penetración de Internet, encabezados por Suecia (77%), que ha crecido seis puntos en el último año.
A continuación aparecen Dinamarca (71%), Finlandia (66%), Reino Unido (61%), Alemania (54%), Luxemburgo (53%) y Austria (41%), que ya se encuentra por debajo de la media comunitaria.
En el siguiente puesto figura España, que cerró 2003 con un 37% de usuarios de Internet, 17 puntos más que un año antes. Por detrás sólo aparecen Irlanda (31%), Italia (29%), Portugal (26%) y Grecia (16%). El índice no incluye datos de Bélgica, Francia y Holanda, aunque estos países están habitualmente por encima de nuestro país.
A continuación aparecen Dinamarca (71%), Finlandia (66%), Reino Unido (61%), Alemania (54%), Luxemburgo (53%) y Austria (41%), que ya se encuentra por debajo de la media comunitaria.
En el siguiente puesto figura España, que cerró 2003 con un 37% de usuarios de Internet, 17 puntos más que un año antes. Por detrás sólo aparecen Irlanda (31%), Italia (29%), Portugal (26%) y Grecia (16%). El índice no incluye datos de Bélgica, Francia y Holanda, aunque estos países están habitualmente por encima de nuestro país.
TECNOSFERA
Phishing Scams Get Savvier: A new breed of sophisticated e-mail attack that is difficult to detect and defend against is further proof that cyber-criminals and scam artists are getting more serious about their efforts to steal information.
The new attack is an enhanced form of phishing, scams that are defined as attempts to steal credit card data and other sensitive information through social-engineering efforts. Phishing scams typically employ phony e-mail messages that purport to come from banks or popular Web sites such as eBay or PayPal. The messages try to lure recipients into entering account information and passwords into bogus forms hosted on malicious Web sites.
Sasser worm could hit hard today: The worm's impact is expected to peak today as millions of workers bring their laptops back to their offices after using them over the weekend to access the Internet from relatively unsecured home locations.
Microsoft rated the vulnerability exploited by the W32/Sasser A and Sasser B worms as critical, and security experts urged all users of vulnerable system to apply patches immediately.
The new attack is an enhanced form of phishing, scams that are defined as attempts to steal credit card data and other sensitive information through social-engineering efforts. Phishing scams typically employ phony e-mail messages that purport to come from banks or popular Web sites such as eBay or PayPal. The messages try to lure recipients into entering account information and passwords into bogus forms hosted on malicious Web sites.
Sasser worm could hit hard today: The worm's impact is expected to peak today as millions of workers bring their laptops back to their offices after using them over the weekend to access the Internet from relatively unsecured home locations.
Microsoft rated the vulnerability exploited by the W32/Sasser A and Sasser B worms as critical, and security experts urged all users of vulnerable system to apply patches immediately.
TECNOSFERA
Basic hits 40: Forty years ago, at 4 a.m. on May 1, 1964, two Dartmouth College professors - with the help of two of their undergraduate students - made computing history.
VITAMEDIAS
O Indústrias Culturais fez um "mini-inquérito" aos 36 "bloguistas" do recente encontro em Vila Nova de Gaia sobre "a data de início do blogue, o tema, a idade do bloguista, a profissão e a média de mensagens semanais".
CONTAMINANTES
a formiga de langton lembra que o Dilema do Prisioneiro comemora 20 anos... É um dos "dilemas" sociais mais interessantes:
Essentially the deal is this.
- If you confess and your partner denies taking part in the crime, you go free and your partner goes to prison for five years.
- If your partner confesses and you deny participating in the crime, you go to prison for five years and yor partner goes free.
- If you both confess you will serve four years each.
- If you both deny taking part in the crime, you both go to prison for two years.
What do you do?
Essentially the deal is this.
- If you confess and your partner denies taking part in the crime, you go free and your partner goes to prison for five years.
- If your partner confesses and you deny participating in the crime, you go to prison for five years and yor partner goes free.
- If you both confess you will serve four years each.
- If you both deny taking part in the crime, you both go to prison for two years.
What do you do?
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