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Los falsos Mesías del derecho de autor
by Pablo Manuel Rizzo 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

"Los falsos Mesías del derecho de autor, los moralistas Facebook y Google, están en este minuto en salmuera jurídica. Debido a sus prácticas monopólicas Google está siendo investigado en la Unión Europea por supuesta manipulación de resultados de búsquedas y también por abuso de posición dominante. Además, Corea del Sur acusó al gigante de Internet de violar leyes de privacidad. El fundador de Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, podría afrontar un nuevo juicio por robar la idea de crear la red social. Facebook, que cuenta con 500 millones de usuarios. ¿Cómo pueden presentarse estas dos empresas como Apóstoles del Derecho de Autor? ¿Qué hacen para convivir en la esquizofrenia ética, desmintiendo con sus acciones privadas lo que promueven y sancionan con tanta convicción en la comunidad? Quizás este no sea el fin de los abusos las empresas transnacionales de Internet, pero sí puede que sea el fin de la hipocresía." http://www.cubadebate.cu/especiales/2011/01/15/google-censura-facebook-tamb… -- Pablo Manuel Rizzo ------------------------------- http://pablorizzo.com -------------------------------

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Fwd: [Parrot-users] Parrot 3.0.0 "Beef Stew" Released
by Diego Saravia 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Christoph Otto <christoph(a)mksig.org> Date: 2011/1/18 Subject: [Parrot-users] Parrot 3.0.0 "Beef Stew" Released To: parrot-dev(a)lists.parrot.org, parrot-users(a)lists.parrot.org, perl6-announce(a)perl.org, perl6-internals(a)perl.org, lwn(a)lwn.net, perl5-porters(a)perl.org "I think my imagination's broke. Lemme try and think up the best thing ever. Umm... beef... stew. Yup it's busted alright. I'm gonna go... place." - Strong Bad, http://hrwiki.org/wiki/different_town On behalf of the Parrot team and an enthusiastic but undiscriminating dachshund that followed me home last week, I'm proud to announce Parrot 3.0.0, also known as "Beef Stew", or at the insistence of a shadowy government organization, "Snowflake". Parrot (http://parrot.org) is a virtual machine that dreams about running all dynamic languages everywhere, even the one you're think about right now. Parrot has big plans, even if needs a haircut and sometimes goes outside with its shoes untied. Parrot 3.0.0 is available from an Internet near you. Instructions on fetching and building are at http://parrot.org/download, or you can go directly to http://ftp.parrot.org/releases/stable/3.0.0/ and grab it there. As a special incentive, the first 255 downloaders will receive a limited-edition byte autographed by John de Lancie. If you're interested in helping improve Parrot or if you just happen to find a misplaced lolcat in our documentation, you can fork Parrot on GitHub at http://github.com/parrot/parrot and send us your fix as a pull request. Please be aware that due to our stringent security policy, we are not able to accept malicious pull requests with the evil bit set. If you would like to submit a malicious pull request, please verify that the evil bit has not been set. Here are some highlights from this release: - Core + A new embedding API is available in "parrot/api.h" and documented in docs/pdd/pdd10_embedding.pod . + Packfile PMCs were refactored and can now be used to produce runnable bytecode. + Packfile manipulation code now throws embedder-friendly exceptions rather than printing error details directly to stderr. + Unicode support for file IO, environment variables, program names, and command-line parameters was improved. + An experimental gdb pretty-printers in tools/dev for Parrot STRINGs and PMCs is now available. (gdb 7.2 or later and Python are required) + c2str.pl and pmc2c.pl improvements result in a noticeably faster build. + Bugs in our Digest::sha256 library and bit-related dynamic ops were fixed by GCI student Nolan Lum. Both now work correctly on 32 and 64 bit systems. - Languages + Ωη;)XD - OMeta for Winxed https://github.com/plobsing/ohm-eta-wink-kzd - Community + tree-optimization by GSoC student Tyler L. Curtis joined the nest and now lives at http://github.com/parrot/tree-optimization . + Plumage now lives at http://github.com/parrot/plumage and is installable. + Christmas went as scheduled. The Parrot team does not take credit for this event. - Documentation + HTML documentation generation has been rewritten and greatly simplified. + We have improved documentation in docs/project/git_workflow.pod about keeping a fork of parrot.git in sync. + Translations of our README in various languages are now in the docs/translation directory, thanks to Google Code-In students. - Tests + A better way to write "todo" tests with Parrot's Test::More was implemented by GCI student Fernando Brito. + Major increases in test coverage of many core PMCs, dynamic PMCs and dynamic opcodes resulted from GCI and the intrepid students it attracted. + Jonathan "Duke" Leto set up Debian Linux x86_64 and sparc32 smokers in the GCC Compile Farm, which continually submit smoke reports with a variety of configuration options and compilers. Thanks, GCC! + Makefile dependency checking is now automatically tested, resulting in a more reliable parallel build. + Coverage tests were improved for platforms with and without Devel::Cover. Many thanks to all our contributors for making this release possible and to our sponsors for supporting this project. Special thanks go out to Peter Lobsinger and his language Ωη;)XD for breaking nearly everything it touches by mere virtue of its name. Our next scheduled release, 3.1.0, is scheduled for February 15th, 2011 and will most likely not be named "Snowflake". Thanks are due to the following people who made Parrot 3.0.0 happen. Contributors marked with "(gci)" made contributions as part of Google Code-In. We're grateful to Google for sponsoring GCI and providing us with a small army of energetic and highly capable minions. Andrew Whitworth, Andy Dougherty, Andy Lester, Bob Rogers, Christoph Otto, Daniel Arbelo, Daniel Kang (gci), Daniel Toma, David Czech (gci), Fernando Brito (gci), François Perrad, Gerd Pokorra, Jim Keenan, Jonathan "Duke" Leto, Julian Albo, Léo Grange (gci), Mariano Wahlmann, Matt Rajca (gci), Michael H. Hind, Natan Yellin (gci), Nick Wellnhofer, Nolan Lum (gci), Paul Johnson, Peter Lobsinger, Tony Young (gci), Vasily Chekalkin, Will Coleda Enjoy! _______________________________________________ Parrot-users mailing list Parrot-users(a)lists.parrot.org http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-users -- Diego Saravia Diego.Saravia(a)gmail.com NO FUNCIONA->dsa(a)unsa.edu.ar

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lo que alguien tira a la basura, sigue siendo de su propiedad?
by Pablo Manuel Rizzo 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

http://elbardodelsigloxxi.blogspot.com/2010/07/luis-fernando-verissimo-resi… -- Pablo Manuel Rizzo ------------------------------- http://pablorizzo.com -------------------------------

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¿Son visionarias o paranoicas las críticas a la cloud computing?
by Pablo Manuel Rizzo 16 Jan '11

16 Jan '11

http://www.itpymes.com/v3_detalleNota.htm?idxnota=113134&destacada=1&idxcom… -- Pablo Manuel Rizzo ------------------------------- http://pablorizzo.com -------------------------------

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Algun contacto en el evento de Cuba Infoedu 2011
by HORACIO O. 16 Jan '11

16 Jan '11

Un grupo de personas de la universidad necesita algún contacto en el evento saben de alguien, o hay alguien en esta lista ? http://www.inforedu.cu/ Abrazos Horacio V. Oneto R. Red Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela GNU/linux # Debian Stable 4.0 Por ahora : Venezuela- Maracaibo - Edo. Zulia

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Two Bits - The Cultural Significance of Free Software
by Matías Croce 16 Jan '11

16 Jan '11

http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/two_bits.christopher_kelty/ -- Matías Croce microblog: http://identi.ca/matux jabber/XMPP: mati(a)nelumboweb.com.ar

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Comprar, Tirar, Comprar
by Fernando 16 Jan '11

16 Jan '11

http://www.rtve.es/mediateca/videos/20110109/comprar-tirar-comprar/983391.s… Muy buen documental. """ SUSANA RODRÍGUEZ 04.01.2011 Baterías que se 'mueren' a los 18 meses de ser estrenadas, impresoras que se bloquean al llegar a un número determinado de impresiones, bombillas que se funden a las mil horas... ¿Por qué, pese a los avances tecnológicos, los productos de consumo duran cada vez menos? La 2 de Televisión Española y RTVE.es emiten "Comprar, tirar, comprar" un documental que nos revela el secreto: obsolescencia programada, el motor de la economía moderna. Rodado en España, Francia, Alemania, Estados Unidos y Ghana, Comprar, tirar, comprar, hace un recorrido por la historia de una práctica empresarial que consiste en la reducción deliberada de la vida de un producto para incrementar su consumo porque, como ya publicaba en 1928 una influyente revista de publicidad norteamericana, "un artículo que no se desgasta es una tragedia para los negocios". El documental, dirigido por Cosima Dannoritzer y coproducido por Televisión Española, es el resultado de tres años de investigación, hace uso de imágenes de archivo poco conocidas; aporta pruebas documentales y muestra las desastrosas consecuencias medioambientales que se derivan de esta práctica. También presenta diversos ejemplos del espíritu de resistencia que está creciendo entre los consumidores y recoge el análisis y la opinión de economistas, diseñadores e intelectuales que proponen vías alternativas para salvar economía y medio ambiente Una bombilla en el origen de la obsolescencia programada Edison puso a la venta su primera bombilla en 1881. Duraba 1500 horas. En 1911 un anuncio en prensa española destacaba las bondades de una marca de bombillas con una duración certificada de 2500 horas. Pero, tal y como se revela en el documental, en 1924 un cártel que agrupaba a los principales fabricantes de Europa y Estados Unidos pactó limitar la vida útil de las bombillas eléctricas a 1000 horas. Este cártel se llamó Phoebus y oficialmente nunca existió pero en Comprar, tirar, comprar se nos muestra el documento que supone el punto de partida de la obsolescencia programada, que se aplica hoy a productos electrónicos de última generación como impresoras o iPods y que se aplicó también en la industria textil con la consiguiente desaparición de las medias a prueba de carreras. Consumidores rebeldes en la era de Internet A través de la historia de la caducidad programada, el documental pinta también un fresco de la historia de la Economía de los últimos cien años y aporta un dato interesante: el cambio de actitud en los consumidores gracias al uso de las redes sociales e Internet. El caso de los hermanos Neistat, el del programador informático Vitaly Kiselev o el catalán Marcos López, dan buena cuenta de ello. África, vertedero electrónico del primer mundo Este usar y tirar constante tiene graves consecuencias ambientales. Tal y como vemos en este trabajo de investigación, países como Ghana se están convirtiendo en el basurero electrónico del primer mundo. Hasta allí llegan periódicamente cientos de contenedores cargados de residuos bajo la etiqueta de 'material de segunda mano' y el paraguas de una aportación para reducir la brecha digital y acaban ocupando el espacio de los ríos o los campos de juego de los niños. Más allá de la denuncia, el documental trata de dar visibilidad a emprendedores que ponen en práctica nuevos modelos de negocio y escucha las alternativas propuestas por intelectuales como Serge Latouche, que habla emprender la revolución del 'decrecimiento', la de la reducción del consumo y la producción para liberar tiempo y desarrollar otras forma de riqueza, como la amistad o el conocimiento, que no se agotan al usarlas. """ Como nota aparte: me cago en todo esto, la heladera anterior tenia como 10 o mas años y nunca un problema, la nueva tiene menos de 2 y ya se le quemo la lamparita, se partieron estantes y enfria mal. Cada dia me vuelvo mas a comprar usados, para evitar el derroche y porque, en definitiva, tienden a durar un poquito mas que lo nuevo (y me ahorro mucha guita).

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de la autoridad
by Diego Saravia 16 Jan '11

16 Jan '11

http://www.pcoe.net/Libros%20digitales%20autores/Engels/De%20la%20autoridad… -- Diego Saravia Diego.Saravia(a)gmail.com NO FUNCIONA->dsa(a)unsa.edu.ar

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fabrica de fallas retransmitida por fmlatribu
by Luciano Lamaita 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

http://blog.fmlatribu.com/?p=1395 -- Luciano Lamaita "A la vida es necesario brindarle la elevación exquisita del brazo y de la mente" - Severino Di Giovanni --------------------------------------------- http://tallerdelaisla.ourproject.org/ http://aty.hipatia.net/elgg/luciano/ http://liverta.wordpress.com/

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Gates Keepers :: The Monsanto seeds - a view from Africa
by Nicolás Reynolds 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

El blog es de un grupo que postea noticias sobre la fundación bill y melinda gates. en esta cómo están laburando con monsanto para introducir maiz transgénico en uganda... ++++++++++++++++++ Gates Keepers :: The Monsanto seeds - a view from Africa [8]Here is a view from Africa on the Monsanto seeds promoted by funding from the Gates Foundation. ++++++++++++++++++ To plant or not to plant? The debate over GM seeds Posted on 06 January 2011 The current debate about the use of genetically-modified seeds in Uganda might determine Africa’s agricultural future. John Ssembajjwe, a long-time maize farmer in the Wakiso and Masaka districts, walks around his two-acre farm in Sissa and recalls the time he almost broke down in tears after his crop was scorched by the sun. “I do farming in different districts of Uganda where I have land, but my major problem is that the rain seasons are no longer reliable. Two years ago I lost all crops on my farm in Masaka due to extended drought,” he recalled. Even as Ssembajjwe’s maize crops failed, starvation caused by extended drought wracked portions of Eastern Uganda. Maize, the most widely grown staple food in Africa – feeding close to 300 million – is badly affected by drought. Unlike some farmers with the capacity to irrigate their crops during drought, Ssembajjwe is one of the many African farmers that cannot afford irrigation, hence relying on the natural weather conditions. But now, Ssembajjwe is excited by a proposal by the American multinational company, Monsanto, to introduce drought-resistant GM (genetically modified) maize tests to Uganda. These new GM strains of maize are predicted to be resistant to pests and drought, increasing yields by 24 to 35 percent. While Ssembajjwe anticipates the new breed of maize, there is considerable opposition among some farmers and activists to the Monsanto proposal. While almost all critics of Monsanto agree that GM technology has the potential to benefit the average African farmer, the policies of Monsanto might not necessarily allow those benefits to occur. The problem is that GM strains of maize can be patented and are infertile. Potentially, each year, farmers would have to pay exorbitant amounts for seeds. Local farmers who could not afford the seeds might not be able to compete with larger farming conglomerates that have ready cash for the GM seeds. Plus there is the threat that the seeds, some of which become fertile, could pollinate indigenous plants in neighbouring fields, forever changing those strains. Even more alarming, because certain strains of GM maize can be patented, any farmer who grew a GM strain without permission, could be subject to legal prosecution. In Canada, for instance, Monsanto sued and won a case against a farmer whose field was accidently cross-pollinated with a GM strain. Critics of Monsanto fear the same thing could happen in Uganda. However, representatives of Monsanto, who have teamed up with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in order to test the drought-resistant GM corn, insist that the case in Africa is different, even going so far as to promise “no royalty fees” for farmers who plant the GM seeds. What does GM mean? As the debate heats up, much of the general public remains in the dark as to the potential benefits and drawbacks of GM crops. Dr. Andrew Kigundu, a Research Scientist in Plant Biotechnology from National Agricultural Research Laboratories-Kawanda (NARO) said that many people are confused between traditional seed breeding techniques and the new GMO (an acronym for Genetically Modified Organs) technology. “The term GMO in mechanisms refers to those ones that have been developed using the new science of genetic engineering,” he said. Traditional breeding processes involve crossing different strains of plants to create hybrids. In a traditional breeding process, early maturity, for instance, allows a crop to be harvested before the dry seasons. Seed-producers look at the existing crop strains, then evaluate and select those materials that are early maturing, cross them, and give these to farmers. Genetic engineering allows a farmer to introduce these same traits and others to a crop by modifying the genetic code of a plant in a lab. “We do not have any GMO product as food or as cash crops for farmers to grow. Many of the products on our shelves in the super markets and shops will definitely have a certain amount that is GMO,” said Kigundu. Proposals for planting GM maize have just been approved for Uganda. “Traditional breeding has been successful in very many ways in terms delivering varieties that offer farmers opportunities in various agricultural productivity, but it has suffered serious limitations, especially in Africa,” he added. Monsanto or “Monsatan” When it comes to international biotechnology, one company dominates all others: Monsanto. With an estimated value of 66 billion dollars – more than four time’s Uganda’s GDP at the official exchange rate – Monsanto has made its fortune through technical expertise and tight controls on intellectual property. Critics say that Monsanto’s past history demonstrates that the company has always had one goal: profits. With the creation of a drought resistant strain of maize, the African farmer is just the next target in an ever expanding market. Some activists have even labeled the company as evil, calling it “Monsatan”. The new maize trials will not be run directly by Monsanto, but will instead be conducted by a company called Africa Agricultural Technology Foundation, which receives its funding from Monsanto – and notably, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The presence of the world’s largest philanthropic foundation doesn’t appease critics like Dr. Opiyo Oloya, who published an open letter to Museveni, in which he wrote: “The plan to test GM maize in Uganda is a Monsanto project from the beginning to the end. Indeed, the Nairobi-based nonprofit African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) which made the announcement about the impending trial is a Trojan horse for Monsanto and other big bio-tech giants like Syngenta, Dow AgroSciences, and DuPont.” Opiyo points to what is known as “The Chapati Scandal” to illustrate what he feels Monsanto has in mind for Uganda. In early 2004, Monsanto was awarded American and European patent rights to India’s century-old wheat variety known as Nap Hal which is particularly suited for making the delicious chapattis that Indians have enjoyed from the beginning of time. In fact, Monsanto bought the rights to patent Nap Hal from Unilever in 1998, thereby staking its rights to having ‘invented’ part of Nap Hal. With Monsanto in control of Nap Hal, local Indian farmers were expected to pay Monsanto for the right to grow varieties of the same seeds they had always harvested. Opiyo imagines a future in which Ugandan farmers either pay for Monsanto seeds, or lose their land to huge mega-farms that can afford the seeds and out compete the traditional Ugandan smallholder. GMO in Uganda Mr. Robert Anguzu, from the National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO), sees such stories as simple fear-mongering. “All this debate on Monsanto and GMOs is not a new debate. The role of Monsanto here is to provide the technology of drought tolerance, donate propriety jump plants, advanced tools and expertise. But the breeding work will be done by our own scientists here,” he said. During the trials, the current plan is for Ugandan farmers involved in the tests to be given the seeds for free or at a moderate price, rather than having to pay annual royalty fees. But, should the maize prove successful, “There will be companies selected to commercialize those seeds at a later stage but that agreement will come at a later stage,” he added. To some degree, it will be the government that determines the future for GM crops in Uganda. The Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST) will oversee the test and seed dissemination processes, and once the seeds are determined safe, it is this body that must regulate the price and proceeds of the seeds. Even Wilfred Kamulegeya, Monsanto’s Representative in Uganda, agrees that the government’s role is to exercise control. It’s farmers like Ssembajjwe, on his two acre farm in Sissa, who will be most affected by the introduction of GM crops. “I am sure I will be one of the first ones to go for that variety when proven successful for Ugandan soils, on the grounds that I do not want to suffer the losses I have suffered before,” he said. Perhaps, with good governance, even the profit motives of a company like Monsanto can be controlled and directed for a positive outcome for Ugandan farmers. A time when Ssembajjwe’s maize can be found across the markets of Kampala, rather than a future in which Ssembajjwe finds himself at the mercy of multinational mega-farms in league with multinational bio-techs. by Savio Kyambadde & David Torrey Peters http://dispatch.ug/2011/01/06/to-plant-or-not-to-plant-the-debate-over-gm-s… Posted to: [9]Main Page Comments Post a comment No comments found. 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