Ubuntu: Brute Force Attacks

Para los linuxeros!

How to Block Brute Force Attacks with only 2 iptables rules. Without it your server is a sitting duck waiting for a bot to guess the right combination and hit the jackpot.

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Tres décadas

El pasado 27 de julio llegué a las 3 décadas, si así es ... 30 años, se escuchan muchos pero que le hace uno :( ... lo bueno que aparento menos, jajajajaja

Aprovecho para darle las gracias a todos aquellos que recordaron mi cumpleaños y doy las gracias a mi pollito por estar conmigo, por aguantarme y por apoyarme siempre: TE AMO!

Les comento también que hace dos semanas nos dimos una escapada a unas cabañas, allá por Santiago, NL y la verdad está impresionante. Te la pasas muy rico, convives con la naturaleza y lo mejor de todo es que no está tan caro; claro si vas con varias personas.


Aquí les dejo algunas de las fotos que tomamos:







Que tal con la escalada :P


La verdad es recomendable el lugar, se organizará otro viaje por ahí de Octubre quien se apunta ??

Píldora de la Logevidad probada en humanos / Longevity Pill Tested in Humans

Imagina que te digo que existe una píldora para alargar la vida hasta los 100 años, pues sí, ya existe!!

What if I told you there was a pill that slows aging and allows you to live a healthy life to age 100? Such a pill may exist right now.

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Google in Danger from Wikipedia

Monopoly of google as the largest search engine in the world is under severe threat by the plan of Wikipedia to launch community based search engine

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IPhone en Europa

Ya lo tendran muy pronto en Europa ahora a esperar a que llegue a México :D

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Obesidad: mal contagioso

Según un estudio realizado en USA y divulgado por la revista New England Journal of Medicine, la obesidad está considerada como un mal contagioso

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New Ethernet standard: not 40Gbps, not 100, but both

The Higher Speed Study Group has made a decision about how the next generation of Ethernet speeds will be standardized, and for the first time, a single standard will comprise two very different speeds.

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$100 Laptops (Laptops con costo de 100 Dólares)

Es un proyecto que consta de proporcionar laptops con un costo de alrededor de los 100 dólares. Está orientado a la educación no como un equipo de oficina. Viéndolo desde ese punto de vista es interesante todo el conocimiento que se puede transmitir en lugares remotos. Si bien en el mundo hay otros problemas como la desnutrición, etc. etc., este puede ser un buen paso de los gobiernos.

Ojalá se les dé el uso que les corresponde y ayuden a sacar(a largo plazo) a muchos niños de la situación en la que se encuentran.

Fuente: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6908946.stm

'$100 laptop' production begins

By Jonathan Fildes Science and technology reporter, BBC News

Five years after the concept was first proposed, the so-called $100 laptop is poised to go into mass production.

Hardware suppliers have been given the green light to ramp-up production of all of the components needed to build millions of the low-cost machines.

Previously, the organisation behind the scheme said that it required orders for 3m laptops to make production viable.

The first machines should be ready to put into the hands of children in developing countries in October 2007.

"There's still some software to write, but this is a big step for us," Walter Bender, head of software development at One Laptop per Child (OLPC), told the BBC News website.

The organisation has not said which countries have bought the first machines.

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Silencing critics

Getting the $100 laptop to this stage has been a turbulent journey for the organisation and its founder Nicholas Negroponte.

Since the idea was first put forward in 2002, the low-cost laptop has been both lauded and ridiculed.

Intel chairman Craig Barret famously described it as a "$100 gadget" whilst Microsoft founder Bill Gates questioned its design, particularly the lack of hard drive and its "tiny screen".

Other critics asked whether there was a need for a laptop in countries which, they said, had more pressing needs such as sanitation, water and health care.

Professor Negroponte's response has always been the same: "It's an education project, not a laptop project."

Clickable guide: XO laptop

The view was shared by Kofi Annan, ex-secretary General of the UN. In 2005, he described the laptop as an "expression of global solidarity" that would "open up new fronts" for children's education.

And as time passed, even some of the critics have changed their stance. Earlier this month, Intel, which manufactures what was considered a rival machine, the Classmate PC, joined forces with OLPC.

Functional design

The innovative design of the XO machine has also drawn praise from the technical community.

Using open source software, OLPC have developed a stripped-down operating system which fits comfortably on the machine's 1GB of memory.

"We made a set of trade-offs which may not be an office worker's needs but are more than adequate for what kids need for learning, exploring and having fun," said Professor Bender.

The XO is built to cope with the harsh and remote conditions found in areas where it may be used, such as the deserts of Libya or the mountains of Peru.

Professor Negroponte first proposed the laptop in 2002 Intel and OLPC join forces

For example, it has a rugged, waterproof case and is as energy efficient as possible.

"The laptop needs an order of magnitude less power than a typical laptop," said Professor Bender. "That means you can power it by solar or human power."

Governments that sign up for the scheme can purchase solar, foot-pump or pull-string powered chargers for the laptop.

And because it may be used in villages without access to a classroom, it has also been designed to work outside. In particular, the green and white machines feature a sunlight-readable display.

"For a lot of these children it's their only book and we want them to have a first class reading experience," said Professor Bender.

Name drop

The XO will be produced in Taiwan by Quanta, the world's largest laptop manufacturer.

The final design will bring together more than 800 parts from multiple suppliers such as chip-maker AMD, which supplies the low-power processor at the heart of the machine.

"This is the moment we have all been waiting for," Gustavo Arenas of AMD told the BBC News website.

"We certainly believe very strongly in the mission and vision of OLPC so finally starting to see it come to fruition is not only gratifying, it is also rewarding."

Test machines, on which the final design is based, are currently being put through their paces by OLPC.

"We keep laptops in the oven at 50 degrees and they keep on running," said Professor Bender.

Field testing is also being done in countries such as Nigeria and Brazil.

However, the names of the governments that have purchased the first lots of machines have not been released.

The XO currently costs $176 (£90) although the eventual aim is to sell the machines to governments for $100 (£50).

Uso del PNG

Acabo de leer este post, muy bueno para todos aquellos que se dedican al desarrollo web, webmasters, etc, etc, etc. La nota habla acerca del uso de archivos PNG.

Link:
http://www.edenahp.net/png/


Visto en: http://www.espartha.com

Nine Brain Quirks You Didn’t Realize You Had

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Nine Brain Quirks You Didn't Realize You Had

I think the brain is most interesting when it doesn't work the way you expect it should. Psychology often confirms our intuitions about how our minds work, but it offers quite a few surprises as well. Although some psychology buff's will have heard a few of these before, here's a list of quirks in your brain you probably didn't realize you had:

1) Your short-term memory has a max capacity of seven.

Humans have three forms of memory: sensory, long-term and short-term. Long-term memory is like hard-drive space, while short-term memory works like a very small RAM. This short-term memory can hold only about five to nine (average is seven) items at a time.

Remembering information longer than this requires you to either compress it down into seven units or store it in long-term memory. Most phone numbers are only seven digits.

2) Chartreuse is the most visible color.

Yellow-green, chartreuse, sits right in the middle of the frequencies of visible light. Your eyes have receptors for blue, green and red. Being in the middle, yellow-green triggers the most of these receptors to fire, making it easy to spot. In some cities, firetrucks have been changed from red to a yellow-green color to make them more visible.

3) Your subconscious is smarter than you are.

Or at least more powerful. In one study, a square was assigned to a location on a computer screen through a complex pattern. After watching it, people began to get results better than chance of picking out where the square would pop up next. But when asked to consciously determine the pattern, even given a few hours, nobody could do it.

4) You have two nervous systems.

One set controls excitation and the other controls inhibition. If you hold out your hand, you might notice minor tremors. This is caused by slight, random differences in the amount each of the two systems are firing.

5) Your brain is awful at probability.

Okay, so maybe your high-school math teacher could have told you this one. But, what's interesting isn't that your brain is bad at probability, but how. In one study recipients were asked:

Linda is 31 years old, single, outspoken, and very bright. She majored in philosophy. As a student, she was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice, and also participated in anti-nuclear demonstrations.
Rank the following statements from most probable to least probable:Linda is a teacher in an elementary school.

1. Linda works in a bookstore and takes Yoga classes.
2. Linda is active in the feminist movement.
3. Linda is a psychiatric social worker.
4. Linda is a member of the League of Women Voters.
5. Linda is a bank teller.
6. Linda is an insurance salesperson.
7. Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement.

Almost 90% of students responded that #7 was more probable than #5. This is despite the fact that to be a bank teller and in the feminist movement is completely contained within the set of #5 (just being a bank teller). It seems our minds like to think more details make events more probable, not less.

6) Your memory isn't great either.

Studies have shown that people are highly likely to misremember past events. Even worse, it is incredibly easy to suggest a memory that never happened. This is why so-called "repressed" memories should be given a lot of thought. It is far easier to suggest a memory of an event never happened, then it is to recover one that actually did.

7) You can perceive depth with one eye.

It's a myth that depth perception is entirely the result of having two eyes. Binocular vision does assist in making a three-dimensional picture. However, most of your ability to perceive depth comes from inside your brain. It has been wired to look at angles and proportions to judge distance.

If you required two eyes to perceive depth then most optical illusions wouldn't work and it would be incredibly difficult to gather information from flat photographs. Not to mention a lot more one-eyed pirates walking overboard.

8 ) Long-term memory shuts down during sleep.

The parts of the brain that transfer information to long-term memory shut down while sleeping. This is why dreams quickly fade away after you wake up. Although you may have several dreams in a night, they aren't being recorded into long-term memory. Generally only the fragments of a dream left in short-term memory have a chance to be encoded after you wake up.

9) You have an instant playback feature.

At the beginning I mentioned that humans have three forms of memory, short-term, long-term and sensory. Sensory memory is your brain's equivalent to an instant playback feature. Working for both your vision and hearing, your thalamus can resend signals a few seconds after they were originally sent.

Imagine being at a party and overhearing someone say your name. Often you can recall what they said even though you were focused on another conversation. This is because your sensory memory re-sends the signals when it finds something important, such as your name. If you lacked this form of memory, activities such as multitasking or taking notes from a speaker would be impossible.

If you're asked to repeat something you just said because the other person wasn't listening, just wait a few seconds. Often they can replay the message in their head and give a response.

Software para dormir

Así es, aquí les dejo un artículo que leí en WIRED.COM, justo ahora estoy escuchando unos samples que publican en la página de uno de estos programas, y les puedo decir que es es muy relaajaaanteeeee aahhh ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz

Can Software Help You Sleep? We Test Three Snooze Aids

Michael Calore 07.11.07 | 2:00 AM

Photo: Jonathan Snyder

It's midday, and I'm lying on my bed with the curtains drawn. I'm listening to my iPod. Ambient sounds drift by in my headphones -- wind noises, droning bells, a distant shakuhachi. Chirping birds overlap with soothing synth arpeggios.

I breathe out and relax my shoulders. I feel good, happy.

"Allow yourself the deep pleasure of relaxation," a voice intones gently. "When you notice pleasant feelings inside, imagine them spreading all over your body."

People have long used soothing music or calming sounds to reduce brain activity and help them relax. But now, many are turning to specialized software and other technological means to quiet the conscious mind, making it easier to take a timeout.

The program I'm trying is called pzizz. It has "modules" designed for specific sleep goals, from a refreshing afternoon nap to deep nighttime slumber. The software creates personalized audio files from a combination of ambient soundscapes, spoken instructions and sub-aural sound effects.

Sara Mednick, a sleep researcher at the Salk Institute and the author of Take a Nap, Change Your Life, says there's no hard science proving that pzizz and programs like it actually improve sleep. But the promise of a planned, computer-controlled, 30-minute nap to refresh the system is alluring to the modern psyche.

"Our society optimizes everything -- we now eat PowerBars instead of full meals. It's all part of a desire to make our lives more efficient," Mednick says.

I rarely have problems sleeping, but napping doesn't come naturally to me. I tested pzizz and two other programs like it over the course of a month, using them to take naps and to fall asleep at night. My results varied from program to program, but I did find napping easier with pzizz than without.

Pzizz modules for sleeping and napping cost $30 each, but you can purchase both together for $50. I also tested two open-source applications: SBaGen and Gnaural.

All of these use a technique called binaural beat generation. Two slightly varying tone frequencies are played simultaneously, one in each ear. The out-of-sync peaks of the sound waves produce a pulse below the range of human hearing. Even though the pulse is inaudible, the effect is said by proponents to calm brain activity and quiet the mind.

SBaGen wraps these beats in white noise -- the sound of a babbling brook. The looped audio wasn't that intriguing, and it didn't help me nap. On top of that, the command-line interface was a pain to use.

Gnaural has a Java implementation that runs in the browser, so it's easy to set up. But as with SBaGen, Gnaural didn't slow my brain down and I didn't feel more relaxed after an hour under headphones.

I found pzizz's combination of ambient music and nature sounds more engrossing. The soundtrack was dreamed up by pzizz inventor Matthew Ashenden and created by his record producer friend Paul O'Duffy, both based in London. The voice encouraging me to relax was that of Michael Breen, an expert in a persuasion technique called neuro-linguistic programming, or NLP. It's these humanizing elements -- emotionally stirring strings and twittering birds -- that give pzizz its edge.

Ashenden says we often need help "switching off" our brains when we actually need sleep, and that's where his creation comes in handy. He says he's received "loads" of feedback from pzizz users about how the product has changed their lives. Pzizz has roughly 25,000 users in more than 70 countries around the world.

Subjectively, I had to admit the software seemed to work. But what would a scientist say? I decided to run my results past Dr. William C. Dement, chief of the division of sleep medicine at Stanford Medical School, who quickly threw some cold water on the idea.

"I'm pretty skeptical," Dement says. "Over the years, there have been tapes and things that encourage napping, and I don't think there's anything that has a special sleep-inducing quality."

He added that you can't force somebody to take a nap. Humans only sleep when their bodies need it. Still, he wouldn't rule out the efficacy of software completely, noting we need more academic research to be sure.

If nothing else, pzizz puts an enjoyable music-programming tool at your disposal. You can adjust the length of each session and the levels of each audio element to your own liking. Personally, I found Breen's voice too intrusive for sleeping but perfect for a 30-minute nap, especially since he wakes you up at the end of the nap with words of encouragement ("It's time to get going and rejoin the day!").

After you've set the parameters to your liking, pzizz generates a set of unique audio files you can burn to a CD or put on your iPod. Even though every file is different, the first minute or so is always exactly the same: The nap sessions start with a distinctive echoing chime, and the sleep sessions begin with a descending melodic figure played by vibraphone and a string section.

These so-called anchors help condition the mind and put us in the mood to sleep, asserts pzizz's Ashenden.

Although skeptical of software makers' claims, the Salk Institute's Mednick agrees that specific cues have a big effect on our ability to fall asleep.

"What we do right before sleep -- brushing our teeth, taking off our clothes, turning out the light, getting under the covers -- those things don't mean nothing, they mean very specific things to our brains," she says. "Playing a familiar soundtrack during that routine can act as a trigger. It's almost like a 'bell' that rings to make you fall asleep."

I tested this Pavlovian effect myself. For years, I've used an hour-long recording of bamboo rainsticks as a sleep aid, playing it at a level that's barely audible around bedtime. When I played the recording on a night off from testing pzizz, I fell asleep as easily and gently as I did using my customized MP3s.

Fuente: http://www.wired.com/software/softwarereviews/news/2007/07/sleepsoftware?currentPage=1

La seguridad informática en aeropuertos / IT Airport security

Sin palabras....

DVD de 500GB y de 1TB

Buuhhh! aún recuerdo cuanto tener un disco de 31/2" era la gran capacidad, creo que hoy en día hay quien no sabe que existieron, mucho menos de los 5" u 8", en fin, así de rápido va la tecnología.

Pues resulta que dentro de unos cuantos años tendremos DVDs con capacidad de 500GB y de 1TB para el 2010 wow!!

Fuente:http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070707-microholography-milks-500gb-out-of-dvd-sized-discs.html

Microholography milks 500GB out of DVD-sized discs

By Todd Haselton | Published: July 07, 2007 - 11:16AM CT

A group of scientists working together with the Institute of Optics and Optical Technologies at the Technical University of Berlin claim to have discovered a way to store 500GB worth of data on DVD-sized discs. The scientists are members of the Microholas Project, coordinated by Dr. Susanna Orlic, which plans to double the storage capacity to 1TB by 2010.

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The Project aims to implement a microholographic recording techniques which record data to nanostructures in the recording process. By combining multilayer storage and holographic multiplexing, "microholography" allows data to be stored in three dimensions. The technology works by replacing the two-dimensional pit-land structures currently found on CDs and DVDs with microgratings, which are "holographically induced" using two laser beams. In other words, instead of recording to a series of bumps and pits like standard CDs, the new technology creates three-dimensional holographic grids that can be used for reading and writing data throughout the physical structure of the disc.

In order to store data in multi-layer form, the beam is "focused to different depths inside the photopolymer layer," which means that the beam can actually be raised and lowered to write to different altitudes of the three-dimensional holograohic grid.

As you might expect, the project is bullish on its prospects. The discs are predicted to be inexpensive to produce, which the project hopes will translate into manufacturer interest. Of course, there's no word on what the recording devices would cost, and that's a major part of the equation.

Blu-ray discs currently store 50GB of data on a dual-layer disc, whereas HD-DVD can store 30GB on its dual-layer offering. Both formats have greater storage potential thanks to the possibility of adding additional layers. By 2010, we expect to see 100GB and 60GB Blu-ray and HD DVD discs (respectively) available for recording use on PCs.

Microholographic discs (MHD) are transparent and are the same physical size as CDs and DVDs, but the discs being created by the Microholas Project effectively have ten layers with five different wavelengths. The "prototype" discs are recordable and sport a 50Mb/s data rate, but the group expects an "Advanced Device" with 1TB of storage and data transfer speeds in excess of 200Mb/s by 2010.

Key Features

Microholographic Recording Disk Media

• transparent CD / DVD sized (120 mm) disk
• recordable (rewritable) high performance disks
• additional degrees of freedom (3-D, multilayer, multiplexing)
• high storage capacity ( > 250 Gigabytes)
• high speed data transfer rate ( > 200 Mb/s)
• increased data rates (reduced write/read times)
• visible authenticity through transparency
• holographic security features
• disk cartridge protection
• data recording format (video & digital cinema, enterprise storage, computer storage)
• low-cost mass-producible media
• downward compatibility

Microholographic Drives

• based on CD / DVD technology
• full downward compatibility to CD / DVD
• universal drives for multimedia applications
• convergence of entertainment and computing
• scale-up of system performance possible without changing the disk structure

1TB optical discs sure would beat the old sneakernet !

Further reading:

• The Microholas project website.
• Coverage at The Register.

Exámenes matemáticos

No entiendo porqué me decían  los profes que me dedicara a otra cosa, yo le echaba ganas....

Fuente: http://www.achingao.com/

Acerca del bostezo

Todos los días se aprende algo nuevo :D

Con la intención de encontrar la causa que lo produce, Andrew C. Gallup y Gordon G. Gallup, Jr., investigadores de la Universidad de Albany, estudiaron el bostezo en un grupo de estudiantes universitarios.

Los científicos descubrieron que el bostezo no está relacionado con la ausencia de oxígeno, dado que las alteraciones en los niveles de oxígeno y dióxido de carbono en sangre no afectaban al bostezo.

Y no solo eso, los científicos han descubierto que bostezar es un proceso que protege a nuestro cerebro del sobrecalentamiento y que además actúa como señal de alerta para otros.

Esto sucede ya que en el transcurso del día, nuestro cerebro se calienta hasta el punto de quemar, él solo, un tercio de las calorías que consumimos. Para lograr funcionar de forma más eficiente, el cerebro necesita que se le enfríe. Por eso, cuando una persona bosteza, se incrementa instintivamente el flujo de sangre que aporta el aire fresco.

Al contrario de lo que sostiene la creencia popular, bostezar no significa que una persona quiera dormir (tal vez solo elimine la urgencia por dormir). Los investigadores también explicaron el fenómeno del "bostezo contagioso" diciendo que tendemos a bostezar cuando vemos a alguien hacerlo porque este acto llama nuestra atención, y esto ayuda al grupo a estar alerta contra las señales de peligro, osease que cuando vemos a una persona bostezar nuestra reacción es bostezar también.

Fuente: http://www.achingao.com/
 

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Yawning Saves Your Brain From Overheating

The next time you "catch a yawn" from someone across the room, you're not copying their sleepiness, you're participating in an ancient, hardwired ritual that might have evolved to help groups stay alert as a means of detecting danger. That's the conclusion of University at Albany researchers Andrew C. Gallup and Gordon G. Gallup, Jr. in a study outlined in the May 2007 issue in Evolutionary Psychology.

The psychologists, who studied yawning in college students, concluded that people do not yawn because they need oxygen, since experiments show that raising or lowering oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood fails to produce the reaction.  Rather, yawning acts as a brain-cooling mechanism. The brain burns up to a third of the calories we consume, and as a consequence generates heat. 

According to Gallup and Gallup, our brains, not unlike computers, operate more efficiently when cool, and yawning enhances the brain's functioning by increasing blood flow and drawing in cooler air.

To research the theory that yawning evolved to cool the brain, the UAlbany psychologists had students watch videotapes of people yawning and counted the number of contagious yawns.  In one experiment they found that 50 percent of the people who were instructed to breathe normally or through their mouths yawned while watching other people yawn, while those told to breathe through their nose did not yawn at all. 

In another experiment they found that subjects who held a cold pack to their forehead acted similarly to those who were instructed to breathe through their nose — they, too, did not yawn, while those who held a warm pack or a room temperature pack to their forehead yawned normally. 

Evidence shows that blood vessels in the nasal cavity and face send cool blood to the brain, and by breathing through the nose or by cooling the forehead, the brain is cooled, eliminating the need to yawn.   Recent evidence has linked multiple sclerosis, a demyelinating disease, to thermoregulatory dysfunction.  Excessive yawning is a common symptom of multiple sclerosis, and some MS patients report brief symptom relief after they yawn.

The UAlbany researchers also suggest, again contrary to popular opinion, that yawning does not promote sleep but helps mitigate the need to sleep.  Since yawning occurs when brain temperature rises, sending cool blood to the brain serves to maintain optimal levels of mental efficiency.  Therefore, the psychologists say, when mental processing slows and someone yawns, the tendency for other people to yawn contagiously might have evolved to promote group vigilance as a means of detecting danger.

So the next time you are telling a story and a listener yawns there is no need to be offended — yawning, a physiological mechanism designed to maintain attention, turns out to be a compliment.

Evolutionary Psychology

www.epjournal.net – 2007. 5(1): 92-101

Yawning as a Brain Cooling Mechanism: Nasal Breathing and Forehead Cooling Diminish the Incidence of Contagious Yawning

Andrew C. Gallup, Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY 12222, USA.

Gordon G. Gallup Jr., Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Albany. Email: gallup@albany.edu (Corresponding author)

Abstract: We conducted two experiments that implicate yawning as a thermoregulatory mechanism. The first experiment demonstrates that different patterns of breathing influence susceptibility to contagious yawning. When participants were not directed how to breathe or were instructed to breathe orally (inhaling and exhaling through their mouth), the incidence of contagious yawning in response to seeing videotapes of people yawning was about 48%. When instructed to breathe nasally (inhaling and exhaling through their nose), no participants exhibited contagious yawning. In a second experiment, applying temperature packs to the forehead also influenced the incidence of contagious yawning. When participants held a warm pack (460C) or a pack at room temperature to their forehead while watching people yawn, contagious yawning occurred 41% of the time. When participants held a cold pack (40C) to their forehead, contagious yawning dropped to 9%. These findings suggest that yawning has an adaptive/functional component that it is not merely the derivative of selection for other forms of behavior.

http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/ep0592101.pdf

Fuente: http://huehueteotl.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/yawning-saves-your-brain-from-overheating/

Carlos Slim, el más rico del mundo

Bueno pues con la nueva noticia de que nuestro paisano, Carlos Slim es ahora el personaje más rico de este planeta. Debería repartirlo no??

Aquí les dejo la nota completa.

Fuente: http://www.univision.com/content/content.jhtml;jsessionid=YLBLZPZSXBYVICWIAAPCFEYKZAADYIWC?cid=1222888

Carlos Slim es ya el más rico del mundo
Su fortuna sobrepasó a la de Bill Gates

AFP El magnate mexicano Carlos Slim ahora tiene una fortuna de $67,800 millones de dólares, según la publicación Sentido Común.

AFP

3 de Julio de 2007

Opina en los Foros de Univision

CIUDAD DE MÉXICO - El mexicano Carlos Slim, propietario de Teléfonos de México (Telmex), es ya el hombre más rico del mundo por encima de Bill Gates, de Microsoft, según la publicación electrónica Sentido Común que estima en $67,800 millones de dólares la fortuna del magnate de la telefonía.

Cuenta con $67,800 millones

"Gracias al alza de 26.5 por ciento que registraron las acciones de América Móvil en el segundo trimestre, Slim, quien tiene una participación de 33 por ciento en la empresa de telefonía móvil más grande de América Latina, es ya sustancialmente más rico que Gates", publicó Sentido Común, una página web mexicana especializada en negocios.

La fortuna de Slim, estimada en base a la evolución del valor de las acciones de las empresas controladas por el magnate mexicano, sería de $67,800 millones de dólares, superior en $9 mil millones de dólares a la de Gates.

En la última evaluación de la revista Forbes, la fortuna de Gates fue estimada en $56 mil millones de dólares, mientras que Slim figuraba como el segundo más acaudalado del mundo con $53,100 millones de dólares.

Según Sentido Común, Slim, de 67 años de edad, ya estaba por encima de Gates desde finales del primer trimestre de 2007, pero por mil millones de dólares.

"Entre abril y junio, la riqueza de Slim aumentó cerca de $10,800 millones de dólares luego del brinco que dieron las acciones de América Móvil y del crecimiento de 11.1 por ciento que tuvieron las acciones de Telmex, la mayor compañía de telefonía fija en México y en la que Slim tiene una participación de 43 por ciento", añadió la publicación electrónica.

Otras acciones de empresas propiedad de Slim, como el Grupo Financiero Inbursa y Carso, aumentaron su valor en 20 y 2.9 por ciento, respectivamente, en el segundo trimestre del año.

La fortuna de Gates, explicó, también se habría incrementando gracias a que las acciones de Microsoft aumentaron 5.7 por ciento en el segundo trimestre de 2007, con lo que el magnate de la computación sumaría una fortuna de $59,200 millones de dólares.

Hijo de inmigrantes libaneses, Slim tiene negocios en los ramos de la telefonía, industrial, de infraestructura, construcción, comercial, automotriz y minero, varios de ellos adquiridas a precio de ganga cuando la economía mexicana estuvo al borde del colapso en 1982.

Entre iPhone's te veas

Si bien en nuestro país el iPhone de MAC saldrá hasta el 2008, esperemos que ya se vean corregidos estos detalles.

Resulta ser que hay varias cosillas que según BioXD no trae el iPhone. Aunque también están apareciendo nuevas opciones como el Meizu M8 que tiene características "similares" al iPhone.

Aquí pueden ver un demo del tan esperado iPhone, la verdad ... si quiero uno!!



Algunos artículos:
http://www.lasnoticiasmexico.com/92157.html
http://xataka.com/2007/01/09-iphone-telefono-movil-de-apple-completo

y como siempre nunca falta el que se quiere pasar de vivo: http://opinion.mercadolibre.com.mx/apple-iphone-6272-VCP

Bueno habrá que conseguir más información.... y sobre todo... ir ahorrando para un aparatito no???