Xa está “na rúa” o Mozilla Firefox 3.5.3
Hoxe (09/09/09) saíu unha nova versión estable do Mozilla Firefox, a 3.5.3, corrixindo problemas de rendemento e seguridade da versión anterior. Se xa o usades habedes recibir un aviso para descargar e instalar unha actualización. Se aínda non o usades ou queredes descargar un instalador offline, escollede o idioma e o sistema operativo que queirades, porque navegador non o habedes atopar millor… :-)
Unha novidade: agora Firefox avisa, despois da instalación, se encontra unha versión non actualizada (e por tanto non segura) do Adobe Flash Player, usado entre outras cousas para reproducir vídeos de YouTube… Recomendo “desmarcar” calquera instalación opcional que Adobe ofrece “gratis” xunto co Flash Player. E se usades Windows, recordade que este plugin non serve para Internet Explorer (a IE hai que instalarlle por separado outro Flash Player á medida).
Jordan: changes to penal code needed to prevent ‘honor killings’ (HRW)
Human Rights Watch (HRW) press release: “Jordan: Tribunals No Substitute for Reforms on ‘Honor Killings’. Changes to Penal Code Needed to Help Save Women’s Lives”
September 8, 2009
Jordan should reform penal code provisions that effectively reduce or eliminate punishment for violence against women instead of establishing special tribunals to hear “honor killings” cases, HRW said in a letter to the Jordanian Ministry of Justice on August 10, 2009.
On August 12, the Jordan Times reported the 14th such killing this year, of a 16-year-old girl by her 39-year-old uncle to “cleanse his family’s honor.” He shot the girl after learning that his sons had raped her and that she had a child by one of them. Under Jordanian law, murder of a relative believed to be engaged in extramarital sex carries a reduced sentence.
“The current law is nothing less than an endorsement for murdering women and girls,” said Nadya Khalife, women’s rights researcher at HRW. “The women of Jordan need protection from these vicious acts enshrined in law, not preferential treatment for their killers.”
Last month, the Justice Ministry announced, in response to pressure from women’s groups, that it would establish a special tribunal to hear these cases. But special tribunals are not an adequate solution, HRW said in its letter, when discriminatory penal code provisions effectively sanction the violence with exemptions and lighter sentences for “honor” crimes. Human Rights Watch urged Jordan to eliminate these exceptions from the penal code.
The portions of the penal code in question include Article 340, which reduces the sentence for killing a relative caught in an “illicit” sexual act (sex outside marriage). Furthermore, Article 98 provides for reduced sentences if the perpetrator committed his crime in a state of extreme “rage.” In addition, when the victim’s family, which, in “honor” crimes, of course, is also the perpetrator’s family, waives its personal right to litigate, then courts have also reduced sentences by up to half based on “extenuating” circumstances provided in articles 99 and 100 of the penal code. However, those articles say nothing about private rights, and it appears that courts have wide discretion to invoke an absence of private rights litigation in order to make a finding of extenuating circumstances warranting a reduced sentence. Efforts to reform the penal code in 1999 and 2000 to address the issue failed due to the obstruction of the Jordanian Lower House of Parliament.
The rates of “honor” crimes in Jordan have remained almost constant over the years. One recent study estimates that an average of 25 killings of women each year fall in this category, (www.stgm.org.tr/docs/1249565780Crimes_of_Honor_June_09_Lubna_Dawany.pdf)
These figures only account for reported crimes and may underestimate the real extent of the problem.
“Jordan needs to send a strong message to perpetrators that they can no longer get away with murder,” said Khalife. “It should start by amending the penal code to reflect the seriousness of these crimes and treat them the same as other killings.”
Also available in: العربية
See also:
- Honoring the Killers: Justice Denied For “Honor” Crimes in Jordan (HRW report, 19 – IV – 2004)
Contrapunctus 1 aus BWV 1080 (Robert Hill, harpsichord)
Vídeo didáctico que mostra a partitura máis ou menos ó mesmo tempo que soa a música de Johann Sebastian Bach. É o Contrapunctus 1 que abre Die Kunst der Fuge (número 1080 no catálogo BWV). A interpretación é de Robert Hill ó cravo e o vídeo está no canal en YouTube de toxiconegro:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmVoMtYBWdY
Hai máis partituras desta obra e de J. S. Bach na IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library.
God bless you for sharing culture!
“Bach and the Lutheran Legacy” (BBC, 2008)
Acabo de ver un interesante documental, “Bach and the Lutheran Legacy”, producido pola BBC no 2008. Encontreino no canal en YouTube de jormundgard, dividido en seis vídeos:
1/6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dAC1lLYJpg
2/6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7-fUPwPHaE
3/6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu1rfLUTzow
4/6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gZKv19KEtA
5/6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lecMZDofRw
6/6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr6g9B4nCnI
As figuras centrais do documental son, como o título indica, o compositor Johann Sebastian Bach e o teólogo Martin Luther. O fondo musical póñeno principalmente varios organistas e o grupo The Sixteen baixo a dirección de Harry Christophers.
MozillaZine Folding@Home xa ten 100 millóns de puntos
Folding@Home é un proxecto de computación distribuída co que colaboramos máis de cen mil voluntarios en todo o mundo. Nós instalamos un programa e emprestámoslle unha parte da capacidade de procesamento dos nosos computadores. O programa envía os resultados á Universidade de Stanford, que investiga a fisicoquímica das proteínas como fundamento para os avances no estudo do cancro, o Alzheimer, etc.
A noticia de hoxe é irrelevante para a ciencia, pero non para o equipo do que formo parte: o MozillaZine Folding@Home Team chegou hoxe ós 100 millóns de puntos. No noso equipo, dous terzos dos puntos conseguíronos tres administradores de grandes redes, que teñen moitos computadores, ou moi potentes, á súa disposición. Estas contribucións son importantes, pero unha das principais forzas do proxecto son os miles de equipos pequenos, formados case en exclusiva por usuarios domésticos.
Enlaces sobre Folding@Home:
- Download the Folding@Home software
- Información básica del proyecto, en español
- Professor Vijay Pande’s blog
- MozillaZine Forum for the MozillaZine Folding@Home Team, o equipo do que formo parte
- Official Folding@Home Statistics – - Statistics by Extreme Overclocking
Máis información e enlaces sobre computación distribuída:
Principais estatísticas do equipo MozillaZine, 3 de setembro do 2009 ás 3 da mañá, hora de Stanford (puntos totais do equipo, 100 044 875). Para contextualizar, eu son un usuario doméstico medio e en máis de tres anos de colaboración ando arredor dos 130 000 puntos. Repito, pois, que neste equipo os usuarios que destacan son administradores de redes con varios computadores…
| User name | Points total |
| [1] kennish | 35 409 484 |
| [2] bollix47 | 19 191 763 |
| [3] larrybpsu | 10 684 768 |
| [4] RAF_Moz_work | 5 071 422 |
| [5] gprothe | 2 702 905 |
| [6] SoftWrightSys | 2 111 154 |
| [7] Rishi | 2 109 947 |
| [8] RiceRemodeling | 1 268 305 |
| [9] sleewa | 997 156 |
| [10] kbrosnan | 901 184 |
| [11] [frase]Mister_T | 828 275 |
| [12] sgakagiz | 672 053 |
| [...] | … |
| [54] Cesar_Salgado | 130 080 |
| [...] | … |
