Paradise fire, first image that came up
Gave up Gargle years ago
https://www.metacrawler.com
Let's piss off the guy that allows communications with the remoteparts of our country
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Starlink is 16th in internet in Brazil, but leader in satellite and 1/3 of customers are in the North
Company has 224,5 thousand connections registered in Anatel; Boa Vista is the city with the most customers
02/09/2024 at 08:54 | updated 02/09/2024 at 13:13
Elon Musk's internet access company is the 16th largest in the Brazilian market, and currently serves 224,5 thousand customers in the national territory. Unlike the main names in this market that use fiber optics and cables, Starlink offers satellite connection. In this market, it is the leader in Brazil with 47.1% of subscribers.
This technology has as a great differential the possibility of taking the internet to remote locations, where traditional connections are more difficult. This explains the fact that almost a third of Musk's subscribers are in northern Brazil.
Data from the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) show that Starlink has a modest share in the Brazilian internet access market. The number of subscribers to the company represents only 0.5% of all 49.7 million internet connections recorded in July 2024.
For comparison, the leader in the internet market in Brazil is Claro, which has 10.1 million connections to the network. Then appear Live (7 million) and Hi (4.6 million).
That customer base, however, has been growing rapidly. The company's first connection registration took place just over two years ago, in February 2022. Since then, the numbers have gained momentum. Over the past 12 months, the number of connections has jumped 147%.
Musk may even have a modest size in front of the largest operators in Brazil, but he is a leader when only the satellite internet segment is observed. In this cut, Starlink has 47,1% of the market. The runner-up, Hughes, has 176.9 thousand connections. Together, the two have 84% of this market in Brazil.
The two companies have as their main advantage the possibility of taking the internet anywhere. This explains the different distribution of Starlink customers compared to traditional operators.
The Brazilian city with the most customers of Elon Musk's company is not any metropolis in the center-south of the country: it is the city of Boa Vista, in Roraima. There are almost 3 thousand subscribers of the service.
In Amazonas, Tefé, in the middle of the forest, is the fourth city in Brazil with more Starlink customers. Anatel recorded 2.186 connections of the service in July. This means that the number of Starlink connections in the city corresponds to 3.7% of the population.
Other Amazon cities appear in the ranking of the 30 locations with the most Musk subscribers. In Pará, there are Breves, Itaituba, Altamira, Portel, Novo Progresso, Gurupá, Afuá and Santarém. In Amazonas, in addition to Tefé, are Tabatinga, Manicoré, São Gabriel Da Cachoeira and Coari.
https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/blogs/fernando-nakagawa/economia/negocios/starlink-e-16a-em-internet-no-brasil-mas-lider-em-satelite-e-1-3-dos-clientes-estao-no-norte/
>>21523719 (me)
Bonus, let's screw over our oil industry, who needs an economy?
Petrobras hires Musk's Starlink, ups supercomputing capacity
Bnamericas Published: Wednesday, September 20, 2023
Brazil’s Petrobras is deploying Starlink’s low-orbit satellites to enhance offshore connectivity while onshore it is increasing the capacity of its supercomputers, the federal oil company's general ICT manager, Marinho Ayres Fischer, said on Tuesday.
“We recently entered into an acquisition agreement with Starlink and we’re testing it on the platforms. Initially, there are around 10 pieces of equipment [being deployed],” Fischer said in response to BNamericas in a conversation with reporters on the sidelines of the Dell Technologies Forum in São Paulo.
The negotiations with Starlink, which did not have a specific unit to serve corporates in Brazil, lasted approximately one year, he said. BNamericas was unable to confirm the exact value of the contract.
Starlink’s equipment will be used for connectivity on FPSOs, platforms and vessels in general, said Fischer. The Elon Musk firm's first dishes, however, are being deployed on platforms, notably those that have had more connectivity problems, according to the executive, adding initial use is "promising."
The initiative marks Petrobras' first open bet on low-orbit satellites. Currently, the company relies for back-up connectivity on satellites mostly in higher orbits, which tend to have higher signal latency.
Last year, Petrobras selected managed services and telecoms integrator Sencinet (formerly BT LatAm) to interconnect all of its offshore and terrestrial units via satellite ground antennas (Vsats) provided by Israel’s Gilat, as reported first by BNamericas.
Gilat works with satellites developed by Hispasat, Intelsat, Eutelsat, Inmarsat, Telesat and SES, among others. This month, Sencinet announced it had become an integrator of Starlink in Latin America.
SUPERCOMPUTERS
While offshore Petrobras is diversifying and enhancing connectivity, onshore it is boosting its supercomputing capacity, aimed mainly at exploration and research. Dell is one of its key suppliers.
Petrobras’ contract with Dell entailed four high performance computing (HPC) machines, or supercomputers, each with its own specificity and application purpose: Gaia, Gemini, Albacora and Casarin.
In August, all the machines started operating at full capacity, revealed Fischer. Of the four, Albacora was launched first as it did not include GPUs in its design. The powerful graphic processing units are taking longer to be supplied by manufacturers due to the high market demand.
Gaia is focused on research and was set up at the Petrobras development and innovation research center (Cenpes) in Rio de Janeiro. As previously reported by BNamericas, the contract was won by Dell last year for 76mn reais (US$15.7mn).
Gaia has processing capacity of 7.7 petaflops, equivalent to 1.5mn cellphones or 40,000 laptops, and estimated power consumption of 574kW.
Gemini is being used for seismic processing, employed by Petrobras’ exploration and production (E&P) area, while Albacora and Casarin are both focused on reservoir environments: Albacora on the engineering of reservoir simulations and Casarin on reservoir geophysical processing, according to the executive. The latter saw a return on investment (ROI) of more than eight times in just six months, Fischer said.
This year, Petrobras also went live with the 36mn-real Tatu supercomputer, applied to support its E&P operations and said to be the company’s first HPC with artificial intelligence capabilities.
French IT firm Atos, which has previously supplied most of the company's supercomputers, won the contract for Tatu. According to Fischer, Tatu was tendered first but deployed later than Dell's Gaia.
Like Gaia, Tatu was installed at Cenpes in Rio.
Including Gemini, Albacora and Casarin, Petrobras boasts nine supercomputers.
The biggest one is PĂ©gaso, supplied by Atos, which the company claims to be the fifth most powerful in the global oil and gas industry, with processing capacity of 21 petaflops and power consumption of 1.5MW.
More:
https://www.bnamericas.com/en/news/petrobras-hires-musks-starlink-ups-supercomputing-capacity
>>21523726 (me again)
Hey, let's be out of touch with vessels from big shipping lines! Harbor Masters, Tug Operators, Husbanding Agents, Longshoremen, and Freight Agents can just wing it right?
OSG Signs Fleet Up for Starlink Satellite Internet Service
December 19, 2023
Elon Musk’s SpaceX continues to penetrate the market for maritime satellite communications with Overseas Shipholding Group announcing an agreement to
https://gcaptain.com/osg-signs-fleet-up-for-starlink-satellite-internet-service/
MOL to Install Starlink Satellite Internet on Over 200 Ships
October 16, 2023
SpaceX’s satellite internet service Starlink is continuing to increase its presence in the commercial maritime sector with Japanese shipping company
https://gcaptain.com/mol-to-install-starlink-satellite-internet-on-over-200-ships/
Maersk to Roll-Out Starlink Satellite Internet Across Containership Fleet
October 12, 2023
A.P. Moller – Maersk has announced plans to install SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet on its fleet of more than 330 owned containerships.
https://gcaptain.com/maersk-to-roll-out-starlink-satellite-internet-across-containership-fleet/
Hapag-Lloyd to Roll Out Starlink Internet Service Across Fleet
September 21, 2023
Hapag-Lloyd is rolling out Starlink satellite internet technology across its fleet, following a successful pilot phase.
Hapag-Lloyd is the world’s fifth largest container shipping line by TEU capacity, with a fleet of over 250 vessels including 122-owned ships, according to Alphaliner.
https://gcaptain.com/hapag-lloyd-to-roll-out-starlink-internet-service-fleet-wide/
Anglo-Eastern Installs Starlink Internet Service on First of More Than 200 Managed Ships
March 13, 2023
Hong Kong-based ship manager Anglo-Eastern says it has rolled out SpaceX’s Starlink broadband internet service on an initial dozen vessels with more than 200
https://gcaptain.com/anglo-eastern-installs-starlink-internet-service-on-first-of-more-than-200-managed-ships/
>>21523733 (me yet again)
Brazil's telecom regulator Anatel could revoke Starlink license, says official
By Ricardo Brito and Luciana Novaes Magalhaes September 2, 20243:25 PM EDT Updated 2 hours ago
BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Brazilian telecommunications regulator Anatel could impose sanctions on Starlink, the satellite internet provider controlled by Elon Musk, for not complying with the country's norms, and even revoke its license to operate in the country, a senior official at the regulator said on Monday.
Anatel commissioner Artur Coimbra told Reuters that the regulator is inspecting all Brazilian telecom operators to make sure they have shut down X messaging platform as ordered by a Supreme Court justice.
Starlink is the only company that has told Anatel it will not comply with the ruling by Judge Alexandre de Moraes, Coimbra said in an interview.
Earlier, a Supreme Court panel voted unanimously to uphold the suspension of social media giant X in the country for defying a court order, blocking access to more than 20 million users.
Moraes last week ruled that X should be suspended in Brazil because it did not name a local legal representative as required by law and a prior court order that set a deadline for compliance.
Justices Flavio Dino, Cristiano Zanin, Carmen Lucia and Luiz Fux sided with Justice Alexandre de Moraes. Three of the justices on the panel said the suspension could be reversed if the platform complied with previous rulings.
X was taken down in Brazil in the early hours of Saturday following Moraes' decision. Brazil is X's sixth-biggest market globally with about 21.5 million users as of April, according to Statista.
Moraes and X owner Elon Musk have been locked in a months-long feud after the social media platform challenged orders to block accounts accused by investigators of spreading misinformation and hate.
Musk has argued that Moraes sought to censor users and closed the X office in Brazil in August without appointing a new representative, triggering the suspension.
On Monday, Musk replied, "Exactly," to a post that described the suspension as an attack on freedom of expression and Brazilians' rights.
Siding with Moraes, Justice Dino wrote, "It is not possible for a company to operate in the territory of a country and intend to impose its vision on which rules should be valid or applied."
Dino, Zanin and Fux, nonetheless, indicated that they would be open to reconsidering the decision if X complied with court rulings.
Chief Justice Luis Roberto Barroso, who was not on the review panel, said that removing legal representatives to avoid complying with court decisions "is a behavior that would not be acceptable anywhere in the world."
X remained inaccessible for most users in Brazil.
Starlink said it was refusing to remove X from its service until a freeze on its Brazilian bank accounts was lifted. Moraes last week froze Starlink's accounts after X did not pay fines imposed for failing to turn over documents.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/brazils-supreme-court-chamber-forms-majority-uphold-x-suspension-2024-09-02/
Publishers and authors sue over Florida book ban law
2 days ago Nadine Yousif
Major book publishers have sued the US state of Florida over a law that allows schools to ban certain books from their student libraries.
The lawsuit, filed on Thursday by publishers including Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster, argues that Florida’s law violates First Amendment rights to free speech.
The suit names several books that have been removed from school libraries under the law, including works by renowned authors Maya Angelou and Ernest Hemingway.
Florida officials responded to the lawsuit by calling it a “stunt,” and have denied that the state has banned books.
“There are no books banned in Florida,” said Florida Department of Education spokesperson Sydney Booker. “Sexually explicit material and instruction are not suitable for schools.”
At the heart of the lawsuit is a bill passed in Florida last year that requires schools to develop a mechanism where parents could object to certain books found in libraries or classrooms.
It defines books subject to removal as any that “depict or describe sexual conduct” or that are “inappropriate for the grade level and age group” of students in the school.
According to a report released in April by Pen America, a non-profit advocating for free speech, Florida had 3,135 book bans recorded from July 2021 to December 2023 - the highest in the country.
Pen America has said that the majority of books removed are ones that “talk about LGBTQ+ identities, that includes characters of colour, that talk about race and racism, that include depictions of sexual experiences in the broadest interpretation of that understanding”.
Among the books removed are Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls, Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, and Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.
Bestselling authors including John Green and Jodi Picoult, as well as parents opposed to Florida’s law, have also joined the publishers’ lawsuit.
It argues that the state law allows schools to automatically prohibit books without consulting “trained professionals, such as teachers or media specialists, to determine which books are appropriate”.
It adds that some schools have banned books that include the phrase “made love”, for example, without considering the context of the book as a whole.
These restrictions “apply to all grades, kindergarten through twelfth grade”, the lawsuit states, arguing that the law has created a “regime of strict censorship” in schools.
In an interview with BBC’s US partner, CBS News, Judi Hayes, a Florida mother who joined the lawsuit, said the law has hurt her son’s ability to learn.
"We're not talking about Playboy magazine, you know, we're talking about Anna Karenina and War and Peace," Ms Hayes said.
The lawsuit is seeking for the law to be amended.
The defendants named in the lawsuit include Ben Gibson, chair of the Florida State Board of Education, as well as other school board members.
It does not name Florida governor Ron DeSantis, who had previously championed the law.
In April, Mr DeSantis signed a bill that restricts objections to books in Florida schools, saying he is trying to “prevent abuse from activists” who have used the law to challenge books like The Giver and the Bible.
“I think what's happened is you have some people who are taking the curriculum transparency, and they're trying to weaponize that for political purposes," he said at a news conference that month.
Under the new rules, Florida residents without children can object to only one book per month. Those with children will continue to have an unlimited number of challenges.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93pe9p5479o
Motorcade accompanying VP nominee Tim Walz involved in crash
By Caitlin Yilek Updated on: September 2, 2024 / 4:30 PM EDT / CBS News
Vans carrying members of the press that were part of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's motorcade were involved in a crash on Monday afternoon.
Journalists traveling with the vice presidential nominee said the crash happened shortly before 1 p.m. on Interstate 794. Walz was on his way to an event celebrating Labor Day in Milwaukee.
A staff member in one of the press vans appeared to have a broken arm and was being treated by medics, according to the journalists, who said they were violently thrown forward as one van slammed into another in front of it and then was hit from behind.
Walz's vehicle was not involved in the crash, according to the campaign. Walz later said there were a "few minor injuries," but "everybody's going to be OK."
The press and staff whose vehicles were involved in the crash arrived at LaborFest around an hour after the incident.
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, called Walz to check on him after the crash, a White House official said.
Republican vice presidential nominee, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, also sent well wishes.
"Hoping everyone's OK," he wrote.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tim-walz-motorcade-crash-milwaukee-laborfest/
Two More Tankers Attacked in Red Sea
Reuters September 2, 2024
LONDON/ATHENS, Sept 2 (Reuters) – Two oil tankers, the Saudi-flagged Amjad and Panama-flagged Blue Lagoon I, were attacked on Monday in the Red Sea off Yemen, two sources familiar with the matter said.
Yemen’s Houthis late on Monday claimed responsibility for targeting the Blue Lagoon with multiple missiles and drones but did not make any mention of the Saudi tanker.
The sources said the ships were sailing near each other when they were hit but were able to continue their voyages with no major damage assessed or any casualties.
The Amjad’s owner, Saudi national shipping group Bahri, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The supertanker has a maximum capacity of 2 million barrels.
The Greek manager of the Blue Lagoon I, Sea Trade Marine SA, was not immediately available for comment. The Suezmax tanker has a maximum capacity of 1 million barrels.
One of the sources said the Amjad was unlikely to have been directly targeted.
Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter, has watched with alarm as Houthi missiles have been fired over its territory to target ships in the Red Sea. Saudi Arabia has tried to extract itself from a messy war in Yemen and a destructive feud with the Houthis’ principal backer, Iran.
The Houthis first launched aerial drone and missile strikes on the waterway in November in what they say is solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza war. In more than 70 attacks, they have sunk two vessels, seized another and killed at least three seafarers.
The Joint Maritime Information Center, run by international naval forces to track Houthi attacks, said three ballistic missile attacks hit the Blue Lagoon I tanker on Monday 70 nautical miles northwest of the northern Yemeni port of Saleef.
The center “assesses that M/V BLUE LAGOON I was targeted due to other vessels within its company structure making recent port calls in Israel,” it said in a report.
“All crew on board are safe. The vessel sustained minimal damage but does not require assistance.”
(Reporting by Jonathan Saul in London, Yannis Souliotis and Renee Maltezou in Athens, Adam Makary in Cairo, Yomna Ehab, Nadine Awadalla, Jana Choukeir and Yousef Saba in Dubai, Pesha Magid in Riyadh; editing by Jason Neely, David Evans, Angus MacSwan and Cynthia Osterman)
https://gcaptain.com/two-more-tankers-attacked-in-red-sea/
Dagnabit
Sing along time already?
His sex-change operation got botched
His guardian angel fell asleep on the watch
Now all he got is a Barbie Doll-crotch
He's got an angry inch
Six inches forward and five inches back
He's got a
He's got an angry inch
Six inches forward and five inches back
He got a
He got an angry inch
Dine said before, the little troll is desperate for attention. It lives to see the green (You) and content of the response does not matter.
I see that as the entire World simply ignores the little creature so to validate its existence it needs the (You)
Starve it and it spergs out, generally attracting BV attention and then "poof" all gone, like it was never here, like it never existed
Another nobody has an opinion? How much did Cackles campaign pay?