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  1. Re:Here we go again... on Equal Time For Creationism · · Score: 1
    I think the people giving Christianity a bad name are in the minority among Christians but they are, unfortunately, a very vocal minority.

    The same can be said about any other religion, unfortunately. Just watch the news.
  2. IPCop on What is the Best Firewall for Servers? · · Score: 1

    If you want something simple and efective, go for IPCop.

  3. They can try but I don't think will work out here. on MS Plans Low-Cost Windows for Brazil · · Score: 1

    - Piracy run rampant around here outside the business places. One can get a full XP around the corner of bigger cities for a dollar.
    - 95% of the private people with a legal windows license have it because it was budled with the PC.
    - The federal governenmmet already told to the press they will not use MS products full or crippled.
    So, in my opinion, unless they strike a deal with some states or a current major customer which needs to "upgrade" for some reason, it's a dead duck.

  4. Destroy them on Secure Hard Drive Deletion Appliance? · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you prize so much the confidentiality of the date to go to very extreme measures like high level gear just for that, as cheap as the HDs are now, I would just throw them inside a furnace.

  5. Re:Be thankful that you have Lula!!! on Followup on MS and Brazil in NY Times · · Score: 1

    He does not have a drinking problem at all. All this turmoil was caused by a misinformed reporter.
    Lula is a regular guy, he came from the masses and, like many of us, me included, likes to have a beer in the weekends.

  6. Here we do it on paper, internet or free software on Open Source Tax Products? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Here in Brazil we have free software provided by our IRS equivalent. It has, windows, linux and MacOS versions (last 2 it's Java actually). The java version was released last year as an answer and I think it will become the standard version. We also can do it on paper, by telephone or internet.

  7. Depends on Best Degree to Pair w/ a B.Sc. in Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    It depends what you want to do:
    Manage? An MBA as already posted here.
    Research? What about math?
    Embedded? Electronics.

  8. Great conference on Linux.conf.au Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    I went there as a speaker in 2002. Great conference and I had a lot of fun except for the part of going and coming back as I live in Brazil it took me more than 40 hours to come back home :)

  9. Re:Where's AntiTrust when you need them? on HP to Region-code Cartridges · · Score: 1

    A brand new, release type DVD here can cost about US$10 to US$15 but it's not unusual to find very cheap ones like US$3 to US$5. Yesterday I bought 2 Monty Pythons for about US$8 each. It is quite expensive if you consider that US$8 it's how much me and my wife need to lunch on our "day-by-day" usual restaurant. Or you can say that food is quite cheap here :)

  10. Re:Where's AntiTrust when you need them? on HP to Region-code Cartridges · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not counting that in the rest of the world is not crime to circunvent this kind of measure. Here in Brazil we have lots of companies that sells ink cardriges. Some of them are as good as the originals. The only thing the original manufacturers can do is to make ads like "Use only a original XX cardrige or youir printer will fail, burn your house and kill your dog". And, BTW, all DVD players sold here can have it's region enconding changed as will as well. And guess what? It's quite rare to see bootleg DVDs because people here prefer region 4 DVDs because they have the local language and/or subtitles and the ones like me who have imported stuff which is not usually published around here is very happy to be able to see a DVD which was legally imported and paid for.

  11. No linux versions... on 2004 Indie Games of the Year · · Score: 1

    ... no games for me ;)

  12. Good old times... on Inside TechTV/G4 · · Score: 1

    I lived in US in 1999/2000 and I have a very good memory about the TSS and TechTV in general. Actually, I tought about how nice would be if I had it on DirecTV so I could watch when I returned home. Looks like it's not the case anymore :(

  13. Sorry to say but Curitiba *was* a very nice place on Revolutionary Tower in Brazil · · Score: 1

    About 15 years ago, I had a dream to move to Curitiba (I'm originaly from Santos). I never was able to do that until 1999 when I was invited to work at Conetiva, the makers of Conectiva Linux. Despite a do agree Curitiba is a beautiful city, it went down the slope due to overpopulation and bad administration which increased a *a lot* the levels of poverty and violence.
    Right now I live in Joinville, quite close to Curitiba but a much smaller (about 500K inhabitants) and cheapper, nicer, quiter and safer place to live.

  14. Re:yeah great on Guide to your Perfect Digital Camera · · Score: 1

    Eh... is you "," key broken or something?
    Hmmmm, something, I see :)

  15. Taxi drivers on Laptops May Be Hazardous to Your Fertility · · Score: 1

    I've read somewhere about taxi drivers having the same problem of low fertility due the same reason. Not laptops but have their scrotum kept warm for long periods of time.

  16. Re:Hunting and stupidy people on Internet Hunting · · Score: 1

    I'm talking about wild animals not farm animals which are created and correctly put down for food only.

  17. Hunting and stupidy people on Internet Hunting · · Score: 1

    I know I'll be bashed like hell for this but I can't help refrain myself.
    Hunting, unless for food (and I mean survival here), is coward and stupid. The hunter must feels very macho shooting a deer with a rifle. What about go hunt a grizly bear bare handed?
    Using the web to "hunt" is a even lower blow. You can be not only a coward but an anonymous one.

  18. Re:Prediction: The creators get sued anyway on BitTorrent Accounts for 35% of Traffic · · Score: 5, Informative

    The answer in in the question itself: don't develop/store in USA.
    This kind of software is not ilegal here in Brazil, for instance.

  19. I just hope this comes to Brazil on Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence in Theaters · · Score: 1

    We have a quite large groupe of anime fans here but it's rare to have wide distribution of anime in movie theaters.

  20. The Brazilian Government's Sérgio Amadeu on Unsung Heroes of Open Source Software? · · Score: 1

    This guy is great! He's the main responsible for our new federal free software policy. He's really fighting hard for it and even Microsoft once tried to sue him about one interview when he said that they use a drug dealer method of business "the first one is free..."

  21. Re:Belongs in SSH on NX - A Revolution In Network Computing? · · Score: 1

    That way, there's literally nothing more than:

    ssh -X user@host ...and if both client and server support NX, things just fly.

    Sorry but it's much more than that.
    One important thing is the virtual elimination of roud trips which ssh alone can't do.
    This does *a lot* of difference alone.
    Besides that there's differential compression, double side caching, etc.

  22. Re:Destroying NoMachine's business model on NX - A Revolution In Network Computing? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm a NoMachine developer and I can say that we (and this includes NoMachine's top managemment) praise and help the FreeNX initiative. Actually, they even have access to our internal mailing list where we discuss the latest plans.
    We believe that FreeNX will help us in the future, not undermine the company.

  23. Re:Non-Competes in Brazil on Seagate Says Ex-Employee Can't Work For Competitor · · Score: 1

    Here this kind of clause is agains the CLT (the group of laws regarding work relationships) and even the Constitution itself. I have a faint memory about someone trying to pull something like that here and it was invalidate because our constitution says the citizen can work on whatever he/she wants for starters.

  24. Apple Abusing of Virgin? on Virgin Accuses Apple of Abusing Monopoly · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No wonder one can't find a virgin nowadays!
    That's an absurd. Apple should be prosecuted for assault, indecent exposure and... oh wait... is The Apple and The Virgin...

  25. And tought that before was the oposite on Intel Begins Shipping 64-bit Prescotts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Now it's Intel running behind AMD :)