alberich

The electronic devices are, from a technical point of view, flawed. That doesn't mean the votes have been tampered... though I agree that this should be fixed.

On the other side, this same electronic devices are in use since 1996, thus all elections ever since fall under the same suspicion (even the one won by FHC).

The problem is that political parties only act when they are loosing. Now, the losers claim the devices can be tampered with... of course they can. But why didn't they make these devices right when they were in power?

I never said that most people ask for a coup. I said that seeing people doing this is crazy. You read what you wanted to read, not what I said.

>> Just an aside: this whole thread has already derailed completely from the original link and it has become a point for the Brazilians to discuss politics and each to show their allegiances. I'm all for a good, rational discussion, but I'm yet to see this irt politics, especially in Brazil. Instead of arguing on the ideas, people make "their" political party as part of their identity and simply refuse to have constructive dialogue. It is worse than football. How about we keep this off Hacker News?

This is what I meant when I said that I wish for the day when people will not make judgements based solely on their political affinity.

Sadly, it is almost impossible to talk about politics when people start to see you as an enemy just because you disagree with them. It is even worse when you see, as it happened in Brazil, people with good education going to the streets asking for a military coup... that is crazy. A democracy is better than a dictatorship, even a corrupt democracy, at least you can change the president after a couple of years.

So, this is your best argument?

Very reasonable.

Good points. I just don't agree with the rethoric that this is the worst Brazil ever had. Specially ignoring that in the nineties no corruption scandal was ever investigated... there are numerous cases... sadly all hidden under the carpet.

I hope that someday people will judge their representatives not based on their sympathy for a given party, but on actual meritocracy.

I don't think the actual government is the best, I just think it is the least worst we could get at the present time.

Get your facts right. The devaluation happened in 1999, a time when thinking that Lula would win an election was actually a joke.

If you go to BACEN you can look for yourself to get the historic data on inflation and SELIC interest rates. FHC was able to both have high interest rates, high inflation rate and a broken economy (or did you forget that brazil had to ask IMF for a huge money lend?)...

I don't know what you mean by a coupe... but it is well known that FHC paid congress men to pass the law allowing him to be re-elected. Curiosly, now they think re-election is bad... go figure.

>> By simply changing your language to one with a modern implementation, you can save considerable money on hardware.

Well, maybe thay can save even more money on developers by not switching languages. After all, if raw performance was all that matters people would probably still be programming in assembly.

well, you're supposed to validate user input before passing it to the function.

I'm not sure this can be considered a bug.

Here in Brazil (at least in some cities) we have the worst of both worlds... you pay for it, and there is not enough space... it is a complete crap. No wonder so many people are on the streets manifesting against it.

Cool, I thought it could not use the extensions and thus would be slower than other options like Xen or KVM.

Does someone knows why FreeBSD doesn't offer any virtualization platform based on Intel VT or AMD-v? Is there any architectural incompatibility or is it just a case of virtualization not being a high priority?

This theory is fine, but isn't the Taliban the strongman in this case?

Now that is what i would call a "success story". How many distros can claim to be used in the space? :)

I'm glad to see Debian being recognized for it's rock solid stability.

why the downvote? Donald Knuth himself describes programming as an Art.