Asus eee PC brazilan price

Well, can someone explain to me why a USD 299 Asus eee PC with 4gb is selling for R$ 1260 in Brazil? (aprox. USD 720)?

VisualJBusiness

I have dedicated the past 2 weeks to develop an application called VisualJBusiness.
It's main goal is to generate a web CRUD coded in J2EE5, JSF and using JDBC, JTA, JPA and CSS.
As far as I know, the only server available at the moment J2EE5 compliant is Glassfish.
VisualJBusiness should be provided with a database valid URL.
Then it will extract database metadata, allowing the user:

a) select tables to have CRUD pages generated for.
b) set aliases for tables and table columns.
c) set container resource name (database pool)
d) replace generic header.jsp and footer.jsp files with custom ones.
e) replace generic stylesheet.css with custom one.

The generated project has a build.xml ant script with the targets clean, build, deploy and undeploy ready.

It can be downloaded at VisualJBusiness (Sourceforge.net) and is open source (GPL).
You are welcome to use, test and collaborate.
It is still beta, but I was able to generate complete small working projects with it already.

Intelectual Property

There had been important talking about the new proposed Premium Content Protection from Microsoft. I particularly enjoyed Phil Dorren's article, entitled Looking for a Win/Win Solution to the War Between "Premium Content" and Digital Freedom, and Peter Gutmann of Auckland University report, A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection.
I want to live in a world that pays authors of amazing ideas, compensating them for their effort, and encouraging them to continue their good work. But I don't believe it is right allowing their complete control over their creations in order to get paid.
If so, the guy who created agriculture would have had the right to keep all mankind from seeding their crops unless paying the creator of the idea whatever he asked for it. Maybe if Guttenberg was alive he could prohibit U.S.A. from printing dollar bills unless he received a fair 10% tax over each bill ...
Some of the very good ideas would also, as a product of the need, soon or early be proposed by other person, and another, and another ...
Many of the good ideas are stolen, or unfairly acquired by the stronger.
I can't believe we have gone so far with our civilization and we are not able to compensate authors but at the cost of taking off people freedom.
Well, I am not writing here to present my final solution on the subject, I am rather asking for readers to think about the problem and start posting here their ideas, for free of course :)

Java security

Java has many security mechanisms built in. It pays to check Sun's Java SE Security Page, you can visit it here. A paradox is that although every computer professional that I know talks about the importance of addressing security on a web project, few have spent some time checking why Java is usually pointed as a secure language to produce web applications. The main point is that Java has strong embedded security, that will be put in use by the simple fact that an application is build on Java. This is different when you have to implement your application security by yourself. By using Java, you will be producing secure applications naturally. Go ahead, check it!