My only political comment in the past here at/. was a report about the reaction in Brazil against Rede Globo. Globo is kowingly a long-time supporter of authoritarianism and corruption. They even attempted to apologize for supporting the dictatorship that ousted President João Goulatr, in 1964. Brazil has a so terrible media landscape that Reporters Without Borders called it “the country of 30 Berlusconis”. The fact that Globo and Brazilian media are attempting to oust President Dilma Rouseff and prevent Lula from running for president in 2018 is blatantly clear. The irony in this story is that while Lula is being accused of hiding property the Marinho family, owners of Globo attempts to conceal the luxury house that they illegally built in a natural preserve in Paraty, state of Rio de Janeiro.
I was about to make an ironical comment but decided to send a positive message. I will do the same when they release the next version (supposing that I will still be alive at that time).
I'm a busy software developer working for a big company, so I don't have much time to contribute for Open Source and open knowledge projects. Supporting the FreeBSD Foundation, Wikimedia and similar initiatives seems to be a good way to pay for their valuable work. I make a donation every year and invite all/. readers to do the same.
The article leads the reader to believe that the VM running on HP LaserJet printer is an old version of Sun's -- now Oracle -- JVM. That's no true. HP Printers run ChaiVM, a clean-room implementation written based on the published specification. Moreover HP has historically recommended their customers to NOT expose printers to the public Internet. The embedded web server is an administration tool, not a fully-fledged HTTP server, and was not designed to be used that way.
Disclaimer: Even though I work for HP and had access to the LJ firmware internals in the recent past, I'm NOT speaking on behalf of HP.
How can someone dare to call that poor advertising piece an "article"? There is no useful information in the text that can not be obtained at GTK.org or after five minutes of web searching.
And they rated it "intermediate". Spare me the "low" ones...
As a Brazilian citizen, I don't feel very comfortable to tell you how votings should be conducted in your own country, but I'd like to mention that electronic voting is already a reality here. Votes are collected by means of dedicated microcomputers.
There is a simulation available here. You can get more information on Brazilian voting system at TSE (pages are in Portuguese).
... then the Linux zealots at/. would cry
"Put this stupid Bill-Gates-slave on a jail
for ten years!".
Come one, guys. This was just yet another
"we are the good boys because we promote Linux so
anything we do will be considered right even if
it is against the law".
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Meanwhile people cowardly watched, took pictures and made videos.
Dear Anonymous Coward,
My only political comment in the past here at /. was a report about the reaction in Brazil against Rede Globo. Globo is kowingly a long-time supporter of authoritarianism and corruption. They even attempted to apologize for supporting the dictatorship that ousted President João Goulatr, in 1964. Brazil has a so terrible media landscape that Reporters Without Borders called it “the country of 30 Berlusconis”. The fact that Globo and Brazilian media are attempting to oust President Dilma Rouseff and prevent Lula from running for president in 2018 is blatantly clear. The irony in this story is that while Lula is being accused of hiding property the Marinho family, owners of Globo attempts to conceal the luxury house that they illegally built in a natural preserve in Paraty, state of Rio de Janeiro.
I was about to make an ironical comment but decided to send a positive message. I will do the same when they release the next version (supposing that I will still be alive at that time).
I'm a busy software developer working for a big company, so I don't have much time to contribute for Open Source and open knowledge projects. Supporting the FreeBSD Foundation, Wikimedia and similar initiatives seems to be a good way to pay for their valuable work. I make a donation every year and invite all /. readers to do the same.
The article leads the reader to believe that the VM running on HP LaserJet printer is an old version of Sun's -- now Oracle -- JVM. That's no true. HP Printers run ChaiVM, a clean-room implementation written based on the published specification. Moreover HP has historically recommended their customers to NOT expose printers to the public Internet. The embedded web server is an administration tool, not a fully-fledged HTTP server, and was not designed to be used that way.
Disclaimer: Even though I work for HP and had access to the LJ firmware internals in the recent past, I'm NOT speaking on behalf of HP.
How can someone dare to call that poor advertising piece an "article"? There is no useful information in the text that can not be obtained at GTK.org or after five minutes of web searching.
And they rated it "intermediate". Spare me the "low" ones...
Yet another "BSD is dying" FUD at /.
Confusing WindRiver with the FreeBSD Project is a silly mistake.
As a Brazilian citizen, I don't feel very comfortable to tell you how votings should be conducted in your own country, but I'd like to mention that electronic voting is already a reality here. Votes are collected by means of dedicated microcomputers.
There is a simulation available here. You can get more information on Brazilian voting system at TSE (pages are in Portuguese).
... then the Linux zealots at /. would cry
"Put this stupid Bill-Gates-slave on a jail
for ten years!".
Come one, guys. This was just yet another "we are the good boys because we promote Linux so anything we do will be considered right even if it is against the law".
All in all, it's just business...