Comment Land of the free? Home of the brave? (Score 1) 233
Meanwhile people cowardly watched, took pictures and made videos.
Comment Re:hogwash (Score 1) 158
Dear Anonymous Coward,
My only political comment in the past here at
Submission + - Brazilian police ilegally seized former president's email 2
MythicalMan writes: During the search and seizure in the Lula Institute last Friday, the Federal Police threatened a computer technician of being taken under arrest, forcing him to give the administrator password of all email accounts @institutolula.org (hosted at Google). Such generic access was not granted by the court's mandate, which referred only to a few specific email accounts. See the information here (in Portuguese).
The fact is worrying not only because of its illegality but also for its possible international repercussions, since Lula Institute corresponds with institutions, public figures and heads of state all around the world. Investigations of corruption in Brazil have been characterized by frequent leaks to the press and to opposition politicians who use them to attack the government of President Dilma Rousseff. The methods used by Brazilian prosecutors have been questioned not only by government supporters but also by jurists, scholars and journalists.
The fact is worrying not only because of its illegality but also for its possible international repercussions, since Lula Institute corresponds with institutions, public figures and heads of state all around the world. Investigations of corruption in Brazil have been characterized by frequent leaks to the press and to opposition politicians who use them to attack the government of President Dilma Rousseff. The methods used by Brazilian prosecutors have been questioned not only by government supporters but also by jurists, scholars and journalists.
Comment Congratulations (Score 3, Funny) 52
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).
Comment I'm proud I gave them a hundred bucks! (Score 1) 58
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
Comment HP Printers don't run Oracle's (Sun) JVM (Score 4, Informative) 192
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.
Comment Is this a joke? (Score 1) 356
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...
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