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Submission + - Star Wars-themed Proposal During Graduation Speech (wptz.com)

Submitted by DevanJedi on Friday May 14, 2010 @04:19PM

DevanJedi writes: He said: ""Where is Rachel? You know which one, Rachel Roy," Gordon said as he began to close his speech. "Rachel, my love for you burns hotter than the two suns that orbit Darth Vader's home planet of Tantuin. You are the most beautiful and interesting person I know and together we can do it.""

Submission + - Judge Strikes Down Part of Patriot Act (wired.com)

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DevanJedi

on Thursday September 06, 2007 @03:41PM

DevanJedi writes: "A federal judge struck down parts of the revised USA Patriot Act on Thursday, saying investigators must have a court's approval before they can order Internet providers to turn over records without telling customers."

Submission + - China Toy Boss Kills Self After Recall (yahoo.com)

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DevanJedi

on Monday August 13, 2007 @10:22AM

DevanJedi writes: "The head of the Chinese toy manufacturer who is at the centre of the big recall committed suicide by hanging himself in his warehouse. It seems like a close friend of his sold him "fake" paint. The most telling quote from the AP article, however, is that "it is common for disgraced officials to commit suicide in China.""

Submission + - Harry Potter and a Goblin's Take on Copyright (scienceaddiction.com)

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DevanJedi

on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @10:13PM

DevanJedi writes: "Here's a passage from page 517 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows : (Ron's brother Bill is warning Harry against trusting a goblin Griphook.) "You don't understand, Harry, nobody could understand unless they have lived with goblins. To a goblin, the rightful and true master of any object is the maker, not the purchaser. All goblin-made objects are, in goblin eyes, rightfully theirs. [...] They have, however, great difficulty with the idea of goblin-made objects passing from wizard to wizard. [...] They consider our habit of keeping goblin-made objects, passing them from wizard to wizard without further payment, little more than theft." These goblins sound like our friendly neighborhood MPAA/RIAA lawyers!"

Submission + - FBI Employees Face Criminal Probe Over Patriot Act (wired.com)

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DevanJedi

on Thursday July 12, 2007 @12:49PM

DevanJedi writes: "According to an article at Wired.com, "FBI personnel who used misleading emergency letters to acquire thousands of Americans' phone records are the subject of a criminal investigation [...] The privately disclosed investigation would mark the first time government officials have faced possible prosecution for misuse of Patriot Act investigative tools.""

Submission + - Hacktivism Questions for Presidential Candidates 1

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DevanJedi

on Monday July 09, 2007 @01:37PM

DevanJedi writes: "I am putting together a questionnaire of issues important to the geek hacktivists for each of the candidates for next years US Presidential Election. Most of the web sites of these candidates do not come close to addressing the issues that are important to us today and will affect society in general tomorrow. Issues of privacy, copyright and fair use, net neutrality, the DMCA, the PATRIOT act will obviously come up, but what are the questions that you would want to put to the people who may have the power to change the rules of the digital game?"

Submission + - Ten Years of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" (scienceaddiction.com)

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DevanJedi

on Wednesday July 04, 2007 @12:25AM

DevanJedi writes: "This year, that seminal work by Eric S. Raymond turns ten years old. The book that added to the geek language, changed the browser wars and was printed with an Open Source Document License, is still relevant after a decade and the bazaar development model still powers thousands of software projects."

Submission + - 7 Ways to Avoid the iPhone Hype (applematters.com)

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DevanJedi

on Thursday June 21, 2007 @12:20PM

DevanJedi writes: "A funny article takes on the impossible task of avoiding the hype: includes bending the laws of physics and social propriety."

Sun Joins Mac Open Office Development 171

Posted by kdawson on Thursday May 03, 2007 @09:18AM from the bye-bye-X11 dept.

widhalmt writes "In a blog post, a developer at Sun Microsystems announces that Sun will help with porting Open Office to Mac OS X. The open source office suite is well known on Linux and Windows, but does not have a native version on Mac OS. For a long time Sun did not want to join the development of that port but now they will actively push it."

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