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"I want to be President for a very simple reason. Because this country needs a very strong progressive movement that challenges the accepted concentration of power and wealth in the hands of global corporations who dominate our government, our workplace, our environment and many other areas of our political economy." Ralph Nader

"Man really attains the state of complete humanity when he produces, without being forced by physical need to sell himself as a commodity." Ernesto "Che" Guevera

"Hackers is genius people
they are think with their own think" -- Frank, "Hacker's Friend or Foe", antiTrust the movie phorum

"It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies,

  CBS Blocks Web Comments on Obama 2007-05-08 15:37 Lauren Weinstein

Submitted by Lauren Weinstein on Tuesday May 08 2007, @03:37PM
Lauren Weinstein writes "CBS has chosen to block Web comments about Senator Barack Obama — and only him, they're reportedly not blocking comments regarding other candidates — due to the volume of racial and other ugly remarks in an apparently unmoderated forum ... http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000232.html — Lauren —"
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  Robert Love Joins Google 2007-05-08 15:26 No Love for Novell?

Submitted by No Love for Novell? on Tuesday May 08 2007, @03:26PM
No Love for Novell? writes "Although it doesn't resolve all the speculation about whether Robert Love left Novell due to the Microsoft deal, we now know where he's going. Mr. Love has announced that he will be joining Google's Open Source Program Office, which works on such things as Google's Summer of Code. Thus far, there have been no new reports of flying chairs in Redmond, WA, so I, for one, wish him well in his new venture."
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  ZFS under GPLv2 already exists 2007-05-08 15:25 mrcgran

Submitted by mrcgran on Tuesday May 08 2007, @03:25PM
mrcgran writes "ZFS (the zettabyte filesystem) has been grabbing lots of attention lately, not only because of its technical merits, but also because of conflicts between it and Linux kernel's licensing and architecture. However, an interesting account on how ZFS has already been released under GPLv2 by making its way into GRUB last week has failed to make headlines in slashdot. What incentives can this provide to the official support of ZFS in the Linux kernel?"
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  Sun's response to Flex and Silverlight 2007-05-08 15:20 greenhorn

Submitted by greenhorn on Tuesday May 08 2007, @03:20PM
greenhorn writes "Sun has just announced JavaFX to simplify and speed the creation and deployment of high-impact content for a wide range of devices, from desktop to mobile device to set-top box to Blu-ray Disc. It is actually what many have been expecting with the F3 programming language from Chris Oliver..."
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