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  1. Re:Serious question on FreeCiv 1.12.0 Released · · Score: 1
    Why does all open source software tend to have bad user interface?

    Cause you haven't gotten down off your high horse and written a better interface for them?

  2. Re:Wow... more more more... on Apple Data Security Framework · · Score: 1

    No, it doesn't. Darwin alone isn't much more than a BSD variant, and I'd be pretty surprised if Apple isn't using the copyrighted ROMs on every Mac's motherboard as some sort of dongle for the higher-level Mac OS X functionality.

    I may be wrong, but Macs stopped shipping with those OS ROMs a long time ago... so I think you're totally off base.

  3. Correction, Rob: on Reviews:Shrek · · Score: 1

    Eddie played the dragon in Mulan.

  4. Re:What prior work? on PGP Division to Work With NSA on Secure Linux · · Score: 1
    The link doesn't seem to be working, but I think this is the right site. FLASK is what started all of the SELinux stuff, and was a joint project between NSA, some private company and a university in Utah. Any general search on FLASK will turn up a bunch of stuff...

    For the Goatse overloaded: http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/fluke/html/flask.html

  5. Re:Everything2:Community yes, source of knowledge, on Everything2 Hits One Million Nodes · · Score: 1

    Females who post to online communities are usually rather strange creatures, desperate for some sort of attention. This is why the e2 females cluster around the sex topics.

    Those aren't females, they're 47-year-old men named Brian. How naive are you?

  6. When this happens on a business page... on Will Browser-Neutral Web Soon Become Thing Of Past? · · Score: 1
    ...all you have to do is send them a nasty-gram that they lost your business. Enough nasty-grams, and they'll switch.

    Sheesh, think before you post such a dumb question.

  7. Re:Have no fear.... on 'Matrix' Sequels In Trouble? · · Score: 1
    what you SHOULD worry about is whether the Wachowski boys were a one hit wonder with the original or will they come through. sequels generally suck....

    Ummmm... Bound, anyone?

  8. Re:So what? on Microsoft Hack a National Security Threat · · Score: 1
    If it's a national security issue then the machines shouldn't be on the internet.

    You're forgetting something - it doesn't have to contain a remote exploit to be dangerous. What if somebody inserted a simple michaelangelo style virus into the code? Every government employee walks into his office on July 4th to find that his hard drives are crashed beyond recovery.

  9. pay phones on Is There A Santa Claus? · · Score: 1
    My wife discovered that there really is a Santa Claus. She and a friend were out late one night, when they tried to use a payphone - they'd used it the day before and were surprised that it wanted 35 cents. So they found another, and it had also been changed overnight. They realized that ALL of the pay phones had been changed overnight.

    They knew in a minute, it must be Saint Nick!

    Jemal

  10. Re:Alternative WMs for Windows on Run Gnome -- On Windows · · Score: 1
    I don't really understand what you mean. I'm using Litestep, and have been for 6 or so months. It's much less resource intensive than explorer, and has a great deal more functionality.

    Right now I have: vwm, integrated amp controls, right click popups from the desktop, draggable task bars - basically what a unix user would want/expect.

    The dev builds of litestep can be hairy at times, but most of the recent ones have been rock solid stable for me. I'd encourage anyone stuck with Windows to check out some of the Litestep themes: Turtle Soup II, Nijikon Fetchi, 21, or boxed. There are also clones of Blueheart, BlueSteel, and other themes you might be familiar with...

    As for printing and file managing, I don't know what the poster was talking about - those features are still fine for me...

  11. Re:wtf? on Monty Python and The Matrix LEGO · · Score: 1
    Perhaps slash needs two areas, geek news, and geek tabloid crap

    It already has them...

    Go to your preferences and turn off the topic "Toys" and you won't have to see this anymore. Oh wait, you're an AC so you can't.

    Membership has its privileges. =-)

  12. Re:Dr. Feynman says... on Largest Sun Spot In Nine Years Now Viewable · · Score: 1

    Nothin, you idiot, Dr. Feynman's dead. He's locked in my basement.

    Sorry - feel free to moderate me down, but it had to be said.