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  1. Re:vim on What Makes a Good UI? · · Score: 1

    It's ok as a lightweight editor, but not ok for the eighties or later, from a usability point of view

    I've always found Vim to be much easier to use than a nano-like test editor. I just wish GTK would make a text-box that uses the vim controls.

  2. Re:vim on What Makes a Good UI? · · Score: 1

    So it has a fairly steep learning curve...but once you know it well, it is a *very* good user interface.

    Run 'vimtutor'.

    And you want :q!

  3. Re:Solution on Open Source Web-Based File Management? · · Score: 1

    Because then you need to install a web server, have an SSL certificate, etc. etc.

  4. Re:Unpossible to Clean SpyWare? on Microsoft Warns of Impossible to Clean Spyware · · Score: 1

    I said the administrator, not the administrator user. I would imagine that the code used by the system would be signed on another (not network-attached) computer, or a standalone device, and the public key could be flashed into EPROM.

  5. Re:not to mention secure on Electronic Gadget Ideas for a New House? · · Score: 4, Funny

    If someone has made a hole in my wall and spliced into my network cable, my net connection will be the least of my worries.

  6. Re:Commercial GPL on OSI Hopes To Decrease Number of Licenses · · Score: 1

    Now is there ANY reason why you would want to put the code directly into the sources rather than linking it in? It's much more difficult to update to a newer version of the library, and makes things a lot more messy.

  7. Re:Go read 'Sum of All Fears' on Can Terrorists Build a Nuclear Bomb? · · Score: 1

    Read the *BOOK*. The movie didn't seem to have a plot at all, the book however was about Palestinian terrorists trying to destroy the US and USSR, because they were unhappy with the treaty which was formed between Palestine and Israel.

    The movie was barely related to the book.

  8. Re:Cargo ship or moving van. on Can Terrorists Build a Nuclear Bomb? · · Score: 1

    But how would you be able to mix it with the needed air quickly enough?

  9. Re:Unpossible to Clean SpyWare? on Microsoft Warns of Impossible to Clean Spyware · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It would be fine if the ADMINISTRATOR had the ability to sign code for Palladium.

  10. Re:Psst... on U.S. Agencies Earn D+ on Computer Security · · Score: 1

    It is at my school...

  11. Re:why is plutonium important? on London Nuke Plant Loses 30 Kilos of Plutonium · · Score: 1

    A hydrogen bomb needs a fission weapon which is used as a detonator, in order to produce enough heat and pressure for it to trigger.

  12. Re:Accounting error? on London Nuke Plant Loses 30 Kilos of Plutonium · · Score: 1

    From what a previous post said, it is about the size of two grapefruit.

  13. Re:Leave those kids alone... on Student RFID Tracking Suspended from School · · Score: 1

    What a coincidence...I'm actually listening to that song right now ;)

  14. Re:I like the RFID idea on Student RFID Tracking Suspended from School · · Score: 1

    Hopefully this isn't too much of an issue at grade school, but I hear locks work quite well. =)

    Traditionally we just use the toilets, and they're fairly safe - I only know one person who actually got caught (well two really, when you think about it).

    Can't point to an actual rule that they were breaking though...but I'm at a school where you can get suspended for anything. If someone beats you up, you will get suspended for fighting back.

  15. Re:Not about the children.... on Student RFID Tracking Suspended from School · · Score: 1

    Just wondering...at my school, I have to carry around my diary so that teachers can check that it's been signed by my teacher when I go for a piss.

    What am I supposed to do with it when I'm at a urinal? I don't know :-|

    These things don't seem to work too well, especially since no-one actually checks for a signature.

  16. Re:Hey kids! on Student RFID Tracking Suspended from School · · Score: 1

    (RFID badge containing copper tracks and other metal components | microwave) == FUN!

  17. Re:I can't speak as a parent.. on Student RFID Tracking Suspended from School · · Score: 1

    Especially when you have to pay 40 grand a year to go to a private school...why should privacy be something only for the rich?

  18. Re:Who cares about easily available? on Building The MareNostrum COTS Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    You can design and manufacture all your components as easily and quickly as you can buy servers from IBM???

  19. Re:Off who's shelf? on Building The MareNostrum COTS Supercomputer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You don't need your own fab, and you don't need to rent one. If you don't need custom components, it's off-the-shelf.

  20. Re:Incorrect on LokiTorrent Shut Down · · Score: 1

    My point was that claiming that a lesser market to sell your product is not the same as taking money.

    Not anything ethical.

  21. Re:The music of today on Death of the Album? · · Score: 1

    I'm 15 now...and I'd agree about most music now being shit...
    Green Day, Jet, and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers are an exception though ;)

  22. Re:MTV get off the air on Death of the Album? · · Score: 1

    I'm a teenager in Australia....what is it that kids over in America have that is *THAT* bad? We've got Shannon Knoll over here, I'm sure that he has destroyed more people than any of the stuff over in the US ;)

  23. Re:It's dead, Jim on Death of the Album? · · Score: 1

    Most of the songs I really like are the ones that I didn't hear until I bought the album...

  24. Re:Is not only about censorship on Chinese Force Mass Closure Of Net Cafes · · Score: 1
    Is not only about censorship (Score:4, Insightful)
    by stm2 (141831) <sbassi@asalup . o rg> on Monday February 14, @09:36AM (#11667203)
    (http://www.bioinformatica.info/)
    Ummm...just out of curiosity, you're posting about kids not working at 9:36 on Monday morning right? :P
  25. Re:No Spam on Chinese Force Mass Closure Of Net Cafes · · Score: 1

    I find it somewhat ironic considering your last line ;)