Funny, I believe that. It does fix many problems (such as resources disappearing due to memory leaks or application crashes). Not permanently, they recur, but short of spending a few days reinstallng everything, it's the best solution.
Then perhaps what you meant is that rebooting fixes the _symptoms_ of the problems, where the problems are poor design and bad code, and the symptoms are memory leaks and crashes. Were the problems fixed by rebooting, why would the symptoms continue to occur?
I have done something similar to this before. Use debootstrap to install a minimal Debian installation into my home directory, chroot into it, and then install whatever other packages I want to my heart's content. Unfortunately chroot requires root for some reason. If there was a way for a user to chroot, it would be pretty trivial to stow packages in your home directory even if they were compiled for systemwide installation.
I dunno. There are probably more important problems at the moment than determining who deserves ownership of particular properties which are not currently being actively disputed. Perhaps in the future we can set up a trust fund where the government or a nonprofit purchases the land from the original claimants, and then the current owners can make payments on it to the government, whenever income allows. Of course, then you have the problem of people who won't sell for any price, which complicates the problem; but hopefully that would be a minority of the overall situation.
Personally I'd do fine with lower federal taxes and less corruption in the federal government (two distinct yet correlated things). Keeping the federal government out of individual lifestyle choices is also rather high on my list.
As a corollary to that, a big issue personal to me is ending the war on marijuana/hemp. Not primarily because I think it's a harmless recreational substance when proper moderation is employed, but chiefly because it is one of the cheapest and easiest-to-grow sources known for industrial fiber and organic oil, and because there are sick people in pain and dying that could be helped by it but are instead being jailed. Its illegality was enacted based on racism (vs Mexicans/Blacks) and corporate lobbying, and the only real reasons it continues to be a Schedule I controlled substance is due to lobbying from tobacco and pharmaceutical companies, alongside reefer-madness style propaganda from right wing and law enforcement groups; polls indicate that the vast majority (80%+) of Americans support allowing medical use of marijuana. It bothers me that such a vocal minority is able to influence the federal government in such a large way, and this is why it is a hot button issue for me: Money shouldn't talk as loud as it currently does at the federal level, and the marijuana war is one of the most outstanding examples of what is wrong.
As it stands, we are excluding from general consideration one of the most all-around useful plants that exists on the planet, and the only current arguments for that exclusion besides lobbying and religious arguments is a shaky case that individuals are unable or unwilling to regulate their recreational use of the substance, that such individuals become a burden on society through crime and through welfare, and that it is the federal government's place to perform this regulation.
My opinion is that we should punish crimes regardless of who commits them or what they were on at the moment, that drug use is not an excuse for an insanity defense, and that felons convicted of violent crime should lose their right to imbibe since they have already proven themselves dangerous to others; I also think that in order to qualify for welfare, a prerequisite is that testing for recreational drugs should be performed, and welfare checks withheld in the case of a failure -- I don't particularly like the idea of subsidizing others' lack of motivation (which happens to be a principal side effect of the abuse of marijuana); I also don't think it is the federal government's place to set a default drug policy for the states - setting such a policy and enforcing it should be left to the states (and indeed, there is no constitutional support for federal government interference in this area besides the "general welfare" catch-all clause).
I support all-out legalization at the federal level (with appropriate taxation and regulation by the individual states), but I would settle for it being rescheduled to Schedule II. That way at least growing the plant would not be illegal, and patients could obtain their medicine through a doctor's prescription without federal interference. Other than that, I don't see a particularly compelling case to put nonviolent marijuana users/growers in federal prisons or to place them under various other deterrent penalties (such as loss of federal finanical aid for students).
The Libertarian party supports this issue in particular, and conflicts with oth
It's consistent because the Libertarian platform defines what they consider natural rights to be, and government protection which upholds those is perfectly fine while other government interference is discouraged.
Any other platform also does the same (i.e., Dems think of universal healthcare and a minimum income as natural rights) and push for government protection of those standards, but they also use the government as a balancing force to correct what they perceive as intrinsic unfairness in the system. Usually these sorts of actions end up doing more harm than good, and libertarians usually oppose them.
Indeed, I think one of the core inconsistencies in the libertarian argument is that the strong property rights that they love are meaningless unless they are enforced through government regulation.
Government enforcement of natural rights is not the same as government regulation, which implies interference in the process of freedom.
As a software developer, I feel that I ought to get paid for the work I do.
Then make it more convenient to pay for your software (in terms of a lower price) than it would be to pirate it (in terms of copy protection, missed printed manuals, missed support, missed upgrades, etc). Quite a simple bush that many people choose to just beat around.
Consumer watchdog duty need not be a function of the federal government. Look at UL the Underwriters Laboratories for a prominent example. That is how all watchdog organizations should be structured.
Don't own anything of significant value. I've found this to be an excellent crime deterrent. My computers are nearly all 5+ years old, my car 15 years, my clothes from bargain basement, etc. My music/sound gear is the only stuff I own that is worth stealing, and a crook would have to know its value beforehand to justify bothering.
It's not that they shouldn't re-issue games, it's that the economic motivation created by copyright should lean towards creating new works. Unfortunately there is no motivation to do so, outside of flat demand for older titles, when you have perpetual copyright on your existing library.
And worst of all, there are no drivers for my favorite soundcard for newer versions of Windows or for Linux (at least not without paying).
What is your favorite soundcard? If you mean Aureal cards, they are supported by ALSA. Manuel Jander and Jeff Muizelaar reverse-engineered the closed source OSS driver and the Windows drivers, and produced hardware documentation as well as a ground-up ALSA re-implementation. Manuel even figured out the 3D side of things, but his questions asked on the OpenAL list regarding the development of an Aureal OpenAL driver revealed the true nature of "Open"AL:
Garin Hiebert (Creative engineer):
With OpenAL, the original idea was to include a variety of vendors who are
not going to want to share all their core or extension code with one
another to create a seamless experience across the hardware/software
transition. For instance, Creative isn't going to share its EAX effect
code to allow other vendors to adopt the feature at the same quality
level. NVIDIA has their own capabilities and extensions that they aren't
going to share with others as well...
Manuel Jander:
OK, that means that its not entirely a technical
reason, rather more "political". Maybe one should
do a fork to have a OpenAL variant backed only by
technical argumentation.
Garin Hiebert:
Absolutely true. Creative would not have spent so much time on OpenAL
if its purpose were to make our hardware irrelevant. Same with NVIDIA.
Both companies want to enable APIs that help them sell hardware.
Selling more Aureal boards on EBay doesn't serve either company's
interest at all.
There you have it, the reason we don't today have hardware accelerated 3D audio for Aureal cards. Pretty lame in my opinion, but that's the way it is when you have monopolies in charge of the standards.
This stuff was posted on 8 Jan 2004 if you want to go back and read the thread.
Ballmer also dismissed the notion that Linux is more secure than Windows, saying that Linux would be attacked just as frequently
So what? It's not the attacks I'm concerned about; my machines are attacked all the time. It's the breaches I'm concerned about. Of course, he couldn't come out and make that distinction, electing instead to attack a straw man constructed from a buzzword.
Now, all that said, I could give a damn WHAT the RIAA or MPAA think because when I buy a CD or DVD or computer software, it's mine dammit, and I'm going to do whatever the hell I want to with it - and nothing they say or do will ever change that.
I don't suppose a hefty lawsuit or a prison sentence would carry any weight with you?
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Cool, that's exactly what I wanted. Thanks!
Personally I'd do fine with lower federal taxes and less corruption in the federal government (two distinct yet correlated things). Keeping the federal government out of individual lifestyle choices is also rather high on my list.
As a corollary to that, a big issue personal to me is ending the war on marijuana/hemp. Not primarily because I think it's a harmless recreational substance when proper moderation is employed, but chiefly because it is one of the cheapest and easiest-to-grow sources known for industrial fiber and organic oil, and because there are sick people in pain and dying that could be helped by it but are instead being jailed. Its illegality was enacted based on racism (vs Mexicans/Blacks) and corporate lobbying, and the only real reasons it continues to be a Schedule I controlled substance is due to lobbying from tobacco and pharmaceutical companies, alongside reefer-madness style propaganda from right wing and law enforcement groups; polls indicate that the vast majority (80%+) of Americans support allowing medical use of marijuana. It bothers me that such a vocal minority is able to influence the federal government in such a large way, and this is why it is a hot button issue for me: Money shouldn't talk as loud as it currently does at the federal level, and the marijuana war is one of the most outstanding examples of what is wrong.
As it stands, we are excluding from general consideration one of the most all-around useful plants that exists on the planet, and the only current arguments for that exclusion besides lobbying and religious arguments is a shaky case that individuals are unable or unwilling to regulate their recreational use of the substance, that such individuals become a burden on society through crime and through welfare, and that it is the federal government's place to perform this regulation.
My opinion is that we should punish crimes regardless of who commits them or what they were on at the moment, that drug use is not an excuse for an insanity defense, and that felons convicted of violent crime should lose their right to imbibe since they have already proven themselves dangerous to others; I also think that in order to qualify for welfare, a prerequisite is that testing for recreational drugs should be performed, and welfare checks withheld in the case of a failure -- I don't particularly like the idea of subsidizing others' lack of motivation (which happens to be a principal side effect of the abuse of marijuana); I also don't think it is the federal government's place to set a default drug policy for the states - setting such a policy and enforcing it should be left to the states (and indeed, there is no constitutional support for federal government interference in this area besides the "general welfare" catch-all clause).
I support all-out legalization at the federal level (with appropriate taxation and regulation by the individual states), but I would settle for it being rescheduled to Schedule II. That way at least growing the plant would not be illegal, and patients could obtain their medicine through a doctor's prescription without federal interference. Other than that, I don't see a particularly compelling case to put nonviolent marijuana users/growers in federal prisons or to place them under various other deterrent penalties (such as loss of federal finanical aid for students).
The Libertarian party supports this issue in particular, and conflicts with oth
Any other platform also does the same (i.e., Dems think of universal healthcare and a minimum income as natural rights) and push for government protection of those standards, but they also use the government as a balancing force to correct what they perceive as intrinsic unfairness in the system. Usually these sorts of actions end up doing more harm than good, and libertarians usually oppose them.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2002-12 -13&res=l
It's not that they shouldn't re-issue games, it's that the economic motivation created by copyright should lean towards creating new works. Unfortunately there is no motivation to do so, outside of flat demand for older titles, when you have perpetual copyright on your existing library.
Garin Hiebert (Creative engineer):
Manuel Jander: Garin Hiebert: There you have it, the reason we don't today have hardware accelerated 3D audio for Aureal cards. Pretty lame in my opinion, but that's the way it is when you have monopolies in charge of the standards.This stuff was posted on 8 Jan 2004 if you want to go back and read the thread.
# apt-get install mysql-server
Then ... oh, you're done.