It isn't wrong to be altruistic, it isn't wrong to be part of a group, it isn't wrong to share one's life with another. Humans are social creatures and our very selfhood allows overlap with others. Egoistic isolation and perpetual competition isn't our natural state - we go crazy in solitary confinement.
Funny thing is, Rand would agree with you 100%, here. I'm not aware of her ever claiming, directly or indirectly, that altruism is wrong, group membership is wrong, or that life partners are wrong. I'm not aware of her advocating solitary confinement as a general approach to life.
So it looks like you are knocking down a straw man, rather than any actual arguments proffered.
All security is through obscurity to some extent. Encryption, passwords etc.
No, passwords and keys are *secrets*. If you embed the secret with the "secured" payload, then you are doing security through obscurity -- e.g. DRM. However, if the secret is not part of (or transmitted with) the payload, then the payload is truly secured by the secret.
I think most objections to socialism refer to socialism-by-coercion, not 'voluntary' socialism. Only when sharing is mandatory and enforced (i.e. coerced) does it become objectionable.
Dr. Sbaitso was the text-to-speech software package that came with early-mid 90s SoundBlaster software. I have to wonder if "Dr. Spatzo" is simply a phonetic corruption of such.
I can't legally utilize GPL'd source code within a commercial application without doing some very specific (and not always possible) things that the GPL license instructs me I must do. You can use the software all you want. Just don't distribute it.
This thing is not an actual floppy drive with some flash storage built in, which is what I thought (and a somewhat stupid idea). It's a standard flash drive that is capable of identifying it's self like a floppy drive so that Windows will find it when looking for a floppy drive. This past weekend I had to flash the BIOS on a Tyan server mobo (K8SRE). I have no floppy and the current (and new, as well) BIOS won't boot off USB.
What to do? Ensure grub and syslinux are installed. Have a floppy image ready (http://bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm, or Ubuntu CD)
copy floppy.img to, say,/boot/dos/
copy memdisk (executable) to/boot/dos/
add grub entry:
title Floppy Image kernel/boot/dos/memdisk initrd/boot/dos/floppy.img
Now, when the floppy image loads, I will only have access to what's defined in the floppy image.
Next, add the BIOS update files:
Ensure mtools is installed
configure mtools to use the floppy image as A:
copy BIOS files into the floppy image
mcopy ~/bios_flash_files/* a:
Now, reboot into the floppy image, flash the BIOS, clear the CMOS, and restart!
Say if Google's stock just tanked overnight and died....well we'd loose alot of stuff there! I don't think so. The company relies on ad revenue moreso than market capitalization.
Last mile communications infrastructure is a natural monopoly.
The only reason many places (and this is hardly specific to the USA) have a duopoloy rather than a monopoly on last mile communications infrastruture is because of a combination of government regulation and the fact that in the pre-digital era TV had very different wiring needs from telephone.
The soloution is obvious but hard to force through with lots of lobbyists arround. The provision of last mile communication service needs to be decoupled from the provision of content service and long distance communication service. The provision of last mile service should be done by either government (preferablly as local governement as possible) or a highly regulated buisness. Provision of content and long distance communications service should be a competitive market. Exactly. Wish I had mod points...
Why couldn't we have gotten Beethoven? Are you sure that the existence of Britney is evidence of the absence of Beethoven? Speaking figuratively, of course...
If these companies were traditional F/OSS enemies, there'd be no surprise, but will people who bought stock in a Linux company really support being a traitor? I mean, really, these aren't people who bought stock in an oil company or GM. It's like investing in a solar power company or something you do at least in part for the principle of it. Nope. The only duty to its shareholders that a public company faces is a fiduciary one.
But really, Youtube is not "the little guy". Youtube started by a rich kid from a rich family (or at least, he married into wealth) and is now owned by google. It's not like there's some deserving indie guy here working hard for us. Interesting form of judgement you've developed there...
It's the bikeshed problem: everybody agrees that we want a bikeshed, and that it needs to be painted to keep from rotting, and nobody has a particular color it has to be, but nobody feels empowered to go out and buy paint, in case somebody turns out to be deeply offended by the color choice. That's not the bikeshed problem at all. The bikeshed problem is when you've proposed a major new construction with the latest high-tech infrastructure, and while the construction company was at it, you had them build a bike shed out back for the forward-thinking commuters; when you put the proposal in front of the board, they nod approvingly at the high-tech infrastructure yet devolve into antagonstic squabbles regarding the color of said shed.
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Uh, yep. The reason that they are the butt of accuracy jokes is precisely because they are judged by results.
Funny thing is, Rand would agree with you 100%, here. I'm not aware of her ever claiming, directly or indirectly, that altruism is wrong, group membership is wrong, or that life partners are wrong. I'm not aware of her advocating solitary confinement as a general approach to life.
So it looks like you are knocking down a straw man, rather than any actual arguments proffered.
All security is through obscurity to some extent. Encryption, passwords etc.
No, passwords and keys are *secrets*. If you embed the secret with the "secured" payload, then you are doing security through obscurity -- e.g. DRM. However, if the secret is not part of (or transmitted with) the payload, then the payload is truly secured by the secret.
I think most objections to socialism refer to socialism-by-coercion, not 'voluntary' socialism. Only when sharing is mandatory and enforced (i.e. coerced) does it become objectionable.
How about publishing the raw data, publishing the transforms that are used to calibrate it, and publishing the calibrated data?
That way, those interested in verifying the calibration process can do so, and those looking to run stats on the calibrated data can do so?
Yes, whatever happened to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_bold ? Is that not encouraged anymore?
Dr. Sbaitso was the text-to-speech software package that came with early-mid 90s SoundBlaster software. I have to wonder if "Dr. Spatzo" is simply a phonetic corruption of such.
- copy floppy.img to, say,
/boot/dos/
- copy memdisk (executable) to
/boot/dos/
- add grub entry:
Now, when the floppy image loads, I will only have access to what's defined in the floppy image. Next, add the BIOS update files:- Ensure mtools is installed
- configure mtools to use the floppy image as A:
- copy BIOS files into the floppy image
Now, reboot into the floppy image, flash the BIOS, clear the CMOS, and restart!The only reason many places (and this is hardly specific to the USA) have a duopoloy rather than a monopoly on last mile communications infrastruture is because of a combination of government regulation and the fact that in the pre-digital era TV had very different wiring needs from telephone.
The soloution is obvious but hard to force through with lots of lobbyists arround. The provision of last mile communication service needs to be decoupled from the provision of content service and long distance communication service. The provision of last mile service should be done by either government (preferablly as local governement as possible) or a highly regulated buisness. Provision of content and long distance communications service should be a competitive market. Exactly. Wish I had mod points...
e.g. http://www.bikeshed.com/
- the very next (and 'next' means the one after 'this') e.g. Friday's this Monday is 3 days later
- x of the current y, where y is composed of several xs e.g. September's this January is 8 months earlier
In my experience, the former is the accepted usage.