Richard Stallman quoting Chicago Mayor Harold Washington. It's not that long ago...

Wow, I'm glad I started using Ubuntu in 2007 - Finally painless display setup. 2008 brought painless stereo audio setup, and 2009 painless 5.1 sound via S/PDIF: Glory be! 2010 brought ... Unity?! I usually love experimenting with new interfaces, but this clearly had not been tested by real humans on real hardware.

This could go on forever. CmdrTaco, you're needed!

Seems to me this is why real OSes have a repository of third-party software, to be downloaded about as quickly as you can find the page within a government web site. What am I saying - Quicker.

Anything really important (ownership documents, job contracts) is scanned + distributed to all my machines with Git, and a physical copy is kept in a small folder dedicated to that theme (one for each insurance, each bank, warranties, diplomas, etc.). Less important documents are just scanned (or retrieved electronically, when possible) and the physical copy discarded. A well organized digital library is great when you don't want to shuffle through a huge stack all the time.

Whoah, that's a great idea! Let's see... Profit is divided among the musicians on perhaps a monthly basis calculated from sales metrics. Prices and salaries would be decided by a board of directors or some such, containing plenty of active musicians (anyone who's on tour could partake via webcam) on a round-robin basis to make sure both the high and low earners get a say. Some sort of bonus scheme would probably be in order for the employees to encourage both the finding of new music and the proliferation and freeing of old music.

The organization would have to plan for rapid growth, with the administration overhead that would generate. For example, round-robin meeting participation would be laughable if the members would have to wait years between attending. Maybe a sort of member voting system would be in order on top of the board, a bit like the Swiss political system.

Hmm, why not store it in one of the many ways available in which the method of recovery is known but prohibitively long? Or are the companies mandated to provide the passwords before the heat-death of the universe?

First, to the best of my knowledge, nobody has ever killed anybody else in the so-called "religious wars" we techies tend to get into. And your thinly veiled attempt to divert attention to "worse" religions completely ignores the fact that science seems to have thrived much better under other religions than christianity (look up the history of mathematics some time). And if your argument is about scientific progress today, consider that the western world is more secular than ever.

Here's what it has to say about that:

Let me know when they've sanitized their DB.

I just tested in mian (disclaimer: shameless self-promotion), and it looks like the distribution is identical: Sharp rise in the first five blocks from the bottom of the map, then flat until about 50, and tapering off to zero around 70.

If you've made a backup of all your files, you can browse/filter them with filterous (disclaimer: I made it). It's a shell tool, but it's a lot faster than delicious.com ever was, and can do some searches that Delicious never could. With >13,000 bookmarks, Delicious+filterous have been my most useful knowledge management tools in the last five years.

Now how to get as much as possible of the Flickr metadata out?

Unfortunately, those who have the power to suspend the law are rarely the ones who have to be worried of it turning against them. At least until and unless there's a political takeover by the people.

I hope they didn't patent that, because I've been doing that ever since I realized it was the only sane use of Caps Lock. Not that anyone thinks I'm sane to use Dvorak, but hey...

Analog of course. They've got this new qbits that can have literally any value between 0 and 1!