The guys who have been the butt of accuracy jokes for hundreds of years. Are judged by results.

Uh, yep. The reason that they are the butt of accuracy jokes is precisely because they are judged by results.

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.

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.