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Only if the server is switched off and disconnected from the network.

It's not virtually impossible. It may be virtually impossible in crappy cheap boards from Taiwan, but if you're buying cheap parts then you're likely not making money off the results that you're producing.

>OpenBSD will run on almost everything, just the kernel does not contain binary blobs in order to support absolutely everything.

Not running with 3D acceleration with nVidia video hardware is a big stopping point. Yes, it's not their fault, but that's not running on "almost everything".

I consider it borderline negligent to use anything other than ECC RAM in any machine where you care about not corrupting your data with a flipped DRAM bit.

That is exactly what I mean. If you draw a salary from an employer then you are in an entirely different situation than if you're relying on your output to directly pay your bills.

If you've never been in a situation where you have to sell that output to customers then you know less than a shit about what piracy can do to cripple a small business and should shut your fucking mouth about which market to serve. I'll take care of those that put the food on my table, thank very much, and you can give throat-fucking forced blowjobs to any random stranger if you want.

OpenBSD fares no worse than Windows under Xen - both work just fine under HVM.

OpenBSD hardware is in the state where Linux was ten years ago - you buy/build a machine that contains the hardware that OpenBSD supports well.

Garry's Mod took a similar tactic and they're doing just fine:

http://torrentfreak.com/garrys-mod-creator-trolls-pirates-wi...

The poster you are responding to is clearly not a programmer.

Of you can use xmms on Linux. It's not dead yet!

http://www.xmms.org/

>I disagree with their man-hating propaganda ("A women needs a man like a bicycle needs a fish")

How in the world is that man-hating? Would it be woman-hating to say "A man needs a woman like a bicycle needs a fish"?

I'm not saying that it's the ONLY reason. I am saying that it is A reason.

Why would they do that? Selling out in two minutes makes them look good, and the limited number of slots make the attendees feel like they're special.

People tend to assume that you have to be a big, dumb meathead to be good at things like rugby and American football. The aptitude test given by the NFL is called the Wonderlic Test, but it is used in other fields. The average test results by profession are as follows:

  Systems Analyst – 32
  Chemist – 31
  Electrical Engineer – 30
  Engineer – 29
  Programmer – 29
  Accountant – 28
  Executive – 28
  Reporter – 28
  Teacher – 28
  Copywriter – 27
  Investment Analyst – 27
  Librarian – 27
  Electronics technician – 26
  Salesperson – 25
  Secretary – 24
  Dispatcher – 23
  Drafter – 23
  Electrician – 23
  Nurse – 23
  Bank teller – 22
  Cashier – 21

The average score per NFL position is as follows:

  Offensive tackle – 26
  Center – 25
  Quarterback – 24 (Most teams want at least 21 for a quarterback.)
  Guard – 23
  Tight end – 22
  Safety – 19
  Linebacker – 19
  Cornerback – 18
  Wide receiver – 17
  Fullback – 17
  Halfback – 16

So the big, beefy guys taking all the hits right in front of the quarterback, on average, score better then the quarterbacks, and on average, score better then electricians, draftsmen, salespeople, and nurses.

The level of asshurt expressed by GreatMarko in that thread is actually astounding.

Is this the same moral ideology that has lead him to drone brown people?

Just don't try to use EFnet or QuakeNet from them.

>That still leaves the wp-content directory and everything in it, including other plugins, writable by the web server.

You don't have to have the wp-content directory writable by the web server. I certainly don't on the WordPress installs that I maintain. I also do not have FTP open and listening. Users can SSH/SFTP files up if they wish, but I don't let the web server write into the Wordpress area for specifically that reason.

April Fools?

>I'm a MacLeod Sociopath and don't think I'm a real sociopath.

One of the defining characteristic of a sociopath is that they don't think they're a sociopath.

<It's that rigid rules keep so many people out that the only people breaking through are the ones who disregard rules or find back doors.

This is the argument that is used when people cheat on their taxes. "Oh, everyone cheats on their taxes, so it's okay when I cheat on my taxes." Except not everyone cheats on their taxes.

First, unless you are in a very specialized field, there are surely several books that cover the topic you are lecturing. In the interest of politics have an official book, but in the interest of time offer alternatives. Your students, or the good ones, at least, will be able to use whatever book they can fit in their budget, including previous editions. Especially if you're teaching calculus.

Second, if you are grading homework then produce your own problem sets. You already have to do this for exams, which means you know what you expect your students to learn, so you may as well produce the problem sets as well. At the very least indicate what types of problems a student should practice on so they can follow along in the book they do have.

Third, thank you for lecturing. I know that lecturers hate the raw deal with textbooks as well.

>World of Goo of the past has shown that indy games a worth the risk of buying a copy and testing it out (if one would ignore the paradox).

Indie game devs have an advantage here. Indies can release honest demos of their games because they're not necessarily concerned with polishing the turd for E3 or a console release - they're much more interested in polishing the final result and having people buy their game because it is good. Indie game devs can also go back to the shareware model (not that they have to, but they can) which no modern game studio would touch. Indies have that flexibility because they're indie.

Who else is going to drive the computer to the event and set it up until Google get their why and we all have self-driving cars?

>One copyright reform I'd make, would be removing copyright >protection from works like this where are sold as >massively different rates between markets.

Great. When you're done there, can you tell others what to do with the things they've created? Because surely you know better than they do. How about you tell startups what price to offer their software at and how they must license any patents they create?

This piece was written by Adrian Lamo and can be summarized as follows:

faaaaaaaaaaarrrrttt, pffffffffffttttttttt, pffffffffffttttttt, faaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrttttt, innuendo, lies, bullshit, faaaaaaaaaaaartttt

Especially if you discuss things with the author of the piece, Adrian Lamo. Adrian Lamo is not a hacker. He is a Fed. Pure and simple. His hacking convictions were there to give him cover.

>I read that 90% of law suits end in plea bargaining

Then you don't understand what a plea bargain is. Plea bargains are used only in criminal cases. You may have heard that 90% of lawsuits are settled before they go to court but that has nothing to do with what a plea bargain is.

>Trumping up accusations in order to scare the defendant is a negotiation tactic that comes in package with it.

No, trumping up accusations is grandstanding. It is neither necessary nor wise if you have a plea bargain system in place. Yes, you can tell the defendant what the possible maximum sentence is, but that doesn't mean you have to grandstand and press conference the result for the rest of the world's consumption.

>They can charge an innocent and he would have to spend all he has to prove he is not guilty. How can we stop that?

Talk to Kevin Mitnick and Bernie S about this...

>If only we could get rid of mandatory minimums and put common sense back in the driving chair, it would be much better.

This I agree with. The entire purpose of having a judge involved in sentencing was to make sure that each case was judged on its own merits. Mandatory minimums castrate the judicial system and give too much control to a legislature that is largely bought and paid for by the military/prison/school/election/industrial complex.

Yes, well, if it's one thing that we've learned it's that the American legal system is wholly incapable of learning from its mistakes. It takes the action of the legislative, executive, or higher judicial bodies to actually change things.

This is Texas. Texas lawyers use a "fan the hammer" approach when selecting defendants in civil lawsuits, especially when the Internet and notoriety is involved.

See also: Texas patent troll lawsuits

The talk that datenwolf is talking about is on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTdUmlGxVo0

I have posted that comment on the linked blog (it's awaiting moderation) without noticing that this post is several months old, so I've posted that same information here in case the author decides there's no reason approving a comment on a blog post that's several months old!