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EvilLook
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EvilLook
13y ago
Only if the server is switched off and disconnected from the network.
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EvilLook
13y ago
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.
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EvilLook
13y ago
>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 f
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EvilLook
13y ago
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.
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EvilLook
13y ago
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
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EvilLook
13y ago
OpenBSD fares no worse than Windows under Xen - both work just fine under HVM.
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EvilLook
13y ago
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.
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EvilLook
13y ago
Garry's Mod took a similar tactic and they're doing just fine: http://torrentfreak.com/garrys-mod-creator-trolls-pirates-wi...
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EvilLook
13y ago
The poster you are responding to is clearly not a programmer.
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EvilLook
13y ago
Of you can use xmms on Linux. It's not dead yet! http://www.xmms.org/
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13y ago
>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"?
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13y ago
I'm not saying that it's the ONLY reason. I am saying that it is A reason.
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EvilLook
13y ago
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.
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EvilLook
13y ago
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 result
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13y ago
The level of asshurt expressed by GreatMarko in that thread is actually astounding.
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EvilLook
13y ago
Is this the same moral ideology that has lead him to drone brown people?
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EvilLook
13y ago
Just don't try to use EFnet or QuakeNet from them.
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14y ago
>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 insta
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EvilLook
14y ago
April Fools?
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EvilLook
14y ago
>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 break
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14y ago
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
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14y ago
>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
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14y ago
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?
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14y ago
>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 t
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14y ago
This piece was written by Adrian Lamo and can be summarized as follows: faaaaaaaaaaarrrrttt, pffffffffffttttttttt, pffffffffffttttttt, faaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrttttt, innuendo, lies, bullshit, faaaaaaaaaaaartttt
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14y ago
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.
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14y ago
>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
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EvilLook
14y ago
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.
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EvilLook
14y ago
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
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14y ago
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
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