http://www.bravemule.com/

An illustrated tale of what happens in those fortresses.

Because advertising is annoying.

Believe me, if I could wear magical glasses that adblocked ads in real life, I fucking would.

The 10 billion figure is yearly.

The 200 million figure is monthly.

They are still far apart, but not by as much as you imply.

If something is not ilegal, then it's legal. This "alegal" thing is a dangerous concept.

We can't expect the laws to define absolutely every aspect of the human (or alien!) experience.

Oh, I thought someone had patented the very idea of open sourcing code.

Yeah, but stuxnet was designed to spread even without the internet.

"plants with lots of DNA have more trouble tolerating pollution and extreme climatic extinction"

What kind of genome do you need to survive extinction?

But the government still taxes these people, without providing a police force? So basically the guys who own firearms are the ones who are being oppresed by their government, and the ones who do not feel the need to own weapons, are the ones who live under good governments.

Let's be honests here: you've never lived under an oppressive government, ever. If you did, you'd realize that your rifle would only get you killed if you tried to buy some freedom of your own with it.

More honesty: you like shooting at things, which is ok. Just don't try to rationalize your gun mania into some kind of fight against a government out to oppress you, because it makes you look stupid.

How does xargs replace hadoop, even in trivial examples?

Unless you are talking about running hadoop in a single machine, which is just waaay too trivial an example.

Super simple question: yes, they should have read-only access.

Unless you are concerned about privacy issues, but then you probably solved those for your sysadmins too, so no biggie.