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The author actually has it right due to OpenBSD's httpd running in a chroot of /var/www.

Edit: nevermind, you're right, just checked it again and the author put the copied awk under /usr/bin inside the chroot

Insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan have held up pretty well against the US military over all. Pervasive gun ownership in these countries prior to our involvement is a major part of this equation. I think a militia uprising in the US would fare even better because a substantial number of the members of said militia would have been trained by that very military they are fighting. I also believe that a substantial number of the National Guard units would be loyal to their state instead of a tyrannical federal government.

Let's also not forget that our country got its start by a scrappy group of farmers and tradesmen armed only with muskets and flintlock pistols that defeated the greatest world power at the time.

I'm waiting for a politician to pass legislation requiring us to have the telescreens from 1984.

We already have thought crimes, I mean red flag laws and no fly lists.

People need to stop giving up their liberty and privacy for perceived safety.

You're much more likely to be killed by an automobile than a mass shooting. This is the new flavor of scare tactic.

The problem with property taxes as they are usually implemented is that they put a very high burden on farmers and are often passed on directly to renters by their landlords.

Why would they do that? Why would they care which hypervisor/VM solution you use?

For this reason I would never trust my livelihood with the Play Store. Beer money, yes, paying my bills, hell no.

Also every release of the .NET framework to my knowledge ships with the "csc.exe" and "vbc.exe" compilers. So C# and Visual Basic.NET are available out of the box with modern versions of Windows as well. No IDE support, but you could whip up quick hello worlds with notepad without breaking a sweat.

Is Bill Nye's opinion relevant in this either?

This is rich, considering just how reliant Federal Government agencies like the Department of Defense are on contractors.

To continue this analogy. When I go to a restaurant and order a steak I don't get told by the waiter that I should really be eating vegan gluten free instead.

What really bothers me the most about modern "news" is that a lot of it is really just biased political commentary and editorials masquerading as news.

What concerns me about the Red Hat acquisition is just how much of what we consider "Linux" is developed and controlled by Red Hat employees. Look at things like Gnome, PulseAudio, and systemd. Canonical and other Linux companies very rarely have this kind of impact across the entire ecosystem.

I'm not saying that just doing word processing on my phone is incredible. Microsoft Word is one of the most powerful word processors and I just find it incredible how many features from the traditional desktop version are supported on a mobile device.

I find all of the negativity related to this very strange. Microsoft Word on Android is incredible (and the other MS Office apps for that matter). The ability to not only view, but even edit documents on my phone has come in handy many times. Google Docs is good for what it is, but it is not 100% compatible, and round tripping documents that contain complex formatting is risky.

Overall Microsoft's Android apps are of very high quality. I'm pretty certain that these 1 billion installs are not just bundling deals. The vast majority of businesses and governments rely upon Microsoft Office, so is it really that surprising that employees of these organizations would install these apps on their mobile devices?