Hooray! I finally disabled sound altogether in Ubuntu! It was surprisingly difficult... but in the end all I did was copy the noALSA.modprobe.conf file to /etc/modprobe.d/:
cp /lib/linux-sound-base/noALSA.modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.d/
Helpful Link:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1824685
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