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BgSpnnrs··on Blocking Kiwifarms
What the hell is this travesty. Now any old nobody can kill a site by larping drama on fucking twitter.

You should all think about the people dying in dictatorships before you give up a free and open Internet over some paedophile using twitter clout to ban a gossip forum

BgSpnnrs··on State Department Audit: Private Email Server Not Government Records Compliant
Here's a .pdf of the report

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2842460/ESP-16-03...

BgSpnnrs··on The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared
Amusing to note you found that thread on undelete :/
BgSpnnrs··on Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken ownership of 4chan
I think Mike Cernovich did after he got doxxed and attempted swatted
BgSpnnrs··on The Ketamine Connection
Still used in pediatrics in the UK. Just the BBC being the BBC.
BgSpnnrs··on Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin
If you tag a user of a subreddit then you are going to see them pop up all over the place. It's not necessarily indicative of a raid or brigade.

>also, there were 150,000 of them.

Probably explains why you saw tagged users 'invading' subs you use.

BgSpnnrs··on Ellen Pao case puts Silicon Valley boys' club on trial
conversely puts the fastidiously litigious on trial too. No investment in either side, i think it's all pretty grim.
BgSpnnrs··on The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan
He posted his number privately in order to facilitate an interview regarding the topic at hand. I'd argue publishing that is far more egregious than taking a selfie outside someones publicly listed place of work.

Either way they are both shitty behaviours, don't really think we need to take a one vs the other.

BgSpnnrs··on The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan
Perhaps the entrepreneurs amongst us don't like it when someone who the brutality of society would miscast as an ugly little man makes a site that isn't afraid of showing it's ugly side and garners moderate success in, if not financial but at least social acceptance and 'bootstrap' paradigms.

Frederick is an inspirational bloke and all these people casting aspersions on his character whilst lamenting m00t's departure for his cultural boldness, despite disagreeing with the content is pure hypocrisy.

Especially given the non-inclusive hate mob moniker attributed to GG by a genuinely terrible cabal of shoddy journalists and their transparent smears.

I believe common sense will prevail in all of this and there will be no victory fanfares or v-days - quietly the press will mature, the trolls will get bored and good websites and reporters will get justified clicks.

BgSpnnrs··on The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan
There's nothing naive and presumptuous about it in the least, it's an ethical violation that wouldn't fly by most professional standards and there are vast tracts of legal obligations most people adhere to which define those boundaries, no matter what a small group of hacks suppose.

fortunately the more responsible publications have already updated their policies and looked inwardly to prevent fucking up so publicly and obviously again. (We can hope at the least they won't soapbox to their readership that they are assholes for calling them out!).

BgSpnnrs··on Dolphin Progress Report: November 2014
The next one is actually happening.4-10 Jan 2015, so keep an eye out for it on twitch, great event.
BgSpnnrs··on [dead]
What a load of old rot that consistently and wilfully avoids the very valid concerns about corruption and ethical question marks regarding certain game jams and charity drives in order to chuck a bunch of epithets around.

>""Gamer" says none of that. "Gamer" is selfish; preoccupied with one’s own pleasure over the advancement of the medium. "Gamer" is conservative; virulently opposed to change or innovation except in very specific, rigidly-defined areas. "Gamer" is tribalistic; defining oneself in terms of one’s tastes and factional allegiances above all.""

Utter tripe.

BgSpnnrs··on NSA Observer
Does this not depend on the NSA's rather dubious interpretation of 'collection' to mean 'collected but not actually analyzed by human eyes yet'?
BgSpnnrs··on NSA Observer
Could you elaborate? I'd like to know the proper facts if this site is not providing them!
BgSpnnrs··on NSA Observer
Without personal interaction and not to cast aspersions on a person I've not met, John Young has a reputation of being a bit of a firebrand, iconoclast and bombastic figure - however cryptome has operated for many years with a simple policy of publish docs deemed inappropriate for public view...

They intentionally make no judgement on the things they publish.

It is a note of importance however, to realise cryptome - in the case of most of these source documents - are serving as a host rather than linking to the original (guardian/WAPO/firstlook/der speigel etc.) websites, probably as much for posterity as for convenience.

I see little reason to question the veracity of the info provided on this site.

BgSpnnrs··on Astrophysicists propose new twist on Big Bang
..and theology does?
BgSpnnrs··on Astrophysicists propose new twist on Big Bang
>Otherwsie, for all we know, out Universe can be just a 3d surface of a 4d nut that a small 4d squirrel puppy is about to bite into.

absolutely. I know you are trying to portray such a scenario as incredulous, but it's entirely feasible.

BgSpnnrs··on Edward Snowden: The Untold Story
Didn't the chap who hacked FinFisher mention something about Syrians somehow acquiring the software. I'm sure I read that the other day
BgSpnnrs··on The Cornish beaches where Lego keeps washing up
I remember the Napoli too, went and had a look out of curiosity. Also not heard of this Lego incident! Of course shipwrecks, and even wreckers have an illustrious history down here.
BgSpnnrs··on The Making of Elite
Seems to be down, friend.
BgSpnnrs··on GCHQ spy base revealed
How the hell does the register get it's hands on this?
BgSpnnrs··on US Secretly Built 'Cuban Twitter' To Stir Unrest
I think a more commendable tactic would be to not stick their oar into sovereign state's business with a mind to ruin their systems of government. I suppose not killing people is commendable, but it is pretty low bar for moral behaviour.
BgSpnnrs··on Turkish government takes down YouTube too
"Earlier, what appeared to be a leaked audio recording of Turkish officials discussing Syria appeared on YouTube."

A bit light on the details there, auntie beeb. This is some pretty damning evidence.

Translation here: http://www.reddit.com/r/syriancivilwar/comments/21ib4d/leake...

BgSpnnrs··on I Hunt Sys Admins
The Boris Johnson effect. :/
BgSpnnrs··on How the NSA Plans to Infect “Millions” of Computers with Malware
also both in and on courts. :)
BgSpnnrs··on Edward Snowden SXSW live stream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPrDqoaHHSY
BgSpnnrs··on UK official involved in national porn filter arrested for child porn
The DM broke this story too. Defo an interesting timeline of events.
BgSpnnrs··on Why Does A Good Kettle Cost $90+?
Bought a kettle today, £12.

I guess in the UK they are counted as a necessity and are cheap :P

BgSpnnrs··on Speech accent archive (English)
No Cornish either, shocking! I would submit a sample but I don't fancy being an exemplary case - accents are serious business!
BgSpnnrs··on NSA statement does not deny 'spying' on members of Congress
I can abnsolutely understand that realisation, and I suppose I am not sure of my thinking regarding the whole paradigm of a powerful select being immune to the tentacles of the surveillance state - I just think it is all very, very bad. I am not clever enough or articulate enough to explain these things properly.
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