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burgerbrain

9,016 karma · joined October 18, 2010

Apathetic crypto-anarchist. Part-time deity. Enthusiast of rubberized concrete.
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burgerbrain··on Year of the storm
"Then why does TPB mention Syria and North Korea at all?"

Because they care about that.

burgerbrain··on Year of the storm
The free exchange of information is about the big picture. Who cares if individuals use it to download Glee or call the king a pig?

And as far as I am concerned, any flow of information into North Korea is a good thing. Beggers can't be choosy.

burgerbrain··on The Pirate Bay Moves to .SE Domain To Prevent Domain Seizure
Would it be enough for a magnet url and a short description? The Pirate Bay is moving away from hosting torrent files anyway.
burgerbrain··on Caution on Twitter urged as Britons barred from US
I think it is pretty clear that in this case the rational of the CBP is that the two were 'dangerous', not that they messed up paperwork or violated visas.

De-fund them all, they have proven that even they don't take themselves seriously.

burgerbrain··on Caution on Twitter urged as Britons barred from US
Oh no, I get all of that. But DHS is DHS as far as I care.

If they sincerely thought that these people were a threat they would have been detained. They were not worried in the slightest however, and nobody "seemed like trouble". The agents were just being assholes.

You see, the extent to which they posed a threat to the country they also posed a threat to the aircraft. (Not in the slightest, and everybody involved knew it.)

burgerbrain··on Caution on Twitter urged as Britons barred from US
Surely that is not the official position, since it doesn't matter how thoroughly somebody on the "do not fly" list lets themselves be searched.
burgerbrain··on Caution on Twitter urged as Britons barred from US
And they certainly should not have been put back onto an airplane.

Isn't the job of these people to keep terrorists off of airplanes? Then they "catch" some and the first thing they do is put them on one...

Whoever made that call should be arrested. When they admit that the two did not actually pose a threat, they should be released then promptly re-arrested.

burgerbrain··on The /bin/true Command and Copyright
I am aware. Still rather amusing however.
burgerbrain··on The /bin/true Command and Copyright
Try this with a GNU true binary: `strace /bin/true 2>&1 |wc -l`

;)

burgerbrain··on Sorry, this blog post is not available in your country.
You may find this interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Us_reg_dc_2872.JPG

Yes, that is the standard DC license plate.

burgerbrain··on US bars friends over Twitter joke
"Stop complaining citizen. It's worse elsewhere."
burgerbrain··on The story of TextMate, VIM and SublimeText
"why should we?"

Because we want to, that's why.

If you don't want to, feel free to ignore it.

burgerbrain··on US bars friends over Twitter joke
If you have trouble imagining possible answers to that question, then only your unfamiliarity with the world is at play, not a lack of responses.
burgerbrain··on US bars friends over Twitter joke
Shenanigans?

Nah. Simulation.

burgerbrain··on US plummets on World Press Freedom Index, from 27th to 47th
The thought that it's not systematic disturbs me even more.
burgerbrain··on Megaupload Implications are plain scary for Cloud Storage
I'm not totally sure on how to square "a lot more emphasis on public file sharing" with the fact that I could never find even a search box on their website.
burgerbrain··on Duck.com (not the search engine you might expect)
If somebody is using it, they presumably think that it is good, your opinion on the matter is irrelevant to them. Hell, the issue of quality doesn't even have bearing on nitrogen's statement; it works just as well if you remove the word 'good'. You very clearly were trolling and I will certainly will not apologize.

Furthermore, nitrogen is not epi0Bauqu.

burgerbrain··on US plummets on World Press Freedom Index, from 27th to 47th
"How many were arrested versus beaten? And how long were the arrests?"

The answer to either of those would not change the importance of the figure.

Suppression of the press with police force is suppression of the press with police force; the only case in which individual details are relevant are in the lawsuits the reporters have hopefully filed.

burgerbrain··on US plummets on World Press Freedom Index, from 27th to 47th
http://www.savethenews.org/sites/savethenews.org/files/Aei_Y...

Oh look... A press badge and a real camera.

"I'm not aware of it."

Open your eyes.

burgerbrain··on US plummets on World Press Freedom Index, from 27th to 47th
I asked how many...

Anyway, compare these:

http://en.rsf.org/report-hungary,108.html

http://en.rsf.org/report-united-states,176.html

The report lists 25 reporters as having been beaten or arrested in 2011. It does not list any beatings or arrests in Hungary during the same time period. Neither are good, however the comparative scores seem just about right to me.

burgerbrain··on Duck.com (not the search engine you might expect)
Now you're not even trying to conceal your trolling. Keep it civil or buzz off.
burgerbrain··on US plummets on World Press Freedom Index, from 27th to 47th
How many reporters were beaten in Hungary?

Really no need to pass laws restricting reporters when you can just hit them instead.

burgerbrain··on Show HN: A smarter alarm clock.
If you ask me, alarm clocks should be going more low-tech than high tech.

I need an alarm clock with decoy snooze/cancel buttons. All of them would be metal plated, and wired up to whatever circuit those "trick" pens use (the kind that gives you an unpleasant but safe shock).

I would attach a hammer to this hypothetical alarm clock too if I could figure out how...

burgerbrain··on Why does that QR Code go to justinsomnia.org?
QR codes present a much lower barrier to entry though. That means they can be acted on before it occurs to the target that they should think about what they're doing.
burgerbrain··on Symantec: Anonymous stole source code, users should disable pcAnywhere
No worries, happens to the best of us. ;)
burgerbrain··on Symantec: Anonymous stole source code, users should disable pcAnywhere
The point of full disclosure is to give the "corporate entities" that like to sit on vulnerabilities a swift kick in the ass and get them to do something...
burgerbrain··on Jailbreaking Is Not A Crime
The problem is that, to the uninformed, that information is not obvious from the term.
burgerbrain··on Jailbreaking Is Not A Crime
It's a neat theory, except I did buy my phone.
burgerbrain··on Google at GitHub
I think most of githubs innovations could likely be added to google code without acquiring github. The technology isn't really what makes github special.
burgerbrain··on Google at GitHub
I can think of a few ways.

Perhaps you could grep for common libraries like "ffmpeg" and make a guess as to what sort of software it is. Maybe a video editor/player in the case of ffmpeg. Once you figure that out, you could show advertisements for the same sort of software.

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