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Re:[EXPERIMENT] I attached a file to a tweet by baddox on Monday January 23, 2012 @03:30AM (#3499574)
But then you're not really using Twitter (their main micro blogging service) to share the file. You might as well encode your data as a lossless image, upload to Flickr, and paste the link into Twitter.
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Re:[EXPERIMENT] I attached a file to a tweet by ZenPsycho on Monday January 23, 2012 @05:54AM (#3499899)
So in order to break one arbitrary set of rules, we should strictly adhere to this other arbitrary set of rules, otherwise what would be the difference between doing that, and just not following any rules at all?

.... huh? This kind of reminds me of this xkcd strip about floor tiles http://xkcd.com/245/

In any case, I kind of wonder why nobody hasn't just thought of PSK encoding their DVDs and walking around town blasting them out of a boombox. I'm sure that will make you loads of friends.

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