heyimfromreddit

Re:Bitcoin befuddles US customs agents, thwarting visit by digital cur... on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @09:19PM (#2810275)

Of course I am. But there is still some truth in there. Some CBP officers are friendly... many are not.

Upon entering the U.S. you effectively have no rights whatsoever. Whether or not you're allowed to enter the country is entirely at the discretion of the CBP officer you happen to get, and you have no right to appeal their decision. Run into one who's having a bad day and doesn't like the look of you and you're screwed.

Re:Bitcoin befuddles US customs agents, thwarting visit by digital cur... on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @09:08PM (#2810242)

Not surprising. They employ people with below average intelligence who are convinced that the U.S. is such a brilliant country and every single person they come into contact with is from such a terrible shithole that the only reason they could possibly be "visiting" the U.S. is because they plan to illegally overstay so that they may enjoy a much better life in the greatest country on Earth.

...And that's if you are white.

Re:The Conclusion: A 6 Figure Business That Fell Apart When I Was 16 on Thursday July 14, 2011 @10:21AM (#2763130)

tl;dr: Apple.

Re:Spotify launches in the US on Thursday July 14, 2011 @09:12AM (#2762836)

They also probably have completely different licensing deals, there's a bigger market, etc.

Re:Show HN: ChatVoting - American Idol-like voting for everyone on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @08:53AM (#2758781)

Allow me to see pricing without signing up.

Re:Two Years of Pinboard on Sunday July 10, 2011 @06:23AM (#2747491)

Any alternatives you'd recommend?

Re:Two Years of Pinboard on Saturday July 09, 2011 @01:56AM (#2745131)

DigitalOne seems to offer much more than I get with Linode. Anyone have experience with them?

Re:WordPress › WordPress 3.2 now available on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @12:27AM (#2732567)

Looks like they've edited it.

Re:WordPress › WordPress 3.2 now available on Monday July 04, 2011 @08:51PM (#2728317)

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.2

> ...the write page now loads XYZ% faster and paging through comments is ZYX% faster

Wow, what an improvement!

Re:The Capacitive Button Cult Must Be Stopped on Monday July 04, 2011 @07:00PM (#2728121)

Can anyone type 150WPM on a non-touch screen phone?

Re:The Capacitive Button Cult Must Be Stopped on Monday July 04, 2011 @06:44PM (#2728099)

>phone while I'm on my motorcycle

Probably not a good idea...

Re:ICANN Approves generic top-level domains on Monday June 20, 2011 @04:46AM (#2673418)

Funny, but email validations should already just check that the address contains an @ symbol and leave it at that.

Re:An Introduction To CSS3 Keyframe Animations on Friday May 20, 2011 @05:39PM (#2569522)

This is the first time I've tried using CSS3 animations and I managed to do it: http://jsfiddle.net/cmCfP/

Re:Ask HN: How do you write a resume when all you've ever done is be a... on Monday May 16, 2011 @10:26PM (#2555045)

Tell HN: I've started lots of businesses and I've got a bunch of great job offers.

Re:Senate bill amounts to death penalty for Web sites on Friday May 13, 2011 @11:28AM (#2544953)

This is scary.

I run a popular forum on which users sometimes post links to copyrighted materials – despite the fact that it's explicitly against the rules. Because of this I occasionally receive DCMA takedown notices regarding links that were posted 3-5 months prior (even though the links are often expired by that time). The last time it happened my hosting company was involved and threatened to suspend my account in less than 48 hours if I did not comply (harsh).

How easily could this bill result in an innocent site (such as mine) being taken down? Obviously the bill describes "steps" that have to be taken up to that point, but considering I was less than 48 hours away from my site being suspended for a 3 month old expired link to a video, I don't have much faith in the people entrusted to make these decisions.

Besides, isn't the DMCA enough?

Re:ROME HTML5 demo on Friday May 13, 2011 @09:24AM (#2544502)

Probably privacy concerns.

Re:Chattp: It lets you add a secret chat to any webpage. Click to join... on Thursday May 12, 2011 @01:30PM (#2541451)

Javascript can be injected into the page via nick changes.

Re:CSS builder for shadows, backgrounds, and borders on Wednesday May 11, 2011 @06:54AM (#2535918)

So why don't you start selling CSS with them too?

Re:Slicehost accounts will be converted to Rackspace cloud accounts on Tuesday May 03, 2011 @03:04PM (#2511242)

What made you choose Linode?