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Anybody from Spain knows of a better address to send letters to the new Spanish "Minister of External Affairs and Cooperation", Trinidad Jiménez, than informae@mae.es (which itself…

That project is about 5-6 years old. I remember being exited when I first saw that page. It still is exiting. But not news :)

> PayPal doesn't need to freeze your account, they can > just as easily prevent you from withdrawing money to > your bank account, which sucks but it probably won't > kill your bus…

Thanks for the advice. Will look into it.

> But I'm no longer accepting paypal payments myself > and I would advise everybody to keep their account > balances as low as possible. Sound advice. In my new private project, I …

> I bet that somewhere in paypal, it works like DEA style > asset forfeiture, and the people who freeze accounts stand > to benefit financially, personally and directly. You'd lose…

> ssh prod-db > mysqldump what-i-need > file.sql > exit > scp prod-db:file.sql . You can definitely do better than that with ssh: ssh prod-db "mysqldump what-i-need" > file.sql If …

Here's a nice book about, among other things, a similar country: http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

Beware. That resolution might mean that the screen was produced for landscape viewing. If that's true, it will be quite horrible to use in portrait. It will show slightly different…

I don't know about Netherlands, but in Spain you can contest any customs tax. They send you a printed form to fill if you want to contest it in the same envelope where they send yo…

direct link to video interview http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4177270/wozniak-on-mass-ipad-...

I didn't use to be. Then I had a problem and my bank took 2 months and almost 10 phone calls to fix it. Then I became a little paranoid.

Have them not touch the CC#. Leave that last part of the funnel to some certified external. You'd also make them a big service. I simply abandon most carts if the CC entry stage is…

>> It just doesn't want them on the app store. Where else exactly could they go? >> Forcing Apple to repeal 3.3.1 doesn't allow offending software to be built and sold (as it alrea…

>> Prior to the iPhone, there was virtually no real development allowed on phones that achieved any levels of success (carriers had the platform locked down hard). cough The develo…

You're describing theater with special effects and JIT scene changes. I thing it's a fabulous premise and I've been thinking the same about the supposed destination of 3D movies.

>> so I figure between you and me we have all the bases covered You both list four personal characteristics. On all four I resemble one of you too so I guess I don't expand the "ba…

Assuming non-homophobic heterosexual parents, why would they be the "wrong setup"?

I suppose your reply was made in a joking tone but maybe not it was not completely a joke. You made me curious. Why would homosexuality be fabulous? I mean, few of my friends are o…

responding to csarva( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1271567)(I can't seem to reply to individual messages anymore): >[re-]building core strength That's [re-]building strength…

I wonder if it's tail call optimized or you get to DOS Google by clicking one too many times on it...

Why do you miss it? Older versions are surely available for download somewhere if the new ones annoy you, and even the new ones can be custom installed to filter most unneeded thin…

Wow, they not only recognize (as we all know, many publishers, willingly, don't) but they actually take steps to facilitate the effects of the "first-sale doctrine"[1]. Hats off to…