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 is rather well hidden on the ministry's website) ?

Try Beatriz Lorenzo, she's an official at Spain's Human Rights office: beatriz.lorenzo@maec.es

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 business. At least your customers can still 
  > pay you.

I can't believe I'm writing in PayPal's defense but facts are facts.

They did this to me last week. They sent a message Friday night that they would need some extra documentation. I acted upon that on the spot. They then proceeded to restrict my account next Monday because they didn't bother to process my response to their request from Friday. That sucked, but they only locked withdrawals. My customers didn't see a thing, and they finally suspended restrictions Thursday. Took a few phone calls to make sure they hurry (to a number that is not free and not on the front page, but definitely not "10 pages deep": from your account > contact (footer) > call us).

Like anticipated, I feel dirty for speaking to their defense.

  >   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 redraw from paypal every 200 euros. Thankfully, that's a lot of redraws (for certain definitions of a lot) and I'm a bit behind redraws but I learned the lesson from the losses the company I work with endures every month. Details in this same thread. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1679288)

  >   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 that bet. They refund the money to the original payer. For better or worse. My company loses a few hundred euros each month to this. They keep asking for proof of delivery. Yet we sell internet access. No proof in that unless I'm willing to break the law (and my client's trust) and tcpdump my clients. No way I'm doing that so I swallow the losses. No client ever filled a complain in the first place and no client ever complained about returned funds for consumed services either. :P

To get around this situation, mark your paypal invoices as 'Services' and they can not refund them at all (unless however the card was stolen, etc). But 'Services' don't require shipping proof.

Thanks for the advice. Will look into it.

I'm sure they do that on a bit by bit basis, when they're isolating one transaction at a time, but are you sure that when they 'freeze' an entire account, they reverse all of the transactions?

  > 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 the dump is large and the network is the bottleneck, you can also do it like this:

  ssh prod-db "mysqldump what-i-need | p7zip" | p7zip -d > file.sql

Edit: Noste gave the right oneliner, sorry I didn't notice it at first. Consider mine only as an expansion of his second point.

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 colors to each of your eyes which will make the screen seem slightly semitransparent and silvery. I have this problem with a Sandisk Sansa mp3 player I have.

That's a good point, I guess the orientation of the subpixels could make things weird.

They show both portrait and landscape mode in the video and it doesn't look like there's a problem though.

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 you the invoice for the tax. Things can't be very different there.

direct link to video interview

http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4177270/wozniak-on-mass-ipad-...