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It seems to be slowly starting to happen. As an Argentinian myself last week made me proud - something i really haven't felt in years.

Paypal disagrees...

I wonder what (or who) made Paypal cancel domestic transactions in Argentina. If anything, they were making a lot of money out of this.

This is very likely due to the increasing restrictions on Argentina's exchange market. I live there, and the past years have gotten increasingly worse - the Argentinian peso has an inflation of nearly 25% but the government insists on keeping an (almost) fixed exchange rate with the dollar. A lot of people perceived, correctly, that the USD became a cheap way to protect their savings. The net result is that Argentinians withdrew almost $87 *billion* USD between 2003 and 2011 from Argentina's economy.

So, instead of attacking inflation the government decided to choke the exchange market. This happened slowly but right now is simply impossible to buy/sell foreign currency. Even if you're traveling, the amounts that they clear you to buy are ridiculous - less than 20 Euros per day of stay in Europe, for example.

As a result, there's now a black market that tops the "official" dollar value by more than 20%. A lot of commercial operations are using this as a reference; it's the only one you can get your hands on.

The only exception so far have been credit cards, which, at least until last month allowed unrestricted purchases with the official value quote. I say "at least" because credit card purchases have recently been taxed (15%), disguised as an "advancement on income taxes". On top of that banks are discretely restricting credit card operations as well, since most institutions simply can't get enough currency. My guess is that Paypal has been having a lot of issue clearing transactions.

Shouldn't we be working on adopting SCTP instead?

...NVIDIA blob drivers have always been rock solid in my experience, for both their GPUs and chipsets. Not only that, they're just as feature complete as their Windows counterparts. ATI used to do the same thing and their drivers weren't nearly as reliable.

From the kernel developer point of view binary blob drivers are hell. Yet, NVIDIA managed to provide some of the best hardware support available on Linux with it.

You should work on your reading comprehension, since you're quoting a newspaper saying that 21% percent of the active workforce in Argentina is employed by the Government. Which amounts to... tadahh... roughly 4,153,000 jobs, or 9% of the population. Add to that a minimum of 2,500,000 citizens living directly off the state (unemployment pensions, "social" plans) and see how close you are to that 50% of the working population i mentioned on my first post.

Again, these are straight, unadultered INDEC figures. The same INDEC that considers subemployed (less than a day a week) citizens outside that "unemployment" figure. Even with highly doctored figures (what's the real annual inflation in Argentina?) these are horrid indicators.

Grab a calculator. And, again. Doze. The. Fuck. Off.

Oh for Christs' sake. These are all official numbers; Argentinas government spending rose over 41% of its US$ 370.000 million GDP this past 2011. Yes, that's a tad over US$150,000 millions. Feel free to look up the source yourself if you don't beleive me. You can look up the official numbers of government employment, unemployment compensations, and family assignations while you're at it aswell.

I'm sick and tired of replying to people accusing me of laying bullshit when this information is readly available online. Doze the fuck off already.

Much agreed. Those are huge, but great sounding and comfortable to boot. The $30 price tag is a steal; they are comparable to headsets costing 5 times that much.

These headphones can be had for 30 bucks and are incredibly good sounding.

They're also big and bulky, but hey, that's the way they should be.

If you feel Gnome 3 is too much but you don't want to part with your GTK+ apps you might be willing to try XFCE or Cinnamon.

I have a love-hate relationship with Gnome 3 right now. There's some things about it that i love and others i loathe. Working with multiple windows, for example, is a pain in the ass. I might go back to XFCE soon, which in many ways is Gnome 2 without all the Gnome crud.

Good for you. I've recently been to both Formosa and Jujuy, and this is a harsh reality once you move out their capitals. Perhaps you need to step outside your house once in a while.

While the issue was clearly not the hash algorithm here, it should be noted that SHA-1 is now effectively broken - you can get collisions in less time than using brute force.

It's still a perfectly usable hash algorithm, but it has been slowly phased out for SHA-2 (SHA-512) for some time now.

You don't have the account names bounded to each password. There's a pretty good chance whoever got that information has both pieces of the list.

Wow, what the hell *that* means? There's a reason Buenos Aires is called the Paris of Latin America.

And there's a reason we're discussing Argentina and not only its major city. Take a trip to Formosa some day, you'll witness a reality close to some African countries.