Absolutely wrong. "Roma" in their own language means "men". The word has nothing to do with the city of Rome/Roma (where Romania's name comes from) - it is just a coincidence.
> every single day we process billions of dollars worth of transactions electronically. Your analogy is wrong because: 1. In the case of financial transactions: The correct execution of the operation (money transfer) is in the best interest of those who (banks) execute it. 2. In the case of elections: The correct execution of the operation (counting votes) is NOT in the best interest of those who (politicians currently in power) execute it. They just want to win again. Why would they bother to count and do it honestly?
> I also believe the politicians and police would want to know how that could be possible.
As a citizen and resident of Bulgaria I find your faith in your politicians and police quite strange, if not disturbing. Maybe they deserve it, I don't know... Ours certainly do not.
Thanks for pointing this out - I assumed that since the word is basically the same it must mean the same. It could be an archaism in Russian, like "duma" - current in Bulgarian, archaic in Russian. If not then it is funny how the word sailed across the Black Sea.:-)
Actually, ProtonMail sucks a lot. It's "security" is based on two passwords: one for login, one for decrypting the mailbox. 1. Both of the passwords were sent to their server upon registration. I have no guarantees that they were not stored in clear text. 2. I have no guarantees that the mailbox is even encrypted. 3. Even if the mailbox is encrypted and they haven't stored its password, a totalitarian government may force them to install a man-in-the-middle and have my messages the moment I access them (i.e. send the password). 4. No PKI. No interoperability with PGP/MIME or S/MIME. Totally proprietary. If I send an e-mail message to a non-ProtonMail address I must somehow communicate a password for it as well. How? Not ProtonMail's problem.
In short, ProtonMail provides something that is not an end-to-end e-mail encryption and thus not useful at all. You can do much better by using even GMail (via SMTP and IMAP/POP3) with ThunderBird and Enigmail (a PGP/MIME extension). Google will only ever see the encrypted messages. Only using a desktop client guarantees that your private key will never be sent to a man-in-the-middle (e.g. GMail, ProtonMail).
There are laws against this. For example, in my country (an EU member), you are not allowed to pay in cash for anything above 2564.1 euros. Otherwise you are presumed to be laundering money. The limit was higher until recently. And it will only go down, despite inflation...
Super-highway? Wasn't this Bill Gates' vision of a Microsoft-controlled alternative to the Internet? I haven't heard of it since playing Space Quest 6. So go ahead. But get away from the Internet.
It mentions some Bulgarian cities with either very old names or with obvious typos: Ruschuk - stopped being called this way over a century ago. Philippopolis - this is the name from Antiquity! It stopped being called this way by the people who live in it at least 10 centuries ago. Gor Orvakhovitsa - two obvious typos. Stara Zagoran - one obvious typo.
The source is a badly scanned article from 1958, written by a non-Bulgarian, in English.
Me, being a Bulgarian (and my IP address proves that) decided to fix these. References? Wikipedia itself. The wrong names already point to the Wikipedia articles with the correct names. Got reverted 10 hours later. The names are wrong to this very day.
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Absolutely wrong. "Roma" in their own language means "men". The word has nothing to do with the city of Rome/Roma (where Romania's name comes from) - it is just a coincidence.
And many punks are over 60 by now.
> When I pay for goods in a store, the terms of the transaction make it clear what each party is giving up...
Not really. Most people don't realize what they give in addition to the money when they pay cashless.
Why not just move it to Cannes?
> every single day we process billions of dollars worth of transactions electronically.
Your analogy is wrong because:
1. In the case of financial transactions: The correct execution of the operation (money transfer) is in the best interest of those who (banks) execute it.
2. In the case of elections: The correct execution of the operation (counting votes) is NOT in the best interest of those who (politicians currently in power) execute it. They just want to win again. Why would they bother to count and do it honestly?
You can't have end-to-end encryption with proprietary software. Even less so when it is done by a cloud service (a.k.a. man-in-the-middle).
> I also believe the politicians and police would want to know how that could be possible.
As a citizen and resident of Bulgaria I find your faith in your politicians and police quite strange, if not disturbing. Maybe they deserve it, I don't know... Ours certainly do not.
Finally, the Y1900 problem solved itself!
Punk music became louder, simpler and more repetitive before it was cool.
Will 2018 be the year of Windows on the command line?
And cowbell.
Just like the GPL. If copyright ceases to exist then there would be no need of the GPL. But until then the GPL will use copyright law provisions.
The Kremlin might need it more.
We have been living in the PostScript world for quite some time.
The candidate should have known not to promise impossible things, good faith effort later or not.
Similar to the V2 rockets in the final stages of World War II.
Thanks for pointing this out - I assumed that since the word is basically the same it must mean the same. It could be an archaism in Russian, like "duma" - current in Bulgarian, archaic in Russian. If not then it is funny how the word sailed across the Black Sea. :-)
Just for your amusement, non-Slavic speakers:
Zelenchukskaya means "of vegetables".
You should have linked to a certain song performed by Rick Astley.
> Schnell!
It doesn't look like this is the case with TSA.
This means that people in Uganda do have access to cheap books. Just not honest people...
Actually, ProtonMail sucks a lot. It's "security" is based on two passwords: one for login, one for decrypting the mailbox.
1. Both of the passwords were sent to their server upon registration. I have no guarantees that they were not stored in clear text.
2. I have no guarantees that the mailbox is even encrypted.
3. Even if the mailbox is encrypted and they haven't stored its password, a totalitarian government may force them to install a man-in-the-middle and have my messages the moment I access them (i.e. send the password).
4. No PKI. No interoperability with PGP/MIME or S/MIME. Totally proprietary. If I send an e-mail message to a non-ProtonMail address I must somehow communicate a password for it as well. How? Not ProtonMail's problem.
In short, ProtonMail provides something that is not an end-to-end e-mail encryption and thus not useful at all. You can do much better by using even GMail (via SMTP and IMAP/POP3) with ThunderBird and Enigmail (a PGP/MIME extension). Google will only ever see the encrypted messages. Only using a desktop client guarantees that your private key will never be sent to a man-in-the-middle (e.g. GMail, ProtonMail).
There are laws against this. For example, in my country (an EU member), you are not allowed to pay in cash for anything above 2564.1 euros. Otherwise you are presumed to be laundering money. The limit was higher until recently. And it will only go down, despite inflation...
Super-highway? Wasn't this Bill Gates' vision of a Microsoft-controlled alternative to the Internet? I haven't heard of it since playing Space Quest 6.
So go ahead. But get away from the Internet.
Ok, here you are. I once edited the following article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It mentions some Bulgarian cities with either very old names or with obvious typos:
Ruschuk - stopped being called this way over a century ago.
Philippopolis - this is the name from Antiquity! It stopped being called this way by the people who live in it at least 10 centuries ago.
Gor Orvakhovitsa - two obvious typos.
Stara Zagoran - one obvious typo.
The source is a badly scanned article from 1958, written by a non-Bulgarian, in English.
Me, being a Bulgarian (and my IP address proves that) decided to fix these. References? Wikipedia itself. The wrong names already point to the Wikipedia articles with the correct names.
Got reverted 10 hours later. The names are wrong to this very day.