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I know. Some operators will benefit slightly, some will not. And every tourist is satisfied. This is what I would call a good policy.

Also there are protection plans in the policy for the extremely unlikely scenario that a company is not making a net profit.
The actual agreement was done a few years ago, part of which was the "gradual reduction of roaming costs over two years".

Your point about Three is actually a reason why this agreement was needed. Why have none of the other carriers done the same? They have had years to act on this or make some effort to reduce the costs of roaming, yet remained complacent.

Don't assume the actions of one carrier represents all of them. Three is a great carrier but their market share is small compared to others. Other networks likely didn't make any efforts to reduce the costs for customers because they didn't need to. Additionally, Three's motive may be more marketing and attracting new users than simply for the good of their customers.
Its part of the swirling down the toilet bowl of selfishness - its one more way fb helps people say - Look at meeeeeee Im an individual I exist.. ugh.. if was in an emergency I would call my mom and there you go.. everyone would fing know I was ok because mom is old and she talks to people with her vocal cords using sound waves generated through the medium of atmosphere and wow does that work.
When you click on the role, it will list more jobs openings. Sorry for the poor UX, we are working on it!
Since roaming is zero-cost and has no effect on your existing plan, it seems weird that you would object to it.
That's great to hear; SVG should be more than sufficient. I only have a Mac so I can't play with the program itself. I was going off the visual of the export of pdf/png.

I see now that it says SVG in the body text. I totally missed that the first time. The heading of "export to pdf" along with the graphic that showed PDF and PNG support in the drop down was what filtered into my head.

Now I just need to wait until it comes to the Mac. Looking forward to it.
Indeed! Cartels charging outrageous prices like 0.5€/SMS (roaming) in 2017, that is more than 4000€ per megabyte. I have no idea how the telcos have been able to milk the public for that long. And for Switzerland, there is no end in sight.
Incorrect. The regulation only applies when roaming.

To take three UK for example:

Calling Spain from the UK: 46p/min
Calling Spain from France while roaming: inclusive in minutes allowance, otherwise 3p/min.

I also checked Vodafone.de and it's the same thing - nearly €1/min if you're in Germany, or inclusive if you're roaming.

It's a bit of a joke really. I don't know why the EU didn't think of this.
On the other hand, at least when it comes to software developers, americans seem to be extremely well paid compared to the rest of us and they pay far less in tax.

I'd make that trade any day, but then again that's just one industry and I'm just one person.
Vivaldi has a setting for limiting the minimum font size under Settings > Webpages > Fonts (screenshot: https://cl.ly/1h2N0Y3a3w0s).

Is that what you mean? You can set the font to max 24pt (on macOS anyway) and images are untouched.
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EU was planning to explicitly regulate against such caps. If you provide unlimited data in your local operator's network, having caps when roaming would be in breach of this regulation.

Has that changed?
I would say that the Betteridge's law of headlines has been proven once again by this thread, but this is no article and the headline here seems more click-baity than the actual subject line of the thread.
Not quite. Providers are still free to offer contracts without any kind of roaming.
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Because all the major operators (at least in Italy) really like cartels: if an operator increases the price of something, you can expect all the other ones to do exactly the same within a few months.

An example of this is when all the operators changed the billing cycle from one month to 28 days, adding another monthly fee in practice: even if only one operator started doing that (with outrage from the customers), now everyone does that, with the except of landlines where the regulator stepped in.
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4 functions will do. You just need to be above average. 5, just to be safe.
The Linux desktop market share clearly isn't large enough to devote resources to. But you can take comfort in the fact that that creates space for 3rd parties:

https://www.insynchq.com/
There was no real competition because there was no real market. The high roaming fees were simply a trap for unsuspecting consumers who got a smartphone, went on holiday and only then learned about "roaming", "automatic updates" and their phones' "via wifi only"-settings; business users would just get a local SIM.
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Worked out perfectly fine for me. My provider is one of the cheapest available in Austria and they recently sent me a message to let me know that I now pay the same for phone calls and mobile internet in other EU countries.
It doesn't work like this. Your EU guaranteed roaming mobile data package is limited to 2*monthly bill/wholesale-price-per-GB. So in your case that looks like 40/7.7 which is about 5GB. Anything beyond that your telco CAN charge you (but doesn't have to) by usage. I am not sure what that charge can be, but it is per KB spent and is calculate from wholesale price per GB.
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Telmore in Denmark (my current operator) first gave my subscription a price hike to "compensate" for the new roaming rules and then advertised that I could change to a "Denmark only" subscription for the old price.

It seems this option is now gone, however instead I now have separate data limits between Denmark and EU, with the latter being substantially less (only 5 GB, "calculated based on your subscription").

When I'm a bit less stressed I think I'll start shopping around for another operator :^)
This GIT thing is never going to take off because it has a lot of baggage: a very particular CLI and grammar, a community of active users (many of whom probably like it exactly how it is), and a "terrible" name.
I would say Tor but rumor is the US gov have ways to break it.
Have often wondered about this.

What does Internet do to curiosity? Or what happens when curiosity is quenched withing seconds of being aroused? Is the instant access to knowledge cutting short the thoughtful and deliberate pursuit of answers, a habit which might have been the hidden source of our great discoveries of the past...
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I used to work with HP Elitebook (yes, Windows) for 7 years and after that switched to Macbook Pro. I enjoyed both. While the Mac has the right filesystem in place, is fast and reliable. The HP Elitebook was easy to upgrade in terms of hardware. I enjoyed both. The HP Elitebook was a bit heavy though especially because it is very well processed and i used the drive slot for a second SSD.
I'm not completely sure that's true – it's possible that an operator might simply choose not to offer roaming at all with their basic plans, requiring an add-on to allow roaming.
Why is it not plausible?
If roaming is free, can't you just use another countries cellphone provider? And if so, it's likely the cheapest country needed to raise rates should people from more expensive areas do so.
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The Japanese have been quite fond of the CYOA concept for a long time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_novel

There are far more of those in Japanese than English or any other language.
The european antitrust should punish this behaviour!
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You are mistaken about the risks of using a VPN. Your ISP is never going to see that a connection was made from VPN endpoint X and embarassing_site.com. A VPN, preferably one that does no logging, is the solution you are looking for.
Same thing happening in Sweden as well. Many people in the comments here are saying that their bills haven't been raised, but at least here in Sweden the price are only raised for new contracts.

There is also (AFAIK) some limits on this. I.e, you cannot get a contract in a cheap neighbouring country and use it all the time roaming from you home country. To unify all EU telco markets and increase competition between carriers might be a long term goal of the legislator, but as far as I can tell, right now it's only really applicable for travel.
BH Liddell-Hart's Great Captains Unveiled is one of the better ones I've come across, if early 20th century British historical writing style doesn't bother you.

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It's particularly those telcos who are already extremely competitive (mostly, the Nordics) who particularly need to start looking at these ways around, because otherwise they'll be subsidizing the top line of the countries where their little-paying customers often travel.
Ive put it up here -

https://github.com/strainer/particloud55

There is a link in the readme to it running on webgl.

Its very old experimental code, i just noticed this stringifying happening on a number of revisions.

The project is more substantial and mature now but it no longer stringifies clouds \ :) /

https://strainer.github.io/fancy/
Adafruit is not as cool as one might expect. I was sourcing boards from them and my parcel got missing from courier company. I complained to them. Initially they tried to help but nothing came out of it. Guess what they did next ? My account with them was disabled . It almost knocked my little startup off the ground. I wrote mails but to no avail.
I see. I haven't explored the low-power states yet, the datasheet says 5µA is possible using hibernation and timer-controlled periodic wakeup. Was curious if those numbers are achievable.
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Is this a cultural thing? I know a lot of Japanese people and I get the feeling that some things that are completely outrageous in the Western world are not frowned upon in Japan. I can't imagine even the most shady company doing the stuff mentioned under "Persona non grata" in my country without causing a complete shitstorm.
Some people have the human social impulse wired too strongly to do that.
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Every time I get an idea of a cool product I could do, I fall under if it is legal or not,

some of the ideas involve crawling other websites or using other websites content

How do you know if your idea is legal?
you also get a shared ip-adress on most vpn services.
No https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_roaming_regulat...
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Really? Then what's the point? If a reference isn't honest then why trust them at all.
I bought two SIM cards while travelling this month, one in Estonia, one in Latvia.

No ID checks at either. Felt nice.
...or into a labelled one (Sicilian Mafia).
Charge still is regulated to 7.7EUR per GB, but that is not its cost. Cost is indeed negligible as data is mostly transferred on exactly the same networks as the rest of Internet traffic in EU and nobody sane argues that you should pay 7 EUR for each GB you transfer.

If I divide my monthly internet bill with the amount of data I transfer during it, then price of GB of data transfer is indeed close to nothing.
Have you played a game called Heavy Rain?
It has multiple protagonists that can die during the course of the story and the plot will continue moving forwards.
But also there's scenarios where you have to convince a person to take your side and it's possible to fail.

I didn't play their later game but I hear that their new one 'Detroit' is going to really build on the idea of failure and continuation.
Exactly. My both subscriptions -- Congstar in Germany and T-Mobile in Poland still charge me for everything abroad.

I didn't bother to compare the prices too long but I think they cut them down just a bit.
OK, I am not embarrassed to ask...

If I see some "weak" or "insecure" tags, what can I do about it? I have no idea how to disable MAC, key-exchange, and encryption algorithms used by the server I control. I had thought that just using SSH was "enough"

More importantly, if I do disable the insecure stuff, what will it break ?
Well... I think OP is misstaken also. But if the ISP of your VPN provider (at the endpoint) and your ISP (at home / where you connect to the VPN) is the same, I guess that the ISP theoretically could match metadata as OP suggests?
Not every IME has fuzzy pinyin and I don't think the Microsoft one has it enabled by default.
Because it's an overused phrase that doesn't mean what most people think it means. "Free market" is heavily used as a propaganda.

Back when I took few economy courses, we went over numerous real world examples on how big companies price fix. Sometimes you can have eight players and they'll still agree to fix prices.

This wasn't dry theory, this was golf meeting to raise prices by 50% , fishing trips where pieces of papers were exchanged and nobody fished etc.

From this, if the government is non corrupt, it's far better for the people that government step in and regulate than leave it to the market with a handful of players.
Granted this is a very narrow view into the files, but they seem awfully concerned about the gay stuff. Was gay propaganda really that big of a concern for the FBI back then?
No. There are various limits. One of which is you have a limited amount of time you can roam for per year before you have to start paying. It's not too bad though. The real shit loophole is that they don't give you your full data allowance when roaming. It's needlessly complicated of course. Very rough idea: if you get 10gb for €10 a month you can roam for free for 2gb of that.
Blender, Krita, and Inkscape are all excellent in their domains. What is this nonsense about free software can't have good UX?

> copy other people's work and then make it free, causing people to lose their jobs?

Wikipedia is a fully free project and the foundation employs ~300 people funded mostly by an annual donation drive. Free software != no jobs.

And I really don't want to get into it, but for a lot of free software advocates extorting money from people for licenses using legally granted artificial monopoly of scarcity on software you don't even have to disclose for the cost is highly unethical.
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Unless your provider’s plan includes calling abroad at domestic rates, calling a foreign number from home will be more expensive than calling that same foreign number from another member state. It’s a rather absurd consequence of the fact that it was decided that any communication from the state your provider is in (calls, data usage, etc.) is not technically “roaming”, and therefore not part of the “Roam like at home” agreement.

While this agreement is definitely a step in the right direction, a few exceptions like this might actually increase phone bills for a number of people who were previously on special EU plans with their provider, some of which are now being phased out. A couple of parties are calling for the EU parliament to address these issues, but I don't think it will be changed any time soon.
One of the papers got some discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14494935
No, the rule says that you can use abroad what you've been using "at home" on a regular basis.
Bafflement pricing: Mobile phone plans can be monthly contracts or "pay as you go". They have pricing for texts, minutes, and data. They'll include some amount of free texting and free call minutes. Sometimes you'll get unlimited calls to people on the same carrier.

Mobile roaming is for most[1] people a rare event.

The average user has little idea about how much data they're actually using.

These combine to make it impossible for the average user to buy the best plan for them.

[1] Some people live near borders, and those people got hammered by mobile roaming charges because their phones connected to towers across the border. So they got charged for roaming even when they weren't.
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This isn't correct - these regulations only apply when roaming. In your home network the operator can charge what it likes for intra-EU calls.
You mean other way around?
I think this makes sense, because C++ is seen as this difficult beast. Non-C++ shops will be impressed that you know any C++, while a C++ shop will want to dig much deeper and make sure you are sufficiently advanced at the language to do the job. Non-C++ shops won't dig as deeply (either because it doesn't seem relevant -- you're not going to be using C++ anyway, so you just need to show programming ability and not C++ mastery -- or the interviewers don't know C++ well enough themselves, since they don't use it in their jobs) and won't ask you about in-depth edge case language features (because why would they if they don't use the language), but in a C++ shop, they will care about all of these things and have people who use C++ and can ask in-depth questions.

Why isn't it the same in Java? I'm not sure, perhaps its because Java has less gotchas as a language (certainly a lot less undefined behaviour and weird memory-related gotchas, no templates, no multiple inheritance etc) and C++ has this "its a difficult language" prestige which Java doesn't have.
You can get prepaids without any ID card in Finland, at least. Sweden as well, the last time I bought.

Regular subscriptions not, that's relevant for invoicing (as you can buy things through these subscriptions, it is pretty much like getting a credit card, hence asking for photo ID is entirely reasonable.)
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It sounds as though governments are simply trying to amend existing law around money laundering and terrorist financing to try to deal with the invention of digital currencies. This sort of thing has happened before.

Back in '06 I was an intern in the tech department of FINTRAC, Canada's agency for stopping money laundering and terrorist financing, so my knowledge is outdated and only specific to one country- but everyone has roughly the same rules and goals with these laws- track large money movements to find money laundering operations and stop money from finding it's way to terror groups. They use the $10,000 rule- banks report your info if you move more than that in or out of your account and border security reports it if you move that much in cash across a border.

Over time though, new tricks are always figured out, and laws updated. In '06, it was casinos ("yeah I won big last night, that's where the money came from"), currency exchanges ("oh yeah, we do a huge amount of business and over charge everyone"), and jewelry stores (buy diamonds in cash, carry them over borders instead of money). So reporting laws were updated.

Now the trick is "I bought a lot of bitcoins in 2009 and finally sold them today, that's where the money came from". If the laws aren't updated, money laundering becomes easy again.

What else do we expect governments to do? Now, are these laws well written and not overreaching? I'm not sure, and that's worth debating.
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All this waste of memory turns my stomach. It's sad that it takes one of the most powerful personal computers made with a ton of RAM to make modern software, effectively locking out those who can't afford this.

What value is gained by such a large memory footprint for all this stuff which isn't really an innovation from capability we had in 2007?
Try and use your full data allowance abroad and get back to me.
Python 2 has old-style classes, new-style classes, functions, bound methods, unbound methods, slot wrappers, descriptors, method wrappers, built-ins, ... and I'm rather certain I forgot some. All kinda callable types I mentioned behave differently. This makes the language complicated; and due to the dynamic nature leads to subtle bugs that are only detectable at runtime. Python 2 is a lot like C there. This isn't limited to callables but is spread around the language in a lot of places. Python (both 2 and 3) is not a simple language. It has a supremely complicated data model whose documentation is insufficient and scattered.
If you really need to be stealthy, connect to a public wifi network and do your browsing from there.

If you're really paranoid, buy a dedicated laptop (with cash, preferably in another town and leave your cellphone at home).
don't think they can. Telcos are not going to say "we raise the price because roaming" so, even if we all know, they will walk away.

I'm sure their lawyers made sure they could do it... sadly.
Telecom services are pretty cheap in Latvia if we compare to other countries in EU. However we cant forget, that Latvia is also one of poorest EU countries. While for some that 3€-4€ increase is nothing, others do feel it and are not happy.
There is no free market. There can be only so many telcos in one country anyway, so instead of a race to the bottom, telcos of each country form cartels.

In Greece for example, we have 3 mobile operators and they announce exactly the same changes to their plans within a couple weeks difference. Things like “we increase our basic plan by 5 euros” or “you have to top up your prepaid phone at least once every 3 months instead of 12”. This way, there is no point at switching.

Especially roaming was a golden goose until few years ago, because each telco charged termination fees for roaming subscribers. So your telco was like “I can't do much, I have to pay the foreign telco”. What happened in EU, is that by law these termination fees started getting smaller until today where they become zero.
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Usually you choose a VPN in another country than yours.
Because if Facebook was actually listening to your mic we would know it. They wouldn't be able to hide and it would be a massive scandal. It's simply too conspiratorial to take seriously when there is no evidence other than anecdotal stories like this.
What a great term. Mobile companies are the obvious ones to do this. Energy companies use this to great effect - there is never a like-for-like to compare.
It embarrasses me to see such horrible logic and head-in-the-sand thinking on this website.

Whether they record ambient audio or not, how is it implausible or out of character with everything else they do? Facebook and many other companies collect countless dimensions of data on users to profile them for marketing. Audio is just one more. It's not even really that disturbing or far fetched. Why would they ignore such a lucrative data source when they've already tapped so many others?

It's a direct business plan with Amazon's echo for christ sake. What is so hard to comprehend about this?
Local antitrust agency recently told that they will look into this "synchronized pricing rise". However I really doubt that they will do anything about it.
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Do you have any sources for that claim? Given the massive existing mobile payment deployment it seems like a very ambitious target.
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If you have time, watch Bitter Lake by Adam Curtis: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02gyz6b (also available on youtube if you are outside the UK - though seems mildly edited)

Shows the tangled complicity in each others affairs that exists between UK, US and the Arab countries, and some of the background behind them and the leverage that we have over each over.