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  1. Roaming charges are slang for some carrier you do not have a contract with let you use their network. The service roaming changes serve is allowing people to continue to use their phones even when out of range. They can charge anything they want, because you already signed a blank check.

  2. Re:torrents are lame on Mr. Robot 'Plugs' uTorrent and Pirate Release Groups (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Which are fine for the new releases.
    But what if you want a movie from over a month ago? Or god forbid something really unique like Leprechaun in the Hood (2000).

  3. Re:The Curse of Babylon 5 on Babylon 5 Actor Jerry Doyle Dies (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    They must not of paid them very much, rich people are supposed to live longer than this.

  4. Re:And in other news: Water is wet on E-Cigarettes Emit Toxic Vapors, Says Study (upi.com) · · Score: 2

    Wait, doesn't the old smoking ban apply to pot? Surly, the culture has changed enough that people are not being allowed to smoke that stuff indoors?

  5. Re:Still original content on Slashdot Asks: What's Next For Netflix? (500ish.com) · · Score: 1

    > The Netflix back catalog of old movies has actually been shrinking. The focus on original content is to bring control to their programming so that they aren't 100% at the mercy of the cartels who want nothing more than for Netflix to die.

    That makes no sense at all. Netflix cannot survive if their catalogue consists of the 10 shows they created themselves. No one is going to spend all that money to access a catalogue that could all fit on a single BluRay disc. Netflix depends on having a catalogue big enough that it is neigh on impossible to watch it all. Big enough that their is always something else you would like to watch.

  6. Well if it is a side-Hustle you can do over the phone or Internet, many people just do them during work hours.

  7. Re:Bullshit on How The Internet Helps Sex Workers Keep Customers Honest (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, that is simply not how prostitution works. The Internet may have changed how I order many products; I might order a hard drive directly from China. But no one is ordering prostitutes non-locally, and having them shipped over seas.

    Before the internet, more commerce occurred locally -- customers knew their merchants or service providers and went back to them repeatedly.

  8. So they make 2% profit. That is pretty pathetic. how is this sustainable? Their costs are so ridiculously high, that if thier income falters for a second they would need to declare bankruptcy.

  9. I am not sure what these courses do, if anything, to at least let you know if you are failing or succeeding at learning the material. But a lot of the computer science courses I took had automatic grading. They had an online script capable of testing the correctness of submitted executables.

  10. Corporate? on How (And Why) FreeDOS Keeps DOS Alive (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Sure, the game angle is there, but what I was wondering about is how many people use FreeDOS to keep 20 year old DOS programs running for business and/or government.

  11. Re:A much more serious problem... on Cops Warn Pokemon Go Players: Please Don't Trespass To Catch 'em All (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Kids still play Pokemon? I thought it was more of a mid to late twenties thing.

  12. I heard you can Set Lures on Cops Warn Pokemon Go Players: Please Don't Trespass To Catch 'em All (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I heard you can Set Lures to get Pokemon to appear in locations that you want. So you could cause the P.Go servers to spawn Pokemon in the middle of a highway, in the middle of a swamp, or in a KKK meeting hall.

  13. Re:Uh huh.... on Google To Train 2 Million Indian Android Developers (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    They might not have the police in their pocket much longer. The way things are going, the race war is starting now, and the police don't seem like they are willing to stick their neck out much longer.

  14. Vote Trump on Google To Train 2 Million Indian Android Developers (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Instead of just complaining on /. about how Google/etc. are destroying your careers vote Trump, campaign for Trump, go out and so something to get the only candidate who not only has even expressed an interest in saving American jobs, but who is running with that as his main issue.

  15. Re:option for surrender on Using a Bomb Robot to Kill a Suspect Is an Unprecedented Shift in Policing (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I really do not see how that could reasonably be assumed to be possible. These are people who make near minimum wage and face death every day, but when they screw up on the job, like everyone does, they should face jail time? Everyone makes huge colossal, bone headed mistakes in their careers. It is impossible to avoid all accidents, particularly in such tense scenarios. If the media can only point to 1-5 obvious mistakes a year, that is 1-5 out of millions and millions of incidents and altercations with criminals and other citizens. At the end of the day, as a police officer, you have far far far more danger of murder hanging over your head every day than the danger that Black men have of being killed by police (research seems to show a ration of significantly over 10:1).

  16. Her Response? on Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Banned From Owning a Lab (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    So her response to being banning from owning a Lab is to state that she is building a better Lab?

  17. Re:First death by DRONE in the US? on Using a Bomb Robot to Kill a Suspect Is an Unprecedented Shift in Policing (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    No, that happened last week. https://yro.slashdot.org/story...

  18. Re:option for surrender on Using a Bomb Robot to Kill a Suspect Is an Unprecedented Shift in Policing (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Because that is the law? We invested them with certain powers, making them sacrosanct in many ways, to so that individual citizens would not need to defend or produce justice themselves.

  19. Re:option for surrender on Using a Bomb Robot to Kill a Suspect Is an Unprecedented Shift in Policing (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The entire reason they are given guns is to act as death squads when no other force will subdue a criminal.

  20. Re:Different question - cops with grenades on Using a Bomb Robot to Kill a Suspect Is an Unprecedented Shift in Policing (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    A breaching charge would need to be placed incredibly close to a human being to kill them. Giving cops a belt full of grenades is not the same thing as giving them access to a few breaching charges.

  21. Re:Why are we still talking about this guy? on Aaron Swartz Ebook's DRM Has Been Cracked (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    The files were publicly available. Which did not stop them form also being available on many other locked down systems like where Aaron found them.

  22. Re:Lack of Planning on Spain Runs Out of Workers With Almost 5 Million Unemployed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes and no. If a company literally cannot find anyone qualified to do a job, then they have no one qualified to teach someone to do that job either.
    Also, the global market is competitive, probably way to competitive to allow for companies to hire redundant employees whose main job is to train for possible future job openings. Presumably if there was already exists lower level positions who could be promoted into these unfillable positions, possibly after a few weekend courses, then they would of done that. It is not like a company can prevent an their employees from learning on the job.

  23. Re:By far... on DVD Player Found In Tesla Autopilot Crash, Says Florida Officials (reuters.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Tesla knew that Human psychology guaranteed that without the task of controlling the car, that any and all drivers using this system would have absolutely shit reaction times. Google has talked about this, and they consider any half measure extremely dangerous because of this; They have decided to not released any automated driving that is not 100% responsible for any and all driving tasks, because they feel that anything less will result in unnecessary risk to the human occupants. Tesla and Musk might of hired brilliant enough lawyers that the contract and warnings issued to customers will leave then not financially liable for the deaths they have and will cause, but that does not change the fact that they released a fundamentally flawed and extremely dangerous product.

  24. Re:So what does it do then? on DVD Player Found In Tesla Autopilot Crash, Says Florida Officials (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    No. Tesla is not staffed completely by idiots. They may be a new company, but I am sure they have many experienced driving experts working for them. You can be sure that Musk has read many reports showing that if you take away all need for user input while driving down the highway (possibly for hours at a time), when an incident happens the "driver" will be completely unable to respond in time to be of any help. It's not rocket science, this is not a new field never studied before.

    This driver did what all drivers would do in the same situation, got completely inattentive when asked to sit in a chair and do nothing. The movie, if anything, at least kept him awake and conscious.